#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

Oh, my. The day improved as it went along. Up at 3:45 a.m. to catch the plane. Departed happily, groggily, with Frank and Land by car as they were departing from airport for a different trip. On the way in, in the dark car, I searched my wallet for my Real ID. Found only two old expired licenses. Had not packed my passport. Must have lost my Real ID after the San Francisco return home, which means I probably pocketed it in a distracted place because traveling with kids can make you do things like that. So, I dropped them at their airline instead of them dropping me at mine, I drove home searching my memory for the Real ID, trying to figure out how to solve this. I was renting a car as well, as Uber wouldn’t get me out to the conference from my hotel. I was pretty grumbly, anxious, tired, frustrated. Reaching home, the quiet house, searched for ID, gave up, ordered replacement online. Initiated ticket, hotel, car changes, fell asleep. Woke up and knew all I needed, the body knows, the psyche knows, go outside. Go outside into nature and walk. And so I did. I took an amazing autumn walk of splendor. I used my camera. I gave myself what I needed to feel better. In the sunshine, in the reds and greens and rusts and purples. Oh, the sumac in Ocrtober! All the wild berries! I walked to Medfield State and found more ivies and vines, nests and barred doors and late, dying blooms. I was so happy, so stimulated. I got some work done. A client whom I meet online rescheduled. I took a long, long recovery nap. House still so deliciously quiet. I had been looking forward to being off on my own without chores or interruptions before the conference. Then Wave and Perri home, and Wave called me to go play outdoors with him and I was too tired and unwilling to go and unwilling not to go, and so I went, and I gave him a pickle lesson which evolved into a chasing game around the court and I found the energy. I always find it for him. And I had planned to be done with the kitchen, but he wanted meatballs. I found more energy, and the meatballs made him very happy, and me too, even though I had salmon. So that’s the story of my day that did not go as planned. Oh, and the house alarm went off and I didn’t know what to do and Frank, far away, far, far away heard it, so to speak, and fixed it, because he fixes everything that Wave and nature don’t fix. Probably, he fixes more than anyone. How special to have this day of October splendor captured by my camera and my spirit.