March 2023: Books, Birthday, and more

"Aries Goddess Signature-living a fierce, vulnerable, full-hearted YES to life and all parts of ourselves (fearful and brave) is how the delicate flower emerges from the rock." ~ Mark Nepo

Birthday Breakfast

Couple of years...

Decades ago...

Enjoy spending time with this peanut then and now

First time on a horse, for me, and a great guided trailride for all. Photo by Logan xo

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happy Birthday to Logan!!

Kristen Helal's   mine

Logan's 27th Birthday

Mom bought us the beautiful candle

Quilt making Queens, Loretta, Lynette, and Shabazz

Reading some excellent "children's" books

Sunrise at Crescent Beach and McCook park

The Lord's Prayer by Jen Norton

Ultimate healing (21) Umbrage (39) Unexpected grace (43) Help, Thanks, Wow By Anne Lamott 

Vichyssoise fog (55) Help, Thanks, Wow By Anne Lamott 

"What bubbled up that made you Want to...

eXplore more?" Stephanye Clarke

Zambia and Zimbabwe, Summit for Democracy, birthday spent far away from family. Thank for all that you do, Scott Bates!!

Celebrating Spring Equinox

Aries

Balancing point

"...Droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur..." Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Prologue right there on page 2 :)

Energy of spring Equinox

Falling on March 21, 22, or 23

Gnarled branches represent the twisting path of life. p. 30

"Holi : the Joyous and colorful spring festival of India is associated with the defeat of the demoness Holika..." p. 15

"If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb."  ~ Farmers Almanac

Journey from death to life p. 4

Ken, on the Wednesday before Easter, we should pretend we're in

Lebanon on "Job's Wednesday" and not clean house, which attracts ants, but instead, go to the beach for a picnic and first swim of the year! :) p. 18-19

"March was the first month of the Roman year until ... 46 BCE when January and February were added" p. 3

"March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb”

Nowruz : Persian New Year

Our Lady, the Life-Giving Fountain p. 27

Picnic Day: Monday after Easter

Queen of Heaven p. 43

"Reference to astronomy, referencing the position of the constellations Leo (a lion) and Aries (a ram, or lamb) in the night sky – it quickly evolved into a succinct summation of March’s changing weather as the...

"...Seasons change from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere." source

Tansy Cake were the prizes awarded to the winners of the Easter games. Tansy is a bitter her, therefore good for cleansing the body in spring..." p. 53

Unlike the Autumn Equinox, the Spring Equinox is associated with many holiday customs. p. 2

"Vertú engendred is the flour" [Virtue engendered is the flower] p. 2

"Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth" [my favorite line]

XV, for Kristos voskryesye - Christ is risen." p. 50

Yugoslavia: the Easter Hare makes a nest in the stables and young folks look for eggs in the hay." p. 65

Zoroastrian seven S's: seeb, sonbol, seer, sumac, senjed, sabzeh, and samanou p.31

Inspiration from books, movies, even scrolling...

Absurd and Antediluvian... (ridiculously old-fashioned) p. 36 Small Victories by Anne Lamott

"Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa... a walk... " p. 103 Small Victories by Anne Lamott

Cute Cottage

"Death is God's no to all humans" p. 120 Small Victories by Anne Lamott

"Emptiness can be filled only with love... a nap... or maybe, perhaps,a fig." p. 103

"Flecks and nuggets of gold that Feeling grief will give you." ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories

"Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped." p. 111 ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories

"Haphazardly Haranged and laughed at me. " p. 244 ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories

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Inspiration comes in many forms

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"Jiggles you free from clutch and quiver..."p. 115

 Living room Light at 49P

Mom, Nancy Thomason 💕 1954

Nancy Ann Thomason 💕 1954

"Oh no! Your magic hat!" cried the cats 'Now you'll NEVER be able to make the dog disappear."

Persian mystical Poet, Rumi "Where there is ruin there is hope for treasure." 

Quiet here at Westerly side of Pawcatuck River

River bend cemetery looking downriver toward Westerly Yacht Club from the Law Family plot

 "Softness and illumination" p. 35

"Through love, all pain will turn to medicine." ~ Rumi qtd. p. 103

"Unfurl your fingers, hold out your palm,  openhanded" p. 115

"Vessel to the giver" p. 104  ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories

Whitman's song of myself "To touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand."

Xylaria polymorpha, commonly known as dead man's fingers, is a saprobic fungus. It is a common inhabitant of forest and woodland areas, usually growing from the bases of rotting or injured tree stumps and decaying wood. Source

thanks, Greg, new FB friend :)

"You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even when it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading." p.68 ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories

"Zinging like electrified molecules." p. 239 "Zucchini seeds don't grow tulips." p. 278 ~  Anne Lamott Small Victories