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Lilies of the Valley, Black Mountain NC April 16, 2026

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Going outside my own life

 


On the other side of the ridge, near Old Fort, April 6. Dry conditions with winds have given North Carolina burn bans for most of April.

A dashboard bobble head collection. (No, I don't intend to do a series of dashboard photos in cars!!)

A  friend's first great grandchild. My first great grandbaby will be born in October!



This is the next book I will purchase. I read Maria Popova's "Marginalian" newsletter twice a week. She's brilliant.

Next to read: a friend loaned me her copy of "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year."

 I'll start that as soon as I  finish "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World."
These three are paper and print books. I can't recommend Sand Talk enough, though it is best read slowly, in my opinion. I love learning the symbols from the Indigenous People of Austrailia.

And I admit to listening to some lighter novels in the meantime, as I lie in bed waiting for sleep and playing solitaire. I have 6 more books on hold on the library system's Libby.

What are you reading?




1 comment:

  1. I just finished The Death of Us by Abigail Dean, heavy duty crime but also a love story. I was hooked. Now I am starting The Seeker by Tana French as audiobook and A Tale for the Time being by Ruth Otzeki in paperback. The first is part three in a series of crime novels in a rural Irish setting, the latter one of my daughter's favourites. I usually read some non-fiction alongside and just got A Brain that Breathes by Jodi Wilson, it's about the effects of social media on our thinking and memory and how to return to a brain that is not trained to running on fast scrolling activities.

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