My dream, my favorite way to spend a day is to hang out in a nice cafe all day reading good books at sipping fine espresso.
I grab fleeting hours of this arrangement when I can throughout a regular week, usually in the early hours of the morning.
It was with much delight that I spent the whole of today (work was cancelled due to Presiden’t Day) in such a state. Marvelous! I read much of the biography on the Inklings (which was quite interesting) and will be posting my notes here over the next couple of days. This one here is fitting for today:
[After the war] the company made plans to celebrate peace. ‘The Inklings have already agreed’, Tolkien told his son Christopher, ‘that their victory celebration, if they are spared to have one, will be to take a whole inn in the countryside for at least a week, and spend it entirely in beer and talk, without reference to any clock!’
-Humphrey Carpenter, The Inklings, p.199
Many, many thanks to my sweet wife.
