Self just discovered this challenge, thanks to Travel with Intent.
Here are some pictures she took in the little museum adjoining the Carmel Mission. The words are those of Father Junipero Serra:




March 18, 2022 at 11:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, postaday, Sayings)
Tags: California, California history, Carmel, northern California, road trip
Self just discovered this challenge, thanks to Travel with Intent.
Here are some pictures she took in the little museum adjoining the Carmel Mission. The words are those of Father Junipero Serra:
February 27, 2022 at 1:56 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Links, Recommended, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: art, Asian American Writers, Filipino writers, inspiration, poetry, wisdom
Self’s own painting of hyacinths
FREE
You were always free
Just thought yourself otherwise
Unthink + just be.
Listen for birdsong + trees.
If you want to reconnect.
December 10, 2021 at 3:00 pm (Books, Recommended, Sayings)
Tags: advice, bestsellers, COVID Reading, English writers, favorites, Fridays, Mendocino, mysteries, reading lists, Richard Osman, wisdom
Self was supposed to leave Mendocino today. She decided to stay a little longer. YAY!
Last night, she was reading a section in The Man Who Died Twice (Five Stars, maybe even Six) about REVENGE. It did not feature the Shakesperean “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Or even the native Indian, or maybe the ancient Roman, wisdom: “If revenge is what you seek, dig two graves.” Instead, on p. 72, it said this:
Courtesy of Richard Osman. You’re welcome.
There is a continuation.
This morning, Ibrahim (still laid up in the hospital after being kicked in the head by a band of schoolboy thugs) reflects on a client (Eric) who was sold a lemon by a car dealership who refused to cover the cost of the repairs. So the client had the car repaired at his own expense, then drove it through the dealership’s front window in the dead of night.
Eric’s daughter and the son of the car dealer had also been friends at school. Eric forbade his daughter from ever talking to the boy and so, as winter follows summer, they had got married two years later, with Eric refusing to attend the wedding.
And so forth. And so forth.
Never seek revenge, dear blog readers. Revenge sucks.
October 8, 2021 at 3:34 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Recommended, Sayings)
Tags: advice, COVID Reading, favorites, Fridays, inspiration, mysteries, reading lists, thrillers, writing process
A book is like a car. It pulls up to the curb and the passenger door swings open to the reader. The engine revs. Do you want a ride?
Once you get in, the car takes off, the door slamming shut and the rubber burning in its wake. Behind the wheel the driver’s got to be highly skilled, heavy on the pedal, and most of all, oh man, most of all, somebody you want to be with. He’s got to drive near the edge of the cliff but never over. He’s got to turn sharply just as you think you know where you are going. He’s got to gun it on the final lap.
Introduction by Michael Connelly to the 2003 Edition of Thomas Perry’s The Butcher’s Boy
Self borrowed her copy from the library, and it is pretty beat up. Nevertheless.
She absolutely loved Eddie’s Boy. Which is what led her here, to the very first book of the series. What did she love so much about Eddie’s Boy? The main character was a professional hit man, married to a member of the British peerage. If that character description doesn’t grab you, self doesn’t know what will.
October 3, 2021 at 6:16 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Plays, Recommended, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: blogs, humor, inspirations, photo challenge, Shakespeare
Another photo challenge!
This one is loose: any picture taken with your cell. The host is Journeys with Johnbo.
Here are self’s fridge magnets. Shakespeare rules!
August 20, 2021 at 4:38 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Explorers, Food and Drink, Memoirs, Places, Recommended, Sayings, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Afghanistan, Canadian writers, COVID Reading, Fridays, reading lists, summer
Self hopes Amanda Lindhout became a travel writer, because her descriptions of Kabul are gold. She hitches a ride to Kabul with a man and his son who live in Peshawar but visit relatives in Kabul regularly.
I’d taken a taxi that day to a wholesale market area near the center of the city, which sprawled in all directions, straddling the banks of the Kabul River, devolving into a labyrinth of crooked alleys. I bought a plastic cup of raisins and apricots mixed with pistachios and honey-sweetened water and ate them with a spoon. I browsed through little shops. In one, I found a shelf stacked with bars of soap, their wrappers showing a photograph of a smiling woman’s face, except that every face had been scribbled over with a marker. This was a fundamentalist Islamic move, something the Taliban once enforced strictly. Any images of things made by Allah weren’t to be replicated by a human hand, because it counted as playing god. Amanuddin had explained it to me: it was okay to paint or print a photograph of a car or building but not a person or animal. Idolatry was a sin.
A House in the Sky, p.64
July 11, 2021 at 7:06 am (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: advice, Gardens, photo challenge, summer, wisdom
The host of the #TreeSquare challenge is Becky over at The Life of B. For July, the theme is TREES.
Self is sharing photos from Filoli, a beautiful estate less than 10 minutes drive from self’s house, which she visited in July 2020
The estate belonged to the owner of the Empire Gold Mine, William Bourn. Mansion and gardens together comprise 18 acres. The name ‘Filoli’ is an acronym for: “Fight for a just cause, Love your fellow man, Live a good life.”
The big tree is a Camperdown Elm:
July 7, 2021 at 1:57 pm (Books, Conversations, Recommended, Sayings, Surprises)
Tags: COVID Reading, English writers, humor, mysteries, novel, reading lists, thrillers, wisdom
“Big is the same as small. There’s just more of it.”
— The Thursday Murder Club, Ch. 5, p. 25
July 4, 2021 at 11:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Links, Recommended, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: Events, Fourth of July, inspirations, lithub, summer, US history
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the 600-odd members of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Central New York and delivered what would become one of his most famous speeches, best known today as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
— Lithub.com, July 4 – July 10
June 25, 2021 at 12:10 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Sayings, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Avila Beach, California, coffee, happiness, humor, summer, vacation
This is the first time self has joined this writing challenge.
Here’s the logo, from Marsha Ingrao’s Always Write blog:
She’s pretty excited to join because the theme this week is VACATION. And self is currently on the last leg of a short (several days long) break she took on the central coast, site of some of the fondest memories of her life.
This morning, she was on Avila Beach, where the sound of the surf was loud in her ears, and the sun and the beach and the strollers were unbelievably normal. One could almost forget about the last 16 months. Corona? What’s that?
But before waxing too joyful, let self focus on some pretty fabulous signage. Because this challenge is about words, right? Well, Avila Beach was just hopping with memorable words. For instance, on Front Street, this:
Was there ever a sign more emblematic of our times?
Inside the coffee shop, further surprises:
Honestly, what was she thinking? How could she have walked out of that coffeeshop without buying some of that House Blend?
Avila Beach is THE place.
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
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