Re-reading Griffin and Sabine

"An Extraordinary Correspondence"
Book #3
Cott Cottages
Darlington Devon, England
Elation. Euphoria ... "my search for my "Equal opposite." ~ The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
"Figure whose reflection is seen in the shop had an aura of absolute self-belief
...he is on my side." ~ Griffin 
"How strange to have paper love." ~  Griffin's second letter to Sabine
"Idiosyncratic vision of the universe. " ~ Griffin's first letter to Sabine Griffin & Sabine
"If you're reading this, then you exist...
also by Nick Bantock
"Keep strong" Sabine
"Like Ariadne holding the string for Perseus while he enters the Minotaur's labyrinth,  your words might keep me from going hopelessly astray." ~ Griffin's first letter. Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
"Make sure you look after yourself."  Griffin's second letter to Sabine
"Navigate their land by songs and stories."
"Open richly decorated envelopes and draw forth intricately illustrated letters, to decipher quirky handwritten postcards with their macabre and magical artwork,  to indulge..." 
"Paper love" ~ Griffin's second letter to Sabine
"Remember to be gentle with yourself." ~ Sabine's 5th postcard "Remember,  I'm holding the string end, and I won't allow you to dissappear into oblivion."
"Test of our Tenacity" ~ Sabine's second post card to Griffin in The Golden Mean
Unseen adversary 
Villain: Victor Frolatti
"With potent, dreamlike art and compelling prose, the first two volumes of this extraordinary trilogy have captured the creative imaginations readers..."
"How eXasperating you can be."
"Yet neither can continue without the prsence of the other."
Zen of reading a few pages at a time and sharing with others

Keep Going --> by Austin Kleon

 "A Paper Prayer" 🙏 see "T" below "Build a Bliss Station" Chapter 2
"Creativity is about Connection... but it is also about disconnetion... You must play hide-and-seek in ordered to produce something worth being found." p. 39
"Decline for secret reasons. " ~ E. B. White qtd p. 56
Every Day is Groundhog Day is Chapter 1 I opened to it on 2/2/2025
"Finish every day and be done with it... ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 30
Gifts: pp. 92-97
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard
"I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller qtd p. 67
JOMO: The Joy Of Missing Out... a blissful, serene enjoyment in knowing,  and celebrating ... but are simply skipping." qtd Anil Dash p. 61
Learn How to Say "no." p. 57
"My time is gone and my brains are scattered." p. 45
Nina Katchadourian's Seat Assignment check her art out here
"Opportunity to reconnect with yourself and your [art]." p. 55
"Play hide-and-seek in ordered to produce something worth being found." p. 39
Quasi-dream state p. 45 Quincy Jones: "God walks out of the 
room when you're thinking about money." p. 78
Richard Walker: "Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the battles of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness for something that happened yesterday or the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time." Source
"Silence and Solitude are crucial." p. 39 "Sister Mary Corita Kent... would lead her students... to 'See for the Sake of Seeing, and discover all the things that [we] nevered bothered to notice.'" p. 102
Upon waking, when [my] mind is fresh p. 45
"Volunteer your time and teach someone else how to make what you make and do what you do." p.95
"We got rid of the day as well as we could." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne qtd. p. 32
Ordinary + eXtra attention  = eXtraordinary - Chapter 5 pp.98-119
"You go diving for pearls, but sometimes you end up with clams." ~ Jerry Garcia p. 31
Zine: King-Cat John Porcellino check it out here

A Collect of moments : late Jan early Feb 2025

Beef stew - impromptu - yum!! 2/2/25
"...Dignity of being loyal to something you believe in, of holding on to it. Above all else, of believing, without question, that it will carry you home." ~ Robert Downey,  Jr. as Steve Lopez in The Soloist
"Everything was so... alive, making it feel impossible that anything could ever die here. But maybe,in a way, nothing did." p. 121


"Give teeth to the pain already writhing inside of me." p.118 A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

 I felt compelled to change the word from "being" to "feeling," because I remember feeling that way, but it is an Illusion (see this blog posts' "x"

Margo "ABC : Always Be Coloring" by Tracy 
Olivia Lane "Who I  Thought You Were"  listen here 

Pre-dawn Puddles 🤷‍♀️ inside 🤷‍♀️

Thank you Lynne 
"Remember You Young" Thomas Rhett watch and listen here
"Snow is gently falling..." ~ Gordon Lightfoot 
"Unsettled instinct, he'd pulled away even farther." p. 10 "Unraveling seam in the Universe, a portal to a new realm where nothing else existed." p. 119  A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
"Vastly unknowable and enduringly steady. A persistent force at the center of my world." p. 258  A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
EXtricating herself from the hungry forest after years of [feeling] trapped." p. 11  A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young I felt compelled to change the word from "being" to "feeling," because I remember feeling that way, but it is an illusion
Zagarenski art 🎨 ✨️ does it again 😍
Source Perfect timing

Floriology thank you so much, Martha xo

Anemone : Forsaken love... "sprung from Aphrodite's tears as she mourned the loss of her beloved Adonis." p. 4 

Belladonna ... silencing a victim forever... keep a secret... least they regret it." p. 20
Camellia meaning: longing for you "to show longing for what could have been." p. 4
Dandelion : Divination: wishes and fortune-telling." p. 56 Datura to show that you will not be fooled by charm." p. 24
"Engulfing its surroundings once it has taken hold." Clematis p. 36
"Giving up on a ill-suited romance"p. 52
"Honeysuckle for devoted affection." ~ p.188
Ingenuity. Clematis p. 36
Jasmine 
"Knocked from it's course by a jealous Zephyrus... p.86
"Larkspur to say 'remember the good times'." p. 68
Magnolia memories
Nettle ... Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans..." p. 124
Orchid to show gratitude for a gift you treasure p. 84
"Peace and Prosperity" cattail p. 30
Passionflower
Queen Anne's Lace meaning: sanctuary as a housewarming gift p. 130 and p. 148
"Radient with charm" p. 24
Snapdragon : presumption p. 156 Snowdrop : consolation and hope p. 158
Tulips 🌷 declaration of love
Underworld especially of Greek myth mentioned a number of times in this book
Violet  originally the flower of Valentine's Day,  it is said that Saint Valentine, while jailed for attempting to spread Christianity,  crushed violets growing near his cell in order to make ink. One legend claimed he used this ink to write a letter to his jailer's daughter,  whom he had healed from blindness, signing it, 'Your Valentine,' thus inspiring centuries of romantic notes." p.172 Floriography : Annie Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
"We shall overcome scandal and slander." p. 78 (Hellebore under the enormous tree just outside the side door of the library.)
"You pierce my heart" (gladiolus) p. 72 ... Yarrow to help heal a broken heart" p. 110 and p. 180
Zinnia: everlasting friendship p. 182 Zest for life- Jasmine p. 90