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Sunday, July 13, 2008
la dolce vita
I'm having one of those days that ought to be recorded for the
future. You know when things are crapping out and everything looks
black? Then I'd like to look back and see that on this day,
everything was so splendid I was glad to be here.
The sun shone most of the day, and a perfect little storm with one
lightning bolt of warning and a sweet curtain of brief downpour came
through to cool me as I biked to a store. I went shopping and spent
nothing. LOL Then I stopped in on poor dan who isn't having a
perfect sunday because he's working. But then I suspect he actually
likes it in a weird sorta way. Well I biked home in the hot sunny
day. Not so hot as to be unpleasant either. When I got home I
remembered that I renewed the canoe club membership so I grabbed
Sarah and out on the river we went, me with a nice can of beer.
Beer beer, wonderful beer, amber and sweet, bitter and clear. Is
there any better time of the year than summer for drinking beer?
It's amazing I like beer so much, I hated it for so long. I guess
I've finally acquired the taste!
So now I sit here at sunset, a lovely soft pink twilight, lazing on
a porch swing out front, typing and reading on my precious laptop,
my beloved doggy by my side, the world is as quiet as a city gets.
Lets face it, I do live right in the city, for all the suburban
houses around me. I am living such a sweet life right now.
Tomorrow we're going to test drive and almost sure purchase a pair
of scooters for bombing around. I wonder sometimes if this fortune
will collapse or continue but whatever it does, I'm going to to my
very best to appreciate and enjoy it right now. It only comes
around when it's here, I don't want to waste a minute of it!
So many years of wanting this, I really never thought this could
happen! Yet here I am, happy and content, fed and fortunate. What
a miracle. What a joy. Today, this very day, with it's calm sweet
twilight air, birds singing, and peace enveloping the green yard,
this is a day so precious I would, if I could, preserve it here in a
digital description, to remember when.
