Earth's the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg

 "Arthur had learned this: love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. " p. 81

Besotted p. 219
Cycles, beginnings and endings, death and then birth. Life goes on" p. 219
Divine insight p.20
"Frank was so powerfully himself." p.211
Guldrop. Harvey Guldrop. How'd the author come up with that name?
"He revels himself to me in being the imperfect person that he is." p. 207
"Inside everyone was a door that was meant to stay open, and it kept blowing shut. But every time you did something for someone else,  that door opened again. And there was that little light." p. 134
"Joy and ease with which he had once moved in the world..." p. 221
"Knowing that [inside people is a place that could get hurt so bad] it seemed like people would be more careful.of one another." p. 133
Like that. Like the current. [They share a communication deeper than common conversation. He looked at the river moving slowly by and thought:]
"Making all these assumptions that aren't ours to make... the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes."  P. 220
Nola Corinne McCollum
Otto 
Portrayed beautifully by Tom Hanks
Alphabet by Mary Novick
Rita Wilson, Sebastián Yatra - Til You're Home (Official Video) this
Song plays at the end the movie:A Man Called Otto. Watch video by clicking here
"...Tamped down by a despair that would not go away." p. 212 Earth's the Right Place for Love
Unfinished...
Virgil Scussell is husband of Roberta Keena's "grandaunt" Dorothea Mae DeWitt
What's wrong with this picture?" ended up being a pretty popular post 
"eXuburant thoughts" p. 56 ebullient is a pretty great word too though :) p. 58
"You know what I would bring home that would be really outrageous? I would bring home a star, put it in my room for a huge night light." ~ EKM 9/30/2022
Zephyrhills, FL (see above :) )

May days 2023

Bismarks! for Breakfast! Yum!!
Cemetery
Doing "research"
Elton John "Love Song" listen here
Facebook memory pops ups are fun - or I delete them :)
Google Doodle is a Game today, 5.20.2023: Why? Here's why
Having fun in Hope Valley, RI 05.07.23 
Ishkibibble: an expression that suggests something like, "Don't sweat the small stuff." The meaning stems from a song sung by a trumpeter, singer, and manager of Kay Keyser's orchestra, whose real name was Merwyn Bogue. He was given the nickname Ish Kabibble after the Yiddiah song he sang, called "Isch Ka Bibble" ("I Should Worry")
"Ish kabibble! That's nothing to worry about."
Joni Mitchell's Morning Glory on the Vine
"Kasandra" is the name of the cover art
Lilacs


Mom's favorite picture for so many reasons 
"Nature, the givingness of it." p. 55
Oatmeal scotchies for Jonathan 
Pink! lilacs!!
Quiet afternoon, and a Quick lunch visit here
Roland Albert Moreau and Roses
Saturday, 05.20.23, as I pulled up to 46P I heard a Sheryl Crow song I'd not heard before: Home by Sheryl Crow 
Thames River activity picking up and sailbots are returning to their moorings
"Until you give your love / There's nothing more that we can do" ~ Elton John's "Love Song"  
Villous lilac begin blooming just as "common lilac" are finishing 

Xochimilco – an ancient lake of exceptional natural beauty in Mexico. Xochimilco is the last remaining home of wild axolotls, a distinctive amphibian that is related to the salamander and holds deep cultural significance.
 yay me 😉
Zany time :)