

very exciting to stumble upon this online + print magazine about the art of small gatherings. i love the name: kinfolk.
i'm very drawn to intimate get-togethers with small groups of friends and family, where well-prepared food and juicy conversations can be savored + relished.
i am also fond of solitary adventures; time to myself, time to explore without having to entertain or listen or amuse. time to be and experience and watch and maybe do something like read. or daydream.
how nice that fourty-some-odd admirers of smallish get-togethers thought to put together a magazine about exactly that.
it makes me think of that house we looked at in basalt that was surrounded by lush green grass. the red one, just off the river with that tire swing hanging from a tree out back. and a little wooden playhouse to boot. in my imagination, i had already spent whole summers there, lolling about on a picnic blanket sipping homemade lemon soda while the kids would turn cartwheels and romp, totally entertained by nature, needing nothing from me but a watchful eye and a sandwich brought to them at lunch. friends would come by for tea + grilled trout, sharing their latest baking recipe or mountain biking adventure story. i would sketch in a journal and serve chilled white wine and shoo the chickens back into their coop.
oh if only.
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