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By noon today I had already done a handful of things I love: had extensive cuddling, made and drank coffee (the home brew is so good that last Saturday we filled a flask with it before traveling first class, which fact brought about being called normals by my love's sister), ate walnut bread, Romanian salami, and strawberries (largest, sweetest, reddest, juiciest yet this year), did serious gardening, introduced my love to one of my all time favourite pieces (since the music teacher used the vinyl to show us how to recognise the sound of many instruments in an orchestra), Maurice Ravel's Bolero (part I and part II on YouTube as directed by Herbert von Karajan's in 1985) and remembered with equal joy Maya Plisetskaya's Bolero (part I and part II on YouTube as coreographed by Maurice Bejart in 1976), which inspired me to master my body while dancing.

The best of all, perhaps, was finishing all my gardening for the year: filling all our previously empty pots, arranging them om the balcony, freeing space on shelves, reshaping a few existing plants and planting many new babies bought over the week-end or queuing for my attention for months now, like arum lily/ calla, early sunrise/ coreopsis (my all time favourite simple flowers), fuchsia thymifolia (Mexico-Guatemala area), myrtle/ myrtus (the colour of its flowers is still a surprise), euphorbia cyparissias/ cypress spurge and cycas revoluta/ sago palm (a cute, very slow-growing Japanese palm that isn't really a palm). Enchanted and entertained, I then started working, and I will argue until the end of time that the best way to go about life is playing before work and not only afterwards. Ideally, in fact, even during work, if not instead of it.