Delayed Departure

An amazing shot
Beautiful day
Calmly
Full house at
Grammy and Grandpa's again
I
Just
Keep
Loving
Mom
Nancy
"Open Happiness"
Quiet
Rumi : "Protect yourself from your own thoughts."
Shovel Snow Sunday
Traveled Today
Up early
Very Early
Watch Hill before heading south
eXit
Yes
Zzzzzzleep now... goodbye 2012

Saturday - Stay Extended due to SNOW

Butter Bell - very cool
Coffee - french press
Dessert - peanut butter pie
Elizabeth 
Finally got her snow, and more...
Grammy time
Heart
Jessica Lynn Law's new job to be...
Lobster hash? yes please!!
Nieces here for one more visit
One More Day
Phil's for soup
Quiet
Snow
Thank you, God, for everything
Unnerving
Vivify vs. Vilify



Time... Adventures... Dec 27th and 28th

Albom, Mitch's The Time Keeper
Betty Crocker
Cookbook: Cilantro chimichurri 
Destiny... Dog Watch for more Ken (and more Lobster Mac and Chesse)
Enough
Father Time... Firmament

"Hanging in the moonlight...Herein lies every moment of the universe" (165).

"It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be" (163).
Jess called to invite us for a walk on the beach to look for treasures...
"Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing" (145).
Law girls five :)
Misquamicut, RI
Napatree Point with Pat, Jess, Caroline, Tracy, Mom and Misty
One more day... 
Q
R
Spilling Sand... Stillness
Thoughtful... Traverse Two existences
U
Watch Hill Walk
eXpect the unXpected or don't eXpect at all...
Y
Z

Christmas in Connecticut (and Rhode Island)


Ava
Baking
Cookies

Dad
Elizabeth still believes...
Family
Grammy!
Hello - we're HERE!!
"Interesting"
Jessica
Ken's Yoga with Kris, Caroline, Andy and Mom
Law, Lessig, Lidestri...
Madeline Kate!
New
Ornaments
Prancer
Rhode Island in photo below
Sunrise at Stonington Point view
Therapy
Up early
VERY early
Wold is an Old English term for a forest or an area of woodland on high ground
Yoga mat from my sweet, thoughtful girl

next up... yum!

‎"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." ~Walt Disney

Christmas in Connecticut!! :)
"Do not let the behavior of others, Destroy your inner peace." ~ Dalai Lama
Elizabeth and Ava
Fun!!
Grammy and Grandpa
"I need to dance with life"
Judging? PRAY
Love
Mommy Mode
Nieces 
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
http://www.shugarysweets.com/2012/11/peppermint-fudge-and-a-christmas-giveaway
Q
Rhode Island
"Stop learning. Start knowing." ~ Rumi♥

T
U
V
W
X
Y
Zing!

Midweek Moments to share



Coco Chanel: "Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty..."







Elizabeth has become a moodling...
Focus! p. 14
Grammar humor
Hum a sweet melody
"It is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty"



Juncture

Kiss
"Life shapes the face you have at thirty"
Miscreants - what a good word
No one gets hurt. Namaste.
Oatmeal and "obelisks" p.17
P
Q
Right Now... All I have is Now...
"She is my wife. I will fill her..." 
The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom
U
Veil
"Wattle and daub"

Remake from 12/12 to 4/4 :) 19 - more than 8 years later...

Acerbic : sharp and forthright. sour or bitter.
 Thank you, Tiffany, 4/4/19

Commitment 
Don't ya just love these little reminders??
"For someone like me, it was the love of all things words, books, passages, all things which made me feel so Unalone when acerbic Alone-ness proved a beleaguering boogyman." ! C. Austin Horne.

Honoring Hedwig Kohn 

 thank you, Tiffany's friend, Missy Zaharie
"Jade: she was revived with hummingbirds and they made her Witch of Space" :) 12/12
Karen invited us to dinner tonight :) 4/4/19
Law family Love runs deep and so do Lasting connections in NC
Mom returned safely home - yay!
"No, the journey doesn't end here. Death ... Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it...White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise." ~ JRR Tolkien
"Open and receptive as possible to the graced event of awakening to that meditative sense of oneness with God one with us in life itself." ~ Sustaining Awareness source
"Quotable thing come from unexpected places..." ~ Em Chilton 4/4/19
Reading next: The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
Simple, powerful, practice, Send my heart ahead as a Signal of love, not entanglement
"The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed." ~ A Joseph Campbell Companion, p. 39
"Unfurling fiddlehead ferns for spring thank you, Meghan Natifa Kerr
Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit : Called or uncalled, God will be present. (Jung discovered among the Latin writings of Desiderius Erasmus, who declared the statement had been an ancient Spartan proverb. Jung popularized it, having it inscribed over the doorway of his house, and upon his tomb. Variant translations:
 Summoned or not summoned, God is present.
 Invoked or not invoked, God is present
 Called or not called, the god will be there.
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
Bidden or not bidden, God is present.
 Bidden or not, God is present.
 Bidden or not bidden, God is there.
 Called or uncalled, God is there. source: wikiquote
"When you are filled with life force you see far more objectively and do not 
eXperience the subjective (contraction and) hell." ~ Helen Palmer
YouTube is another source of inspiration for me: "Becoming Stillness - Richard Rohr" 4/4/19
 12/12

Motivation and Inspiration 12/15/12

Attentive Attention is Awesome
"Baby me Baby, and I'll Baby you the same way" ~ Barbra Streisand 
Committed Companionship
Dedicated Downtime
Enjoying the time
Feeling...
Gentle, Generous Love
Hungry but Happy
I did it... I started my day with yoga
Judith Valerie's gentle yoga
Kindness
Luxurious Lingering
Movement
Opening to life
Pose... Persnickety, one of my favorite words
Quintessential is another
 source of image needed
Rumi: "All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers."
Sacred Space in Spirit
Tree Trimmer

Understanding and Ubiquitous
Visually speaking
What a great source of inspiration
YouTube can be to add
Zest to the process

Christmas Favorites - Playlist

Garth Brooks' Silent Night (sign language version) - best part is the story at min 2
Jingle Bells -Barbra Streisand's version is the BEST! click here to if you agree
"Kissing by the Mistletoe" Aretha Franklin click here
"Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!" Dean Martin :)
"Merry Christmas, Darling" by The Carpenters, a favorite of mine since middle school! 
Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song "Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire..."
Pretty Paper by Willie Nelson always make me think of my Grampa
Vom Himmel Hoch (German) - It helps to remember there are other languages besides English
What Child is This?
"May you have more good times and gladness today than the Grinch who stole Christmas could pack on his sleigh!" ~ from a 2008 Christmas card turned Facebook post :)

New Week... New words ... New Definitions...

Abscond : Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection or arrest.
Beldame (p. 258) hag: an ugly evil-looking old woman.
Colossus
Dental yuck
Ebullient : Cheerful and full of energy: "she sounded ebullient and happy". not new, but I love that word :)




Finally Finished reading State of Wonder by Ann Patchette
Go on through to the other side....
Have to trust my intuition
Invectives p. 240 venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.
J, K, L
Marmoset p. 254
Nubile
Ordeal - the exact right description of my 4 hours in a dentist chair for p. 237
Peixe (p. 238) - fish
Quiche - spinach with cranberry cheddar cheese
Root canal :(
Sue Gager Palmer scored 101 points with "thowless" in our game of WWF
Thowless : feeble, lazy, spiritless. I like "twinkle" better

U, V, W, X
"You sat in one place for 4 hours??" Elizabeth's question regarding my "ordeal"