the palette.

simply exquisite.

hulo.

"oh hulo." he said with his english accent. 
wasn't expecting to find him in the carton, when i went to fry an egg for breakfast. 

quote | the wilderness way.

The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you. A place that demands being honest with yourself without regard to the cost in personal anxiety. A place that demands being present with all of yourself.

In the wilderness your possessions cannot surround you. Your preconceptions cannot protect you. Your logic cannot promise you the future. Your guilt can no longer place you safely in the past. You are left alone each day with an immediacy that astonishes, chastens and exults. You see the world as if for the first time.

-Lawrence Kushner

quote | to give and receive with gladness

To be a saint is to live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it; but it is to live with the hands stretched out both to give and to receive with gladness. To be a saint is to work and weep for the broken and suffering of the world, but it is also to be strangely light of heart in the knowledge that there is something greater than the world that mends and renews.

-Frederick Buechner

home.

noticed the light. 

ash.

from dust to dust.
remembering who i am. who we are.
utterly sacred.

today.

looking forward to the solitude that comes with:

tuning up my bike.

dressing the new saddle. 

washing a load of laundry.

dusting & organizing the loft.

dealing with some leeks.

contained.

these days, i feel my insides are about to burst through and seep out of my pores. 
dreams are brewing, feelings are erupting, and all of it is currently contained. i don't recognize the fine nuances yet, but it might be getting close to being time to fly fly fly high.