The summer has been heavy. I feel like I'm constantly running out of time, even though that's absurd. I can't tell if grad school just ingrained a constant anxiety in me, or the challenges facing my family lately are just creating an ever present, subversive pool of worry in my mind.

No pictures. No pictures, please.

A lot of beautiful things have happened lately, as well. I should think on them instead.

a box of delicious, lush vegetables from a friend's garden in Vermont

that they and their garden weren't washed away in the floods

Mt. Greylock, in all it's hurranic majesty

new friends--yankees, at that!

group hugs from the 13s at SUUSI

gorgeous, crisp New England summer days

a leisurely road trip winding through the lower Hudson with some beloved family (seeing lots of deer)

a quiet night in a cute motel with the honeybear

reconnecting with OTs, positives from a negative

and many small moments, here and there