Who Knew?

Discipline. Discipline. Discipline.

And boundaries.

The way I managed my day off today was simply to go out. Got me off the grid. Offline. Away from anything that smacked of obligation.

For a whole day. 

I dressed up, Got in the car. Went shopping. Walked around Princeton. Got lunch. Walked around some more. Drove home. Dropped off my bags. Got back in the car. Went to a restaurant I enjoy and sat at the bar. Had a French martini and six oysters. Struck up a conversation with a fun woman. Another writer. We had a fabulous conversation and exchanged numbers. 

Who knew Friday could be so fun?

Who knew I could fund the willpower to not work on my day off after coming back from vacation?

Who knew I could put aside my anxiety around the unfinished and spend a beautiful fall day being amazingly kind to myself?

Fall-ing In Love: 40 Days of Noticing is a daily writing practice that opens a landscape of discovery into my own human experience.

Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.

Pictured: a rose eclair from Chez Alice in Prrinceton

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