As August ends...

Blue skies, slight breeze and salt air
Crazy week....
Dizzy, but in a good way :)
Envelope me in Energy
Flower-bedizened
Grounded
Harmoniously
Illuminating Idiosyncrasies
Jess sent an e-mail too :)
Ken: Try something a little scary TODAY....
Living Luminously in Life's abundance
My hometown
New blog post from Jess. yeah!
Olive tree
Prefer books and floral with creative names?
Quotidian : belonging to each day

Savor the Sweetness
Try something a little scary TODAY....

Monday, Monday... etc, etc

Anolized  and I have seen anole each day since seeing Plant Delight's post! very cool!!

Birthday

Celebrations

Friends;

Gerry 70th

Hummingbirds make me smile out loud!

Identityby Julio Noboa PolancoLet them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.

I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed,
clinging on cliffs, like an eagle
wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.

To have broken through the surface of stone,
to live, to feel exposed to the madness
of the vast, eternal sky.
To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,
carrying my soul, my seed,
beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre.

I'd rather be unseen, and if
then shunned by everyone,
than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valley,
where they're praised, handled, and plucked
by greedy, human hands.

I'd rather smell of musty, green stench
than of sweet, fragrant lilac.
If I could stand alone, strong and free,
I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed.

Jeanette Walls at Meredith today

K
"Love is the Water of Life."~Rumi
Monday, Monday can't trust that day...
Need New start...

Old Moss Woman's Secret Garden

Plant Delights Nursery, Inc
Q
R

Sunflower:

Light-enchanted sunflower,

thou Who gazest ever true and tender

On the sun's revolving splendour." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

 

 

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über-competitive types

Veggies turn into centerpiece arrangement

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

Zig Ziglar

Apparently I am a once a week blogger now...

Accommodate
Busy week, But! I saw a
Chipmunk while relaxing and having lunch this week.... Courage
Dilemma: Library or Dean of Students office
Earlier... I ...
Forgot "E," "F," and "G"
Going to go read now

Heart-stopping Hedychium Coronarium: most gorgeous Raleigh Rose garden 

Imperious: Intensely compelling and not to be denied
Jaunt
Kick balls are 50% off now :)
Luna moth color tint to the butterfly ginger lily, and the scent? AMAZING!!!
Misty is a wonderful companion
Need to get a receipt from Town & Country
"Obedient... Our passport is stamped by art itself" (p. 217 Sound of Paper)
Pizza and PBJ Picnic
Quicksilver, changeable, fleeting (p. 214 Sound of Paper).
Receptivity
Sworn to openness (p. 214 Sound of Paper)
Trepidation regarding what to do ...
Urge
Vocation
We must bend WILLINGLY to the Wind (p. 214 Sound of Paper)
eXplore creative dreams
Yearn to make (p. 217 Sound of Paper)
Zzzzzz

Sunday ~ August 19, 2012

Anime education continues with Clannad
Be true to your longing
Centered
Dulcet tones
Enjoy this Earth
Faithfully
Get Grounded Get Giddy
H

Inspiration
Joy Doherty
K
Loving you is easier than anything I'll ever do again...
Mending
Our lives wait for...
Presence to Pour in Peacefully
Quickly
Rain ends with Rainbows
Sew and Sow
Thirst is a good prayer (p. 77 A Mystic Garden)
U
Vehicle through which art enters the world (p 202 Sound of Paper)
Willie Windows

eXuberant hope

Weekend reading...

Assiduously p. 361
Blithe dignity p. 354
Consternation p. 382
Dearth of conversation p. 355
Eliza
Flouted p. 373
Georgiana
Hydatids p. 394
Insects whispering Incantations p. 373
Jubilation p. 462
Ken
Listening to and reading Willie - Love it!
"Memory is a cruel Mistress with whom we all must learn to dance" p. 446
Niggling p. 446
"Oranges and Lemons" p. 441

Piskie Queen p. 358

Queen of the Piskies p. 358

Repatriation p. 383

Sibilant shimmered its silver wings between them p. 357

Tourograph p. 383

Unexpected brink of capture p. 445

Vanity and Vision

Wild and Wicked

Xtraordinary

"You make a life out of what you have, not out of what you're missing" p. 463

Zoea - words with friends

Sunday thru Friday

Almond Croissants and Apple Apricot Quiche

Boston

Caterwauling : to protest or complain noisily

Dithering p. 189 shivering, acting nervously

Evening spent on the porch, in hopes of seeing meteor shower

Feeling

Glumly p. 195

Hard to believe How quickly the weeks (even years) fly by...

It is now Saturday morning and it feels like...

Just the other day I heard a song that reminded me of

Kevin Patrick Higgins and first...

Love

"More than a Feeling" by Boston

Now, 35 years later, I finally "get" that song

Our song was "Your Song" by Elton John

Poppet p. 207

Quite an exceptional...

Romance it was for such young people

"Sometimes love is just past your front step" ~ John Morgan

Thames Valley State Technical College was HOW long ago??

Unbelievable

Virginiana : magnolia virginiana var. australis 'sweet thing' 

Walgreens : pick up prints

Xceptional

You are here p. 203

Zulu Warrior - Simple Abundance August 14th

Saturday, August 11, 2012

New day, New focus, New Chapter...

The Alchemical pull of the pen p. 79

The Blissful sensation of time losing meanings as she...

Conjured at her...

Drawing board...

Everything else had

Followed... Fathomless p. 97

Gasped...

Historical artifact...

Incredibly weary... Illustrations p. 80

Jostled the crying baby p. 84

Key to my past... she came to

Love the changing season and Learned the satisfaction of sowing seeds and tending crops...

My sight was taken from me p. 95

Nascent dreams... (this from Simple Abundance for August 11th 

Our journey p. 99
Parody of Patience p. 102
Quail
Ridge
So the above 2 were on a video I was watching/ converting for a friend :)
Tetchy : irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy p. 102
Unwary joy p. 65
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Wordlessly Wonderful p. 103
 X Y Z

Finished reading Possession by A.S. Byatt

So good! It took me about a month, even with the help of audio playing in my car to and from work, but it was so worth it and a great reminder to me how important and necessary reading is for my mental health. For one thing, I keep learning new words for my ABC lists - even when I don't complete them and decide to move on, like I will today, because another one has begun forming in my brain and in my journal early this morning. So, without further adieu, here is today's - technically yesterday's - ABCs. Many are words from Possession - there were so many luscious ones, I've actually been spreading them out throughout posts for weeks now.... Others are things I did, or saw, or learned about on Friday, August 10th. Hope you enjoy :)

Abeyance : a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested
Books and Baking
Coppiced : to cut back so as to regrow in the form of a coppice
Doing what needs to be done
Eidolon : an unsubstantial image : phantom
Felicitous : very well suited or expressed  : pleasant, delightful
Good dinner
Hummock : a rounded knoll or hillock
I am...
Just chillin'
Ken heading back to Northwest
Love in the Time of Cholera was my Friday night movie - thank you PRAXIS bunny :)
Multifarious : having or occurring in great variety : diverse
New students arriving at Meredith...
  Obedient Plant


Proserpine
Quiet inside
Rain
Sluicing
Tumescence
Understanding
Versifying
Whilst
X Y Z

Hope2012: A Blog Relay

"Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul.

And sings the tune

Without the words,

and never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson

(1830 - 1886)

This quote has always reminded me of my sister Susan, because it was the one she used next to her Senior picture in our high school yearbook. 1977. The year her oldest daughter was born. Susan was a cheerleader, dating the captain of the football team and Kristen was born January 10, 1977. I am sure Susan knew she was pregnant when she chose the quote. In fact, I've always know and remembered more about her during that time than she would ever suspect. It had to have been one of the most trying times of her life, and I know all to well how much she needed and felt she did not get the support of her parents during that most difficult time. Except... she did. Tough love. Our parents were of course frustrated, at a loss, disappointed even. Everyone held great HOPE for Susan to go to college, perhaps major in Art. she had fantastic grades and could have done anything. She did. She chose to HOPE for the best in a life with Anthony. She chose love. She chose life. She chose Kristen Marie Lidestri who is now 35 and has a lovely daughter of her own.

When people ask what I write, I do not say I am writing my memoir because if truth be told, I'd much rather write the stories of my siblings as seen through my eyes because I'm pretty sure it is the only way for them to know how much I have loved and respected their choices through the years. I am the 4th of 6, and have found hope and inspiration in everyone of them. Yes, I've told them, and shown them, but I am probably the "fluffiest" of us, so I don't know for certain if they know the depth of my admiration.
In short, my sibling have always given me HOPE.

The ABCs that follow comprise SOME of the things that have giving me hope, or tried to dash it....

Antoinette's Art

Beware

Carefully Consider....

Danger....

Expectation is pretty much the opposite of hope. Think about it.

Feathers

Galvanic Gratitude

Handwriting

Ironic Inspiration

Just keep swimming
Kenya Johnson's Challenge

Law family's Lessons

Many

Nieces and Nephews

One of 6 children

Penmanship

Quotes

Requirements

Spite

Team sports

Unrelenting Urges

Various Vagaries

Wishes & Waves

Xeric garden

You CAN do it!!!

Zest and Zeal

Additional quote August 18th from The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
"Hope, how she'd grown to hate the word. It was an insidious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. It was hope, too, that prevented a person taking counsel from experience" (398).

Back to Basics - I mean ABCs of course!

An austere style of writing

Biophilial

Cuppa: as in a cup of tea. A real word, esp. in the book I am reading
Dint, as in "When a fruiting happens in our lives there is a temptation to think that we, and we alone, by dint of hard, concentrated work have made it happen. But is that true? Weren’t we given the inspiration for our idea in the first place, and then given the energy to act on it? Weren’t we given the people that helped us as well as the beneficial circumstances to bring about a fruition? Wasn't an invisible goodness and joy in creation with us all the way? ~ Gunilla Norris
Exquisite Forgotten Garden

Glimpsing
Honor
Intuition
Jennifer: Thank you for...
Kiddnapping me for...
Lunch!
Much appreciated

Nature

Oasis

Plouts - plum-apricot hybrid

Quiet
R
Stalwart
Taut