January 3, 2007
Amethyst
This piece of amethyst, about the size of a child’s fist, sat on a marble side table in my grandmother’s living room. It now sits on my desk at work.
January 2, 2007
Movie time
Fake Chinese wisdom for the new year
Mine:
Jojo’s:
This, on the first night of our annual anniversary trip.
A new toy
After years without one, I bought a camera.
I’ve had my eye on the Lumix DMC-TZ1 ever since I read Kevin Kelly’s recommendation on Cool Tools. While I researched reasons not to buy it, one of the reasons I settled on it was the 10x optical zoom—the last camera in the family had a puny 3x zoom, and I knew I wanted more in the next camera.
This one is also small enough to fit into my purse, but heavy enough to warrant removing some of the items I typically carry. There aren’t many to start with, so wielding the axe will be a painful process.
January 1, 2007
Hotel floral
On the first day of the new year, I forgot to take a picture, so the last thing I did before bed was to take this picture of our hotel bedspread.
Hints and Guesses
These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages


