SEPTEMBER 2013

RAINY DAYS

READING

AND MY
FELINE FRIEND

MARIO  is  'The Cat That God Sent' (A Novel)-author Jim Kraus-Abingdon Press c. 2013

............................to look after me!     : )

author: Yann Martel  c. 2001
photo courtesy of free online images

artist: Terrance John Cleary
Courtesy free online images

THE CASUAL VACANCY
author: J. K. Rowling c. 2012

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2013

AND SO IT BEGINS.....

                          
      


...dressing in layers, white smoke billowing from the chimney of my neighbor's house. I imagine a well stoked fire in it's place as I turn up the thermostat (and happy to do so!)  Out come the water repellent jackets and boots....... Umbrella..... "at the ready"...... like a magic wand.......the levitation charm...."wingardium leviosa!" UP POPS the domed covering and a lovely walk in the rain becomes a part of the day.............I'm under it's spell     :  )

 

J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Levitation Charm-"wingardium leviosa"

photos courtesy of free online images



I was wondering if 'Hermione Granger' would switch out the word umbrella for bumpershoot.....so I looked it up; it's not 'bumpershoot'; it's 'bumbershoot'!....who knew? not me!    : o

Bumbershoot: bumber - (alteration of 'umber' in umbrella) plus - shoot - (alteration of 'chute' as in parachute)

First known use: Circa 1896

Merriam-Webster



and then I came across this....BUMBERSHOOT ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON  (Labor Day Weekend)........who knew??? not me...again! but I know now!   : )

SEPTEMBER 2013

 

FIELDS OF GOLD

 

EVA CASSIDY - American vocalist and guitarist  (1963 - 1996)

 

 

'Fields of Gold' written by STING
aka Gordon Sumner - English musician, singer-songwriter   (b. 1951 )

SEPTEMBER 2013

AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

FROM SUMMER TO FALL

"To everything there is a Season, and a Time to every purpose under the Heaven..." Ecclesiastes 3:1


 'Balloon Ride Over the North Santiam Canyon'  2012
                      

'Alders and Ferns'

 'Hedge Hog Dancing
with Faeries'

artist Denise Sanders

dsanders@wvi.com

SEPTEMBER 2013

"A THING OF BEAUTY......"

John Keats- (1795-1821)                  

English Romantic Poet
                                                                              

                                                                                
 My Senior Yearbook- 1965    

SEPTEMBER 2013

"DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER"

I love Severus Snape! My high school English teacher was my Professor Snape......like Neville Longbottom, I was terrified of Mr. Vincent.......and for good reason too! He could wing a piece of chalk faster than a speeding bullet and hit his target! He was able to appear behind you out of nowhere!.....PAY ATTENTION!............. You can be sure that he taught us Magic!....... Poetry, Potions, and Places beyond the mundane. Too bad it took me all these years to appreciate the lesson and the teacher. I do now.

The mind of J. K. Rowling and the Potter series is astounding to me.

Alan Rickman..........There's no one like him.

Joseph C. Vincent ...May 1965.......There was no one like him.

SEPTEMBER 2013

PERSEVERANCE AND OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

AMERICAN POET AND EDUCATOR

resource: NEW LIFE

  

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2013

THE WISDOM of the DESERT

Thomas Merton-copyright 1960
By The Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc.

and other desert tales

BOOTS AND SAND - Yusuf Islam
2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2013

OH HAPPY DAY.......

TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN

Cat Stevens - 1970
Yusuf Islam

Tillerman: a person who steers the rear wheels of a fire truck or controls its ladder.
Wiktionary

1923 Ahrens

  

 

 

illustrator unknown by me

SEPTEMBER 2013

IF YOU WANT IT..........

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict. Ultimately, a wide range of methods and proceedures for addressing conflict exist, including but not limited to, negotiation, mediation, communication, diplomacy, and creative peace-building.
(Wikipedia)

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

Albus Dumbledore - The Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling

ONE WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW

SEEING EYE TO EYE

September 13, 2013

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author, political activist, and lecturer-B.of A.-Radcliff College

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

"HELLO, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE HERE?"

...Harry Nilsson (1941-1994) American singer-songwriter, musician, story teller...



Oblio and Arrow on their way to the Pointless Forest.......but

THERE'S ALWAYS A POINT.....

"Me and my Arrow, Takin' the high road. Wherever we go Everyone knows, it's me and my Arrow."

(song 'Me and My Arrow'-Harry Nilsson- THE POINT ! - (1971)

TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
(but don't trip after hip replacement surgery!)

September 12, 2013

The phrase 'trip the light fantastic' means "To dance, especially in an imaginative or "fantastic manner". It is said to originate from the works of John Milton, 'Comus', 1637. The word has long been used to mean 'dance nimbly'.

It's nearly 3 months to the day since my surgery; with a promising post-op check up yesterday...even so, the 'magic' number seems to be one year. For any of you Baby Boomers or Flower Children who may be facing the choice/necessity of such surgery, I say be prepared to be a patient patient! Do your 'homework' beforehand and without fail, commit to your post-op strengthening exercises daily. Prepare your mind to be aware of your body movements at all times (not unlike a dancer!).

And by all means................DANCE!!

"A STITCH IN TIME MAY SAVE NINE."

Nine-Nine-2013

artist Rick Beerhorst

quote attributed to Thomas Fuller.....author: 'Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and English' (1732)

YEESH! That may be the longest book title I've ever seen!

Fall is in the air and that means a return to reading and cross stitching for me.....My current project has been in the works for about 2 years now! a 15 page pattern (Scarlet Quince, LLC copyright 2004)

THE GREAT WAVE OFF KANAGAWA  by KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

I'm about half way there!

COLLAGE OR COLLISION                                                  Word Art Collage-Pools of Poetry

.....ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER?

collage-an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or arrangements in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition.

collision-an encounter between particles resulting in exchange or transformation of energy.

(Miriam-Webster Dictionary)  yes, I really do pull out the book and 'look it up'!)

Someone asked me what my blog site was 'about'....well......it's a 'word' collage, sometimes a collision of thoughts in word, image, and song........a moment in time; past, present, or future.......organized chaos....it's whatever I want it to be.....it's 'about' Me.......and it just IS.....   : )


and then again........it's NOT just about Me; not really.....



                                                                             

 

 

 

Paint The Peninsula

September 2013

Plein air painting...........hmmmmm....what is that? My friend Priscilla, renaissance woman extraordinaire....took us with her on her first Paint The Peninsula Adventure...do visit her blogsite...Skywriting by Priscilla Messner-Patterson..........I was 'perplexed' having never heard the term 'plein air' painting........soooooo I had to look it up....

Miriam Webster Dictionary: plein air: of or relating to painting in outdoor daylight....

French: open air

Happily following your Skywriting Priscilla!!

.....and there you have it!  :  )

THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Nashville 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2013

'SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION' -Ken Kesey-1964

ALWAYS AN INKLING....

Inkling: A slight indication or suggestion. A slight knowledge or vague notion.-Merriam-Webster Dictionary

'Who Were The Inklings?'-Dr. Bruce L. Edwards-Bowling Green State University  c.2006

"The Inklings writers group met together weekly between 1933-1949. Led by Oxford University literary scholars C. S. Lewis, creator of the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and J. R. R. Tolkien, creator of 'The Hobbit and 'The Lord of the Rings' this now legendary troupe read aloud from their works-in-progress over pints of stout and equal parts uproarious laughter and earnest criticism, producing an astonishing number of works over a period of 16 years."

SEPTEMBER 2013

"I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."  J. R. R. Tolkien  1892-1973

September 2013

 

"Now come the days of the King."

 

Return of the King

 

J. R. R. Tolkien 

 

 

"Out of the Great Sea to Middle-Earth I come.

In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAIRYTALES AND DRAGONS

SEPTEMBER 2013