A Day for Me

A day for me

No chai by the bay today. One lingering basket of laundry, folded damp & left on the bed. One trip to the shoe store but no Earth Origins I like. A longing for ice cream – an old afternoon treat – & I told myself to watch for Friendly’s as I passed it along the other side of the highway. No ice cream, but I have blueberries & yogurt at home.

A walk to the development across the street, down their narrow winding path outside the privacy fence. Beautiful plantings to either side bracket the path which suddenly opens into housing with no fences, the community center with its full frontal garden, the water feature with a starburst spray. Time to do qigong. Time to balance.

Time to sit on the marble bench & find the single blue shell, the tipi-shaped shell.

An organically rainy day. Drops borne on a slight breeze or dripped from overhead. Melodic & irregular, Crows wing overhead with calls to each other. I sit outside & watch the storm forming overhead. The white to steel-blue, to dark gray in gathering intensity.