Not a catalog, but a…

I just read The Orchid Thief. Susan Orlean—who I am now following on Twitter and who says things such as “How do seasick-prone people live in Venice, I wonder?”—manages to be funny without losing her depth, and this is something I strive to be. She describes orchids, those over-sexualized, over-idealized flowers, in amazing ways that are not sexual or idealized. I read The Orchid Thief for my plant class, and in this class we had an activitiy: describe an orchid in a way that is not sexual.

I can’t see anything in this orchid now except my angry little man. He frowns over my kitchen now, frustrated to be pegged to the refrigerator by a flimsy magnet. He’s on my fridge to remind me to find the funny—the frowning little man with a flamboyant hat—in otherwise darkly bulbous blossoms.

From Susan:

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that is whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possiblity. If I had been an orchid hunter I wouldn’t have seen this space as sad-making and vacant–I think I would have seen it as acres of opportunity where the things I loved where waiting to be found.

spring mail from Mom

Enjoy your spring break
Indulge in daffodils and
strawberries
(organic of course)!

We/I love you.

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spring email

Don’t forget to set your clocks for the upcoming Spring Equinox — 2012 Mar 19 10:14 PM PDT

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spring gchat

‪Katie‬: it is snowing
ugh
9:37 AM
‪me‬: whaaaat
haha
snowing?!
9:38 AM
‪Katie‬: um yes
damn it
where is sprrrinnng
‪me‬: in tucson
on break
come back
9:42 AM
‪Katie‬: aww
9:43 AM
i want to
to your little casita
10:47 AM
Katie: o i meant to tell you
‪me‬: yes
‪Katie‬: in experimenting with banana toast
i added a little raspberry jam
10:48 AM
SO YUMMY
‪me‬: ooo
yumm