The Daily Turn #4: Naming All the Colors

Naming all the colorsis harder than you think–best if left until the first cup of lavender-grey teahas made its waythrough all five senses. The table is pinkerin the morning(on this kind of morning–a pale wood-rose)than in the dandelion lightof afternoon.And the pink of each morningis a different pinkWhich my daughter seems to know instinctively:Coming down the…

What’s In a Name…

I love naming babies.  It is so exciting to sit down with a pen and paper and a baby name book (or phone book, etc.) and write down all the names that speak to you…  And then, sometimes after months of crossing things out and scratching things in, suddenly–as if by magic–one name emerges as…