Sometimes you need a weekend with no plans. For appreciating the details that often get buried beneath the busyness of our to do lists and agendas. A weekend of no expectations, a Saturday for waking slowly, for a sushi lunch and a matinee movie. A weekend for giving into your craving and baking chocolate chip cookies. And then sneaking a couple before breakfast. Sometimes it’s okay to open your book at every spare moment you have or to choose it over spring cleaning. It will still be spring next weekend. Sometimes you need to take a drive in the country while the late afternoon sun is shining and dream and plan a little. A Saturday night at home with the big band station playing, the rain tapping on the windows, a glass of red wine, book in hand. Sometimes you need to take things slow like that. I didn’t think these kinds of weekends existed anymore. So I relished it while I could.
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