1. spring
2. spring
3. spring
4. that this cold isn't worse than it is
5. writing a story
6. homemade healing concoctions
7. miyazaki's "spirited away" this sunday
8. sushi
9. optimism
10. early afternoons

1. trust in life
2. being closer to spring
3. kicking horse coffee
4. feeling able and grateful
5. resigning from an unsatisfying contract position
6. pausing and seeing
7. breakfast at home
8. compassion
9. a clean computer
10. not worrying about money

1. writing stories
2. not being in pain
3. today, a day like spring
4. needing so little, having so much
5. sending postcards
6. waking up with lots of dreams
7. organic dried apricots
8. pink floyd
9. seeing wildlife from the porch
10. my people

1. not working
2. the riddle-master trilogy
3. slow motion at night
4. now, this now
5. toast with camembert
6. inspiring discoveries
7. new ideas
8. friendly strangers
9. chinatown in the morning
10. having a quiet smoke on the porch

1. love and sex at home
2. my most delicious apple jam
3. letterwriting
4. doing translation gigs again
5. supporting others and being supported
6. no debt
7. the beatles
8. wintry walks at night
9. that morning moment of realizing i don't have to get up yet
10. that morning moment of having been up for half an hour and the sun is suddenly there

1. ginger and honey
2. yellow falling leaves
3. hot drinks
4. watching star trek in the morning when sicky
5. sleeping really well lately
6. being over the hump
7. almost there (!) with the book project
8. soupmaking
9. that we laugh
10. thrift stores, even though

1. december joys
2. don cavalli
3. letting the spider run alive
4. warm october nights
5. kazuo ishiguro

some real good cheap great book finds today.
thanks for the beautiful times.

lightning shreds the sky
rain and wind whip darkness down
we laugh on the porch

my scheduler changed, and now instead of burning the midnight oil and rolling in money, i'm putting in a few measly hours per day because the new scheduler is slow and inefficient. life of a contractor ( Read more... )