Thank you for the surrogate mama "applications." I hope my job description isn't too daunting. Corky, Wyatt Earp, and Buck Moss have promised not to ride any squirrels through the house bareback while you're here.
A late summer afternoon turns to evening here in the City of Angels. I'm watering the young trees. Watching the hummingbirds motor their way to the feeder on the front porch. Writing large and small thoughts in my journal. Little moments of being awake in the world. On a Thursday. In August. Over here in North America.
A trip to Turkey sounds like a great getaway and I am glad you found someone to watch the cats. I stopped by to let you know I gave you the Versatile Blogger Award on my main blog . Congradualtions and I hope you enjoy your trip
It’s E. Williams here…completely cleaned up from the vodka and Curacao, although I would do it again in a snap of a finger.
I just want to say that I would have been happy to take care of the kitties, but I am otherwise engaged.
If you feel the tiniest and most infinitesimal bump in your travel journal, look no further. C’est moi. Truly, I am no larger than a peppercorn. I have my passport, my camera and clean underwear. I am securely ensconced in one of the bird’s helmets, three pages beyond the parachuting robots (there is a bit too much bravado and testosterone for me there) and hopefully far enough away from the pre-pasted wallpaper.
I promise to be a good traveler, to be polite and to not sing TAKE ME BACK TO CONSTANTINOPLE. I promise to be unobtrusive and un-obstreperous.
I know that I will see such beauty and wonderfulness in this country, and I thank you, e.w.
Glad to help out with the kitty sitter idea. My cat brood (Sugar Baby, Sherman (also called Perry), and Edgar) would never actually allow me to be absent for 2 whole weeks (my human brood might also complain). The heat index here in the “other” LA (lower alabama) is about 115 degrees so I have to limit time outdoors but we love sitting outside with glasses of adult beverages while listening to the crickets and the horses snickering in the pasture behind our house. I love reading your posts about living in the moment. I resolve to do so also!
Ditto on the ‘book of yours’ – so many possibilities: any of the online classes and my favorite, Visual Journals in the Classroom.
What kind & where ’bouts did you plant young trees?
Glad you found your kitty sitter 🙂 I just got the new book Creative Wildfire and as soon as I saw a picture of an open journal it in I recognized it as one of yours. You have such a unique, colourful style, I picked it out straight away. Would love to read a book of yours one day!
have you said what book you’re taking to read? do you read on vacations? I love reading on vacation in the nights or in a hammock, when i’m away from the internet and job. i hope your trip is great.
Wish I could apply for the surrogate mama job – but then I need to find a way halfway round the world and a surrogate mama for my own posse…(which do sound much like yours – my sister is currently visiting and she is getting heaps of presents – you know the kind!).
I am thinking I like your corner of the world. Sounds blissful and that everything is somehow right and as it should be. Content. The absolutely best way to be and feel. Enjoy the night.