Today was just a lazy day. Those always feel good every once in a while, especially after a long week…or say, climbing 700 steps up the Eiffel Tower. Ya know…normal things like that. Yep, sometimes you just gotta sit back, relax, and kick your feet up.
After donning my capris and ballet flats, I spent most of my day like this…
and then like this….
with some of this in between…
Ooooh, salads. I’ve missed you. This one was mixed lettuce with avocado (which I’ve also missed dearly) and some leftover sautéed veggies – caramelized onion, red bell pepper and eggplant – all with some balsamic vinegar, olive oil and grey salt. The veggies were cold, but were perfect on a little salad for lunch.
Oh, do you see that little red journal in that picture up there? Not only do I divulge my innermost, darkest, deepest feelings and secrets, but I also write lists. Grocery lists, to do lists, things to make when I get home lists – the usual everyday lists. I love lists.
Anyway. I might have to devote a whole page to salad creations I’ve been dreaming up. And other creations. Mostly food related. Geez. It’s kind of like that all you want is water but you’re in the middle of the desert so you can’t have it kinda feeling. My kitchen is so tiny, and we have one tiny knife that probably couldn’t even give me anything worse than a paper cut if it grazed my skin. Ooooh, and my blender. And my oven. Okay, I’m moving on now.
I did manage to get to one neat spot today…Shakespeare & Co. After sitting on the edge of the Seine this evening right by Notre Dame, we walked home stopping in the little book store to browse, play the piano and use the type writer. Love this little store. It was my second time there and I’m certain I’ll be heading back soon.
I bought a copy of Eat, Pray, Love – my very favorite book. I’ve read it at least three times and can’t believe I didn’t bring it with me here. I’ve been thinking about the book a lot lately and couldn’t resist buying it when I found the last copy they had there. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside carrying it home in the 60 degree weather that has graced Paris for the past few days.
I know Elizabeth Gilbert just came out with a new book that I’m definitely going to read when I get back to the US. And you know I’m counting down ‘til when the movie comes out.
Julia Roberts, don’t fail me now! I do love Julia so hopefully she does my favorite book justice. Book to movie type deals are hit or miss. Let’s hope this is a hit! 
What is your favorite book? Books to movies…like? Dislike?
I thought I’d leave you with a new favorite poem…I do love me some poetry.
Cutting Loose
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason,
you sing. For no reason, you accept
the way of being lost, cutting loose
from all else and electing a world
where you go where you want to.Arbitrary, a sound comes, a reminder
that a steady center is holding
all else. If you listen, that sound
will tell you where it is and you
can slide your way past trouble.Certain twisted monsters
always bar the path — but that’s when
you get going best, glad to be lost,
learning how real it is
here on earth, again and again.-William Stafford
