Here comes the sun

[kaberett]

It is light outside when I wake up for early starts. It is light while I eat breakfast, when I walk over the road to the station. I sit on the District line with sunshine through the windows: it's above ground between home and work. There's some clematis and - a plant I know only as "abominable potato weed", sorry[1] - growing enthusiastically in a garden that backs onto the platforms.

Breakfast was apple-and-pear juice, a beautifully ripe satsuma, and a pear and hazelnut muffin made for me by CN Lester because of the boything.

I finished reading Saladin Ahmed's Engraved on the Eye (free collection of short stories; it's fantastic). I turned to alexconall's poetry collection Lavender Blue (and other poems) (also available for free), discovered it's dedicated to me, and promptly burst into happy tears on the tube at 7am.

I got in to work in good time, via the gingko coming out outside the Royal Albert Hall and a string of beautiful I-believe-military horses being trotted down Exhibition Road. I've started my columns, and so far they're running nicely. I'm wearing Fils de Dieu and continuing to adore it. I'm reading Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn in lab, and it's fantastic.

Today is pretty brilliant so far.


[1] It's not Lycianthes rantonnetii or Solanum rantonnetti ("Royal Robe"). Hmm. Looks like this var. "blue potato bush", but none of the other photos for that search term are quite right - it's definitely got the pointier petals that point back upwards, and the flower clusters. - ah ha! Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin', there we go. [ETA for interest -- my initial search term was "potato weed purple flowers" and that was the chain of results I followed to get an answer. :-) ]

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Today Purple and I were telling tales of cats, and I shared some of your stories of the Spotted Murderbeast. For lo! Spotted. Murder. Beast.

[kaberett]

ISN'T SHE TERRIBLE. I hope Purple enjoyed, and thank you lots for letting me know :-)

[azurelunatic]

There was giggling. :)

[alexseanchai]

\o/ Tissue? :-D

[kaberett]

thank you <333

[quirkytizzy]

You eat and surround yourself with the most beautiful things. It's like poetry when you describe these delicate, rare, and fragile things.

For someone who drinks super cheap tea and eats instant boxed mashed potatoes, reading your entries makes me feel rich and cultured. It reminds me to cherish these sorts of things.

In order words, I love these kinds of posts.

[kaberett]

I feel incredibly lucky (1) that I am well-enough-off to be able to do this and (2) that I am sane enough to be able to bring myself to.

Thank you so so much for saying -- I'm very much experimenting with documenting these things & with lyricism, and it is nice to know it works for at least some of the people some of the time, especially as what it's really about is getting myself to pay attention to the world around me and actively seek out beauty. littlebutfierce was talking last summer about how buying blueberries felt like an extravagance and an indulgence, but every single one was an individual burst of joy on eating -- and. Yes. Those things.

[sylvaine]

SUN. ♥

[kaberett]

YEP.

Continues fair

[kaberett]

• left lab in a tidy state for when I get in tomorrow morning
  
• dinner is ready save cutting up some cheese and an avocado
  
• bread is doing in the breadmaker
  
• Debian is installing on my main machine (finally prompted by WinXP going out of support...)
  
• once my housemate gets home I'll be able to start the lemon-lime-coconut drizzle cake I'm planning
  
• I am really, really enjoying the book That One Lady loaned me months ago that I am finally getting around to reading
  
• I sat outside underneath our honeysuckle with the trains going by and the sunshine and raspberry sorbet with rose water

[calissa]

I just started reading Lavender Blue, too, and smiled when I saw the dedication.

I'd also like to second what quirkytizzy said about these posts. I do love it when you share these moments of beauty and lyricism.

[fyreharper]

Downloading things to reeeaaaaddddd :D

[kaberett]

WOO :D

(Currently I am blasting my way through Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves - posted a summary/partial review in 50books_poc, it is amazing.)