April 20, 1972

• david smoak's birthday
• david - with all of his humor, love, compassion, joy, passion, and all the other stuff that makes him the friend, husband, companion, partner, lover, sidekick, accomplice that he is.
• april 19 - wesley's birthday and whitty-whit's birthday.
• bowen's island last night with jay and keena and the kids and keller and nicole. watching the kids devour oysters and david putting his own oysters aside to shuck them for rowyn.
• rowyn dressing up for 'smoak's' bday! too cute.
• a safe and uneventful ride back from greenville yesterday.
• 'catch-up' phone calls
• adrienne and all her wisdom and laughter. yay that she said NO to moving to philly!
• the garden and the first signs of squash.
• the front yard taking on new life as the japanese maple for david's birthday is beautiful. plans for a bench.
• david's reaction to the 'yard art' i gave him for his birthday. a pink metal pig with wings! glorious. his giggle.
• our minister, mike's email that his 4 and 6 year olds are having ethical conversations about where their food comes from over dinner. eli's (6) insistence that he's not even going to eat potatoes since they once lived and nathan (4) saying that's ok - the fish don't remember living once you bite their heads off and eli's response. mike saying he has a bridget and a davy and won't their votes cancel each other out in future elections?! i responded - only if both of them vote! i did offer to talk with eli since the child has to eat. we'll see what happens there.
• a beautiful morning after sleeping in my own bed last night.
• welcome homes from the girls who promptly got me dirty.
• you, my little pink yard art pig with wings, you! (where are you flying next?)