I’ve posted about this before, and I’ll post about it again. I can’t help it. I just love our little book of silence and have to keep revisiting it. This book was the only way Sean would agree to go on a date with me. He was terrified of meeting me. We didn’t even know…
Month: August 2015
sean applying lipstick for me
Sean was behind me applying my lipstick by looking into my iphone as a mirror as I took pictures. Then we switched and I painted his lips. I came across this little montage in my dropbox and loved the strange almost-symmetry of the shots. And of course it’s my birthday month, so I get to…
novice badassery
My daughter Akychame and I went on a great bike ride yesterday – almost 15 miles – we started at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, where Sean dropped us off, and arrived (almost) in Chipping Norton feeling on top of the world, having sliced Oxford into Ox and -ford with our brute pedaling. You can see…
a user’s manual
I’m collecting quotes from this book (about building a country estate from the ground up) for a poem entitled The Building of Jalina, all about how to rebuild me when I’ve broken down, which is often. The poem is a manual. It tells my partner, Sean, that I should be built in a forest of wild lupin, chicory,…