wrapped up…

   this week’s IMT is “intimacy” – this is one of my favorite photos of my son – taken the day after he was born. to me, it defines the ultimate moment of intimacy between a new mother and her long awaited treasure, kai. enfolded within those teeny, tiny fingers lay hopes, dreams, fears, possibilities and [...]

treasures in the sky…

    last night, on the way to a dinner of comfort food with good friends – i was looking in the sky (since childhood i love to find creatures and objects from the shapes of clouds). the light in fall at dusk here is magical – and more so last night as a storm sat [...]

running through…

    i am a recreational runner – but i love to challenge myself and to train for an event. there is a 10K coming up that i hope to finish. i have not run that distance before so that’s a good challenge. it’s one of those things that’s on my life list to check off. [...]

from a little square…

    this is my artwork for this week’s prompt – squares. i love the theory of mixed media collage but am still working my way of be comfortable within it. my own art, as i try to really discover its voice, is a fusion of image and words. for so long in my life, poetry, has [...]

little things…

  these are the ‘little things’ i want to etch into my mama memories…the little swirl of kai’s hair, how blond it got this summer, how his hair catches the wind like crazy when we’re tooling along in the stroller.  and how his little hair smells like his honey and milk shampoo…..i know all of this will [...]

saturday afternoon…

    today was a great day- as my aunt & uncle passed through – staying long enough to meet kai, enjoy a wonderful lunch, and catch up where the years had left off – and away they went. i so treasure when we have family come out to visit – even if it is only a [...]

a look within…

   i tried umpteen times to post this last night but wordpress was having some hiccups with images and it wouldn’t work…hopefully tonight is another story. this is my atc for inspire me thursday. it is a whimsical self-portrait – very simple – but to me it has this peaceful feeling i always long to [...]

mi amore…

    j and i have been together since i was 20…in many ways that seems like a lifetime ago – 2 different people ago – and in so many ways nothing has changed. there are so many aspects about j that make me crazy about him still after all these years. but above all – [...]

work in progress…

   tonight as i checked on my succulants,  i watched the street for awhile. i love to see folks from our balcony – they don’t notice me from my birds eye view,  and i love to just see the bikes pedaling home or to the markets as supper time approaches. it’s a very peaceful view.
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lost in laughter…

    tonight we watched and hung out with our friend’s kids – whom we just think the world of. not only do i so admire that they are attending italian school and am just amazed at how much of the language they grasp – they are truly some of the “coolest” kids i know. their liveliness, [...]