joyous things
-just off the boat fresh golden slices of mango, carefully cut and fed to me by my lover.
-riotous clutches of wildflowers leaping colors into my eyes along the highway, white and purple and orange-red.
-industrial revolution factory castle spires rising in the valleys along I-68, all red brick and dignity.
-the green of the Maryland hills on a gently couldy day, such depth of green that I relax with the relief that spring and summer are definitely here. My land is green again, the parts of it which run with green at the proper time. So much snow this year, more than I ever thought I would see or have to handle. I love it, but this year it made me weary. I will not see the desert this summer. Most of me is at peace with this fact.
I will fill in the ache of it with the green before my eyes, these soft mountains of the east. I will fill in the ache of it with the green in store for me back in my beloved Northwest, tree-heavy landscape and ocean reflected in the eyes of loved ones there.
-I am westbound again, headed out of the fierce and lovely Atlantic cities which make me tense in spite of the good times spent there. the central time zone awaits me with familiar ease, with room to stretch and dance. My beloved and I cross the nation again in the familiar path of the sunset, and I breathe more freely for it, somehow. The green afternoon gives me a glad heart, and the world seems open, our time full of life and laid out before us. The rain that comes is gentle. We may feast as we will.
-Following a hearse back home, through the strange and curvy roads of western Pennsylvania, just at twilight. Thank you, elionwyr
-We are safe in Ohio, omnisti and I, with good phamily, tasty food, and playing outside in sun and shade, with bonus compound hoopy froodness there. Edited to add: hoop transfers! Keeping up two hoops of different sizes at the same time! Whee!! Also, lime cardamom ice cream and lemon blueberry ice cream. NOM.
-I am getting enough exercise to make me happy again. My post-surgery abs are pleased and working just fine. It is so good not to be afraid to move and stretch and dance, not to be in pain.
-riotous clutches of wildflowers leaping colors into my eyes along the highway, white and purple and orange-red.
-industrial revolution factory castle spires rising in the valleys along I-68, all red brick and dignity.
-the green of the Maryland hills on a gently couldy day, such depth of green that I relax with the relief that spring and summer are definitely here. My land is green again, the parts of it which run with green at the proper time. So much snow this year, more than I ever thought I would see or have to handle. I love it, but this year it made me weary. I will not see the desert this summer. Most of me is at peace with this fact.
I will fill in the ache of it with the green before my eyes, these soft mountains of the east. I will fill in the ache of it with the green in store for me back in my beloved Northwest, tree-heavy landscape and ocean reflected in the eyes of loved ones there.
-I am westbound again, headed out of the fierce and lovely Atlantic cities which make me tense in spite of the good times spent there. the central time zone awaits me with familiar ease, with room to stretch and dance. My beloved and I cross the nation again in the familiar path of the sunset, and I breathe more freely for it, somehow. The green afternoon gives me a glad heart, and the world seems open, our time full of life and laid out before us. The rain that comes is gentle. We may feast as we will.
-Following a hearse back home, through the strange and curvy roads of western Pennsylvania, just at twilight. Thank you, elionwyr
-We are safe in Ohio, omnisti and I, with good phamily, tasty food, and playing outside in sun and shade, with bonus compound hoopy froodness there. Edited to add: hoop transfers! Keeping up two hoops of different sizes at the same time! Whee!! Also, lime cardamom ice cream and lemon blueberry ice cream. NOM.
-I am getting enough exercise to make me happy again. My post-surgery abs are pleased and working just fine. It is so good not to be afraid to move and stretch and dance, not to be in pain.