LOVE TO DO
✦watch black and white movies behind the humming projector
✦jitterbug to Benny Goodman
✦play Renaissance love-songs on my recorder
✦sip honey-suckle tea
✦write long letters
✦attend classical concerts
✦teach food and herb workshops
✦volunteer and tutor in a kindergarten classroom
✦cook without recipes, by sight and smell and taste
✦recite poetry and Scripture to myself
✦play my Baroque playlist too loudly while I clean the house
✦listen to lectures while ironing laundry
✦read books on educational philosophy
✦research health topics
✦discover new composers and artists
✦read my Bible outside every morning
✦call line dances at our costume balls
✦have conversations entirely of movie lines
✦study Latin and read classic literature with my brother
✦discuss books and issues with my sisters and mother
✦browse my bookshelves, remembering all the great stories and inspiring ideas housed between those book covers
• I love my commonplace, the book in which I transcribe the poems I find most beautiful and memorable. A recent entry was ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ by William Butler Yeats. •
April 25, 2014