Thursday, July 29, 2010

reminder of a year spent: morocco in the spring 2009

development near the livesay abode in casablanca
looking to the water from the rooftop with kirk
down by the water in the evening, spying on the fisherman
midday visit


much has happened in the last year plus. and i'm thankful for where i am now, while itching to go. somewhere. soon. 

Thursday, July 22, 2010

on my mind

lately i've not been able to get this over the rhine song out of my head:



I Want You To Be My Love
(Bergquist/Detweiler)
I want you to be my love
I want you to be my love
'Neath the moon and the stars above
I want you to be my love
I want you to know me now
I want you to know me now
Break a promise make a vow
I know you want me now
Like I want you
I want you to be my love
I want you to be my love
'Neath the moon and the stars above
I want you to be my love
'Cause I want you
I know all you--
All you've been through
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
i know, it's a bit lovey-dovey. (the word of the day accompanies this post of the song of my month: lovey-dovey.) but what am i to do? i share it perhaps as a way of getting it out of my system. purging it. did it work?

it's really because of him, that i'm silently singing such a sappy (love)song:
ha ha. no face to show yet.  i mean, he has one, one quite pleasing to be sure, but that sort of open declaration of the man is not yet for this space.

Friday, July 16, 2010

heat and pressure.

summer life has been strange. beautiful. stressful. enjoyable. transitional. fast. slow.

i was basically dared to write on here, since it has been since may, by my sister. she almost threatened to fight me over it. and then it was a facebook race to see who would do it first. and she beat me, of course, because i was not exactly "running" so fast to win this one. and so really i don't feel super motivated to write since she's already won, but alas! it needs to happen. i've really been waiting on my lazy bum to upload photos. and i'm currently doing that, while "working" from home. and i'm looking at the photos and realizing that they are of poor quality. i need to really learn how to take better photos with my new camera. {and that's even harder to do these days because i have a resident photographer of sorts in my life who i simply let be the camera-bearer as he generally always has it and is much much more skilled than i!}

but i'll share a few...
the livesays are back in the states for a while and we welcomed them back to minneapolis in june. this was our reunion there, minus one sister. the gallaghers had already been in town for a week and this was one gathering in a long string of many, that ended a week ago.

spent several days in owatonna with the family. it was nice and i felt spoiled. and struggled against the fact that i have a full-time job and couldn't be there even more. then we finally had our family vacation near lansboro (repeat of last summer), and i was able to be there for almost all of that. lovely and so fun...

a classic shot of warm days of playing with water for these blond cousins at the cabin.  we had an all out war one day between the boys and marmie/mimi and auntie lizzie. happy memories. too brief.

and now, i'm settling back into life as an in-home therapist/skills worker and trying to live up the rest of my summer. there are concerts to attend, camping to do, volunteering to (hopefully) begin, friends to see, lots of playing to do. and i'm looking forward to more time with the livesay family.  love, love, love.
and of course miss miss miss silly moments like this with my nephews who live in colorado. hoping to see them (there) sooner than later. uh. heartache.

there's more to share. stories, photos, people in my life. but that's it for now. much avoidance of work on this friday (but in my defense, not much work to be done)... must. move. on.

ps. if you don't know josh ritter yet, please do yourself a favor and check him out. can't get enough.