Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. The huge, full moon looms just over the horizon, lighting up the night sky between buildings. “Impressive moon, isn’t it?” I say to a man as we wait for the light to change. He turns around, head waving back and forth, trying to find what I’m talking about. “Yes, it is,” he replies when he finally finds it.
2. Our volleyball team needs to win a majority of our games and the team in front of us must lose all of theirs in order for us to make the post-season. Our shortest player gets a kill, and another, whose fingertips just barely graze the top of the net, gets a block. And we come back in our final match from 13-16 to win 18-16.
3. Rudi and I walk down to the garden to see how it’s looking. Stems of ruby and gold and white chard have pushed through the leaf debris and are growing in a lovely, thick row.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world this week?
Aren’t you the bold one! I remember hating volleyball in school. I tried to avoid the ball at all costs. :<)
And chard is up! Amazing.
@Nan: Ha! I was on the volleyball team in high school and used to love when it would roll around in gym class, if only because occasionally there was a boy who’d make some disparaging remark about girls who couldn’t play. In the next few minutes, he’d be sure to suddenly find himself ducking a well-aimed spike.
The chard is several inches tall, and the peas are now planted.
Comment by soe 03.14.12 @ 1:38 am