I had a tequila sunrise in a bowling alley for brunch.
This movie:
Fresh basil is growing in the garden.
My daughter danced with me and didn’t want to let go.A grandmother took a broken piano from my garage; when it’s fixed she’ll teach her neighbor children how to play.
There is chocolate in a cigar ashtray shaped like a cat.
Brian Jay Stanley wrote an essay from which I want to quote every line, notably, “Each person is a misfit and minority in the zoo of humanity. No one is out of place, because everyone is.”
I will go to sleep tonight knowing the ground is wet, the grass is deep Wisconsin green, and my children have lived this long without heartbreak.
For thirty-seven years I have not worked hard enough, but I’ll start again tomorrow and again tomorrow after.
There is music. There is always music.
“Books lift us out of the smallness of the present and into history, out of the smallness of ourselves and into humanity.”
The other stuff is pretty wonderful, too. Particularly the tequila thing. But I must disagree with the first half of the last one. But we can all do better. That part’s true.
“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer’s life. ” ― James Norman Hall. If this is productivity, I recant the first half of that statement.
This made my day. My week. Heck, I’m grandfathering (grandmothering?) it into May to start the month off right, and I’m going to think of my own list, too. Thank you, dear Victoria.
Happy May Day, Lisa! What is one your list?
Hey this sentence/thought rules: For thirty-seven years I have not worked hard enough, but I’ll start again tomorrow and again tomorrow after.
Thanks for that.
And tomorrow too, because today was too easy.
Catching up on posts and I”m so, so glad I didn’t miss this one. Thank you for all the smiles! So lovely. Just what I needed!!!!