each small thing:::::

Monday, February 8, 2010

last nap/ first walk

Quinn with tree shadow/ back of the house

me & finn, on the first walk we took around in the woods and fields behind our new house

over this hill is coralville lake (frozen)

here it is

and this is one of finn's last naps in the house he was born in (with his beloved tigger)

first week in the little house by the lake

yay we are moved into our new house! here are some highlights of this week:::::
finn dancing as papa prepares a feast

one happy country livin' doggy

full moon rising/ see through the bedroom window

creation of the cow spider (perhaps she is the epitome of how it feels to move?)

the amazing saturday night feast courtesy of peter. . .

varieties of finn in the new house (first week) (and he is now 18 months old!)

first papa-finn nap in new house

finnegan playing as we [the parents of him] move around the minutiae of our lives (stack it up and pack it and unpack it and sometimes discard it and sometimes put it in piles)

bear feet!

what it is to bathe in this new house

finn's lovey corner [sleepytime owl, boo-boppa dinosaur, mr. buns, kraken, kitty, tigger, baby]

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

i make a drawing and water makes a drawing

thing chaos (moving)

i thought i'd document our moving week chaos--
this one i call--

dino house! with fire station

styro!

middle of the room

duct tape & packing tape (virginia wolf)

napkins,dried stems (some of us in the universe are definitely inspired by moyra davey's work)

(and really in the spirit of each small thing mattering in our days)
purple clover petals, dirt specks inchoate!

a light breather breathing

the garbage

petals & styrofoam

aloe

perhaps i am trying to control the chaos by loving it? i do not love it.
i am a mother and my world already always feels out of control.
i should learn to love swirls. i should try so hard to love tumbling.
i should maybe love jumping up and down. i should be okay with minutes
and i should like the uncontrolled. as b. hillman says
"our very greatest human thing is wild"
so, me and my chaos of the recent minutes, in love:

chaos #1: little kitten