Getting: prepared for the start of term 4 tomorrow, which is always busy and inevitably tiresome. Cookies in the oven, uniforms ready, shoes by the door
Cooking: roast chicken so there’s enough for lunch over the next few days
Sipping: tea and lemon water
Reading: Rapture, Intermezzo, Uses for Obsession (if you’ve got a foodie in your life, consider it essential reading)
Thinking: about what’s happening today - just today - because too far ahead is a bit too much
Remembering: appointments that need to be made, work that needs to be done, jobs to finish and seedlings to plant
Looking: out the window at the fairy wrens in the hedge, collecting tiny splinter-like twigs for their nests
Listening: to siblings bicker while making a ‘cubby’ and knowing that their conflict negotiations without my interference are setting them up for life
Wishing: we could all experience the joy of not being sold anything more often than not
Enjoying: the creative comfort of chatting with wonderful writers every month (soul-fillin…