Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. – Norman Vincent Peale Email this post
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
May 30, 2008 – 4:32 pm
I am without inspiration on this sunny Friday … so this picture from last night’s TPT spring dinner will have to do the speaking for me. It was all white jeans save for Steph, as you can see, and Emay and I were unwittingly dressed as identical twins.The weather has been outrageously perfect and I’ve [...]
An experiment
May 28, 2008 – 5:51 pm
The wings, while lovely, are a farce. This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.John is staying here tonight, so I tried something I have NEVER done before – putting the children in the same room. Literally they have never shared a room. Not once. I’m ashamed of this – it’s one of those things like [...]
May 28, 2008 – 5:01 pm
I occasionally get depressed by the sheer fact that there will not be enough time in my life to read all the books I want to read. This is demonstrated by the rising and falling of the stack of books on my bedside table (well, underneath it). As the stacks get tall, I get anxious [...]
the power of the story, and of the road, and of the telling
May 27, 2008 – 7:32 pm
What an astonishingly wonderful gift to come home today today. Gloria sent this book, clearly from when we were at Exeter together, with a lovely, tear-jerking inscription. I have this book, but haven’t read it fully, and will cherish this new copy wholly.Exeter has a tradition known as the senior meditation. Each senior writes a [...]
when to hold and when to yield
May 27, 2008 – 8:13 am
I am listening to and very much enjoying Atul Gawande’s Better in the car. I read his first book, Complications, and loved that as well – this is similarly thoughtful in its mulling of both the details and higher order questions involved in medicine. One quote today really struck me: “The hardest part about being [...]
how to pray
May 26, 2008 – 11:13 am
The Summer Day – Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead [...]
Memorial Day slog-of-a-run
May 26, 2008 – 5:32 am
7 miles this am, and home before 7am. Talk about gritting my teeth and slogging through. My whole stomach was tied up in cramps and my back was very sore at the same time. I am unaccustomed to having pain on both sides like that, and it resulted in a less-graceful-than-usual gait, which I watched [...]
complaints and more complaints
May 22, 2008 – 7:05 pm
“I discovered that my gift had its price, which took the form of, in my case as in his, a sort of mental darkness” – Donna Tartt, The Secret History Photo is of a cool ceiling lamp I saw recently. Feeling tired and a little raw around the edges today. Mental darkness, perhaps, creeping over [...]
Cracks inside
May 19, 2008 – 5:49 pm
Look at how grown up she is. Parenting is both an endless allelujia (credit to Newman and Hank for my favorite Christmas card message ever, ever, ever) and an endless goodbye. Every single day I wrestle with my fears about the passage of time, my anxieties about failing to make the most of this one [...]
