Grace in small things: part 13 pf 365

1. York Klondike bars.
2. High speed internet that works (which I don’t actually have, but I’m trying to get there and am grateful it’s a possibility). (This positivity thing is working. See how I turned that around there? And didn’t tell you about the three hours on the phone with tech support today and the [...]

Grace in small things: part 12 of 365

1. That bamboo can be spun into a fiber so soft, I want to knit it into underwear.
2. That Chris keeps at it with his late-in-life guitar lessons. It’s hard to learn a new language at this stage of the game.
3. Home sweet home (says Lila, over and over again after watching Winnie the Pooh).
4. [...]

A big bag of words

I dreamed this morning that I had a brief and fiery love affair while in my early thirties with Zora Neale Hurston. I had blocked out the memory for decades because I didn’t know what to do with the hole our parting had left in my heart, but many years later friends brought me a [...]

Grace in small things: part 11 of 365

1. The patience to rip out the stitches ten times while trying to learn how to do a double drop knit stitch scarf.
2. The sound of a theater full of children laughing hysterically at fart jokes.
3. Dinner delivered to the door.
4. Chicken broth soothing my (again) upset tummy.
5. Burt’s Bees body lotion that makes me [...]

Grace in small things: part 10 of 365

1. Having joined in on this project, so I can force myself to focus on something good on a day when everything feels like an ouch and an irritation.
2. Baby alpaca and silk blend yarn.
3. A feather boa hanging over the railing.
4. Lila practicing writing her numbers with her left hand.
5. Having an upstairs.
Let’s not [...]

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