Laundry Line Divine

How are you doing with embellishing your days with pleasure?
Last night we grilled salmon and served it with beet salad. That, even beyond the apricot honey jam I made in the morning, sweetened our day with delicious, satisfyingly yummy pleasure.

Have you lost track of Pleasure in your day? Or just what I have going here on the Line? I have this initiative to infuse my days with at least one new thing, one activity, pause or moment that I would not in the normal swish of my day, encounter. Yesterday was salmon on the grill. Monday, I picked red currants and gooseberries over in Hudson NY at Loveapple Farm. Sunday afternoon, Jonathan and I sat in the hammock gritty and hot from gardening. We just sat there. No big life talk. Not much of anything but the breeze on our skin. This pause of pleasure is memorable for us in our busy days. Sometimes we get so busy, a pause seems impossible.

And, it is the Pause that Refreshes, right?

I just had the Embellishment of my day, this moment as as I write. Our son Ben is at music camp at Bryn Mawr college in Philadelphia. He just called to tell me he’d had a nice lunch with our sweet pretend-Grandma Bebe at the cafe on campus. Bebe in my pal Regena’s Mom and she is the Bubbie of Bubbies. The deep smile in my son’s voice and and his moment of sending me love???? I might have to go lie down for awhile and digest.

Before I leave, I have an invitation for you. Andrea from ABC Creativity and I are having an Embellishment Playdate this next week. We’d love you to join us. We are going to illustrate the phrase of Rumi that I posted here on the Line last week…the one about the fish swimming in the ocean. We’d like you to illustrate it in whatever fashion thrills you and send a copy of it to me on laundrylinedivine@gmail.com. With your permission I will post it here next Thursday July 8th. Come play with us- bring your video camera, your poetry, your cray pas.

So there you have it, an invitation to play. When was the last time you had one of those? I think it counts as a Pleasure Embellishment for today. Especially if you say yes!

All my love, Suzi

I am delighted by my Pleasure Embellishment project.
I wrote about it last week.
My family is in on the challenge.
We had a date with our girl on Friday to see “Secret Garden” at the Mac-Hayden Theater over in Chatham, NY. First we had dinner at our friends Max and Linda’s restaurant,www.local111.com, in Philmont where I saw this fab steeple. I could spend my life photographing, doodling swirls and drawing weathervanes and steepletops.

Then, my garden walk on Saturday morning before I had my tea and Rumi poem of the day- yeow. Am I ever glad I got out there.

Look fish, you are already in the ocean.
Just swimming there makes you friends with glory.

by Rumi

What embellished your day?

Love, S