Sustainable Living

We have officially started our Summer Routine.  It consists of:

• awakening when the robin across the street blasts the neighborhood with his incessant trilling at dawn.
• slumbering lightly until 6ish, then arising reluctantly.
• drinking coffee on the couch, whilst reading and looking at the local news and weather on the computer.
• eating breakfast (me: farm eggs/him: Carmola Granola - a homemade household staple).
• making lunch (salads, apples, bananas, Party Nuts - a homemade household staple).
• getting dressed, brushing teeth, packing bags, exiting house.
• riding bikes into town to job site and gondola.
• working all day = making money all day.
• reconvening at 5:30 on the sunny deck at home.
• snacking while watering the garden and plants.
• hiking until 8ish.
• eating tacos for dinner, showering, bedding, reading.

There are slight variations in regards to kidlings and sex and nights when I teach yoga, but for the most part that is our weekday Summer Routine.  We commented last night that the best part about it is not the sheer simplicity of it, or the basic fulfillment of it, but the fact that it is completely sustainable.  We can be doing the exact same thing 20 or 30 years from now.  The only part I would voluntarily eliminate is working 40 hours a week (that is just absurd). 

I used to find that kind of certainty about the future frightening but now I find it utterly comforting.  If we can continue on a path of simple satisfaction for the next few decades, then we are doing something right.