Cartwheeling through Life: April 2023

April 2023 Books, Music, and More

As April comes to a close...

Bodega : a small owner-operated convenience store serving hot and prepared food, often open late hours and typically with ethnic market influences.

Compost Stew: An A to Z recipe for the Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals

Deleted scene from Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince posted by Emery Lai Nov 2009 I happened upon again recently. What a song: "In Noctem" : "Carry my soul into the night / May the stars guide my way / I glory in the sight. / As darkness takes the day / Sing a song, a song of life / Made without regret /Tell the ones, the ones I loved / I never will forget / I never will forget." watch and listen here

"Forever Young" sung by The Pretenders

"Grass clippings Hair snippings and an Insect or two." ~ Compost Stew

"Have I Told You Lately" by Van Morrison listen here

"If" by Bread listen here

Keeping the Faith on PrimeVideo

"Life has its way... the object might be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance" (191). Elizabeth Berg Pull of the Moon

Morning Glory On The Vine: Early Songs and Drawings by Joni Mitchell

Neil Diamond's "I Am...I Said" and "Song Sung Blue"

"Occasionally One learns quiet, and then how to keep it." (155)

Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg

"Quarry dust: finely ground rock powder adds minerals, adds minerals to the soil." ~ suddals' Compost Stew

Robert James and Kerry Law

hosted Easter brunch

"Some One Like You" with sunrise and sunset images mainly from County Wexford, Ireland

"To lose one's sense of self ... is a movement toward the deepest kind of relief I have ever known." (155).

Underbrush prunings Vegetable trimmings Wiggly worms 🪱 with Compost cravings"

VanMorrison's "Some One Like You" with sunrise and sunset images mainly from County Wexford, Ireland

We are stardust / We are golden / And we've got to get ourselves / Back to the garden" ~ "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell

"Xmas tree needles

Yellow pine shavings and...

Zinna heads from flower beds whose blooming days are through. Just add to the pot and let it all rot into Compost Stew!"

It's been a year...

Ashley Cooke's "it's been a year" listen here

"Before we raise a glass up to the next one...

"Cheers to three hundred sixty five of record lows and record highs"

"Damn, it's been a year...did a lot more than I thought I could one"

Enough already! Let go!

"For the minute you got, it's probably a lot, more than you wanna hear..."

"Goodbye My Friend" by Billy Walsh listen here

"Hootie and the Blowfish "Let Her Cry" listen here

"It's been a year... It's been three hundred sixty five of record lows and record highs..."

"Just looked up and realized it" ~ Ashley Cooke's "it's been a year"

June 22, 2022

March 30, 2023

"...Kinda quick to me, but I guess it's been a year" ~ Ashley Cooke's "it's been a year"

"Loving and Losing, fun and confusing..." ~ Ashley Cooke and I "Love You Anyway" ~ Luke Combs

Magnolia Melancholy

Now... "Now That I Know" by Devendra Banhart listen here

Opportunities ... "Only Lonely on the Inside" ~ Hootie and the Blowfish

"...Praying and shifting gears...." ~ Ashley Cooke's "it's been a year"

Quick? No, but sudden... sort of

"Record lows and record highs..."

"So all I'll say is, it's been a year / Since ...

That last email, That last phone call

Unbelievable

Vow "The Promise" by Tracy Chapman

by John Mayer

"Yeah, it's been a year...Yeah, looking back it's damn sure been the best one..." ~ Ashley Cooke

Zen

(from last year's post)

now

e.e. cummings and more

"anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling..." blog originally posted 10/17/2009

Cummings, Edward Estlin (e. e. cummings) was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Born: October 14, 1894, Cambridge, MA

"deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"

ee cummings' birthday Oct 14th

fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you"

Writer's Almanac Oct 14, 2016 (of course :( )

"Gratitude is peace" ~ Anne Lamott Help, Thanks, Wow p. 65

i like my body when it is with your / body. It is so quite a new thing. The Writer’s Almanac 10/14/2009

"Just when we think we've gotten things all lined up nicely, a rogue wave washes it all away, or deposits onto the shore a bright orange queen conch... and we say , "Wow." We're blown away , for a time... And so it is." (92)

"Keep the first thing first / To live Your truth / Walk Your ways / Set my eyes

Lord, I fix my face on you / All my desires reversed / To keep the first thing first" ~ Consumed By Fire

Misty morning walk, April 10 2023

"Now That I Know" by Devendra Banhart (Friday Night Lights, S2.E12, "Who Do You Think You Are?") listen here

"O sweet spontaneous / earth how often have / the doting / fingers of

prurient philosophers pinched / and poked thee, has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty how often have religions taken / thee upon their scraggy knees..." ~ e.e. cummings The Writer’s Almanac October 14, 2020

"... Question and answer would become ONE... Quiet moments with the giver of life and the enternal..." ~ Anne Lamott Help, Thanks, Wow

"rhythmic lover / thou answerest / them only with

Spring" ~ e. e. cummings

"Thank you, God, for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is YES!" ~ e. e. cummings

Updating April 2014

Video on Vimeo of the reading of a childern's board book: i carry your heart with me

Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, October 14, 2020 listen here

"eXpand and stretch in all directions. [Spring's] green eXuberance and giddiness" (80) ~ Anne LaMott Help, Thanks, Wow

"Yet even so, grace progress, blessings continue to be given... It's a God job." (100) ~ Anne LaMott Help, Thanks, Wow

Zest Bakery Easter treats