good things

I'm caught up on neither sleep nor chores, and my laptop is in the shop yet again, so I'm a weepier and crankier Peg than usual. But I'm slogging my way back towards equilibrium line by line, and oh, the blessings, they do abound:

athenais captured a rose this morning. Gorgeous. It reminds me of Lord Leighton...

Lumos was fun and stimulating, and I collected all sorts of images and phrases and knickknacks to distill into poems and gifts and essays and even my next sermon ("An Orthodox Christian mystic and 'Sister Blowtorch of Pragmatic Idealism' meet in an Irish pub...").

I'm the featured poet in the August 2006 print edition of Scifaikuest.

I have a new manuscript to edit.

I'm wearing "The Habits of Fire".

George Gamow's My World Line.

Fresh basil.

My frisky, funny dog. Even if she does think hotel soap tastes yummy. *sigh*

And so much more.