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the first day of autumn and I fall, softly softly down

September 23, 2011 6 Comments

photo by Amy Gretchen Maher
Oh, kids.

What a week— this (my post-squam week) is generally the hardest six days of the year.  Build a city and then dismantle it.  Three days ago, my apartment looked like a bomb had gone off, but today?  The only glaring issue is a pile of laundry and I can live with that.

I have navigated the blast of insecurities and gremlins that are always sucked in by the vacuum following the party.  One minute you are surrounded by more people than you can honestly talk and hug and connect with– the next, the quiet is a pounding ache, a missing.  In that shift of gray it is so easy to overthink, rethink, allow the mosquitoes of self-doubt to swarm– but, I have learned and I practice and so it is with a great heave of relief I can say– hellooooooo weekend!

And, mean it.

Perhaps nothing I wrote above is coherent?  That is entirely possible.  I am mostly trying to convey that every bit of energy and mojo has been used and I am about to trundle in for a big deep unwind this weekend.  I generally am not very successful at this, but I am gonna try.  Maybe a visit over to Christine to lounge on her couch and watch rom-coms . . . with bonbons.

Meantime– I could link to 100 things today — the world is so rich, so full, so alive– but 10 will have to do.

1. 

The power of 10the power of 10, by IRENE SUCHOCKI

2.  Oliver Jeffers

3.  my love for ice cream is like a stampede of (wild) horses

4.  I also love Natalie Chanin like a stampede of wild horses—– (clearly my heart is open like a Montana mountain range)

5. Black Magic Woman

6.

This is what courage looks like:  JOLIE GUILLEBEAU, photo by Amy Gretchen Maher
7. peace builders (for reals)

8. I love this moment in time so very much.  I love everything about the style of this performance– they could have killed it with too much color, instead they wisely grayed it out so the music came forth– I love the giant stilt creatures with the bubble skirts– but mostly?  I love how Ricky ROCKED those jaded music industry professionals OUT OF THEIR FLIPPING seats and onto their feet.  When I need a hit of life, I watch this– even though the visual quality is quite poor, it brings me back to that night and there ain’t nothing wrong with the sound.  TURN IT UP.

9. I love Jen Gray . . wait for it, like a FUCKING STAMPEDE OF HORSES

SQ11 Jen Grayphoto by Hillary Sloss
10. Ben Harper, there will be a light

Bisous, E

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  1. sarah ahearn bellemare says

    September 23, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    totally coherent. i was nodding along. i would like some rom-coms and bon bons. please and thank you. love love love. xoxo

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  2. sarah ahearn bellemare says

    September 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    oh, and someone to come to my laundry because the post-squam bomb exploded here too.

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  3. Megsie says

    September 23, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Happy that your gremlins were kept at bay and that you have some fun and relaxing time planned for the first weekend of Autumnal Wonder…NOT READY HERE.

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  4. Jolie says

    September 23, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    You made me cry! Sending you grace and gratefulness over these days.

    So honored to be one of your 10 things!

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  5. lizardek says

    September 23, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    You sound so RELAXED. I love it!

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  6. Anonymous says

    September 30, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    xo xo xo xo jen gray

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