Laowai

“Afraid of color? That’s like being afraid of feeling happy.”

Last week I bought this little container of Lilly of the Valley. I used to have a bed of Lily of the Valley at our house in Midland. They were right outside our bedroom window. Oh how I miss waking up on a lazy Saturday morning when the first thing to enter my head was the realization that I could smell the Lily of the Valley wafting in through our open window. So every time I go into our bathroom I put my nose close to the flowers and inhale that incomparable lily scent. Mmmmm. So nice.

Also in the picture at the bottom is a little red mushroom that I stole from a cafe in Vienna. Yes, I stole it. It’s only a cheap styrofoam trinket. There was one of these nestled in a mini potted plant at every table in every cafe in the city. I knew they would just throw them out after New Year’s Eve had passed. So you see I had to steal this little treasure and give it a home. Every time I see it I think fondly of our trip to Austria at New Year’s time in 206/2006.