light swim
these days, this light
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Sometimes the present goes on and on
so that, months later, you realize that this sight is still humming along the wires
of your body, and this singular hour has not yet come to an end, as if
the rules of time were suspended just for you.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Who will you be today?
Halloween reminds me
that we are all in disguise.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
A world smeared with color
Friday, October 11, 2013
Out of the corner of my eye:
this one image could launch a novel.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Like a white horse
coming through the landscape.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
One moment among many
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Is the remembered world
always fictional ?
Monday, September 23, 2013
Still thinking
about portraits, and the way that they pose more questions
than they answer.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
If you want to learn about nuance
come to the coast and watch the light change moment by moment,
so that people and dogs seem to inhabit a long, slow, Nordic film.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
There are so many ways
that the days are longer in the summer.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Precisely because life is not simple
I feel a wave of relief when my eyes fall on something this quiet and complete.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Cold water and a swift current
made the crossing chancy in just the right way.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Just a few months ago
summer was beginning, and the days that stretched out in front of us seemed endless.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
We're all looking out for you
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
How our summer began--
just a rumor, now.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Two girls and a rose
Friday, August 9, 2013
Distance
The state or fact of being apart in space.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Easy
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
The only map we found
was from the 1930's, so driving involved a lot of guesswork.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
She likes to tell me her dreams
and then ask about mine. I told her that sometimes my dreams are so strange
that I wake up laughing out loud; those are my favorites.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Twenty four summers at the lake
and more to come.
Friday, August 2, 2013
On this unexpectedly cool day
I notice that I'm already nostalgic for this summer.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Summer parties seem to follow an arc
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Last week
Friday, June 28, 2013
Time
is what's missing during the busy part of the year.
Sudenly there is time to notice the light, to think about what it might reveal.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
We headed home
right as the rain began. It was a tropical rain---
welcome and warm, rinsing the salt off of our bodies.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Dream time
Monday, June 10, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wrapped:
after a long day, a hot bath.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
When I'm too tired to think,
I still find myself startled and blessed by what I see.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Out of the corner of my eye
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The last day of April
and it's my Dad's 83rd birthday. Last night I was making a chocolate sour cream cake
for this occasion and he was watching "The Unforgiven", and he looked up at me and said,
"we've had a lot of birthdays together". I'm wondering if this endurance in time, this
persistent scramble to understand, is the real hallmark of love?
Friday, April 26, 2013
As far as I can tell
this is a solitary time for her, although her days seem crowded with activity and change.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Just opening the door,
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Enmeshed :
These days I can't help thinking about how we are all rolled up in one another's lives--
it's unwieldy and intimate-- sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes all the comfort I need.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Every Friday afternoon,
there is an hour when I sit across the room from my daughter and watch as she puzzles out the details
of Satie with her piano teacher. Her concentration shows in her straight spine and I am undone
by the strand of hair spilling down her back.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Rain seems to carry us
through the flowering trees and into another time.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
After the party,
a few flowers and a tip of the hat to Morandi.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Seeing the girls at this distance
I can almost imagine them traveling the world on their own, and I feel a crack and
a shudder like the instant an iceberg breaks in two--a seam of cold water outlining
the long white scar.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
A careful attention:
Saturday, March 16, 2013
The season of unexpected
sunlight, and flowering trees, and memories as fierce and lovely as the changing skies.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Everyday,
we like to make things---poems, photos, paintings, little alphabet drawings,
and origami bookmarks in the shape of a heart.
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