tonight

In the pale crook of a birch a robin threading its song through the fluttering green of newly furled leaves makes my heart tremble. Things are up in the air, and I’m holding my breath waiting for unrecognized brilliance. It’s like I’m occupying the thin space between air and water in a drinking glass, where [...]

A new start

Before it melted, the snow was boot deep and crystalline. Now unseasonably warm rains have returned and the ground is slick with black ice at night. Above the bald mountains that rise up from the lake, the full moon was setting just as the sun was rising this morning, white and round like a plate [...]

Good vibes

My sister is here, from across the country, and she’s brought a good vibe with her. Aside from being a saint—making exquisite food, plying me with yummy wine, and bathing my kid, she’s also given me some space to unfurl a little. To talk, to feel safe, to unscramble. She’s perceptive and determined and encouraging, [...]

5 good things

A recent painting (that I made for DH’s birthday). What do you think? A three mile run tonight with DH along the muddy road. Rain falling softly. Leaves the color of ocher and rose drifting earthward. Cattle, with their ruddy brown fur and white bellies all facing the same way, grazing in knee high grass. [...]

Summer

We blow a hundred bubbles one by one. Our breath caught up in the glycerin spheres that float up above the trees. Bean watches each faint rainbow circle as it drifts away against the backdrop of pale blue. It is the beginning of summer. Lazy afternoons in a plastic wading pool with a red rubber [...]