· Oysters, and how they taste like the beach
· All the lovely little shops in which to browse
· Strange bunnies (perhaps in clothes, perhaps with red eyes)
· Deer
· Owls
· Pulled-pork sandwiches
· Pineapple juice
· Talking about adhesives
· Mrs. Pac-Man marathons with Ry
· FYI
· Fun bottlecaps
· The size, weight and feel of quarters
· Half dollars
· Jacob’s blueberry/ginger crisp
· Other people being ‘infected’ with Jacob’s lingo
· Shaving cream, shaving brushes, and shaving cups
· Barber shops
· Smoking cloves with sassy Jennifer
· Homemade toast & jam at Off Center Café
· Rainy days in school, that kept us off the playground and inside all warm and cozy doing word searches and connect-the-dots
· Tim playing Rockband with me, even though I sux at it! :(
· Steve Martin playing the banjo
· When my cup gets a fresh refill of coffee
· Shiny paper and binder clips
· Smead catalogs
· Iced green tea lattes
· The concept & aesthetic of bubble tea
· Spotting hot air balloons in the sky
· GORGEOUS large, low-set orange full moons
· All About Eve
· Grilled hamburgers
· Handmade frames by Ryan for me!
· Fresh strawberries
· Nectarines
· Collage (on Alberta St.)
· Oilcloth handbags
· 94.7’s Perfect Playlist
· Long strings of great songs on the radio
· A full carload of happy singing-along friends
· My girls singing ‘The Little Green Frog’ song
· Newsprint paper from school that had a large space for illustration above and dotted lines below for the story (erasing anything will tear the paper!) Hate using it, but it makes me happy to look at it
· Eating the ice cream cone, full of ice cream
· Twist soft serve ice cream
· Thai curry
· Picnicking with work friends
· Corkscrew maple trees
· Fields of windmills
· Delilah! In her summer hat!
· Yarn stores
· Janella’s laugh
· Solomon’s unabashed snobbery
· Sourdough
· Pumpernickel bread
· Trying new cheeses
· Dwight on ‘The Office’
· “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” tv show
· Growing a garden: strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, sweet pea, peonies, lilies, kittynip, parsley, thyme, basil, zucchini, peppers, daisies, hydrangeas
· Pinked clouds in a sun-setting sky
· Keeping all my mental files updated on people I love (she likes this, he doesn’t, etc.)
· Checking things off my lists!
· Overusing exclamation points!!
· Text messages
· Baby clothes
· Cheyenne's love of Sharpies!
· Naked Lady Swaps
· Photocopied hands
· Reusable shopping bags
· Honey mustard
· Megan's thoughtfulness
· Ruby Ale at McMenamins
· Rothko’s paintings
· David Byrne
· Going out on the town with Nicole
· Feeling like it ‘all makes sense’
· Swimming
· Checking out a dozen children’s books at the library
· The word ‘clandestine’
· Jacob’s LEMONCURD!
· Brandy’s rose petal jelly
· Having people around with those fancy phones that have internets to check things like directions, and who’s playing at the fair
· Junior mints
4 comments:
Wow, we really really really have more in common than I ever thought.
I love to see my name in lights. Glad my obsession/compulsion could bring a smile to your lovely face.
Though I do take issue with oysters, which, when canned, are packed in their own poop.
Cheers!
you didn't know, brandy? i thought it was clear that we are soul mateeeees! :)
and as for the oysters, they're RAWWWW && amazing! i know many people do not appreciate them, but i think they taste like the air at the beach. mmmm...
Gabrielle, raw oysters are one of the secret reasons I started eating fish again. One of the questions commonly said in wonder by gastronomes about vegetarians is how can you give up the world of fish with its vast number of distinct and delicious tastes? Within that kingdom of variation, the oyster has its own pantheon of gastronomes who wander how one can abandon a humble, little creature who gives such variation in tastes.
MFK Fisher wrote, "Then an oyster will taste like what the taster expects, which of course depends entirely on the taster. Myself, since I was seventeen I have expected all oysters to be delicious, and with few exceptions they have been. In the same way, some people wait, if they manage to swallow these shell-fish at all, to gag more or less violently. And they gag."
I really wanted to introduce you to the oyster so I could set the stage and make you expect deliciousness--cause I wouldn't lie to you about food.
Sometime, if you want to read great writing, read "Consider the Oyster," by MFK Fisher. NPR said of this 1941 ode, "Consider the Oyster demands, like a poem, to be reread immediately on finishing it."
MFK Fisher - “If there is a philosophy implicit in these pages, it is that great pleasure in food is there for the taking. Food is not a metaphor for life. It is life, and eating is an art.”
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