heather is one of those people practically everyone i know knows, and i wanted to know her, too. she's popped up at parties and other gatherings and, while it's always nice to see her there, i really wanted some of her to myself. because i'm like that sometimes. but, let me tell you, it is tricky to get on heather's calendar. this girl is early to bed, early to rise, always out climbing things, hiking things, kayaking things, studying things (nursing, mostly) or yoga-ing things. we had a lot of false starts before we finally landed on a frances cake date that stuck. whew.
the next challenge was that heather doesn't eat refined sugar or wheat. i might accidentally leave eggs out of frances cake, but flour and sugar are pretty much always there. it was a fun challenge, though, and heather found a rockin' recipe for pumpkin pie, sweetened with maple syrup and honey, with a crust made out of pecans and oats. there was also some rice milk involved. and it was so, so, so, so, yummy! like, really yummy. plus, there is something sort of awesome and subversive about unabashedly eating pumpkin pie in the middle of summer.
heather is a formidable speed scrabble and catch phrase opponent. she is also one of those people who is not afraid to talk about life, and i appreciate that. good things, bad things, successes and failures of ourselves and others: she knows how to make a safe space for all of it. definitely a big picture kind of person who somehow manages to keep everyone in mind, while taking good and loving care of herself. can you tell i want to be just like her? because i do.
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