(love)

looking up in st. patrick's park, indiana. 8.3.08

She Responded

The birds' favorite songs
You do not hear,

For their most flamboyant music takes place
When their wings are stretched
Above the trees

And they are smoking the opium
Of pure freedom.

It is healthy for the prisoner
To have faith

That one day he will again move about
Wherever he wants,
Feel the wondrous grit of life—
Less structured,

Find all wounds, debts stamped canceled,
Paid.

I once asked a bird,
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"

She responded,
"Love lifts
Me."

-Hafiz, from The Gift, translations by Daniel Ladinsky

today.

wishing...

for the cool days to continue with a few warmer days peppered in

for space inside my heart to let go

for the perfect piece of chocolate

to live in this moment instead of yesterday and the day before and the day before that

for moments to listen to the wisdom i have within me

for less fear and more do

for the rain, which i do love, to stop long enough for the ground to dry so we can go listen to jonatha brook and judy collins sing along puget sound this evening

for more peace within (for you, for me, for all of us)

what are you wishing for today?

five (really) good things (on a day where i really need 'em)

today was a day.
a bit like an alexander kind of day.
a bit like a day that started out as a day trying to drive me to the breaking point.
a bit like a day ending on a deep breath.

it is on a day like today that i do really try to find just a few things to make me remember all the good things...

like:

being with millie again after two weeks apart.

spending a second night in my very own bed in my very own home after spending 23 of the last 39 nights in other beds.

spending a bit of time with captain jack harkness and the doctor.

having a nice young man arrive at our home and say, "this is not a problem" (to what seemed like the beginning of one of those horrible weekend sci-fi movies but was really scary noise coming from within the wall in the living room that was causing me to have a borderline full-blown panic attack but was really wasps that had invaded us while we were gone and created a wee bit of major havoc).

remembering the importance of taking care of one another.

*****

think about the good things in your life...in this moment...then, share them. you know, if you want to.

postcard from indiana (8.1.08)

{front}
an ant's eye-level view of endless timer-sprinkled green suburban grass.

{back}

(often)
being quiet
being still
being present
and breathing
is the only answer.

postcard from lake michigan (7.29.08)

{front}
light blue with white wisps fading into pale blue fading into white fading into gray fading into sparkling, bright rippling indigo.

{back}

if you were here, we would record the sound of the waves curving, pulling, swishing, climbing, pushing, tumbling. we would record the sound of the waves so that whenever we were apart, we could each listen to the curves and the pulls and the pushing forward, forward, forward and remember.

(can you hear them?)
(do you remember?)

postcard from indiana (7.26.08)

{front}

humidty-soaked towering oak trees awash in early-morning soft, blurry light serving as a perch for chirping cardinals and one insistent blue jay.

{back}

i feel the space around my heart grow
inhale
exhale
let go of
the need to know
hold on
to quiet truth

shop news

a little shop announcement:

while i am away from my studio, enjoy free shipping for all items from my shop, the little room.

and yes, international shipping is free too.

this means that any items purchased from 7/23 to 8/7 will be shipped out on 8/8. the free shipping is my way of saying thank you for your patience.

happy summer...

ten (things that have crossed my mind today)

1) my current style icon is luna lovegood (ala harry potter and the order of the phoenix, which is a movie i have seen a lot, and i mean many times).

2) i cannot believe i am headed into the heart of a humid summer (via indiana and michigan) later this week (i hate humidity).

3) it's been a year since i did this, so i am think i am gonna do it again while sitting outside in the sun on the shore of lake michigan.

4) things seem so quiet lately. is anyone out there?

5) although it sometimes feels like summer is passing by so quickly, i am really looking forward to fall and all that it brings (like cooler weather and incredible events).

6) sometimes my high school friends are frozen as their 18-year-old selves...that is until i see a current photo of them on facebook. hello 32 year old. love it.

7) and on the subject of facebook, i still am not sure how i feel about the superpoking. what is a superpoke? and why do you want to do it to me?

8) i am going to use some of the gorgeous vintage buttons given to me by gram (jon's grandmother) to embellish a thrifted cardigan ala this adorable girl. i think that might be my crafting activity on the plane later this week...

9) i was going to make myself a new camera strap, but after spending way to much time searching for hardware (aka the end pieces) and finding nothing and oh how i mean nothing, i realized it would be so much easier to just support another etsy shop and buy one. but which one? i just can't choose...

10) raspberries make me so darn happy.