Monday, January 25, 2010

Taking It Easy















My friend said, "Some days I don't do much of anything." I was shocked, but yesterday I didn't do much of anything--a day without ambition. After breakfast I mopped the kitchen floor. By eleven thirty J. and I were at the Epicure for brunch. I took my ticket at the counter, number 25, and waited my turn. Only one person had the skill to slice sable--"It's carp," my friend M. would say--and I had to wait until he was free. J. ate chicken salad. We talked about our family's coming visit.

After a siesta--I slept deeply enough to dream--we walked to South Point Park, stopping at our allotment at the community garden on Collins, below Fifth Street. The bok choy has tripled in size. J. dead-headed the marigolds.

The wind was fierce as we walked past the tall buildings at the point but quieted down once we got clear of them. A cruise ship passed.




















I studied the patterns in the stone.















And appreciated the people dressed all in white.






























There was a wedding on the beach.















The lovers wrapped themselves around each other.



















The surfer rose on a wave.















We walked along the shore and came home.

9 comments:

  1. Oh, I wish I had been "doing nothing" with you yesterday! It looks like a perfectly wonderful way to spend the day.

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  2. It was, Rebecca. Glad to meet you!

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  3. I love those days; but you need to have kind of a talent for this, and I can't always reach mine...
    Yes, that was the mail I ment; glad it wasn't lost somewhere.
    why have you been shocked?

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  4. Shocked because when I heard my friend talk about lazy days, I couldn't imagine such a thing. I tended always to push myself.

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  5. I think just letting the day come and take it as it happens can be a great way of meditation, or refill energys. I always try to low down the pushing voice in me..

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  6. ooh, you have a garden? marigolds? bok choy? paradise!
    much love..

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  7. It's really J.'s garden, Melissa. He does all the work. I do wash the greens. One of the gardeners just bought a studio condo for $60,000 right next to the garden. It needs a lot of fixing, which he is doing himself. Are you thinking of living in South Beach part of the year?

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  8. The beach part sold me very quickly! The problem is taking too many lazy days, and the onset of guilt that comes after. Or so I find..

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  9. One lazy day a week won't bring on guilt, will it, Lewis? I hope not.

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