My Today

FOR TODAY
Outside my window...it's hazy and humid.

I am thinking...about grandparents, having just read this on the grandparents of September 11.  My kids have the best grandparents in the world!  (Except of course, your kids' grandparents.)

I am thankful...for the grandparents, my parents!  The kiddos who made them grandparents.  The Mama who mothers them with me.

From the learning rooms... isn't everywhere a learning room?

In the kitchen...a new convection-microwave oven arrives today so that I can bake again!!! (since I can't currently bend to reach my current oven, much less pull things in and out.  When does an injury become a disability?  I haven't used my oven myself in more than a year.)

I am wearing...my denim-skirt with super-handy pockets and my Chicago cat rescue t-shirt.

I am creating...an invitation to our upcoming apple festival!

I am going...on my treadmill walk when I'm done posting.

I am wondering...what the kids are doing in school right now.

I am reading...nothing seriously, though I'm dabbling in Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life and Dianna Hales's La Bella Lingua.  I had started Nancy Cott's  Bonds of Womanhood, a history of women in the early 19th-century, but it wasn't quite what I wanted right now.

I am hoping...that there are no surprises in the next 48 hours plus.

I am looking forward to...the weekend, when our "family" friends from Philly whom we haven't seen in years are dropping by for a visit.

I am hearing...the window fan working hard to make the room comfortable in this humidity.

Around the house...the rainbows from my various prisms are dancing.

I am pondering...how my exploration of Buddhism has helped me to weather recent ups and downs in a more even keel way than I might have before.

One of my favorite things...is this laptop, my main company from 8-3:45.

A few plans for the rest of the week:  friends are coming for morning coffee on Thursday; I'm going to the church moving sale on Friday; and then our Philly friends on Saturday.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...of the star jasmine that has just appeared in our yard this year, an unexpected gift . . . 

(Thanks to the simple woman's daybook!)