Today, Jasper is five. I'm not sure quite how this happened. Just yesterday, he was one:
Anyway. Today he is five, and my heart is kind of bursting. So I let it burst out all...
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing...
My mom sent me this email yesterday, for my birthday. It caused me to miss her, badly, and also to spend a solid twenty minutes ruminating on the singular unattractiveness of my toes.
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." -- Henry Miller
Unless you're a small child, in which case all growth is a leap into the sunshine,...