Dear lonely, neglected blog,

Here are some things I'm loving lately.

This article:

"How To Talk To Little Girls"

This music video:

And this quote:

"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then. " ––Michael Cunningham, The Hours 

You Shouldn't Have

Some gifts, good gifts say 

I thought of you 

But plenty of others say

I thought I was thinking of you

but really

I was thinking of me

--This American Life #428

Nancy Updike, you can host any week.

And "struggly" is now a word in my book.