sometimes
it's so hard to keep up
with a little girl on fire
our resident whirling dervish




or is it bunker fever she's got
like her mother
for not having seen a landscape bigger than our garden
for months with all this rain?





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it's still raining and a. has been kept out of school by a violent allergic cough
so we're going with it,
raiding the blues of old magazines
for a rainy day collage







+

other bits for 'thank you' cards








hope it's a bit brighter where you are . .   .
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colder than london/brussels/paris

+ wet

wishing for an indoor garden:

/ otchipotchi

// fashioned by

/// wendy jung

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promenades with beloved parents/grandparents coming to an end as they return to their routine and we to ours.

until soon, we hope. . .

[st sophia, nicosia]

playing with shadows (cut out an old ikea postcard; attach 4 legs!)






+

a (little unnerving?) cyclops' eye (once a lizard gazing out of a tv magazine)

have a fun, exhilarating weekend!







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bliss . .  . disguised as a quiet moment







+

A LADY'S IMAGINATION IS VERY RAPID;

IT JUMPS FROM ADMIRATION TO LOVE,

FROM LOVE TO MATRIMONY

IN A MOMENT 

after 18 years of marital union i can faintly recall

that little moment jane austen is talking about

 - and revisit it with a smile . .  .

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i didn't go
with k and his parents to st minas monastery + kato drys village


but a. returned to school today
and i had the first few alone hours
in a long time


spent mostly smiling like a child in a sweetshop .  .  .








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just when you begin to think it's all over
and that you can regroup, relax and reflect . . .


in our family it's round 2, with k's serbian (old calendar) christmas!






(. . . but sadly the migraine doesn't care either way)


.

recycling our holiday cheer into . . . a chair





+

our gift boxes into giant goggles!
we are apparently making a jungle in a shoebox next  . . .











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wishing you a serene, luminous 2012!









[a typical night in the himalayas - by anton jankovoy]

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