Live Blogging Thursday
Hi Thursday. I’ve been off in my own world lately, doing things. One of the things I have been doing is trying to sort out some issues with my blog and the funky charset issues that occurred with an upgrade to a newer version of Wordpress. As a result I’ve been going through my archives, [...]
Instinct
The chick is a frail collection of feathers and fluff. Its feet are the size of a sparrow’s. Its wings flap uselessly, and among the grasses, it is no higher than the smallest clovers. It frantically follows the goose everywhere. She doesn’t get it. She is harried, and runs. Leaves it cheeping pitifully in the [...]
5 months old
Sprout is 5 months old today.
He is perfect.
Sweet things
Things that I loved about today: figs & raw honey, a four mile run (!) and a swim in our neighbor’s pond. Oh how I love to swim…and somehow I had forgotten this. I don’t know why it’s taken me three years to go and jump in, the surface rippling green, bluebirds swooping about. How [...]
Already here
A little bit of photo booth goofiness for your Wednesday. It’s how we started our morning, at the counter and on the couch smooching and giggling, me and my two boys. (Don’t you just love Bean’s little broccoli top?)
It is already mid June. I can’t believe it really. How the time blurs once the days [...]
My Bean.
He is a delight.
He draws pictures of mice and their houses, of diggers, robots, pirate ships, tractors and us. In his pictures we have long arms and hold hands. We are bright colors, with long fingers. The grass shaggy under our feet, the sun a tangle of yellow rays at the top of the [...]
Today more coffee.
Today not enough sleep. We need bananas, paper towels, bread. The dishwasher needs unloading. It always astounds me how life keeps coming back to these things. To bread and dishes. To sleep. To love.
Today I sit on the couch and press my nose into that warm place behind Sprout’s tiny ear and whisper. I [...]
Hello June.
June is one of my favorite months: cloud-torn skies, hail, thunderstorms, and sudden rainbows above the wet curled ferns and the newly shorn woolly backs of sheep, their noses black and soft like crumpled velvet, let out to graze in pastures of suddenly tall grass.
Its easy to be grateful in June, to watch the [...]
Trying to get focused (and it’s not really working)
It’s been like pulling hens teeth to get words on the page here lately. Life is happening full tilt and I’m all over the map. Things are busting out everywhere: dandelions, rhubarb, fiddleheads, grass. We have allergies, Bean and I. We are a display of loud, honking nose blowing, in the morning
We eat fresh bread [...]
How to hold these moments
I know that nothing lasts. I know that spring in this place, northward where the light is lingering now and the first dandelions fleck the lawn, will become summer before I blink. I know these days will pass, and I will look back, suddenly much older than I am, with a heart full of longing [...]
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