Yesterday was spent in the kitchen... baking pies, singing songs, feeding my children. It was rich and rewarding. I recently read how stability and love inform one another and bring a deep rich contentment that is hard to explain. It brings me a "calmness of heart that allows a deeper, slower growth."

Never could I have imagined that at Christmas 2008 I would be awaiting the arrival of my fourth child... a child born of another woman... who is now dead. I look at our daughter this Christmas in pictures taken by a loving caregiver. She is so beautiful. I am eager to welcome her into life with us..

3 pumkin pies carved from an heirloom pumpkin
a pecan pie made with love for my father-in-law who loves pecan pie
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currently playing:: Sufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas : O Holy Night

Iron & Wine . Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Iron & Wine is scheduled to perform their song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, January 5, 2009. "Flightless..." was recently been featured in the film Twilight and is also included on the Twilight Soundtrack. The song was originally released on the Iron & Wine album, The Shepherd's Dog.

prolific freestyle
k'naan brings a voice to the voiceless somalians in this county
My somali friend and I listened hand in hand here at work to a number of his songs.
he also introduced me to sadar ali

falcons, flecks

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