Favorite Moment From Writing This Morning: Getting To Write About Romanticizing The Ordinary. It's One

Favorite Moment from Writing This Morning: Getting to write about romanticizing the ordinary. It's one of my favorite things about being alive.

Favorite Line Crafted: One of my great joys in life is when you read a book that leaves a gossamer blanket of magic over ordinary life. When trees become a little unsafe, white flowers become the graves of ancient kings, and autumn is summoned by the witch of seasons.

@alana-k-asby This is something I love about our book too! It gives life a little twist and shifts the perspective so that apples are more than apples and winter is more than winter, and a small part of my heart waits to catch a glimpse of a white stag through the trees.

Italo Nunes Vais (Italian, 1860-1932)

Ancora un bacio

Smoky Rose Dress

c. 1898-99

Silk crepe, silk taffeta with velvet ribbon and lace trim

Albany Institute of History & Art

I wonder if, at some point in my life, I'll be one of the last people actually using the words 'he' and 'she' like old Quakers stubbornly saying 'thee' and 'thou' after everyone else had given up on it.

The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”