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Twenty-one years since our first date.
Crossing a threshold, more years together than not.
We talk and dream and laugh
and sometimes cry.
We ache and burn and soothe.
We hear though sometimes we do not listen
and want to throttle and curse
and laugh again.
We shower one another with kisses
and words whispered in lust
and LOVE
and hearts full
of everything and everyone we’ve ever been,
together.
Tags: My Poetry
Saturday:
Cleaned the kitchen and a rather filthy and malodorous refrigerator, liberating a myriad of ill used condiments and forgotten foods.
Made focaccia and smoky roasted red pepper and tomato stew with garbanzo beans, delicious.
Enjoyed a beautiful light
That warmed us all.
Sunday:
Got up early, more gorgeous light.
Walked to breakfast, more deliciousness.
Saw beauty everywhere en route home.
Danced and danced to Fleet Foxes “Grown Ocean,”
While my newly bearded man typed and strategized on top-down, multi-player, outer space game functionality.
Watched the moon rise.
Tags: cats
An old love visited me in a dream recently and is now happily ensconced in my conscious, walking beside me, gazing across a crowded room, and every once in a while, if I listen very closely, he whispers something in my ear, though I don’t understand the words.
The hubster and I talked about it (Yup, he’s that cool), how life is that way. The thousand million ways we are bound, six degrees or less, by cables capable of sustaining bridges, others fine filaments scarcely visible to the eye. But each wraps around us every day or for a solitary moment at the most unusual of times, coming in like a flood, in the flesh or the place of dreams, taking up residence, bringing gifts, and sometimes fleeing before we have the chance to ask, Why? My Nana a story, my Aunt Mary a shamrock, my Grandma Frances a scent at the supermarket, my friend Dionne a certain consistency of ice.
Thinking about Joel made me incredibly happy, that we met at just the right moment in our lives, and shared something beautiful, something worth remembering, though not in complete detail. Is that the reason for the visit? So I can sketch the full picture, nuance, light, and shadow, of our time together and embroider it on my heart? Maybe, maybe not, only time will tell.
This is what my life looks like sometimes, with bi-focals. The yellow I’m working on is a cowl for me, now finished and cozy, but in need of a hat and some matching hand warmers, no fingers, so I can take pictures and be touchy-feely. I’m on the hunt for just the right patterns.
I have also learned after making three cowls in a week, it is hard to watch television or a movie without the click click of needles in my hands. I feel sooo still.
p.s. My cats look huge!
Tags: cats
Happy Tuesday Peeps.
I finished the cowl! Good for hiding, goofing, and warming. I am uber (no, I did not mean Buber?!) pleased at the results, my first successful knitting project, huzzah! Here’s what I did if you’d like to replicate:
Cast on 32 sts (or another multiple of 8 ) on number 11 (8mm) needles, then knit and purl until it’s the length you like. Cast off and sew the ends together. Take goofy photos. Be happy. Repeat, if desired.
I hope this is obvious, but just in case, repeat each set of directions until the end of the row.
Row 1: P1, K7
Row 2 and 8: K1, P5, K1, P1
Row 3 and 7: K2, P1, K3, P1, K1
Rows 4 and 6: P2, K1, P1, K1, P3
Row 5: K4, P1, K3
The photos remind me, I am nearly ready for the big bathroom reveal! About time, huh? Thanks to one set of crapper-doodle plumbers (and a good one to fix them all), this is the project that goes on and on till the break of dawn. But we are nearly there, for reals! I will be putting up art this weekend and then turning the den of the porcelain throne into a major paparazzi center. Stay tuned…
Oh, and I thought I would share a photo of my favorite bicycle commuter. Surprise! I am waiting for you cutie pie. Now gimme a kiss!
Wait, wait! One more thing, click here for the awesome Jimmy Fallon singing, a la Doors, the theme song to Reading Rainbow. The man is awesome…
Tags: Jimmy Fallon, Knitting
