Weekend

I just finished up a two day weekend (i.e. Tuesday and Wednesday) before going into my eight day stretch at the Space Needle.  At the end of this stretch, I will be leaving for Tucson the day after.  I've been tired the last couple of days, so I've taken the chance to rest while the rain falls down.  I've napped, watched a couple good movies, and read a little in between.  Today I started packing, realizing once work starts up- time flies, and time quickly runs out on me.  I love packing and getting things together.  I also did a little cleaning, changed my address at the bank and ordered checks, and did some walking.  First I walked to the coffee shop and then I walked to another coffee shop (it's Seattle, after all, and it was raining all day!).  I wrote a couple letters, talked to a couple friends, wrote in my journal, and read.  All things I really love doing on my days off, and then I got the impulse to walk to Carkeek Park.  It is an incredibly beautiful park in north Seattle close to where I've been living.  It was lovely tonight.  As I was walking, it started to rain harder but the trees shielded me and kept me dry.  The ocean smells filled my body, and I sat staring at a log that looked like an animal eating the sand.  The Atlantic is a brilliant bright blue filled usually with many boats, lobstermen, ships, but the Pacific tonight was gray and endlessly large.  I splashed my face with the saltwater, and I studied the outlines of a man and woman near the edge of the water.  I watched the train fly by and the kids under the bridge with a flashlight.  I walked in the darkness back to the house thankful for the beauty God creates over and over again.  It rained all day and at the coffee shop, for a minute or two, I saw the brightest rainbow, and on my walk home, Mickey Mouse ears in the clouds. 
Going to the ocean tonight felt like an invigorating way to get back into the living of life.