Countdown to Vacation

So what is the best possible vacation?  The one you need the most and oh, man do I need one. 

This is the first week of vacation where I am not doing any significant travel.  Like with a passport and something to convert electricity to 110 volts.  I'm staying nearby.

Friday, going to see Tony Kushner's new play "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism, Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures".  I just hope I don't feel like the stupid homosexual when I see it. 

Saturday will be my 25th College reunion and I know of half a dozen friends that will be there.  So that's fun.

Then I'm going to garden and do stuff like paint the shutters on the house.  It's like Zen.  You get into a zone and it makes you all peaceful when you don't think too much.

Annual massive party at a friend's condo for Monday Memorial Day Holiday.  Official kick off of summer.

Tuesday and Wednesday I'm going with one of my best friends on a road trip to Iowa.  To visit one of the premier pipe organ makers in the country.  This is exactly the kind of fun I like to have.  On the way home we're visiting an historical site of Native American spiritual importance.

And then I get to come home and paint more stuff.  And maybe go canoeing.  And cook stuff.

It's great when you have a chance to live your life a little.....

Being in the moment

All these people seem to talk about how difficult it is to be "in the moment".  I think it's sort of funny.  I'm in the moment plenty.  It's why I'm late to things.

I think it's a bit like this cat that comes and eats the birds in our yard.  She looks around, takes it all in, reacts to stuff and then occasionally formulates an agenda.  You can see when she decides that it might be nice to jump up into the open window I'm standing in.

I slam the window shut because I was in the moment at that moment.  No evil puss is entering my home.