Invisible Things by Andy J. Pizza & Sophie Miller

  
Chaos, Coziness, and Chills
Dreams
Gratitude, Giggles
Hope
Kindness
Love
Melancholy, Magic taste of a lollipop
Now and Nostalgia
Odors
Pizzazz
Question: "If you could put on a pair of glasses and see all the feelings, ideas, and other invisible Things that populate our world, what would they look like?"
Rest
Smells
Understanding
Vibes
Wishes and Whispers
"eXplore the way a sad song can sometimes make you happy, and discover how laughs-even fake ones- can multiply faster than you'd imagine." ~ Front cover end flap
Yucky smells
Zest for life!
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Songs I've been "collecting"

"Angels come down / From the heavens / Just to help us on our way / Come to teach us / Then they leave us / And they find some other soul to save" ~ Chris Stapleton's " Broken Halos
Colours of the Wind (From "Pocahontas") by Benny Martin listen here
"Don't spend your life chasing gold / For you only buy what you get sold / And you only have what you can hold / Don't live your years with a worried mind / Over what you'll lose or leave behind / For you only keep what you can find / Don't you live your years with a worried mind / Don't spend your days with a troubled soul / Filling voids and plugging holes / Let go of what you can't control / Don't you spend your days with a troubled soul / For there's no sense, there's no rhyme and no reason... Don't walk your road with a heavy heart / Or lose your light out in the dark/ For every day's a brand new start." ~ "Chasing Gold" by Passenger 
"...Every day of every month of every season /And every moment like your last" ~ "Chasing Gold" by Passenger 
"Feels like Freedom" [my new car] and my up coming retirement plans. ~ JBL 6.3.26
Gordon Lightfoot "Care Free Highway" listen here
"Here Comes the Sun" by Jacob Collier/dodie as the sun rose while we drove to Bradley for Logan's trip to NC.
"I've got no one left to blame" :) Gordon Lightfoot "Care Free Highway"
Journey "Open Arms" and Jackson Browne "These Days" listen here
Kacey Musgraves' "Angels" listen here and "Three Little Birds" ❤️❤️❤️
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" first song on radio as we headed to the airport 🛫 
Mumford & Sons/Chris Stapleton's "Here"  listen HERE 
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (Official Lyric Video)
"Oh Very Young" by Cat Stevens listen here
Passenger's  "Chasing Gold" listen here
Quincy Jones' "Just Once" listen here 
"Reminds Me"  by Sarah McLachlan (feat. Katie Gavin) [Official Music Video]
"Some Days I’m Strong | 2026 Official Lyrics Video by Calum Scott
Lyrics from "Landslide" which I've been hearing often lately. 
Unapologetically love the Unique timeline of my life. p. 169 Jube 10th Dear Friend by Michelle Maros
Vance Joy's "Saturday Sun" listen here
"Wake Me Up" by Aloe Blacc listen here
"Younger You" by Miley Cyrus listen here
Zach Bryan's "Heading South" while we drove to Bradley for Logan's trip to NC. listen with lyrics here
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Reading Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue

"Art of belonging in, with, snd to self (p. 74) ... Ascetical rhythm (p. 77) refers to the intentional, balanced discipline of a spiritual lifestyle.
"Belonging presumes warmth and intimacy." p. 71 Balanced expression p. 78
Celebration is an attentive and gracious joy of presence. " p. 74
"Dignity allows an immense pliability and Diversuty of presence. Do not give [your Dignity] away! p. 69 Do NOT let "Days fall away like empty shells and miss all the treasure. p. 77
Especially in compromising and demanding Experiences, you can still hold your sense of dignity." p. 69
"Fall away like empty shells and miss all the treasure." p. 77
"Grace of Spirit: Do NOT give it away" p.69
Hold the sense of worthiness your sense of worthiness and honour the larger horizon of grace and graciousness. p. 69
"In order to be, we need to Belong. " p. 71
Joy of presence!
Ken, thank you for gifting me this book!
Larger horizon of grace and graciousness
Must not "Miss the treasure" p. 77
NOW. "Be Here Now" ~ Ram Dass
"Our longing always stretches towards a further frontier. It is in our nature to seek the infinite. "
"Patient with the natural unevenness and unpredictability of living." p. 75
Quiet miracles and gifts that seek no attention. Quality of presence.
"St. Augustine said, "Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee." qtd. P. 80 
"Trust enables belonging" p.71 "TTo be here is so much." Translation of Rilke p. 74
"Unpredictability of living" p. 75
"View yourself with affection, understanding, and respect." p. 68
"When your heart is content, your life can always find the path inwards to this deep stillness in you." p. 74
"All belong is an eXtension of the first and closest belonging of living in your own body." p. 72
"Your heart Yearns for the light and luminosity that are now absent." p. 73
"Zen painting suggestive of great presence and shelter. Over the painting was the caption 'All the holy man needs is s shelter over his head.'" p. 71 🙏Amen 🙏
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Letting May Drift Away

Amanda's 30th Birthday and AAA
7am Tuesday, May 19, 2026
"Be where your feet are." Noah Kahan Busy Head Project
"Crucial Clarity of intention" and...
"Don't forget to breathe" p. 70 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
"Energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic Energy." p. 74 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
Feathering... the gas pedal of the Bolt, the opening of the screen of Mahjong game, and many on the ground when I walked to lunch and post office on Friday, May 22, 2026
"Grounded, confident manner that says you know difficulty is a natural part of life; it isn't personal." p. 152 Dear Friend 🧡 by Michelle Maros 
"Her silence more Heart-shatteringly eloquent than any words she could have said." p. 114 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
 Inanity: the quality of being extremely silky, pointless, or lacking in real substance." 
"Just keep breathing... Just breathe..."
"Keep your eyes open." p. 73 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
Noah Kahan's "The Great Divide" listen 🎶 here
 source 
"Please cancel my subscription to your issues." p. 124 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
Quote by Emily Dickinson that John Kincheloe share with me 10 years ago: “The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass our own.” MORE poignant as my career takes yet another direction -> Retirement beings in 34 days - 
"Recognize what's simple about the simple things...allow the rest to fall into ego, meaningless things" p. 78 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
"...Shouldn't wait for the edge of the cliff before enjoying the mountainside that brought us there." p. 125 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
"Thankful Spirit in all areas of my life." P. 150 Dear Friend
Ultimate truth. The continuance of the Spirit is what is true, and things that are truthful are love. The only thing that matters in life is love. Love, here on earth,  is our only currency; it is our energy and our existence,  and we take that energy with us into perpetuity." p. 78
"Victory of Loveland perseverance and survival against the odds." p. 134
Xavier Rudd "Follow the Sun" listen here @sarahaddisonallen
"Yearnings of Your soul." p. 153 Dear Friend 🧡 by Michelle Maros
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Life and Death and My Next Breath

 Ajuga
Amanda's 30th is today, May 19, 2026
Behind The Scenes with Jeremy Renner on the Making Of Love and Titanium (Full) here
Casting Crowns' "Praise You In This Storm" listen here and Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here" listen here
Demons by Kenny Chesney listen here 🎶 
"Every choice you make has power. You are moving towards your values, desires, and goals." p. 147 Dear Friend I really needed to read those words this morning 🙏21 May 2026
"Feels Like" by Gracie Abrams listen here
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie 
"Hold On To The Light" by Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiérrez listen here
"I place on the altar of dawn / The quiet loyalty of breath / The tent of thought where I shelter / Waves of desire I am shore to / And all beauty drawn to the eye. / May my mind come alive today / To the invisible geography / That invites me to new frontiers / To break the dead shell of yesterdays / To risk being disturbed and changed. / May I have the courage today /  To live the life that I would love / To postpone my dream no longer / But do at last what I came here for / And waste my heart on fear no more." ~ Excerpt from 'A Morning Offering' from To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue
 Dawn, 9 May 2026
Josie, our love  


"Knowledge defeated anxiety every time." p. 42 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
Lilac and bright blue skies
 18 May 2026
My Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner
Noah Kahan, Hozier - Northern Attitude, Stick Season, and Homesick :)
"Our lives are frittered away by lack of focus." ~ Sarah BanBreathnach Simply Abundance May 18 essay
Prince of Tides movie revisited 33 years later. Even more Powerful in different ways with new eyes and Perspective.
"Quest to find tge most fundamental thing to life: my next breath." p. 34 My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 
"Redemption Song" by Bob Marley & The Wailers listen here
"Stick Season" by Noah Kahan  listen here
"Tell Your Heart To Beat Again (Live)" by Danny Gokey LISTEN here
Urgency to get everything "done" at work is already dissipating
Vital tasks without which who knows what would have happened... Vast waves of pain... an unruly ocean." p. 49
"Wait" by Jeremy Renner listen here 
an eXtra "Y"
"You are the ocean and I am the earth..." ~ "Wait" by Jeremy Renner listen 🎶 here
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May 1-13, 2026 Life will Never be the Same

"Adventuring into an odd new place..." ~ Jimmy Fallon
Brothers: Collective Divinity of Love ❤️ 
"Cracklin' Rosie" by Neil Diamond
"Dust In The Wind" by Kansas listen here
"Eden is that old-fashioned House we dwell in Every day." ~ Emily Dickinson
Flower Moon
 Source: LB's FB page
Glow
 Source: Brian's FB page
 "It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." ~ Anne Frank, July 15, 1944
Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name invites us to ask: Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?
 full album here
Kenny Chesney's "The Life" listen here
 source
Misquamicut with Mom
Nicholas Joseph Law and his Mom, Christine Marciano Law, September 2014, Napatree 
Obituary  💔 here
Placed a hold on Theo of Golden: a novel by Allen Levi
"Quixotic pursuitof bookseller." p. 23 Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Reprioritize everything
 "Stories are told; friendships are born..."abut Theo of Golden: a novel by 
Tim McGraw - Humble And Kind (Official Music Video)
Unbelieveable tragedy 😢 💔 
Video of May 1 Misquamicut 
"Welcome to Wherever You Are" ~ The West Wing Season 7 Episode 15
XOXOXOXO 
"Your ability to discern what is and isn't for you... will allow you to create space for all the good to come." ~ Dear Friend by Michelle Maros p. 139
Zwain, Hana. We all love you so much xo
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End of April 2026

 "Awareness is always the first step toward change..." p. 118 Dear Friend by Michelle Maros
Barefoot on the Beach 
Countenance: mental Composure
 
Dave Mason May 10, 1946 - Apr 19, 2026
 started but...
Feelings kinda sluggish so... out into the cool sunshine to recharge

Garlic mustard as a Medicinal Plant: Tips for Foraging & Use click here
"How the Body from spirit does slowly unwind / Until we are pure spirit at the end" ~ Theodore Roethke
"Intuition is a spiritual faculty, and does not explain,  but simply points the way." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
"Just a Song Before I Go" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash: listen here
Kris is writing a book! click here for her announcement of This Human Life 
Lemon Loaf recipe was excellent 👌 
Mediate presence as opposed to immediate: the presences in landscape are Mediate; they are often silent and indirect" p.52 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
Neil Diamond's "I Am... I Said" listen here
"One World One Life" t-shirt Kris Claire PhD was wearing in this video 
"Quiet Your Mind" 
"Remember your power of choice"
Start to choose what takes space in your brain p. 118 Dear Friend, April 23
 too cute not to include 
"Tell the Truth" by The Avett Brothers listen here
"Understand Your Impact" Dear Friend, April 27, p. 122
Verve: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" 
 "Why not me? Feed yourself positivity." Check out Paul Avellino's Instagram here
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April 7 thru April 18, 2026

"As the density of night gives way to the bright song of the dawn, so your soul continually coaxes you to give way to the light and awaken." p. 49 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
"Bloom" by Paper Kites listen here
"Clear Communication Connects us." p. 108
Dear Friend by Michelle Maros 
"Early Morning Breeze" by Dolly Parton listen here 
"Free by Florence + the Machine" listen here
"Get Together" by The Youngbloods listen here
"Hey Tomorrow" by Jim Croce listen here
source 
"Into the journey of each person there is the occasional Intrusion of the stranger." p. 48 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
"Just a quiet day with both of us relaxing at home." ~ LB 11:12 am 4/12/26
"Katy Nichole's "Hold On" Music and lyrics here
"Longing is the voice of your soul." p. 49 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye listen here
"Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" by Gladys Knight & The Pips listen here
"Protect your Peace and Preserve your energy letting go of the need to know why." p. 107 Dear Friend by Michelle Maros and Providence refers to the Protective care of God or nature as a spiritual guide, or general foresight and Prudent management of resources. 
Quince blooming on Harris Fuller Rd, Norwich, CT
"Release The Why" April 12 Dear Friend p. 107
"Soak Up The Sun" by Sheryl Crow
"Time matters" ~ Talmidge Cregg, West Wing Season 4 Episode 13 "The Long Goodbye"
"Unfathomable miracle of being." p. 49 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
Virginia, Summer 1993 Unity Renaissance Chesapeake, VA 
 
"Who Knew" by P!nk listen here
eXpress yourself in every area of your life from a place of clarity and truth" April 13 Dear Friend p.108
"Younger You" by Miley Cyrus listen here
Zac Brown Band "Pirates & Poets" listen here
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April 1, New Chapter

April 1, 2026 made the calls and logged into SSA to start the ball rolling
"Bloom" by The Paper Kites listen and watch video here
Chapter #? Is right around the Corner
Day 1 of Dear Friend by Michelle Maros was, of course, "New Beginnings"
"Emotional monitoring: feeling the need to control and manage moods of people around [me] to maintain peace and avoid conflict. " p. 92 Dear Friend by Michelle Maros
Fermentation and change will influence so much of your later life" p. 33 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue
Good faith--without excessive anxiety or self-rebuke. p. 32 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue 
Happy Easter
"It's great to Jump and just...
....Jump and just not think
Kahlil Gibran says, "Your children are not your children.  They are the son and daughters of...
Life's Longing for itself." p. 39 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue
Now reading An Animated Alphabet by Marie Angel
Opalescent Nudibranch a type of brightly colored marine sea slug found along the Pacific coast of North Americathank you Shelby 😊 
Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life
source
Quiet Easter Sunday reading An Animated Alphabet by Marie Angel
"Release your self from this Role and Regain your peace" p.92 Dear Me 🩷 
 "Strong foundation -- your core, your values, your special sense of you." p. 100 Dear Me: Daily 🩷 Notes for Complation, Connection,  and Clarity by Michelle Maro
"Thought is a permanent wanderer... The soul and the spirit are wanderers; Their places are dedicated to the discovery what is..
"Unknown and strange." p. 47 Eternal Echoes by John O'Donohue
Very Well Mind source ...
 "When Emotional Monitoring Becomes Toxic... it harms your partner, your relationship, and more importantly, yourself" by Sanjana Gupta
"eXperience a lasting sense of belonging... find it in yourself." p. 101 Dear Friend by Michelle Maros
"You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out." ~ Joseph Campbell
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