The Sunshine Grocery

To battle my melancholia this evening I headed over to the grocery store* to buy some "cheap-ass wine" for dinner tomorrow night. The melancholy was perpetuated by the rain, nothing that needs to get done right away, and general lonesomeness due to spending most of the day reading** with intermittent cleaning jags. Walking to the grocery store was refreshing so I decided to extend my walk. After reading Rebecca Solnit walking makes me think about what I'm trying to accomplish. After a couple of blocks I decided that tonight I was trying to walk away from my current life problems and though about how easy it would be to keep walking and walking and end up like Walt Whitman or John Muir.*** Like a movie unfolding, it's easy to let my imagination get the better of me while walking and listening (thanks Leah!).

Headed home Emmylou Harris started playing and I decided that it would be a good idea to listen to Wrecking Ball from start to finish while drinking the left-over white wine and perhaps crying. That being said, it was a good evening to be out and alive.





*Not the Sunshine.
**Perhaps things I shouldn't have been reading.
***Too many PBS documentaries.