Uncommon Curiosity

I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!

– Alice in Wonderland

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room…

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse.  “You become.  It takes a long time.  That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.  But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

– The Velveteen Rabbit

I’m a teacher, a mother, a wife, a lover, a provocateur…

a carnivorous bacon-loving vegetarian, a passionate sensualist, an empathetic ear, a ravenous student

and a giggly ball of silly when tickled.

I love being bitten, beaten, entertained, educated, played with, touched and, most of all,

I love drinking in the achingly beautiful world outside my door…