5,000 miles of rubber on the road: Above average.
1,200 miles in the air: Too frequent.
60 miles of running: Keeping pace.
10 miles in kayaks: Whenever we can.
24 miles in canoes, including 400 rods of portaging: Timeless!
10 nights in hotels: Downtime.
1 night in someone else’s house: Family time.
For Andrew, 6 nights in a camp cabin: Summer time.
3 nights in a tent under the stars: Timeless!
23 real estate closings: Routine.
10 hours prepping a big hotel purchase: Billable.
1 week of coordination with three attorneys covering for me: Overtime.
3 full days away from internet, phone and roads. I’ve got to do this more often!
Kirsten wondering if the wilderness is her “thing”: Time will tell, but she does love to paddle!
Andrew questioning his dad’s fishing abilities: Worth every snag to see him catch his own fish!
A half-centurion Minnesotan finally getting up to the Boundary Waters: It was about time!
Finding three days of motorless peace and loon call quiet in the middle of July: Timeless!
And priceless! Thank you, Jack and Reeni!
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And thank you everyone else for a memorable month- I could keep going:
Two family reunions: The best of times!
A memorial service for Julie Beth: A precious time.
Church service at the brewery: God with us time (Thank you Deb Carey)
Chalet Landhous and Shakespeare: Thank you Mom and Dick!
PNC Park with Andrew and whiffle ball with all the cousins: Play ball!
Getting Yoshi reports from Zylka: For the love of a dog!
Camp Woodward, Pennsylvania: Hang time!
Columbus Nationals: En guarde!
Steely Dan at Ravinia - Oh, wait, that goes on August’s list!
It’s all priceless!
Indeed, invaluable to immeasurable degrees. And, playing on that final line (ie, August may have 'more' in store, not to compete hour for hour), I invite us all to post deliberately, as beautifully as Mom makes scrapbooks. Peter Mulvey, a Wisconsin folk artist, composes a song each Tuesday morning, by hook and crook. I like that design better than Sylvia Plath's probably frenetic new poem each/every day. We may not be up to that pace, but month by month we should reflect on God's provision--even the bedraggled times or the absence of 'diamonds in the rough'. From what I understand of diamonds, time and circumstance morphs that carbon stone to shine.
ReplyDeleteSo "come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!"