Can’t recommend this book enough. So so good!
Bean and Bacon Soup!
Hungarian Mushroom Soup!
The owls are still hooting outside my window. The sun is still rising. Autumn is deeping. We’re all still here. Let’s live like this, one day at a time.
I’m not planning to stick my head in the sand about our recent election and our new wannabe strong man. I’m reading the news instead of watching it and keeping current on what’s happening. I’m also keeping my eyes on the billionaire boys’ club and sycophants who worship at the school of tyrants. No sense getting worked up about cabinet appointments and what not until the dust settles. Vulnerable populations are at risk of increased hate crimes and I plan to pay attention.
Now more than ever I need my sitting practice to keep my mind fresh and open. I’ve been walking in some new places, making lots of soup, and turning my attention to the natural world whose leaves and petals glimmer in the early morning light.
In the classroom the usual hijinks are taking place as we prepare to take a week off from school. I’m ignoring what I can and doing my best to remember only what’s important amid the chaos and constant chatter of school life. Now that I near the end of working life I wonder how on earth I lived in a noise chamber for this long.
I’m thinking that a trip to Paris next October might be in order.
I have 6 months and 20 days to go until I stop reporting to work.
When I return from Thanksgiving break I work for 2 weeks then have 3 more weeks off. January is right around the corner.
Everything is right around the corner and I’m getting little jolts of bliss thinking about it, but also jolts of irritation and dread at other things that are set to cross my path. Well that’s just the way of things isn’t it?
On the whole, I think I understand my assignment.
So positive, MAM! I look to you for these wise thoughts when I’ve been worried.
Oh! I thought only we Brits have garden gnomes! Now I know. Although, come to think of it, Amélie Poulain’s Papa had at least one in his garden in Paris.
Beautiful photos! I wish I could walk there! You will live day to day however you wish in 6 months time and it will be forever more.
You are right, things do cross our path that we do not look forward to and there is nothing we can do to stop it happening. That’s life. We just have to push thru them and keep going. If we continue to have a good time inside our head, plotting and planning and thinking up new ideas and things to do that will bring us joy then nobody or nothing can take that away. “Mary Ann Goes to Paris” sounds like a very good idea to me.