Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tin, in place and the finding.

1. ...and a second gift from Anna: a tin of gooey brownies.

2. To put new trays in the cutlery drawers and to know that if I reach for a fork, I'll get a fork. 

3. We have lost the screws for the bookshelf that we had been looking forward to putting up tonight. We have searched all the places where they should have been put, and now we are starting to worry that they are lost. I try to imagine what they would feel like, and how they would sound, and I remember tucking an unidentified clanking green bag into the utility cupboard. 
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Haircut, revision and changing sky.

1. At this salon, with the sinks set up so I'm looking at a view of the woods while the hairdresser shampoos and rinses, I suddenly unde...

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