Renegotiations

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Life is a constant series of renegotiations of self and perspective.  Perhaps those should be plural--selves and perspectives, really.  We go through different selves, different perspectives on the world and our experience of it.  We cycle from one thing to the next, sometimes forward, sometimes backward, always moving.

It's times like right now that I feel it most, when I am trying to negotiate who I am becoming at the same time that I discover I am not becoming who I once thought I would be by now.  It's not a bad thing; it's just the interplay of personal growth and environmental changes.  It is simply what is.

I know I'm being obtuse in a way, but I don't have much to say that I haven't already said before, which you could read if you clicked those links...

Things are changing here.  We've moved from the in-between stage to our new life, the one where my husband has a really great job and I keep hitting the books and we go forward until we tumble into a new routine.

I don't yet know if this blog is going to go with us.  I keep feeling the change, coming with the color of the leaves and the sliding temperatures and the curiously rainy fall we're having, but I don't know yet what it means.

I do know that it's Wednesday and this is the first time I've been able to sit at my laptop and type a few words for you since last week.  Would you still stop by if I only wrote once a week?

Socks and Sandals

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I have a problem.

September is almost over and fall is really coming.  I love fall--it's really my favorite season, with hot chocolate or tea every night, fresh pears from the tree at my parents' house, picking pumpkins from the selection at a local farm, and the gorgeous colors.  I'm really excited about fall, except for one thing, a silly thing that's entirely my own fault, which leaves me in a bit of a fashion bind.

Do I let my toes freeze as the temperatures drop, or do I wear socks and sandals?  The last toe on my right foot doesn't hurt much when I walk, but it won't tolerate anything with a closed toe (not even my slippers!).

All I'm saying is that the sofa totally jumped out at my poor little toe.

According to my Pinterest search, the only fashionable way to wear socks with sandals is to wear a sandal with a multi-inch heel.  This is also not an option, as it hurts my toe and I am very clumsy, as you may have guessed. Oh, and this made me laugh.

Three Things

If you read Design*Sponge, then you probably saw these already.  If so, bear with me.  I'm a little bit in love, as always happens when I see good lit and good design come together.

I have a hard time explaining how I feel about the Romantics and the Transcendentalists.  I refer to them for inspiration.  I really like their style and the emotion and the energy in Keats and Wordsworth and Shelley...

...but at the same time, I realize that their emotional zeal and feeling-based approach to both poetry and life can be overdone to some destructive ends (emotions are good, but not if they control us).  I love their passion but think it should be taken with a dose of practicality.

Still, my mixed feelings aside, I really, really, really, love these new editions set to come out from Faber & Faber.  I want them all, but these are my top three.  D*S is also hosting a giveaway that ends tomorrow night at ten eastern time.

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Source: faber.co.uk via Katie on Pinterest

Source: faber.co.uk via Katie on Pinterest