pardon the boring bloggyness, or lack there of. all recent drama has been taking place only in my dreams and fantasies. my real life has been fairly mellow, tremendously busy but mellow-ish and domestic. or as domestic as my life ever is.

what i'm reading: written on the body by jeanette winterson

this was a gift from j3n for my birthday and it's one i'm glad to own on paper rather than digital copy for my kindle. it's a genre that i love and poetic and flowy and about a subject that i find irresistible.

we lay on our bed in the rented room and i fed you plums the colour of bruises. nature is fecund but fickle. one year she leaves you to starve, the next year she kills you with love. that year branches were torn beneath the weight, this year they sing in the wind. there are no ripe plums in august. have i got it wrong, this hesitant chronology?

what i'm watching: life on the discovery channel i'm a huge fan of the planet earthseries and this show seems to be right along those lines (though i prefer an male brit to oprah winfrey when it comes to narration and i see now that this series is available in the original bbc version narrated by david attenborough too.) so far the kids and i have watched the reptile/amphibian espisode and the one about fish. both visually stunning...the footage is truly amazing. (the more i read on imdb, the more irritated i am that discovery isn't broadcasting the bbc version!)