Stop Watching
This week is a significant week for me. Two years ago on April 16, while visiting my parents in Maine, an aneurysm burst in my brain and I had a stroke. I woke up two days later in a hospital two hours away where I’d been flown. People tell me that I’m a miracle. The…
Picture Books
I love children’s picture books. I love that words and art work together to create a setting for sharing and exploring a story. I love the challenge of the author to write something thoughtful in 500-1000 words – usually 32 pages. Even more inspiring is a book that has no words – that leaves the…
“Word” of the year
I took myself on a field trip to the Quilt Shop this morning. It was a field trip – and not shopping – because my sole purpose of being there was to be around the fabric and to fall in love. No particular projects to shop for. No particular tools needed. Just an hour or…
enjambment
I’ve been slogging my way through a book called “The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives” by Jennifer Michael Hecht. I’m not sure why it feels like a slog. There are moments of brilliant a-ha that keep me going and then times of “restful slow reading” (sleep). Plus…
How it all fits with EJP
On my mind this morning – sharing the family tree of EJPitman.com and Sprouts. If you need to make a sketch to make sense of this next bit, please share it with me. I’ve been scratching out how this all fits together for a couple years and it looks a little different each time. EJPitman…
Being Home
I keep thinking about Home. As I drove to the grocery store today, I witnessed the tangled mess of trees and branches waiting for cleanup. Blue tarps draped over roofs signaling destruction had touched down a couple weeks ago. It is all so random. In one tenth of a mile, it looks ‘normal’ and then…
