Just what I needed
My commute to work was lovely this morning: bright clouds intermingled with dark ones, clear bursts of sunshine, deep green forested hillsides. Later: sudden shadow and brief, dramatic angles of rain. The sunshine is pale and timid now, but fresh notwithstanding, and welcome in this room. Very Northwest; very lovely. This is my home, I know it.
It has been a quiet, lazy day at work. I am alone. Because the floor is carpeted and no one is here to chide me for it, I’ve left my shoes and socks somewhere behind the counter and am (quite unprofessionally) barefoot. I have finished my day’s work, aided by an uncommon presence of a CD player and my own music (Kim Taylor, the Innocence Mission, and Yo La Tengo) -thank God!- and have had ample time to read a couple chapters in Sacred Pathways, a very good book recommended by Melissa. From time to time, someone wonders in and out again without causing any irreparable disruption in today’s ambiance. All in all, despite the fact that I am not baking something new and hopefully delicious at home or hiking somewhere in the gorge or flying a kite at the beach with the one I love, it is turning out to be one of the pleasanter days I’ve had these last few months.
I am feeling at once happy, hopeful, creative, pensive and peaceful.
It has been a quiet, lazy day at work. I am alone. Because the floor is carpeted and no one is here to chide me for it, I’ve left my shoes and socks somewhere behind the counter and am (quite unprofessionally) barefoot. I have finished my day’s work, aided by an uncommon presence of a CD player and my own music (Kim Taylor, the Innocence Mission, and Yo La Tengo) -thank God!- and have had ample time to read a couple chapters in Sacred Pathways, a very good book recommended by Melissa. From time to time, someone wonders in and out again without causing any irreparable disruption in today’s ambiance. All in all, despite the fact that I am not baking something new and hopefully delicious at home or hiking somewhere in the gorge or flying a kite at the beach with the one I love, it is turning out to be one of the pleasanter days I’ve had these last few months.
I am feeling at once happy, hopeful, creative, pensive and peaceful.