Thursday, August 12, 2010

i am being shaped

by so many things this week:

1. j. newsom's have one on me?
2. starting a new job next month
3. new classes to take- photography & marine bio lab
4. learning bharatanatyam
5. unfolding friends

i returned home today after driving up the 1 (from santa cruz), and i felt this anchor that nothing is like california. i love it here, it is so so so beautiful (its a toss and turn for southern and northern california). or rather, i love being able to be in a place and move through with appreciation. there was a sign put up by a coastal strawberry farm meant for driving, but i think its applicable to everything. "SLOW RELAX". i just made a small version to put up in the house.

i feel really fresh. the result comes from a recipe that is of archery in the sc archery fields, eating hamburgers and saffron almond sorbet, tandem bike riding, brother time and soul talking .... and then i came home to loveliest letter from hodgie! i feel all the sweetness up to my ears and that is so fresh.

and i am taking pictures, and walking closer to a much tighter practice. i took home a squished snake from the archery woods. it's buried in beautiful ferns. it'll make a striking still life. he is across from me on my kitchen table, not smelling yet. his bones will be so beautiful.

2 comments:

melanie jane said...

Estelle! You have such a gorgeous soul.

Camila and I will be passing through San Francisco next week. Will you be around? May we pop in on you?

estlin said...

ah! yes please come! what are you dates! and what is your email!