There is a Way!

July continues to be my month of repairs, some say demolition?? Updates, watching too many home improvement shows, whatever you choose to call it, I call it "Up the Meds Time!" or " Is eight o'clock too early for vodka?" or " Mother of God this is a hot mess!" I know there is a light at the end of the paintbrush, but its just a flicker! I want to see the "flood-light" of something finished, I want serenity now!!!! Instead, I breathe and read. Yes, I can read in the jungle of house remodeling without missing a page!!

July I have had the privilege of reading; The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, The Patron Saint of Dreams by Philip Gerard, To the Last Breath by Frances Slakey, Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (loved this) and just finished Wild by ??? Oprah?? her new book club book, it was awesome. No Oprah did not write the book, she just reviewed it.

Wild was a book about walking the Pacific Coast Trail, something that would never appeal to me, yet fascinated me immensely. It is more about a person and her grief, and how nature teaches us. That is more as to the "Why" I read this book. Here below are some of my highlighted jewels from this very good book.

Talking about her mother-Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve. 

She loved us more than all the named things in the world.

When my life became unmoored by sorrow

I folded my life down

My mom was dead, everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath (same as I felt about my Ward)

"You're a seeker" (Love that!!)

" I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life" ( can you imagine that??not me)

" A longing so naked and sorry." I could go on and on with my lines of special sentences, this book is highlighted to the sky and back. It touched me and surprised me. A book about walking, touched my heart.

Reading is my pleasure, at all times. My small quiet room. Even when the rooms are in disarray!!