wild-ness
this week i found jackson park in peterborough. i hadn't realized how anxious living in a city was making me until i went for a walk there. it's a good sized park, and when i saw beautiful natural chaos it was as if my heart did a snowbank-to-sauna splash. all of a sudden instead of walking i was running down trails that skirted through cedars alongside a racing brook and up into rocky forests. ahhhh. so much better. there's no stress for me like the stress of being without wild places. i feel like a trapped animal. that taste would've been good enough for one day, but then dan and i drove up to a new swift tower in bobcaygeon, and the whole ride was full of forests and rocks and rivers and lakes. dan was amused by my delight. it looked a lot like maine, and it was like a bear hug for my soul.

frisbee golf
i also found the sweet peterborough frisbee golf course this week. it's a lovely course, right down by the river. i don't have time to play it now, but i look forward to getting totally creamed when david visits in june.

cumbia
there was salsa in the kitchen, and now there's cumbia in the woods. david sent me a whole bunch of new latin music, and more than once in the past couple weeks i've been on trails in the woods when one of the tracks pops up on my ipod. without making a conscious decision my feet and hips start moving to it and BAM all of a sudden i'm wildly dancing down the trail, or throwing it down in a clearing. i can't explain what latin music does to me; i'm a marionette and it is my puppeteer. trail-dancing is quickly becoming my new favorite thing.

this painting


"nature girl" by heather gorham.

graduation!
today my beloved brother's graduating from the university of hawaii and i'm positively brimming with pride. i think i could only be more excited if i were there swooning from some abundantly floral lei. no high five or thumbs up;(and a killer hug) to you, kevin!

mending
i was stitching up holes in my socks and replacing a button on my pants when i decided that i'd like to start a mending workshop. i'm going to proposition yolanda (OPIRG's coordinator) about it. convenient, as i've been brainstorming ways to utilize the bags of fabric we have from clothes that were donated but aren't in good enough shape for the free market. i'd be happy to host it one morning a week, and OPIRG'll provide refreshments, material, needles, thread, etc. i think i'll choose articles/topics for discussion each week, and we can sit around mending and getting all hot and mentally bothered. doesn't that sound divine? i think so.