Friday, August 26, 2016

A Charmed Life


And thus, as promised...
Before I got a picture of Hank holding August, the little man had been tucked into his car seat, ready for transportation.
Ah well. There will be another day.
We ate lunch and then some of us went to the Big Lots where stuff was purchased and then to the Goodwill bookstore where I bought books for the children including a 3-D (glasses included!) book on dinosaurs entitled something like, "Dinosaurs In Your Face!" That wasn't quite it, but close. Hank and I perused the old books and there was yet another copy of "Little Women" which we did not buy because we both have at least four copies apiece and an old, old edition of "The Vicar of Wakefield" which, if you have read "Little Women" as many times as Hank and I have, you will remember as the book that Jo tucked into her pocket to read, along with a hot baked potato to keep her warm and fortified.
We sighed and I thought about how wonderful it is to have a child for whom that book title means as much to him as it does for me.
Although I do not believe in the "there are two types of people in this world" thing, I do sometimes think that there ARE two types of people in this world- those who have not read "Little Women" and those who have and whose lives were forever and eternally changed by it and who wanted to grow up to be Jo March.

I am feeling low today and a bit miserable but I realize that I've had a good week and Fortuna's Wheel (another literary nod- do any of you know it?) must spin and balance itself out.

I am making a good old American shepherd's pie with venison and potatoes and frozen vegetables along with fresh and here are two other pictures from the day.


A spider, seemingly suspended in thin air whose web was so far above me on my walk this morning that I did not bump into it, and 


my gladiola-graced hallway altar. Publix has bunches of glads on BOGO this week and it's been forever since I bought some of them and so I purchased these and there's another vase full on a different table and this is all quite serendipitous as it was my darling Lynn who taught me about buying gladiolas at Publix and it was her birthday last week. 

I think of her, I think of us all, I am glad to have these colors in my house. 

Love...Ms. Moon

14 comments:

  1. I woke up from a nap today with anxiety verging on panic. These attacks are the worst...no reason at all for them, no excuse for them. They suck!
    I took one of my little white pills and read this, which helped immensely.
    I love your home, I love shepherd's pie, and I especially love pictures of Hank holding babies. Made me smile...and I needed a smile.

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    1. Oh, Sherry! I hope you feel better by now! I am glad I could give a smile.

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  2. Do you know what? I haven't read Little Women. I did read Anne of Green Gables about 1000 times and when I had my hysterectomy in January I read the whole series over again. But no Little Women. I don't have to ask if you think I should.

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    1. Ah- there may be a window of opportunity for "Little Women." I don't know. It's not the end of the world if you never do read it.
      I loved Anne of Green Gables as well.

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  3. Omg ! I have read Little Women so many times . I love it. I will often comfort read this book . Xx

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    1. Maybe that's why Hank and I have so many copies- it is a good book to reread.

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  4. We have three copies of "Little Women" -one hideously illustrated by a Japanese artist. There was time when my daughter and two of her friends would dress up and enact entire various key events for days on end. They did this with Little House on the Prairie as well. We all had to hide from a blizzard one very hot summer Sunday in my father in laws green house.

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    1. Oh my. Which is sort of like art repeating art. Remember the March girls and their plays?

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  5. You know, I consider myself fairly well-read, but I never got around to "Little Women." Maybe I should give it a try? I'm not sure I'll want to grow up and be Jo, but maybe I'll click with her anyway. (I've heard "Little Men," Alcott's male counterpart, isn't nearly as good.) And I don't know "Fortuna's Wheel" either, so clearly I am actually an idiot.

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    1. You might be surprised- you might actually want to grow up to be Jo. I loved Little Men too. And even Jo's boys. But Little Women was the best, for sure. "Fortuna's Wheel" comes from "Confederacy of Dunces." Such another wonderful book. Have you read that one?

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  6. I don't usually buy gladiolas at the flower part of the grocery story. the bottom halves bloom out nicely and then the top halves get all weird and start to topple over and get wrinkly.

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    1. Ah- but these are opening beautifully! I am so glad I bought them.

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  7. I am a read it watched every film want to be Jo in NYC gal but a Sopranos mobster wife from NJ would be fine Hell just to be from NYC or NJ would do even if it was from Real Housewives Mob Wives or Jersey Shore would do. Oh dear gone wild again. I ain't no English Rose but l will always have Liverpool Love across the pond Maggi x

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    1. Your fascination with New Jersey makes me giggle. I have NEVER wanted to be from New Jersey! Not ever! Even with Bruce being from there.
      Love back to you across that big pond, Maggi.

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