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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