Hunger Games - part 2...

Avoxes

Buttercup

Capital Companions

Debut

Effie Trinket

Fiery costumes

Gale

Haymitch

Incoherent

J

Killer

L

Maimed tongue

N

Orange Juice

Peeta

Rebellion

Tribute

Voice

Zuckerberg, Randi not Mark, spoke at Meredith this week

Verb-ing

Accomplishing more
Breathing & Blogging
Cleaning & Creating
Doing less
Expressing more & Exhaling
Flowering
Growing & Glowing
Holding
Ironing - I know! I can hardly believe it myself!
Just for Now
Kicking back
Letting go & Listening Walk by Paul Showers
Making
Napping
Opening to life pose
Playing & Praying
Quelling & Quarreling? nah - just "Q" words
Reading
Sorting
Tossing
Unfurling
Verb-ing
Walking Misty
Xing x's
Yoga-ing
Zest-ing

Big Bang Theory etc...

Well, it took us awhile (5 years apparently), but Elizabeth and I have just discovered, and love watching The Big Bang Theory. Not only it is very funny, but we also get to learn new words, some of which are great for Scrabble or Words with friends :)

And now for this week's ABC list...

Amy Farrah Fowler quote: "Did you know the iconic heart shape isn't based on an actual human heart, its based on what a womans ass looks like bending over."

Bob has a bubbling cauldren of fresh...
Christine Baranski was on a episode this week
Divine Dance
Ersatz, for example, means substituting for, and typically inferior in quality.
Family
Great Glory
Howard lives with his mother...
Intensely Inspiring purple sunrise this am
Just love it!!
Kind
Love this image
M
N
O
Physicists
"Quohog chowder to warm your bones today mmmm..."
RESTAURANT
SKIPPERSDOCK
Thrip - any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.” ~ Aristophanes

Poetry soothes the soul...

"The Secret World of Arrietty - Music Video: Summertime - Bridgit Mendler on YouTube
"Admit impediments..."
"Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love /if you are too careful, Love will not find you."
Cheyenne kick mocha :)
Digging with the pen
Excavating the soul
Flourish
Geography of ...
Hope and Hot cocoa from trader...
I Am
Joe's with a...
Kick!
Lucid
Martha told me about something...
New
Oh! yum!
Poetry
Quotes
Rumi ♥
Shakespeare
The Secret World of Arrietty was very good
Unabashedly
Vivacious
"You're a song, a wished-for song." ~ Rumi ♥

A Good Movie: A Good Year

A Good Year

Borrowed from...

Carlyle Campbell Library

Donna had it Displayed

Enjoyed by my kid too

"Forgive my lips. They find joy in the most unusual places." A Good Year

"Go. Love. Now." ~ Jess W. K. :)

Happy Monday

"I would like a lifetime spent with an irrational and suspicious goddess, some short-tempered...

jealousy on the side, and a bottle of wine that tastes like you, a glass that's never empty." ~ A Good Year

Kinda

Like Leaving early to take my girl to the...

Movies :)

"Never forget the unique place you hold -- you are everything." ~ Jess W. K. :)

Oh! We went to see The Secret World of Arrietty

Provence

Quotes

Russell Crowe Rocks

Sweet

Touching

Unearthing

What a weekend...

Arborvitae and a new word for me today...

Bokeh : the aesthetic quality of the blur

Cary High School

Drama club and

Elizabeth have Enjoyed a busy weekend

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Globularia cordifolia 

Hearts

Improv Night

Just chillin'

Kaveh's blog: Plant Propaganda

Lounging with our pets
Meredith with my girl
N
O
Plant Propaganda

Quiche for lunch

Reading a little
Sound of Music
Theater performance at Meredith
Unpalatable : http://plantpropaganda.wordpress.com/
V
Waffles!!!!
X
Yipee
Z

Saturday am Sojourn Serendipitous

Acquaintances? not!

Blow my flicker into a flame

Creations

Destiny

Embracing my destiny

Friends

God

Help restore the clarity your vision needs

Incredible

Judgment clouded, they blow through with just the right intensity
Kindred
Love
Moment
Now
Open

Pulling you out of your past, Pushing you towards your destiny

Relentless in their insistence that you persevere

Stand before Simultaneously Standing between...

True friends Teach me the value of surrendering my fears

Unknowingly shine light where darkness has stubbornly taken up residence

Where you are vs. Where you are meant to be. Wonderful people

you are my friendღ

Words throughout another busy week

Agora : a gathering place; especially : the marketplace in ancient Greece
Bella Monica's garlic soup will have to wait...
Cary High School Open House tonight...
Definitely!
Elizabeth's fav manga Entertain her

Fash : vex
Genuine
Hoar : old; grey or white. frost
Irid : Iridescent
Jade : a broken-down, vicious, or worthless horse
Krishnamurti, Jiddu: “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/13079

Lux : a unit of illumination equal to the direct illumination on a surface that is everywhere one meter from a uniform point source of one candle intensity or equal to one lumen per square meter

More to come
Now it is time to just be
Ova : plural of Ovum : a female gamete
Pride
Quixotic : exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
Sweet box Smells SO good!!!
http://lunawings.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarcococca-confusa-sealy-sweet-box.html
Thank you
U know who U r
Very sweet
"Why didn't you tell me what topic...." ~ JBLM
XOxo
"You never really asked" ~ EKM
Zealots

Random? I think not...

Poetry
By Pablo Neruda
Keeping Quiet

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

This one time upon the earth,
let's not speak any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be a delicious moment,
without hurry, without locomotives,
all of us would be together
in a sudden uneasiness.

The fishermen in the cold sea
would do no harm to the whales
and the peasant gathering salt
would look at his torn hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars of gas, wars of fire,
victories without survivors,
would put on clean clothing
and would walk alongside their brothers
in the shade, without doing a thing.

What I want shouldn't be confused
with final inactivity:
life alone is what matters,
I want nothing to do with death.

If we weren't unanimous
about keeping our lives so much in motion,

if we could do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would
interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and then everything is alive.

Now I will count to twelve
and you keep quiet and I'll go.

-from Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/pabloneruda.html

My Ring / Love Story

For one of my early teen birthdays, Aunt Joan gave me a ring that had been in her family for years. It had an emerald stone, and I treasured it. But, being a tomboy, I wore it while playing baseball. I can still see the stone flying off into the grass as the bat hit the ball and the vibration loosened the stone enough to separate it from its setting. My brothers and the neighbor boys all helped me look, even though they were boys, because they could see how much it meant to me. Our search was in vain and I had to return home with a hole in my heart ring, and my heart.

Mom, seeing my genuine feelings of loss, did not scold me. Instead, for my next Birthday, she replaced the missing stone with my birthstone, making it even more. I wore it for years, and then...

Gave it to my Goddaughter, Kristen, when I got married... I retrieved it, about 15 years later, along with some other parts of the self I'd “lost" while being married, and realized that ring means more to me than my wedding band ever did. We eloped on Aug 16th 1991, when “it made sense” to do so. We were moving away from my hometown and his 16 year old daughter was living with us. So, we exchanged vows under a tree at the town hall. A few months later, we purchased wedding rings at the mall and exchanged them outside a coffee shop. I suppose there was some romance in there somewhere. We still had the “scheduled” wedding the following May, and that was when I gave Kristen my favorite ring. Years later, I saw it at my parent's house, left behind when Kristen moved out. Mom said she never wore it, so I reclaimed it and it was in my jewelry box, waiting when I pawned the wedding band and purchase a costume for our kid with the cash.

I don't wear it very often, or the aquamarine one Mom gave us in 2004 to celebrate March birthdays. Delicate, silver setting with the light blue stone, it is about as opposite a ring as gold and dark red could get, but for me it carries the same meaning. To thine own self be true. Marry yourself, and the rest will fall into place.

“In the midst of our lives, we must find the magic that makes our souls soar” ~ Evelyn Beilenson

Monday - Happy 13th!! :)

Artist that writes music tailored just for you, my dear.
booyah!

come on, get higher

daughter

elizabeth is the 13th grandchild

flout : contemptuous disregard

grateful

helping out one of my girls

impunity : freedom from punishment, harm, or loss

judge

kan't like of a k today :)

Lobster butternut squash bisque? yum!

Matt

Nathanson

oh so good
podcasts : tara brach
quite a combo
retreat
shoulds
thank you, God
understanding un
veiling
Whole Foods for lunch
xoxoxoxoxoxome
You make me smile Jess
Zest for life is contagious

Weekend Floppage

Are We in Trouble by Mark Knopfler

Brief appeal : http://serensojo71.blogspot.com/

Catchin' up on save shows

Diaphanous: characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal

Elizabeth's words for what I've been doing all day today

Flopping - and reading FanFiction :)

Grammy Awards - probably not

Hewett, Courtney, this one is now dedicated to you :)

Icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron with twenty triangular faces and twelve pentagonal faces.

Jumbled

Karen called - twice

Like the shape of this list

Moon-pie

Nefarious, Nascent: to be born; having recently come into existence

Psych episodes recording upstairs

Qis

Relaxing

Sue Gager Palmer kick my but in a game online
Taxes
Unwind

Words With Friends

Thursday, February 9, 2012

"Amazing when you're beside me..."
Buckle my knees...
Connection, Delicious, Eagle, Fish & Fries
Glow, Hair down, Inside passage
Jess recommended this great song
Ketichikan p. 282, "Liquid-sunshine-o-meter"
Magic Moment p. 278, Nina & Meredith
Orca breaching p. 278, P, Quietly



So good, Thanks Jess xo
U, Vera, Wave, Xquisite view p. 279
Yuengling - saw the truck on my way into work and thought it would be a fun "Y"

Wed Feb 8, 2012

Acceptance
Breath, deep Breaths
Cate Center for lunch today
Doing accounting stuff
Earning a livn'
Feeling like going home now

Gotta Get Groceries and Gas

Hoping to Have dinner soon

Imagination is a wonderful thing

Just seeing the name of this plant made me smile

Kresge to pick up my T-shirt

Lovin' the name of a tree I noticed

Magnolia × soulangeana 'Fukuju'

Now you can't see it, but in the Spring... 
Oh Calgon... take me away...
Pandemonim p. 267 followed by...
Queues
Read a little while eating my lunch
Serendipity
Time go...
Underwhelmed
Very
Winter Garden
Xtremely tired...
Yeah
Zzzzz...

Tuesday Topic, Feb 7, 2012

The World Is Too Much With Us

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

Attitude and Attention
Buddha
Child
Development
Early in my day...
Full, fast-paced

Intention and Ideas
Just go on drifting...
K
Love
Move into
Open into a space of awareness
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional ~ Buddha
Space - Awake Space - Sacred Space
Time
Uniquely personal journey
Veracity
Zenith - from Jess' most recent blog

Monday... Meditation: February 6, 2012

Ataraxia: Greek for lucid state of freedom from worry or any other preoccupation

Blessings on the journey
Creativity

D

Exploring the inner fire

Free from preoccupation

Gift of presence

Holy ground

Inextricably Interconnected... Imagine...

Journey

K

Lose control of your life completely...and Life can blossom under your feet.

Mirror: way of seeing that which is timeless and eternal

Namaste: "the light in me greets the light in you"

Occupy the space within

Pay attention, Pure essence, Presence

Quiet our minds

Regain it and...live for something greater than the self
Surrender
Tomorrow is not promised
Universe
"Very little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground. Be crumbled.

So wild flowers will come up
Where you are.

You have been stony for too many years.

Try something different. Surrender." ~ Rumi

What really matters is love, X, Yama

Sunday, Feb 5, 2012

Angst - great word! from A Serendipitous Sojourn: http://serensojo71.blogspot.com/ thx  Antoinette
Beauty of the Rain is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls.....
Cookies... must... make... Cookies... need motivation... or a NAP! :)

Deeper vibration (Simple Abundance)

Enchanting

Focusing can be Fantastic Fun

Gamble everything for love ~ Rumi

Hearts...

Images

Jess called from Germany today!!!! yay!!!

Kid time!

Love my friends, and this kid:

Madeline Kate Lessig

Nice visit

Open heart

Poets and Podcasts

Quietly Quivering

Read: Reminded of words like "rapturously"

Super Soul Sunday

This day is for me

Upanishads: philosophical texts... Hindu religion.

Veracity : power of conveying or perceiving truth

Writer's Almanac then Waffles

eXcited to be baking

Yoga

Zen

January 30, 2012

Always half full?

Bobby Thomason in my prayers

Caring can be so painful

Deep breaths

Frog Prince

Intriguing and Intoxicating

Just breathe, pray, and

Keep praying

Luxury of Lingering

Movies Motivated Me

N

One True Thing

Perfect precious purring

Sweet Smiles

Turning mechanical into Miraculous

U

Weekend Words