some of my favorite things

just thinking about some things from this past summer and fall. (and i looked at allie's blog this morning, and she had the same entry..weird...people get on the same wave-length curing this season i think. it must be that death, birth, renewal thing, right?)

oh, and by the way we are doing well. we have lots'o'visitors lately (which has been so fun!) and teaching is going well for both brian and myself. our household convos are surely interesting.

(example: brian, "i showed my class today slides of robert smithson, and we talked about their reactions to thinking that his moving dirt into a large spiral within a lake and taking a photo of it was drawing or not." me, "our theme this week was fall harvest and i hid nuts all over the room and the kids had to act like squirrels and find and bury the nuts for the winter. but it ended up that many forgot why they were finding the nuts in the first place and either wanted the ones their friends' had found, or were trying to eat the nuts whole (until we quickly cracked them open) or just lost interest completely...")

totally silly, right?  i do feel thankful that we are keeping in touch with both worlds of thought and experience! which might be hard to do if we had other circumstances...