- for Marathon Family / Weekend and the way this feels like home
- for seven of my favorite people coming to hang out + work + have great conversations at the studio late last night: communion
- for the ability to make the things I need to be making; feeling creativity as a way of being instead of as an output function
- for the simplicity of sleeping in and coffee meetings and Grace
the in-betweens
Appreciating the in-betweens seemed easier in Europe. Here I tend to move with calculation: settling into routes that are fastest, most efficient, most effective.
This summer, I rode high-speed trains and walked quickly but traveled with a spirit of slower awe, observing intensely the things around me, intending to see in a way that would do the surrounding beauty justice.
Noticing is an art, and art is rooted in practice. I’m still learning to see well.
A note to self:
Look up and around, notice.
Make observations of beauty part of your everyday.
Savor the in-betweens.
la vue d’une fenêtre parisienne
the view from a Parisian window:
– our Parisian window,
all the better for its preceding walk from the train station, five-story spiral staircase climb, narrow hallway, and heavy door key on a first night in Paris.
Blue Skies in England
London + Portsmouth + Oxford, England, United Kingdom:
July 12, 2014 – July 16, 2014
Contrary to its rainy reputation, England gave us four days of the brightest and sunniest blue skies.
seeing Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France: June 13, 2014 – July 12, 2014
Strasbourg was a lovely, old-and-new, homey kind of place to stay for a month. I was able to speak French, have an apartment, and become friends with 34 classmates from all over the world. We studied and watched football and took weekend trips and ate and drank and lived, together.
It was exquisite.
