july 1 marks the psychological transition in our household from income-earning to creative-making. but the transition is always busy. really really busy. simply because we spend several weeks trying to do both.  today i learned that my cousin’s wedding that i thought was this coming saturday night, is in fact tomorrow, on friday night. which complicates things, because we were already double booked tomorrow with something we really wanted to do. so, instead of facing up to the logistics of all this, i announced “i have to do STILL blog”, and sat on the floor lining up pink and purple blossoms. my son did the same thing when he was two. he used to line up toy trucks, or toy dinosaurs, into columns that stretched across the whole main floor of our house, when he felt overwhelmed or anxious. i won’t say how many rows of flowers i made before i had calmed myself back down.

unidentified larkspur blossoms

saint paul, minnesotae