Over the weekend I found time to relax by the pool at the Parker. While the drinks may have been a bit out of my daily league ($25. for two drinks + tip), the ability to kick back and just read the afternoon away was right up my alley.
Currently I am reading Dry by Augusten Burroughs and am finding it not as funny as Running With Scissors. But it is still a good read.
I did find it a bit odd that I would have a drink in hand while reading a book about a gay man in rehab for of all things...alcoholism.
But at 30 bucks a round I have a better chance of being a candidate for financial couseling than AA. I do find as I get older the desire to be sober is stronger than ever before. Not from the standpoint that any abuse is happening but rather I want to be fully alive, fully aware of my life as it is happening.
I am getting older. But maybe not wiser.
This is such a strange period of my life but for now the sun is warm, the water cool and the magic of literature is dancing in my head. So since I am on vacation, I will let my mind wander to simpler pleasures.
So if you get to Palm Springs, a sleep over at the Parker is just what the doctor ordered.
