August 23::uncertain ordinary (and a list)

Hello there. I hardly know where to begin tonight. I’ve been playing tag with the delete key. Typing words, then flitting over with my pinky finger to delete them all, and again. It’s a peculiar choreography of indecision and exhaustion: the day was full of talking. Some days are like that, full with friends and [...]

August 22: decided

I love this set. I’ve been loving taking pictures every day (though I’ve failed to post every day.) I like trying to tell a story with shape, with color, with line echoing line, with gesture reflecting gesture, with color. +++ So I am going. It’s for certain. Even though things will be tight, tight, tight [...]

One more lesson on the things I cannot control

Here is the truth: I was a certified swim instructor for years. I have taught every kind of person to swim: a 2 year old; an elderly woman; a teenage boy who only spoke Chinese; an autistic 4 year old who would sink blithely, fearlessly to the bottom of the pool if I so much [...]

August 9::Monday

Us, through the eyes of my friend Willow. It is somehow enthralling to see ourselves from the back–a view we will never have of ourselves; a glimpse of us more vulnerable maybe, always leaving wherever we are, turning, going, doing. I love this entire set. Loved the day filled with thunderstorms and an accidental perfect [...]

August 8:: The urgency of now

I find my way in the dark, fingers slipping across the smooth surface of the wall, across the lip of the door frame, the lights needed now at 8pm. The rain is falling outside. Along the road today the first red leaf with a hole in it’s heart; chicory and queen anne’s lace at the [...]

August 7::Saturday

All about friends. The best of friends. (Miss you Jess.) Long walks to fields dappled with light; clouds above, laughter, the kind of honesty that comes from knowing someone for more than a decade; good wine and pasta with fresh corn, and chard, basil and tomatoes from the garden; the promise of Sunday bacon and [...]

August 5::Thursday

This boy makes me smile all day long. I snapped these right after his nap… when he was all sleepy and mellow still. Love his little bum in the air. +++ Today was all about long walks and conversations with my best friend… Conversations interrupted by little boys asking for snacks and finding caterpillars and [...]

Ripe with sunshine, ripe with joy

Hello! I spent the morning in the garden weeding + harvesting: dirt under my finger nails; gold finches watching me from the rhubarb. Then I discovered these: wild blackberries along the garden fence and in the field beyond. I sacrificed my pretty knees for these (now scraped and scratched–there is nothing quite like a blackberry [...]