inspired by soulemama:
summer of 2010, can you be any lovelier? you’re giving us 83 degrees today? all day!? i want to kiss your face.
feeling pretty wild. like go outside at all costs wild. like pack a picnic wild. like maybe even film wild. like love wild.
summer, you are being so unbelievably good to us. a whole week in the 80s. it’s unheard of here in august really. but thank you.
just returned from ringing in my grandpa’s 90th birthday in lake tahoe with 19 family members from all around the globe. it was perfection.
lots of homemade cookies, absolutely perfect weather (the kind of sun you WANT to sit in), lots of laughs, talks, walks, good coffee (we brought our own, of course), my sister in law’s to-die-for chocolate cake, a boat ride, sand, swim, blue-green water, a 5-mile hike along emerald bay to visit grandma’s resting place, and the dreamy soaking in of those auntie, uncle, mom, dad, grandpa, cousin, brother, sister, niece, husband, son faces and hearts that have always been burned deep into me. pure love.
(miss my cat though now that i’m home again)
today is pretty 