white dress or what?

so, it has simply been ages. a thousand pardons. but i have been too busy being completely and utterly surprised by joy to create the space to blog. query as to whether although i was ostensibly using this space to write about china, i was actually using it to heal and breathe and learn to love. even if i've never managed to say anything clever about china, i have learned to love. and to be loved in return. i couldn't be happier. the 'white dress or what?' comes from among the more amusing poems i've read of late, which is shared below. although there will be another white* dress of consequence in my future. also in my future, and more immediate - shanghai! i marvel at how life unfolds. and how blessed i am. i feel so grateful and lucky and then some. joyce said god is a shout in the street. that makes sense insofar as that shout is an expression of pure love. that is what my shouts are these days. i am not sure whether i will continue writing in this space once in shanghai. perhaps this space has served its purpose. perhaps i will find another agenda. for now, here's to joy and to laughter and happily ever after.....

and now for something less precious, an amusing poem. ahem:

Emily Dickinson's To-Do List by Andrea Carlisle

Monday
Figure out what to wear--white dress?
Put hair in bun
Bake gingerbread for Sue
Peer out window at passersby
Write poem
Hide poem

Tuesday
White dress? Off-white dress?
Feed cats
Chat with Lavinia
Work in garden
Letter to T.W.H.

Wednesday
White dress or what?
Eavesdrop on visitors from behind door
Write poem
Hide poem

Thursday
Try on new white dress
Gardening--watch out for narrow fellows in grass!
Gingerbread, cakes, treats
Poems: Write and hide them

Friday
Embroider sash for white dress
Write poetry
Water flowers on windowsill
Hide everything



*although i'm little tempted to go with gold! too much? too much. maybe off white? ivory? cream? white dress or what?