She in there, she know (a re-post)

Hilton Head, August 2008

This was one of my first posts, when I began blogging over four years and 2,275 posts ago. I'd forgotten about it and wanted to share it with you, particularly since when I first began blogging, only about ten people read anything I wrote. I was flipping through photos, looking for inspiration and prompts to write last night when I scrolled down to the one above of Sophie on a family trip to Hilton Head. I needed not only a prompt but the reminder of my Sophie's connection to this world. Seizures and the drudgery of daily life sometimes get in the way of the essential, and the air I breathe gets too close. The inhale is often easier than the exhale, and these words with this photo help me to release the breath outward, to fill up the world.

Here you go.

Blog Redux - January, February, March

I'm not even sure what redux means but I'll look it up after writing this post. I was over at Suburban Matron the other day, one of my favorite blogs, and liked how she posted a bit of a recap of her blog for the year. I think that's a fine thing to do, especially if one is resolved to not have any resolutions. It was fun to go through my archives from last year, click onto each post and quickly review it. I didn't have too hard of a time picking out a favorite from each month, so here are the first three:

January: 
Something I Grapple With
I believe in the randomness of fate.

February (I couldn't do it. I couldn't pick just one, so I picked three):
My First Entry for Magpie Tales
She lay on the bed next to him, after...

Greetings from Another Planet
The water was very, very cold and very, very greenish-blue...

Sunday Swearing on a Saturday Night
What about seizures, is what I am thinking at just this moment.

March:
Happy Birthday, Sophie
I realized in the moment that she swam by...

And now I'll post my one of my favorite photos from those first three months. It's not one that I took, but it's a picture of one of my favorite places in the world. We called them "the stacks" in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.