lucky: Having my Dad to organize a scavenger hunt. This was my first birthday party in CSH :)
le bricoleour. family aesthetic— masks, Cata’s storytelling doll.
bookshelf items from home. all cheesy symbolism entirely accidental, promise.
kinder spirit houses. found while moving, 2010.
see also: wabi sabi.
sharp stab of pain. my room, 8 Heritage.
Beneath the Japanese maple. For seventeen years it stood on tippytoes and stretched stretched stretched its lizard-foot leaves to the sun, until finally it grew even taller than my bedroom window. It spawned countless saplings all up and down the driveway, and even survived an icestorm that split part of the trunk in two.
What we did when we should’ve been packing.