“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
― Rowland E. Robinson
September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It flows like old amber.
- Patience Strong
Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post
My grandpa is dying. Hospice is coming today to the Cottage to help set things up, thank God he can come home for his last days. I’m so incredibly thankful that I can be with my family during this, that I can see him, but my heart is in confusion. I don’t know if this is all grief or me shutting down out of fear of tremendous unending grief.
I can’t post on Facebook but I need to get my heart out.
Hello friends and foes and folks just passing through!
Life is being good to me (I can write that without bringing the other boot down, right?) - I’m the nanny to an amazing family, and it’s exhausting and wonderful all at once. My grandparents are struggling with age related ailments but I can visit with them and that helps. I’m reading books voraciously again and I really love that. I’m looking into getting another kitten so Monroe can have company. I’m getting interested in some story ideas I had once upon a time. Theres two writing groups I still have the opportunity to reach out to if I so desire. I’m swimming and hiking a lot. All in all, life is kind.
I don’t know if my absence has been noticed at all or not. I’m not sure how many folks on here actually remain interested in me, and I’m not saying that as a way to get sympathy or pity or what not - it’s been a long time and I know that people and interests move on, no judgement or censure. I’m getting re-interested in some old passions so I might be posting here more. That’s not written in stone, but yeah...might be a thing.
How have you been? What’s something good that’s happened to you?
The absolute menace that is Monroe, keeping me captive for her own comfort.
Today I saw a ballet adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I have so many different thoughts and emotions weaving together.
The costumes! The humor! The acting with no words, only dance and movement and expressions! The fact that ballet is one of the most elegant and arduous art forms there is! How ballerinas are literal swans of the dance world because they are STRONG and because STRONG they move SO SMOOTH! The fact that Queen Titania had butterfly wings and King Oberon had dragonfly wings! The fact that all the fairies became fireflies by adding lights to the back of their costumes! How the ballet ended with Titania and Oberon in the middle of a ring of butterflies (tiny kiddo dancers all making their wings shiver and flutter masterfully), twirling and spinning under a sunsets glow…!
I love the ballet. I love A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Next weekend I’ll be seeing a ballet about fairytales, and I am so very happy, I can’t even tell you.
so the people I talk astrology with seem to be of the opinion that if you're a cusper you should go with what resonates with you, but out of curiosity have you ever run your sidereal chart? It'll probably give you a way different sun sign but you might be a Scorpio stellium or something over there
I’ve never heard of a sidereal chart! Is there a link to one that can be provided? I would love to see what I get.
I agree with your friends, I just don’t resonate with Libra the way I do with Scorpio. Also, the famous folk who share my birthday are listed as Scorpios so I feel double justified in claiming it! I will say that by and large I get along with Aquarius folks SWIMMINGLY, and I think I can credit it that to Libra.
Every time some astrological guide/calculator tries to tell me I’m a Libra and not a Scorpio, my soul gives a feral cat hiss and honestly, that response is just more evidence that I’m a Scorpio.