I like your A Great Day plans and was thinking about the question, and it kept breaking itself into Perfect Days I Have Had, ie, which days would I most like to live over because I was so happy and it was so great, and the question OMD actually asked, which was what would one do tomorrow, what realistic thing that wouldn't involve teleportation to for example Lake Como or Victoria Falls or Mombasa and the Indian Ocean (where the undertow got me and it was almost the end, now that I think of it), if it were simply a completely carefree day.
It would either be a day in NYC of the NYC kind we really do pretty often but not often enough ending with a night at a hotel; OR it would be a 19th century fall day at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, which is a realistic drive north only a little longer than the one south to the city -- a day featuring great hiking, food better than those who complain about it say, a hundred gazebos perched along one of the trails of the mountain and each commanding its own spectacular view, fires in the fireplaces, afternoon tea and freshbaked cookies at 4:00 in the huge Victorian parlor overlooking the lake, and lots of corners with comfortable chairs to read in when you were all hiked out. And we'd spend the night in one of the rooms with its own fireplace. And get up very early for an early hike to see the sun rise before we drove home. I'm counting that as one day. Because I made us get up early.
Either of those are doable, actually.
There's a third, related category that includes things like reliving the day you brought your first child home from the hospital, or other personal, emotional events. A different category of Great Days. |
