though i had eaten, davina makes you welcome with generous platters of food and beer, and loads of interesting company. i sat on the porch with the ambient traffic sounds in the background. people filling plates and eating corned brisket, cabbage and carrots. beautiful scents wafted from candles and incense being burned and the temperature was perfect. and the conversation was....well perfect. and for those moments in time - life was rather, well again, perfect. what didn't matter was work, or worries, or even that my back has been killing me. i sat talking to two law clerks - one from new york and one from nigeria by the way of california. we talked about what they had seen of the south and we talked about what needs to be seen to truly experience the south. it makes me wish for a southern salon (not the hair kind) where people gather, talk, share, and laugh.
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today on my ipod - please come to boston (dave loggins), i'm like a bird (nellie furtado), romeo and juliet (dire straits), tupelo honey (van morrison), fallin' and flyin' (jeff bridges), stuck in a moment (u2), i wonder (chris isaak), tiny dancer (elton john), world spins madly on (the weepies), ode to billy joe (bobbie gentry)
obsessions - rosemary mint shampoo, my ipod, writing, reading books by sarah addison allen, dogwood blossoms
quote of the day - "most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine" - ralph waldo emerson
