It was hot out yesterday and I wore my maroon silk skirt that blows in the breeze just that way. My morning had been a sweet one; I started work early and it was a wonderful workday. I blew bubbles with sweet little girls and made copies for (and conversation with) people speaking [...]
Sam: You don’t like raisins?
Joon: Not really.
Sam: Why?
Joon: They used to be fat and juicy and now they’re twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they’re just humiliated grapes. I can’t say I am a big supporter of the raisin council.
Sam: Did you see those, those raisins on TV? The [...]
Since this Sunday or so, I’ve felt a bit off. Off isn’t the right word. Sad. Sad is closer. It’s not that I haven’t had some really wonderful moments, because I definately have. I had some really sweet really real times this week. I lived some edible hours out [...]
the puddle outside the house
Originally uploaded by lindseyalyce.
today was dangerously rainy. I loved it.
things to do on a rainy day:
-light candles that smell sweet like vanilla
-bake shortbread
-read
-watch the rain from the front stoop under an umbrella huddled together with your roommate
-play soft music
-laugh really really hard because it’s raining really [...]
self portrait as true.
when it comes down to it, You are my home.
This topic was hard for me to find a picture for. But it’s true: these wild grape things are common.
(but, let’s face it, they’re a bit remarkable too)
self-portrait tuesday: me and summer
At 85 degrees fahrenheit (that word is so hard to spell), today was the first day of bearable temperatures since Thursday. I walked a half hour to work with my hair down with shortsleeves and only got a little sweaty (yesterday, in the coolest of cool clothes and rayon-wrapped hair, I [...]
sweet little sprouts really are remarkable.
also remarkable:
-the creme brule we had at tutto’s pasta last night
-how much cooler it feels when my hair is up in a wrap
-lightening bugs
-these currants I bought at the farmer’s market today. I love currants. In norway, we ate big bowls of them with cream or vaniljesaus.
noticed anything [...]
Monday, we had Harold Scheub as a guest lecturer. He spent several years of his life walking across South Africa collecting stories. He says people can’t live without stories.
He told us a few. This was my favorite. It’s a take from the Mbuti people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (note: the [...]
This last Thursday, I officially finished my Africa class (AFRICAN 277 : Africa: Introductory Survey for you Madisonians). I loved it. There are about a bagillion (maybe even two bagillion) courses I want to take now in the African Studies department. The African Storyteller, Introduction to Yoruba Life and Culture, Swahili, Xhosa, African Poetry… And [...]