Today is the last official day of my week off. All week I’ve had this feeling like I’m surfacing. Not even recovering, just rising a bit from wake of the last three months that has passed in a blur of stress and exhaustion. Reclaiming a perspective from a more rested, less stressed vantage point. There has got to be a better way to live my life than what I’ve been doing this season.

I’m not going to solve that today, but I took my perspective and went on a long (for me) bike ride with John though a forest, past streams, up a mountain (ok, a slightly inclining hill – but the incline went of for miles so I feel justified calling it a mountain). We stopped after ten miles for a cliff bar (they are never delicious unless you really need their energy – today it might as well have been a four star gourmet meal). Then turned back and wheeeeeeeeee downhill back in probably a third of the time back as it took to get out.

It was a good day.