And I am back, my dearest ones. I’m going to make a confession before I get to the Reverb10 prompts, however. I started this entry just after I finished the previous one. I know, I know, I said I was going to go. But my brain was still all busybuzzy from the last set of prompts and Chi looks so adorable laying in bed sleeping with her hair all mussed up that I can’t very well go to sleep now and move and disrupt her slumber. You’d feel the same way too, if you could see her. And now, the prompts please!
December 6 – Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? (Author: Gretchen Rubin)
A sock! From yarn! I need to finish making the other sock. I also have an idea to use some of the fantastic old lady jewelry and yarn I have floating around here, as well as come into some money, but the thoughts slip my brain before I can sit down to do it. I get distracted by something shiny and away I go. Typical.
December 7 – Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? (Author: Cali Harris)
Very very recently, the church we have been attending. We’ve been only a scant handful of times but we are recognized by other church-goers. We both really enjoy the church, both people and service, so far. I want to get more involved with the church in 2011, as well as go more often. I like the fact that they don’t subscribe to any one particular brand of religious dogma, no one bats an eye at Chi and I holding hands before, during, or after service, and everyone has been incredibly nice and friendly so far. Plus, there are cookies and snacky foods after service, and a pot luck lunch the first Sunday of every month. I mean, really, can you go wrong?
December 8 – Beautifully Different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different – you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful. (Author: Karen Walrond)
I’ve been told that I have an innocence about me, a girlishness that I can’t shake. I can see that. I suppose my love of cute things doesn’t hurt that at all. I don’t want to be jaded. I don’t want to not get excited over the butterfly that floats by or the cloud that looks like an elephant playing the trombone or how the lights look at night when you’re going over the Harbor Bridge and all the city is lit up and lies before you and anything is possible. I want life to surprise me, I want to find joy in the little things. I am not my job, I am not my credit store, I am not the things I own. I am a perpetual girl, in love with life and the world and my girl and everything is magical.
December 9 – Party Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans. (Author: Shauna Reid)
The first time I went to Austin with Chi, we were planning to leave early on Sunday. We had brunch at this fantastic little restaurant with her friend (and now my friend!) Eleigh. If you’re ever in Austin, go to the Blue Dahlia Bistro. But I digress. Eleigh knew of this circus performing practice thing at one of the parks, and asked if we wanted to go. Of course we did! It was underneath this huge old tree. There were trampolines, and hula hoops, and poi spinners, and a couple of guys DJing, and people were dressed up in costumes (or maybe they really dressed like that). A bit later on, there were acrobatics and balancing acts and people twirling in silk from the tree branch. It was an amazing array of colour and sound and everyone was happy and having a good time. I was content laying against Chi, her hat on my head, her hands in mine watching the crowd and swaying to the music. We were in our own little world of first-vocalization-of-I-love-yous inside a little world of happy people having fun and doing what they love to do and all around us there was such love that I can feel the same contented fuzzy buzzy feeling settling in now. My shoes are to the side and my toes are scrunched in the grass and life is good.
