CABINET OF FAVORITE THINGS

I went looking for my book of Whitman poetry this morning. Specifically, I was looking for the poem Nacho quoted in a meeting this week. I pulled open the cabinet in my living room and it occurred to me right then how many of my favorite things are in there.


{Jane Austen and Shannon Hale}























{Milan Kundera and our box of curious rocks gathered in Nice, France}























{a watercolor I did called "blue chair"}























{Kerouak and C. S. Lewis}























{Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and James Joyce's The Dead}























{The old books I found in Chicago}























{Canterbery Tales, and Tom Sawyer}























{The one mis-matched book called The Razor's Edge}























{wedding pictures. Me and Nate, my mom and dad}























{The owl Holly made, my harmonica, watercolor "old chair", and a candlestick my parents brought from Nauvoo}























{The Power of One, My Beat Reader, and Tristram Shandy}























{The tiny book of love poems my brother Andrew gave for Christmas one year}























{one of our engagement photos, a shell Nate brought from the Philippines, a pola from Kauai}