february sun

so it's groundhog day. the little fella is surely seeing his shadow here in oregon, so i guess that means six more weeks of winter. i'm good with that.

january was a blur. it involved some pretty big bumps, some great new developments (limbo is over!), and a lot of "huh? where'd the time go?" i've said before and will say again that missing time that way makes me sad. i will also say again that i am hoping to pay better attention.

february is a little month. i have a new, looser work schedule and long, long lists of things to do. some of those include: purge the apartment. plan for our garden row. order seeds. edit recent poem attempts. bake a cake! (i'm failing miserably on that resolution). happy hours. move more. i'm excited to start over again (already!).

signed up for a million little pictures today! lights and beams is my theme (thanks for your feedback, friends!), and i'm hoping that my camera will arrive in time for me to capture a bit of this wonderful sunshine.

a little idea bouncing around my head right now: take my 27 pictures and write poems about each? sounds ambitious. sounds like great practice.

reading william stafford right now. writing the australian crawl is a title that i hadn't heard of until the stafford reading at linfield last month--someone read an excerpt, and i knew that it would be a book that i would turn to for inspiration and comfort again and again.

this morning i read, "Poems don't just happen. They are luckily or stealthily related to a readiness within ourselves."

today, i feel ready.


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