Its the Little Things

What motivates you?

I decided to make sauce from our little tomato harvest. Too many came ripe at the same time. All the neighbors are having a similar garden bonanza, so with my friend’s eggplant and zucchini we are having a nice Italian feast tonight.

It’s not a lot of sauce. Not enough to bottle, but enough to feel a little accomplished. I used parsley and basil that I grew and one little carrot, (our first!)

So this got me up early and out into the garden. We set up our make shift kitchen and my sauce has been bubbling away for hours.

Summer has been interesting this year. I’ve watched the arc as it built and now, after a couple of weeks of everything suspended in muggy air, I now see or feel the crest turning downward. Summer’s end has begun.

I remember this late summer, bored, but not wanting the fun to end feeling. I must have felt it growing up. I noticed it every year with my kids and grandkids. Something about a new school year, newness, differentness. Aprehention, but somehow things feel like they might get exciting. What might be next?

I hope for that feeling this year. Could something fun and good be coming?

I hope so…

In the meantime, home grown sauce and eggplant parmigiana. Yum

That got me motivated today.