saturday skips

silent chimes before dusk - 8.26.2016

Skipping yoga, here I sit sipping a second cuppa with sunshine out the window. I have to work this afternoon and tomorrow evening for the opening of school, making for not a whole lot of weekend, so am savoring a little time at home this morning.

Summer isn't officially over, but it has felt over for me starting this past week. Faculty are back on my campus, buzzing around and getting ready, and I've been working all summer except for a week here and a couple of days there. I try not to sigh too much thinking about what is ahead. Keep smiling and contentment fills in. Summer always goes too quickly for my liking. Even the very hot, humid, drought-filled summer that we had was a needed, needed season after the long winter and minuscule spring. My mother tells me that when I get older and am retired, I will love autumn.

Some of my favorite ways to savor the end of summer include sitting in an anti-gravity chair under the oak tree, or looking at the sky from the deck, listening to the gentle wind chimes and the leaves rustling gently. I've been writing small stone poems over at tiny river splash daily, and that has been fun.

My birthday is around the corner and I am going to treat myself to something I have dreamed about for a long time... not sure when it will happen, but I have started the process. I will be buying a new flute. The one I have had since 1977 was a great flute at that time. Had I gone on to music school, I would have upgraded then, but since I didn't, it didn't make sense to make that investment. As it is, my current flute stayed in its case mostly dormant for 30 years. Now, I am enjoying playing again with the concert band I joined last year and it's time. The musicians around me have some fine instruments, and I know my playing will be enhanced with a better instrument. That high A-flat? Well, that is partly me and partly my flute. I will keep working on it.

I write here so sporadically these days I kind of wonder if anyone reads these posts at all. Yet, I keep coming back to check in as if it is my connection with the unknown reader. Yes, I know I have a few blog friends who check in on me as I do on them. Thanks! Even without readers, this is as much of a diary as I have ever kept. It is interesting to observe what I choose to give words to and what stays hidden. The same goes for my other social media fun outlets Instagram or Facebook. What do I choose to "capture" and share, and what do I let go or just experience privately. It's a curious time we live in.

Anyway, have a lovely day. I hope to do the same.