Monthly Archives October 2008

i didn’t think to bring my camera

I didn’t think to bring my camera to the UPS store.

the end of october

apples, socks, squash, writing by candlelight, bundling up, wind, big pots of food warming the stove, warm bread, boquets of dried flowers, halloween costumes, learning, fat egg noodles, reading in bed, chilly fingers shoved in pockets, rethinking, heavy blankets, heavy meals, spicy cake

lykke li- i’m good i’m gone

this weekend

I just got back from a beautiful wedding.

stamp-o-matic

Adam recently found this old tossed-aside pair of headphones.

the high-ceilinged house

It was yesterday that I remembered winter was coming.

hymn to childhood

“O you,
still a child, and slow to grow.
Still talking to God and thinking the snow
is the sound of God listening,
and winter is the high-ceilinged house
where God measures with one eye
an ocean wave in octaves and minutes
and counts on many fingers
all the ways a child learns to say Me.”
-Li-Young Lee
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milk

It’s a warm afternoon. You rinse the glass milk jugs and, before leaving the house, take a last glance out the front window. Adam is pulling into the driveway on his bike. He is wearing a wool hat and the shirt you bought him. He looks so good in that shirt. [...]

thanks

I already posted this poem, but I wanted to post it again.

a link

If you only listen to one show about the current state of the economy, this should be it.