The changing of the seasons is one of Michigan’s charms. With Autumn approaching, beach umbrellas transition to weather shields, parkas and sweaters. Weather patterns provide some rain, some shine and lots of falling leaves. School starts, fans look forward to new sporting events, activities claim related themes, and schedules adopt fresh itineraries. We become aware of the next big things and advertised game changers. The custom that doesn’t seem to change with the seasons, though, is the eating thing and folks embrace it with gusto, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Lunch is often a social time as well as a break time. Things happen over lunch. Nutrition reboots energy and spirits recharge. Order restores in the personal eater’s universe and at the same time, problems are solved, plans are made and desirable refreshment happens. The following poem was inspired by and is dedicated to one of Royal Oak’s own lead businesswomen, GINA MANGOLD, after we shared a lovely lunch.

ON LUNCH
The relationship fare is the goodwill share
agreeable time to declare love for the uplift of lunch
it’s for the slump, nooning creeping into afternooning
when hunger invades the stomach.
It’s a refreshment of soul, a break in attempts to control
what happens in the world, to ourselves and to others.
Lunchers talk about changing circumstances,
reveals and intersections, road forks and directions
gathering in thoughts and connections
undefined by division of courses, the formula for satisfactory lunching.
A gazetteer isn’t needed, vocabulary isn’t heeded
during the dearly desired cookery of free speech
completing
a full store of nutritious satiation.
Smiles add beauty to conversation
and happiness takes a third seat
to eat the bread and drink the wine of
discovering
the fortuna bright of lunching’s midday light
delighting the utmost extent of contenting.

7th SA (Say About): LUNCHTIME: We can alter and phase like the weather, but we always do lunch as we please.
Dining Lightly,
PATT©2014

To make the most of summer get away experiences, we need great destinations of choice. Places that make us feel like traveling, exploring and adventuring. Exposure to different people, places, things and circumstances is a rich cultural heritage. We observe and learn as we enhance our flexibilities, venturing out to arrange, go and tour interesting, enticing and inviting unfamiliar vistas. The thrill of new opportunities accompany expeditions freed by unregulated schedules, the possibilities of what might or might not happen is exciting.

In Michigan, it’s almost as though Mother Nature is looking over our shoulders to guide us on to experience grandeur in the first degree. The variety is endless, there’s so much to see and do and look forward to. Fantastic main attractions abound country and city wide. The times we spend touring, staying in mesmerizing places, exploring, discovering and visiting the myriad sites are times well spent. Michigan announces its fortunate whereabouts and occupies its status on the map due to an abundance of natural splendors. Whenever the “what did you do on your summer vacation” question is asked, the response is one big taking everything in word, MICHIGAN, and the MORE is understood.

                                   MICHIGAN’S MORE 

                           More matters in Michigan
                           you know, they know, we go Michigan
                           Lions and Tigers, Pistons and Wings
                           scenic marvels are favorite things
                           freshest air outside, hunting and fishing are too
                           insiders show what Michiganders can do
                           festivals, art, theater, activities galore
                           nothing can top Michigan’s recreational score
                           the music’s supreme, the big waters sure
                           the all about fun buzz is Michigan pure.

GO MICH-I-GAIN: Outside customary four walls, we feel the powerful attractions of the unknown and we add our positive personal energies to them. We feel new hopes happen in our hearts and happy gains in our overall sense of well-being. It’s a recharge force, because anything’s possible when it’s made in MICHIGAN.

Purely,
Patt©2014