An eyebrow ring, Proverbs 19:14, and that smile...

October 30th...Happy birthday to Mel!

"Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,

suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,

and once more I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before."
--Wendell Berry, 1994.