slipping and zipping along
prayers drop from lips
sunlight and caffeine
driving me on ~
towards a rare face to face
no screen inbetween
mosaic of colors, last of green
rustle of corn, grass, and place
forgotten is black night~
honey and cinnamon catch-up
flesh and bone mash-up
not bubbles or emoticons
my heart beats light~
lips drip gratitude, wavy fern fronds
more prayers on return
zipping and slipping heavenward.
~A.M. Pine 🌲♥️
I’m a fairytale retelling super fan! My favorite fairytales are Beauty & the Beast and Cinderella, possibly due to a sense of the underdog getting a chance to be seen. I also love the idea of the wrong being made right and not being judged by appearances or first impressions. I love the idea of kindness and love shown to others can change someone’s life! I have found the older source material for fairytales can be dark, gruesome, and a bit disturbing, but with so many reimaginings, the general plot is kept, but the creativity and imagination can take so many paths!
I actually found My Happy Marriage as a subtitled YouTube? film and I was absolutely charmed by the sweet kindness the main male character shows to the female character. This is a Cinderella story with fantasy elements. The war/dystopian/fantasy violence is a bit dark, just FYI. Hopefully, you can find this somewhere with English subtitles.
After a little digging, I found that this film was originally inspired by a Japanese light novel series written by Akumi Agitogi. I just completed the first Volume and hope to slowly continue them. It has now been made into an illustrated manga and anime series, too. I prefer the light novel (more substance) and the lovely film to the manga, although the illustrations are so beautiful.
Do you enjoy fairytale retellings? If yes, what are your favorites? What are your favorite fairytales?
listening 🎃~
Mostly to Book/Journal Tube or The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The rustle of dried cornfields is so gorgeous and the leaves crunch and caw of the crows, just perfect. ✨
watching🎃~
I watched a little Star Wars with my kids, but still wanting to try A Little Princess from 1995?, and been craving The Sound of Music lately for some reason.
reading🎃~
noticing🎃~
All the GORGEOUS-ness everywhere! I’m in the process today of finishing up my essay/collage for Sword & a Song , so I was soaking up inspiration here, from books, from back issues, and from 🍂 autumn splendor!
What are you listening to, watching, reading, noticing? ✨🎃♥️🍁🍂
‘If Self is to be the end of exertions, those exertions are unholy – there is no doubt of that – and that is part of the danger in cultivating the Individual Life; but I do believe we have all some appointed work to do, whh no one else can do so well; Wh. is our work; what we have to do in advancing the Kingdom of God; and that first we must find out what we are sent into the world to do, and define it and make it clear to ourselves, (that’s the hard part) and then forget ourselves in our work, and our work in the End we ought to strive to bring about.’
p.46, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories, by Jenny Uglow
My friends! My favorite reading month of the year is here! Victorian literature has blessed me in so many ways. It’s beautiful writing, it’s gorgeous atmospheres, it’s delicious characters, and it’s over-the-top dramatics! 🎃
I’m hoping to be posting here a bit more this month (daily?!🤞🏻) in celebration of a beautiful month here in the Midwest USA and Victober.
I love putting bits and pieces of the ephemera of life together. Whether that be in the form of a poem, collage, quilting (hope to get back to it someday), pictures, quotes, making soup, lists, journals, or sending moments through the post. I invite you to join me in whatever way you can. 🤎 Post here in my comments, write in your own journal, post something yourself in your online home, or just meditate in your heart. Let’s rejoice together about a ‘new month with no mistakes in it…yet.’ 😁
My first little verse and collage in honor of this momentous month! 🍁
Which spooky or Victorian book should I start this very afternoon? The possibilities are endless! 🍁
May your coffee be hot and your book long and wonderful!
Happy October beginnings! 🧡🤎🖤🍁🍂🌾🎃
Imagine that you’ve been spending the last few minutes watching a blue jay hide a cache of seeds in a tile roof. Or imagine that yesterday, out on a walk, you passed a dog barking angrily at you. Or think about a special time when you learned to roller-skate, the first time you went to the circus, or a day when a friend moved away.
All of these events are part of life-yours and mine-and when they happen there is always something inside of me that wants to turn what I see or hear into a poem. The picture stays in my mind long after the blue jay has flown away or the dog stops barking. I begin to search for the words that will form themselves to make a picture I can share with others, the words that will re-create themselves experience for someone else.
~Myra Cohn Livingston, Poem-Making Ways to Begin Writing Poetry
I’m furiously working on our homeschool coop lessons and am LOVING this book I found for our older students. It makes me want to prioritize my poetry writing again! ♥️How’s your homeschool prep coming along? Are you all looking forward to autumn? 🍂
Happiest Monday! ☕️🌻♥️
The Holy Spirit has descended on this old world of ours, and there’s a Psalm 29 powwow in Elmo (Montana) every day of the year: a grace-revealing gesture, a fresh snowfall, a friend’s forgiveness, the first migrating yellow warbler, a miracle conversion, a truth-telling poem, a pasqueflower in bloom, the good death of a parent, resurrection – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-all the endless permutations of life. The beauty of holiness. And we have ringside seats. Henry James once said that a writer is a person on whom nothing is ever lost. That sounds like a focused Christian identity to me: the men and women on whom nothing, at least nothing that has to do with life-and virtually everything does-is lost. “Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.”
Amen.
~Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire , note mine in parenthesis
✨•what are you working on?•✨ Eeek, books and journals, pens and stickers, lists and scribbles, total bliss! ✨😁🥰
I invite you to scroll through these beautifully encouraging pieces! I submitted mine awhile back and it was included (last piece, Amy M. Pine) with these others. They really are testimonials of God’s love and faithfulness! Just what I needed to peruse this morning as we are wrapping up our home school year. ♥️🌿
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Assault
I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
After a year of silence, else I think
I should not so have ventured forth alone
At dusk upon this unfrequented road.
I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass,
That am a timid woman, on her way
From one house to another!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay~
Millay’s poetry has been recently touching me deeply. Do you have a current favorite poet? Mine is constantly changing. I’m a lover of words and Beauty of poetry often waylays me! The other morning I stopped with great delight over my steaming coffee and knew that I was hearing the spring peepers on our little pond. It brought me so much joy. I received a Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas last year and I’m sooo glad I picked this giant tome of her work. ♥️♥️♥️
What beauty touched you recently?
Hello Friends! New fresh month, no mistakes in it yet! I’m hopping on to share that I’m going to attempt to do a bit of a 100 Day Project here! I’m excited to have a little something to challenge myself with and a place to dump all the beautiful ideas I’m gleaning. I have no format for what I will be sharing, it may be little more than a brain dump some days🤪😅, lists, a photo, a quote, and so on. My hope is that it will encourage and inspire you. What am I doing with the little I’ve been given? That is the question I’m asking myself currently. ☺️♥️🌿
Soooo, what prompted this plan? A couple things! My oldest child, my daughter, is engaged to be married later this year! 😳😭😍♥️Nothing like a family wedding to celebrate and work towards in multiple areas. Secondly, my sister kindly gifted me this book and we are going through it together:
I’m already a pretty established journal-er, but wanted to step it up a notch! By journaling HERE, my poor dark, quiet blog friend, 🤣 and using it as a catalyst for little writing creative projects. I see these as offerings of worship. 💜🌿
I also love my little to do/gratitude daily journal so will be keeping up with that! Another strange combo that works well for me!
My absolute favorite journaling is my reading journal and I have two buddy reads beginning this month! 😍💜
I will be using the prompts in The Book of Alchemy and also continuing The Body Revelation questions, both with my sister. ☺️♥️Those are most likely private prayers/entries etc that go into my spiritual journal.
How ‘bout you? How do you ‘begin again’? How do you breathe life into creative or life projects? Having some sort of paper/stickers/glue and pens always motivates me! 🤷🏻♀️😂♥️ I’ll leave you with a quote that I saw that has me thinking deeply!
“…they fear love because it creates a world they can’t control.”
•George Orwell•
😬😳☠️😍♥️💜 Chew on that, my friends! Bless you all!
