feel that way

yellow makes me happy. it just does. lots of yellow glowing all over town makes me immensely happy. having track seven running through my head also makes me happy*. that's all. happy thursday.

*i just had to come back here and post the lyrics to that song because even if you don't listen to it, the words are great.

Up an early for the hope of a brand new day
See a homie you ain't seen since back in the day
Fresh haircut fitted wit a fat ass fade
End of work, we chilling on a Saturday
How you felt when you first heard the data came
Rakim KRS hey I had that tape
Cooling out with ol girl on a fat ass date
Find a hundred dollar bill wow man that's great
Get promoted at your job up to management
Plot a long time finally a plan has made it
Time I feel I wanna shout, man its real that way
Wanna think of things that make you feel that way

Make you feel that way

Christmas day when your mamma got your first bike
Type of feeling when you went and when your first fight
How your team felt winning championship games
Celebrate in a huddle dancing in this rain
Have a thought see a shooting star cross your screen
Put in hard work finally your living your dream
Deaf man get his hearing now in come vibes
Blind man get sight see his first sunrise
Dumb man speaking out, now he's load and clear
Earth through your chout smile so proud ya wear
Going in your third eye for the styles ya hear
Making music that'll bump for a thousand years
Eating right feeling conscience like health is first
Said a prayer that's sincere and you felt it work
Times I feel I wanna shout, man it's real that way
When I'm thinking things that make you feel that way

Make you feel that way

All up in her vibe something coming over me
Summer days more likely that you notice breezes
Winter days more likely that you notice heat
When I'm warm more likely that you notice me
In the dark it's more likely that you notice light
In the light more likely that you notice night
Hungry more appreciation for that meal
Dead broke more appreciation for that grill
A bad day'll make you really notice ones that's good
And that'll make things a little better understood
Times I feel I wanna shout, man it's real that way
When I think of things that make you feel that way
Make you feel that way...

Make you feel that way

"...Ya know its like ahh like the most greatest feeling you could ever feel
you like just total illation. Sunny day, just that day.
You know its just like you know just the most joyous feeling
you could ever comprehend. You know, chilling with your family.
You know just you know just really really feeling,
feeling the moment, with the folks. Ya know really really really just chilling.
It's love. It's love. It's love..."

Make you feel that way

(lyrics by Gift of Gab/Blackalicious)

a good man

may be hard to find, so they say. i contend a good man who makes good cookies, is even harder to find. and if you do find one, count your lucky stars. i'm ready for the weekend, how about you all?

in the middle

there is a lot of kansas. sometimes i forget that fact, living on the very right hand side of it. i love those long flat swaths of yellow, i couldn't keep my eyes away from them. or the camera. people like to say there is nothing in the middle of kansas, but that's not true at all. i found trains, power lines, windmills and cows, all four which compliment the flat grasslands quite nicely. we went to see molly, ever so briefly, yesterday in oklahoma city for a book signing. there was talk of getting chocolate malts at braum's, but a little girl with a fever made for a change of plans. as david said, there's always something when you've got three kids involved. despite the fever (and motrin and tylenol and pedialyte) it was nice to get away for a bit.

it's up

i can't believe it's been a month already. go take a look.

spring manifesto - 2009

this spring i will relish in the rains and delight in the flowers.

i will take more walks, with my family and by myself. i will find something i never noticed before.

this spring we will find a new place in our city to enjoy, to make our own, so that when we visit, it will be with a sense of comfortable fondness.

this spring i will go to the farmer's market, get excited about all the young new vegetables, and get ready for the foods summer brings.

this spring i will try to find a local source for beef and poultry.

i'll lay a blanket in the yard and rest. listen to the little sounds coming from the ground, and the loud sounds coming from the kids.

i will get to know my neighbors better. do things like bring baked goods. because baked goods make everyone happy.

this spring i will drop in on old friends. a porch sit here, a sit on the steps there, and talk about how the weather has been, sipping a cold glass of something.

i will wash my windows! think long and hard about repainting my kitchen and making little things for the house.

this spring i'll clean out the closets, take those clothes and things that we never use to people who can use them.

this spring (and summer and fall and winter) i'll make an effort to find something, some tiny thing good about each and every day.

thank you shari, for the inspiration, that felt good.

happy

our little family is very happy right now. warm breezes, sunshine, snacks and bare feet. i tore down the plastic covering the windows, opened the blinds and did a happy dance. you think i'm joking, but i very much promise you i am not. other happy things to share with you today:
a visual feast of books (i can't stop looking)
my best friend åsmund (doesn't he look great as a penguin?)
a chemex date (and brunch, yum)
what's making you happy right now?