I have some great books I am reading these days. I also have some major books to read too. No wonder I am reverting to my summer escape mood of forgetting too much I have to do, just not in that mood of always doing things.
On the East Coast it would get sweltering hot in the summer and chilling out was a healthy thing to want and do. Getting out of the city and to the water was even a better idea if you could. I was a cook and did work on the line as they say, in a few kitchens in the Boston area and it was a slow motion haze to work sometimes. Those cheffy uniforms were a shield against the heat of the fire and an airy tent to the sweat and steam.
So chilly chilled out in the Bay area, I am still thinking summer even if it isn’t the same. This is the first summer I even felt like summer. I have lived here since 1985, so what is up to get all sentimental about summer and wanting a vacation to read books and be in a forever mood? I am slipping it in for sure. Berkeley is a college town so summer has some slight change, a kind of absent feeling of people missing.
Books I am hung up on:
“The Lost Language of Plants”, by Stephen Buhner
“Insights of a Senior Acupuncturist”, by Miriam Lee (One of the first and brave acupuncturists in California. Before acupuncture became a profession as it is today, her patients stood up for her when she was arrested for practicing without a license. She passed to spirit world about 2 weeks ago.)
“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”, by Anne Fadiman
I will need to renew a few of these books again later, just return them now, they are stunning. There is too much of summer and transition to my new schedule now.
How many gigs do I have now? Just 4 now. There is a freedom to all the part-timey gigs I have. Also I am reaching for something and it is working so far. I am in a good place with Sarana Community Acupuncture. Imagine finding a place you love to be a part of and you have the chance to make it into something. Now is the beginning part and that takes more of my time in a different way, kind of like summer, time for change and growth.
