Three beautiful things from my week past:

1. Rudi’s camping plans get rained out, so he crashes with friends who happen to be renting a room above a yarn store. He brings me home two lovely purple skeins of Rambouillet wool.

2. As I meander my way down to Screen on the Green, I hear familiar strains emanating from near the metro station. It’s the local trombone shout band, which I haven’t heard since last summer.

3. After Jeremiah and Rudi go to bed, Corey likes to snuggle up on my lap while I sit in the rocking chair. I know he’s really relaxed because he puts his face in my palm and falls asleep.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world this week?

Today’s Booking through Thursday assignment should be an easy one:

It’s National Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence as your status.

Unfortunately, the closest book to me, Tea: A Global History, ends a chapter on page 56, and there is no 5th sentence on that page.

And while the book I’m currently reading, Diamond Ruby, also concludes a chapter on page 56, it has more than five sentences on the page. Here’s the appropriate one:

“As the front door slammed, Ruby sat very still for a few moments.”

For being located in a really emotionally draining scene, that’s a really dull sentence.