Tuesday evening

Perhaps a bit out of order. But it all adds up nicely.

1. A late afternoon walk just now on the fire trail with my sweet Desie who chased sticks and pinecones and played with other dogs and romped around on her own usually with a too large and cumbersome stick in her mouth and mostly stayed close by and ran ahead and came running back when I called her.

2. A late morning hike at Fort Cronkite with Shanan and Heather and Goose and Desie on Thanksgiving and the fun we had trekking up and then down the hill and all the time watching the dogs doubling back and forth and up and down ahead of us and sometimes off trail and then finding their way back to us.

3. This morning’s yoga-pilates class with my teacher Maryam and all the determination and hard work and bridges and downward facing dogs and how much fun it is after class to talk with my fellow student Jason who is a senior majoring in Landscape Architecture and who plays a game of pick up basketball before our class begins about how hard the class is but oh so good for us.

4. Too much pressure and worry this semester and especially right now because my students are struggling with their work and there are only two weeks left until their portfolios with 15-17 pages of excellent writing are due.

5. Much appreciation for my dear friend Emily for understanding when I told her I was out of sorts because I did not have a book I was in love with [in the middle of a crowd at Berkeley Bowl where she was shopping with her father-in-law on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving] and for delivering within an hour two books that she loved for me to read.