things that got me through this week: the red cardinal outside my window on new year's eve the moment ward woke me up to look out the window on new year's morning all the leftover christmas cookies the leftover tortilla soup too showers at night in the dark the way it feels to shoot with a completely different camera the bright yellow tumeric tea I've been drinking an unexpected game of charades an unexpected package from my friend tracy, bursting with happy the making of a new book list waffle house waffles, just before midnight the looking back still with all the looking back