Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. The sky reminds me of a poster Grey Kitten used to have on his wall growing up, all pinks and oranges.
2. Rudi comes home after ten days away.
3. We got gelato as a chaser to our second COVID boosters.
How about you? What’s beautiful in your world lately?
It’s that time of the year: the Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asking what we hope we’ll be reading in the upcoming season:
Is there anything you’re particularly looking forward to reading this fall?
It’s been a while since I’ve contemplated what I’m hoping to do with my week. But Rudi comes home and a new season begins, and it seems like an obvious time to consider what the next seven days might hold:
Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. Playing good (not just winning) volleyball.
2. Sergio has been taking pictures of our volleyball team this summer. Today he shared dozens of photos with us.
3. Cereal for when I don’t feel like cooking and ingredients for when I do.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl is Books with Geographical Terms in the Title. Here are ten I’ve enjoyed:
I also want to acknowledge that Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books also popped into mind for this list, but I haven’t read them in a long time. While they definitely did contribute to this New England-raised girl’s childhood understanding of the middle of the country, I recognize they featured a number of very negative images of interactions with the Native Americans who lived on and were displaced from the land the characters were “settling.” Before I’d include them on a list that implies an endorsement or hand them to a young reader, I’d want to re-read them to see whether that’s still the case.
Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. The moon wasn’t full (Saturday is the Harvest Moon), but this evening’s moonrise was still spectacular.
2. As I was walking to the garden, I saw some folks had set up a net and were playing volleyball. “Would you like to play?” one of them asked. I assured them I would, but I had to go pick my tomatoes first before it got too dark. We played until the lights came on.
3. I decided we should award surprise superlatives to the volleyball team this time around, so a teammate and I wrote best-of’s for everyone, which I think went over really well. While we’d kept each other’s secret, I was cheerfully resigned to “team mom” for my organizing role. But instead, in a heartwarming, don’t-cry-on-the-field kind of moment, she dubbed me “Queen of the Misfits,” and I’ve never felt more seen or more touched.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?