Today was spent amidst trees and light

at one of my favorite spots on this vast earth.

I wasn't expecting it because we were working,
but its vitality seeped in unobserved,
permeating and lifting us all.

lifting us all

© kimberly k. taylor-pestell, all rights reserved

Today is a Wednesday. A Wednesday with delicious morning beverages and surrounding mists and crisp, cold weather for breath clouds and shivering.

I want to be outside listening to booted feet on cold pavement. To sit in the middle of its goodness and notice everything. And to pen some sentence-strings because it is the first day that really feels like October and it deserves to be embraced.

So, cheers to autumn, and to feeling inspired and content. To waiting all summer-and-spring long to find a chipper season-friend that can draw me in and make me feel a part of my surroundings. The season that feels like a truer expression of my being and lets me remember what it's like to reside in a deeper authenticity simply by existing while it exists, too.

Thanks for coming, friend. You are most welcome, so please stay a while.

polaroid | thank you for coming

© kimberly k. taylor-pestell, all rights reserved

 

{Posts of our honeymoon to France}

iPhone, PuddingCam | bon(jour) voyage

dear

now,

for the first time ever,

i received news, the hard kind

and it makes me cry everyday.

and wonder at his trusting peace even in death.

my heart keeps shuddering, sputtering,
trying to find the same.
and remembering everything,
i cry again.

he showed us his favorite place on the Inland Sea

and taught me to skip rocks,

making me laugh so hard,

and there was Only Time in the car

we can't know what time remains,
and it makes me try and try to find
something that will prevent it.

{minolta : day off  -  aioi, nihon - summer 2001}
photograph taken by Carrie Johnson