Chou says "huh.  copying drawings."
yeah.
"Ah oui.  So you do that, too, from time to time."
yeah, you can learn a lot.

We have pretty good lives huh?  We go to a circus-tent builder's house to build traditional carpentry, a bunch of people come to see us...
yeah.  Makes you want to read books about people like us.
a creek.  shall we cross?
you don't mind if we get our feet wet?
No.

"I never use oak because I can't cut down an oak...
and then your chestnut, you aren't going to let someone massacre it with a chainsaw"

the blues.
I'd like to see my parents.

"I'm starting to believe again that everything is possible.  It's because of my trip coming up."

"Because you think it's because of traveling that you think everything is possible?  The traveling you did when you were little?"

"Oh yes, without a doubt."

I've been told that it's not done for young ladies to give massages to just anybody.

"He took my hand and i was afraid of what his wife might think"

too bad.

"i'm so happy just to live in a country where i can read what i want"
"it's hard for me to see things in black and white"
i think about the guys who got sent off in the Oregon woods because they didn't want to fight in WWII.  It was a good cause and all the same they didn't convince themselves that war was an option- i like poets-
i like that there are some people who don't do the revolution and who just sit under a tree contemplating all day

it snowed a whole bunch, we sledded all morning

I can't hear anything anymore
"want me to tell you a story?"

you never get tired of staring into its eyes
when my fire is happy flames come out the side of the stove