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coffee mate...

magic

sunshine...

xox - eb.

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clockwork grapefruit...

yes

it is good

to be

home...

xox - eb.

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This is the 4th year that my son Boone and I have gone to AZ to visit my parents - who come down from Nebraska for the month of March. For all of us it means shortening the winter as by March the enthusiasm has shifted and we are ready to run in the sun and go barefoot.

So we were ready indeed to slip into flip flops and settle in at the pool. I - in my eager beaver wisdom decided to focus on physical activity and promptly set up a run, yoga, swim, sauna schedule putting the journaling on the the side lines - what joy to wake up each day to 80 degrees and run the canal!

(I did stop to gather some lovely rusted items which will appear in a later post.) At night I read The Feast of Love which I loved and I am now ready for more Charles Baxter tales.

We were luxuriously wined and dined by my sweet parents - Mom and I had our annual shop till you drop at Anthopologie - Dad was running and fetching new flip flops, a toothbrush, pencils, etc., for the Boonster - we were in full tilt family mode... and then Dad got a cold, then Mom, then Boone came up with some GI irregularities (extreme hot sauce sampling perhaps?) and the energy shifted but we kept going - especially the Patriarch who always keeps things happening for everyone.

We did the art walk - which we always love and amongst lots of visual stimulation we met Ty Ty Butterhead - a Cornish Rex cat who won our hearts - so dignified and the perfect cat for those with allergies. I also discovered this artist whose work makes my heart sing a cappela in all colors - peruse her site at length - you will be smiling too.

We had plans that would spring spontaneously into action but with the sneezing and coughing there was indeed a slow down - and I - ensconced in my new active schedule thought that I had escaped the bug... but alas it found me the day before departure - we got on the plane together (all 3 of us - Boone, me and the bug) and I will say that United was ever so good about our flights - I slept from AZ to San Fran to Chicago and all the way home to VT. And then I slept another week - in my mustard and mauve kimono - if you ask me - if you are going to be sick - you might as well be cocooned in silk.

Illness can be a portal into a place of renewal and surely that has been my experience - the dreams, the rest, the quietly quiet, the revised visions... it has - all in all - brought me into Spring and I am ever so thankful for your kind visits, wishes and thoughtfulness.