These Days

The sticky summer city heat, the temperature creeping over 100, the dirt and the grass of the Brooklyn outdoors, and a little girl who likes to explore everything with her best friend Nico... these days have been good. Really good.  Biet is trying with all of her might to make her chunky thighs walk, and she is getting so very close.  The days of full-on mobility are so near that I can taste them.  And they taste exhausting, yet thrilling at the same time.  These days, we've been taking advantage of the crazy-long summer days and spending the bright evening hours outdoors, appreciating the perfect beauty of the season's fruits and vegetables, cooling off with Boylan soda & keeping the old glass bottles for fresh-cut flowers, and marveling at the ever-growing relationship between this little girl of ours and this big dog of ours.  These days, our lives look a lot like this...