Potting Plants etc.
Potting plants, digging in the garden, listening to birds, breathing. Enjoy this glorious day! xo b
Month: May 2010
Evening Primrose
evening primrose.
Sophia Kate
Claire got to hold Sophia Kate for almost two hours the other day. Sophia was so relaxed in Claire’s arms, she slept and slept. Every now and then, she’d make a funny face, or stretch her head up, like a […]
Throw A Line Out
THROW A LINE OUT/GO FISHING/START ANYWHERE/YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE DIRECTION/YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR MIND/YOU WILL END UP WHERE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO GO/TRUST IT/TRUST YOURSELF. – Betsy Selfo [Every now and then I meet another Betsy. I met Betsy Selfo […]
Sing Your Song
Here’s an early morning post, before the morning cup of tea, and the bus stop. It’s a soft air, already quite warm. The windows are open in my room where I write and I’m taking in the different songs of […]
The Natural World
This morning I went with Claire’s 4th grade class on a field trip to the Tannersville Cranberry Bog. This bog is the oldest habitat like it in the world and it’s right here in our own backyard! With Darryl, as […]
Prepare Your Article
My friend, Susan, received a list of directions [see below] for a paper she is presenting in Orlando this summer. Her paper will be published in a book called “Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Social and Organizational Informatics […]
This Being Alive
Around four-ish, I was in the backyard stretched out on a lounge chair, paging through the New York Times Travel Magazine, a dangerous past time. I felt cranky and restless; Why didn’t I travel through Europe when I was in […]
First Poppy
Bloom where you are. [Yesterday this was a tight, green fist of a bud. I thought, take a picture of it, pre-bloom, but between yesterday and this evening, it burst open.]
Bingo!
We were in the middle of playing math bingo when Najee, a third grade boy, tilted his head to one side and said, “Ms. Jackson, I’d say you look about eighteen.” It took everything I had not to go over […]