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i thank you God for most this amazing day: 

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; 

and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes [e.e. cummings]

the morning of...

... a new housewife. with a new phone. on a rare sunny November Spokane day.

a sudden hit of vitamin D, translates into a sudden need for a self portrait.

morning shadow, with plant hair.

these are seriously the best shortbread cookies i've ever made. try them!

 

 

 

first run (because that's what's needed if you want to eat cookies with three sticks of butter in)

more of gorgeous manito park, my new running pal.

 day 8 of being an official housewife, a reality that only just hit me today as i concern myself over kitchen sink stains and husband lunch options. so far, so, uhm, good. this is a drastic change  (hence the need for cookies and running)

a park

we live across manito park here in spokane, and i can't tell you how much i'm in love with it already. speaking of new, being able to walk on over to a park by myself for no reason other other than to enjoy it is a kind of excitement i find hard to explain.

just think, now it's the start of winter, i've hardly had 24 hours to enjoy the last of the falling leaves before the snow fell, and spring couldn't feel more distant, but how amazing the transformation will be.

new

i've been fortunate enough to visit the US three times before making the move on a way ticket. so now, these past few days and i suspect the next few days and years, i'm finding everything new and different. not  in the way one travels but the way one  makes friends but with buildings and cultural differences.

i've got flannel, i think i'll be just fine around here

monday and friday

monday this:

 friday this:

bye jozi x

my dear South Africa

it seems a right time to leave now that riaan cruywagen is retiring, 1time out of the air, strikers be striking and zuma be zuuming.
but still, i will miss your warm breezy days like today, jo'burg, your majestic thunderstorms and jacaranda lined streets. afrikaans, your  understanding and inside jokes. awesome friends and amazing family. christmas in summer. biltong and yes, rugby. rivers church. big blue and yde sales. traffic light shopping options and 7de laan.

out with the old, in with the new. leaving behind what is behind. getting ready for the adventure of my life... married life and the american dream.

friendship

Friendship is unnecessary

Like philosophy, like art

Like the universe itself

(for God did not need to create it)

It has no survival value

Rather,

It is one of those things which give

Value to survival

Cs lewis