Things I am thankful for today:

• The small vignettes in our constant work-in-progress of an apartment that make me smile. (Like our fridge full of pictures, papers and fun colors.)
• A dear friend across the country to whom I finally wrote a letter this morning. (Which she should be receiving soon… if I can find my last sheet of stamps. Sigh. Maybe I will just buy some new ones.)
• Coffee. Mmmmm.
• The grace and permission from my friends, my family, and most importantly, my Creator to continue fumbling along, making wrong turns, and trying anew every day.
• Feeling especially thankful at the moment for my husband, who routinely bails me out of housework when I get myself in over my head with other projects, and shows me in a million other tiny ways that he loves me.

What are you feeling thankful for today?

… Which, unfortunately, yielded more photos than words.

View the second photo larger on black.

Me (in reference to my continued frustration with trying to write my thesis): “It’s kind of like giving birth… except it’s the kind of giving birth where you’re afraid it might turn out to be an alien.”

*Pause*

Gil: “I’m an alien.”

“What?”

“All of my children will be lizards.”

“Uh-huh.”

“You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. Years from now when you have lizard babies you’ll remember this conversation.”

Please, please go look at this woman’s photos. I found them yesterday through Sarah and fell in love. Her photographs individually are beautiful, but when juxtaposed in the diptychs she has in her gallery, they are phenomenal.

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