January begins 2025

"Are not flowers the stars of the earth?" ~ Clara Lucas Balfour

Celebrate 🥳 your uniqueness

 Logan and I watched again 1/7/25 and this time I paid attention 😀 and enjoyed it very much!

Ellison Goodwin's "Breath of Spring"

source

"Holidays" by Conan Gray

"If you cannot find Peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." ~ Marvin Gaye

John Lennon's "Imagine" feels hauntingly necessary NOW

 source

Kacey Musgraves - "Camera Roll" lyrics.

Listen closely here

Martha Fonville's birthday prompt on my January calendar: "Do you know the circumpolar constellations?"

Now I do! And "Draco (The Dragon)" is among them source

Olivia Rodrigo: "Can't Catch Me Now" listen here 

"Peace ✌️ begins with a smile." ~ Mother Teresa 

Qui Transtulit Sustinet : "He who transplanted sustains"

 

"Ready to Create?" Created by Peter Reynolds ♥️ 

 

"Sparkling Day" by Elvis Costello ✨️ was the song playing during end credits of the movie One Day 

Uniqueness Underlying theme of Wicked

View : Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Dorien Dr Norwich CT 

First page of the book One Day

Xfers were a focused this afternoon- thanks for your help, Janet 1.15.25

source 

Zoomies: Frenetic random activity periods (FRAPs), as in "Shabby has haf the Zoomies today" ~ Logan 1.15.25

Not That Fancy

"A Lot of Hope and Hard Work" Chapter 1

Boy, does that hit home! Reba's recollection of her Mama [her name was "Jackie" 😀] deciding it was time to be Baptized by say "Preacher, I'm turning myself in.  I'm tired of doing this all by myself. " p. 22

"Back to God" listen and watch here

"Can't Even Get the Blues" 1983  listen here

"Dusting off your boots"... "Don't Forget to Kick Back and Enjoy" Chapter 8

"Eyelash material"?  I had to look it up 

Forward by Garth Brooks

"Good things won't come if you give up and go home." p. 11 "God's plans for me are always better than my plans, even if they do take me by surprise. And most of the time, they do." p.89

Hometown: Chockie Oklahoma Chapter 15: Here's Your One Chance 

"I knew I needed to wait for more Information. " p. 8 "I'm turning myself in. I'm tired of doing this all by myself." p. 22

"Jesus Loves Me" p. 20 "Just be still. Listen for God instead of doing all the talking." p. 23 

"Keep an open mind about others' opinions. " p. 74 Chapter 14: Keep Dreaming Forward

"Looking to slow down, get back to basics, and just have a heckuva lot of fun..." p. xi

"Love, strength, peace, and wisdom." p. 27 Chapter 13 Live Out Your Legacy 

Mama McEntire:  source

"Nature Is My Church" Chapter 2 

"Oklahoma truths"

 source 

"Piddlin' means "doing stuff other people might think is a waste of time" p. 9

"Pray for Peace" listen and watch here

Questions on p. 125 ie. "If you could relive one day from your life, which day would it be and why?"

Recipes might be reason enough to buy a copy of this book. Yum! Yep! And that was before "Beer Cheese" on p. 81 and "Crispy Smashed Potatoes" on p. 82

"Stick-to-itiveness" p. 11 Secret to a life well lifed is to get out of your head, step back, let loose, and live every moment as if it's your last." p. 131

Three things to succeed [in life and in relationships]: a backbone, a wishbone, and a funny bone. p. 127

"Unshakable belief in themselves ... end up succeeding most often." p. 106

"Very few rewards to be had in this life that don't require some risk." p. 221

"Work is in the Waiting" p. 5 "Whoever's in New England" listen/watch here

kiX Brooks (as in Brooks & Dunn) - yeah, I know it's a bit of a stretch - but what a fun name :)

"You Gotta Be You" Chapter 5

Z? If you've read this far and have any ideas for a "Z" that works here, please feel free to leave a comment.  Especially if you just happened to be a Reba fan, or... Reba McEntire! :)

Christmas Week December 2024 ABCs

A is for... Appreciation 

B is for...  source video is AMAZING

Christmas tradition: apricot nectar

Deck the halls!

 at library 12/28/24

Family and Friends

Get up. Get coffee. Get back in bed ✔️

Happy, Happy in our forever Home

"If you're not a seeker then you might as well be a corpse." source vs... "I am alive and well, and living in a world of dreams..." ~ Larry Gatlin

Kenny Chesney's version of a Grandp T favorite with Willie Nelson listen here

"Love will dissolve your fears by creating opportunities you couldn't have imagined before" possible source

 from Norwich, not ...

 :)

Our first of many Christmas trees in.our forever home: 

Power in the Present moment

Questioning Quietly

Reading Not That Fancy by Reba McEntire (and creating a blog post for that at the same time as this one)

Search to discover and recover your authentic Self

Under the tree "the thing that Christmas is all about"~ Noel: The Happy little Christmas Ornament

Wake full of Awesome: source

Xyloid: Resembling wood; having the nature of wood. [from an old blog posting merged to this one]

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt