"Sometimes all the information is there in the first five minutes, laid out for inspection. Then it goes away, gets suppressed as a matter of pragmatism. It's too much to know a lot about strangers. But some don't end up strangers. They end up closer, and you had your five minutes to see what they were really like and you missed it."

. . . .

"I feel changed. Like, say, my mind is a sweater. And a loose thread gets tugged at, pulled and pulled until the sweater unravels and there's only a big fluffy pile of yarn. You can make something with it, that pile of yarn, but it will never be a sweater again. That's the state of things."

. . . .

" . . . it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone."

. . . .

"He loved to talk about the ways in which people were processed and accounted for in the modern world. Numbered street addresses, he said, were relatively new. In the Old World, there was a natural vetting process. . . A stranger enters a village and declares who he is looking for. He is either turned away or assisted, depending. How do we find each other?"

. . . .

"When you're young, being with someone else can almost seem like an event. It is an event when you're young. But it isn't enough."

. . . .

"I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question."

- The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner

06.30.13 (Sunday night before bed) - P reading her siblings a story on the couch. I love these moments.







06.30.13 (Sunday night) - Sisters. Always so unpredictable.







06.29.13 (Saturday morning) - Homemade pasta and ice cream making all morning. We're practically off the grid (sarcasm).



06.28.13 (Friday night) - American Girl movie premiere of Saige. All of the future mean girls of America seemed to be in attendance, debating how many $100 doll accessories one truly "needs".







06.28.13 (Friday afternoon) - Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Hungarians know how to throw a party.

06.27.13 (Thursday night) - Best friends.





06.27.13 (Thursday afternoon) - Murals for the giant playdate.







06.25.13 (Tuesday night) - The playground at dusk.







06.24.13 (Monday afternoon) - The old baby pool and slip and slide are back in action again.







06.24.13 (Monday morning) - First weekday of summer vacation, so we hiked the Turkey Run loop.







06.23.13 (Sunday) - Madame Tussauds.

06.21.13 (Friday morning) - The girls' last day of kindergarten and 1st grade. And the solstice. We're ready for it all.







06.19.13 (Wednesday afternoon) - Cherry picking.





06.19.13 (Wednesday morning) - I took the kids out of school (it was a half day anyways) to spend the day at Great Country Farms. Love this place.





06.18.13 (Tuesday) - Overcast skies.

06.18.13 (Monday) - P's end of the year schoolwork, they always bring home the coolest stuff in June.





06.18.13 (Monday) - P's 4th birthday card for T (poor guy, Dan and I were in Italy and missed his birthday).





















06.18.13 (Monday) - F's poems and vacation planning.





















06.17.13 (Monday) - T's artwork from the end of school. He's so so proud of that book, he narrated every picture for me, over and over again.





06.15.13 (Saturday night) - On our last night in Italy a street performer picked Dan to help with his performance. So basically my husband is a rock star.









06.15.13 (Saturday) - Pompeii and ancient porn.