I love this. This silence as the kids sleep in, and I got up at 7 like I normally do. The scent of a huge lily in a vase coming up the stairs...I love that heady smell. The only sound is the soft whir of my fan and the crickets rustling, although I can't really hear that one. My baby chameleon is really warming up to me..she likes to walk onto ( Read more... )

I am feeling very creative tonight, and planning on painting. I always want to put a meaningful quote down on canvas first and then paint around it, so I'm going to play around with that idea. I read some Ray Bradbury tonight (From The Dust Returned) and it got the creative juices flowing. He is just incredible. Just talked to Alison on the ( Read more... )

So the other day was "large items of refuse on the street for pickup" day in frostburg..it's always funny to see pickup trucks with trailers hitched to the back scouting the streets, then zooming up and claiming some couches or mattresses before anyone else can pull in. I found a decent hamper to store extra blankets in and a 15 gallon tank, which ( Read more... )

I wonder if the yeast i used to make bread today realized what was happening to it.

Two weeks ago I was listening to WFWM on the weekend, where they play really good roots and bluegrass music, and I called in and won a pair of tickets to an event that I went to last night. It was a performance by Darrell Scott. I'm going to try to describe it, but I'm not sure that there are many words to give him justice. It was the BEST ( Read more... )

I found one of my favorite poems. I was about 14 or 15 when I first read it, in a book by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is called: The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva. It makes me feel melancholy in a peaceful sort of way ( Read more... )

just a drop of water in an endless sea

I wasn't planning on going anywhere last night. I've been sick, and I seem to have conjunctivitis in both eyes. They are fluorescent pink. But that's ok, as most people just assume I'm really stoned. I went to Dante's to meet Jeff for a moment, but he wasn't there, so I went outside and had several lovely conversations in the low 60's weather ( Read more... )

i had a dream last night about swimming in a cold, cold ocean with alison and kendall. running into the surf and swimming out with them, and finding dimes floating on the surface. i think i gathered about 70 cents. kendall said, "your lips are purple" and "turn back". i eventually did..when i felt a deeper coldness rising from below, i started ( Read more... )

I love my betta. He always swims up when I come over to his bowl. He lets me pet him, and he blows bubbles for me. He even watches tv with me sometimes. He seems very intelligent and friendly, and always puffs out his gill membrane whenever he first swims up. I read that it's a sign of aggression, but I like to believe it's his little way of ( Read more... )