Summertime

Hopped on Lorca early morning heading to a training for Dr. Haushka and a few other health and beauty dignitaries.The ride was gorgeous. Pedaling down Ravenna it only took a few minutes. It was really difficult to sit for 4 hours, as if she were calling to me. Afterwards I headed home but soon thereafter we went out again and headed back to the lake and we were gone for two and a half hours.

Sun and breeze played through the trees, especially the birches. Light freckled through them like dancers on water and air. For a while I sat on a bench hypnotized by the movement. Then I would close my eyes and just breathe it all in.



We stopped at the kiddie pool. whew. That was wonderful memories as this place was one of Simon's favorites. He always loved to play wherever the water would originate. At the ocean he would build canals and channels. At the pool he would carry it in buckets and take it to different parts of the pool. He was guardian of it's journey. And here again, all the newest beings, diapered and in tiny trunks, t-shirts and sun bonnets, herded the water here and there while learning, not always quietly or selflessly, how to share the scoops, the shovels, or the water itself. In their innocence they were all beautiful, and happy, and wet, and cooler than the sun had intended.

Life. The sky. Beauty. I feel so blessed and grateful.