Birthday Blog July 13, 2010

Angel food cake for...
Breakfast
Cartwheels all...
Day
Eggs for dinner
Forty-nine cartwheels, to be exact
Good day with great friends
Happy Birthday wishes from many Happy Hearts
"I Know Your Heart"
Journalling
"Kiss slowly and forgive quickly"
"Let it Be"
More tomorrow... for some reason, I'm tired...
Now
Our family Overflows with love
Peace
Quality time
Rain
Stretch
Twinkle in Misty's eyes
Unbelievably good day
Veggie bagel for lunch, Video of cartwheels the year it all began
Walk
eXpand
Yoga is the reason I can still do this...
Zen of our backyard on Sarabande Drive

November 2026

"And Pandora said, I wonder what's in this box?" p. 266 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
"Bachelor's Button - Aids in finding things that eere previously hidde. A clarifying flower...
Chive Blossom - Ensures you will win an argument.  Conveniently, also an antidote for hurt feelings...
Dandelion - A stimulant encouraging faithfulness.  Frequent side effects are blindness to flaws and spontaneous apologies." p. 287 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Epoch: an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development
"Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness." ~ source 
"Her entire body relaxed and she laughed.  She laughed like she hadn't laughed in a long time." p. 286 Garden Spells 
Jack-O-Lantern 2026 Edition 
Ken's yoga class was exactly what I needed 
Law Family Halloween celebration
 
My brother Bob, and his son Brendan's family 
One day...
Perhaps this Puzzle is done "enough" for my liking/enjoyment....
Quark cheese watching British bake off. It's been awhile.
Revive Your Roar 
Ravenous Butterflies' Facebook post Nov 1, 2026
 source 
"There's a Rhythm" by Bon Iver
"Unanswered Prayers" by Garth Brooks
Virginia Woolf: "Words belong to each other."
"What It Takes to Be Free" by Maria Popova here
"The tree was shaking with eXcitement, like it was laughing along with them." p. 285 Garden Spells
"Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself,  it fills you. When you're happy for someone else,  it pours over." p. 284-5 Garden Spells  by Sarah Addison Allen 
"Zingier than zingy"  ~ Nigella Lawson

October 2026 part 2

"As if filled with lightning bug, lit by his hope." p. 12 Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen 
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things." ~ Vincent van Gogh
"Circus life under the big top world / We all need the clowns to make us smile...." Jonathan Cain
Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos)
Full moon 🌝 beautiful on the rise and the set
"Galileo" by Indigo Girls
Happy Halloween 🎃 birthday 🎂 🥳 Hana
Josh Baldwin's "Evidence" while driving to the Boro for last swim/dives of 2026 bonus: got to see Joe first listen here 
Lovely  source
Natalie Merchant "Carnival" while backing out of our driveway "mesmerized by what my eyes have seen"
Oshibana is the traditional Japanese art of creating intricate compositions using pressed flowers, leaves, and other botanical elements
Psithurism: the sound of wind in the trees
Quiet way of life aligning in our favor... Quiet dignity  p. 164
Reading Garden Spells again now after Reading this one:
Throat calm
Unrepentant p. 154 Garden Spells 
"Vulnerability... by trying to make you happy... By trying to give you happiness,  I lost my own." p. 162 Garden Spells 
eXile's blast from the past "I Want to Kiss You All Over" July 1978
 
Zwain, Hana 🥰 birthday love ❤️