I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, these sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze. –D.H. Lawrence, from “The Enkindled Spring” [Post image: Cherry Blossoms by meelin on stock.xchng]
Love Letters
What a delightful book. At 89 pages, it’s a quick read–funny and wise and so true. Corrigan wrote Lift as a love letter to her two girls, Georgia and Claire. She opens her “letter” on the night before they both start middle school, bemoaning the fact that everything will change and they won’t recognize this […]
Song for the Day
Don’t ask me what it means. I just like it. Kinda moody, dark, and somber, but not the kind of song that makes you feel depressed. It’s like Ryan goes on a walk with you, and you casually ask him to sing you a song, and he does, all the while taking slow drags on […]
A Path and a Practice
Okay, so it’s no secret I’ve fallen in love with William Martin’s books. I’ve just received his A Path and a Practice, which is equally as lovely as the two I’ve touted already–The Parent’s Tao Te Ching and The Couple’s Tao Te Ching. Since my voice is slowly coming back around (I lost it, in […]
Spring Trip
Well, we’ve just arrived home from a West Coast trip–for one of Dan’s conferences, for a short 24-hour jaunt to the Tucson Festival of Books (me alone), and for seeing a handful of our lovely families in southern California. My mother took care of Liliana two nights in the hotel room, while we had dinners […]