Old Age Day by Day July 9, 2012

I'm going to about five places today to pick up stuff for the retreat, and my mind is spinning a bit just keeping all the errands straight.  But if I do all this today, it leaves a calmer, more peaceful day tomorrow, when we are going to friends for dinner.  Then bright and early, I'll leave Wednesday morning.  I'm about to do a zig zag:  first a silent retreat with no leaving the property and lots of quiet movement, then up to our cabin to socialize with a bunch of people, cook up a storm, swim and hike and listen to music and keep the dogs quiet at night.  Only the mosquitoes are in common with both places.  I go from dry to wet, from bushes to 100 foot pines and cedars, from spare simple eating to extravagance and beer.  In the best of all worlds I'd have some transition time, but no, that is not the way it has worked out.  Luckily, I love both worlds and wouldn't consider one without the other.  So.  Onward and upward!