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 [...]

An autumn glimpse + Do What You Love Shared Stories Feature:

Just wanted to share these photos from a woodland walk with my sweet Sprout yesterday afternoon. It’s such a different pace: To go with just him through the woods, noticing, looking, laughing. It was a good break between projects and potty training and school pick up and all the other “shoulds” and “musts” of 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 [...]