Month: March 2025

A Little Spring Break

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so? – Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Possibly from reading those quotes maybe you can tell I will be taking some time off? Yes. Time away. A few days. Not going far. Staying pretty close to home. Resting. Reading. Cleaning. Raking. Hopefully! And whatever else I have the mind to do. If raining… reading, b&w movies, and napping. Good food. Just some down time. I’m hoping that Mother Nature will be agreeable.

The store will be closed March 24-26. I’ll be back in on Thursday (Mar 27) to finish the week in the store. We’ll see how this goes. That means before summer hits I might be taking off a few days here and there.

Thanks!

That’s why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. – Don DeLillo, White Noise

Marching Into Spring

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March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside. – V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Isn’t that quote just the truth? But it is March. I feel the month is the door for Spring. Okay, it may just be a peek but somedays it’s opened wide. I love those days. Yes, even if the door gets slammed shut. Soon it’ll be open wide and stay open for a long time. Front porch reading. Reworking gardens, now that I got them back into shape. Last summer was the summer of heavy-duty gardening. I want to start ticking off my To-Do List.

On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word. – Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

The store has been humming along. The I Hate February Sale went well. Books moved and well, books came in too. Funny how that is. Buddhism. Classics. Crafts, including metalwork. Herbal. Chinese Medicine. And of course, a variety of fiction -semi-current and vintage, came into the store. All sorted, cleaned, and shelved. Just waiting for you to discover.

At the end of the month – March 25 and 26, the store will be closed. I am going to have some down time. I’m hoping for warm March weather. You know, those Mother Nature gifts when you really need it. Frankly, I need spring. But regardless of the weather, I will make the most of it. That you can be sure of.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce, Ulysses.