Happy new year!
I cannot think of a better way to toast in the new year than to hurtle downhill on a sled. Wild, silly fun. Bean’s grin spreading like sunshine across his face. DH laughing, truly in the moment and content, just before he bites snow for the hundredth time. The heat of our breath rising up [...]
A fire within
As the evening light wanes and indigo fills the heavens outside the glass, I watch the black silhouettes of doves flying to roost in the pines along our drive. I spent part of the day pushing furniture around in my studio, and the space feels freer. With my desk in a new corner, I can [...]
Merry & bright
A perfect sourcream apple cake, bright blue skies, an orange tractor with doors that really open, lick-your-fingers good sticky cinnamon buns, sleeping in so late, singing to the tree with real candels lit, Bean’s face on at 6am on Christmas morning, tossled hair, kissing, watching Holiday at the movie theater, snuggled up with my guy, [...]
Things that are good:
* Sucking on a maple lollypop while doing secretive artsy things.
* Watching the neighbor kids put on a Christmas play in the barn with sheep and donkeys, and all the grown ups singing carols.
* Sipping hot cider and talking to neighbors while Bean raced around with a delicate waffle cookie clenched tightly in both hands.
* [...]
The view (and the most random, grumpy post ever)
Here are a bunch of photos I took the other night when the light was doing the most incredible things. On my way home the stormy sky was suddenly ripped open and sun burst through, right in front of the rain—creating the most remarkable and vibrant rainbow I have ever seen. Of course, I didn’t [...]
22 months
Dear Bean,
As though your heartbeat were the metronome of my time passing, your growing marks my aging. You’re so big now, tousle headed and bright eyed. You stand mid-thigh to me. Two months shy of two years old, you carry rocks and cookies and other small treasures in your pockets. You are passionate about tractors [...]
Mama, get out
Bean spent the weekend with his Daddy in NJ, leaving me to a blissful empty house to finally get some serious writing done. Six hours at a stretch, uniterrupted. Going to bed in the wee hours of morning and sleeping in. Time to actually revise what I write. Oh lordy, it was good.
But man, I [...]
In the midst of it
Flecked across the page, the doorway of my heart, wide bands of color from a horsetail brush, a blade, an inkpen. It’s so easy to be hurt. So easy to withhold even the smallest scrap of willingness to travel on, past the point where words were slung about with careless grandeur. Past where the hurt [...]
Winter longing
The cold has finally arrived. “Come on,†it says, “hunker down.†It sends us snuggling under comforters, or to the couch to curl around a book, sipping green tea from a tall mug, as its long fingers creep in under the lintel. It gathers around the window glass, leaving hooray etchings where condensation lingered not [...]
And we’re done
NaNoBloPoMo is over, and I’m so ecstatic that I can go back to being frivolous and lazy and completely irresponsible about posting. I’ve also decided that because it became my posting art form this month I’ll leave you with a list of things I hope to accomplish in the next few weeks. To make me [...]