Tim and I took a walk today. Alone. Read that as: without Anna.

We now have one hour and twenty minutes a week during which we do not have any girls at home, and during which, also, Tim is not working.

Long ago it was our plan to walk every Monday (with Anna), as the gallery is "closed" on Mondays. Tim is, actually, in the gallery with the door open, and the welcome signs out, and working his day job. But he can, technically, leave the office and take a walk. Or work from home. etc...

I know that we do some of our best thinking, our best talking, and spend some of our best quiet time together, when we are out walking.

Somehow, along the way, we let that Monday walk slip through the cracks. But I know that it is something that needs to be preserved.

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If you have not already, please go look at the beautiful collection of work that Maria Vettese put together for a shop in Portland. Inspiration was a topic of conversation on our walk, and Come Darkness is at the top of our list.

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And, finally, I received my set of Emily's postcards from Maine today, and I can't stop looking at them. I suppose I should have gotten two, so I could give one set away, and still look at that grove of trees in the woods, and remember, as if yesterday, moments I had in August.

Enjoy your week. They are going so fast these days, don't you think? Thanks for reading.
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