ten things that make me terribly happy...

in no particular order

1. revisiting smells that take me back to a beautiful memory
2. bicycles built for two
3. watching my little men discover
4. sprinklers on summer nights, the kind that make a shooting noise one way and then fall back the other way with a spray
5. the way spring makes the neighborhood come alive after a long winter
6. dresses that make me want to dance
7. fairy tale endings
8. taking a nap on Saturday Morning in freshly clean sheets, with the sunlight flaring in, creating a warm yellow glow on my closed eyelids
9. my husband, fully and completely without distractions
10. surprises (the good ones)

inspired by Taza

-Jill

Love

Rachel says that love is like a big black piano being pushed off
the top of a three-story building and you're waiting on the bottom
to catch it. but Lourdes says it's not that way at all. It's like a top,
like all the colors in the world are spinning so fast
they're not colors anymore and all that's left is a white hum.
There was a man, a crazy who lived upstairs from us when we
lived on South Loomis. He couldn't talk, just walked around all
day with this harmonica in his mouth. Didn't play it. Just sort of
breathed through it, all day long, wheezing, in and out, in and out.
This is how it is with me. Love I mean.
-Sandra Cisneros