March 21, 2024

"Aubade is a dawn song that greets the morning while lamenting the end of the night, often concerning the parting of lovers." source

Between rest and readying...
Cleansing illumination 
Dog Watch, Mystic for our birthday Dinner
Exceptional and filled with love...
"Forever Now" video watch here
Groceries from Loretta moving (again) delivered by Lynette (who helped her... even now)
"It's the welcoming song of morning, as dawn turns to light, today brims with possibility..." ~ Magnolia Magazine issue no. 30
John Joseph and Josie Wren
Kisses the petals good morning and good
night (garden light).
Mouth of the Thames River at 7am
N
ow I am off for 4 entire days. Not working for CFECT or PLNL, but...
"Only Hope" Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember 2002 listen here
Possibility
Quiet Hour 
Resting
Surprise groceries from Loretta, delivered by Lynette
This is Us - wow
Unexpected gains
"Vistas that surprise the and call the imagination. " p. 70 Anam Cara
EXpression through poetry excentuate the spaces and the silence
Zazzle store click here

March Birthdays and more

 
Baby Shower
Cat Steven's "Morning has Broken" and " Moonshadow"
"Deeper Well" by Kacey Musgraves listen here
Enrique Iglesias & Miranda Lambert "Space in My Heart" listen here
Fresh Cup Cafe, Westerly, RI
Grew membership the old fashioned way: a desperate need for God. ~ Mitch Albom
Harrison and Angelica are engaged!!
"I walked a mile with Pleasure ... I walked a mile with Sorrow..." by Robert Browning Hamilt qtd. p. 176
Jonathan David
KarenAnn
Logan, of course, is my number one BIRTH day this month
Mitch Albom's Have A Little Faith "But you can touch everything and be connected to...
Nothing." p. 165
One of my oldest and dearest friends, Lori Young Skelton
Patricia Ann with Mom at Amber and Joey's Baby Show
"Quiet grace" p. 236 
Robert James and Jackson   2/25/2024
 Lynette 's post to me 2012
Trenchant bon mot: "cutting a good word" ~ Mike Rowe Facebook post
Uncle Bill's birthday is the 18th
"Voice on the wind" p. 241 have a little faith
Xanthorhiza simplicissima (Xantho = Yellow rhiza= Root) so Yellowroot shrub
You know, some things don't matter that much...like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart—now, that matters.” ~ The Secret Life of Bees

February recap - sort of

Ancestors... remember them
Birthday month for Jess, Cody, Wayne, Michelle, Tracy, and Greta who are actually all...
Cousins! :) check out Ancestry's "explainer" below
Daybreak
Enjoying the fireplace and 
Feeding the birds
George Strait's  "Carried Away" listen here
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
"I sent that 'Ancestry' site some Information on my Family Tree. They sent me back a pack of Seeds, and suggested that I just start Over." source
"Just start over." I kinda did, with Mom's Thomason Tree
Laughter,
Marvel Movies. Most recently, Captain Marvel
Newspaper clippings for ancestry are my favorite things to add

"Quill U Be My Valentine" Love it! Thanks for sharing, Emily @hansoloismyhusband
Reading : Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom
Snow then a Sink hole 🕳 
Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches Genealogy FB page This cracked me up!! :) source
Unprecedented: never done or known before. Unexpected - great words for Leap Day
Valentines come in many shapes sizes and joys

eXplainer :)

Zagarenski's amazing art, paired with a favorite song of mine
click on the image below to see the video