no matter how I am

"Let me be, was all I wanted.

Be what I am, no matter how I am."

— Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

[Portrait of Frida Kahlo by Manuel Alvarez Bravo]

Autumn sun, passed through wine

Credit to Jane Kenyon's "September Garden Party".

African basket

detail "Fritillaria Imperiale"

my mom in striped socks at Horace Mann School

my Klee me

office mug

jelly man kelly

bulb

postcard from a student in Japan

bugle boy made by girl child with photo of boy child on the file cabinet

Isn't it nice when you get a card with a small thanks?

from dad's desk to mine

goose under glass

Two small objects on my desk, which I happened to pile for a photo, then noticed the echoed pattern in the goose's body and in the gold leaf in the paperweight. The thank you note from my work colleague and friend Jackie was designed by Gwen Frostic. It's better if you click and look at it big.