Update about blogCa

Some days it takes more imagination!

Monday, March 9, 2026

The packing process starts

An organization stated that it's ..." core mission - to be good neighbors, good stewards, good ancestors."

I want to belong to places like that!


My son Russ flew (in a plane) all the way to help me pack…he lives 500 miles away. As an engineer at heart, he was wonderful at putting the pottery safely into boxes. And climbing the step ladder to take down curtains, and put those boxes on the now clean shelves.


Just because it’s my creation. Doesn’t mean I need to keep it forever…nor have it possibly outlive me. Thus the shards of many pots go to the dump!


The carefully packed pieces now await my finding a new home living closer to relatives…in another state. I’m waiting for an opening for a senior apartment availability. I don’t expect it to happen for several more months.


Our reward for dealing with all the dust that had accumulated on the pottery, and the shelves, and the curtains! - Ole’s Guacamole for shrimp tacos for me! Southwest tacos for Russ. Since he's planning a vacation in Mexico soon, he practiced his Spanish, what would southwest be? Ah, we had to look it up, suroeste!


Yes, we sat by Flat Creek, gurgling away between us and the Motel 8.

I’m proud to say I’ve only a couple of dings in my flesh so far, from jamming fingers and arms against edges of boxes. This is the cost of having a body which is much older than my thoughts. 

Unfortunately Delta Airlines cancelled his flight around noon Sunday, and they cancelled all the other flights from Asheville to Atlanta that day, so he stayed to keep working until Monday noon! My benefit, but who knows what happened to Delta? Nobody so far has said a thing. They were delaying flights into and out of Atlanta due to thunderstorms on Friday when he originally was scheduled from Ohio...it's all up in the air. Ha ha ha. But I want to trust the airline that carries my dear one through the air!

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Are you living life in a way that it will come to a natural end with you in harmony with your inner world and in harmony with the beauty that surrounds? If not, what steps do you need to take?

Heron Dance Journalist, Rod MacIver 

Sunday, March 8, 2026

International Women's Day

 How do you celebrate the efforts of half of the population? And the incredible history of womanhood to make life better for themselves and the whole world?

Party!

Remember!

Post a few wonderful photos accumulated through time of women!



In the Pagan tradition, the maiden, mother and crone.





Rebecca West, English journalist

by Susan Sedon Boulet

Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be changed and transformed.

The great goddess from Çatal höyük, 6000 BC, sitting on a throne flanked by two felines. She is later known as Matar Kubileya, Kubaba or Cybele. Found at Çatal höyük, 45 kilometers south of modern Konya, Turkey


Ruth Bader Ginsburg painted by Joan Baez

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG



Virginie Demont - Into the Water! 1898.

The efforts of thousands, through many lifetimes, to get equal voting rights.

Eco-feminist Joanna Macy

by Sally Hewett, U.K. Ectomy, 2017.


Greta Thunberg

Poster 1920







What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER


Saturday, March 7, 2026

Painted critters (and sculpted)

 

by Naomi Haverland, Coachman Park Clearwater FL


Sharing with Saturday's Critters




By Susan Seddon Boulet



Eagle Catcher at James Western Art Museum in St. Petersburg, FL

Eagle Catcher view 2


Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, archaeologists recently discovered an 8-mile-long canvas filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts, dating back to between 11,800 years and 12,600 ago.


by Michael Boeckmann


by William Nicholson,Velveteen Rabbit

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Friday, March 6, 2026

Temporary shelters

 

The people who live on the road.

Gypsy Camp 28th July 1951. Gypsy children play happily in overcrowded encampment at Corke's Meadow, Kent. Photo by Bert Hardy.



Fun with old photos for a new month...Sepia Saturday collections start with three guys in a pup-tent. They don't really look at all happy.



Browning, Montana. ca 1910

 Migrant Camp 1935 by Dorothea Lange

From "Time Travelers"

Four families ---- three of them related ---- with fifteen children. They told Dorothea Lange they were fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Texas. She photographed them at their overnight camp on a roadside near Calipatria, California in 1937.

Hershey Region AACA antique auto club of America




Ojibway family


Sharing with Sepia Saturday



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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

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From Peter Turnley on FB:

The last time the US encouraged the Kurds to overthrow a government.
In February and March of 1991, President Bush encouraged the Iraqi Kurds to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
 In March 1991, following a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War, over 1 million Iraqi Kurds fled to the borders of Turkey and Iran to escape brutal retaliation.




Roughly 500,000 refugees became stranded in the mountains on the Turkish border, suffering from exposure, hunger, and disease.
All photos here by Peter Turnley

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By Helena Nelson Reid

Thursday, March 5, 2026

The Bluebird of Happiness

 Fortunate are those who have bluebirds nearby...nesting, flitting with their wonderful colors all about!

So I have made a few with clay...and this is the one sitting on my desk.






He was thrown, then altered! Maco Stroke N Coat glazes. And yes, he brings a smile whenever I glance his way!

Sharing with Thankful Thursday http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/2026/03/thankful-thursday.html



The bluebird bowl, sold at the Tailgate Market, Mudbuddies Booth

I gave a tiny Bluebird of Happiness to our new minister to welcome him many years ago.
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We need to encourage ourselves to look deeply into all things in our lives to see the inherent goodness of everything.