This is how it looks here today. All dappled sunlight after a week of heavy skies. Warm again too. All traces of autumn swept away. I'm not worried. It'll be back. But what a crummy week. Seriously, from sick cars to sick kids to misaligned to-do lists, I feel as if I'd been thrown curve ball after curve ball with no clue as to how to hit them. I've been gone a couple of days, but after my...well, lament on Wednesday, I guess I felt as if we all needed a break.

And here's the thing. I'm not really that sad. It was just something about what Alicia wrote that was so moving to me. I later told someone that I felt like James Joyce's Ulysses, all stream of consciousness welling up and it felt important to write it down. But what amazing and thoughtful comments you shared with me. I'm so touched to know that my sorrow somehow impacted emotions of your own. Liz, I love what you said about bluring the edges of pain. Maybe that's all we need to worry about. When the pain seems overwhelming, just think about bluring the edges of it and you can move on.

And Callum wants everyone to know that he's feeling much, much better, thanks.

I was at Borders picking up some birthday presents and made an impulse purchase for myself yesterday. This Book. I put it up on the sidebar too. Those who know me IRL know that when I'm feeling blue I have a hard time reading sad books. Really there's nothing like a book about dogs, knitting and traumatic brain injury to cheer a girl up! But oh, what a moving memoir. And not sad, exactly. I read it like a preteen devouring a Judy Blume novel, ranging from bed to sofa, even to the floor of my tv room. Go get it. It's good.

And Saturday is good too. Despite the fact that Lucy wanted to go out and play at 5:30 this morning. We've made the most of it since then. Laundry is burbling away in the background. Football is burbling away on the tv. We've walked Rebecca's dogs and will go back over this afternoon. I'm doing some straightening up, but soon I'll succumb to the lure of the sofa and knit and knit.