Dear Spoon,
Every time I look at you, my heart explodes.
Love, Mama
These are from Clare Gallagher’s “Domestic Drift” series.
Domestic Drift is concerned with everyday life - the ordinary activities, states of mind and conditions of existence that fill time outside the moments of drama and spectacle. It examines the sense of ordinariness inherent in the repetitive, habitual work of home while trying to appreciate the experience as simultaneously mundane and precious.
The everyday is complex terrain. It is always there, readily and universally available; surely it is so obvious that it needs no unveiling. And yet, it is also shrouded in haze, our sense of it dulled by familiarity and habit. It may induce a feeling of comfort in simple rituals or of imprisonment in tedious routine. Ambivalence is a central experience of everydayness but that quality also means it is difficult to define, depict and study. While the ordinary and unremarkable constitute the fabric of much of life, our attention is lured away from the quotidian toward the dramatic and exotic.
This privileging of the apparent over the obscure fuels the fragmentation of everyday life and creates an impression that those parts of life lived away from the public arenas of street, workplace and media are unproductive and insignificant. The result of this ‘triviality barrier’ is that the most ordinary, familiar parts of daily life, while seeming the most present and obvious, are often disconnected from our sensory perceptions and conscious thoughts. We are at risk of missing out a significant portion of our experience that is ever-present yet escapes attention.
Everything comes full circle.
It all clicked into place. We are okay.
best time of year.
"Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln
Spoon and I are in the car; she doesn’t understand wind yet so she’s trying to catch it in her paws.
Come on get happy.
Pep Talk: It’s quite an accomplishment to be able to make yourself happy. If you can smile and feel great today, mission accomplished. And if, as a result of your happiness, you happen to make another person happy, all the better.
Today remind yourself: Come on get happy.
This was last night. All my favorite people squished into five hours’ time.
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
Mother Teresa
