I’m not sure what to write about today. Maybe something about the dream pair of boots that arrived today, finally in the right size after three tries (yeah, yeah, I know, it’s terrible for the environment), or about having an elusively good hair day, or about the big black wool turtleneck that I’ve worn three times this week as fall quickly ends, or perhaps spending the day cozy inside having a work date while smoke and ash hung so shockingly thick in the sky that dusk arrived at 2pm—or how about this: at the end of the day receiving a text from my dear friend who’d just delivered her baby girl, strength and tiredness and elation shining in her new mama eyes. Her baby has the most perfect round nose, and I thought, What would it be like to have a tiny cherub like that?

(Oct. 22)