Yesterday was a lovely beach day with Nancy at SusanP's home... three hours of sun, sand, surf, spritzers, and scintillating conversation. I have not been this tan in years. P.S. Yes, watershoes are a gamechanger, both on the hot sand as well as at the pebbly shoreline... :-)
My dear grandbaby Colin will turn 2 this Tuesday, July 21... and we are celebrating Sunday morning, a few days before, with a car parade in Sarah's apartment complex. Recap to follow on Monday, but let's just all sit a minute to let this impossibility sink in. Two years old?!? Crazy!
Cleaning house today (ugh!) but it must be done. New library book as a dangling carrot. Speaking of, I met my Book A Week Challenge a few days ago. Every year I either get close to 52, or just barely hit it. This year, between retirement and the pandemic, I am 5 1/2 months ahead of goal. At this rate, I might hit triple digits! It's not a race, and it's not a gauntlet. It's a pleasure as well as a coping mechanism, and I am truly enjoying vetting the books I check out from the library, so as to set myself up for success, interspersing fiction with non-, current with older, popular with classic. Find me on Goodreads if you wish, and check out the sidebar on my home page to see what I'm reading... 💗
As is tradition, five items below of beauty, interest, and humor to brighten your day/weekend/week. Enjoy!
~ Broadway Continues to Keep the Lights On: Theatres across the country may currently be silent, but in every Broadway house, a lamp sits centerstage burning bright. It's called a ghost light, and it's a tradition that goes back to the late 1800s. CBS Sunday Morning speaks with members of the Broadway community about how we are keeping the lights on during this dark time, onstage, and in our hearts.
~ This Pickle Is a Cake: Welcome to the viral world of hyper-realistic cake slicing videos.
~ Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game: In his new memoir, the longtime “Jeopardy!” host delivers clues and facts about himself, and looks back on his life as he struggles with advanced pancreatic cancer. (Despite the fact my friend Stephen thinks he is "smarmy", I have a long-time crush on AT: not tall, which is my usual criteria, but smart with mischievous eyes. Heads-up that I have asked my husband to buy this book for my upcoming birthday... :-) )
~ Greetings from BookCation: Vacation is wherever your book is
~ Hamilton Act 1 but it's Muppets: This is a fan-made parody. It is no way affiliated with The Muppets or Hamilton, and I claim no ownership of either. This is purely parody. (cast and tracklist included in link)
SONG: I've Been Everywhere - Covid 19 version by Jonathan Byrd
BOOK: Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives by Victoria Zackheim
POEM: first, we have to start with nothing by Maya Stein
We have to wake, nakedly, from the place of dreams. We have to stumble from the sheets
and gape, slack-mouthed, at the morning ahead, our feet shoddy on the floorboards.
We have to pitch into an empty kitchen, hands clawing toward a clean mug.
We have to feel shaken from what we’d carried, our bones awkward with the
unburdening that sleep was, everything that had looked so certain, so clear, even
when we knew it wasn’t. We have to squint against the sharpness of this rough canvas
of a day, the questions that scratch impolitely before we are ready to listen. We have to
remember how small we really are, how permeable. We have to linger in this raw reality
before the task of proving ourselves can begin. We have to marry what we wish we could
abandon forever. We have to be willing to save ourselves again and again and again.
QUOTE: "Let's cultivate our capacity to be astonished... to be thrilled by every subtle mystery that sneaks into our daily rhythm... to make ourselves
fully available for the unexpected riddles that life is always setting in front of us." ~ Rob Brezsny
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