We are just moving from summer to fall where I live, and it seems like I’ve been distracted for the whole season. After not doing much socializing over the last couple of years, it’s been a wonderful but frenetic time. In just a few short months I’ve been to my high school reunion in Hawaii, travelled to the Oregon coast for a few days at the beach, done a couple of rounds of dog sitting and attended the wedding of a dear friend in Washington.

Sounds like fun? I won’t lie, it was. And since I recently painted my way into tendinitis, it was good timing. The problem was that I didn’t have a chance to reset, or in some cases to even unpack. The result was that my thoughts were