Reims, France
Hello from Reims! I left London this morning for the lake house in France. The trip takes about 12 hours, including Le Shuttle. I can make the drive in one day, and I usually do. But lately I’ve been re-learning the lesson that just because something is physically possible, does not mean that it needs to be done. So I stopped in Reims for the night.
Every time I’m in France, I feel guilty for letting my French decline to such an appalling level. Given how much time I spend here, it’s a disgrace. I managed to check in to the hotel (in French) without incident, but my oura ring pinged me and asked me why I was so stressed! One of these days, I’ll come down for a few months and register for a French Intensive. But first, I need to get through yoga teacher training. My aging brain can only take one intensive course at a time!
Walking the dog in Chiswick House and Gardens. Also, I wrote a little essay about A Cabin in the Woods.
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Books of March
This book sounds bleak, I know! But it’s a super fast, interesting read.
Hello friend,
I only managed to finish one book this month. For some reason I’ve had a hard time concentrating lately. I wasn’t even particularly busy, just restless.
That said, I finished one book and I loved it. It’s called I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Here’s the Amazon blurb because I’m too lazy to say anything different:
Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?
Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.
Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.
It sounds bleak, I know! But it’s a super fast, interesting read.
Here are the books that I started but did not finish:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi - too sweet
Moderation by Elaine Castillo - too grim
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life by Joseph Jebelli - message received by chapter three. I decided to rest instead of finishing the book.
Bhagavad Gita - I was supposed to read this for Yoga Teacher Training - I found it insufferable and could not finish. I watched some youtube videos on the topic instead.
The Indiana girl in me wants the above authors to know that my inability to get through your books says nothing about their worthiness. I was just in a mood.
OH! I forgot to mention. I’m also about halfway through 11.22.63 by Stephen King. It’s roughly five million pages long so if I manage to finish it, I’ll let you know.
xo, L
How to do anything
In order to fall asleep, you must first pretend to be asleep. That’s how everything works.
A Grandpa Tour of Florida
Papaw Jack in Okeechobee, - Grandpa Frank in Naples.
Not the image of Florida you might have been picturing!
Sasha and Papaw Jack at the Okeechobee County Fair.
And Aunt Kelly too! :) xoxo
A very windy day at the beach - Fort Pierce Inlet State Park.
Then we drove down to Naples to visit Grandpa Frank. xo
Imagine watching this sunset every night during dinner!
