tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761884258784451952024-03-14T09:36:08.930-07:00THE HERE AND NOWThis is the story of our life; lived in a temporary rented home. Until we'll find the right place we can call 'our nest', we'll be just where we are. Life is a sequence of moments lived, and thus, the name of my blog. I am gathering both, memories and dreams—the whole gifts of my days, into a bouquet of life. My memories. My dreams. My life. All exposed here for whoever wants to read. CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-7958915163625953722014-03-26T18:47:00.000-07:002014-03-26T18:49:48.271-07:00A new chapter...<div style="text-align: center;">
It is official—we're the happy owners of the little white cottage in the woods!! </div>
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I am finally ready to open the door to future and start a new chapter in my life.
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Yes, dreams do come true! And I do believe this with all my heart. </div>
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I only hope that the fairies are leaving enough fairy dust behind<br />
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See you there!
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CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-72239269120256321682014-03-23T12:28:00.004-07:002014-03-23T13:05:39.988-07:00Gypsy Days<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you ever met someone for the first time and in your heart </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">you feel as if you’ve known that person long before? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Somewhere. Some how? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know. It happens often around here, doesn’t it? </span></div>
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Ah yes, I think I know her, or seen her before… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The little gypsy girl...
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She lived in the Forest,
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-: EN-US; mso-bidi-: AR-SA; mso-fareast-: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She loves to wander in the woods </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An aura of mystery surrounds its interior, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day the little gypsy girl begins her day by searching for
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A gypsy peers through her crystal ball to read the future, but
the little gypsy girl sets her own rules… she has the Ancient Book.... to see the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it's beautiful inside!</span></div>
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This is so exciting… I so totally love how our story is coming along… intrigue, mystery; even love shinning through so many twists and turns… can you not see it? And where to would the black bird be guiding them? Is the mysterious Frederic really a werewolf? Oh I’m so loving our little story! I love it so much I decided to bring it up again. Maybe our enthusiasm will motivate others to join in? Oh please pretty please do write on!
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As Julia Mead quietly vacuum her sun-drenched dinning room, her mind began to wander… </div>
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She can still remember the day when Robert and her had met. How young and naïve they were then, and how much in love with each other from that day on… but life had not prepared Julia for the disappointments and unhappy affair ahead of her... and how does one finds love again when you know it has hurt you so much? Love can be so mysterious. One time it gives you so much joy and ecstasy. The next thing you know, love forgets your face and forgets your name and it leaves you bruised and hurt… and what’s worse, you’re back to square one in finding love again. </div>
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As Julia continued vacuum her dinning room; hair flying freely over shoulders and face, she suddenly turned her head towards the garden, and looked across the hedge of Endless Summer Hydrangea that served as a live fence between her home and her next door neighbor's... </div>
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As Julia absentmindedly gazed over her lovely hydrangeas, her eyes suddenly met the forlorn figure of her neighbor, Frederic Minton; a handsome and mystifying man, quietly observing the shadows that seem to melt under the sunshine across the woods from his terrace.
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Julia studied the strong masculine features of
the man, the dark hair and Italianesque look, comfortable and polished, and suddenly
realized how shadowy and beautiful he was. Why hadn’t she noticed him before?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really noticed him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And who was really Mr. Frederic Minton?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the years Julia lived there she had never
spoken to him and only knew him for the loner he seemed to be; a quiet and enigmatic
type of a men who lived alone and seemed to have lost something terribly
important in the woods which spread across their homes like a dark shroud. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps love?<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">What was Julia going to do? Is she going to
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Please write on! Add a word, a sentence, a smile or a paragraph in the comment
box below. After someone goes first, we can each add to what they wrote
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My 86 year old next door neighbor, Fred, is so cute. He’s a widowed who lives alone in an enormous house with only himself and the woods which stretch behind our homes. Fred’s house is hidden from ours by all the dense shrubbery and trees. Thus, unless I go there to say hi to Fred and check on him from time to time, I never get to see his house from ours. But the other morning Fred was having a landscaping company pruned some of the trees and pines around his house. It was magical late that night when I looked into the darkness outside our sunroom and magically discovered Fred’s house among the trees, sweetly illuminated. Like a fairytale house out of the shadows. </div>
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That’s what got me inspired to write our little story on my previous post at the beginning. But then, as you wrote on, everything changed, and I got this crazy idea… oh, poor Fred, I hope he’ll never discover that my sweet intentions were to change him into a werewolf… hehehe! You know, something like the Twilight novel series!
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Thank you to all who participated in "Fantasy Friday"... I had tons of fun reading your stories and following the trails where your own imagination took me… fun stuff! </div>
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Again, if you like continue the story, please oh please do so. Any more ideas? Anyone?
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Anyhow… I’d love to change my dinning room table and chairs for something more modern, to match the rest of the décor I’ve chosen for my house these days… </div>
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Neutrals... I love neutrals. </div>
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They're so soothing<br />
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But since buying a new dinning set is not a possibility for now, I decided I can at least change the sit covers… This is what my chairs look like... It doesn't match with all the white and black me thinks.</div>
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But what fabric would I chose? I think that a patterned fabric in mustard color will look awesome with all the
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I have some roses on my table right now...</div>
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Rose branches... love!</div>
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It reminds me so much of my lovely garden</div>
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back at the house in the roses...</div>
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Out in the woods the other day I found a little gypsy tent overflowing
with colors and fabrics… curiously, I felt right at home there and didn’t mind in
the least bit the cheerful hodgepodge of pieces and colors… <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">a bold and vibrant free-spirited look, much
like the ‘other’ me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It </span>put me in
the mood for magic, luxury and conjuring up images of mystical experiences…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took lots of pictures and will be back soon
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LINKING TO:
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CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-24962661990696674842014-03-11T15:39:00.002-07:002014-03-11T15:59:31.308-07:00Of roses...<div style="text-align: center;">
Do you like red roses? <br />
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Umm, red roses are not really my favorites, but my husband surprised me with a dozen red roses this past Valentine’s Day. <br />
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I kept them in their original water and they lasted forever… really, they lasted for a whole month. Only last week I removed the stems and kept the dried blooms. But I will be discarding them soon.</div>
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I don’t know why, but I dislike red market roses. Dried red roses don’t appeal to me at all… they almost frighten me. Something about death, and mortality that I don’t like. I don’t feel the same way with any other type of roses. In fact, I find a special beauty and tenderness in dried roses and used to collect and dried all my cut roses back at the house in the roses. It was hard to part from them and I still treasure some of the blooms and petals I collected and saved when we moved… but red market roses are another story. Do you feel that way too? I know, I must be as square minded as my square dinning table is ;) Oh well!
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And then there are other roses…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can a room have way too many roses in its
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"Home is where your story begins" I love this quote. And guess what? I have yet another story to begin! Soon, real soon! The little white cottage in the woods. Yes! I'll be sharing more about this soon... I hope ;)</div>
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<br />CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-167162941337349352014-03-08T09:22:00.004-08:002014-03-08T09:38:36.166-08:00May you have a lovely day<div style="text-align: justify;">
A long time ago I discovered that I love blogging… so I hope you don’t mind finding me here this often. The truth is I believe there’s a special blessing in capturing lovely moments through photography. Photographs have the power to recreate and relive glorious and simple moments in our lives over and over again, and for evermore through the ages. </div>
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Aside from photography, I also love gardening and fluffing up my nest and dreaming a lot too. Thus, it is only natural for me to combine all these likings into a potpourri of joy and feathers, and shimmers, and then come here and share them with you, just the way they come out straight from the heart…
Thank you for coming back. </div>
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I wonder what was Lily Elsie thinking here when she posed for this photograph over a hundred years ago… one can almost tell just by looking at her lovely expressions, don’t you think so? See what I meant about the power of photography?
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It is hard to find a tablecloth out there that fits my square dinning
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Love the combination
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It rained here for days this past week… a bitter
rain like icicles on my face, while a blustery wind kept busy pulling up and
around all the leaves in the shrubbery and woods in the back of our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy, isn’t this supposed to be the South?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tell you, it’s been the most estrange
winter I'd ever had… and I’m tired of it too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can someone please open up the curtains of heaven and let the sun shine
free and happy! ;)</div>
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Oh wasn't this super extra fun! Thank you, and you and you my friend for
making me dream with your stories in our previous post!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Interesting, isn’t it, how one thought can carry you through such diverse and analogous array of thoughts, and dreams and ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which it tells me that we are all one—one same
heart beating in a multitude of souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thank you again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’ve decided to
leave our story without an end to see where it may lead… who knows what our
three wishes would be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or how are we
suppose to figure out what the diamond in the rose means to us, or what message
are we to find in the roll of parchment paper neatly tied with the golden
ribbon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So fascinating indeed, won’t you
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So, this is what I’ve been up to lately…</div>
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Playing fairy in the woods… ah yes, sometimes I pretend to
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My dearest dear mami and papi (mom and dad)... </div>
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I grew up with flowers in my hair and dirt on my knees. And I still do... I do! So you can imagine how excited my little heart is with all those big thoughts in my head of spring, and hands and feet dirty with sunshine and hair and skin tattooed in petals. But we’re not there yet are we? And thus, I must wait. <br />
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Everything looks enchantingly magical when it rains… a cloudiness-like a veil of magic embraces the supple earth, and I can imagine trees and bushes and all that brush as lovely damsels of yesterdays on their way to the public bath house, with its classical columns and arches, mosaic floor and ceiling, the place where they used to go to socialize and laugh and talk about their boyfriends and gossip about their rivals, as well as getting clean. </div>
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Oh the yellow daffodils are everywhere around here… it is surprising and almost hard to believe that this is still February and my lovely big square table is already looking lovelier adorned by daffodils right out of the garden.</div>
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Bright-sun yellow lively beautiful daffodils. A sure sign of sprig. </div>
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but they were on sale, and I was so anxious to plant that I had to get them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this is just a rented home, I planted
them all in large pots so that I can take them with me later when we find a
home, and I’ve been taking good care of them protecting them from all that snow
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<br />CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-38079550596273443142014-02-20T18:47:00.001-08:002014-02-20T18:47:34.163-08:00Gypsy days<div style="text-align: justify;">
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For some inexplicable reason, today felt like a gypsy day… </div>
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It might have been the weather—uncertain and windy and with a gypsy song hanging from a murky sky…
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Thus, Shakira’s gypsy song has been on my mind almost all day today… remember? “Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly lalala, cause I'm a gypsy, are you coming with me… I might steal your clothes and wear them if they fit me…. lalala”. <br />
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Oh and I would too! I would certainly wear your 'secret
garden’ frocks and magical jewelry… rings and bracelets and necklaces too—you
know the ones… the ones you wear whenever the world gets too big for you, or
too small or too crowded and you just have to disappear to some imaginary woods
somewhere so that you can become one with Nature and be one with yourself again? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">That's me. But I hope you'll understand. ;)</span><br />
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Anyway, what was I saying? Ah yes that today I looked at myself in the mirror and thought I was staring right at Shakira on one of her worse bad hair days-roots and all? So I colored my roots and then decided to change the look of my girly room as well. To spice it up a bit and fit with the day?</div>
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So I put all of my shabby chic beddings and pillows away and out came the gypsy in me... </div>
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while trying to reach the moon... </div>
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As odd as it may sounds, I’ve been as housebound this winter as our ancestors were many years ago. But winds can scour the lifeless woods around our home as much as they want, and snow can come fast and keep on coming as much as it wants. My soul is content and I exults, like the creatures in the forests, in burrowing in my own human hideaway... my home.
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A wintery day of bird watching, and contemplation, and daydreaming behind the tall windows of our sunroom-dinning room; where I’ve been spending a lot of my days lately…<br />
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As long as there’s a blanket to curl under, books, the Internet, an old cozy PJ, warm sleepers and
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How are you spending yours?<br />
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LINKING:
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<A HREF="http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/2014/02/home-sweet-home-157.html">The charm of home</a>
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<a href="http://www.dwellings-theheartofyourhome.com/2014/02/amaze-me-monday-46.html">Amaze me Monday</a>
CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-85358023960722866902014-02-13T12:14:00.000-08:002014-02-13T14:25:19.267-08:00In my magical little white world<div style="text-align: justify;">
It snowed two worlds and the moon all day yesterday… at night, an almost surreal world grew up out of the earth in a magical swept of icicles. Trees, shrubs, rooftops, houses, street lights and even the night itself smiled down at us with sleepy eyes, and I swear I saw my little world around me cozying up, as everything and every object in Nature pulled up their blankets all the way up to their faces and turned to sleep. </div>
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The frosty night with its twinkling stars gave way to a most magical morning… </div>
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Truly magical indeed! A real winter wonderland right here in the South…. </div>
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When I looked outside the window I could hardly believe what
I saw out there. Snow had covered and sculptured my entire little
world in ices! I was static with joy. Fairies were playing everywhere
out in the woods. Imps and strange figures resembling small dwarves and odd
elderly little men were seen here and there behind bushes and trees.</div>
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For a moment, I’m sure I even saw a witch flying her broom nearby
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It was such a delightful winter wonderland out there! I walked and
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All of a sudden something really strange, and unusual, happened… You all know how I’m good at attracting some very special visitors to my enchanted gardens right? I mean all kinds of birds and kitties. Yes, I had many a cat visited my gardens back at the house in the roses… even some very strange ones, like that Chupacabras-cat I didn’t like at all. Remember him <a href="http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/2013/05/magical-may-days.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>here?</strong></span></a> </div>
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But this time, oh my dears this time was a whole different
story… for the first time in my entire enchanted life and shenanigans
in the garden I was visited by a furry friend of the doggy-kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Can you see him... oh can you see him back there where the swing is close to the woods? </span></div>
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Almost a ghostly figure in the midst of that white
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He must have come with the witch! But do witches like
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After a while, everything started melting very quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huge clumps of snow started falling down the trees… the sound of thin branches breaking, snow showering my clothes and hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> My right eye started to roll in a funny way... which means panic was setting in</span> ;)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Was it a dream? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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LINKING:
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<a href="http://www.adelightsomelife.com/2014/02/home-and-garden-thursday-68.html">HOME AND GARDEN THURSDAY</A>
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<A HREF="http://thebrambleberrycottage.blogspot.com/">TIME TRAVEL THURSDAY</A>
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<A HREF="http://rootedinthyme.blogspot.com/">ROOTED IN THYME</A>
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</span>No evidence of changes foresee in the air either; not a wisp of iciness or
the scent of snow hanging from the atmosphere… nothing out of the ordinary, except, perhaps, for the early evening
visitor I saw perched on the magical tree….<o:p> </o:p><br />
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I recognized him immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh Merlin!” I shouted excitedly... Fascinated
and beyond belief for as you know, I hadn’t seen Merlin since a year and a
winter ago, when we were still living at the house in the roses….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Immediately, at the sound of my voice, Merlin rotated his
head over 300 degrees in an exorcist-style display of flexibility, and looked
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Oh he did recognized me alright… of course he did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, he had flown over 2000 nautical
miles from the house in the roses all the way to 'The Here and Now' just because
this is winter time and he missed me… </div>
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I had been listening to his call around the woods for a while…
his eerie <em>kek kek ke kek </em>resonating in the morning air. All the little friends trembling and scurrying away from him... but now he has finally found me.</div>
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Oh by the way, did you notice the large white figure that seems to appear on the
background of many of my photographs of the woods?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> R</span>eally, I cannot imagine what it is…. An imp? A gigantic
fairy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The witch of the woods in Lord of
the Ring?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dunno!</div>
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Anyway, as I was saying, I could hardly believed my eyes.
“Merlin, is it going to snow again?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
asked in disbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then looked up past
the magical tree to the southern skies again and I just knew…. right there and then I
knew we were under the spell of yet another snow storm. </div>
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This is what we woke up this morning... and this is how it's been all day today... yes, more snow in the South! I am sorry southerners... I'm really not the Snow Witch, really... but I do live here now you know! ;) </div>
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<o:p></o:p> Poor St Francis frozen to death and still preaching to birds in trees
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The woods… the enchanted woods behind our sleepy
rose garden…</div>
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We put an offer on the little white cottage in the woods (perhaps the name of my new blog?). We haven't heard from the sellers yet. Hoping and waiting. I'll keep you posted soon!</div>
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Is it snowing in your side of the world or are you bathing in sunshine?</div>
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<a href="http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2014/02/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-link_11.html">Adorne from Above</a>CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-20309575217277830682014-02-09T07:43:00.000-08:002014-02-09T08:53:24.238-08:00Sunday...<div style="text-align: center;">
Woke up early this morning... soft shadows dancing in
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Fairy lights glistening
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Outside, the songs of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ravens in the misty distance...</div>
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Mary or any other 'saint' whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don't believe in creating altars or adoring any other god than it isn't the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient God of gods, but I have to say that I do love statues; particularly
in a garden setting.... I use them for their aesthetic and artistic values only, but
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We'll be looking at a little white cottage that's up for sale later today... mind settled on earth—it really is a very small house; missing one room and some extra space for what we're looking for, but the heart is already soaring high in possibilities and dreams and a lovely small garden that, although it is nowhere in existence right now, I can already visualize in my mind and love it in my heart. Oh yes I can already envision my "new garden to be".... I cannot tell you excited I am!</div>
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God gives us unexpected miracles. </div>
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May you feel God's blessings always
Love
Cielo
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I guess it is no secret by now that adapting to life in our new place here hasn't been anything easy for me. I'm terribly missing our girls, missing our home, our friends and dear garden we left behind, back at the house in the roses... life is a beautiful struggle, right? And I have been so overwhelmed by the amount of support and love that I have received from all of you my fellow bloggers and soul sisters during this transition that words falter to say how indebted and humbled I am by you all. I can't thank you enough for what you bring here every day, your stories, your friendship throughout the years, your words of encouragement and a bit of your own life if I may say, to share with mine.
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And what would you say about that special bond you share with some of the people you get to meet here in blogland? It amazes me, really...
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I just have to show you the calendar that my dearest friend Gayla made for me... to cheer me up in this new year of my life.... truly a treasure!
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A calendar of my shoes and feet and legs--throughout the seasons! </div>
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Thank YOU dear Gayla!</div>
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There's a million and one voices out there in the woods beyond our little dormant rose garden. It is bone-chilling cold, and the sky holds a strange color that to me is more than just the insignia of what the naked eye sees... it is a mingling of perplexing sentiments in shades of cobalt and very deep light blue. </div>
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I am sitting by the big square table in the all window sun-lit dinning room; right across the window facing north... facing the woods surrounding our home; reflecting on all these things, as I concentrate on contemplating how my little world evolves, and revolves around me... minute by minute.
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Squirrels knocked on my window several times during the day just
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Harbingers of magic, perhaps?</div>
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I was meditating on all these things when all of a sudden I heard a most disturbing sound outside... someone calling me? Of course, you know me... I couldn't resist the temptation of finding out what it was... curiosity is a strong string in me you know. Thus, having no power whatsoever within me to obey other than the call I heard, out I went...
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I looked up, I looked down and around until... there it was again—the distinctive, deep, resonant <em>prruk-prruk-prruk</em> call I had heard before. Which, by the way, to an inexperienced listener like me it sounded just like a witch's crackle... </div>
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heard it before—the high dry, grating <i>kraa</i>, like a low guttural rattle of
an almost musical nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Could it be... oh dear me could it be? </span>Witches I'm
sure! But now? This is just February! Are witches allowed to come out before Halloween? You tell me! </span></div>
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The witch I thought I'd seen disappeared so fast in front my eyes that I was left to believe it was just the ravens... After all, there were a couple of large northern ravens frolicking in the garden... Perhaps they were laughing about somebody? Every time I hear the call of ravens I get the strangest sensation that they're laughing at me... do you feel that way too? </div>
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Shoo... I said. Go away! But they kept laughing for some time more, until finally they disappeared behind the horizon. I still believe they were witches checking the territory....</div>
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We've been enjoying some life rejuvenating warmth under the Florida sun this weekend... marvelous gorgeous weather, and now are back to a <em>superrrr burrrr</em> cold home! </div>
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But that's OK...<br />
After all... <br />
this is just the beginning of February, right!</div>
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Thick comfy PJs and socks... </div>
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steaming hot cup of tummy-warming soul goodness </div>
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in my favorite cup...
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Tauntingly hanging on for too long...</div>
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Here's when we get sick with the desire for the sun<br />
And the grasses on the wood behind our home lay low and quiet.</div>
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in the sun when it is hidden, <br />
in the Spring when it is gone." </div>
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(Roy R. Gibson) </div>
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a girl must have one or two roses on her table...</div>
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the more the merrier...</div>
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I love to have a bouquet or two or three of fresh roses in the house </div>
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There's a million and one voices out there in the woods beyond our little dormant rose garden. And something magical and beyond marvelous has happened today.... </div>
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A Northern wind flew by early this morning painting the land in white... grasses, twigs, trees and branches and the deep green of the woods got covered in white... </div>
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Snow... snow has the power to conjure up magic...
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Snow has the power to gather all the birds of the woods by my window...
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A swoosh a swish a flapping of wings a scarlet flash a flare a spark a twinkle of red... wings like magical sparks of thunder here and there—the Cardinal.
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They have all gathered here all day long—warbles, cardinals, mourning doves, thrushes and wrens and the titmouse...
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In a celebration... a merriment. A thankfulness of the heart of all creature to the Creator of all.
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And how can I put my feelings in words and not falter... and still be able to express the purest and absolute language of my soul? And how fully and thankful my little heart of heart is... how grateful I am. For this display of kindness it truly is a miracle...
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Remember how just a couple of weeks ago my heart was yearning for some snow? How my soul ached for a taste of the North?... a dream, a taste of those wintery days back at the house in the roses with all my friends the birds that came to visit regularly... the silent white garden, the strange cat, the magic within... <br />
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Well, I must had conjured it up somehow... I must had spoken and asked. For who would have thought that Father Winter would remembered me? Bring snow to the South, weave snow white blankets for their sun-warmed beds?.... as if saying "I haven't forgotten you"... A miracle indeed.
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What a magical show have the birds put up all day long out in the garden...</div>
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I'm knitting dreams in the snow.... </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">never turn your head towards it when taking your baths...</span></div>
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pipes and singing spellbinding songs out in the woods? Yes, the other day! I didn't get to see them thought. But I know they were up to something... Celebrating something perhaps? Who knows! Oh but I intent to find out what's going on out there... tomorrow, at
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Cold cold nights and super cold early mornings... and if it isn't cold it is rain and cold... but yesterday we had a nice break... a glorious day indeed, with bright soft sunshine making everything look magical and warmer than it had been for weeks... I wanted to go out and discover what surprises the wood fairies had left there for me to uncover... </div>
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Graced by filtered sun light I walked the paved path that leads beyond the dormant roses right into the woods....
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Dreaming this and that.... </div>
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Silk tights like roses tattooing my legs and feet...</div>
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Whilst marvelous plump little creatures gathered by the dozens in the birdbath for a nice respite under the sun, amongst all the wild vines that creep around the big trees.</div>
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Well, this spectacular meeting did actually happen the day after Thanksgivings and ever since I haven't been blessed with this vision again... a miracle it was indeed, as I was reading that the Eastern Bluebird don’t often visit backyards feeders or birdbaths...<br />
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I'm starting to feel restless for a home of our own... but the quest for that perfect home is almost becoming a unreachable dream by now... and at times, despair clings from the hem of my soul; discouragement whispers nasty words in my ears... You see, it has proved difficult to find a nice home within our price range around here, and my soul has started to feel a certain prang of homelessness... the un-rooted soul that needs to be planted, to be able to plant perennials and enjoy them forever; plant its own trees and flowers and watch them grow and grow.... plant my soul and watch it blossom.<br />
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Our rented shed is still filled to the brim with boxes and furniture we haven't been able to figure out what to do with, and I haven't even started unpacking my little heart... yearning for my little things and treasures I cannot find among the chaos of remembrances... I need to unpacked my life and regain it back. I need to snuggle in my nest made of roses; be rooted in my own little world like the dove in her nest in the Sally Holmes roses by our bedroom window back at the house in the roses...</div>
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I love decorating my home with branches from trees growing in my very own back yard. They're always at hand, always beautiful in whatever vase you place then in...
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I love the young fir trees growing in the woods behind our
home. They're everywhere, and they flexible
young branches are perfect for cutting. I
love how their green branches get bathed in the warm light of the sun, and how the
green needle-shaped leaves hold itty bitty stars on rainy days, after the rain
stops and the woods get watered down... I cut some yesterday and brought them
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For some inexplicable reason as I was cutting fir branches
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"Never bend and fold into shapes that are not yours", she would say... "it isn't wise to insist on being a butterfly if you are a bird". Mama Luna was so right. Certainly, there's a difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls. We should not be afraid to live our life in our truest self.</div>
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That's it for today... I hope you enjoyed my little story and
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know more about the enigmatic Mama Luna. I have so many stories to share... oh and can I ask you for a favor? It seems that some of my friends and readers
from the house in the roses are having a hard time finding me in my new home
and I would love if you would advertise my new place in your blog... a huge thank YOU for doing this!</div>
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True happiness when at home; shadows
pampering the corners, soft sunshine caressing windows and then I go out and
all of a sudden I'm surrounded by the amazing vastness of this ocean of a sky
and ancient trees swaying shaggy heads—in approval or disapproval with the
wind?—whispering secrets to each other and there I am in the midst of it all uncovering
mysteries, stretching out my soul to hear what the trees have to say under this
umbrella of quietness, and humbleness... <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>until there's no more hesitation in my
soul...<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I know where my true
place on this earth is....
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And here on the big square table, all the pieces I need to
furnish my romantic home... and I don't need to spend a fortune to create this feeling;
which it really is more than just a look, because it is more of a nostalgia and
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I must had been a good girl this past year because 'the
bearded man' gifted me on Christmas Day with all I wanted... and more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah yes, I got the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Selena</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lakes</st1:placetype></st1:place>
book I wanted, plus one more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I got
two <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Selena</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lakes</st1:placetype></st1:place> books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lovely! Thank you Santa!</div>
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After reading all your comments on my previous post I decided
I needed some help in regaining my 'debilitated' magical powers. So yesterday I
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What's in it? Nothing
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course! What is it? A little bit of my own personality in this bread, that's it—a
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CIELOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09117785476130671239noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776188425878445195.post-41774663821220597692014-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:002014-01-05T19:29:34.839-08:00Are you a 'muggle'?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Strange things have been happening to me ever since I moved here... strange in the sense of magical disabilities that is. Ah yes my friends, I think I am turning into a muggle!... I am a muggle, and if not, at least I feel like a muggle and I probably look like one too. </div>
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Do you know what a "muggle" is, or what they look like? Well, I don't exactly know either, but accordingly to the world of Harry Potter, a muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability; a person who was not born into the magical world or don't have any magical blood in itself. They also lack the ability to see and hear all the wonderful and magical things that a normal non-muggle person would... and can. </div>
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Ah yes I remember well! I did have magical blood rushing like rivers through my veins back when I lived at the house in the roses... but somehow.... somehow I've lost that spark in my blood.
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Worse yet, I'm now working in a "muggle place". In the Harry Potter's universe, a muggle place had little or no importance to the wizarding world, so they were decidedly not wizarding places. And by my own definition, a muggle place is any place and every place that lacks interest to your soul, a place where dreams are not allowed, or you feel oppressed by the people surrounding you and by the stress they cause on your soul, or by their attitudes towards others, and towards everything that you believe and make you happy... broken by the lack of time to daydream, and hope and enjoy life for what it is—all those precious moments where only the invisible world and the Natural world surround you. <br />
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What it really is happening to me is that I have
started working again and I miss my hours of freedom; being surrounded by what
I love; the perfect comfort of my home and my magical world... and how I
miss the quietness of my house and the simplicity of my life, being able
to walk barefooted in the soft roughness of the land, play with soil, talk to
the birds and discover the unexpected rooted deep in the heart of Nature; be
able to grab the air by its tail and sail the Universe in total nakedness
of the soul... skip from cloud to cloud and count God's footprints written in
the sky. My soul is imprisoned in the
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I love it how Gaston Bachelard describes it for me: "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace." Isn't this beautiful?
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Ohhh and did you read Donna's comments on my previous post? Oh I do have to share this with you because I was thrilled to my bones with joy when she pointed out to me what she was seeing on one of my photographs.... "on the photo with the frosty Chandelier in the middle of the photo there's a woodland nymph and in the top left of the same photo a masked bear? Did you not see?".... <br />
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We harbor much more magic in ourselves than we can realize... the real kind of magic that's it... the one that opens up unimaginable doors and closes some unwanted others, the kind of magic that keeps our spirits alive and our hopes aglow. <br />
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My soul yearns for my own portion of snow, and bare branches embracing white, and I miss the happy chirps of birds feeding on fresh snowy garden floors, and crystalline air and fluffy clomps drifting down form a moonlight sky and it seems only yesterday that I were out shivering as I watched the first snow fall in the quiet garden.
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Isn't it interesting how we see life sometimes... or most of the times? I mean when we lived up north in the house in the roses, winter was not my favorite time of year. Sunless wintery days made me feel terribly blue, and I complained about most everything from having to get up early in those dark winter days to have to drive on wintery slippery roads. And now that I don't have that, I dream of snow and cozy snowy days...
Life certainly looks better, and prettier, and healthier, and more peaceful and more romantic when seen from afar. Does it not? But once you get to live the things you dream of, they're not the same any more.... they are not exactly how you had pictured them or imagined them to be.
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You heard the saying... Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and it was... and I give thanks for it all – for the gathering of clan and kin around the table in the closeness of here and the familiarity of beyond, for holiday cheers, laughter and bounty overflowing, but this perfect gentle stillness where emptiness meets quietness is a gift too.
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