the year in moments, caught in birds Every moment of the year gets a bird, and somehow there are always enough to go around. The positive things caught in the purple birds. Negatives in
anxiously awaiting They know it is almost time. They can feel it in the air. They gaze up expectantly. Wide-eyed and curious. Waiting for snowflakes and surprises and sugarplums. Preparing themselves for spiced punches
seasons greetings from george the toad He greets everyone warmly, old friends always even if you’ve only just met. If someone refers to him politely as Mister Toad he will chuckle and say that
steps Step 1 is not the hardest, though it has a reputation for being such. (It has been worn more than all the others, by countless feet that have passed before you so it
the gulls who guard the lake they call them seagulls because lakegulls is not a word but they are gulls of the lake and it is the lake that they guard they cry alerts
bargain-priced wisdom I can feel them sneaking glances at me from across the room but they don’t swivel their heads and fix their giant owl eyes on me until I get closer. “We will