mmm

She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting. --Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping


**update**

speaking of things one has lost, about a year ago i took some pictures of butterflies in beaufort, sc. but when i got home, the pictures weren't on my camera. odd. well. today. almost year later, i plugged in my camera, and there they were. and here they are.