Flights to Spain booked!! I'll be off mid-September to the sunny south for a few months of nature and blissful quiet. Excited? Oh yes. Hip is grumbling less, so I guess all the physiotherapy efforts are paying off; bring on some scrambling over rocky Spanish hills and some hikes through the valleys.
Just been unearthing my first potatoes of the year - what is it about rummaging around up to your elbows in dirt, hunting for spuds, that instantly produces a sense of childish wonder?! Could not have been happier had someone just turned my house into a chocolate shop. Fabulous. Guess what's on the menu tonight...
Read this poem this morning on the Rilke blog (http://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/08/may-what-i-do-flow-from-me.html). Love it:
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing it and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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