highlights from the holiday

French onion soup and accordion carols

cozy sweaters, a computer and lots of new books

foraging bags and flint knapping tools 

video games and weaving projects

perfume and singing around the piano and facetiming West Virginia, 

a nativity petting zoo and pistachio cookies and cousins

negative covid tests all around and neighbors back from their months-long RV adventure

less buying, more being

and stitching and singing and trapping elves

wrapping and baking cookies and mailing cards...

solving problems

Most of my brain is full of math. 

Actually, three of the quarters are math, and one quarter is food.

I do feel like I have one dumb corner in my brain though. 

the Quarry

We visited the newest metro park today, and Tolliver said, "It's a good thing Columbus opened another park because remember how we saw them alllll last year, when it was the only thing to do?"

a startling abundance