Mother's Day week 2025

"All I had done was merely planted the seed of hope; she alone could help it to grow. And...

Because she was starting to lose sight of me, perhaps that seed was being cultivated." ~ p. 280 If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern

Card from Mary Roberts

Dog Watch for lunch on May 13th was perfect!

Enjoying the book and the view 

 from Karen

If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern

Jess, Pat, Caroline, Tray, Kathy, Mom, and Marsha

Ken's "girls" gathering for Mother's Day

Lois Bailey Thomason  with baby Nancy, and her big brother Robert 1937

Mom, the and now 32 years later 

Noah's first thing Sunday morning

Olive  sweet Olive

Peach ice cream and Puzzle making was the Perfect ending to our...

Quintessential, and not so

Random, celebration of the 13th of the month

TQ. Birthday 🎂 Mother's Day, Thirteenth

"Unknown Self" p. 144-5 "Callings" To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue

Visited a cemetery or three this...

Week

Xenopus Laevis frogs (from a student's renewal application) is a African clawed frog :)

Yes, this video is from a few Years ago, but I saw it for the first time this morning 13 May 2025

Zachary, so very brave 

13 April 2025 - 21 April 2025

"Blue-Cheesy, Questionable, and Life-Saving Secret of Where to Go!" p. 9 JabberWalking

"Dangling isotopes and putrid donkey smells and flashing plexiglass roof colors and..." p. 12 JabberWalking 

"Eyes of flame" ~ from Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll

"Galactically free -- you!" p. 12

"Here is the magnificent question: What else can accept bonified Jabber Walker do In a boxed-in cruddy and crummy situationsuch as this, I ask you? Have you ever been totally, epically, mega-smashed?" p. 23"

"Leap!" p. 40

"New shap with fuzzy sprinkle of the words from your burble journal" p. 51

"Pour it all out... in a Puffy hurry" ~ JabberWalking

"Remember a family story? How far back do your familia stories take you?" p. 60

"Scribble out the electric Jabber worms crawling out of your head & eyes..." p. 16

"Usually encountered while on the journey of becoming a masterful Jabberwalker of burbles" p. 70

"Voice... hiding in a cave..." p. 127

"Writing saved my life." p. 127

My neXt read

5-9 April 2025, Norwich, CT

Alanis Obomsawin : “When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.” source

"Be where your feet are." 🥰 Happy Sunday! thank you, Lynne Grigelevich

Chappell Roan "Coffee" listen here

Doctor's appointment 

"Everyday" by Buddy Holly 

Feeling pretty rough (stomach flu 😫)

"Greenpeace believes that after the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned and the last fish dead, you will find you can’t eat your money." source

I had to crop it - their faces make me physically ill!

Janice Swab has worn the GreenPeace t-shirt for many years

Kansas "Dust in the Wind" on the way to work Monday morning

Logan's sign

Mark's Celebration of Life

"Never Be the Same without you here..." Christopher Cross lyrics

"Only when... the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree Indian Prophecy

Priorities: Puddles and Presence - was a blog post from 2011 I recently read again and incorporate into the digital "book" I am writing for my son xo

Quote Investigator attributes the origin of this quote here

 Roseate Spoonbill

  thank you Cullen xo

"Shelter From the Storm" ~ Bob Dylan

"Time in a Bottle " ~ Jim Croce

Under the weather this week

Video for Chelsea Groton's Annual Report is in draft now

"You don't need a sign, you just need to keep me safe" ~ LB 4/5/25

The Phraos Gate March 28 - April 5, 2025

Alexandria, Egypt

"Breathtakingly Beautiful" 

"Cacophonous Cloud the obliterated the lamplights and choked the surrounding air."

"Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?" very first words of this book

Egypt... finally!

"Functional family... a concept of perfection that doesn't exist..." 

Griffin's second letter to Sabine 

"...How can I accept myself when...

I feel internally divided?"

Kindred spirits

"Lost Correspondence"

"My faerie Queen, you appear to be right..."

"Never mind that it is held firm in heaven's ellipse, circling beyond mortal reach. If it be you will, I shall take down the moon and place it before you feet."

Quantum metaphysical entanglement

"Rejoices in the book as physical object, weaving together word and image in beautifully illustrated postcards and removable letters that reveal a...

"...Sensual and metaphysical romance, one full of mystery and intrigue." GoodReads

"When two close kindred meet, what better than call a dance?" very last words on the page after Francesca' letter to Maud

"eXtraordinary Tale About Art, Beauty, Madness, and Kindred Spirits" source

28 March 25 The Bear by Andrew Krivak

"A pink dawn flushed across the morning snow as the girl emerged from the cave in her fur and skins with her bow and arrows..." p. 187

"Be hungry for what you have yet to do while you're awake." p. 178

"Cambium bark from a white pine" p. 179

Drupe, n. In Botany a drupe is a simple fleshy fruit with a single pit or stone that contains the seed. A simple fruit is formed from a pollinated ovary of a single flower.

Eagle brought her a goose, whose

Feather she used to make better arrows

"... Gift her father had given her... pointed north no matter [what or who] p. 111

"Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit...she could choose to change her habits... change before fear has had a chance to overcome you... or after you have overcome it and like a storm it has moved on." p. 187

".... In the verge of sunlight and shade stood an apple tree..." p 117

Journey of father and daughter as they navigate a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has been wiped out. source

"Knowing she could not have survived the winter without what she had been given, regardless of what she had made." p. 202

"Lyrical and evocative, painting a vivid and atmospheric picture of the wilderness through which the characters journey...

Meditation on the fragility of life, the enduring power of love, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable challenges." source

"...Nodded, and the two walked into the forest as though on a path already marked and trod." p. 118

"Over her shoulder and Oaken bow." p. 191

Puma had rescued her when she tried to cross the thin ice and nearly drowned. p. 201

Quiver of arrows on her back p. 191

"Ravenous attention" p. 200

Susurrant [softly murmuring; whispering] voice of trees" p. 218 Samaras of maple trees p. 113

 source

"... Teeming in the thawed and pulpy sapwood, and these, too, the bear and the girl enjoyed with their supper." p. 203

"Until this autumn, yes, said the bear... But I miss whom I once could touch, as we all must do when we make our way through whatever forest or wood it is in which we travel or are raised..." p.131

"Valley sleeping..." p.211

"Whatever havoc the humans bring upon it, the natural world will make it through." source

Play Day!! September 24, 2011

Austen’s Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury by Karen Valihora [saw this title the other day and thought it was funny] more here - just looked it up (27 March 2025)

Ball for playing with Misty

Consignments shops

Delectable

Evinces: displays clearly (National Treasure from Declaration of Independence)

Forboding: Espero...

Gram's Gingerbread cookies

Halloween costume Hunt

In search of... Items to create Terra from TeanTitans and...

Jeans for you

Kickball with you  and Misty

Labyrinthian

Movies with... yep... YOU!

Nemo is Next

Order most recent favorite pics from Walgreens

Play!!

Rite Aid: Red kickball

Scrapbook

Tenacity: persistent determination.

Upload favorite pics

Whole Foods

Yum!

Zen tea

Retail therapy helped us through the month since Misty's passing

Ashes will be saved And scattered 

Bookcase and Bureaus adorned with photos. Birthday 

Celebration for Logan's 29th (21 March 25) and this store:

  

Dropped Logan off at his friend Jade's in Deep River

Enjoyed an afternoon and Evening of adventuring

Frames for Misty photos and this Fish bottle

   Found at Maria's Treasures

Game X Change in Norwich 2x makes the perfect "x" (see below)

Home Depot for paint colors and now... 🤷‍♀️I can't remember what else

I'm not usually a fan of retail therapy,  but we just couldn't be where Misty used to be with us on weekend afternoons, so it has been helpful these last few weeks. Now 1 month and 1 day

with Mom after her appointment

Kohl's / Sephora for Logan 

Lisbon CT - and then Lowe's for a rug for the Living room

Misty, March 22, 2021 popped up on my FB feed yesterday :(

New Haven for Ben's birthday gifts from Strange Ways

Olde Mistick Village

Pink Basil  

 insearch of "good" protein bars

Rug is just Right for our living Room

Sherwin Williams for and paint for bathroom and front door "Forget-me-not" purple

  for Ben's birthday gifts

Tea Kettle for Brunch on the way to New Haven

Uploaded 1st of many misty videos to a brand new playlist just now 23 March 2025

Video playist of our pup video : click here

 3.21.25

 3.22.25

Zut! French, "zut" is an interjection meaning "damn," "shoot," or "darn," often used to express mild annoyance or frustration, and is generally considered polite. [was in a book I decided not to continue reading]