Today

• Sledding with Lake at the mental hospital, I dove head first off a hill
• Japanese bath lit with semiretired candles
• Snowy afternoon in a warm library armchair, read all of Wicked Plants. The leaves, flowers, nectar, and pollen of Azalea and rhododendron have a very dangerous poison called grayanotoxin.
• Thrift store shopping: a black dress with indigo roses, red floral wool skirt, vest & plaid button-down for Web, wizard garden statue, wooden leaf dish
• Fall unrestrained into the snow countless times
• In the morning I let Watson out to hop through three feet of snow while I sat on the porch in my bathrobe and drank from my own pottery. The streets vanished and connected the properties: Max bounded across the snow and I knew he reached unseen Watson when I heard a little frightened chirp.
• Alexander McQueen committed suicide. He was one of my absolute favourite living artists.