When My Son Was Born, And After

When We Stopped To Rest And Tony Tried To Figure Out What Was Wrong With His Compass, I Asked Him What He Thought It Was About Orchids That Seduced Humans So Completely That They Were Compelled To Steal Them And Worship Them And Try To Breed New And Specific Kinds Of Them And Then Be Willing To Wait For Nearly A Decade For One Of Them To Flower.

I'm Happy To Be Reminded That An Ordinary Day Full Of Nothing But Nothingness Can Make You Feel Like You've Won The Lottery.

On The Very Same Day That I Ordered An Ipad 2, I Went Shopping To Buy Myself A Letter Opener. I Like To Cover All My Bases.

I Work At Home, In The Country, And Days Will Go By When, Except For My Husband And Son And The Occasional Ups Man, The Only Sentient Creatures That See Me Are My Chickens And Turkeys.

The World Is So Huge That People Are Always Getting Lost In It. There Are Too Many Ideas And Things And People Too Many Directions To Go. I Was Starting To Believe That The Reason It Matters To Care Passionately About Something Is That It Whittles The World Down To A More Manageable Size. It Makes The World Seem Not Huge And Empty But Full Of Possibility.