P E A C E

most importantly

question everything?

Why can’t I focus my head?

Why can’t I sleep write?

Why can’t I have a troop of essay elves?

 

I’d say I was on 0/3 right now…

rainbow tealeaves put on your hat

I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.

Or when you’re away, or at work,
I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.

I like the questions – sugar? – milk? –
and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet,
for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget.

Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon,
I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say
but it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day,

as the women harvest the slopes
for the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi,
and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea.

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Yamamoto doodles, Advanced Style and Carol Ann Duffy

heads shoulder knees and toes knees and toes

oh, hello procrastination and procrastination bunny

study buddy

rocking horse

so wrong or so right?

Viv  says ok so, I guess, rock away

although, I did see them on Snog Marry Avoid

a fine institution of taste – before and after

And the pursuit of happiness…

Maira Kalman’s beautiful blog for The New York Times.

I particularly love this month’s on George Washington.

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