A Big Word For A Large Bird

 

 

Here I Am

(a day with Roo, while Jesse has a day with Trev)

She builds castles

detritus of a morning

in winter, I felt them in fields on the table

hello world, I love you

The End. 

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.”

~Margaret Bonnano

 

 

 This and That

(now with 25% less oxygen)

I am still feeling cruddy, I think the Advair is helping some but the effects are so gradual it is difficult to tell. I am coughing non-stop today.   I am going to see a chiropractor and naturopath to see if they can provide any additional help for this asthma.  For now, I am craving quietness and warmth and so I am trying to make time for those things.  I wanted to say thanks to all of you for the support and thoughts and phone calls and LOVE, it really, really helps. Thank you.

Our days are calm; the kids are playing gameboy and board games and legos and we read book after book after book.  Sometimes we paint and sew and sometimes we lay in bed all morning and talk about cats. Sometimes we bake things and draw with our  fingers in the piles of flour and sometimes we sit and watch the fire burn. You just never know what the next day will bring.  I have not been taking photographs of life these past few months (the cold makes my lungs spasm so I am not out much), but I look forward to warmer weather so I can get out and get back to my heart’s calling. 

In much needed pick-me-up news, my unschooling friend Kelli gave me an Excellent Blogger Award

and while I do not feel worthy these days as I am a horrid, neglectful, little  blogger, I will gladly take the love and run  .     
The best part is , I get to nominate 10 of my favorite blogs!

(these are only a FEW of the blogs I love, there are so many more)

http://www.barn-raising.blogspot.com/

http://soulemama.typepad.com/soulemama/

http://www.xanga.com/simplespirit

http://oldmanfarm.blogspot.com/

http://www.xanga.com/juneblue

http://www.xanga.com/emilymr

http://www.xanga.com/alissasorenson

http://radicalunschooling.blogspot.com/

http://jek-a-go-go.livejournal.com/

http://motherhooduncensored.typepad.com/

(some of my very favorite blogs rarely post these days or are protected and so i did not link to them, i tried to link to my favorites who have posted recently and publicly)

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In pick-me-up news part two, my felted pieces have been featured

HERE and HERE ! Yay!

I am wheezing and warm and loved and grateful.

 

 

   The One

     You know that moment in summer, the very first one?  It is the day the strawberries ripen and the sun glows and the earth is deeply, deeply warm and the soil feels like the truth, the root of everything.

 You pick the first berry and it is such a deep red you want to sigh and the way your fingers hold the fruit like your mother and her mother and hers makes you want to laugh and throw yourself into the wind. 

This is the moment, the one just before you taste the first berry, this one.

 

 This is how I feel today.

 

 

Joy, Joy, Joy