Play Day!! September 24, 2011

Austen’s Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury by Karen Valihora [saw this title the other day and thought it was funny] more here - just looked it up (27 March 2025)
Ball for playing with Misty
Consignments shops
Delectable
Evinces: displays clearly (National Treasure from Declaration of Independence)
Forboding: Espero...
Gram's Gingerbread cookies
Halloween costume Hunt
In search of... Items to create Terra from TeanTitans and...
Jeans for you
Kickball with you  and Misty
Labyrinthian
Movies with... yep... YOU!
Nemo is Next
Order most recent favorite pics from Walgreens
Play!!
Rite Aid: Red kickball
Scrapbook
Tenacity: persistent determination.
Upload favorite pics
Whole Foods
Yum!
Zen tea

Retail therapy helped us through the month since Misty's passing

Ashes will be saved And scattered 
Bookcase and Bureaus adorned with photos. Birthday 
Celebration for Logan's 29th (21 March 25) and this store:
  
Dropped Logan off at his friend Jade's in Deep River
Enjoyed an afternoon and Evening of adventuring
Frames for Misty photos and this Fish bottle
   Found at Maria's Treasures
Game X Change in Norwich 2x makes the perfect "x" (see below)
Home Depot for paint colors and now... 🤷‍♀️I can't remember what else
I'm not usually a fan of retail therapy,  but we just couldn't be where Misty used to be with us on weekend afternoons, so it has been helpful these last few weeks. Now 1 month and 1 day
with Mom after her appointment
Kohl's / Sephora for Logan 
Lisbon CT - and then Lowe's for a rug for the Living room
Misty, March 22, 2021 popped up on my FB feed yesterday :(
New Haven for Ben's birthday gifts from Strange Ways
Olde Mistick Village
Pink Basil  
 insearch of "good" protein bars
Rug is just Right for our living Room
Sherwin Williams for and paint for bathroom and front door "Forget-me-not" purple
  for Ben's birthday gifts
Tea Kettle for Brunch on the way to New Haven
Uploaded 1st of many misty videos to a brand new playlist just now 23 March 2025
Video playist of our pup video : click here
 3.21.25
 3.22.25
Zut! French, "zut" is an interjection meaning "damn," "shoot," or "darn," often used to express mild annoyance or frustration, and is generally considered polite. [was in a book I decided not to continue reading]

ABCs of re-reading The Morning Star by Nick Bantock

Attitude adjustment: "A gentler pace will give you time to evolve." ~ Griffin to Isabella 1st postcard of The Morning Star by Nick Bantock
"By insulating myself from the elements, I failed my innate need to know exactly where I was." ~ Griffin to Isabella 1st postcard of The Morning Star by Nick Bantock 
Carry out this masque with Conviction, we may reap a significant reward...
Do not underestimate your own courage. You are part of an
Elite. Not of power, position and wealth, but an Elite of the sensitive, the considerate and the tenacious...
Few gain notoriety. They are sensitive to others as well as themselves,  their consideration is without Frills, their tenacity is not braggartly but has the power to endure, and above all they can accept the irony of their own Fate."
Sabine's long letter to Matthew 
Griffin's cat, Minnaloushe, is from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Cat and the Moon" a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. In the poem, Minnaloushe is a cat that stares at the moon and lifts its eyes to its changing phases. more here 
"However, before your hunger for Matthew can be satisfied thege are certain precautions to be observed. " ~ Griffin's first postcard to Isabella
"In the desert, The Great Lion rose up, lifting upon its head the Morning Star... 
... its hour come around at last." ~ The very last words of The Morning Star by Nick Bantock.  If only I could find Pharos Gate at a reasonable price... "Published simultaneously with the 25th-anniversary edition of Griffin & Sabine, The Pharos Gate finally shares what happened to the lovers in a gorgeous volume that will surely delight Griffin and Sabine's longtime fans and a new generation of readers."
Jess, have you ever heard of these fabulous books by Nick Bantock? I will  email today!  BTW, what was that app we did during the pandemic? Miss you
"Keep up your guard" ~ Matthew to Isabella
Laundry : Later... perhaps
Note: "M" was "Mow lawn" but was years ago in NC. Now it is 3.9.25 and we are in Norwich, CT
Our forever home yard will be wildflowers instead, once it's warmer enough!
"Pharos Lighthouse guiding you safely into port" ~ Matthew's post card to Isabella
"...Quiet precognition, waiting for a glimpse of the future, unsure whether my instincts were to be confirmed. Eventually all doubt receded..." ~ Sabine's letter to Matthew
Reading:
"Stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts." ~ Griffin to Isabella 1st postcard of The Morning Star by Nick Bantock
Trim along the fence [our forever Home yard doesn't need this, in fact, perhaps we'll remove the fence completely!
"Unleash your wings and fly swiftly as you are able..." ~ Griffin's postcard to Isabella 
"Victor Fralatti is the embodiment of deception, the Lord of Somnambulists..."
"When my thrist for reminiscence was slaked I visited the oracular waterfalls on ta Fin...
eXceptionally soft, almost metallic,  and trance inducing. Traditionhas it that its spray clears away cobwebs of deceit." ~ Sabine to Matthew 
"Your body must reflect a quiet singularity... your limitations [are] your fears" ~ Sabine's postcard to Matthew
"Z" by John Kincheloe... do you see it?