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Jeff me with this meme… so here ya go….

What were you doing five years ago?

Getting ready to start my 3rd year of teaching and my 3rd year of marriage, buying a house and living by the beach.

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1. Caviar (can you consider this a snack?)
2. Gummi Bears (Haribo, please (same for me Jeff)
3.Cupcakes
4. Doritos
5. Dark Chocolate

What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
1. Set friends and family up so they don’t have to worry about anything.
2. Go on a serious shopping spree
3. Have a month worth of spa days
4. Randomly help people out
5. Help kids out with school or clothes or food or field trips… or whatever really….

What are five of your bad habits?
1. Interrupting people
2. Eating a bag full of candy instead of one candy
3. Trying to fix things that aren’t in need of fixing
4. Not finishing an old journal before purchasing and using a new journal
5. Worrying about everything and everyone…. all the time, but surprisingly not as much as I used to do… if you can believe that.

What are five places where you have lived?
1. North Myrtle Beach, SC
2. Boone, NC
3. Wilmington, NC
4. Albany, GA
5. Essex, UK

What are five jobs you’ve had?
1. Underwear saleswoman
2. Waitress
3, Car Sales
4. Teacher Lady
5. Coffee Lady

Five people I tag:
I shall simply say if you care to answer this meme on your own blog- let me know about it. I would love to read it.

Sense-sational Sunday

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Oh Sense-sational Sundays- did you think that I forgot you… not so, not so- well, maybe just a little bit- but not this week.

I see: flowers on the peas and beans that we have planted, little bits of red poking up from the ground as our radishes begin to ripen, the words from the book Reading Lolita in Tehran– it is wow- amazing.

I taste: blueberries- We went to Alma, Georgia’s blueberry festival yesterday and wow- blueberries are wonderful. I also enjoyed a lovely cheeseburger from the Nichol’s Diner along the way was also wonderful.

I touch: cotton yarn- I worked on knitting a dish cloth on the way to Alma yesterday- I love the feel of simple cotton yarn. It is just a wonderful thing.

I hear: Regina, Regina- Spektor that is- oh and some Ani Difranco- yummy, wonderful, sing it at the top of your lungs music. Always good for the soul. Always.

I smell: tomato plants- they smell so wonderful. When I was little I picked a green tomato- much to my mother’s frustration- I told her that it smelled ready- now I know why I must have thought that- tomato plants always smell ready. Wonderful- Truly.

I feel: good, nostalgic, in flux- yes still, impatient- and many other things whirling around at the moment that I just can’t put my finger on.

And so it goes…..

tilt a whirl

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“The voice said take off both your shoes, whatever chances you get, especially when their wet…” regina, regina spektor

I like to look at things from odd angles. I remember being mesmerized by the idea of this girl in a book I once read who laid in the back of her parents station wagon during long trips looking at the world up-side-down… when she drew the world came out this way as well.
Sometimes a different angle is all that is required to understand something better and then again sometimes it can throw everything into a whirl of frantic… but that can be useful too.
All this to say that things are shifting in my universe- as they always are I suppose- How is it shifting? Well, I am not really sure yet, but I feel it. Maybe it is the introduction of summer heat that wills one to shed everything that is not necessary…. Whatever it is, right now, it feels good.
Whatever it is- it feels good.

"Sense-sational Sunday"

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flags

I see: the ocean, herbs growing, my mom.

growing

I hear: waves crashing, Jon and I discussing the future

I smell: salt water, roses, freshly broken trees bowled over in a tornado in Darien , GA

rose

I taste: seafood- lots of seafood, peach pie-made by Jon and I, blueberry pie- made by Mom.

I touch- sand, a soft kitten upon returning home.

driving

This week I have felt many number of things…. restless, calm, ready, excited, awe- there seems to be a lot going on in my brain these days- I suppose because I have a lot of time to pay attention to what I am thinking and feeling at any given moment.

It was a wonderful week. We went to visit my Mom and Step-Dad and had a wonderful time. We decided to take our time on the drive back and meandered down the coast- stopping at Savannah, Darien and Jeckyll Island. Twas a wonderful little vacation.

I hope that your week was wonderful as well.

Sense-ational Sunday

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chess tires willa

i see: Willa sleeping. bunnies hopping. plants growing.

hippity

i taste: boston baked beans and steamed brown bread

i touch: weeds that i have pulled out of our garden

i hear: karma police, idiotech and 15 steps have been running like a sound track through my head all week.

i smell: meyer lemon blossoms… yummy.

relaxing

i feel: (stealing from ani 🙂 useful, crafty, restless, in progress…

learning to trust poetry again

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it is not screaming beneath my skin
it squirms
the voice muffled
i catch myself asking
what was that
but nothing
and then more squirming
when i was younger
it would have spewed poetry
but she doesn’t trust that
as a mode of communication anymore
just something pretty that other people do
poetry can make a mask
for the things you want to
voice but don’t have the
courage-heart-balls-eggs- for
but still she squirms
in muffled silence
what do you want

but nothing

"Sense-ational" Sundays

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wanderings

i see: paper and paint… i have been playing a lot this week. the words of hermann hesse- i have been sipping from his book wandering and it has been lovely. it is not a book to be read too quickly though it must be savored slowly

falling

i hear: npr news, all things considered, fresh air and mid-day music. i soaked up npr this week and it was lovely.

i taste: margaritas and lovely mexican food-we went out for a mexican feast on thursday and it was fabulous. yum.  i also taste a lovely tomato sauce i made this week that was great on pizza and will be great and pasta- it turned out lovely- i am really getting into this cooking thing. much of the fun.

ms. will in motion

i touch: a kitten- ms. willa has been very lovey this week and has spent much of the time on my lap- i have not argued one bit with her decision.

i smell: more honeysuckle this week- cardamom seeds which smell simply amazing