Caribou is hopping today. Not even an outlet left for my poor little computer... guess I'll have to charge it at work. It is hopping today, of course, because most of the neighborhood is without power. Including us. I wish I'd had a camera on my way home from work yesterday, just after the brief, violent storm came through... I stood in Pier 1 ( Read more... )

there is also a yard-bunny ( Read more... )

I am reading Kate Chopin's The Awakeningp. 38 "I never was so exhausted in my life. but it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half of them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud. I wonder if I shall ever be stirred again as Mademoiselle Reisz's playing moved me to-night. I ( Read more... )

To Mrs. Taggart, the greatest surprise was the moment when she saw Dagny standing under the lights, looking at the ballroom. This was not a child, not a girl, but a woman of such confident, dangerous power that Mrs. Taggart stared at her with shocked admiration. In an age of casual, cynical, indifferent routine, among people who held themselves ( Read more... )

i'm reading a book called Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters; Heroines in Folktales From Around the World. (with a kitty on my lap and a cup of tea at hand. i feel very peaceful.) at the end of each tale the author, Kathleen Ragan, augments the narration with a short personal reflection. this one, after a story about a merry young ( Read more... )