Billie Best Blog : Page 22 of 41 : Living Out Loud

A moment of luxury

Watering the garden is a special time of day when I imagine myself a mermaid among roses soaking up a wildly delightful moment of luxury.

This guy I’m living with is relentlessly cheerful. Sometimes I’m so ornery just seeing him smile gets on my nerves.

My jean jacket is wabi-sabi style in the Japanese aesthetic tradition of appreciating the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete.

I love the complexity of our relationship, even when one of us is obviously completely wrong. And we both know who that is, right?

The changes in my daily routines, my priorities and my dreams are helping me see how patterns of love integrate with patterns of life.

If there’s a kernel of wisdom in the puppy experience it is that happiness is both essential and irrational.

I bought a cheap tube of mascara and put it on in the parking lot. That’s how desperate I was for retail therapy.