Imagine fall rolled in over night and you left all the windows open. Adam had trouble getting out of the warm bed, and you hopped downstairs with him to move your bike so he could get to work. It was still dark and you were in your pajamas, folding your cold arms in [...]
The room we share is a small room with wide windows and walls painted dusty red. I like to drink tea on the sofa by the window with the yellow pillows, resting my cup on the ledge. Outside there is a tree.
Adam is far away in Lincoln, Nebraska, and I am hogging all the blankets.
-taking pictures of all the wonderful September foods that find their way from the farm to my cutting board.
-buying Sunday morning pastries from Sophias.
-finishing this book
-reading this interview
-waking with the sun
-doing morning chores
-sharing an evening beer on the porch with Adam
-working with my hands
-thinking about taking a carpentry class
-writing by candle light
I don’t think I’ve ever been a particularly patient person.
In Michigan this weekend.
it must be autumn
I’m totally feeling this song today. Typical goofy old Badly Drawn Boy music video (with clips from the film About a Boy). Not feeling the video so much as the music. But either way, Badly Drawn Boy is back in my ears, and autumn might just officially be here.
Outside our bedroom window are the leaves of a tall tree. As I write this morning, three small sparrows are gnawing on its tough, red berries. I tried a small bite of one once. It was tasteless and bitter, probably poisonous. It makes me happy to see the birds enjoy them. [...]
Doing dishes just after sunrise in that rare quiet hour of the day. The wild ones have just stumbled back to their beds; the rest are still sleeping or maybe lying in bed or maybe they are awake, too, just walking softly in their slippers. It is still a little chilly, so I [...]
For those who study the great art of lying in bed there is one emphatic caution to be added. Even for those who can do their work in bed (like journalists), still more for those whose work cannot be done in bed (as, for example, the professional harpooners of whales), it is obvious that the [...]