Paul and I went to Maine to visit with my grandparents. It was a lovely trip – too short, as always. We toured downtown Brunswick one afternoon and stopped in a new shop which was FULL OF BIRDS. I went a little bananas. I bought a bunch of birds: bird candle-holders, bird wall-hangers, bird decorative whatnots for putting things in. I want a house full of little birds. They keep me hopeful.

I’d get real birds but I don’t think the cats would handle it well.