Rita

I live in New England and all the trees on my street are showing off like they're auditioning for a Hallmark movie. 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

My friends keep saying that I'll find love again but they don't know the depth of my flaws...like I don't like pizza. Nobody could really love a woman who hates pizza. 😆

In my 20s I lifted weights so I could look extra attractive. Now I exercise for alluring reasons like preventing bone density loss. 🤪

I don't drink or smoke...but the vast amounts of Tootsie Pops that I consume definitely falls into the category of unbridled hedonism.

I have a lovely lifelong friend that I see very rarely. But whenever I do see her she says this phrase that makes me feel so loved... I'm listening. I want to hear all the things your heart has been waiting to tell me.

I'm always delighted by the whimsical fact that horses love peppermints. 🍬

Nobody showed up for my Toddler Music Class.....feeling disappointed. 😞

Bwahaha! 😆

True! ✨😆✨

Today I talked to this fantastic ol' whiskey drinking, cowboy boot wearing rock star. He told me... "Life is easy. Until you fuck it all up!"

Good morning everyone 🌞 Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again... -Mary Oliver

It was painful to see my ex-husband in court today. But I've been thinking about all his rules....what I could wear, say, do, eat, enjoy. Maybe in the future someone could love me entirely? Not just a collection of bright points but the full constellation of my being.

And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree. -Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

I love dressing very nerdy when I teach piano lessons. It's like a disguise....My students will never know I was a wild Montana cowgirl or a sultry jazz club pianist or a dramatic poet reading Keats at shady late night coffee houses wearing heels and red lipstick. 😘

I love the fact that in his heart Alexander the Great was just a horse girl like me. We would've been besties. #Bucephalus

When I was a little girl I had a special hiding spot in the top of a big gnarled tree. It had beautiful pink blossoms in spring. I'd read, watch birds w/binoculars, write stories, & enjoy the gentle swish of the branches. Free & safe. I wish I could go there now.🌸

That moment when you realize your new mascara is WATERPROOF and it's going to take 7 years to get it off your face before you can go to sleep. Why?!?!!!!! 😭

Prayers and meditation at this secret chapel in the woods today.