Field notes

The waist high grass bows to the mowing blades Slack heaps trail the field like discarded snakeskins drying in the slanting summer sun. With clear skies, the farmer spends each day on his blue tractor, turning bales. Along the borders between fields, their round weight casts dark circles on the grass, a home beneath them [...]

time management

Some days no chart exists to diagram all the ways each minute must be doubly spent in order to accomplish all that must be done. Today was like this: like the whir left hanging in the air a nanosecond after the hummingbird flown away; like the thrumming silence between the beats of a drum; like [...]

Sunday antics

A walk down to the mail box this morning with Bean to collect mail from yesterday. I lifted him up to open the metal box, and inside? Such cool housewarming CD’s put together by the most wonderful Teri. You made my day, woman!! Bean picked pockets full of acorns on the way back, and during [...]

The unbearable sweetness of being alive

Two nights ago DH’s blood sugar (he’s type 1 diabetic) plummeted suddenly, without warning. It didn’t come back up, despite him taking several hundred carbs over the period of a half hour—and hovered nstead in the low-low double digits, just at the fringes of consciousness. It was one of those surreal times, when I could [...]

This much I now know:

1) My rss-cluelessness is not an isolated event. You all made me feel a thousand times better! 2) That there are so many amazing, talented and wonderful people that read my blog. Some I’ve known about…others, I’m excited to explore. Your feeds are now all on my reader! Look for me, I’ll be commenting on [...]