dig

I work in big ... and by that I mean nothing more than that every accomplishment is buried in piles of small pebbles of shining moments.  I am an excavator.  

collecting

...feather that I found in last weekend's travels and the last of the current round of spore print photos because I left them on the floor (best light in front of the patio door) and the dog walked through them -- should have looked harder for the spray adhesive...

company

I sat in the field keeping company with the end of the day and watched as the sun's light fell sideways, casting ripples of gold over goldenrod -- before it fell behind the trees, casting long shadows and otherworldly glow -- before it left me completely.

a short walk to the bay

Vivid. 

the story i heard

simple

I've never really been smart enough to get TMBG (like yeah, I know jason and the argonauts and they were greek and something but let me google it and get back to you) so I love this song just because every time I hear it, it makes me happy, plain and simple.

(and while you're at it
Keep the nightlight on inside the
Birdhouse in your soul)

wanderations, books, and other good stuff

My newest co-worker writes:

"I can't be sure this is the list I would come up with given a week to think about it, but it's the list I come up with on the spur of the moment. These are five books I read again and again."

The Sun Also Rises* -- Hemingway

The Great Gatsby  --Fitzgerald

One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Garcia Marquez

The Long Goodbye -- Chandler

The Dead -- ("I hope novellas count") -- Joyce

*'The Sun Also Rises'. Boy, that's real profound.  
--Sam Malone

Welcome back to the classroom, Mr. Chef K -- It's a pleasure workin' with ya!