more words
My darling baby has added a few more words to her vocabulary – duck and jacket. She is outrageously cute!
This weekend we spent time with our friends from LA, who came up to visit with their sweet baby Mina Loy, who is the most mellow little baby I have ever met, exuding contentment and sweetness and an overall feeling of zen to everyone in her presence. Well, excepting my baby of course, who wanted to pull her hair and poke her in the eyes.
bruce
My husband is an artist and some of his work is featured on his website www.brucebusby.com. He has an upcoming show this summer at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in one of the Project Rooms, and I can’t wait to see the next of his tent series which he is working on for the show!
Needless to say, I think his artwork is amazing. He has followed some themes over the last decade and is now expanding upon them in his recent illustrations. When I see his work I still experience goosebumps.
I miss rambutans and mangosteens
I grew up in Malaysia, where there are two of the world’s most amazing fruit, the rambutan and the mangosteen. Ever since I moved to the USA in 1984 I get sad around this time of year, when the apples and oranges in the supermarket remind me of how much I miss those amazing fruit of tropical Southeast Asia. Sweet, luscious, delicate – they are in a category of flavor of their own.
Don’t get me wrong, I adore the abundance and quality of fruit I have access to in my adopted home of California, the peaches, cherries, persimmons, strawberries and more, but I will never be able to just walk out into my yard and pick a rambutan like I was able to when I was young.
Check out my friend Anne’s blog http://www.defpoillustration.blogspot.com/ for delightful animal drawings.
my baby’s first birthday
Today is my baby girl’s first birthday. She is the most amazing little thing, and everyday she is full of new surprises. Today she made me smile when she counted her toes in the bath. Or rather, when she tried to count them, but basically pointed at them while looking at me so I would count.
She also likes to make a pop sound when we read “Mr. Brown can moo, can you?”.
These days she is really full of words, she has at some point in the last few weeks said each of these words: dada, mama, bath, turtle, moon, dog, cat, clock, nose, ba(nana), shoe, kutsushita (sock in Japanese) and others I can’t recall.
today at work
I have been working on a website that I gave a presentation about today. It was fun to talk about it! I am so lucky to live where I live, in one of the world’s most beautiful places, California. Sometimes I forget how special it is here.
The website is www.mediterraneanaction.net.
my first entry, my first blog
I was so inspired by my friend Brooke’s blog (http://crosspollination.wordpress.com/) that after all these years have finally decided to begin my own. The last couple of years have been wonderful and full of huge life changes, including my marriage to my husband and the birth of our first child. After getting married I changed my name, dropping the second of my two middle names, Hiiaka, and my maiden last name, Stone. Hiiaka is the goddess of lightning in Hawaiian mythology, Pele’s younger sister.
For 33 years I was Sylvia Mie Hiiaka Stone – and now I am Sylvia Mie Busby. It feels like these little bits of myself are floating out there in the world, so this blog – hiiakastone – is my attempt to recapture those bits.
