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shenandoah la la

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rittenhouse, you seldom disappoint. #snowydays #snowdaze (at Rittenhouse Square)

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a sunday of waterfalls #naturenatureeverywhere #centralPA (at Ricketts Glen State Park)

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short but sweet r & r 🌴🌞🌴 (at Fort Lauderdale Beach)

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in two short years... #matchday (at Temple University School of Medicine)

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this will be one of dozens of places you'll see this posted, but read it- really.

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The rest is history, they say. Bullshit, I say. It’s imagination or it’s nothing, and must be, because what is created in this world, or made, can be undone, unmade; the threads of a rope can be unwoven. And if that rope is needed as a guide-line for a ferry to a farther shore, one must invent a way to weave it back, or there will be drownings in the streams that cross our paths.

The Yellow Birds

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sun & quiet music & strong music & strings, summer will be here again one day.

as always, glorious finds thanks to npr music.

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a birthday? no, just a Wednesday. #funfetti

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tales from a childhood

my friend came to visit this weekend and told me a story that I can't stop thinking about: when I was young, my dad ran marathons. he used to take me on his training runs- in the jogging stroller. before we'd leave the house, he would take flowers and give them to me to hold. then he, we I guess, would run to every statue of a man holding a gun, and I'd put a flower next to it.

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valentine's vandals in the square (at Rittenhouse Square)

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this made my day

"The people’s choice episode"

Episode 11: Swants!

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cantwaitcantwaitcantwait

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sunday night scones pair perfectly with my weekly dose of downton

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"it is the heart isn't it? its the passion that gets you the gold."

all my favorite things- strong women, the olympics, laughter, and stories. lots and lots of stories.

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for 18 days, winter will not be a burden, but a theatre

NBC

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“Those of us with a mind for winter—a love of the season—still find something romantic in these games, for they commemorate, however remotely, a central nineteenth-century Romantic theme: the discovery of the paradox of speed in winter. This gives a certain fascination to even the smaller winter sports. Basically, where the summer sports show all the varieties of human action—throwing, jumping, running, swimming, swimming the same way as someone else at the same time—the winter ones share a single theme: gravity and frozen water, and what can be made of them together.”

Adam Gopnik on the Sochi Games: http://nyr.kr/LFkqe4 (via newyorker)