recent observations, week 13.
light where we can find it.
There’s a particular pleasure found in someone else pouring exactly the right amount of milk in your cup of coffee.
A row of shuttered ticket windows is enough to turn a person melancholy.
There’s a glowing brass lamp and a human being behind the grate at the only open window.
It’s always worth pausing to look up at a painted constellation sky.
The popcorn tasted better when it came in greasy paper bags.
Small hands with bitten-down nails fold very good paper cranes.
Letting your elbows rub against the sidewalk Christmas trees makes for a fragrant commute.
City dogs wear more coats than country dogs.
Hot water bottles are thoughtful companions, no matter their sentiency.
Come 4:30 pm, one lit candle changes everything.
All of these enthusiasms are so pleasant to think about, and be distracted by, on a day when, here in LA, international students are warned to be "in place" on the USC campus on 1/20/25 to ensure their safety.
This is where we are, where other people have decided we should be, and would that crafts and other forms of creativity could save us.
Love this!🎄