Wednesday morning

Thinking about today and how it will be. With this adored image I have kept in waiting for quite a while. [I love how these kept images of mine seem to find their places on their own. Like unexpected gifts. Like sudden remembrances.]

Kindnesses abound amid difficulties and worries. Some of us [I] want to keep track of the kind persons who [bravely] show up and present themselves and their words.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

Here is one now who has brought some [beloved] blue flowers to this woman who stoops gracefully as she fusses with things in her well cared for nursery. He stands at the doorsill of this shelter of hers. Of this world of unruffled red. He appears to be intent on delivering this gift of himself to her. Others have already brought words and sweetness that drift and turn in her head and cause her to think of that which is beyond/outside of this safe house [of her own making] as she busies herself with important work to be done. Indeed, his blue flowers will contrast unexpectedly with the red ones.

Thinking about dear Mary Ann Kassier and sweet sweet Emily Kassier.

Cover from The New Yorker February 6, 2006 [A fine example of all lined up for safety.]