through this east window at my parents' house i see the warm of the horizon slowly grow, the leafless trees a dark mangle of lines before its deepening brightness.
i like the following poem. i don't really feel this way right now - more unanswered, sorrowed, wondering about this life-business - but i appreciate it as a hope.
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"Why I Wake Early"
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety -
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light -
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
(mary oliver)
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this week i have done two things: finished the children's book for my mom and looked at seed catalogues. the book is a story about two friends, a heron and kingfisher, who live by a river. i did all the illustrations in watercolor, and i'm really delighted by how it turned out. i also plan on binding it myself, thanks to a friend who taught me how. the seed catalogues make me even more excited than before about this year's garden... and make it hard to choose what variety of anything to grow. i want to grow bok choy, kale, and collards; green beans and shell beans; tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers (i found aji limo seeds!); zucchini and a winter squash; cucumbers for pickling, and chinese cabbage. and maybe try eggplant again. it's hard to decide.
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety -
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light -
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
(mary oliver)
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this week i have done two things: finished the children's book for my mom and looked at seed catalogues. the book is a story about two friends, a heron and kingfisher, who live by a river. i did all the illustrations in watercolor, and i'm really delighted by how it turned out. i also plan on binding it myself, thanks to a friend who taught me how. the seed catalogues make me even more excited than before about this year's garden... and make it hard to choose what variety of anything to grow. i want to grow bok choy, kale, and collards; green beans and shell beans; tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers (i found aji limo seeds!); zucchini and a winter squash; cucumbers for pickling, and chinese cabbage. and maybe try eggplant again. it's hard to decide.
