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“I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.” ~Brian Andreas

                                              -Hafiz

It Has Been Awhile

And I would like to tell you these things; that we spend our days together talking and exploring and building and writing and dreaming and staying warm by the fire.  I would like to tell you how she lost 4 teeth in 2 weeks and now she wears a gappy grin that could melt the heart of the surliest teamster.

I would like to tell you how he has been building with Legos and and drawing and making origami and eating a large number of beans and growing so quickly we stand nearly eye to eye and this makes my heart wilt.

I would like to tell you about my tattoo and how it means inner strength.

And I would like to tell you how we spend our days flying down hills on our sleds and building snow forts and drinking hot cocoa.

But mostly I want to tell you how much happiness there is. I want to tell you how I am filled with so much clean contentment that I am spilling over the edges with it.

I am happy.

          “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”  ~Henry Miller

The Light Was Like This

She is the moth whisperer

my first peonies, finally

It is still a baby garden but it is growing by the hour, even as I write this

there will be so many peas, it has me giddy

here, look into my iris

“There are things you do because they feel right
and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the
real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other’s
cooking and say it was good.”
- Brian Andreas

Self Portrait Challenge Week Two

(speech bubbles)

It was still warm and it weighed no more than a walnut. This is all it takes to break my heart.

“I hope you love birds too.   It is economical.  It saves going to heaven.”
-Emily Dickinson

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad,

but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
(-Brian Andreas)

Sweetest Stocking Stuffer EVER