Thankful*

I took these pictures yesterday, out my front door. Like heaven, the way the storm came through spreading the arc of a double rainbow and then left the world golden and blue and vermillion with the setting sun. I’m so thankful for this place that I call home–and also this place here, where I can [...]

Chaos + golden light

It’s really like this. Golden, golden light. I get out of class and drive home in wonder, my camera on my lap. I pull over randomly to take pictures (one of my many projects for class is to sustain a daily practice–mine has been to take a picture of the same thing every day in [...]

snapshots like sunspots

From the past week: 1. Frustration the color of crushed grapes; my fingers in my palms. We’re at a stand off: my five year old and I. He wants to do one thing, I’ve given him a choice of two others. It was like this when he was a baby. People said, “just let him [...]

Blur and beauty

Hi. I have resolved to come here and snatch snippets and pin them down even if I feel like they don’t matter or don’t make sense. Will you still come to visit? I hope so. So Wednesdays are the longest days for me around here now. Two studio classes with so much awesome my brain [...]

I am 32.5 today; he was 68 eight years ago

I remember the way the turkey vultures circled in the blue, blue sky, and the way the light moved across his room, casting the shadows from the paned windows, the cherry tree, the fence, across the pale wall. I was a different version of myself then. Twenty-four, living with T. in a two-floor rental by [...]