thoughtfully sharing: September 2015

Friday, September 11, 2015

Beautiful rainbow and clouds

Taken during the evening of September 10th

Thursday, September 03, 2015

First Day 2015/16 Schoolyear

Joshua is in fifth grade in Mrs. Prestine's class.

Tyler is now a sophomore.

Justin's starting his senior year! I can't believe it - yesterday he was a bubbly baby boy and now he's so grown!

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My Book List 2015

A Body in Berkeley Square, Captain Lacey book 5, Ashley Gardner
The Necklace Affair, Captain Lacey book 4.5, Ashley Gardner
The Sudbury School Murders, Captain Lacey book 4, Ashley Gardner
The Glass House, Captain Lacey book 3, Ashley Gardner
Notorious Nineteen, Janet Evanovich
Miss Perigrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich
Smokin' Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
Sizzlin' Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
Regimental Murder, Captain Lacey book 2, Ashley Gardner
Sense of Deception, Victoria Laurie
Hanover Square Affair, Captain Lacey book 1, by Ashley Gardner
No Ghouls Allowed by Victoria Laurie - January

My Book List 2014

Opening a book is like opening a locker to another world, looking down on its inhabitants and saying, "Helllooo, can I join you for a little while?" - Stacie Bryant

The Professional, part 1 - Kresley Cole
Undeniable Rogue, The Rogues Club, book 1, Annette Blair
The Professional, part 2 - Kresley Cole
The Ghoul Next Door: A Ghost Hunter Mystery, Victoria Laurie
The Professional, part 3 - Kresley Cole
Unforgettable Rogue - The Rogues Club, book 2, Annette Blair
Unmistakable Rogue - The Rogues Club, book 3, Annette Blair

Deadly Forcast - Victoria Laurie

Fatal Fortune - Victoria Laurie
Twenty-eight and a Half Wishes - DeniseGrover Swank

Fashionably Dead - Robyn Peterman

Hidden Fire - Elizabeth Hunter

The Wolf and The Dove - Kathleen Woodiwiss, rereading

And, my favorite book of all time is. . .
. . . The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodiwiss.

What I'm Listening To Now . . .

Ben Howard, 2016
Kaleo, 2016
Jack Savoretti, 2016
The Last Revel, 2015
Renegates, Unsteady, Unconsolable - Xambassadors, July 2015
In The Room Where You Sleep, Dead Man's Bones (from The Conjuring), January 2015
Till It's Gone, Yelawolf, January 2015
Happy Idiot by TV on the Radio, January 2015
Ready to Start, Arcade Fire, January 2015
Young and Beautiful/Big Eyes by Lana Del Ray, January 2015
The Everlasting Muse by Belle & Sebastian, January 2015
Dotan, 7 Layers album, the whole darn thing is awesome!, August 2014
Pachelbel's Canon, June 2014
Balance by Opus Orange, June 2014
Recover by Chvrches, June 2014
Take Me To Church by Hozier, June 2014
Crystallize by Lindsey Sterling

My Favorite Quotes

What’s right is right. Even it later turns out to be wrong. (Quote from memory so maybe not verbatim). The Remains of the Dead by Wendy Roberts
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994
Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― C.G. Jung
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ~Stacia Tauscher
“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” ~Forest E. Witcraft
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. " ~ Mark Twain
A child's mind isn't a blank slate; it's more of a jungle. Each time a parent helps a toddler read, the child is walked through this jungle from one side to the other. Trip after trip, a seemingly impossible passage becomes a well-worn path. Children sent to kindergarten skipping merrily along this path to literacy fare far better than those sent to school with machetes. - By Keith Mastrion "Reading Man" and 1998 National Teacher of the Year
"A year from now you will wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb
“Don't find fault, find a remedy” Author ~ Henry Ford
Celebrate endings - they precede new beginnings. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I won't miss you. I will miss who I thought you were. -anonymous

Favorite Book Quotes

"Greatness resides in you. Power or not, you can become empowered." Trehan to Bette, Shadow's Claim by Kresley Cole
"Power is where you find it, where you seize it, how you wield it." Shadow's Claim, Kresley Cole
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. From Rebecca by Daphne Du'Maurier
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came . . and I was awakened. - Zsadist to Bella, Lover Awakened, by J.R. Ward
If aught must be lost, 'Twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'Twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'Twill be my life for yours. I am Given. - The Druid Binding Vows, Kiss of the Highlander, by Karen Marie Moning
It does not do to dwell on dreams . . . . . and forget to live. - Dumbledore to Harry in HP & The Sorcerer's Stone.

Favorite Movie/Television "Quotes"

The steps you take don't need to be big. They just need to take you in the right direction. - Jemma Simmons from Marvel's Agents of Shield
I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right? (Jodie Foster - Contact)
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car? (Shia LeBeouf - Transformers)
Nobody taught Tommy how to love somebody without hurting them. - Sam on True Blood, S4 finale

Favorite Song Lyrics

I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow. Regret, remorse, hold on, oh, no, I've gotta go. Ther's no starting over and no new beginnings, time races on..Just gotta keep on keeping on. My Silver Lining, by First Aid Kit
The words that make us fall apart, cannot be taken back. You hold the line that holds my heart, don't let go of that. The Words by, Dragonborn
There's a room inside my heart that no one ever goes, it's been boarded up and locked for years and everything is gone. Then you come along and cut yourself a key, swept the floors and opened all the windows, said; 'baby, let it breathe.' Let It Breathe, Water Liars

Favorite Character Names

Saura, can't find meaning.
Liora (feminine form of Lior - Jewish - and means "My Light" in Hebrew)
Hadley (an English surname derived from a place meaning "Heather Field")
Amalya
Copley
Megaera (from Greek Mythology that means "to grudge." It was the name of one of the furies in Greek Mythology)
Cadeon
Erienne
Amalie
Merrewyn
Kaderin
Katra
Annora (medieval English variant of Honora - brought to England and Ireland by the Normans as Honoria, which is the feminine of Honorius (Late Roman). And, ultimately, means 'honour.')
Sorcha (means Radiant in Gaelic)
As a combination I really like Saura Liora or Hadley Liora. Very pretty.

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