pretty please EVERYONE!?

Help us on our quest for books!
I know there are a lot of people who read my blog that NEVER comment. It is really easy to comment, you can even do so anonymously and you won't have to create an account or anything.

Anyway my request is that you send me a comment that contains a list of books that are the best books you have ever read. Some of them maybe you come back to thinking about even years and years after having read them. My husband and I both absolutely love books and reading, and our goal at some point is to have a ton of books (as in literally!)...and one of those sliding laders and all, you know? Okay, anyway...so send me books, well send me a comment of a list of books that you think our library should contain! It is easy to find books, but it is hard to know before you have read them if they are any good...

In our yurt (several years down the road) we the entire thing to be lined with wall to wall bookshelves, a couple of nice south facing windows and a nice fire. Shelves and shelves of books, doesn't it just sound like a dream!? For us it is, please help us on the conquest. Thanks a million!

(begging, begging....please?)

my house

today we showed our house for the first time. i am not sure how i feel about it. i spent 2 hours before they came running around like mad. now i am worn-out and curious as to if they liked it.
does it matter?i like it...but they are the ones that would buy it, so now it does matter. i hope it looked okay.

daydreaming again.

I cannot stop thinking about this guitar...I have tried...and tried...but it is almost like an obsession. If you saw it in person and were at all interested in purchasing a guitar at the time, you might feel the same. It is made in Canada. The body is made from unvarnished wild cherry. the neck is sliver leaf maple, the top is solid cedar...it is so beautiful, and the sound is the best I have ever heard. I find myself itching to go back to the store and strum on it's magical strings again, but then maybe the spell would be even stronger and I would not be able to let it go ever again.

It is an Art& Lutherie, and it is the most beautiful guitar I have ever seen, the most beautiful guitar I have ever heard.

new blog: made in spanish.

I just started up a new blog. Yes, another one! oh, goodness...
I am in the process of realizing just how important it is that I impart my bilingualism to my children. The blog is: Made in Spanish. My goal of raising bilingual children.

The blog is in Spanish, but along the sidebar I have a computer translator for any of the English speaking folk who want to meander over. I will issue a WARNING!: the computer translator is sometimes pretty inaccurate, so keep that in mind, it is a computer and not a person so it translates literally or something, anyway I tried it and saw that it does make quite a few mistakes. But it should give you the general idea.

The reason for blogging in Spanish is that because I have absolutely NO exposure to Spanish right now, and if I am trying to speak it on a regular basis...I need to think in it, write in it and be immersed as much as possible. So, it won't only be stuff about my kids and the process, I will write in Spanish, because it is a language I love...so it should be fun!!

Today I began my mission of speaking to the boys in Spanish...jackson laughs, he thinks I am making up a language because that is what he does a lot. I will get the kinks figured out, and that is why I have a blog for it. If you know of anyone who is interested in blogging about bilingual issues send them my way. I'd love to talk with people even if they are not working with the same language pair (Spanish/English).

Wish me luck! I have resisted this long enough, the time will never get any better.
HERE WE GO! AHHHHH...Que Dios me guarde.

langston hughes opens myopic eyes

Words Like Freedom

There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heartstrings freedom sings
All day everyday.

There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I know
You would know why.

Bible Belt

It would be too bad if Jesus
Were to com back black.
There are so many churches
Where he could not pray
In the U.S.A.,
Where entrance to Negroes,
No matter how sanctified,
Is denied,
Where race, not religion,
Is glorified.
But say it-
You may be
Crucified.



Children's Rhymes

By what sends
the white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
be President.

What don't bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We Know everybody
ain't free.

Lies written down
for white folks
ain't for us a-tall:
Liberty And Justice--
Huh!--For all?

-Langston Hughes

The Panther and the lash: Poems of our times

I am captured by Langston Hughes, he is a man who writes poetry that could rock you even if you didn't agree.

This is what poetry is for, to create a movement in a place where stagnant waters gather. I wish that we all could say racism and hatred were just things of the past...but we can't, because they are not. When we grow to understand one race more accurately then we begin to separate and distort (many times extort) another. Fear of the unknown should not grip the way it does, for the unknown is just beauty waiting to be seen. This beauty cannot express itself through our knowlege of the way things should go, but we need to grasp the understanding that it is amazing and created by God not to be seen and classified through our myopic eyes. But through His eyes...Then we could see the anointing in it all, that really...God chose to make us all different because he does not see things through our tunneled minds.

Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

Oh, my. If you have not read this book: Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, you are completely missing out. READ IT. Not for me, for you. Even if you have read Salinger before...that is not a valid excuse, you will not encounter an even-close-to-decent-excuse, so give up. I promise that you will like it, or even love it...


this is not a choice...it is a "must read or your head will pop off kind of book"!

So I guess you know what you must do now.


let's not test it.

tell me what you think, maybe some of you have read it already?

design and create: dress

I have designed and created my first dress. It is all one piece and I did not use a pattern. I am not good at patterns, I always think that it would be better if this...or if that...I guess I really like doing my own thing. So this shows my own thing full force. I made this dress! yay! I love wearing it because it was made exactly for ME. I pinned it on and figured out the measurements that way, it worked well and I am completely enjoying my finished product.

It's a bit funky, but that's the way I like it.

push 'em up and cheer as they fall

Brittney says: "I'll kill my kids!"
Brangelina is not getting along.
Pres. George W. Bush has a scratch on his face and therefore that means that he was drunk and got into some type of intense fight, probably with his wife, maybe with two of his wives.
Is JLo pregnant?? What about the Hanna Montana role model?
Katie Holmes wonders who the father of her baby is, It can't be Tom!

We give them money, we watch their movies...we live through their multi million-billion dollar purses, wishing to look like them, act like them and get what they do. Of course, we think we are actually better than them, deeper people, we have learned harder lessons, and worked for a living.

I would argue we are jealous, we wish we had what they did, that people would turn around at Safeway to admire our shoe choice or hairstyle. We want to be admired, we want to be liked, we want people to know us, we want to not be lonely, we want to have more money, have more fun, eat at nicer restaurants...we will always want more.

So, we push them...we grab their hair and pull them with our cameras into the limelight and then throw them away when we realize they don't really have anything more than we do. We push them up and cheer as they fall. We are so happy that have found faults, that they get divorced, their kids die, they get fat, say something stupid, or are very lonely...because it makes us feel better about ourselves.

The hardest thing for me is the kids, the kids of these people. A while back there was a famous father that called his young daughter a pig on the phone and that was everywhere.What about Brittney's two kids, they are loosing a mom, maybe they never really had one. Anna Nichole Smith's little daughter was fought over for months, her mom is dead, it would have been better if the baby didn't have any money...she may have ended up somewhere were she'd be loved.

Whatever, I don't know who to blame...I am just saying this is all really sad, and I wish it didn't happen.

Powells, Edgefield, Bistro

Oh what fun it is to ride in the car all the way to PDX kidless and with B! It was so much fun. We visited the Nists (although I forgot to take pictures), we visited Powell's Books, and hung out with Ellyn and Andrew and Co. for her birthday Par-Tay at Chopsticks. Then we stayed at Edgefield (which I completely do not recommend, ask me and I'll tell you if you are interested), and we went for breakfast and then back to Powell's. Yes, it is fun stuff to get a day away from home and chaos in order to sit back and not have to constantly multi-task unless we choose to. But by the end of the trip we are always super-thrilled to get home and see our two little bungerboys.

@The Black Rabbit
Restaurant (Edgefield)
@ a bistro by Powell's for brunch

a tidbit

God's Kingdom is not a matter of talk, but of power.
-1cor.4:20

Anyone can talk about power, about love, about wrong and right choices that should, or should not have been made. Talk is cheap, is another one. True... so cheap-actually free.

The cost of power is much greater, it consists of doing what others just are talking about, it is loving, giving, reaching, letting go, living, and giving up an image that you are the "it".

Power is what I am promised, why do I settle for empty words...