here's what's on my mind
i am a therapist. i live in los angeles with my husband and my dog. sometimes i have something to say. here's where i say it. say something to me at marymarytumblr@gmail.com
I'm so happy to be home.
I miss my family, for sure, but the sun! The warm air stirred by a cool breeze. The burgeoning plants in the flower box on the porch. Li’l Trix and El snuggling on either side of me all night (also known as a ‘love sandwich’). Plans with good friends for the holiday. Starting my practice.
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Happy 4th!
There are three sets of cry-screaming children waiting to board my flight.
My initial thought was, “Crap. This flight is going to suck.”
Then I remembered that more than anything I want to have children, and that when that happens I will pray for others’ patience when I fly my little familia across the country.
Missing Miss Ava and Little O already.
I snapped this while roaming the Boston University campus today. My old stomping ground.
Front porch flowers.
Can you tell I’m obsessed with my bro n sisinlaw’s backyard?
It is raining NONSTOP in Boston.
I’m sitting next to the giant picture window in my brother’s kitchen, looking out at green green green, the hues of which are deep in that rain-soaked way.Here's what's on my mind today:
I want a backyard, a garden, and a dishwasher.
When I drove past the South Boston exit on the turnpike this morning, after leaving El at the airport, I remembered my first job after college. I graduated with a photojournalism degree and worked for a studio photographer in South Boston, on A Street. His studio was a live/work space, an entire floor of a warehouse building. Brick walls, wood floors, huge windows, tables made from old doors laid across sawhorses. Aside from headshots and corporate events, I had an editorial gig with ‘The Pilot’, Boston’s surprisingly large Catholic newspaper. I photographed special Masses, nuns’ Jubilee celebrations, Catholic school sports…and I followed Cardinal Bernard Law around to document his community activities. I wasn’t Catholic then, and didn’t understand the reverence of his position. For all the time we spent together, our relationship amounted to nothing more than nods of hello. Both of us were reserved. Cardinal Law has since resigned from his Boston post, due to controversy surrounding his alleged role in covering up sexual abuse within Boston parishes. I’ll save my thoughts on the scandal in general for another day.
What else? Dinner! Dinner is on my mind.
Backyard Lily Pond
Shot from bro & sisinlaw’s ginormous backyard.
