Quality Street

Christmas Day preparations were scattered with chocolate box treats. 4 finches perched wanton in the pet shop. Brown paper hares adorning magenta wrapping. A Blackbird shadow in the bindery light. Remembering to look and saturate eyes with other visions of the season comes hard, but meditative making and a Frank Capra philosophy pays dividends.

'You can only take with you, that which you have given away' - Peter Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life. I cried harder than ever this year when Clarence got his wings. Very Merry Christmas.

Manchester to Preston to Inverness to Ullapool

Ullapool to Stornoway

Stornoway to Ullapool

Ullapool to Inverness to Edinburgh to Carlise

to Manchester.

to dinner to dizzyness to drunk to desire

1 night and 1 day of travel, 3 days of teaching, 1 day of island exploring, 1 night of guiness, 1 day of travel. What a snow-week of unforgettable wonder. Feeling Thankful.

Shufflers and Rooters

Tuesday wisdom. Apparently, according to S, I am a shuffler. She is a rooter. We need one another to exist in order to shuffle and root one another. She is one of the seasons wise (wo)men.

Berlin

Bitterly breath-took

Exhausting enormous

Recovery ripe

Linguistic luxury

Intent Indeed

Numb nipples