Big Wonder

We are at sitting at the butcher block kitchen island. There are jammy knives and the remnants of scrambled eggs on cream colored plates in between Ball jars of markers, snippets of paper, and an Elmer’s glue bottle without a cap. We are making things, or more accurately, he is. Specifically, he is making a [...]

HELLO, I MISSED YOU! I’m back from my offline adventures. Some highlights:

Hello friends! Thank you for holding this space for me. Your comments when I came back on line a few days ago made my heart smile so very wide. It was spectacular to take time off from the online world. To write, and write, and write. To notice things at a different pace. To fall [...]

On making space for the work I am doing:

Hello friends! My semester ended today, and fall is in the air even though it’s August still. You can feel it in the way the breeze is cool coming through the open windows in the morning, and the light is golden and slanted as it angles across the mountains after dinner. Twilight is already coming [...]

Today like any other day

Today like any other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi

This today:

Today: Honey comb + lemons from Los Angeles in the mail (thank you sister!) This food blog. Oh my. So inspired by the photos + eating seasonally. Summer rain and crickets. Finding the perfect place folded into T’s arms and dreaming for a half our putting the boys to bed. Planning my thesis. Prepping postcards [...]