My ABCs of Discovering Taylor Swift on a deeper level...

"August slipped away into a moment in time /  'Cause it was never mine"

"All Too Well" first heard 4/27/2024

"All of me changed like midnight rain..." ~ Midnight Rain listen here 

"Beautiful Eyes" : Your beautiful eyes

Stare right into mine / And sometimes, I think of you late at night..."

"Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus"

"...December ... I haven't been sleepin'

Stayin' up playin' back myself leavin'..."

"...Emma falls in love, she disappears And we all just laugh after seein' it all these years... Emma falls apart, it's when she's alone / She takes on the pain and bears it on her own / Cause when Emma falls in love, she's in it for keeps... Emma met a boy with eyes like a man / Turns out her heart fits right in the palm of his hand" ~ "When Emma Falls in Love"

Everafter 2020

"Fifteen (Taylor's Version)" originally recorded in 2008 ah... Salem Middle School memories 

Click to listen to "Snow on the Beach"

"Holy Ground" click here to listen Red 2020

"Just say, 'I loved you the way that you were' /If you want to tear my world apart...

"Just say you've always wondered..." from "Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus" The Tortured Poets Department 2024

"Karma" from Midnights 2022

"Lover" title track from title track from Lover 2019

"My heart has never felt this way before... I'm looking through your "Beautiful Eyes" 2008

"No body, no crime" from  evermore 2020

"...One who could make me stay / All my days / From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes... " You're On Your Own, Kid" from Midnights 2022

"Prophecy" lyrics "Thought I caught lightning in a bottle / Oh, but it's gone again / And it was written / I got cursed like Eve got bitten / Oh, was it Punishment? The Tortured Poets Department 2024

"I should have asked you Questions / I should have asked you how to be." ~ "marjorie" evermore 2020

fourth studio album Released on October 22, 2012

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"Soon You'll Get Better" listen here

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The Tortured Poets Department 11th studio album by Taylor Swift, released on April 19, 2024

"Unglued, thanks to you. And now it's like ~ "Snow On The Beach"

Vault Songs: In 2021, Taylor started releasing the re-recordings of her first six albums to regain control of their master recordings. As part of this process, she added “songs from the vault” to the tracklist of each record. These vault tracks refer to previously unreleased songs that were written during earlier periods of her career but were not included in the original releases of her albums. Each re-recording has its own set of vault songs, offering listeners “new” material to enjoy while revisiting the original albums with a fresh perspective. Source.

"X" marks the spot where we fell apart: from "Getaway Car" reputation 2017

"You Need to Calm Down" click here to listen and watchclick here to listen and watch from Lover 2019

ZAYN, Taylor Swift - I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) listen and watch here

Gathered from friends and LIFE

Been feeling this tired lately ...

Can't remember who posted this image

"Don't Forget Me" by Maggie Rogers watch and listen here

Floriology is a term describing the language of flowers

Good morning ☀️ 

"In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt." ~ John Green

Ken painting Margo's fingernails

 Light On (Official Video) Maggie Rogers

Mornin'

"Nature is not a place to visit. It's home." ~  Gary Snyder

Opening to the possibilities 

Pulling the invisible threads of connection 

Quote by Laura Riding ["U" below] lead me to article in The Marginal by Maria Popova.

Reading her articles helps connect me to something greater

"Teller and listener, each fulfilling the other's expectations" ~ Ursula K. LeGuin

"Until the missing story of ourselves is told... we shall go on quietly craving it." ~ Laura Riding led me to ...

 Ursula K. Le Guin meditation on the magic of real human communication. “The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.” source

Vocation: connection: reading: gathering: Writing

Xcept, they don't even bother to ask 🤬 silly me for having eXpectations 

Libby Cullen

Zen attempts at managing with Janet gone. This is the card I saw and had to get for her.

Ireland: Dreams or Plans

Article about "How to Move to Ireland" click here

"Community comes together and supports one another. We've been led to believe that life is about enduring..."

"...Enduring pick it up agan at 33 secs in here

Finally started reading this wonderful book by John O'Donohue 

‘God with you’ Dia dhuit from Ireland! That is how we greet each other in Irish here in Dingle

How to Move to Ireland? 

Sheri Henderson's recent visit

Just" LET GO!! Let It Go

by Danna Faulds

“Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold:

the holding of plans or dreams or expectations – Let it all go.

Save your strength to swim with the tide.

The choice to fight what is here before you now will

only result in struggle, fear, and desperate attempts

to flee from the very energy you long for. Let go.

Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes

through your days whether you received it gently

or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders.

Take this on faith; the mind may never find the

explanations that it seeks, but you will move forward

nonetheless. Let go, and the wave’s crest will carry

you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams

or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of

rest and peace, and certain transformation.”

Koicoach recently shared this reminder :

My new passport in in the works. Yay!

"New American Dream is to leave; to pack up 

One of many such videos, apparently

"Pack up and head to a ... 

Quiet European town or a beachside village in Asia"

Retire, get Social Security benefits and then..."If you leave the U.S., we will stop your benefits the month after the sixth calendar month in a row that you are outside the country.  Source

"Somewhere we  aren't being poisoned by our food...Somewhere where people stop and appreciate the little things and enjoy the Slow life"

Uplifting Video 

Visas? 

"[Where] We don't need 2-3 jobs to survive and Where healthcare isn't a luxury but the norm"

exciting to think about 

You can make visits to the United States for specific periods of time, depending on how long you've been outside, to continue receiving your benefits. Source

ZZ

April 13, 2024 - Gotcha 15 Day! 15 years!!

All the ways we love you, Misty

August

2010 

Born October 2008

Christmas 2009

"Don't Forget Me" by Maggie Rogers listen here

Frank Sinatra's "My Way" ~ heard it on the way over to 46P this morning 4/13/24

Good dog doesn't begin to cover it

Home

I need to create the post now

Just got back from another early am walk

Kenny Chesney's "The Way I Love You Now" listen here 

Love this 

"Me and You" by Kenny Chesney listen here

Now what?

Our many, many walks

Previous post : "Misty Jade Law" 

Q

Rolling around and Rubbing you back in the Sand

Tues, Wednesday,

Walks and more walks

ABCs of Wild Game by Andrienne Brodeur

 Author's Note: “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers it and how one remembers it in order to recount it”. ~ Gabriel García Márquez

"Blink and you'll miss the treasure." p. Xi

"Clandestine love was electrifying. p. 132

Denouement p. 209 the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

"Enjoyed the coastal abundance before them: brackish air, a sky glowing pink with sunset, the ambient sounds of seagulls, boats on moorings, and distant waves." p. 4-5

"Falling in love with Jack without Malabar knowing allowed me to believe I was steering the ship and somehow reassured me that my mother's being pleased had nothing to do with my trying to please her." p. 135

"Gone were the gloves and modest jacket...Graced by all thos brilliant rubies, emeralds, and diamonds." p. 180

Home: ineffable sense of being Home and in a safe and familiar sanctuary." p. 78

"It's understandable, it's just not acceptable." p. 155

"Jettisoned Hank" p. 133 throw away, of something encumbering. type of: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out.

Kierkegaard quote:

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ~ Soren Kierkegaard qtd. p. 117

"My heart sped up. I bolted upright and looked at Jack, who was staring back at me dumbfounded, uncomprehending." p. 153

"No more people-pleasing." p. 91

Operculum:a secreted plate that closes the aperture of a gastropod mollusk's shell when the animal is retracted.  p. 127

Prologue: "A buried truth, that's all a lie really is."

"Questioned the extent of her influence" p. 176

"Rilke quote from a collection of poetry Margot had given me as an engagement present" 'Let everything happen to you / Beauty and terror / Just keep going / No feeling is final.' " p. 176

Seiche /sā(t)SH/noun : a temporary disturbance or oscillation in the water level of a lake or partially enclosed body of water, especially one caused by changes in atmospheric pressure.

"Tacking to catch a new wind, with me tangled in the riggings." p. 229

"Understandable but not acceptable." p. 155

Vindaloo p. 93 a dish of meat (usually pork) marinated in vinegar and garlic.

"EXtravaganza of ice-cold cherrystone clams, plump briny oysters, curled pink shrimp the size of thumbs." p. 180

"You know what I mean, Kara said, breaking it down for me. The lonely feel comes from not feeling known." p.113

Zoetrope: All-Story : with Francis Ford Coppola 

ABCs of a few songs and one incredible book.

"All too Well" by Taylor Swift listen here

"Colors don't come out of nothing. They always start somewhere...with something... with someone."

"Dyeing with lichens an dother natural materials is thrilling. But nobody wants our love of color to hurt the environment."

Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate, is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment.

 

"Fifteen" by Taylor Swift came out in 2009 but! ... long story... she owns Taylor's Version 

listen here

Giradol, turnsole violet - green fruits of the dyer's croton plant - preseed to extract green liquid that tunrs purple in light.

Iwan Tirta - Indonesian batik... batik artist... fashion designer said "I didn't create batik, but I preserved and nurtured it like a caretaker"

Juana Gutiérrez Contreras - Oaxaca, Mexico family rug business using only natural materials

 
Karen Casselman, a "Colorful Character"

Lichen Dyes by Karen Diadick Casselman

Mom, Ken, Caroline, and Violet all enjoyed this book too!

"Never be so kind / You forget to be clever. Never be so clever / You forget to be kind" ~ Taylor Swift's "Marjorie" listen here

"Ocher is a yellow clay that contains bits of iron and sand..."

Primary colors are red, blue, and green if you are mixing light. Cyan, magenta, and yellow... if you're mixing Pigments.

Queen Victoria popularized the color mauve (pinkish-purple dye created from coal tar).

Reflecting on colors, Van Gogh sad, "How wonderful yellow is. It stand for the sun."

Saffron crocuses bloom purple. In the center of each flower three red stigmas grow, each as thin as a thread. Soaked in water, these wisps make a brilliant yellow dye that people use for both food and textiles."

Tetrachromats are people who have four kinds of cone receptors instead of three.

"UV lights and infrared luminescence photography help Vinzenz and Ulrike Brinkma find tiny fragments of color that remain on marble"

Vincent Van Gogh 

"What is purple in the earth, red in the market, and yellow on the table? is "S" above.

Xanthopsia: a medical condition that leads people to see everything in tones of yellow.

Yellows from plant sources: jackfruit, kihada, foxglove, weld, saffron, etc.

Zapotec traditions of gathing natural materials and making dyes themselves.