August 20, 2008
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The rain came and washed my mood away. I woke up early and went to my favorite new coffee shop, Cooks Illustrated in hand, to plan what I was taking to the three potlucks I have this week. Then I hit two grocery stores for all the ingredients. For the choir I am taking mac-n-cheese. For my breast cancer support group — After all these years I think we need a new name — I am taking Cobb salad. And for the recorder party I am making corn bread and taking it in the cast iron skillet.
I’ve been working on my high school reunion and when the phone rang I thought it was my friend S…. because her last name came up on the caller ID. But it was the gal I met at the coffee shop, who works for my high school friend’s husband, calling to remind me about the Thurs night for wine thing they do every week. I thought small world and said, ”Yes, I am coming.” Those bizarre coincidences always give me pause. This new woman seems kind of zany but any friend of the barista’s I guess is okay.
I’m glad to be home after all. I have lots of fun things going on and this new back-to-school weather always makes me excited about fall. As much as I love spring and summer, fall always jumpstarts me. Fall is full of possibility.
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Your social schedule would have exhausted me if I were you. Just thinking of what to cook and having fear that my cooking turns worse are enough to sap my energy. Kudos for you.
What a lovely little post, Pru. “The rain came in and washed my mood away.” — now there’s a wickedly beautiful opening sentence. Cooks Illustrated! My favorite cooking magazine, I read it cover-to-cover the minute I get it and keep the stack of them in the kitchen with pages dog-eared and folded open to recipes I want to try. I love how they do all the work of experimenting with different combos of things for us, leaving just the great results. Corn bread in cast iron skillet makes me homesick, luv.
And your words about Fall jumpstarting you are nothing short of a lifeline for me out here. Thank you! ~Kay
Sorry I’ve been out of the loop for a bit – your writing about your daily life has been moving and inspiring and somehow a relief, that you are so vibrant in deeply feeling and being open and giving with a good sense of self is inspiring. I was very sorry to read about your sweet cat, your writing memorable, stark, warm, revealing. And playing the recorder, singing, dancing, wine-tasting, getting ready for a high school reunion, cancer survivor’s group, and, and, Pru vibrant is the word. You incorporate nature into this little post, too, that powerful rain that washes away your mood, the beginning of the turning of the season into Autumn that one feels a continuous underlying transformation in your inner life too. xo
YAY! I’m glad you’re feeling good again. Busy is good, especially when you’re on top of your game making good things and looking fabulous.
Yum times 3. Sweet rain water. It does get the grit off sometimes. A wine thing is one of those neat things to put on a calendar. Even though I don’t drink it much anymore, such a gathering would be a new experience and a welcome one for me. And the way you absorb experience and observations of people, no matter what you’ll come out of it richer!
The fall perspective has a bunch of electricity. Glad you feel it coming on. It’s inching up on me over here too.
i think we had a high school reunion 2 years afterwards and that was it
MAYBE if i get the 3 people i’m still in touch with to contact people they’re still in touch with and so on & so on it’ll snowball