i finally remembered why i have a laptop. i'm sitting on my porch. the sun has set and there are three tea lights burning on my table. i hear a car in passing below the lower fields. the silhouette of the wisteria hangs against the last of the dying day. this year it covers more than half the porch. too bad it's going to be cut down, it would offer ( Read more... )

Well- here I am 29 years old, a very full and fun birthday weekend has come and gone ( Read more... )

it's raining down on my world and i can feel the earth opening up to let it all in, a perfect teaching from nature. i'm in one of those ridiculous giddy moods where i am in love with every single thing. yesterday was an absolutely perfect day. a gathering of great friends for delicious brunch in the late morning, and then to the sauna to sweat out ( Read more... )

i sit looking out at the trees and the dewy green grass and the sun shining from behind the house and i just know that things are shifting, starting, slowly to spring. like watching a leaf unfurl in time lapse, it starts slowly, a spiraling outwards until, finally, it pops into fullness. that's what's happening all around me and i love it ( Read more... )

i am enjoying february. it has been incredibly grey and foggy most of the time, and for me it is heaven. i only wish that i wasn't working so much so i could enjoy more of those days where you don't leave the house and just listen to the rain beat down on the roof all day. working is good and i'm settling into the coop comfortably, still learning ( Read more... )

went dancing last night. my legs are achy and i'm a little bit hung over and it was really really fun. i haven't danced to live music in what feels like ages. i realize that we get a bit spoiled here in the summer. and so at the end of january it feels like a real treat to just move the body and do it surrounded by local folks that you see everyday ( Read more... )

monday morning in the rain. woke up before it was quite light and just now watching the grey change shades, paler and paler, but it probably won't get much brighter today. and i'm okay with that. today is an inside day, cleaning the house and maybe, just maybe getting our new bed into the bedroom. no more sleeping on a single bed for me and my six ( Read more... )

i do almost feel like i've got my life back. almost a month later, but what with the power outages and christmas december didn't even feel like it happened. so i'm getting excited for new years. hopefully a fun little party here with all the folks i know on this rock, and then settling into the quiet routine that will make up the core of the winter ( Read more... )

Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to reply with 12 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own. Let me know if you want a letter ( Read more... )

it has been the most amazing couple of weeks. mostly i've been loving it. the power has been out at least half of the time for the last two weeks or more. we had a huge rain storm and then of course we've had snowstorm '06 blowing through. it's such a contrast to the summers i've been spending here. it's a trip. i feel like i've been living my own ( Read more... )