Scraps

It is somehow already Thursday. I am like salt in a shaker, scattered haphazardly over the things of my days. Small scraps that I want to remember. *** Coming back to the classroom I put a jar full of tulips by my desk, and smiled when it was the boys who noticed. A little girl [...]

Happy heart

A weekend trip south, to Blue Poppy’s, to spend time with wonderful Lizardek and her lovely mom, and Elizabeth and her T. Ambling walks in the sunshine with a crowd of golden pups. Every moment filled up with wonder and delight and gratitude: these women come from my planet. Some days I feel entirely alien [...]

A post in pictures

Artichokes for dinner: a Bean favorite. Mine too. We eat all the way to the heart, dipping each leaf in lemon butter; then wonder at the purple and pale green thistle center. It’s suddenly warm here. Days perfect for drinking fizzy water and limes. Days for getting first sunburns, working in the garden. A week [...]

A Mighty Life (1-40 in no particular order)

1. Write and publish a book. 2. Take a roadtrip across the US in a camper. 3. Live in Italy for a year. 4. Drink mint tea in Morocco 5. Learn Italian. 6. Learn to dance. 7. Grow a garden 8. Hanglide. 9. Build my own studio/barn on our land. 10. Take a film class. [...]

From here

Standing at the kitchen sink this morning rinsing a glass, I was thinking about blogging. About this blog, about how I started it for one reason, and have continued it for another entirely. The sunlight in the morning has made all the difference lately, and this morning you could see new grass on the lawn, [...]