Summer Reading

Dear Diary,

Every year in late May when I was teaching the children would get their summer reading lists from their teachers.  These are some of my summer books.  I've read a couple already and two are gifts from the wonderful DDW.  The porch is the perfect venue for reading and I hope to be doing just that this afternoon.  This morning I will be planting perennials and working in cleaning up the studio; both jobs are multi-day affairs so I will take the afternoon to hang out with Emerson on the porch with a good book.

I try to balance the work and the rest parts of my life.  Another part of the porch poem seems to sum that up quite nicely:

Lean back and watch the world go by,
Forego life's stress and chatter.
What's not been done remains undone.
But, really, did it matter?