the deep old desk

Kim: It's been forever. But here we are surrounded by hundred-year-old trees and hundred-year-old houses and it feels like it's a hundred below zero. The sky is pretty and purple and if it hugged you it would smell like perfume and peppermint gum.

"Global thinking and local action both require understanding of ecological systems, but ecological management can be effective only if it takes into consideration the visceral and spiritual values that link us to the earth. Therefore ecological thinking must be supplemented by humanistic value judgments concerning the effect of our choices and actions on the quality of the relationship between humankind and earth, in the future as well as in the present."  -Ren, The Wooing of Earth, p. 157, 1980

Katie C: A gift from my roommate, who recently returned from travelling in Israel. It seems far too beautiful to be written in.

Sunset in this park can be fairly spectacular at the right time of year. 

Rachelle: A throwback to simpler days--a photo that fills my heart. My lovely aunt (center) lost a brief, courageous fight with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday. My dad (her twin--who we lost in 2004) sits at the wheel. I'm on the hood, and my adorable sister is on the tire.

Kim: Today I love Jennifer of @littleyawps for giving my day a hug--such a good hug it was practically a feel. 

Katie C.: Hello, spring. I hope you're here to stay this time.

Kim: I am a little bummed that the middle of this is blurry--I thought I had it so that the steam was on the outside of the photo. But you know, whatever. It is daylight at dinnertime and the cilantro was first-day fresh and the chickpeas and cauliflower were perfect curry buddies. Sometimes I am pretty sure I could eat this every day.

Debbie:  Run-DMC put on a great show in Atlantic City tonight.  So glad I went.

Rachelle: Ah, flowers! It's about time.

Kim: This beautiful thing. I never had a good place for it in the old house; the blinds and orientation of the windows meant that sun could never hit it in the way it should have. Here it makes rainbows all day long.

Katie C: Mostly I am impatient for this ice to melt, but a small part of me really likes this view.

Kim: An epic train trip and many boxes later, I'm slowly settling into the new house. It rattles and complains like a hundred-year-old house should. Debbie and Danielle sent this gorgeous tea for one to warm me up in the face of Winnipeg's fierce cold winters. It's crawling with Steinlen cats and it is my current favorite thing. Today, it's filled with matcha.

Rachelle: One meets the most interesting people at happy hour.

Amanda: Forbidden food is the most delicious, isn't it?

Jen: Fill'er up! Old, abandoned gas station near Navasota, Texas