tumbleweed on a ridge.

- outside: thundery, summery, headache-inducing.
- donated to the drain: another favorite earring.
- pennsylvania this weekend: nostalgia, two mentor-ladies, green.
- family: scattered about the globe.
- countdown to my own globe-trotting: four days.
- poem-ing: "elegaic."
- favorite quote from the quest for new sleeping arrangements: "my mother died 8 months ago. but not in the apartment!"