Utter failings and exquisite truths

It hit me today while I was running that I don’t tell stories here nearly as much as I used to and I miss it, and I can see that you must miss it because the comments dwindle when I post sporadically and tersely with just a few scraps of observation from my day. And [...]

Ready

I have a secret & I’m just about ready to share it. Any guesses?

closer now

Hunger brings them close, but I don’t see them at first; I’m at the sink filling a water jug for the chickens, watching the water spill across the dirty dishes left for later and then I glance. The sunlight moves, and in the shadows they’re there. Six deer, maybe more. They move like quiet trees, [...]

My favorite part

I come home after they’re asleep; after a day filled like honey in a comb, the hours oozing from between the cracks of overlapping schedules, workloads, deadlines, demands, and now this sweetness. This, at their bedsides in the dark, listening to their breathing: soft and even. Sprout still sleeps like a baby: his arms thrown [...]

Things that delight me

This series of shadows snapped from a walk with the boys yesterday. Spring riding today: blue squares all the way. Easy turns. Wide grins. Buying a new moleskine. The reporter kind with plain white pages. I the way the pages feel flimsy and effortless; the way ink shows through & the way words tumble after [...]