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“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”  — Mary Oliver

 

In Which I Go To NYC For a Week of Bead Buying and End Up Getting Over A Foot of Hair Cut Off

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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement” -Mary Oliver

 

 

 

FREE

 

 

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

 E. E. Cummings

 

They Open Toward The Sun

I know how this feels.

I may not eat gluten but I still eat cake.

It has been a good year for maple syrup; the sap still runs a bit and we have 5 gallons in the pantry for the coming year.

It snows, but I have sparkly toes.

this makes me happier than it should.

red loves blue loves red.

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

-E.B. White

 

Spring, Time, Happiness, Legos

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Spring is here, SEE?

We are feeling a  bit of the lingering winter CRAZIES and so we run about and shriek and giggle

and twist ourselves into pretzel shapes for distraction.

It is important to collapse in a heap of giggles

or a victory stance

(either way, it is Important)

He is telling me about his love for Lego and how he wants to build a trebuchet

and a skyscraper and a life sized bed and a Lego laptop and a windmill and do we have enough pieces for the things he dreams about?

I tell him yes,

we have enough

Pasta, by numbers

her days are like this

everything is cool, see?

contentment looks like this which also looks like happiness which also looks like peace.

It’s Wednesday

  “Let a joy keep you.  Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.” -Carl Sandburg

Reflection

 

 

“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy”

-Hafiz

 

 

Paris Was Like This

And This

This

And This

 

All of which left me feeling like this

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

 

February Self Portrait Challenge

(week 4 macro)

 

“A photograph is memory in the raw.”  ~Carrie Latet

Meet Speedy and Fluffy

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Speedy

 

Fluffy

Lucy says how can you not love someone who poops THIS much?

Oh, it’s love alright.

(and yes, she drew on her eyebrows with sharpie in order to “look more dastardly”)

 

“Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”
  -Antonio Porchia

 

 

February Self Portrait Challenge

(Week 3 Macro)

 

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?” -Jeanette Winterson