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Played a lovely round of golf with the Chavez’s this morning. What we lack in skill we make up for in style, hilarity, and dang excellent cart driving. A wonderful morning with great friends!
⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #strawberry #strawberryjam #ohio #homemade #canning
Picked up 10 pounds of strawberries from @countrysidefoodandfarms this morning. Time to jam 🍓
On The Fifth Day⁣⁣ By Jane Hirshfield ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ On the fifth day⁣⁣ the scientists who studied the rivers⁣⁣ were forbidden to speak⁣⁣ or to study the rivers.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The scientists who studied the air⁣⁣ were told not to speak of the air,⁣⁣ and the ones who w
Even though we had to skip our summer sojourn to HHI, I am so grateful to spend every day (in Hungary, Colorado, South Carolina, or Ohio) with this extraordinary Magyar queen.
I’m grateful every day for this guy. #fathersday
⁣ After HOUSEKEEPING I felt intensely compelled to read Marilyn Robinson’s GILEAD. Written in epistolary form, the wise but exhausted (and dying) preacher/father/narrator pens a loving letter to his young son. It is the best of a unique kind of
The happiest birthday to the most extraordinary woman in the galaxy. We took a lovely birthday hike with the pups—fresh mountain air, babbling creek, and dancing aspen leaves. I’m sentimental. I can’t help it. I love this woman!
It is so ordered!
Just finished reading—and more relevant than ever. #bookstagram #rebeccasolnit #justfinishedreading #hope
Spent a few glorious hours fly fishing in Eleven Mile Canyon with the fam.
Approaching it’s 40th anniversary, HOUSEKEEPING holds as a masterpiece of 20th-century literature. Like all commanding sirens, Robinson charmed me into this mist-obscured, disturbing story of loss, family trauma, and a kind of transience not of