mum's got an orchard, back home. only a few trees. this time of year it looks like it's been snowing, blossoms everywhere. and then in may, we have to pick them. me and joe. takes the whole day.

what's new?

• ✓ may 1: international workers day!
• ✓ may 1: o. enlists on this day in 1917
• ✓ may 5: kierkegaard's birthday!
• ✓ may 9: mother's day ♡ :0)
• ✓ may 11: m. @ ft. niagara in 1917
• ✓ may 18: c. leaves for france in 1918
• ✓ may 18: the day the storyline in endymion begins
  • first novel i ever wrote, my beloved <3
• ✓ may 19: happy birthday sorley !!!!!!! ♡♡♡ (´⌣`ʃƪ)
• ✓ may 23: pentecost sunday!
• ✓ may 23: ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
  • there never was a finer day,
  • and never shall be while may is may
• ✓ may 31: memorial day!

goals

• ✓ bake something sweet for sweet sorley day (●'◡'●)ﾉ♥
• ✓ make card + buy books for mother's day!

obsessions

• dunkin's blueberry pomegranate coconut refresher.... took a sip and almost passed out it was so good. paired with a toasted blueberry bagel? There Are No Words!
• resonances between books on my shelves, the correspondence that they unwittingly have, narratives about wittgenstein + foucault that mirror one another, and these two among my favorite philosophers...
• staying up too late writing in my notebook when i have to be up dreadfully early the next morning... no one was surprised!

moments

• spring thunderstorms! the rain pouring whilst we're safely ensconced in the store. a little break, curling up in the chair in classic lit with a notebook, writing as the rain thrums quietly on the roof above...
• cherry pie for cherry boy sorley! cherry pie for cherry boy sorley !!!

good things about the month

• the evocative i danmark er jeg født; the first thunderstorm of the spring; rainy friday afternoons at work; the classic dana's-going-on-a-thrift-store-and-dunkin-run-at-9-am look, the ever comfy big sweatshirt and track shorts; wild poppies growing here and there; sunbeams slipping through the dark clouds; an eagerly-awaited book in the mail; kierkegaard display for his birthday; charting the waters of wittgenstein's work; sousa's gallant seventh; strawberry cake with strawberries fresh from the greenhouses; shelving books as liszt plays sweetly overhead; coconut refreshers for days; scarcely legible notes; the plays of george bernard shaw; afternoons w nikolai, laughing and chattering with him in my minimal french; finishing a book in a single day; the insistent song of the cicadas; a cherry pie, as per tradition, for my sweetest sorley; essayistic writing; anne carson interviews; the stitch in time i slip through, hours disappearing in a blink, whilst doing research; strawberry lip balm; ideas scribbled on the backs of old envelopes;