pretty things

'peace', 'love', 'friend'

Ever since I was little my mother used to tell me : ' Don't wear your emotions on your shirt sleeve for everyone to see.'  I can't say that after all of these years I've gotten any better at concealing them.  There's a kind of transparency to my face that I've always resented in moments of real vulnerability.  But I think I've found an answer in Rebecca Coagan Scharlatt's morse code necklaces.  Gilded in a light gold and held together by the lovelist silk thread, I can wear my emotions encoded around my neck.   A far cry prettier than any shirt sleeve I currently own.  I think I'm saved!

As for the view from my window...

Leaves where there were never leaves before!  I was assigned the same delightful room I used this past winter in New Haven for my current workshop at The Long Wharf.  Despite all of my adventures since my last visit here, in some ways it feels as though I never left.  But nature knows differently -- an entire season has passed! My view was once a cool horizon dotted by city buildings and the dry cleaners across the street.  Now, it's full of lush, green trees, that make me feel like I'm living in a park. Beautiful.