Inspired by hometown blues, my favorites of 2007:

1. chatham marketplace
2. Jeff's students' art projects in the brick wall at my school, which include the Barbie Doll head coming out of said wall. In Sanford, NC, yessir.
3. pregnancy hair
4. barbara kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
5. hiking with Ossie
6. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"
7. cold weather
8. Ron's backwoods stories
9. Michelle Shocked, "Got No Strings"
10. Siblings Without Rivalry
11. rain
12. Karyssa the Wonderful Babysitter
13. sewing machines
14. made from scratch suppers
15. Saturdays at Saxapahaw
16. the bright moon, the dark night when Matilda was being born
18. the blue heron on Bear Creek
19. Jeff's ability to get out of the way. Reckon that's why we're still here together.
20. my homemade advent calendar. It ain't pretty, but it's a start, sister.