Books, Songs, Memories, and More

"Busycotypus canaliculatus" Animal - who knew?? ;) Wikipedia

Conch shell Pat and Mike gave me for my 30th birthday - now more than 30 years ago

Dolly Parton: "Hardcandy Christmas" listen here

Elizabeth Berg's "Mason" series  

Found....

Grandpa T's "memoirs" recorded on cassette, transcribed to word doc

"Happiness was sitting with me... It was sitting right there,  like a person or something." p. 171

"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston Cover from Netflix's Queen Charlotte Series listen here

Johnny Cash version "Ain't No Grave" listen here

Kousa Dogwood near Mitchell College

 

"Lightning whelks are also one of the rare “left handed” snails, meaning they spiral in a counter clockwise direction with their aperture, or opening, to the left. But what

May come to a surprise is how the female whelk lays its string of eggs in such an intricate casing!" Source

Off the whole day, Monday, June 12, Logan appt midday was a great excuse to take time for me before and after.

Purple rake - see below

Random Rake among the Roses

"...Steadfast spirit, gentle care, and joy in the midst of hard work... I carry that in my heart." ~ Daniel Miyares, nell plants a tree 

"Together Again" by Emmy Lou Harris 🎶 listen here

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"Wiggle your wrists... twist from your hips...lean without bending your knees? Well then, follow me!" ~ Corinna Luyken

 

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Earth's the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg

 "Arthur had learned this: love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. " p. 81

Besotted p. 219

Cycles, beginnings and endings, death and then birth. Life goes on" p. 219

Divine insight p.20

"Frank was so powerfully himself." p.211

Guldrop. Harvey Guldrop. How'd the author come up with that name?

"He revels himself to me in being the imperfect person that he is." p. 207

"Inside everyone was a door that was meant to stay open, and it kept blowing shut. But every time you did something for someone else,  that door opened again. And there was that little light." p. 134

"Joy and ease with which he had once moved in the world..." p. 221

"Knowing that [inside people is a place that could get hurt so bad] it seemed like people would be more careful.of one another." p. 133

Like that. Like the current. [They share a communication deeper than common conversation. He looked at the river moving slowly by and thought:]

"Making all these assumptions that aren't ours to make... the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes."  P. 220

Nola Corinne McCollum

Otto 

Portrayed beautifully by Tom Hanks

Alphabet by Mary Novick

Rita Wilson, Sebastián Yatra - Til You're Home (Official Video) this

Song plays at the end the movie:A Man Called Otto. Watch video by clicking here

"...Tamped down by a despair that would not go away." p. 212 Earth's the Right Place for Love

Unfinished...

Virgil Scussell is husband of Roberta Keena's "grandaunt" Dorothea Mae DeWitt

What's wrong with this picture?" ended up being a pretty popular post 

"eXuburant thoughts" p. 56 ebullient is a pretty great word too though :) p. 58

"You know what I would bring home that would be really outrageous? I would bring home a star, put it in my room for a huge night light." ~ EKM 9/30/2022

Zephyrhills, FL (see above :) )

May days 2023

Bismarks! for Breakfast! Yum!!

Cemetery

Doing "research"

Elton John "Love Song" listen here

Facebook memory pops ups are fun - or I delete them :)

Google Doodle is a Game today, 5.20.2023: Why? Here's why

Having fun in Hope Valley, RI 05.07.23 

Ishkibibble: an expression that suggests something like, "Don't sweat the small stuff." The meaning stems from a song sung by a trumpeter, singer, and manager of Kay Keyser's orchestra, whose real name was Merwyn Bogue. He was given the nickname Ish Kabibble after the Yiddiah song he sang, called "Isch Ka Bibble" ("I Should Worry")

"Ish kabibble! That's nothing to worry about."

Joni Mitchell's Morning Glory on the Vine

"Kasandra" is the name of the cover art

Lilacs

Mom's favorite picture for so many reasons 

"Nature, the givingness of it." p. 55

Oatmeal scotchies for Jonathan 

Pink! lilacs!!

Quiet afternoon, and a Quick lunch visit here

Roland Albert Moreau and Roses

Saturday, 05.20.23, as I pulled up to 46P I heard a Sheryl Crow song I'd not heard before: Home by Sheryl Crow 

Thames River activity picking up and sailbots are returning to their moorings

"Until you give your love / There's nothing more that we can do" ~ Elton John's "Love Song"  

Villous lilac begin blooming just as "common lilac" are finishing 

Xochimilco – an ancient lake of exceptional natural beauty in Mexico. Xochimilco is the last remaining home of wild axolotls, a distinctive amphibian that is related to the salamander and holds deep cultural significance.

 yay me 😉

Zany time :)