This Journey Called Life

I read this book in January 2020. I gave it 5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. 'On Midsummer's Eve put seven different kinds of flowers under the pillow tonight and you'll dream of the one you'll marry.' I have always been drawn to old traditions and practices involving nature. Mom said someone at her work told her I was a witch. I feel I was one in a past life. I want to be one, I just don't know enough now. I love nature, and plants, animals,  and rocks/crystals. I do believe they hold a certain power. 'Birds carry the souls of the unborn and the dead.' 'Sometimes when you had a thought, it refused to leave. You rejected it, disowned it, sent it away, to find, moments later, that you were still spending time with it. It might have  a different shape or use different words, but there was no mistaking: it was the same one.' 'You know the meaning of seeing bear, don't you? Ancestor, coming with a warning.' 'A being was eithe...

I read this book in December 2019. I rated the book 5 of 5 stars on Goodreads. 'It was easy to doubt it all, the lake so flat and calm, a thing whose secrets would never surface.' 'There was Solomon's seal, which grew like a spine in the ground, with a perfectly circular vertebra for every year of age.'         -soothe the stomach         -clear the lungs         -slacken excessive bleeding during woman's time of the month' 'Sassafras tree, whose leaves were often mitten shaped'         - chewed into a poultice for poison ivy         - roots dried and steeped for teas to purify the blood and warm the spirit Water Hemlock         - causes the most violent of death - seizures and convulsions         - "unlike poison hemlock of Europe which shuttled philosophers so gently into the dark" Rabbit's foot or Spikeweed       ...

The title seems familiar. I read this book in November 2019. I rated the book 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads. " There is a girl, a girl who does not fear death Because she has her father and her mother and her twelve hunter brothers, A home of three floors and a barnyard farmhouse, In the middle of the farm, an apple tree that gives love apples in the winter and summer. In the farm there are seven grottoes, Each and every grotto secured . . . Death was light and slipped in through the lock. " Death and the Girl, Sephardic ballad " We are the shepherds, we walked 'cross the mountains. We left our flocks when the new star appeared."  Johnny Cash 'The crazier the victima, the closer to God.' 'It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.' 'Love is a shared delusion Two people reciting the same spell.' 'People who can't be bothered by manners pretend to be amused by them.' 'Have power on th...

I read this book in November 2019. I rated the book 5 of 5 stars on Goodreads. I wrote in my book, the book was good! The reviews were all great! 'I remember being pestered by a sense of dread as I walked to my car that day, pressed down by a wave of foreboding that swirled around my head and broke against the evening in small ripples. There are people in this world who would call that kind of feeling a premonition, a warning from some internal third eye that can see around the curve of time.' Those were the first two sentences of the book. 'Like any town, Austin had it's good points too, although most people don't see the skin besides the pimples.' 'It was easy to lie to Jeremy, his trusting temperament being incapable of understanding deceit.' 'We never had been apart for more than a single night or two in all our lives until a month ago, when i moved to campus, leaving him behind with a woman who swam in chaos.' "only two people...

Since the medium visit I have been thinking of becoming more involved it the community. Fair Haven is an amazing little small town community. There is a little box library and a food pantry. I always go to the little box library and exchange books. I go there after I read books friends and family pass me books that they don't want back. The food pantry is something I have yet to donate to. I will do for sure. I read a blog by Alicia Sparks, she had a list of things to do to become more involved. 1. Look for Local Events 2. Volunteer Your Time 3. Donate Your Resources 4. Shop Locally 5. Join a Class or Group 6. Support Your Local Sports Teams 7. Organize Your Own Event All great ideas and easy to do in Fair Haven. In the summer especially it is easy to attend local events. There are lots of little great stores to shop at locally. There is a community center in Red Creek. There are art centers that hold classes all the time. As of today, there is a virus (corona) going arou...

I forgot until was looking in my book that I never posted about my first visit to a medium! I went on 11/18/19 with my cousins Emily and Olivia to The Purple Door in Rochester. It was a very good experience. It gave me chills and made me feel good. The medium's name was Kathy. We all had separate readings with the same person. Emily and Olivia has seen her before and recommended her. I highly recommend her and will go see her again. She wrote things down on a piece of paper while she was doing the reading. I kept it and wrote in down in my book. That is what I am reading now to put it down in here. Almost the whole reading was about Todd. I had expected that and was a little nervous. I didn't want him to come across to her angry. He didn't, not at all. The opposite actually. He told her he wants me to see him. I am thinking about the dreams. I haven't had any dreams of him in awhile. He also said he was sorry and he knew he messed up. Hmmmm He said he could never ...

For book club this month we are going to read "The Last Letter from Your Lover" by Jojo Moyes. I really like this author, I have read quite of few books from her. I follow her on Twitter too. I read "The Giver of Stars" in November 2019. I gave it 5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. 'And there is the bare truth of it, for her and all the woman around here. Doesn't matter how smart you are, how clever, how self - reliant - you can always be battered by a stupid man with a gun.' " . . . and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. " Louisa May Alcott, Little Woman " This is what people don't see, wrapped up in their cities, with the noise and the smoke, and their tiny boxes for houses. Up there you can breathe. You can't hear the town talking and talking. No eyes on you, 'cept the Gods. It's just you and the trees and the birds and the river ...

'Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idleness won't have things hanging on it forever.' This post will mostly be quotes from the book that I put in my commonplace book. I started reading this book in October of 2019 and rated it 3 of 5 stars on Goodreads. Chapter 1 'This is what divorce is: taking things you don't want from people you no longer love.' 'He had decided instead to mortify his own flesh, to take his own life, to free himself from a path that had taken him down numerous wrong turns, led him deep into the wilderness and finally petered out completely, its breadcrumb course gobbled up by the birds.' 'A dull childhood, a bad marriage, a dead-end job - the classic triumvirate - they all flicked by quickly, silently, with...

I have been keeping a commonplace book for a few years now. It is something I seen on Pintrest and it really caught my eye. Something I wanted to do! It is basically a collection of anything you want. I mainly put in quotes from books that I find interesting and want to remember. Some people put in recipes or song lyrics, really it can be anything you want. I like a composition like notebook. I love to read but I have a hard time with retention. I have an awful memory and I forget a lot of what I read. I even forget what books I have read. I am thinking of reviewing books on here. Making a blog post per book. I would really be posting a lot of material and not sure how many people would actually read it. I will try though, why not? I have always actually wanted to be a writer. I read enough books, however I am not delusional, I know how hard actually writing a book would be! I will post a review of the last book I read.