Saturday To Do List

A gorgeous Saturday morning, after a stormy yesterday that included a hail shower Kate and I watched from a window. Right now the divine Ms. K. is sleeping. When she gets up I will drive her to her father's and then I will have the weekend to myself. Some observations this morning: Stop and Shop brand coffee sucks; Pierre Reverdy is a poet I don't like; and it is time to go back to school to get my reading specialist certificate. I got my masters in education but then had Kate and never went back for the specialist certificate. Job security, 401K, summer's off, good salary...and the one-on-one teaching I became a teacher to do. Seems like a smart way to go. Still entertaining editorial job move too. Time to stop reeling from recent turn of events ("What do you mean I'm not getting married and moving to the UK?!") and make a plan.

Today's plan so far is to take my sucky coffee and a poetry book and sit on the front porch reading. There are flowering trees and shrubs all around the house and it's a cool and sunny morning. Breathe in, breathe out, re-center.

Haiku

by Ransetsu

On the old plum tree,
one blossom by one blossom,
the spring thaw is born