An Incomplete List of Silly Things I Miss Right Now
#22, Nagatare, Rwanda. I was caked in dust. See #21.
1. warm hot baths in clean bathtubs (oh the luxury)
2. Camille
3. Nick’s “healthy” cocktail–made out of vodka and some sort of echinacea, grapefruit juice
4. a good night’s sleep
5. my studio being clean and organized (yes, it really is like that sometimes)
6. uninterrupted time to create
7. Odette being well and in story-telling mode
8. tissues with lotion in them
9. pastelitos and cafe con leche
10. being skinny
11. my shiny blue bike
12. time to paint and make art
13. sunflowers, the kind with the yellow centers
14. being in New York, mostly near Herald Square where all the cheap Korean eats are
15. Jen Lee’s red loveseat
16. Lucy
17. knowing what good independent films are in the theater
18. handwritten letters, stamped and mailed
19. the lovebombers
20. james
21. riding on motorcycles in the back country of Umutara
22. raw milk
23. Odette’s father Paul
24. coloring in coloring books
25. the way colored pencils look nicely organized in the tin box
26. ray-ray
27. holding newborn babies that belong to me
28. knock-down drag out fights in parking lots with passionate, temperamental boyfriends
29. rolling down grassy hills
30. lying on our backs looking at the stars
31. my father
32. curled up in bed with jodi, reading adrienne rich outloud
33. portland, annie, sage and maya
34. whiffle ball
35. the obsessive, religious daily reading of poetry
36. hymns and other excuses for communal singing
37. swinging in the park
38. my old apartment on Menores in Coral Gables
39. my missing puma sneaker with the hot pink stripe
40. crying or laughing (in person) with good friends who aren’t afraid to listen
Anything missing over there? My list is your list, baby. Add whatever you’d like.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I’ll take one or two of Nick’s “healthy” cocktails. Plz.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:37 am
my heart has been silently weeping lately, jen. there are so many pieces of myself that i miss. mostly, the fire. the spontenaity. the independent spirit. the spirit at all that is my own.
the bravery to put myself on the line–my very own line with my very own limits and freedoms.
the fire.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am
i’m missing peace in my heart and faith that God will provide. thank you for sharing here; it is a gift.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I miss close girlfriend relationships.
I miss being almost completely at peace.
And, I miss having a mailbox full of handwritten letters and handmade goods from friends all over the world.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I miss being in the same space with my scattered group of old friends, arguing about poetry.
I miss the way I used to feel utterly fearless.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I miss being missed.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
…loading everything into my pack and heading out…not getting home till sunday night, just in time for work…loading it all back into my pack on friday…not getting home till…you get the idea.
Its slowly coming back. Hurrah!
October 5th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
going for hikes, doing anything outside the house… I am missing future plans (being able to make them) and some dreams which right now are put on the backburner for who knows how long…
October 5th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I miss having earl grey tea and oranges with my friend,Jack.
I miss feeling like anything is possible.
I miss tap-dancing.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I miss:
Dance class
My mom being well and her witty comments
Making out like teenagers
His warm, strong hands on my skin
My hair without the strands of gray that keep accumulating
Breastfeeding
October 6th, 2008 at 5:16 am
hmmm …
… snuggling into the arms of a good man
tavelling around the country for work
my mum …
October 6th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Suzanne, I am drinking earl grey tea right now. Thinking of you
October 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I miss so many things in this season of my life that if I took the time to list them I would be consumed by sadness. My struggle right now is to remind myself to stop and look around and drink in the things in this present moment that have the potential of being missed later. It’s such a good lesson that there is beauty everywhere, that life even springs up in the darkest scariest wilderness, just waiting for the light to reveal its being.
I can breathe in and out.
I have a lovely porch to sit on.
I can take a hot shower, or not.
My coffee is the perfect temperature right this moment.
I am carried by a hope so audacious that I have the freedom to peruse it… no longer held back by logic or apparent sanity.
I have the peace and comfort that you can only feel in sorrow. In happiness there is no need for it.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
how dare the office interrupt me while I’m catching up on important matters … on this blog …
I keep getting distracted but just had to comment on this photo of you. Magnificent! Sage soul. You look as though Mahatma Ghandi should be seated just out of frame … waiting to listen to your thoughts on solving hunger and poverty.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hello Jen,
I came across your blog via a double-click on several other blogs.
I read your list of silly things you miss. I found them fun to read and then breathtaking once I clicked on your link for #31 “my father.” The post displayed on Shutter Sisters was beautiful and reminded me of my grandpop, which, ironically, the date of your post would have been his 85th birthday (March 27th).
Anyway, just wanted to say thank you because reading your blog was inspiring to an aspiring writer
October 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Hello Jen, I enjoyed your list so much. It inspired my own version. If you would like to read it, here is the link.
http://www.insearchofdessert.com/?p=690
I think of it a lot as a blueprint for the things that I want to reincorporate into my life after moving at the turn of the year. Thanks for the motivation to write it.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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