Poo and Goo...

Isn't it a sure sign of a rotten day when at noon you step in dog poo..then at 4:00 you step in hot chewing gum?I would say so--this was my day Friday. Crappy. I am trying so hard not to be inside with the Littles everyday, though the heat wave we are having doesn't exactly make the outdoors enticing. Yesterday, my sweet guy came home from work and said "go...you need to get out of here". Ahh-yes! So I did my favorite(s), thrifting and Starbucks. By myself. I have been having a hard time lately, my gypsy soul and I fight alot. I feel so stuck in a rut--always striving to simplify our life, yet yearning for the pace to slooowwww down. And really wanting to hit the road(Jack). Not running away from anything... but running to something. I wish we had the means to be more self sufficient. I wish I had the patience(and desire) to school the Littles at home.I wish I had learned to sew. I wish Dan didn't have to work so much. I wish I had a latte' right now---er,wait a minute! What was that?! But, in striving to simplify and pare down, you can almost become lost in the process in doing that, as easily as getting lost in the fast paced life. Frugality can absorb you as easily as consumption. I have to keep this in check all.the.time. My nomadic self doesn't help these endeavors..because it's so easy to always feel discontent. That is NOT what I want. I'm gonna leave this post with a piece that I LOVE--I have it taped to the cabinet in my kitchen, and I read it everyday. It helps me bring it(this journey)back into focus.

To Live Simply-William Henry Channing

To live content with small means,to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy,

not respectable, and wealthy..not rich.

To study hard,think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;to listen

to birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;

to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.

To let the spiritual,unbidden and unconscious, grow up

through the common.

This is to be my symphony.