• & Octo 2.1 -summer issue- Comfort (borders and small designs (succulent inspired?))
  • ✔ Alternative reading material
  • Clothes & Comfort (need to expand)
  • Books I like to reread
  • ✔ Things I often fail to do (think of illus decor)
  • Childhood tactics that no longer work in adulthood
    • tantrums
    • "don't know better"
    • "...just a kid"
  • Keeping Entertained (as a kid)
    • soap up bathtub
    • sofa forts
    • swaddling/bundling little brother, sticking him in dresser drawers
  • ✔ Masks (formed into chart)
  • ✔ Recipe: Kimchi fried rice/Tostones (illustrate)
  • ✔ Timing
  • Lice story ? Favor Returned
  • _some kind of fun activity page-
  • comfort in not knowing the future
    • the possibilities
    • that there is hope for the better
    • the inherent uncertainty of the distant morrow

Books I like to Reread

• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Pride and Prejudice
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty McDonald

Embarrassing Moments

• Fly in eye while walking home from bus

Accidental Collector

• Maps
• Hotel cutlery

Making us sound like vagabonds (always getting dropped off)

• Uncle's place.. the dogs, sleeping on the floor, fuzzy blanket, the TV on.., the a/c
• Getting dropped off at my aunt's in China

Overheard stories/other people's stories

• Conversation: Man encouraging wife to go back to school. Should anything happen to him, he doesn't want to leave her in the lurch. So that she can take care of herself should anything happen to him.

Hearing his undivulged secret At that moment, it wasn't just my admiration that he held, .. sound planning, caring... consideration. That his wife didn't know only made his intentions more noble. It showed his affection and consideration toward her. The fear that having a loved one drives