Sunday, March 8, 2026

Three Beautiful Things 03-07-2026: Curbside Shopping, Distractions on Saturday Afternoon, Sleep Wins

 1. After picking up an order curbside at Walmart this morning, I'm in good shape for making salads, soups, and stir fries.  I also picked up items for the food pantry uptown at the Elks and delivered them. 

2. My attention gets distracted by things around the house when I listen to The Concert of the Week on Spokane Public Radio on Saturdays at noon and that was true today. But, despite Gibbs barking at anything that moved outside our house (did the wind bend that grass?) and despite some concentrated texting and despite the bowl of lunchtime oatmeal with apple chunks and chunky peanut butter I enjoyed so much it put me briefly to sleep, I heard quite a bit of the replay of the Spokane Symphony concert I attended and loved a week ago. 

3. My hope this evening as I set two wall clocks and the oven clock ahead an hour and got ready to go to bed a little early was that I'd be up and at 'em on Sunday morning in time to tend to Gibbs and Copper, have a morning latte, and get properly cleaned up and dressed to leave house early enough for the 10:30 Eucharist at St. John's Cathedral in Spokane.  

Here it is Sunday morning. 

My difficulty falling asleep last night led to my need for extra sleep in the morning and I surrendered to the demands of my physical self and got more sleep rather than nurture the desires of my spiritual self and head to Spokane earlier this morning. 

I will leave later on today and enjoy the matinee performance of the Spokane String Quartet at 3:00, but worshipping at St. John's Cathedral will have to happen another time.   

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