http://www.unruly.ca loud & beautiful, like life Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:44:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You know what I love? I love "yes". I love "yes" so much, and so hard, and  also its more boisterous adjutants "hell yes" and "fuck yes". I don't really know why people fear middle age, or dislike it. Middle age is the time you become yourself, or at least when ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=7601 unruly is awfully chuffed to announce the birth of not one but two delicious and delightful tee-shirts for your delectation. http://www.unruly.ca/?p=7529 This year, watching the Tour de France on TV, I heard one of the announcers say, "There's the beautiful sunflower field" and it made me happy that, given all the manful muscling in the pelotonic tumult, he thought to mention that quiet golden place. Since then the words"There is the ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=7364 A couple of days ago when I was stopped at a street corner waiting for the light to change, a man walked up from behind me, stood beside me, looked at me, smiled, and said, "Nice legs, librarian." Now, I'm really not a woman who enjoys strangers making commentary on ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=1950 Butcher's charts take it all apart. Sewing patterns put it all together. The sundering and the reconciling ... they interest me, both. I maybe love taxidermy because it requires both; I should maybe love the jigsaw puzzle more than I do, for the same reason. I like to see the discrete segments of ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=7078 Often I think of the poetry of objects about the way a seam is resolved or the way a spine grows about the things we make with our bodies and the bones from out of our bodies http://www.unruly.ca/?p=7080 You know what I really love? I love to go to art galleries and museums to look at what humans have made, with intention. But I also love to walk out in the world and find the deliciousness of happy accident. I sure do. I really love both the incidental and ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=6853 I think I think too much about clothes — mine, yours, his, hers, theirs, whoever's. Because really? I think an awful lot about them. Like, an AWRFUL lot. Thing is, when the world is being beautiful, I don't want to be a blight on it and when the world is ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=3865 Sometimes I feel like Reepicheep finally arrived at the edge of the world and sometimes I feel like I'm standing way up high on a tall place where I have to make a choice about whether I'll step off and float away, or not. Sometimes I feel like I'm standing ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=6874 Yellow! I don't really like it, most of the time, and yet my favourite shoes in the whole wide world are yellow and I love it when a cool-toned garden is warmed by splashes of yellow and I think lemons are not only delightfully delicious  as foodstuffs but delightfully delectable ... http://www.unruly.ca/?p=6754