2023 – Yellowstone
2024 – Total solar eclipse
Two life-changing experiential years in a row. Though I guess every experience is technically life changing.
2023 – Yellowstone
2024 – Total solar eclipse
Two life-changing experiential years in a row. Though I guess every experience is technically life changing.
If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?
This is a line from a song in SOUTH PACIFIC. It was also something my Aunt Alice used to say, back when I Was Very Young, and she wanted to encourage me to dream big.
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you mistrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you reap
And everyone you meet
And all that you spite
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that’s to come
And everything under the sun is in tune,
When the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
by V. E. Schwab
It was a good story. I just wish it could have been told more succinctly. There were just way, way too many scenes of Addie going about her day and surprise surprise! suddenly! why, it’s a visit from Luc. AGAIN. And they engage in the exact same non-scintillating banter, AGAIN.


Behold the garden, in all its glory!!!!!!!!


And in lieu of knitting, at meetings, I’m weaving in the ends of this little piece. Maybe I’ll make a sachet for Mother’s Day. M-i-L would like that. I have no better ideas for it.
I thought maybe I’d take up beading again. All this ‘color theory’ I’m experimenting with, with my magic markers and difficult sheep. Maybe I could make some cool creative beading patterns.
But first practice. Get back in the swing of it.

Life is not a victory march.
It’s not one-and-done.