Just keep swimming...

Ashikaga Flower Park
 
Bezoars from Remarkable Creatures by Tracy ...
Chevalier
Dare to Dream
Elliptical conversation (Mr. Benet to Amanda Price in Lost in Austen)
"...Fools and Fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." ~ Bertrand Russell
Gorgeous images were part of an e-mail from Peter Wood - Thank you for sharing, Peter!
How beautiful is this! 
Japan's Tochigi Province
Kingusari : golden chain
Lost in Austen
Mandy Patinkin
"Not one heartbeat do I forget" Darcy in Lost in Austen
Open window this morning... nice little breeze
Princess Bride
"Queen of putrescence"
Recusant : an English Roman Catholic of the time from about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense
Starry Night
"There's more to say... if only the same words over and again" Darcy in Lost in Austen
Umbrella
Violet
Wonderful Wisteria
X
Y
Z

so I bought a new car...

Or rather the equivalent of one, by choosing to buy, not one, but 2 new heating and air conditioning systems for my home. Ok, so not quite the same cost of a new car, but close, and I'll be making month payment on them for nearly as long as they are under warranty...

Better Days By Eddie Vedder
D
E
G


K
L
M

Q
Runby
That's all I've got, for now...
U
What if

Sunday Stroll... Oct 21, 2012

Around Meredith College Campus
Beautiful day
Calyx : Noun. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts.
Dave's Coffee Syrup from RI :) yum!

Enjoying some beautiful fall weather and natures beauty
Fountain
   Gardens, Geese, and Ginkgo
   

Hydrangea (Oak Leaf)


Lake

Martin
"Octavia"

Pomegranate
Sunshine

Tung Oil Tree fruit
Unusually beautiful day
Walk with Misty


Yucca and many...
Zen moments



Attuned to Autumn October 21, 2012

"Be fallow, turned into fertile ground"
Dedicated to those who are struggling yet still...
Enjoying THIS day
Finished reading A Mystic Garden by Gunilla Norris
"I believed in fairies then. I suppose I still do" ~ Eugene O'Neill
John Joseph and Robert James 
Ken, Karen and Sue
"Make your own choice"
Now... Next things Next
"Overdose of practical considerations" ~ Eugene O'Neill
Passionate Play
Quab : to throb; to quiver; something unfinished or immature; unfledged bird
"Revelation of my own love seemed to open my eyes to the love of others" ~ Eugene O'Neill


"Surrendered openness"

"The beds seem barren. But I know lying fallow is different from doing nothing... ceasing of doing... is a kind of doing as well ... dynamic nakedness ... a radical placement of trust ... remain open to the mystery that made us... It requires emptiness ... It requires everything" (94).
Undecided...
Verizon store today??
"...willing, imitate the vast permission that is God's love" (95).

"YOLO" does not mean "I ONLY LIVE ONCE, I SHOULD DO STUPID THINGS AND THIS WILL BE MY EXCUSE!!" It means "You only live once, so you shouldn't waste your time doing stupid things. Do things that matter, because you can't go back and fix your mistakes." ~ EKM

It's a new day....and I'm feeling ...

I began this post very early Thursday morning when I woke with this song playing in my head.


Alive, Alert Awake ... Adjusted
Blessed
Crazed and Cluttered
Discombobulated but Determined
Enthusiastic
Frenzied
Grateful for ALL the people who have touched my life
How do ...
I ...
Just do "it" with "it" being everything thing on my "to do" list
Kindred spirits
Lucky
Muddled
Needy
Overwhelmed or One thing at a time?
Priorities Please
Queashy
Ready for
Sleepy and Sad
Tired and Teary
Uninspired Ugh or rather U.G.H. Unbelievably Good, Huh? Thanks to Antoinette
Vulnerable
What a mish mashed mess of feeling huh? So now you see why it to a couple extra days for me to post this :)

Sometimes we have our priorities shifted for us...

Align with the deep composting of God's love p. 90 of A Mystic Garden
"Be still and know" ~ Psalm 46:10
Cleaning up p. 92 of A Mystic Garden
Doing another redo ---------------
Everything can change in a split second...
For me, one of those times was simply,
Going to pick up my kid from Roleplay club...
Happened right in front of Cary High School.
I had to swerve to not hit someone who made an illegal left turn and pulled out in front of me and
Just (ps. turns out - this day, October 17th, is Julie's Birthday)
Kept right on going.
Luckily, two kind drivers saw what happened and stopped to see if I was ok...
Moving off of the Median, I
Next Need to get my kid and then
Off to AAA Car Care to see if I could get someone at look at it before they closed at 6pm.
Perhaps the very best thing about this incident was how calm my kid was,
Quietly and peacefully
Reminding me....



Turned out, I sheared the screws off of my Transmission fluid pan.
Undercarriage of our
Vehicle sits Very low :(
What next? Find a ride home, and a car to drive? Thank you, Julie.
less eXpensive fiX than I would have guessed, but have to find the part.
Yes, we are blessed, and that night, we really needed
Zen and Zzzzzzs

Wednesday Wordsday...

Aradia from Homestuck, not from the book I am currently reading :)
Book I am currently reading...

Coiled in Contentment p. 200
Desultory: lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm. Half-hearted
Eviscerate : Deprive (something) of its essential content. (Big with Tom Hanks)
Faygo can be found at...
Galaxy Food Center - Apex :)
Homestuck
Impatiens
Just do it
Karkat
Lascivious p. 257
Musing on the Mystery
Nuzzled p. 200
Oscillococcinum time... sadly...
Preternatural: existing outside of nature : extraordinary
Quiet Quiver p.200
Reticence : an inclination to be silent or uncommunicative; reserved
Supercilious: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. Andie Burke 10/14/12 :)
Troglodyte p. 249
Unison
Vriska Vanished from View
Wended their Way p. 136
Xplode with inherent eXuberance
Yearningly appealing p. 86 of A Mystic Garden
Zeus Zoomed after it... p.119

Always interesting to be reading to very different books at the same time :)

Weekend Wanderings - October 2012 - SC? I think so...

Bumblebee Stew: Yellow corn, stewed tomatoes, onions, black beans in a sweet spicy cream sauce.

Characters from...
Durarara
Endearing, enjoyable trip with my teen and ...
Friend Andie

Had a great time!

Izaya Orihara

Kerry's Birthday today
Lingering
Marriot
Nice place
Omelets
Pizza
Quiet Quest

Shizuo
Tuesday now...
Unwind with
Vic Mignogna
What a fun Weekend W
eXperienced
Youthful and
Zany :)

Things I Love about the week in review - October 15, 2012

Arboretum visit
"Breast Cancer Awareness Butterfly" by Sue Gager Palmer
Eugene O'Neill's 
"Collide" by Howie Day
Dave Matthews and the Dalai Lama - October 8, 2012
Eugene O'Neill's first Pulitzer Prize winning play Beyond the Horizon 
Friends
Gardens
Holly-go-bodly
Joy of wandering on and on
Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment).
A time in between, a moment of indeterminate time in which something special happens
Love
Mystery and spell which lures me
Need of freedom of great wide spaces...
Oh, I don't know... Ovals?
Pink Ribbon Butterfly
Quest of the secret which is hidden over there...
Really a Recap of last week
 “Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown..." ~ Eugene O'Neill
The rest of the letters
Unknown at this time
Venturing back can be fun - but don't stay there
Why Would We When there is so much Waiting here
eXplore the now most fully
Your future self will appreciate it greatly :)
Zentangle art by Sue Gager Palmer

A Mystic Garden: Working with Soil, Attending to Soul

Autumn is a ripeness, an urgency to complete.
Bear fruit for life itself...
Can be felt as the greatest fruit... Centered in deep Conviction...
Discover who we essentially are... Divine freedom that lets life live us...
Evolve without force.
Fulfillment demands that we let go.
Go to fruit and seed. Give to the future
How amazing to sense oneself rooted in dynamic and Holy leisure
Intention
Joy of completion blazes in every direction... Join the Joy!
Kindred Spirts
Let go... Let Life Live us... Let what is happening happen!
Muchinness
Now the leaves are turning...
Our lives, too, must be allowed to mature... Open to an expectation
Plants in the garden are giving their all
Qualia Principles: The Foundation For A Science Of Consciousness
Ripeness
Stems and leaves Surrender their energy to fruiting
Tawny or burning red and bright with gold... Trust infinte Timing
Urgency to complete... Unknowing again
Vegetable garden is full, full, full
We bear fruit to life itself... what needs to happen is occuring
eXpectation without intention
You are invited.
Zucchini is going...

Note: Nearly every word of this ABC list came from just a few pages (81-85) of the book in the above photo. I highly recommend reading the book, but will tell you, I pulled the "Q" from facebook this morning
And... I'd like to think of Gunilla Norris and myself as "Kindred Spirits" :)

What a week - or so...

Andrew Hussie
Beautifully Balanced weekend
Creative Cooking

"Esoteric, Exotic, or Enigmatic: Plants of Questionable Merit"
Friends of the Arboretum
Guardian Angel in Fuquay...
Homestuck :) Elizabeth's new fav
Izyay Orihara
Just might have to go for "guest" posts til I get back in my groove

Katniss was Elizabeth's costume 3 years ago. A girl ahead of the craze
L
My Mom
Now...
Off in search of cosplay coat
Pesterchum
Quiet
Routine
Scratch
Tranquility
Wiki before pestering on Pesterchum