Just come across some writing I did in a book when I was a kid... I wrote in the book my name, and that the book is lucky and will give you money! Wow!! Well, maybe not as much if I hadn't written in it! A publication called The Children's Friend from 1896... possibly worth nothing with my scribbling inside it! Just glad I had enough respect not to fold the corners over or lay it down on its spine I guess!

Some of my step dads artwork from after his stroke.... it took us a while to get him to pick up his pencils again... the stroke took so much of his life, he thought he had none left....

So many interesting books I have now of my moms, and my ancestors, books dating back to the early 1700's, one aunt from way back then was in the church army, I know there is a family bible somewhere which seems to be allusive at the moment, with names and dates of my grand dad family in Crouch Hill London...

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Marian

I don't put too many pictures from other people, just my own on Ultreya, but today am putting in a purloined item from fb...

This is so too.... Life is too short, we must follow our hearts, our passions... If in doing so we we also have the greatest worse pain that we fear will tear us apart, so be it, because in living our dreams we find our greatest of wishes....

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Marian

Two photos from a walk at the Knoll park in Neath...

Had a lovely card in the post yesterday to tell me friends I have known since the 80's are moving... I have known them in the same house all those years, its the only number now that I know without looking it up!!! Hate things coming to an end.... But where there are endings there are always new beginnings.... And there are lots of those coming... 

I forgot, I think?  Ages ago at a supermarket restaurant, I was in line behind a mom and daughter, we were in the line quite a while and so of course, the 'mom' spoke to me whilst she was deciding on which naughty cake to have, I could see her daughter, not quite pulling a face, but it was that 'oh mom' look, when a daughter thinks to herself, here goes my mom chatting to any strange person again! type of look! And I smiled to myself and the remembering of it....

A bridge on a country walk down the road from here...

And final photo for today, leaves coming into being on a tree in the garden, new natural nature coming into being, beautiful...

Two quotes today, one is mine! The first, I did Tweet it earlier in the week!


You know when saying nothing seemed the best policy, until suddenly everything is said and the world keeps turning, only better #Enlightenment

And....

Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light... 
[not sure who wrote this, but its good!]


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