Friday, August 23, 2013

To live the whole length and width of your life

Only one more week of August. Summer is almost over. What can we do? We can be grateful! Ann Voskamp suggests we can all make a list of things to do in this last week. She writes,

Calendars can con: there are really only as many days left as you actually really live.

In the end, everyone ends up at the length of their lives — but only a few live the whole width of a life.

Here is Ann's list to get us started. She gives us enough for two a day: /p

1. Make a fruit pie

2. Eat under stars

3. Walk through the woods, some trees, long grass

4. Dip both feet in water

5. Sing hymns around flame {choice: candles or campfire}

6. Lick drippy ice cream

7. Find a swing and swing high

8. Pick a bouquet of wildflowers : set in sill. Or be the G.I.F.T. and give it away.

9. Play one game of anything out on grass {frisbee, baseball, soccer, croquet, volleyball}

10. Eat something fresh {from the garden or the market or your mother’s}

11. Lay down on grass, look up and watch clouds for five minutes

12. Dance. Dance on the beach, on a porch, on your toes, dance on until something in you feels lighter.

13. Open a window. Listen to the world. Slow. Still.

Pray before that open window.

14. Sit with someone you love and watch the sunset. Say it out loud: Thank you.

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