You know what helps improve your mood? Seeing the sunset over the river:
Know what else works? Getting to try the new fancy bakery in Georgetown. Rudi opted for the café con leche monthly special, while I had the chocolate peanut butter. We may also have a slice of coffee cake to split for elevenses tomorrow.
The weekend was … fine. Disappointing. But fine really. I mean, there was nothing especially wrong with it. Everyone I care about is doing fine — lifting their bale, toting their barge. I spent time outdoors, I got sleep, I talked with friends on the other side of the country, and I went for a bike ride.
Maybe it’s that it’s finally October, a month that usually includes trips to see family and friends, with birthdays aplenty and the promise of weekend festivals and cooler temperatures and … just … life.
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
I am counting my blessings. We have each other. We’re healthy. Our families and friends are healthy. We have an apartment and a garden plot and a car and bikes. We have food and access to libraries and online movies and phones to reach out to loved ones. I have a job that is good 85% of the time and a bank account with money in it. If that doesn’t feel like enough today, I know it’s okay. Because it is enough in the grand scheme of things.
I guess it just feels like a Mondayish Sunday in a Mondayish month of a Mondayish year. Yeah, I think that’s it — 2020 just feels like a year of Mondays.
The good thing about Mondays is that they go away eventually, whether you do anything about them or not.
Here’s to that moment.
What shall I do this weekend? I’m thinking:
What’s on your agenda for the weekend?
Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. Rudi and I have seen these guys playing in the park by the garden once before. They seem to have a weekly pool noodle football game. As best as we can tell, it’s a variation on flag football, but with less touching, presumably for sake of COVID-19. Either way, it amuses me greatly to see these guys running around waving their pool noodles in the air.
2. At my request, Rudi picked up Halloween-hued fairy lights from Target. We’ve only strung one of the three strands so far, but the orange, green, and purple lights make the early darkness more bearable.
3. Sarah and I refused to let the pandemic keep us from our annual fall tradition of picking apples and buying cider doughnuts.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
I realized as I was walking to the garden in rapidly fading daylight that I was not going to make it to the park to read or knit tonight, so I borrowed a treebox to stage a shot for you. The celosia was not up to the task of holding up Sal & Gabi Break the Universe, but managed my sock just fine.
I started the sock last fall and put it aside when it was clear I wasn’t going to finish it for Halloween. So it was super exciting to pull out most of a complete leg last week. As you can see, I’m already a good distance down the foot. I do not anticipate missing the holiday again this year.
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