brights and blues that my eyes haven't seen in a good while with birds chirping, bouncing about and dreary branches shaking off their blankets and stretching their arms up high to those blues, everything coming out of hibernation. including me - three good outdoor runs this week, those mean streets of painesville have been good to my feet. enjoying the luxury of sidewalks. a week full of sun, full of activity and full of more love than i thought could come from the two little (gigantic) pooches i stayed with, cuddly and following me around every place i go. a skiing adventure with two fun guys and feeling better than i have in a very long while, feeling best. coming home to mail (my favorite) from rachael (my favorite), bringing memory after memory of so many wonderful faces that i can hardly contain my love for. aching, but it's a good aching, that comes from such fondness, from such love for those faces that are scattered far away for now, but that warm me to the soul. yes, these things make me feel and know this is a heart that is beating alive, so alive and full of life. i love that feeling. being in love with the world. this week, it's been a break from routine, from normalcy, and is it just the sun and warmth? or a combination of all these wonderful things coming together, blessing after blessing.

i'm itching for spring, itching for march, april, may. such good!