Picture is of wildflowers at Hi Rise Bakery yesterday, where Grace and I had lunch a deux. It was lovely.I’m thinking today about generosity, and about gratitude. About the ways people show kindness and how the simplest gestures are both easy and hard. Feeling very thankful for so much in my life. One of my [...]
Click here for the annual slideshow of Princeton reunions. I am sitting at my desk with tears streaming down my face. We’re past reunions time, into full-blown summer now, but only by a week or two. This slideshow drew me tonight to two very different pieces of writing about Princeton. I went digging in my [...]
A rainy Sunday in Marion. In a blissful turn of events the children slept in – way, way in – and we all got up around 8:40. At 6am Whit yelled to come into bed with me so I woke up with his feet poking into my tummy, but nevertheless the extra sleep was downright [...]
Just finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and it took my breath away. A beautiful book. Severe, spare but also incandescent; to me it spoke of the redemptive power of the mundane and of the need to be open to our lives taking different paths than we had imagined. To remaining open to grace occuring in [...]
This is how I feel today. Blurry. Out of focus. Off center. Read Gloria’s blog and loved it. She refers to Emma Thompson’s Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire, reminding me of a page of that magazine I’ve long loved. I have asked friends about it on airplanes, read it many times, and thought about my answers. [...]
Sometimes, we just need to be amazed by the small things. – Angela Pacheco Email this post
and every day you gaze upon the sunsetwith such love and intensity it’s almost…it’s almost as if if you could only crack the codethen you’d finally understand what this all means but if you could…do you think you wouldtrade in all the pain and suffering?ah, but then you’d miss the beauty of the light upon [...]
This essay by Andrew Tobias is one of the most lucid descriptions of how I see politics today that I’ve read in a long time. I find myself nodding, smiling, and also feeling that pit-in-the-stomach fear about where our country is heading. As I’ve mentioned, I rarely identify with HBS, but these words make me [...]
Whit, catatonic after school on Wednesday Grace, in bed tonight. Email this post
Today was the closing ceremonies for the BB&N lower school. Grace has officially graduated from Beginners and is moving on up. I spent the 45 minute ceremony sitting between Stacey and Beth and blinking back tears. Took a ton of pictures most of which were far away and blurry. Each class (B, K, and 1) [...]
