From Instagram, with love.

Hi. It’s been a busy handful of days. There has been catching tadpoles, and picking apple blossoms; meeting my twin nephews and watching my boys play with their cousins; birthday cake and deadlines; air turbulence and taxi rides; an end of the week business trip to NYC; then riding the train up to CT to [...]

The wildness of crows and the wonder of taking note

For a few weeks just at the end of winter before we set the clocks ahead and the evenings were filled with yellow light, I’d leave work just after the sun had set; the sky still stained blue and tangerine with the remnants of the sun’s grandur, and I’d look up, reacquainting myself with the [...]

A kind of christening

I know I promised you all kinds of things: Part 2, a list, posts full of details and whimsy, but here I am, in the middle of things and all I want to tell you about is the hour that I spent on the California coastline this weekend. All I want to do is hit [...]

The beauty of the light

The light’s been catching my eye lately. I can’t help photographing it. To look up from work and see how the world has changed; how the light has moved across the room, or walk the woods and find the shadows falling differently there. To see with my painter’s eye, the way there is more yellow [...]

This is true:

Listen. What you hold with your hands is everything. Possibility. Opportunity. Joy. What you hold are hold the fragile wings of something that arrives in the night and then slips away, leaving only its slight carbon footprint on your sill; or the small body of a sparrow that’s just hit the window. Or maybe you [...]