After my declaration of productivity on Friday, I did something contrary to my usual behavior: I did not work on one single book or printing project all day Saturday! Instead, I went to the beach in Westport, Connecticut to celebrate my dear friend (and, frankly, amazing sales rep!) Caroline’s birthday with some lovely ladies in some lovely weather. Caroline’s the most amazing cruise-director-personality you’ve ever met and it was pretty much perfection. It was everything we needed: open spaces, perfect weather, trees, scenic roads…and all just an hour outside of Manhattan. I’ll let this picture of Laurie say it all:

The weekend has been a wonderful combination of busy and relaxing and Matt’s been feeding us well, to top it all off!

Matt’s delightful concoction of the weekend: fried eggplant slices with fresh mozzarella, heirloom German striped tomato, fresh basil & balsamic reduction; and the Iowan shucking corn (you’ll notice the press has moved to the periphery of the kitchen…for the time being.

“A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had “the gift” he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.”
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie