I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

-Franz Wright

100 Things I Love in this World

1. onions
2. my engagement ring
3. the note from my mom
4. cardigans
5. muenster and tomato sandwiches
6. peonies
7. Oahu
8. comics
9. reading
   
10. my sister
11. Summer
12. getting letters in the mail
13. photo booths
    
14. Willie Nelson
15. learning about the FLDS
16. photography
17. ahi poke
18. the taco bus on Rainier Ave.
19. dogs with funny beards
20. orange spice tea with a lemon slice
21. Roseanne
22. Sharpies
23. jeans
24. toast
25. Seattle
26. The National's Boxer
27. undershirts
28. Tom Morgan
29. swimming in the ocean
30. Polaroids
    
31. sparkling white wines
32. talking to my friend Sean
33. being cozy
34. Smartwool socks
35. The Cure
36. flip-flop tans
37. cheeseburgers
38. mysteries
39. local history
40. old friends
41. new friends
42. singing in the car
43. days off
44. road trips
45. goats
46. Mountain Goats
47. good bourbon
48. sleeping past 9 a.m.
49. babies
50. Frank Lloyd Wright
51. Jane Kenyon
52. West Side Story
53. cheap movie theatres
54. raspberries
55. camping
56. 
    

Whatevs

You are exactly where you need to be.

You are not missing out, falling behind, doing it wrong,
not trying hard enough.

You are doing more than enough.

Whatever opinions you have about it,
however imperfect
This is yours.

Where you are right now.
Sitting here surfing the internet even.
Is perfect.

This is pretty gorgeous.

small things ~ mandarin orange
Originally uploaded by Blue Algae Creative

nuns on the run

This is my favorite thing.

What Came to Me- Jane Kenyon

I took the last dusty piece of china out of the barrel. It was your gravy boat, with a hard, brown drop of gravy still on the porcelain lip. I grieved for you then as I never had before.