just to let you know...

I love evenings spent by the seaside.

I really, really do.

monday madness---or is that sadness?

I'm feeling a little out of sorts, today. With worries for the week and for the future weeks and for not quite knowing what to do. But I am taking solace, again, in the little things---in the simple pleasures in this thing called life.

And right now---right this very moment---they are things like...

...seeing children picnic on the pavement (sun-hats and teddy bears galore)...

...bumping into an old (and very beautiful, and very talented) friend two days in a row...

...sunny days in the city---and then by the sea...

...walking in the country---with fields on every side...

...having both a wise head and young, youthful shoulders (or so I'm told)...

...mini movie-marathons...

...good hair-days, when those curls flick under the chin just so...

...surprising vintage purchases...

...and party planning, with all its possibilities...

And, well, right now that's it.

But I am keeping my fingers crossed---so very tightly, so very purposefully---for the next couple of weeks.

I hope you are having a nice start to the week!

simple pleasures

I like watching people put lights on their Christmas trees.*

*And yes, it feels early. But I love that.

simple pleasures

I have recently started to fill a baby Moleskine with the things I see that make me smile. Some days the melancholic veins in my body pump most of the blood; I don't see the good things or the cute things or the world's greatest virtues. And it's funny because as much as I talk of opening my eyes more, I am still guilty of not doing it enough.

So maybe I'll start recounting them more.

And I'll start with how the other day, as I walked home, I saw a businessman, stiff in his suit, deliberately alter his path to step in a pile of leaves. And how that was the sign of autumn.*

*Or is it winter now? I can never tell where the seasons differentiate. It still feels like autumn.

Happy November!