Life and Death and My Next Breath

 Ajuga
Amanda's 30th is today, May 19, 2026
Behind The Scenes with Jeremy Renner on the Making Of Love and Titanium (Full) here
Casting Crowns' "Praise You In This Storm" listen here and Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here" listen here
Demons by Kenny Chesney listen here ๐ŸŽถ 
"Every choice you make has power. You are moving towards your values, desires, and goals." p. 147 Dear Friend I really needed to read those words this morning ๐Ÿ™21 May 2026
"Feels Like" by Gracie Abrams listen here
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie 
"Hold On To The Light" by Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiรฉrrez listen here
"I place on the altar of dawn / The quiet loyalty of breath / The tent of thought where I shelter / Waves of desire I am shore to / And all beauty drawn to the eye. / May my mind come alive today / To the invisible geography / That invites me to new frontiers / To break the dead shell of yesterdays / To risk being disturbed and changed. / May I have the courage today /  To live the life that I would love / To postpone my dream no longer / But do at last what I came here for / And waste my heart on fear no more." ~ Excerpt from 'A Morning Offering' from To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue
 Dawn, 9 May 2026
Josie, our love  


"Knowledge defeated anxiety every time." p. 42 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
Lilac and bright blue skies
 18 May 2026
My Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner
Noah Kahan, Hozier - Northern Attitude, Stick Season, and Homesick :)
"Our lives are frittered away by lack of focus." ~ Sarah BanBreathnach Simply Abundance May 18 essay
Prince of Tides movie revisited 33 years later. Even more Powerful in different ways with new eyes and Perspective.
"Quest to find tge most fundamental thing to life: my next breath." p. 34 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
"Redemption Song" by Bob Marley & The Wailers listen here
"Stick Season" by Noah Kahan  listen here
"Tell Your Heart To Beat Again (Live)" by Danny Gokey LISTEN here
Urgency to get everything "done" at work is already dissipating
Vital tasks without which who knows what would have happened... Vast waves of pain... an unruly ocean." p. 49
"Wait" by Jeremy Renner listen here 
an eXtra "Y"
"You are the ocean and I am the earth..." ~ "Wait" by Jeremy Renner listen ๐ŸŽถ here

May 1-13, 2026 Life will Never be the Same

"Adventuring into an odd new place..." ~ Jimmy Fallon
Brothers: Collective Divinity of Love ❤️ 
"Cracklin' Rosie" by Neil Diamond
"Dust In The Wind" by Kansas listen here
"Eden is that old-fashioned House we dwell in Every day." ~ Emily Dickinson
Flower Moon
Glow
 "It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." ~ Anne Frank, July 15, 1944
Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name invites us to ask: Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?
Kenny Chesney's "The Life" listen here
Misquamicut with Mom
Nicholas Joseph Law and his Mom, Christine Marciano Law, September 2014, Napatree 
Obituary  ๐Ÿ’” here
Placed a hold on Theo of Golden: a novel by Allen Levi
"Quixotic pursuitof bookseller." p. 23 Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Reprioritize everything
 "Stories are told; friendships are born..."abut Theo of Golden: a novel by 
Tim McGraw - Humble And Kind (Official Music Video)
Unbelieveable tragedy ๐Ÿ˜ข ๐Ÿ’” 
Video of May 1 Misquamicut 
"Welcome to Wherever You Are" ~ The West Wing Season 7 Episode 15
XOXOXOXO 
"Your ability to discern what is and isn't for you... will allow you to create space for all the good to come." ~ Dear Friend by Michelle Maros p. 139
Zwain, Hana. We all love you so much xo

End of April 2026

 "Awareness is always the first step toward change..." p. 118 Dear Friend by Michelle Maros
Barefoot on the Beach 
Countenance: mental Composure
 
Dave Mason May 10, 1946 - Apr 19, 2026
 started but...
Feelings kinda sluggish so... out into the cool sunshine to recharge

Garlic mustard as a Medicinal Plant: Tips for Foraging & Use click here
"How the Body from spirit does slowly unwind / Until we are pure spirit at the end" ~ Theodore Roethke
"Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain,  but simply points the way." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
"Just a Song Before I Go" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash: listen here
Kris is writing a book! click here for her announcement of This Human Life 
Lemon Loaf recipe was excellent ๐Ÿ‘Œ 
Mediate presence as opposed to immediate: the presences in landscape are Mediate; they are often silent and indirect" p.52 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
Neil Diamond's "I Am... I Said" listen here
"One World One Life" t-shirt Kris Claire PhD was wearing in this video 
"Quiet Your Mind" 
"Remember your power of choice"
Start to choose what takes space in your brain p. 118 Dear Friend, April 23
 too cute not to include 
"Tell the Truth" by The Avett Brothers listen here
"Understand Your Impact" Dear Friend, April 27, p. 122
Verve: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" 
 "Why not me? Feed yourself positivity." Check out Paul Avellino's Instagram here