Mother's Day week 2025

"All I had done was merely planted the seed of hope; she alone could help it to grow. And...

Because she was starting to lose sight of me, perhaps that seed was being cultivated." ~ p. 280 If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern

Card from Mary Roberts

Dog Watch for lunch on May 13th was perfect!

Enjoying the book and the view 

 from Karen

If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern

Jess, Pat, Caroline, Tray, Kathy, Mom, and Marsha

Ken's "girls" gathering for Mother's Day

Lois Bailey Thomason  with baby Nancy, and her big brother Robert 1937

Mom, the and now 32 years later 

Noah's first thing Sunday morning

Olive  sweet Olive

Peach ice cream and Puzzle making was the Perfect ending to our...

Quintessential, and not so

Random, celebration of the 13th of the month

TQ. Birthday 🎂 Mother's Day, Thirteenth

"Unknown Self" p. 144-5 "Callings" To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue

Visited a cemetery or three this...

Week

Xenopus Laevis frogs (from a student's renewal application) is a African clawed frog :)

Yes, this video is from a few Years ago, but I saw it for the first time this morning 13 May 2025

Zachary, so very brave 

13 April 2025 - 21 April 2025

"Blue-Cheesy, Questionable, and Life-Saving Secret of Where to Go!" p. 9 JabberWalking

"Dangling isotopes and putrid donkey smells and flashing plexiglass roof colors and..." p. 12 JabberWalking 

"Eyes of flame" ~ from Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll

"Galactically free -- you!" p. 12

"Here is the magnificent question: What else can accept bonified Jabber Walker do In a boxed-in cruddy and crummy situationsuch as this, I ask you? Have you ever been totally, epically, mega-smashed?" p. 23"

"Leap!" p. 40

"New shap with fuzzy sprinkle of the words from your burble journal" p. 51

"Pour it all out... in a Puffy hurry" ~ JabberWalking

"Remember a family story? How far back do your familia stories take you?" p. 60

"Scribble out the electric Jabber worms crawling out of your head & eyes..." p. 16

"Usually encountered while on the journey of becoming a masterful Jabberwalker of burbles" p. 70

"Voice... hiding in a cave..." p. 127

"Writing saved my life." p. 127

My neXt read

5-9 April 2025, Norwich, CT

Alanis Obomsawin : “When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.” source

"Be where your feet are." 🥰 Happy Sunday! thank you, Lynne Grigelevich

Chappell Roan "Coffee" listen here

Doctor's appointment 

"Everyday" by Buddy Holly 

Feeling pretty rough (stomach flu 😫)

"Greenpeace believes that after the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned and the last fish dead, you will find you can’t eat your money." source

I had to crop it - their faces make me physically ill!

Janice Swab has worn the GreenPeace t-shirt for many years

Kansas "Dust in the Wind" on the way to work Monday morning

Logan's sign

Mark's Celebration of Life

"Never Be the Same without you here..." Christopher Cross lyrics

"Only when... the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree Indian Prophecy

Priorities: Puddles and Presence - was a blog post from 2011 I recently read again and incorporate into the digital "book" I am writing for my son xo

Quote Investigator attributes the origin of this quote here

 Roseate Spoonbill

  thank you Cullen xo

"Shelter From the Storm" ~ Bob Dylan

"Time in a Bottle " ~ Jim Croce

Under the weather this week

Video for Chelsea Groton's Annual Report is in draft now

"You don't need a sign, you just need to keep me safe" ~ LB 4/5/25