Thursday Thoughts - In a place where the tree of good and evil still resides

1. I love Megan Rapinoe and everything she stands for - see more on her Woman of the Year speech.

Word images via The Conscious Kid on Instagram, photo via Getty in the article linked above

2. I got this numerous times Tuesday. Did you all Show Us Your Books people do this? Go check out who linked up later if you get a chance. Thanks as always for joining us. 

3. I spent two nights at the shore this week unexpectedly - hauled ass down there Tuesday night and will come home today. Praise the lord for the ability to work from home and curse the excessively low temps for November. We’ll keep it open until after Thanksgiving as is always the plan and hope for warmer nights. Anyway I worked from 7:30 am to 8:30 pm Wednesday but I took a 15 minute walk on the beach and worked in the library for two hours. Yesterday was good and productive.

4. It was weird to be here without any dogs. Here they are Monday.

5. I painted my nails with the only nail polish I had down here - China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle.

6. I sorted hand towels, which never all make it through the season. I'm left with 11 pair of two and five singles. When we have guests in the house five have to be in there at a time plus extra in case anyone asks for them or they disappear, so we should be good for next summer without buying more for now. Since we don't have a washer/dryer down at the shore, we're always hauling towels back and forth. File under: things I never ever thought I'd have so many of.

7. I posted late yesterday and only briefly mentioned it mostly in relation to another thought, so in case you missed it MFD hit six years sober on Tuesday. Six years of tremendous change and hard work on himself and service out in the world. I'm proud of him, and as always I'm happy as hell to be on this side of that life.

8. The GOP is really tying themselves to this bloated tanker of corruption, isn't it? Sakes alive.

9. Reminder: Allow the pleasure and adventure. Even in - no, especially in - the busy seasons.

10. Ecards. 

Happy 50th to my bff Melissa! 

That's it for me. You? 

What appears after the hyphen in Thursday Thoughts is a song lyric to whatever I'm listening to when I start to write the post. This week is Homecoming by Josh Ritter, not Homecoming's first time at the Thursday Thoughts rodeo