finding beauty in the everyday


  • Feast

    I read a horoscope last week that said to watch for books that jumped off the shelf at me, wanting to be looked at and read. Well, it wasn’t a book that jumped out, but a poem. I heard it in a documentary called “Free Your Mind”, directed by Phie Ambo, and made a mental…

  • Farmer’s Market

    Last night my fridge was looking a bit bare. I hadn’t been shopping in almost a week and what was left wasn’t looking that appealing. But, not wanting to go out, I decided to make something with what I had. I pulled out kale that had gone from dark green to a lighter, yellow color,…

  • The End Of Summer

    As a child it seemed the summer stretched on forever. Three months was a large percentage of my life at that point. Playing outside with my sister, fighting over Monopoly, afternoons at the pool with Moon pies from the vending machine, weeks with my grandmother in Denver, camping trips, boredom. Now it feels like I…

  • Summer Sky