Inspired by Sacred Suzie's self-portrait project, I found a picture of myself I love. My husband took it on our honeymoon, in Florida, with a PopCam. The PopCam is fun. I am happy I am reminded of it today, because I haven't used it in a couple of years. A cheap piece of crap, yes, but I think it holds potential for some great art!

This picture also captures how I feel at precisely this moment, having just returned from a long lakeside walk with my dog. The Christmas lights are still up, and we walked along an old child-size train track lined with blue and orange and white and green. It was magical. It is an incredible thing to find magic right where one is...and sometimes a difficult thing. --- As Monty and I walked back, we passed the big window of the place Adam was working out and tried to get his attention...until we got everyone ELSE'S attention instead and had to keep going. But now we're all home, warm and waiting for our eggs to finish boiling, relaxing from a day full of hard work. I feel a good kind of tired right now, and I like that. It helps me forget some of the things that went wrong in my classroom today and focus instead on resting my body and my mind, on trying again tomorrow.