The Long View
I’m up too early, awakened by what sounded like a squirrel moving furniture on the roof and me fretting about a non-refundable plane ticket I booked late last night for a November wedding in Massachusetts.
Still groggy, rocking in the kitchen rocking chair in my bathrobe, I remember a dream and tell it to Joe. He had purchased a machine that translated his speech into Aramaic and was proudly showing it off to everyone.
Sipping breakfast tea on the porch, Joe is clipping the forsythia bush back and I’m thinking that maybe I put too much butter on my bagel, considering that I gained an extra pound overnight after attending a Vietnamese soup birthday party at Zephyr Farm with poppyseed cake and ice cream for dessert.
Joe steps in front of the lounge table where I’m sitting and complains about a rotting board beneath his feet. I decide not to worry about it because I think he’s exaggerating. I tell him that I have more confidence in the world than he does, but he has more confidence in his own abilities than I have in mine.
Yesterday he finally took down the big old pine that was blocking the morning sun on our south-facing porch. Already more light is streaming in. I notice the leaves on the dogwood have turned orange and red. Crows call in the distance and chickens squawk nearby. Joe is still clipping. I’m thinking about how the seasons change whether we’re ready or not. I’m looking forward to the opened-up view.
September 23rd, 2012 12:29 pm
This is a nice painting of your life. A whole pine tree down? He is an adventurous type.
September 23rd, 2012 12:30 pm
The yard is a mess with piles of tree parts, some from the last tree he took down!
September 23rd, 2012 1:17 pm
nice write
much love…
September 23rd, 2012 3:35 pm
It must be nice to have more light, though possibly sad to lose the tree….
September 23rd, 2012 4:26 pm
It sounds like FALL to me. xo
September 23rd, 2012 4:33 pm
I love the red leaves of wild cherry. Greetings.
September 23rd, 2012 8:49 pm
Ready or not, here we are, and it’s all beautiful!
September 23rd, 2012 10:42 pm
Tell dream-Joe I’d like to borrow his Aramaic machine. I’m sitting here wondering why you dreamed about Aramaic.
September 23rd, 2012 10:45 pm
Because Joe has been learning the prayers we grew up with in Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and he is finding the original meaning of those prayers much more meaningful than the way we learned them. He is studying this with a group that meets once a week.
September 24th, 2012 6:07 am
What a nice life, I can see myself sipping coffee on a porch in the woods. But I’m also quite content with my city life. 🙂 Danica Martin
September 24th, 2012 7:54 pm
It sounds like “fall” is upon you…It’s been extremely HOT here..Yesterday it was 100!!!
“Fall” has not descended on Southern California yet….
How nice that you will have the Sun back with that tree gone.
September 24th, 2012 8:36 pm
So nice to hear about your morning. We have forsythias that need pruning very badly. Does your husband make house calls?
Thank you for sharing at Your Sunday Best.
September 26th, 2012 11:26 pm
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