I love those moments when life reminds you to stop taking yourself so damn seriously. I find myself needing the direct tackle on this point quite a bit lately, and Baltimore (where this photo was shot) is a good place to be for that. Strolling down a city sidewalk past John Waters, as we did right after snapping this pic, also seems to help in that regard.
Anyway, further in the pursuit of keeping perspective and reducing myopic stress this summer, we put in our vegetable garden this weekend (my real-world, hands-in-dirt stab at creativity) and contemplated the installation of a backyard hammock. And that leads pretty quickly to thoughts of summer reading (which leads even faster to afternoon naps, but let’s leave that be for a moment.)
For anyone interested in exercising their library cards and reading along, blogger book club will be back next month, and so far on this season’s reading list is The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey and The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt.
What books are you schlepping to the beach this summer?