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I do not understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. | Ann Lamott

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all. | Austin Grossman

I love the person I've become, because I fought to become her. | Kaci Diane

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness. | Marisa de los Santos

my new york | open windows, late-afternoon light, and blue skies

(Not terribly sure why, but this picture gives me a case of wanderlust in the worst sort of way. Europe anyone?)

my new york | coffee shops, gelato, and a little bit of green

It has been far too long since I've pulled out my Canon (the luxury of the iphone is that it allows one to take pictures relatively discreetly). But yesterday, wandering on the Lower East Side and then home to Brooklyn, the click of the Canon felt so good. And occasionally (often, actually) it's worth the added weight in my purse.

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Richard Brautigan

September

I'm lying on my bed. On top of a pile of clean laundry, because what else is clean laundry for, but to lie on top of and enjoy its smell?

And I'm marveling at how walking under low hanging branches backlit by late-summer-sun feels more like a blessing than anything I've ever before known.

And how much sadness there can be in new starts. Because something else is lost--a something that's already blurry and unnameable--a shadow in one's peripheral vision. But it's there and you know it's there and it's hard, nonetheless, the walking away from it.

And that's all I've got. Happy September. (I think it's gonna be a good month). xx