Cartwheeling through Life

February 2, 2014: Groundhog Day, Tam H.H. Birthday and...

All About Awareness
Buddhism in a nutshell

Chinese New Year : year of the horse
Discover God in silence

Fun! but how does her shirt stay in place? mine never does
Groundhog Day
Happy Birthday Tam!!

Kadampa Center, Raleigh
Lou Holtz: "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." qtd by Valerie

North Carolina Botanical Garden had this to say:
"Our porous-paved parking places provided snowy interest in an Escher-like fashion."

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"Porous-Paved Parking Places"

Quite different than the one I took at Meredith

Really appreciate the Grounds Crew's extra efforts this week

Sarah Addison Allen made it to NYTimes' Inside the List!!
Tam Henson Higgins - wish I had a picture of us in our Candy Striper uniforms
Undo! undo! auto correct so wants to make that word "stripper" but that would be SO wrong

Vernerable Robina Courtin

World Cancer Survivor Celebration Day is Feb 4

Xylitol - a compound used in gum that can cause death to dogs!
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Feb 1, 2014 - Finished reading Lost Lake, a little past 7 am

"...she was, first and foremost, an Avaricious woman..." (219).

Bulahdeen

"Obviously, they were having some little Confab to which they hadn't bothered to invite Selma" (248).
"The trees were thick here, and the canopy of limbs above Dappled the light around them" (240).

"Eby was taken aback by her Ebullience" (227).

"Eby put her hand to her chest, to check for that Familiar Fluttering there" (264).
George
"Hope. It was the first time she'd ever felt hope" (255).

"Impulsively, she drew him into her arms and held him tightly, fiercely, the way Eby would..." (274).

"much to the relief of drivers in the Juggernaut of other cars..." (245).

Kate

"Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we can't have" (66).
"You look like a wood Nymph. You have beautiful hair" (253).
"conversation and moral support were the Only things asked for and given freely" (133).

"... back under the Picnic table, eating Pilfered Potato chips" (238).

"Lisette followed them, looking at Eby over her shoulder Questioningly" (246).

The author, Sarah Addison Allen, Reading the prologue at Quail Ridge in Raleigh. I was there :)
"...hair so dark is seemed to Suck the color out of everything it surrounded" (5).

He mouthed the word toujours. Always" (283).

"She Understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another" (136).

"Bulahdeen ate, timidly at first, then Voraciously when she realized how good it was" (253).

"When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again" (284).

"She realized she'd been holding her breath and finally she made herself eXhale" (273).

"You do good endings. I like your style" (293).
"The little girls had left their secret hiding place and were now Zigzagging through the crowd..." (236).