A very lazy morning: sleeping in, making pancakes, relaxing. Eventually I started to putter, and picked my first batch of blackberries. This is just what I could reach in a tank top and capris – oh and flipflops. I will change later and do a more detailed pick. It was pretty easy to get berries for the first batch of blackberry jam.  I’ll pick enough for two batches, probably.

I’m waiting for one of my closest friends she’ll be here soon, but got stuck in the border.  Then we’ll spend a relaxing Saturday afternoon in the sun. I so needed this weekend. It’ll make it easier to face reality when I go home. But slowly, as the ‘intensity’ dies down and normalcy is reached, I’ll feel less raw and sensitive, I hope.  This weekend of space and R&R will help.  Once I’m back from San Francisco I may even initiate plans with my group of dance friends. Maybe. But I don’t want to jump ahead of myself. For now space and R&R are the keys to me reaching my ‘normal’ self… I hope those friends who are more than just ‘seasonal’ friends will keep having patience with me.  I’ll be back to myself eventually.