Ever follow that which is good

Days of running through clover fields are fast approaching.

Days of pansies growing in the middle of the lawn.

Wild honey days, alfalfa days.

Days that take your hand and trail off. 

Correspondences

Such a beautiful book. The kind you're meant to spread out across the table, the floor. All the pages open and speaking in togetherness. 

I'm not concerned about bent edges or sweeping debris. Books should be able to handle a journey.

Especially one such as this, with its accordion design that invites touch; the rich collaboration between artists and forms, between listening and answering, between voices that carry and layer like love. 

"Correspondences: A Poem and Portraits"

Written by Anne Michaels

Illustrated by Bernice Eisenstein

Wishing jar

Last September I picked a dandelion from the yard and stuck it in a jar. 

I've spent the past few months walking by its nodding stem, its seed head puckered for a kiss. 

The gentlest wind could've come knocking, but hasn't. 

Until now. Sometimes I think I only know what I'd wish for the moment one comes true. 

Crocus

First visible sign that the garden has begun.

Pattern of a dream man

"First, any girl with an ounce of sense wants a strong man; not strong-can-lift-a-piano, but strong-can-make-his-own decisions-and-stick-to-them […] Next, you want a man who is going somewhere and is on his way even if it keeps him too preoccupied for your taste […] It is important that he have a purpose" as well as "a sense of responsibility." 

"And now about […] thoughtfulness and consideration. This is where girls can go awfully wrong. What you want is not a man who can remember unimportant things, like the well-known birthdays. That's just a matter of home-training. What you do want, even in a friend, is a man who, when you really need him is right there." 

- Henrietta Ripperger, "Maid in America: Pattern of a Dream Man." Good Housekeeping Feb 1941: 70. 

So there you have it. 

Last photo by Sharon Simpson