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I know I've never posted anything like this before, but friend of mine is having a family crisis and I can't help on my own.

#gofundme #medicalbills

How are you? Is life treating you well? What do you remember today?

I’m well, I think,

and life is good (though always new, it’s true).

My son, asleep,

Has worn me out and left me things to do.

I reminisce

(a lot, of late) on things from years ago.

Nostalgic here

Where I feel trapped in walls and lands of stone.

I used to live,

I think you know, among the trees and such

Where all my friends

(And those I loved) were far too far to touch.

But now I sit

In my own home and in my darling’s too,

Not rich, nor poor,

But safe at last (though missing quite a crew).

#Good God have I been missing my old friends lately #The silence of this city is absolutely suffocating #Poetry of a guardian

quiet-nymph

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Good morning, all! It's getting chillier instead of warmer this spring, but I suppose that doesn't matter if I'm staying in like this. Stay safe, stay clean. I hope to find you all well on the other side of this.

#daily breakfast

I have very little to do today, so you and I are baking bread!

We start with some aptly named sourdough starter! This little darling is 2 years old but it really only takes two days to get your own little colony started. Half a cup of this and half a cup of milk (any type of milk works, really.)

Don't forget to replenish your starter with a fourth cup of flour and a fourth cup of water.

Your starter will also need half a teaspoon of sugar and your dough will need a tablespoon.

Well need a teaspoon of this salty friend but not until we've added one and a half cups of flour or you'll kill the little yeast friends that are fluffing your bread for you!

Mix it thoroughly and it should look like this.

Take one of these bad boys (I know we each have at least one somewhere) and wet it, then ring it out.

Congratulations, you now have a damp and useful friend. You can now drape it over your dough bowl and tuck that bowl into a warm and safe have to rise for an hour.

See you then!

#mushrooms and other foods

Another pleasant morning and an old standby for breakfast. I know I usually speak of the breakfast itself, but this little mug holds a special place in my heart. It's barely the size of my hand and made of red clay. I purchased it in a shop in Greece near a restaurant where I ate some fried cheese that I haven't been able to find a comparable replacement for. Sometimes I sit and think about that cheese and wish that I'd asked what it was.

#photography #daily breakfast

Just checking in with a breakfast post. There aren't many of us left on here but there does happen to be a lot of stress out there lately and I just wanted to remind everyone that everything ends eventually and this will too. We just have to be patient, clean, and quiet for a while.

#just stay calm #stay home #stay clean #love you all

Someone once told me that writing is like dipping a cup into a fountain: if you leave the water undisturbed for too long then the next time you want some you pull out a cup of scum first. I don’t know about all of that. Writing feels more like pulling a bucket of water out of a pond to me: always a bit scummy and in need of purifying and filtering. It’s a nice thought for me, too, that pond.

I miss sitting by the water and writing while fish dart through the weeds. It was always better than being at home with all of the noise and emotion that accompanied such a full household. But now my home is my pond. A gentle breeze sways the curtains that frame open windows and my cat curls up beside me, quietly sharing the space. I can hear the cars from the highway if I try hard enough. The sun shines through pine and oak outside the window. I smell fresh-cut grass. My baby sleeps quietly in his crib, dressed in those tiny, soft clothes that people coo over like the infants they’re meant for. Everything is okay.

#words of a guardian #rambling of a guardian #true stories

Fate has been good and my destiny kind.

I’m safe and with family and home.

It’s blamed for my pain though it punishes not,

And harmony blesses alone.

#poetry of a guardian #wow I have not written in a while

The drink is a smoothie 😉

#daily breakfast #isn't so much daily anymore tho #someone did make me uncomfortable posting here and she knows it

It's been a while since I posted, and I likely will never have a perfect queue running ever again, but I do still bake when I have nothing else to do.