We head home tomorrow on the 4th. I don’t feel like celebrating our country right now.
I haven’t written about our car starting saga, but we’ve had a doozy of a time troubleshooting it. Two mechanics have basically shrugged and said they can’t do anything. We’ve goggled a million things and Pete and Tommy tried some things but the problem persisted. Today Pete got a new battery and fingers crossed it helps.
We also spent a little time in town, bought more cool shirts, had lunch, then relaxed. I did a bit of cleaning and organizing to hopefully make leaving easier tomorrow. I’m happy with how we packed and it feels pretty simple to combine it all again to get home. Packing has become a bit of an obsession for me. I found the subreddit /heronebag a couple years ago and spent a lot of time optimizing what I bring. I believe the forum was originally started to make air travel simpler (no bag fees, easier to move through crowded places)but I’ve found the element of simplifying overall feels great.
I finished marking up The Little Prince for book club. It was a fun experiment but not sure I’ll ever be comfortable writing in a book. I guess that’s why I mostly used post-it notes.
It’s funny how at a different time in life, we were out late most nights. Well I barely saw the night sky while we were here. I mostly went to bed at kiddo’s bedtime, so it wasn’t dark. The few times I woke up in the middle of the night, I was able to peek out the window at some stars. It’s always surprising how much more you can see without light pollution. So I’ll miss that, how quiet it is, and being surrounded by so much nature.
Today’s reading
Poem: A Word on Statistics by Wislawa Szymborska – from the book “44 Poems on Being With Each Other” that Pete pointed out at the book store
Essay: Inefficiency by Ross Gay
Short Story: Jewel of the Gulf of Mexico by Selena Gambrell Anderson
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