Trite at it may sound, I am greeting you again with this old familiar greeting, “hello August, welcome”.
I really can’t believe July is gone and August is here again. Happy new month everyone. I used to blog about month endings and beginnings but for so long now, I haven’t done it. Sometimes I forget when I am busy.
Apart from some friends who visited me early in July and the monthly visit from my daughter’s family, July has been a little too uneventful. The quiet days spent in the garden, moments of reflection and the endless tasks of everyday things at home that make life a little comfortable. I had a lot of time to read though, some from e-books that I have on my tab and older copies of books I bought a few years ago. My Goodreads book challenge for 2017 is almost done. From the 150 books I committed myself to read this year, I have finished reading a total of 139 books, a mix of memoirs, fiction, psychology and YA books. I have found several classic books in between like The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon, Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and The Godfather by Mario Puzo to name a few. I also discovered several authors, new ones who are really good at their craft. Nadia Hashimi comes close to one of my fave authors Khaled Hosseini when it comes to Asian literature. They wrote about life in Afghanistan and I was mesmerized by their words. Imagine life in a war-torn country with all the problems it entails.
My garden is doing just fine but maybe in a week’s time, I have to trim the carabao grass again. They have grown in the last two weeks since I did the trimming. I am thinking of replanting some bulbs while the sun is shining.
Hello August, be kind!
