Summer Plans
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My kids finish school today. Here is my list of what I would like to accomplish this summer. Please add your own in the comments so I can join you in your endeavors and vice versa.
-Start novel in earnest
-Learn to sew
-Swim in as many pools as possible
-Frame all the best kid art that came home this year
-Try to enjoy being on vacation
-Rye Playland
-Coney Island
-Make new precious jewels
-Ride on some boats
-Wear aggressive sunscreen
-Pick up shells and rocks
-Befriend stray cats while on vacation
-Play with watercolors
-Take ferries whenever possible
-Join the WGA picket line
-Write one short story
-Make dates to eat dinner with friends outside at pretty restaurants
-Have dinner parties at home
-Say yes to invitations
-Break for farmstands
-Go see movies in the middle of the day
-Hit all the museums
-Go to as many bookstores as possible everywhere I go
-Attempt to enjoy summer despite it being a constant transition
-Send postcards
-Talk on the phone
-Ditch responsibilities whenever possible
-Make people presents just because
-Read good books
What else you got?
I have two recommendations! This dress from Uniqlo, which I have worn about five times already, and this book! All my booksellers are obsessed with RF Kuang, and this is my first! It’s catnip for those of us in publishing/books.
Summer Plans
That's a good list! I've got some overlap.
-Finish this draft of a novel, revise the last draft of a different novel.
-Sewing, also (I'm taking a class on how to make patterns for clothes).
-Learn to paddleboard.
-Read outside without getting bitten by bugs (I realize this involves the bugs revising their own summer goals).
-Make summer pasta or potato salads that can live in the fridge for lunches.
-Send postcards.
-Learn to make soap.
-Walk barefoot more if I'm somewhere without, like, broken glass.
-Read so many books.
-Write some picture books.
The universe spoke to me this weekend on this very topic:
Sunday morning in Connecticut I saw a box turtle sunning itself on a rock overlooking the Connecticut river. Just as I was taking a photo, I heard this loud crashing in the bushes and a BEAR appeared. I backed away, grabbed the turtle, moved it a few yards away, and hightailed it outta there. It was a message to me about how I should conduct my summer: stop crashing around in the underbrush and spend more time sunning yourself on a rock.