And They Will Be Simple

Some random images, on this day off, sorting through my collection of indelible moments and things that make me smile:

. a book of recipes for making fruit and herb liqueurs

. a cloth sachet fragrant with Parma violets

. Brodsky’s little book on Venice

. my cousin’s daughter’s sea glass hanging on a silver chain

. lavender salt

. a cockapoo

. the Rodin caryatids being washed with sponge and bucket

. the sound of the unseen goats

. the beads I keep meaning to string

And then this quote from Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums:

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” 

Simple as those sea glass marbles, a handful of lovely washed-up orbs.

image:  Sea glass marbles, Natural Seaglass