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My friend Somer and I chatted today about her quest for a tent. Her first tent, to be ready at her beck and call for future adventuring, solo or accompanied. Having a tent is having a key which opens possibilities and ventures into the unknown, yet it is a haven in a strange place. I have had my tent ever since my mother surprised me with it after my first semester of college. I have had it for 14 years. Tents become a part of you. If I am packing for camping I will always pack my tent, but if Tim begins the packing, his tent will find its way into the car instead. We're a two-tent household, and we each feel best and most at home in our own tents.
I think it's important to know that about someone.
I have two apple crisps in the oven, filling the house with their cinnamon scent. Six round, glossy granny smith apples I purchased at the co-op this afternoon (in between the bank, the thrift shop and the library) are nestled under a crust of brown sugar, butter, nutmeg. There will be one to freeze for later and one to eat up tomorrow for breakfast and then for after-dinner dessert.
Somehow I stumbled across Francis Ford Coppola's The Secret Garden. Maggie Smith is the housekeeper in it ~ she is one of my great favorites. The book is wonderful too as I re-read it. Do you have any old childhood book favorites? I just read all of The Borrowers and they are indescribable.
I also wanted to say that I have been treasuring all of your comments and encouragement lately, and I know I have been noticably lax about getting back to each of you. I usually read them more than once, to get the full flavor, and to enjoy this online community and all that we share in common. It often makes me laugh out loud in happiness. I want you to know that even though I have not been responding as often, I am reading them and loving them and appreciating them.
I have also decided to deactivate my facebook account for the time being, so I'm not in that space anymore ~ it was frittering away my tendrils of thoughts, so hopefully they will come together and be distilled more often in this space.
Thank you all also for the lovely anniversary wishes!
x brooke
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6 comments:
Happy anniversary, i didn't get time to say it yesterday. Yes, two tents are often more important to know than the bigger things. Loving your writing lately, it's so beautifully soft and flowing and seemingly effortless, laced with your pretty sense of humour.
p.s. for my part, I'm sorry for not commenting here as often, things have got away from me lately.
Happy Anniversary! I hope you both have a lovely camping time :) Mary Oliver is perfect to bring on a camping trip loooooove her. I also love the secret garden (seen that movie soooo many times) and have a special place in my heart for the Borrowers books too. Your apple crisps sound so good. Happy day!
I'll have to check out that movie. I loved the book. Rob and I got a new tent this year for our trip out west, but I'm going to miss our first tent that we had for twelve years. It had to be retired. I can see what you mean about them becoming a part of you.
oh...tents! during the planning of my summer camping adventures i purchased one. and it does feel magical. like a portal. or the door to narnia. there are so many places i can go now where i could never go before.
the secret garden is an all time favorite movie. i used to store an old key in a jewelry box and pretend there was a huge garden door somewhere for me to discover.
childhood literature favorites: tuck everlasting, charlotte's web, where the red fern grows, and the anne of green gables /laura ingalls wilder series. treasures. every one.
i deleted my facebook, as well. it's been probably about a month now. and what i thought would be a painful excision, has been a beautiful freedom. enjoy being "disconnected".
i cannot say i have a childhood favorite... did not read all that much in my youth outside of school... but a book that i always come back to is Lust for Life (Irving Stone). i have read it many times over... and i just absolutely love being transported. re FB... i have always had unresolved feelings towards it.... love that you have his and hers tents :))
Your wedding looks simple and beautiful and perfect. Coincidentally, I also imagine bare feet, and don't imagine a dress, especially not a white dress. I love that Donovan was the ring-bearer. I've told Atlas that if I ever get married, he will be the best dog.
Love the his and hers tents. I think I am on my third tent now. I was very fond of the last one after years of use but someone (not mentioning any names) ran through the mesh door after a noise in the night and it would have cost more than the tent to repair.
Hmmmm. The Narnia series. A Wrinkle in Time and most of her other books. The Mixed Up Files of (can't remember the rest, something about Mrs. Basil), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, Pippi Longstocking, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables series, Laura Ingalls Wilder series (especially Farmer Boy, that book makes me hungry every time I read it), The Little Princess, Nobody's Boy, Nobody's Girl, The Good Earth (ok, that's not a childhood book but I read it when I was young so that's how I remember it ;) .. too many to mention.
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