In the eternal life cycle of construction, heaven is the finished product – the gleaming floorboards, the graceful curtains fluttering gently out from a breeze that pours through tall windows, matte walls that illuminate chosen pieces of art by their subtlety, steam curling upwards from a tall mug of tea (unfettered by dust) posed on a three-legged table next to… Read More
Archives for January 2010
My Amaryllis
The amaryllis given to me for free by our local florist was off to an inauspicious start – a fat green nub in a modest plastic pot. Since I had not sought to possess it, I wouldn’t have been the worse for wear had it decided to die on me for lack of sun, or too much sun, for drought… Read More