Cartwheeling through Life

Christmas Recap 🎄 2023

"Anthem For Christmas" by Michael W. Smith listen here

Bob Segar "Little Drummer Boy" listen here

Casting Crowns "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" listen here

"Don't Look Back" by Boston seems appropriate on Dec 30th listen here

"Enough is Enough" also seem appropriate listen here

"Hey Moon" by Sidewalk Prophets listen here

Jolabokaflod: The Christmas book flood

Ken gifted these fun hats for

Lynette and me :)

Mercy Me's "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

Noel ~ The Happy Christmas Ornament watch here

"O Holy Night" Josh Groban version listen here

"Peace on Earth/Little Drumm8er Boy" Bing Crosby, David Bowie listen here

Quiet weekend of movies I love and I finally finished the puzzle

"Give me Reason, but don't give me choice cuz I'll just make the same mistake again." ~ James Blunt (plays during end credits of P.S. I Love You, the only movie I ever saw at a theater alone.)

Silent Night Stevie Nicks listen here

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." ~ Émile Zola

Xtra bit of celebration for: Ken heading to MeXico...

Year end, Year beginning...

Zeneli for dinner with Bob, Ken, and Mom

Still squeezing in reading

"A shiver ran through my booted feet, cold in the snow, and felt - that curious rapture..." p. 42 Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Tripp

"Believe. Believe Believe." p. 54 Toothiana, Part 2: A Queen Takes Flight by William Joyce

Call forth an unseen spirit- to draw out what is..."

"Dawn feels soft and kind." p. 31 "Don't assume you can bend the world to be what you know it should be. You won't win. Just come home." p. 56 Georgia

"Each (tear) was bright with light and seemed to take the burden from his anxious heart...

"Fear and sorrow triumphed over make a powerful weapon." p. 55 Toothiana, Part 2: A Queen Takes Flight

"Holy - that moment. I've felt it in me since, everything turning into what it was meant to." p. 56 Georgia by Dawn Tripp

"Keep yourself open to that - that raw inspiration, that madness, that passion; you must let yourself be driven by that need." p. 116 Georgia by Dawn Tripp

Listen here to All Things Considered December 25, 2008 source

Matchless by Gregory Maguire

"Not everyone can feel what you feel, or feel to the end of themselves as you do." p. 56 Georgia

The Sandman: The Story of Sanderson Mansnoozie by William Joyce

Pumpkin pie:

"Quizzical, silent, wary, strong." p. 66 Georgia by Dawn Tripp

"Rein in the chaos and fear to transmute an untenable form of beauty even as that world fell away." p. 29 Georgia by Dawn Tripp

"Something happened in that kiss, didn't it?" p. 20 "Silent point of reference that held everything tethered..." p. 28 ~ Georgia

"This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have mine." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

"Unqualified nakedness of statement." p. 114 "Unmitigated praise" p. 115 "Unformed electric nature of things" p117 "Vapor round her person" p. 114 Georgia by Dawn Tripp

William Joyce: The Guardians of Childhood books: