Two weeks have flown by since I last wrote. I had decided I would need some time at home to savor my travels and do a bit more grandmothering before resuming a regular yoga class schedule - I was right. It has been a good thing having some time to just BE, reflect, write some more book sections, walk, watch the deer, dig a few weeds, eat Clemson spineless okra and bell peppers and the last of the lettuce from my garden. Such times allow thoughts that bring a calmness, a restoration, and an eagerness for moving forward to develop. I have been devouring a wisdom book that has been a big assist: Composing a Further Life by Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. For those of us in our seventies, or even younger, there are helpful messages in her stories of five women who have and are living full lives. My favorite saying comes to mind: You can have it all, you just can't have it all at the same time. (I don't know where that came from - I like to think I made it up - but I'm learning that nothing is really new in this world! Everything has been said, thought, and mostly done before.) Photos now. Solitude - Jim's 28 foot Catalina, My okra plant, and race day on the bay - from our dock.
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