What is the Sunday Salon?
The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have been doing during the week. It's also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there.
Swim class (almost) every morning is how I start my day in the summer, and it's a great way to start my day. I am so fortunate to live in a town where we have a great rec center, with excellent programs.
I also spent time on our weekly butterfly survey, volunteering at some sites on the Great Texas Wildlife Trails, working in our garden, visiting with a fellow Rae and I met on the plane coming home from New York City, learning about the seashells of Galveston beaches, practicing my guitar, and working on my latest idea for a book.
What I Read Last Week:
The Love Haters by Katherine Center (Fiction)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Classics Club)
What I'm Reading Now:
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Chapter-a-Day)
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt (Nonfiction)
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger (Nonfiction)
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
Need a little hope?
Beginning May 29, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, the On Being folks are opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista and drawing upon her conversations with several visionary humans: adrienne maree brown, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, Joy Harjo, Joanna Macy, and Ross Gay.
Together, they extend rich and actionable invitations for a muscular, reality-based hope. They offer ways of seeing and living to lay our hands and our hearts, our imaginations and life force on the generative possibilities of life in this time.
I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:
Good Thing #1:
Kermit the Frog and
"The Rainbow Connection"
I'm trying to learn to play this on guitar.
Good Thing #2:
Thank you to everyone who suggested McDonald & Dodds
as a series to watch after we finished up Vera.
Good Thing #3:
I learned about the seashells of Galveston beaches
last week. I hope to do some beachcombing soon.
Your latest idea for a book? Now I’m really curious! I’d love to hear more. And also if you have written a book in the past, and if so, tell us about it. A lecture about seashells is also very appealing. The Great Lakes beaches in our general area (within a couple of hours) do not really have seashells, though in one area there were fossilized sea creatures from millions of years ago — I think these “Petosky stones” have all been collected.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting the Sunday Salon… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Hope you're enjoying The Light Eaters! I think the conclusions are a little exaggerated, but nonetheless, it describes and discusses some really fascinating experiments.
ReplyDeleteI love Kermit’s rendition of The Rainbow connection - it simply brings me joy! Have a wonderful weekend Deb!
ReplyDeleteI love Kermit and The Rainbow Connection.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, I read Brave New World in high school. I’ll be interested to read your review.
You have a beautiful, rich and full life. And yes, as Mae said, tell us more about your book idea and anything you've done before. I'd love to learn more about the shells. So glad you are enjoying McDonald and Dodds. I love their quirky relationship and the plots are good. (And I swoon at the opening of Bath scenes!) Thanks for Kermit! A fave!
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me of Kermit and "The Rainbow Connection," always one of my favorite moments with the Muppets that my kids and I so enjoyed when they were little. I've put "McDonald and Dodds" on our watch list. Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteIt has not been warm enough here yet to think about swimming, but it would be a great way to start the day.
ReplyDeleteI love that you are swimming this summer. That was what we did in the summer when my kids were young. Both are still avid swimmers. I made sure of that because the water always scared me. My morning are spend on the patio with coffee and a book. Enjoy your books.
ReplyDeleteI just added On Being to my podcast feeds. That sounds like a good series, right now!
ReplyDeleteSwim class and singing along with Kermit, it sounds like an excellent week.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun week! The Postwar book sounds very good. I love reading non-fiction books.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend whose daughter just graduated from the University of Maryland. Lucky her! Kermit the Frog gave the commencement speech. I remember growing up, my cousin and I used to sing Rainbow Connection and act it out with a rainbow we drew. We'd always end with, "Look! There's a rainbow!" and we'd point to the one we drew. LOL. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou have been very busy. Your books sound really good. I hope you enjoy them. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had access to a pool. Being a hemiplegic I love the weightlessness in a pool. Our aquatic center opens this.week and I hope to get to spend some time there this summer. Preferably with some grandkids!
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a wonderful week!
Well done on the swims! Will have my first UK sea swim of the year next weekend. The European post 1945 history book sounds interesting. Have a great week
ReplyDeleteYou shame me by going swimming every morning! I should be doing the same...
ReplyDeleteI need some hope these days. I am feeling particularly down this morning over recent events in our country. I will have to check that series out.
ReplyDeleteYou have such a great vibe about you! Beach combing and guitar playing and swimming - it all sounds wonderful. And I love the Rainbow Connection. Billy and I used it as our bridal party dance at our wedding. :)
I read Lonesome Dove for the first time a couple of summers ago and still miss those characters. Love the idea of revisiting them a chapter a day - enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of "light eaters" as I make my way around the yard each day. I enjoy the growing of plants and trees and keeping track of their progress and seasons.
ReplyDeleteStarting the day with swim class sounds wonderful. As long as the water was warm. I'd love to learn more abaout shells as I enjoy beach combing, too. Happy to see you enjoyed The Love Haters, too!
ReplyDeleteI love beach combing. At Cape Cod we were always looking for beach glass. On a trip to Bermuda we found a beach covered in beach glass (but found a very small amount of blue). We went back the next day just to see if it would still be there and it was gone.
ReplyDeleteThx for the hopeful podcast. I will try it out, I like listening to things. And I like all your activities ... and the swimming outdoors seems so nice. Great pic of the pool. Keeping busy is the only way to go! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteMcDonald and Dodds is a good one! I am glad so many others recommended it. Have a great reading week!
ReplyDeleteMy mom was a rock collecter. She and my dad traveled to all the states, Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii and she collected rocks there too. When she died I got the round rock she got in Ohio because that's where I grew up. I don't know how she found a round rock but she did, and it's a big one! A woman used to paint them and take them to my pharmacy for him to sell for her, for only $1 each. They're small ones but I love all of them.
ReplyDeleteLove the name 'Light eaters' for plants! And I watched Kermit the frog deliver an inspiring commencement speech online recently!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to start your summer day! Thank you for sharing a place where we an go to find hope - especially in these times. :)
ReplyDeleteYou do such interesting things every week! I love seashells but it would not have occurred to me to take a class on them; it will make beach coming so much more interesting.
ReplyDeleteThis was a lovely post, Hon. Sounds like your week was lovely too.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are having a very busy summer. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteNice review for The Love Haters. I must listen into the On Being podcast. I have it in my library but don't always listen in.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great start to your summer. The kids still have two weeks of school left so not really feeling like summer yet.
ReplyDeleteThe swimming class sounds fun! I go over to a friend's house about once a week and a group of us do "pool therapy" where we float in the pool and discuss things but it's not so much active. The seashell lecture looks fascinating! Sounds like you had a good week and I hope this week is going well.
ReplyDeleteI would love to swim in a large outdoor pool, but it's too chilly here for that. We do have a indoor pool in our neighborhood, but it's not very large so not good for laps. Enjoy your fun-filled summer!
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