It's been a long, long time since I've watched a sunny spring morning in my parents' backyard. Usually I'm here in winter or summer and I sleep late, so I'm used to spending afternoons and evenings by the pool. By then I can bask in full sunlight or wind down with the dusk, but this morning light is different. Gentle. A little shy. Still bright, of course, but it shades through the trees uphill of the house, dappling the yard in pools of shadow and sun, casting the new leaves in every green from lime through deep, deep emerald. The morning sky retains an almost autumnal vibrancy, and all of it---sky, trees, soft sunlight, hilly earth, and the dancing breeze---seem to wrap me up together with them. So peaceful.

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And now for something completely different. Have y'all seen Yahoo's The Friends List of the Ring? Because what could be better than email, instant message, and The Lord of the Rings?

And since I'm on a media-sharing spree.... How perfect is it that Joan Cusack plays a mobile librarian in the new American Girl movie? I'm feeling *so* proud to be a librarian right now. And despite the potential heart-rending sadness, I really, really want to see The Fall. And not because Lee Pace is in it. No. I mean, yes, he is beautiful. And yes, I could listen to and watch him all day long. And yes, he is on my List---you know which List...*that* List. But that's not why I want to see the movie. Not at all.