i tend to watch the weather, one eye to the sky a lot of the time. i don't know why, except that it feels more tangibly real than electronical communication, abstraction and constant thinking; always making something out of nothing leaves little space for anything to already just be. clouds come and go, and with them rains. the garden is pushing up ( Read more... )

rewriting ( Read more... )

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080311 top ten in no particular order

1. listening to the city
2. eating when hungry
3. the systematic approach
4. small steps
5. inspiration + persistence
6. a quiet house
7. no work = no income = not the end
8. optimism regarding the weather
9. good books to read
10.

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yesterday's top list would have read something like "meh, blah, boo." just one of those predictably crappy, hormonal days when everything looks flawed, nothing is enough, and thoughts run repeatedly down the same murky grooves. it helps when someone important hugs you and reminds, "it'll pass soon." it also helps to go out for an aimless walk and ( Read more... )

it's so cold again, mittens do little if anything; i shove my hands into pockets and walk faster, glad to be out even so. doing what is loved is life; believing that it can't be done is death. i hear a storm is coming tonight, and know we'll be warm, buried close together under covers in the dark. hot cocoa times, book times, weird stories times, ( Read more... )

1. interesting writing and photography projects
2. summer is coming, eventually
3. dancing
4. letters from strange minds in faraway lands
5. weird shirts
6. o we can sleep in tomorrow and then laze awake
7. the quiet on the street
8. hot cocoa at night
9. tasteless inside jokes
10. a sense of being able

1. ibuprofein
2. a quiet house
3. sleeping in with him, so warm
4. a day off
5. not having a ton of money isn't the worse thing in the world
6. writing a story
7. daily meditation
8. playing new games with the cat
9. blueberries
10. leaf collections

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