We enjoyed a leisurely Saturday together... out to breakfast, reading, thinking and talking. Spent a lot of the afternoon thinking about the kitchen remodel and flooring ideas for living room and hall. I really must get back to life. I mean life with other people. My summer has been filled with thoughts of KY and all that is changed there. Grieving my loss of Daddy, Mama's departure from reality, JoAnn's knee and bladder issues have kept me from being present here.

I am reading Kathleen Norris's book, Acedia & me, and it is bringing me much understanding of my condition over the last few years. Thinking a great deal about it and talking with Mike concerning the impact of a. and how to begin to overcome the power it has been wielding over my life.

Meanwhile, hoping to choose living over shutting down. Community over self-indulgence.

We've been home a week. It has been a week of alternately working to try and get the house in order and running away. Seems to be taking me lots of drawn out hours to do (stay at) the most simple and routine tasks. Mike brought home a book by Kathleen Norris on acedea and I have begun to comprehend what is wrong. Maybe I can begin now to take action to correct my steps and go in the right direction.

We got home from the beach last night and Mike left this morning for a motorcycle overnight. He is over in MS for the night. I'm doing as little as possible and in fact am in bed already. We are exciting people :-)

Nice day today. Mike and I met Lewallens for breakfast then went to Mobile fabric store hunting. After the first store (which was full of wonderful textiles) we ate fried chicken at a local spot, yum. Then on to find the next store which was also a fun stop but even better, right near the local America's Thrift Store where we snagged some great buys. We wasted some time looking for the next store and got there just as it was closing :-( Oh well, it was a good time and after a stop at Hood's up 59, got back to the house here to have Hawaiian pizza and watch t.v. Sigh, now it's time for bed... good night.

Mike and I are lazing the day away down at Gulf Shores. The Brushes offered their house to us for the week so here we are. We had a major delay getting here b/c of the caddie shutting off due to a bad sensor. We just repacked and brought the bimmer arriving at 11:30. Thanks to benadryl, slept in till 9:30. It's so hot we haven't even been outside. But we are resting.