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The shape of daily life.

Glimpses from Sunday ::

Posted on | March 9, 2008 |

We sip pink homemade smoothies with striped bendy straws. Bean grins up at me. We clink our glasses together. “Cheers,” he says.

Against the window, white snow falling sideways. A jar of golden honey on the counter. I’ve been curled into the corner nook on the couch all day with my laptop. Achy: pms and the flu, what a whopper. I’ve burst into tears at least a half dozen times. DH looks at me like I’m from the moon, then offers to make tea.

The cyclamens on the windowsill are a riot of pink, and in a circle around my small boy: fluorescent green Post-it notes, crayons and stickers. There are logs on the fire and the room is filled with a steady heat and the smell of smoke, faint, the signature of winter, still here, though today sunlight until 7 and at dawn, mourning doves on the ground below the feeder.

It is time to force branches of forsythia, and to visit our neighbors to inhale the sweet heady scent of maple sap and steam by the evaporator. Time to buy Bean a new rain slicker, boots. Mud from here until April.

What are three blogs you’re enjoying this month? I’m craving new inspiration, beauty, curiosity, and delightfully precarious sentences.

Category: A sense of place, Mosaics

Comments

12 Responses to “Glimpses from Sunday ::”

  1. misti
    March 9th, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

    I am loving: A Caribbean Garden, The Art of Life, and Urban Extension.

    I am thankful that spring is nearly here.

  2. Taylor
    March 9th, 2008 @ 8:29 pm

    I love http://shuttersisters.com ; http://www.smosch.com ; and http://martawrites.blogspot.com .
    Love the photo of the pears, btw.

  3. lizardek
    March 10th, 2008 @ 2:26 am

    Coffee-stained Clarity: http://cappuccinosophy.blogspot.com/
    Kolokolo: http://kolokolo.blogspot.com/
    Slant of Light: http://sylviatheteacher.blogspot.com/

  4. Jane
    March 10th, 2008 @ 3:19 am

    Misti mentioned my site Urban Extension above (thanks Misti!)and I came here wondering what “my topography” was all about…. so glad I followed the link

    My favorites at the moment are: http://blue-grey.blogspot.com/, http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/, http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/

  5. jen
    March 10th, 2008 @ 10:14 am

    Loving the glimpses from your Sunday. Here are some blogs that have been tickling my fancy.

    http://www.hyggehouse.com/
    http://designformankind.blogspot.com
    http://www.shimelle.com

  6. Paul
    March 10th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

    what a funny picture! So … what did you do with Bean’s stem?

  7. Sandy
    March 10th, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

    The photo is awesome. Looks very “painterly.”

  8. tara pollard pakosta
    March 11th, 2008 @ 11:49 am

    blogs: here are 3 of my faves. some photography/writing/scrapbooking inspiration!

    http://labellavitaphotography.typepad.com/525600_minutes/

    http://www.stephaniehowell.blogspot.com/

    http://iamambernichole.blogspot.com/

  9. Molly
    March 11th, 2008 @ 11:51 am

    Oh, lizardek, I am flattered! :)

    Most of the ones I love for well written entries you are well aware of (most I found through you), but I have been enjoying these, for their quiet simplicity:

    Shari: http://www.theglassdoorknob.blogspot.com/
    Molly: http://orangette.blogspot.com/ (Another Molly!)
    Jen: http://simplybreakfast.blogspot.com/ and http://www.simplyphoto.blogspot.com/

  10. Tanya
    March 12th, 2008 @ 3:05 am

    Hi -

    I just wanted to tell you I think you are a fabulous writer…

    One of my favorite blogs at the moment is

    http://dududiaries.wildlifedirect.org/

    Best wishes,

    Tanya (in Kenya)

  11. jouette
    March 12th, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

    spring … o how i love it ♥

    what a great question! here are my 3:

    http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/ ~ she can write so well and opens up herself completely. she’s stunningly beautiful inside and out.

    http://thepioneerwoman.com/ ~ she makes me belly laugh and really, what more can you ask for? i fall in love with her and her life every time i read her.

    http://gigicakes.blogspot.com/ ~ because honestly, aren’t we all here for pleasure? and what better pleasure is there than cake, i ask you?

  12. cloudscome
    March 16th, 2008 @ 6:06 am

    Thanks for inspiring this round up. I am enjoying all these links. Here are three of the photo blogs I’ve been watching:

    http://hoardedordinaries.wordpress.com/

    http://gawdess365.blogspot.com/

    http://audreymango365.blogspot.com/

    That is a lovely pear picture, and delightful word pictures of your Sunday.

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