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Fighting the Funk (I)
Isn't there a song about a woman who's moods are compared with the variability of the weather? Well, if there is, she is me. But today its all wrong. The weather of late has been more regular than my moods.

Having time off makes me reflect on myself. What gets reflected back is every other day I am in a little funk. Yesterday was a good day, for example, and today... is not. I battle the funk often.

I have come up with numerous strategies for winning these little battles. Today i will battled the funk by sitting in the sun on the porch reading this new little book (above). Its new to me. I was instructed to read it by the newest addition to the faculty at a private school nearby -John. He says, that if i do all my reading and the homework, I might be allowed go with him and his class of eighth graders to see the production of Of Mice and Men in October. So I am getting a head start and hoping to do well on my book report.

The other thing that I am about to do, but may not really help in fighting the funk: eating some of that homemade lemon-lime sorbet made last night. wow! Yum.(also above) In other words, cooking to fight the funk has been know to work at times. But today is too nice to stay in and cook, so I will 'flee to the wilderness.'

That's Molly Stark

This may be the most affective way to fight off the funk. I will drive out to Molly Stark state park and take a hike up to the fire tower. I want to go there just because of the name. I don't know anything about Molly Stark, (do you?) but I like that she is a she. So I will go there. Maybe the funk will get lost somewhere amongst the sugar maples and ferns.


(I am happy to report, that it did.)