If I could, I would. The children are mostly back to school now, so there is a sustained level of chaos that surges through the day like the smell of exhaust fumes. The days grow shorter, so that early activities happen as the sun is just coming up and my body strongly suggests to me that something is wrong. Meals are made and disappear. There's not time, it seems, for everything to happen at a natural pace. If I could, I would take off my shoes and lay down in the shade in a hammock and rock my cares away.

Stumble It!