small stone :: three

working intensely. ideas flying. catching some, letting others slip away. scribbling frantically in a notebook. thinking in two languages. energizing. draining. creating. laughing. fika. hitting the wall. renewed by some bad (for someone else) news. not really feeling very guilty about that (let's just say that for troglodytes what goes around comes around). definitely not just another day at the office.

kitty nurble comes home

last summer, we met the fabulous kit lane in person (it was at lisa's house - they both live in minnesota). you may know her as the inventor of bobbaloos. (she is wonderful, by the way.) and as a little joke, we presented her with a hairball extracted from the outside (not one of the thrown-up variety) of our norwegian forest cat, lila. we also gave her real gifts, so we're not totally mental. today, this little creature arrived - our very own kitty nurble - composed largely of lila-hair. a little piece of our beloved (and aging (she's 14) cat).  it was getting a bit dark when i took this, so more proper photos of it tomorrow in good light. and this is not at all a very blurry shot of frankie trying to mangle welcoming it:

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small stone :: two

days shared.

laughter.

sumptuous plate of healthy salad.

laughter.

wine.

the unbearable lightness of being.

life.

small stone :: one

carpet of beech leaves. wet with rain. scattered bits of gold in a grey, soaked, winter world.

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this small stone is part of the mindful writing challenge. 

a month-long exercise in noticing things properly. 

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i can't tell you how hard it was NOT to take a photo of the glimmery gold beech leaves today.