A Morning Paragraph

Vacation only seems to begin when I finally slow down and realize, “There is nothing that I really have to today.” It feels like that today. Hopefully, we’ll meet Taylor and Sarah on their whaleboat out of Provincetown and go see some whales; or we’ll just go to Crosby’s beach and scour the mudflats for hours; or we’ll go to Nickerson State Park and swim in the cool, clean waters of their “kettle” ponds, but, right now, there is nothing to do.  I hear the trumpet playing reveille at the Cape Cod Sea camps, which reminds me that we will be off to our summer camp. There is a chorus of different songbirds coming from every direction, punctuated by the cacophony of crows flapping around the power lines which reminds me that we have still not figured out what kind of bird is raising a family in Nana’s birdhouse, and there is Maizy, laying curled at my feet, looking like she could use a trip to a pond for a lazy dip to stifle off the summer heat that is already setting in this morning--even though it is barely past seven o’clock. The only thing I need to do today is to remain grateful for every moment and every opportunity. If I can hear Tommy screaming from the top of the hill he climbed yesterday (immensely proud that he reached the top before five of his brothers and sisters scrambling on all fours behind him) Hurry: If I can make it; you can make it! I can see forever from up here! I will be a happy man. Happiness and thankfulness needs only a dose of reflection to almost count as wisdom--and perhaps that is the wisest way to start every day.

Comments

[Scott]

"The only thing I need to do today is to remain grateful for every moment and every opportunity."

Well spoken. This is what Muir was talking about in My First Summer in the Sierra: how the wilderness asks nothing of us except appreciation and understanding.

[Juian]

the fiddler was amazing. i had never heard a serious scottish accent in person, so laughed a little, but that does not take away from her performance. That guitar player was phenomenal. The scales he were doing and the chords he were playing were all genius. Amazing that he could do that all in open tuning. And the photoshop thing is the same with me. I learned to do that just a couple days ago. I never really have time to use it that much during the school year. also, (long comment) i like this post. agree with it completely. I am going up to maine with the Moseses so i will get a couple entries in next week. see ya.