As I learn that plants I step on daily are edible, pick wildflowers for vases or my hair, feast from mulberry trees that line the street, and just learn to recognize the plants around me, I find myself understanding more and more the riches in the earth, the great provision we are given in nature. [...]
Hi, friends. The tomatoes are growing, the fireflies are glowing, at the internet has vanished from the Whitlock apartment. It makes my posts here much shorter and less frequent, but I don’t mind. It gives me a reason to sit at coffee shops, and lets me find new ways to waste away [...]
Rest. Ah.
I lick the juice from my fingersstained by berries and blood.The thorn you pulled from my thumb,you drop to the ground. No onewill find it. It is hidden by tallgrass and menstanding like wheat.
Feeling a bit slimed today after work. Just a little slime. I’m probably not getting enough alone time.
Here are things that I go to to brighten me on slimy days, these days:
1. This interview with Maya Angelou (click on Listen Now)
2. Roald Dahl’s official website. Particularly “Meet Roald Dahl” and “An [...]
On my way home from Ace with hands full of pots and soil, I came across a little boy scootering around his driveway.
Him: Hi.
Me: Hi!
Him: Everyone tells me how good I am at riding my scooter.
Me: Oh, yeah? Can you show me? (he scootered from the sidewalk to the cars and back) Wow!
Him: Yeah. [...]
Jonah: What about you? Do you know what you want to do?
Me: Right now, I’m more interested who I want to be than what I want to do.
Jonah: Who do you want to be?
Me: Well, I guess I just want to be the woman I was born to be.
Jonah: Yes! Say [...]
Adam and I are back from our little camping trip in Michigan!
It was nice to spend time in little towns where everyone waves to each other, hang out by the lake, take long walks through the woods, cook over a fire, and smell like smoke all the time. I think the best part was [...]