First steps
Bean started WALKING today. For the past couple weeks he’s been doing these graceful nearly-running transitions between pieces of furniture, hands free, and we’ve been able to coax him to let go of something and sort of stumble-tumble towards us for a few steps for the past week or so. But today he really walked.
I [...]
Pause
The days slip by, a blur of busy moments. Sometimes before I really feel like day is here, night returns. I catch myself going too fast. I try to pause. I make tea and savor the whole cup: chai sweetened with raw sugar and milk.
Face to face
I joined a marathon training class last week, and on Tuesday I sat in a room with twenty other people (all but two of which were women) for the first class, where we got to meet each other, talk about our goals, and take a peak at the crazy running schedule we’ve all decided [...]
Yesterday, the vibrant beginning to a new year
It was so lovely read all of your kind birthday wishes. Thank you!
Driving back from this show at midnight, the temperature hovered just above 0, and wind sent gusts of snow whirling across the road. The region of Canada around Montreal is remarkably flat—all geographic features rubbed smooth by the glaciers of the last Ice [...]
Tomorrow, 28
Tomorrow is my birthday, and today my mother sent me a box full of calla lilies. Each waxy bloom perfect, it’s yellow pistil caked with pollen.
She has never sent me flowers before—every delicate stem wrapped in cellophane—and receiving the long lovely box at the door and putting the long-necked blooms into water made [...]
Artist’s Way week 3
I’ve been meaning to check in about The Artist’s Way, which I’ve taken up along side a hundred or so other bloggers, with encouragement from the wonderful Kat, but I never had a moment’s pause. Today however, the rhythm of things seems to have settled somewhat, and I returned to writing morning pages (I did [...]
House work
In a new book by William Stafford that I picked up on my artist date last week I read: “…The process of writing is kind of a trusting to the nowness, to the immediacy of the experience. And if you enter into the artistic endeavor with standards, already arrived-at ideas of what you want [...]
The lack of blogging is a direct result of this:
With some graph paper and the kind cabinet guy at Home Depot all sanity has been restored. I was actually making sense, it seems and it took all my willpower to refrain from doing the “I told you so” dance.”
Our first project is the kitchen, because it is the center of our lives. Ours [...]
I was warned about this
Things feel fierce when you try to talk in three dimension
and cannot wrap your words around something that is not yet there
the square foot depth of real things:
soapstone traveling the surface of the counter
walls, this thick
cupboards here.
Somehow because you can’t explain
that which you can barely see in your minds eye
everything feels like a soda bottle
after [...]
Starting in
The Pleiades were rising above our house when we came up the long drive after dusk. The night air was cold and dark. Our house. Such a different feeling than the house we owned in Connecticut, in a jam-packed neighborhood with dogs yapping right next door, and dog poop in our flower beds. Here, the [...]
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