Cartwheeling through Life: October 2025

Better together ❤️ Jack Johnson listen here

Carole King's "Only Love is Real" list here

Dawes' "A Little Bit of Everything" listen here

10.18.25 9:09 am

FamilySearch(familysearch.org) p. 356 The Secret of Honeycake

Georg' and Uncle Bob visited our home and we had great visits all week

"Hold On Losely" by Emily Gaines Demsky

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"I Saw The Mountains" by Noah Cyrus listen here

Kaleidoscope by Chappell Roan listen here

Let It Go, Let It Flow by Dave Mason listen here

Mom, Uncle Bob, and Georg'

photos by Paula Law

Nancy Ann and Robert T. Thomason

Of Monsters and Men "Dream Team" listen here

“Pay attention to paying attention” ~ Emily Gaines Demsky, 2019

Quintessential Halloween photo

"Returning To Myself" by Brandi Carlile listen here

"... So wake me up when it's all over / When I'm wiser and I'm older / And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees /and changing leaves." ~ "Wake Me Up" by Avicii

8:43 am 10.23.25

"Up On the Roof" by James Taylor

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Wake Me Up (Acoustic) by Aloe Blacc listen here

from Mrs. Peanuckle's Tree Alphabet

"Yes!" to Adventure!!

19 October 25 Lake of Isles N. Stonington, CT

Zion Marley - Best of Me (Official Video) listen and watch here

photo taken @ Yale Peabody Museum

"Best part about writing in a journal is what you learn about yourself... I know that when the light comes to your heart like this, it's a compass you ned to follow. And no one can dim it unless you let them." p.351 Secret of Honeycake by Kimberly Newton Fusco

Cardinal flower outside Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven

Diorams were incredible

East Beach, Watch Hill swim! Yay!! 19 September 25

"Flood Tide" chapter 118 "...It's the rising, the surging, the soaring- When the Might Atlantic finally stands up and shows what it's been hiding all along... It's worn a mask all this time, but now, surprise! It pulls it off, and shows its true colors, which are very bright..." p. 337 Secret of Honeycake by Kimberly Newton Fusco

Grasshopper on tulsi

14 September 25

"Halfway Point" Perhaps, ma'am, a bit of comfort is more Helpful than a drizzel?" p.79 "...Cranberries that grow at the seashore make Honey the rosy color of the sun setting on the ocean. No ordinary honey will do..." p. 348 The Secret of Honeycake

"I'll cross that bridge one step at a time." p. 285 The Secret of Honeycake

"Just like the colors of the ocean, there are many shades of me." p. 272

Kerry & Bob invited me to dinner at

L'Orico New Haven. "Omnia vincit amor. Love conquers all." p. 349

"Mother-love. It's a powerful thing." p. 339 Secret of Honeycake by Kimberly Newton Fusco

New Haven adventures 2x in 1 week!

Oscotillo

Perserverantia vincit. Perserverance conquers. p. 347 Perserverantia vincit. "Itmeans maybe we'll try again tomorrow." p.352 The Secret of Honeycake

Quartz Sandstone concretion

Rafflesia

a genus of parasitic flowering plants in Southeast Asia, famous for producing the world's largest individual flowers

"Slack Tide" : "It's the waiting tide, the in-between tide... Hold your breath! The seagulls do... scooching down waiting for the sea to change direction. But the real secret of slack tide is it's not just a waiting. It's a BECOMING-the moment between one thing and the next." p. 175

Torosaurus