I adore Sunday mornings. It feels like the whole world is lazy on Sunday mornings. I love the quiet and feeling like you have the whole day ahead of you, like there's nothing but time.
My favorite part of Sunday mornings is my newspaper ritual. After getting some exercise I walk to the local liquor store (I think it's also a convenience store but the sign for the liquor store part is bigger so I always think of it as "the liquor store") for a Sunday paper. This is the only time during the entire week where I appear in public unshowered and in sweats! The store is usually pretty crowded with people buying lottery tickets. The owner is very pleasant but exchange is always terse:
Him: 3.50 please.
Me: (handing him the money) Thank you!
Today he mentioned it was getting cold and I was so stunned that I couldn't say much more than "uh, yes it is".
I trudge home and plop the paper down on the floor, right in front of the entry way, and sit down to separate the ads for recycling and the "good parts" (the Magazine, the Opinion/Books section and the Movies section) for later. I grab my cereal and start reading. Yes, I have a comfortable couch, a kitchen table (and chairs) and a coffee table, yet I always start reading the paper sitting on the floor, right by the door. I read a section or two, finish my cereal, head to the shower and start my day.
There's no hurry, no rush, any tasks on my "to do" list can wait another hour. It's Sunday morning.
Amen to the Sunday Paper ritual. Long may it live. Despite the setbacks of an attention-demanding toddler and a few months where I stopped receiving my Sunday paper (NY Times) to save money, I'm back to it, more or less. I relish the separating of "good" from "bad" parts, and the Book Review and the Magazine are always "best," so get saved for very last, which means I don't usually actually get to them until almost the next Sunday.
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Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
"Oh, the New York Times!" she said reverently.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could afford to subscribe to the Sunday edition. I buy it maybe twice a year when they do the fall arts preview or similar issue. And I used to sneak and read the book review section every week at my last job. Sadly, no time now to find it at the library :-(