• It's the first day of the pay week, beginning a fresh cycle at work.
• Charity Singleton Craig posts her Word of the Week column. Charity's website is aptly named "Bringing Words to Life." One of the ways she does that is considering what word seems to characterize her life each week, and writing about it through a personal essay that quietly considers and demonstrates the word's various meanings. This week, after moving into a new home, she's "Settled."
• Charity Singleton Craig posts her Word of the Week column. Charity's website is aptly named "Bringing Words to Life." One of the ways she does that is considering what word seems to characterize her life each week, and writing about it through a personal essay that quietly considers and demonstrates the word's various meanings. This week, after moving into a new home, she's "Settled."
She also offers a link, encouraging others to consider and write about how a single word can reflect and refract a life.
• Tuesday morning email contains the alert for the latest podcast by John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture. Listening to that is a great way to wake up, and a great reason to stay in bed 10 more minutes or so. He keeps up with so many good new books, and discusses them with the enthusiasm of a baseball fan, which he is.
• It is reportedly when new merchandise shows up at Tuesday Morning, a discount home decor store. On the way home from work I pass one, which is where I found the very marked down Le Creuset dutch oven — pardon me, French oven — that I use all the time. It's homemade bread season, and soups and stews season, and I make all those things in my Le Creuset pot.
In addition to the prices and the frequently changing stock, Tuesday Morning is a pleasant place to brows because of consistently great satellite radio music, played at a respectful volume. Today the serenaders included Indigo Girls. To celebrate this first day of autumn, I bought a pair of new hypoallergenic pillows, came home and threw away two old, flat, probably dust-mite-colonized pillows.
• It's usually the day that our newspaper's one weekly piece of fiction written by our one dead cat columnist hits the rim for the copy editors to read. If I'm lucky enough to grab the latest by Otus the Head Cat, I get to learn some obscure scientific terminology, consider style matters that come up nowhere else, laugh out loud (more than once if it's a good one), and write a mock-serious headline for a fake story. Thank you, Michael Storey, for making me laugh, one way or another.
Let the new season begin — a season of nesting, decluttering, making warm things in the kitchen, reading warm things in the coziest nook of the living room, writing warm things right here.
How was the first day of autumn where you are? What do you like about Tuesdays?
How was the first day of autumn where you are? What do you like about Tuesdays?
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