Sunday, as September draws to a close...

Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson

Coffee Love

Elephant Spirituality article: "It's all a blessing"

"Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon." ~ Nelson Mandela

Going to yoga now...

Heart light

"Joy on the Journey" Facebook page

"Know that whatever you are going through right now is a blessing." ~ Elephant Spirituality article (see above)

Love:

Meghan is a most amazing teacher!

Next after yoga was New pumpkin

One Open heart

Quiet a productive weekend in the kitchen and on the mat

Receiving

Savoring September's Sun, fun and flavors

Transformation

Unfathomable

Voice of God

eXtra long shower

Yoga and Yum!

Zeg (Georgian)It means “the day after tomorrow.”

End of the week... into the Weekend...

"Autological words are a self-centered, self-referential bunch." ~ Mental Floss on Facebook

Birthdays aBound in September, But they are all special to me

Coquina shells made up the beach at the final destinastion of Tracks

Deb Munroe's Birthday

Furore - an outbreak of public excitement

Google's Birthday too :)

Home IS where the Heart is, and it can be in 2 places at one time. Thanks, Valerie

Joy

Knowledge Graph

Love to Linger, Loosen, and Let go

"Moon is waning (dark half) and transits Taurus, Gemini and Cancer this week....Aim towards flourishing and thriving this week with deep surrender." (shared by Sara) via Elephant Spirituality

"Oscillating between white and Aboriginal cultures..." p. 239

"Penultimate scene...Pleistocene coastline" p.251

Quechua or Quichua 1. a member of any of a group of South American Indian peoples of the Andes, including the Incas 2. the language or family of languages spoken by these peoples

Sercy from a very Special lady

"Unpronounceable joy" p.251

Valerie's blog post was

Wonderful!

Xylem Woodworking - truck I saw Friday

Yoga - my answer to most dilemmas these days

Zester - the kind of apple I ate Friday afternoon :)

First Full week of Fall...

A lot of "F"s, I know, but there are many more below.

Click here to see more "Breathe ...more"

Dogs : "the good lord in his infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable - hope, jokes and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs" (210) Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Escarpments p. 220 Tracks by Robyn Davidson

"Find your wings"

FitFit

FEARLESS

Freedom to Flow

Fine Fettle : state or condition of health, fitness, wholeness, spirit, or form

Grazier :a person who rears or fattens cattle or sheep for market. p. 213

"Haunting Hallucinatory quality about this place" (222). Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Interrobang : superimposition of exclamation point and question mark ‽

Jocularity p. 208 Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Kincheloe nudged me back to The Writer's Almanac. Thank you! :)

Laudable Laingians p. 210

"...My daughter"

"One needs to feel part of the earth before it is possible to notice the difference" (210). Tracks Davidson

Patience Pilfered, circa 1975
Quiet arboreal friends :) Dana Boland

Rhythm without Rhyme

Snark Mark

check it out at : http://mentalfloss.com/article/12710/13-little-known-punctuation-marks-we-should-be-using

That twisty, thorny plant with bitter, orange fruit is a Flying Dragon

Vibrantly colored

Writer's Almanac

eXistenceparadoXicallyoXymoronic

Yak

Zelda

Weekend, Sept 21-22, 2103

Autumnal equinox

Balance

"Cloche" - what a Cool word. And did you know it was originally in 1623 to prevent frost damage and promote early growth?

"Dream with me" ~ Robby Novak (Kid President)

Elizabeth's 1/2 Birthday - 17 and 1/2 wow!

Fall

Giant cleansing of all the Garbage and muck that had accumulated in my brain, a Gentle catharsis." p.192

Hmm is a word. who knew? Sue did, that's who

"I think we all need a pep talk! If lfe is a game, aren't we all on the same team?" ~ Kid President

Joyful aimlessness p. 194

Love

Mitote: refers to the cacophony of voices in your head - from The Four Agreements by DonMiguel Ruiz

Namaste': "The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you" - a knowing that we are all made from the same
One Divine Consciousness

Pituri (Duboisia hopwoodii) the leaves are the source of a narcotic used by the native Australians p. 179

Quirky cooking is a Facebook page I tripped across because of this post :)

Ryan John Law is 20 - 1 more year til the "Golden Birthday" and the memory book :)

"Simple" by k.d. lang

Uru pulka "big lake" (the sea)

Voluable : speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently p. 187

Wilcha p. 185

Zippy energy p. 188

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Art Galleries at Meredith this month

Book I am reading

Contains many opportunities for new words and blog input :)

Diggity was overjoyed p. 168

"Fossicked" p. 161 - rummaged around in her head; Frenetic happiness p. 166

Glendle, the community advisor

https://www.facebook.com/itsthehappypage

Integrated whole

Jig

Krispy Kreme talk like a pirate day, will I go? Not likely
Lespedeza (Bush clover)

Morning visit to the roses, evening: time to Meet the teachers

Nantz is the fav

Pirate Day :)

Quizzical

Respect Rootedness

Substantiality - the quality of being large in size or presence

https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualLoveGratitude

Troppo : Austral slang mentally affected by a tropical climate

Vortex - incongruous vortex

Wingelinna, Australia

eXuding

https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Write.Company

Zen time

9/18/2013 now October 4, 2018 - where DID the time go...

Are you ever frazzled by the mundane details? I am but!
Bed, Bath and Beyond is still on my list, haven't gotten there yet...
Crisp beautiful day
Details in the fabric? or are they the fabric?
Errands, food, groceries, laundry etc, etc, etc?
"Fruit loop" my new name for a walk around campus that includes various Fruit bearing plants :)

"Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself" ~ Rumi, 13th century mystic

Help others

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." ~ Tennyson

Jackson Kiddard ~ "Opportunities surround the One who does not judge a situation as good or bad but simply remains open, trusting and persistent in effort and approach."

Kombucha : a gelatinous mass of symbiotic bacteria and yeasts grown to produce a fermented beverage." Also, beverage prepared by fermenting kombucha with black tea and sugar.

Last Library staff meeting Tuesday morning

My cake for the celebratory portion of the meeting

Opened a friend's blog and realized I'd missed 3 posts... how?

Praying Mantis from

blog that no longer exists

Quality blogging, photography and a cause with heart

Right now, this moment, is all we ever have

Starbucks card - yes!

Trouvaille:(n.) something lovely discovered by chance

Usually I wait until I have something for each letter. not this time, apparently

Zora Neale Hurston ~"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

Another "do over"? Really? Now? Yes! And it is going to be GREAT! 3 years ago

Aaron took this picture and named it "Hang out" ~ May 15, 2015

Blessed with abundance of Beauty

Choosing Transformation - again

"Dinosaurs (= armored lizards) that we are! We may be lizards, but we're armored with information!" ~ JCS, Jan 31, 2012

"Enjoy the journey, and the destination." ~ random? conversation 9/27/16

"Funny, I thought of you too when I read the Kripalu email, specifically "Clearing the clutter: making space for positive change." ~ mnf April 16, 2015

Grateful for everything that has ever happened because I am here, now.

"If I could, I'd hire you for the job Queen Bee of Joyner! Dr. C" March 28, 2007

Janked? New word for me, while watching Steven Universe with my kid. Love it!
Kindred spirits and Kris' class. That was SO much fun!!!

Made this cool connection today, Monday...

Now what? Need to put my ideas into words on paper

Piffle : to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way: perhaps blend of piddle and trifle First Known Use: circa 1878

Quietly live a life of peace AND passion?
Research is great, but so is Relying on Nature

So Far Away lyrics:

"This is my life its not what it was before all these feelings i've shared and These are my dreams that i'd never lived before somebody shake me 'cause i i must be sleeping... i'm not ashamed to be the person that i am today..."

Unwinding
Vitamin D3 is essential for a healthy vibrant, long ,life

eXpose myself to the sunlight that is always raining down

"You win for most-adept-at-politically-charged-readings-of-the-campus. . .or at least according to me;) " KMR e-mail, March 3, 2015

Zestar x Honeycrisp = SweeTango apple - maybe the only part left of the original post :)

Saturday's insouciance...

Ambiguous

Bed moved to Better enjoy the view of sunrise and hummingbirds :)

Cooking first spaghetti squah of the season
Do chores, but with Downtime too

Enjoying Saturday of ...
"Flopping"
Get groceries

Home phone installation

Insouciance: a relaxed and calm state : a feeling of not worrying about anything

Javelina - skunk pig

Keno - Sue and her darn scrabble words - always KicKs my butt!
Long walk with
My Misty

No Niggling

Ockers: uncultured or boorish Australian p. 137

Purple frame for strawberry basket art work

Quandong Queens of the Australian desert: a truly unique native Australian fruit.

Rest and relax

Sonder from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows : the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Things I'd like to do today : take Misty for a walk, relax, get groceries, laundry
Uluru / Ayers Rock, Australia
Vocabulary from the book I am reading: inimical - not friendly; likely to cause damage
Wedding gift for Athena and Tom from Bed Bath and Beyond
eXploration
Yalka - bush onions
Zip - my wimpy little use of Z in scrabble with Sue, which is way she always wins ;)

Friday Fun - Friday the 13th, no less!

Apricity : The warmth of the Sun in winter.

Biblioklept : A person who steals books

Crapulous : marked by intemperance especially from excessive indulgence in liquor

Dysania : The state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning.

Ferrule : a ring or cap, typically a metal one, that strengthens the end of a handle, stick, or tube and prevents it from splitting or wearing.

Grawlix : A string of typographical symbols, especially "@#$%&!", used (especially in comic strips) to represent an obscenity or swearword.

"I decline To walk the line They tell me that I'm lazy Worldly wise I realize That everybody's crazy

Jackie belongs in Joyner :) thanks Christine!!

Kummerspeck : excess weight gained from emotional over eating

Mental-floss video article

Petrichor : the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning stone + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell".

Quincunx : a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center

Robin Colby's Birthday is tomorrow - but her cartwheel will be today :)

Scroop : The rustle of silk. Interestingly, also the main antagonist from Disney's Treasure Planet. He is an alien spider/crab-like creature who attempts to stage a mutiny on the ship...

Triskaidekaphobia

Vorfreude : joyful anticipation

Zugzwang : a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.

Australian Adventurer

Arra (get going) to Areyonga Australia Aboriginals
"Bathed in an effulgence of light and joy" p. 111
Condy's Crystals p. 85 (dark purple crystalline compound, KMnO4, used as an oxidizing agent and disinfectant and in deodorizers and dyes. potassium permanganate.)
Dearest Dookie p. 75
Escarpments: long steep cliffs p. 88
"Fears were paper tigers." p.50 Fetishistic: having extravagant irrational devotion p. 96
Gibbering p. 96
"Hurrahing in Harvest" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic—as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!—
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Inveigle: to win over by wiles p.81 Ignominy: public shame or disgrace p. 114 "Inspired lunacy" p. 115
Jewel as in: "my aloneness was a treasure which I guarded like a jewel." p.54 Jackaroo p. 120

Kestrel: falcon p. 121 Kunga-berries p. 121

Locum: placeholder
Mulga: Acacia aneura, a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia p.68

Niece headed "down under" for Christmas this year (2013)

"Orgy of possessive bliss" p.53

"Protect that high clear place that could not be shared" p. 54 Petulant p. 95

Quote from the movie, which I finally got to see on Sept 5, 2016: "It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these gifts was dogs."

Robyn Davidson: an Australian writer best known for her book Tracks. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years.

Surreptitiously p.56 acquired by Stealth