March 21, 2024

"Aubade is a dawn song that greets the morning while lamenting the end of the night, often concerning the parting of lovers." source

Between rest and readying...

Cleansing illumination 

Dog Watch, Mystic for our birthday Dinner

Exceptional and filled with love...

"Forever Now" video watch here

Groceries from Loretta moving (again) delivered by Lynette (who helped her... even now)

 source

"It's the welcoming song of morning, as dawn turns to light, today brims with possibility..." ~ Magnolia Magazine issue no. 30

John Joseph and Josie Wren

Kisses the petals good morning and good

night (garden light).

 source

Mouth of the Thames River at 7am

Now I am off for 4 entire days. Not working for CFECT or PLNL, but...

"Only Hope" Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember 2002 listen here

Possibility

Quiet Hour 

Resting

Surprise groceries from Loretta, delivered by Lynette

This is Us - wow

Unexpected gains

"Vistas that surprise the and call the imagination. " p. 70 Anam Cara

EXpression through poetry excentuate the spaces and the silence

Zazzle store click here

March Birthdays and more

 

Baby Shower

Cat Steven's "Morning has Broken" and " Moonshadow"

"Deeper Well" by Kacey Musgraves listen here

Enrique Iglesias & Miranda Lambert "Space in My Heart" listen here

Fresh Cup Cafe, Westerly, RI

Grew membership the old fashioned way: a desperate need for God. ~ Mitch Albom

Harrison and Angelica are engaged!!

"I walked a mile with Pleasure ... I walked a mile with Sorrow..." by Robert Browning Hamilt qtd. p. 176

Jonathan David

KarenAnn

Logan, of course, is my number one BIRTH day this month

Mitch Albom's Have A Little Faith "But you can touch everything and be connected to...

Nothing." p. 165

One of my oldest and dearest friends, Lori Young Skelton

Patricia Ann with Mom at Amber and Joey's Baby Show

"Quiet grace" p. 236 

Robert James and Jackson   2/25/2024

 Lynette 's post to me 2012

Trenchant bon mot: "cutting a good word" ~ Mike Rowe Facebook post

Uncle Bill's birthday is the 18th

"Voice on the wind" p. 241 have a little faith

Xanthorhiza simplicissima (Xantho = Yellow rhiza= Root) so Yellowroot shrub

“You know, some things don't matter that much...like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart—now, that matters.” ~ The Secret Life of Bees

February recap - sort of

Ancestors... remember them

Birthday month for Jess, Cody, Wayne, Michelle, Tracy, and Greta who are actually all...

Cousins! :) check out Ancestry's "explainer" below

Daybreak

Enjoying the fireplace and 

Feeding the birds

George Strait's  "Carried Away" listen here

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

"I sent that 'Ancestry' site some Information on my Family Tree. They sent me back a pack of Seeds, and suggested that I just start Over." source

"Just start over." I kinda did, with Mom's Thomason Tree

 source

Laughter,

Marvel Movies. Most recently, Captain Marvel

Newspaper clippings for ancestry are my favorite things to add

"Quill U Be My Valentine" Love it! Thanks for sharing, Emily @hansoloismyhusband

Reading : Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom

Snow then a Sink hole 🕳 

Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches Genealogy FB page This cracked me up!! :) source

Unprecedented: never done or known before. Unexpected - great words for Leap Day

Valentines come in many shapes sizes and joys

eXplainer :)

Zagarenski's amazing art, paired with a favorite song of mine

click on the image below to see the video