Jeremy Loops’s perfect Sunday

Jeremy Loops, musician

I like waking up whenever I feel like it.

Like most musicians, I work Fridays and Saturdays, so Sundays are my day to rest. Except I normally try to take Monday off too, just to make up for the extra work I do on the weekend, and also to escape the mental prison that is a Monday morning.

So Sundays have that extra-special Sunday feel to me,

without the fear of the looming Monday blues. Nonetheless, Sundays are the only day people don’t have expectations of you on a work frontier.

When I do get up, I meditate.

Normally just for 10 minutes. Longer if there’s a lot on my mind. Following that I’ll regularly pop out to get my eyes on the surf and just inspect what the ocean is doing.

From here on out

the day could unfold in any way, but I almost always go home to make a green juice, or nut-butter smoothie before anything more serious is undertaken.

If the waves are on, there’ll be a surf mission on the cards.

If the swell is flat, I’ll generally check in with friends and figure out some other outdoor adventure. This could be anything from walking the dogs on the beach to snorkelling around secret spots hunting for underwater caves, to rounding up mussels from the rocks for a late afternoon mussel pot.

Come lunch time, I’ll check in with

my sisters and my parents. Our family’s close-knit, and we all live within roughly 15km of our family home in Kommetjie, so we tend to drift together from lunch through the afternoon. Again, this is unplanned.

Luckily I come from a family of exceptional cooks,

so Sunday lunches are always spectacular when we do them together.

I find Sunday evenings to be the best time to pick up my guitar

and work on some new ideas. There are a few select places I do this more often than others, like atop the hill in Kommetjie or on a certain cluster of rocks on the beach, with the sunset as a backdrop. More often than not I’ll have a bottle of wine with me.

The rest of the night

is also open-ended, but the more relaxed I take it and feel, the better my week generally starts off. ●