Kansas’ largest barn:
Bison jerky:
Fireflies:
Red-headed woodpecker:
Fireworks:
No time for a “real” post, but I wanted to share this poem I came across today:
Be with those who help your being
Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks [...]
My mom, the kids and I are leaving town tomorrow for a road trip to my favorite vacation destination. Yes, once again, we’re off to Kansas! Among my many chores and preparations today was using as much produce as I could so I wouldn’t have to throw it out. Tonight’s dinner featured a salad of [...]
On Saturday YogaSpell and I went to a wonderful workshop on “Comfortable Backbending” at Richard Freeman’s studio. We met up with our friends Sparky and Bendy there. At first we feared an intense workshop featuring all sorts of difficult poses (Kapotasana, etc.) but we needn’t have worried. De (the instructor) focused on relaxed, more passive [...]
FrogGirl’s hamster Prince died tonight (cause of death unknown). We are all very sad.
That means it’s time for another writing confessional, brought to you by the Literate Kitten. My main accomplishment for the week was writing my dad’s eulogy, which I finished in the wee hours of the morning today. I found that writing at night was better, since everyone was asleep and I could write a couple [...]
I’m writing my dad’s eulogy for the family service in Kansas next week, which is probably the hardest writing project I’ve ever had to do! I can write for about two minutes before I get teary and the screen goes blurry.
How to sum up a whole life, a whole person in just a few paragraphs?
Impossible.
[...]
As I lamented the other day, creative time has been in short supply for me the past week or so. As I mentioned the other day, I have been feeling vaguely out of sorts and a little bit guilty for feeling like I need to take some time to write or just think! So I [...]
The orthodontist is a sports nuts and has all kinds of sports collectibles, including stadium seats in the kids waiting room, and seats from the old Mile High stadium, signed by legendary quarterback John Elway. This is the stained glass window in the adult waiting area:
This is the coffee machine with various flavors of coffee [...]
For those of you who don’t hang out over at WoYoPracMo, I wanted to let you know that we are doing another month of daily yoga practice — with prizes!!! With apologies to those of you who did already get the news, I am reposting my announcement here:
It’s been quiet around here at WoYoPracMo.
Too quiet.
Which [...]
