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

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"Everyday" by Buddy Holly 

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"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

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"... 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