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What’s been your joy this summer, Budget Voguers? Did you spend the warmest months delighting in gardens and ice cream? Travel and lobster? Beaches and the flavors of green so endless, they have words like lime, olive, pea, sage, pastoral?
Good August, Musers, good summer’s height, good brilliance of flowers, of sun, of summer feet and well used beach chairs. In today’s musings, I simply have questions.
When I saw the bumper sticker, “Incite Art, Create Community” I could not help but think of you and my little town of Newmarket, New Hampshire.
If Tom Dromey were alive today, he’d be 99 years old. But, as he died from a heart attack at 55, he’d not have been a “good” 99. He couldn’t swim, never went to the dentist, did not own jeans and used baked potato skins as ashtrays after our nightly dinner.
I muse joyfully on their athleticism, their drive, their joy in kicking a ball around.
And the idea of going back to Maastricht feels fun, magical. I’m beginning to plan and have invited friends and family who may join in our vow renewal. Is THAT a crazy plan? A destination VOW RENEWAL? Absolutely, yes.
Today I muse joyfully on waiting, on saving, on patience. And while two of these words are actions and one a virtue, they each serve to provide health, contentment and, most importantly, sustainability.
This year, however, upon entering with my bag of donations, rather than asking people about their experiences, I offered my service as a volunteer and was scooped up faster than a Louis Vuitton bag.
But now, it’s time for all of that tactile precipitation to depart, to go away, time for shovels and ice scrapers to disappear.