A few brief passages from Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. “Sometimes Grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.” “We’re invited more deeply into this mystery on a daily basis, to be here as one-of; a mess like everyone else, and not in charge. That’s why we hate it.” [...]
Spent the day in Marion. Guess which fun-filled afternoon was mine: sailing in the brilliant sunshine, or driving with a sleeping child? Yep, you guessed it. Grace, however, is eerily at home in a Mount Gay hat, down below in a gale, and lashed to the lifelines of the boat. Pretty easy to imagine her [...]
Another baby in the family! Baby BOY Scully5/26/076 lbs 3 oz Born in New York, at a birth center, and attended by a midwife. Email this post
I like white wine on the rocks and ice cold (and took some serious crap from Chris in Sea Island when I reached my hand into my water and scooped out some ice to dump into my wine – have a feeling it wasn’t my standard $8 Trader Joe’s bottle) but I like water room [...]
These children are simply delicious lately. Possibly because I was away from them for three days?! Email this post
Last night. Dinner, entertainment, and then poker. This was a serious crowd. I opted to watch rather than to play for the very first time with a defiantly varsity team. We had a music fiasco with only four CDs and no cables to hook up an ipod – we literally listened to James Taylor’s greatest [...]
Stool 2.0 has a seventh leg (and a second girl)!!!! Emma Hart Lavallee5/22/077 lbs 10 oz Healthy and beautiful. And my first godchild! I can’t WAIT to meet her this evening when I come home from Sea Island. Email this post
Just went for a long walk by the beach. Listening to The Rising (Bruce’s 9/11 album, and best, in my view), kicking and splashing in the warm water, I felt very aware of how things change and yet remain the same. Dave Phillips ran by and must have laughed at me basically dancing like a [...]
