thoughts on honey

thoughts on honey (not my own - I'm not so eloquent)
It's the epigram for Anne Lamott's novel Crooked Little Heart.

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt - marvellous error! -
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

----Antonio Machado, from Times Alone

shopping carts

My new obsession is noticing what people have in their shopping carts at the grocery store.

shopping cart # 1:

4 pre-formed ground beef patties
high fiber cereal
box of white Franzia
chex mix
wine bottle labeled (I am not making this up) "Peach Sparkletini"

pushed by:
middle-aged lady, slightly overweight, really shiny brown hair, wearing black capri pants embroidered with pink palmettos. looked like Ina Garten.