Tag: birthdays
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A Day at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston
UPDATE at the end My paintings are now varnished up to date with a very subtle protective coat; I am sitting at home after a day at the museum. This photo is my own art at home now: the blue painting on the left, then a pink anemone, a famous botanical drawing print I’d found…
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Pine Leaves on a Stem and My Own Family History, featuring My Great Grandma Rose
(I asked my mom if she had any photos of my great grandma to send me whose birthday is featured in the post. And she sent me this photo. ✔️ My Great Grandma Rose you can see now! She was very shy and rarely wanted to be in a photo so this is special, but…
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Happy Birthday, Patty Griffin!
This is a great sky this morning for the occasion and song. Today is singer-songwriter, Patty Griffin’s birthday! Happy Birthday Patty! 💕💕🎂🍀🍀🍀🍀 You may remember I was listening to her music in January and by February I found her on tour and live in Boston that night and got tickets. You can watch her live…
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A Very Funny Book Beginning, A Centering Morning
The local Book Club meeting was a lot of fun last night! Start my day unwound… I began reading the Book Club’s book for the meeting, The Summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan Mallory when I was home from meeting last night. I was wrong about this book’s opening from reading the back cover,…
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A Dance Party Yoga, before Yoga, and a Sky Gifted After
I accidentally lost my birthday dance video for literary host Miss May’s birthday, so we did a redo, such fun, and shuffle On I ask May to pick a song or two or three or four…this shows the first one, and on the way out to yoga class tonight, the sky is like this, like…
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Fairy Nature, A Favorite Book from Childhood
Realizing my own fairy nature was a necessary step I made toward enlightenment. 🧚♀️Fairies are often described as ‘good, beautiful beings’ who like to dance and bring blessings upon others, sometimes with a bit of mischief or accidental mishaps mixed in. They may also shuffle things around at times, like their own profile pictures. They…
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
One of my favorite novelists, a book that often comes to mind as greatly lyrical and a full, philosophical story, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, my reflective review: The most moving novel I’ve read this year in 2022, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977)…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Celebrates a Birthday, with a Poem
Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first poet I’d read again that helped me start up the blog in 2020. I had mentioned her name in a poem, “The Sea Lair” in my first full-length poetry book, Moonflower (2018), poems spanning over a long period of years, and I would like her more in time.…
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Flown in, this Leaf Again
Tomorrow is my birthday 🙂 (Feb. 19)…I will see my family in New York and celebrate my nephew’s first birthday! There was a little glue still; I knew it was the same one, and I rinsed it gently. My Nature Book I began yesterday night, with this sweet surprise from the day before: The Back…
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My Poetry on the Blog
It was interesting to compose live…I am happy with the final poems, including the recently revised poem, “Pride” and new audio reading, and new audio reading of “Your Name.” I am looking forward to saving new poems I may write offline, to submit to literary magazines, to link, and I now find this the most…
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Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous
(Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…
Blush of Dawn 