abundance

it didn't stay in its original sticky-tacked-to-the-wall position for very long, so now it is pinned to leaning corkboard instead-- a big white paper on which I've scribbled All The Things I want to spend time on this summer break.

there's not any order or timeline to it. some words and phrases have little orbiting sub-items around them. and by now, a few have little blobs of oil pastel crayon next to them. I decided that's how I'll keep track of it all. not just checkmarks or crossing-things-out when I've done them-- that's too basic and also presumes some sort of linear pathway to an ending. some inevitable finality. 

my giant scribbly page of summer activities is not really based around accomplishments. these aren't really goals to be working toward but rather ways of being and doing that I want to make space for. it will be okay if I don't finish most of the things. most of them aren't the finishable kind (though some, like the Matthew McConaughey movie marathon* I have planned, are).

{ not my pastels and not my photo. thank you creative commons licenses. }

there are only ten pastel crayons in my little handmedown box, and I've rotated through them a little bit so far, splashing my to-do page with colors. some items have collected two or three colored dots already, representing multiple segments of time I've spent reading or playing or making this or that.

as of today, the things that don't yet have any dots of color include...

camping
clothesline design + installation
bike rides
reupholster bench + ottoman
sunrises
homemade Italian food
third-year review prep
poolside reading

I will get to those things. I have more than 80 whole days of summer left. plenty of time for All The Things and probably a bunch not even on the list.

*for the record, I'm three movies in to this so far, with 15 more to go (...depending on if or how you count True Detective, which is a series and not a movie). will I blog mini-reviews of all the films? maybe. last night was Contact, which did leave me with plenty to think about.