Mary Oliver, Dogfish, and River Styx, Ohio.

So lately I've been reading the poetry of Mary Oliver.

It's my end of the day prize, actually, from chasing kids and packing lunches and finding drinking cups (and sippy cups). I've been taking end-of-the-day moments to

just

read

one

poem.

Which usually leads to a few more.

Bliss, to be reminded that I can tear apart a poem and see why it works.

With Mary Oliver, they all work.

My favorites for today: River Styx, Ohio and Dogfish.

Brilliant.

Laura, have you done any poetry recently? You should try these.

P.S. Yes, Laura O, that's you. As soon as you come up from underneath all those packing boxes, I think you'd like Mary Oliver. Good luck!

The Lunchbox: A Gem of a Movie

I found another movie I can recommend to all comers. It's clean, it's classic, it's lovely.

It's The Lunchbox, which came out in 2013. You can look up the plot. But think "You've got Mail", but with a lunchbox, not email, and in India and way, way, way less peppy.

It's slow. It's slllooooowww. It's so slow it's scenic, but not boring scenic. Nice scenic.

It garnered all sorts of awards in all sort of film festivals, you can look it up on Wikipedia. But I just liked it without knowing about all those awards.