(New icon: this is Clyde Langer. He is pleased.)

At the bookstore Friday, I also picked up a shrubs & vines field guide I've been coveting for years and two games: Bananagrams (a sort of freestyle Scrabble) and Rory's Story Cubes (like the Harold & the Purple Crayon game but with dice and no drawing). I was thinking I could use Bananagrams in my ( Read more... )

( More about autumn sunlight )

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( Things in late summer sunlight. Rated PG for grasshopper lovin' )

I'm working on some semester-long course planning that makes my eyes cross and my brain deflate. Yesterday I worked until my stomach, brain and body were completely in knots, so I thought today I'd take a break for a few minutes and do something else. Because I recently listened to a Fifth Doctor audio adventure that featured cricket, and that ( Read more... )

This is the Poem In My Pocket today. Concrete imagery of simple objects and light, it feeds my soul.

"Yellow Bowl"
~ Rachel Contreni Flynn

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Happy Corn Moon!

Not the moon, but the evening sky a few days ago:


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My favorite thing is going out in late afternoon, letting the Fuzz outside with me (off leash!) and keeping an eye on him while he partakes of the abundant roughage in the yard. I sit on the porch swing or the tree swing or follow him slowly in the shade, sipping cool water, listening to the hot wind blow, and watching the dragonflies skim above ( Read more... )