It’s New Year’s Eve. I don’t have any plans, just people I hope to see tonight. No resolutions, just ideas. I had a good year. I hope you did too, and that the year ahead blows us away with vibrancy and intensity.

It helps to make lists of the stuff we have growing, mostly so I remember to walk around our little property and water everything, but also so I remember to harvest and use it. Black monukka grape (this thing is blowing my mind, it’s been growing in a 2-gal pot in shade for 3 years
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I trimmed the dead winter twigs from the lavendar and my finger was stabbed, but it was fair This is the difference between a poem and the sting of real life – in a poem I can tell you of the victory the lavendar felt as it wore my blood. Lavendar, if you are listening
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I’m sitting under the window in the room that used to be my bedroom when I was sixteen. My laptop is propped up on a TV tray and I’m facing the door. When this was my bedroom, I had a blue sofa sitting here that I used as a bed. Why? Because when the sofa
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We’re in the midst of a terrific snowstorm, real wrath of God type stuff (and while that’s a Ghostbusters quote, the subject of this post comes from our neighbor’s comment on the storm: “I hear today it’s supposed to be bad, but tomorrow it’s supposed to be Biblical”). The ever-watching They have been throwing around
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If you friend me, I will probably friend you back provided you seem to be human and not pornspam. This is a new policy, as of the beginning of 2009 – until then, I only friended folks I knew at least tangentially. If you friend me on Facebook so that you can then slag off
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So we have sort of officially launched Pomfolio, and my portfolio is being organically created at http://briannaprivett.com using the String Theory theme and a couple of plugins. I like it, it does what it says on the box. Plus, this is the first time I’ve aggregated all the various stuff I put online in one
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…was yesterday and we celebrated it well hanging out with friends and listening to old vinyl. Awesome dinner at Holy Molé. Strawberry soda. Conversations.

Sunbeams Originally uploaded by briannaorg I haven’t written anything in nearly three weeks, since our cat was taken ill and subsequently put to sleep, so I figured I’d write a little bit about Fitzgerald here and see if it helps me resume the tenuous writing habit I’d so carefully built up over the last six
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Went to a celebration of my grandpa’s life yesterday and had a lot of fun. Cried the rest of the afternoon because I’m a girl and because I hadn’t seen a lot of these people since I was a kid and goodbyes are tough, but it’s good to reconnect and open the door for seeing
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