What Rings True

It is a beautiful evening and I have been lost in the weekend. The wind is blowing a nice cool breeze and another monsoon storm is pending..The backpacks are packed and lunch box is ready..the school supplies for the most part have been bought and distributed..and three boys are tucked away in bed getting ready for tomorrow..for one it is his first day at kindergarten. We met the teachers, went over all of the details and I pretended to be Olivia Newton John in Grease and sang them Summer Nights. I actually sat through 3 movies this weekend, it would have been 4 had I not fell asleep. This is huge, I never sit through an entire movie, I am thinking that it was a good thing I have lightened my load so to say. I will only be working 2 days this week during the hours that the boys are in school, a far cry from the 45 I usually pull down. This weekend was the first one in a long time where I didn't feel rushed to get a ton of things done and it felt very very nice. Heck I didn't even do a rigid schedule of yoga..we relaxed into it and I soaked up family time and all the excitement that came with preparing for their first day of school. The meals were easy and we even went out for Sunday dinner..to a salad bar restaurant nonetheless that I picked. But Jake ate his broccoli and there was frozen yogurt and everyone had potato soup.I quietly celebrated Andy Warhols birthday. There is a lot in the works in the coming weeks..before I know it school will be starting again soon. I moved my circa 1920's Frank Lloyd Wright designed desk downstairs, a piece designed and produced by the master himself for the Arizona Biltmore hotel. It was the same desk I used as a child and through all of my school days. If you look at it in the right light you can still see the early penmanship I practiced that superimposed on the finish, much like my dining room table which my Dad made when I was very young. This desk is very special to me and once again has become a place where I will set about making things happen. I am looking forward to the week, to a lot of things but for tonight I am going to rest and continue to take it all in something that had become sort of a lost art for me...focusing in the coming week of letting something go every day.. think about it...theres a lot to be said for self liberation..

So begins the 2k11/2k12 School Year