siempre un fiesta

miri and i went peach picking today in poolesville.

it was such fun to drive down memory lane with her...as we both recounted stories of our pasts. plus, i got to spend some time with both tom and madeline. and, i couldn't keep my hands off tom...his fur is so downy soft.

i mean, madeline. madeline's fur is so soft. (even though her breath was stinky from the dead mouse she tried to eat this morning).

i love miri. and i love madeline. and i am also really enjoying getting to joke with tom more. i like it how he is a real joker. i think that they make a great family. and i really really about melt when they all look at each other. it's like big beams of love.

and for all of this i am grateful to Q1. because she is the kevin bacon of our d.c. social set. today, when i left rebecca, my favorite hairdresser, whom i met through carol, whom i know through sinead, i rang bunderbate, whom i have drawn so much closer to -- and know also because of sinead. anyway, i needed to interrupt barb at dwr because i needed to see whether i offered enough of a tip. and, then i skiddaddled over to miri + tom's, also known to me because of sinead's matchmaking.

rebecca, carol, barb, miri, and tom... sinead brought them all to my life. and tonight, i went to yoga at flow, a place sinead first took me to and treated me to classes because she knew that i needed yoga. tonight's class was with laura zam, whom i also love. and here's one reason why -- she says the best things about the metaphors of our bodies and poses and what we offer and take from the world. and at the end of practice, we had a round of oms that sounded distinctly different than the earlier ones. she wondered aloud, rhetorically, why the difference. i muttered, because there are so many more men here tonight. to which she said...it must be the testosterom.

and you know who would love that joke and so totally roll her eyes?...julia. and she would be so proud of my headstand right now because it is stronger again now.

but you know who really really would love all this? my mutha. she wrote me the most hilarious emails ever about project runway and tom cruise and his big break up with paramount. i bet brooke shields and nicole urban are smiling at the symmetry of the world.

and speaking of symmetry and justice and greatness,

can i just type that i am so proud of one of my three-named readers/commentators who just had an excellent book review for his monograph?

i don't want to blow up his spot or anything, but i was elated to read the review. especially the phrases: provocative, elegantly written, + massively researched study. but the clincher: "a prime candidate for the “must read” list." what's more, clearly, the reviewer actually read the book and endorsed it. i picked out some highlights to post herein, but the review is not a slew of platitudes...it's serious. and the exciting thing is i can say...i knew him when. and when i type knew, i mean in the platonic sense of knowing, not in the biblical.