One of the great things about this vacation so far has been doing nothing. For the first time in 5 years, I have the freedom to just be.
When we were up in Canada, I sat in a lawn chair and watched the big, beautiful clouds march by - for an hour. It was awesome.
Today, it was rainy in Carthage, Missouri. I woke up early, around 7, with Dashiell, and went downstairs with him and puttered around for a while. Then, around 9, I went back upstairs and went back to sleep for an hour and a half. But that's not the cool part. Later in the day, around 3, I went back upstairs to read, and it started to pour, so I put my book down, and just listened to the beating rain. Pretty soon I was asleep again, dreaming about staging Midsummer on this ruined staircase that ran about a half a mile up a huge hill.
I cannot remember the number of times I have said, over the last 5 years, "this is one of those days where you should be home dozing in bed with a good book" - today, I finally did it.
I think we spend way too much time in this country doing stuff, and not nearly enough just being there with the sounds and smells of the world.
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