3 posts tagged “boston”
In five years there, no member of the LDS Church ever solicited me to go to church with them, and today she asked. She said, "You know, we have a really great singles ward..." and I joked with her that it took moving to Boston and getting a divorce for a member to ask me to church.
As for the hair... I recently found a picture of myself from senior year in high school (1997) with hair down to my ass. I've always had long, long hair, and the few times I've cut it short I've then hated and regretted it and spent the next two years growing it out again. This time, I loved it and went back and got it shorter. And am thinking about even shorter. (Someone stage an intervention before I have a shaved head). Guess there are things about me that I don't want to be anymore - I don't want to be so forgiving and giving and vulnerable, like women so often are - and this is a silly way of disengaging who I've always been.
(*Rachel at Eclipse on Newbury Street. Highly recommended!)
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
Inspired by wyndslash.vox.com.
I never do the Question of the Day, but this is a good one. I have Major Depression, peppered with some anxiety issues, and there have been a couple times through the years when I've come undone. There were times when I'd wake up in the morning and the first thing I'd do is count all the things for which I'm grateful. There were times when that list was what kept me from stabbing myself in the face.
Here's right now's off-the-cuff list of Things That Prevent the Crazed Face-Stabbing:
1. Lula Dog, always.
2. Finally having the strength to end my marriage.
3. Good friends like Jill, Cynthia, Marc, Jennifer.
4 Family who are proud of me and who never think I'm a screw up no matter how bad I screw up.
5 Zombies aren't real.
6 No, seriously, the fact that the world is zombie-free. Sans zombies.
7 Red tulips and purple irises.
8 Japanese horror films.
9. That no matter how bad the cut, hair always grows back.
10 Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network.
11. Cadbury Creme Eggs
12. Again, let me emphasize how awesome it is that zombies don't exist. You have no freakin' idea.
13. I've been fortunate enough to see and experience so many different places in this country, and meet so many amazing and diverse people.
14. City Point in South Boston
15. South Street in Philadelphia
16. I survived college and actually got that degree.
16. I've never gone more than three months without sex since I was 18 years-old.
17. Those moments when I first hear a songbird in the spring.
18. I still have full use of all my appendages.
19. My art - however amateur and recreational.
20. That the cop yesterday only gave me a ticket for not having my registration card on hand, and let the expired inspection slide.
Robert Carter's illustrations are great, but it's his portraits that really get me. I love the versatility of his brush strokes, from thick and chunky to so soft and blended there is no stroke at all.
Also like how he emphasizes the subtler colors in shadow and skin tone: the greens, blues, and oranges.
He has one illustration that appeared in Boston's Weekly Dig (i.e. "Beer Advocate").
