To vastly better health

Healthier hearts and hopefully a year of more healing!!!

It makes me listen

I have the ability to breathe and heal
Are you making friends
I have earache
I have sorrow
I have a body
Are you making friends with the early morning
I have cramps and backache
I have ginger
I have pain
I have stuff to do right now.

Yesterday's Cool Carolina Moon

Ay, windmill crash

https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/29/last-of-its-kind-windmill-falls-on-arcadia-dennys/

O sneaky radio

Girl ~ The Father
Too Late For Goodbyes ~ The Son
LaLaLaLaLa ~ The Holy Ghost

What happened here was...

I looked at some beach grass and felt like I heard the sounds of adults crying (because of loss) and a baby crying (because of rebirth).

Sure okay

Crochet, crochet, crochet through another wave.
Even if you believe people can come back.
Even after having a lot of fun in a library one day.
Felt as if we were looking at the books.

This must be why so many breathing exercises and stretches were invented. Way to feel like you need to move some feelings around.

To Caring Adulthood

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Sufjan Stevens:

To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region...

Wallowa Lake Monster
Casimir Pulaski Day

https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/79yhpo/how_sufjan_stevens_writes_a_song/

The Hidden River Of My Life

Gingery musical dream

I sat by a quiet kid in class (this kid being an adult in a college class, however) and he kept offering me a treat from a bag of ginger candies and something flat, like albums or books. I would say no, that's okay but then still reach into the bag to eat the candies. I knew he knew I was eating them. At the end of class, he got up and played guitar and sang. It was quite amazing to see the switch between shy student and performer. Everyone clapped, although most people weren't familiar with his work, and he told us where he would be playing a show later. Afterward, I told someone, "He is so professional! It's like Elvis came back and decided to be more introspective and perform for smaller audiences." Then music from another group came on. "And I want to see them too..."

Bird skirmishes

Mockingbird and Mourning Dove.
He chases birds away.
She sits there and doesn't let him push her out of the feeder.

Ah...musing?

From The Futilitarians by A. Gisleson:

"Some of us in the room, especially the passionate and acerbic Ellen, were very attached to our distress" (19).

Ah...interesting.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3002168/8-signs-youve-found-your-lifes-work Maybe my life's work is listening to really good music? Ha ha. While cleaning.

Maybe it will be more fun if...

Cleaning the house can be like a chemistry experiment.


How To Convert Baking Soda...

http://naturesnurtureblog.com/how-to-make-washing-soda/

Still awake

I want my body to be healed. That kind of pain is not kind. I don't want my body to be like one of those women who is constantly making excuses for the men who are in denial about their lack of respect for women in work and social and domestic settings.

Here is reason to pray

Merciful mother energy.
Heal my pains.
~~~~~~~•••••••~~~~~~~
It seemed like forever.
But here we are better.

Impulse used book purchase

Fox Tracks by R. M. Brown

From a going-out-of-business antique place.

Ah ha ha...time to walk up to the music store? 

Beach creatures

Mhmm

I remembered some things. Things came back. People really do blot things out sometimes. Here's something for the future:
Times have changed. You do not necessarily need to give your friend away to some other life. If you have a friend, and they give you something, and you give something back, and it seems like your friend has to say goodbye to you in order to go on to do what she wants, even that is temporary. It seems like a sacrifice. There she is, giving you this look of admiration for the sacrifice you didn't even know you were making, but it was fine, because it was also temporary. Everything is so temporary. That's why there's almost humorous element to it all. Look, that month you paid all the money to see a healer who kept asking "Anything else? Anything else?" As if she was saying Well? Well? Have you noticed yet? You're gonna notice this pretty soon.

Ornaments of the Beach

And Jewel-y