talking & walking with you for almost five hours made me smile ( Read more... )

{yesterday ( Read more... )

i have been so absent. i am sorry, there is no excuse, i am just elsewhere. lately i have been very low, but it's getting better; and mostly i'm all right. i miss you so ( Read more... )

here, the cicadas sing so loudly it hurts your ears. here, the buildings are beautiful silhouettes, the view out every window could be a picture. here, when i walk up the stairs to work, i pause to lean my elbows on the window-sill in the stairwell and stare out the old old window. this building used to be a chair factory before it was the ( Read more... )

{inspired by something seen elsewhere ( Read more... )

some things which i love:cast-iron fences. pumpkin patches. bare feet. hammocks. sunlight through shifting leaves. apple cider. naps. clever freckled boys. the smell of cat fur. silent snow. lamp-posts. under-the-sea. wishing on stars. driving with the windows down (at night or in day). early mornings. late nights. mist. greek olives. rain on the ( Read more... )

{to love}
. writing in the morning
. sandwiches and green tea
. catharsis
. alberto manguel's a reading diary
. monterey jack cheese
. cold wet winters
. cotton pull-overs
. shifting seasons
. making plans
. steam
. songs
. smiling

( and we say this is good )

there are few things lovelier than a twisting pale pillar of steam climbing up from a stove-hot cup of tea.

and today i am good, the sky dripped down grey rain all day, come home and fling off wet-hem jeans, pull on sweatpants and swirly skirts, green-brown-white knee-socks with bright-pink knee-sweatpants with a black-faded-to-blueblack broomstick skirt. comfy purple sweaters and crazyforestwoman hair. cooking soup with spice theory, dancing in the ( Read more... )

blue mountains yellow and brittle like sugar ( Read more... )