ash and i taped a haiku to every mug in beleza and poems all over everywhichwhereway. it felt pretty great. happy april to each of you!

the snow is going everywhere, resting on the crevices above each brick, hugging half the telephone pole, blowing sideways at the world and banjo is sweeter than i could've dreamed him up to be, curled up on the floor snoring kitten snores. i'm grateful for the parade of friends who sifted through this place over the weekend, for blankets and ( Read more... )

91% Mike Gravel
91% Dennis Kucinich
88% John Edwards
84% Barack Obama
81% Hillary Clinton
80% Joe Biden
80% Chris Dodd
74% Bill Richardson
33% Rudy Giuliani
23% John McCain
22% Tom Tancredo
20% Mitt Romney
20% Ron Paul
18% Mike Huckabee
7% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

i hope you each and all are well. happy new year!

so we have this one-hundred-and-one year old woman, marlys chatel, living at jhouse right now. and she is mostly sharp as a tack and always hilarious and often quite wise. she had four husbands through the course of her life, all of whose photos are on her dresser here and she refers to them as her 'band of irresistibles'. yesterday instead of ( Read more... )

i have to say thank You to Jesus for holding my little blue bike's back brake cable together until i was not on a hill, because if it had broken on my way down a hill rather than on nice, flat P st like it did, instead, i would've spent the afternoon (and probably more) in the ER rather than at work at the memorial service of two dear, good men who ( Read more... )

and parsley and rosemary and fennel are all in the new community garden and we got to disribute them after church to folks who wanted them, which felt really good. yeah pentecost! tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, berries up ahead. the air is all humidity already, and downtown the memorials are solid with tourists (fanny-packs, knee-socked sandals, fold ( Read more... )

i'm pretty sure i'm going to come to holland/GR for anne baker and matt rycenga's wedding celebration june 23, because they are so good and need to be celebrated, and because i want to see people in holland! but i know some of you are traveling to all kinds of wonderful corners of the world those days and also i know people are so busy, but i'm ( Read more... )

i haven't written on here for ages, but here i am. things have been busy and good and hard; my resident joyce died today just as i walked into the ICU to see her at GW Hospital, and i feel like someone punched me in the stomach. too soon. people i love a lot are at that place of delicate and heavy decisions about whether they want to live longer ( Read more... )

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this weekend has been all kinds of hullaballoo, but so good ( Read more... )