Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. The last couple practices of the season are officially in the books

2. Three of the sixth graders on my practice squad also were on the soccer team, and they won the league championship. Their coach invited me to watch their playoff run, so I made it to the semis and finals this week.

3. Our garden has had a central compost heap as long as I’ve gardened there. It used to get tended more vigorously, but since the pandemic, it’s suffered a bit. Periodically, rats have moved in, and we’ve struggled with how to combat that. (The gigantic rat snake that treated it as a snack counter definitely helped.) This summer, it started to come apart and the maintenance manager and I decided we would take it down as our fall cleanup project. By noon on Sunday, we’d hauled off the top layers and the supports and had raked the usable compost into the area that we hope to convert into new plots next year. We will invest in a rotating contained compost bin in the spring, but this is the first big project we’ve done in ages, and it felt good to see the first step accomplished in what will help change the garden moving forward.

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

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Getting to tell all eleven girls on my playing squad how proud I was of each of them after our final game of the season

2. Meeting my friend Katie’s baby

3. When I saw Sofi Tukker was coming to D.C., I wanted to go, but the tickets were pricey. When they dropped standing room only tickets a couple months later, I snapped up a pair for Rudi and me. The show turned out to be amazing, with the entire crowd dancing, including the staff doing security and clean-up.

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

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Spending a weekend with my folks

2. The girls following each other to save a play

3. Fall foliage in Connecticut (it’s not really turning down here much yet)

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

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. I was feeling on the knife’s edge of illness this week (there’s a bug going around school), so came home after work and got into bed and slept for four hours. Fingers crossed that did the trick. (So far, so good.)

2. I celebrate October’s arrival by eating candy corn.

3. I asked for more school gear so I didn’t have to constantly be doing laundry on weeks where I had multiple games. The athletic director accommodated my request, handing over a whole pile of shirts, including a couple long sleeves. I love the dark blue tech fabric and the fact that you can’t see through them, like the two white shirts I got last year.

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

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Rudi returned home from his trip to Canada. I believe it’s his last trip away until after Thanksgiving.

2. Saturday was a cold, drizzly day of outdoor volleyball, and after we wrapped up, we decided the day required soup instead of our usual Mexican fare. Ramen perfectly hit the spot.

3. I baked for my middle school playing squad and for my jv team, since they both had games on Monday night. They appreciated the cookies.

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

Honestly. I just found this open in a tab, where I had written it but not hit publish. This is from last week:

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Awakening to a cat curled up tight in the crook of my knees because it is cold in the apartment

2. A bathroom that is 98% finished (the fan just needs to be replaced)

3. Remembering to tune in to Howie Rose’s final Mets radio broadcast (he stopped traveling with the team a few years ago, so the timing coincided with their last home game of the season)

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