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Thursday Next duikt onder in BookWorld, in een obscure, ongepubliceerde detectiveroman in The Well of Lost Plots. Ze hoopt zich daar te kunnen verbergen tot haar baby wordt geboren, en tot ze een idee heeft hoe ze haar "uitgewiste" man weer terug kan halen. Er blijkt echter een en ander loos in WOLP – de agenten van Jurisfiction gaan in rap tempo de pijp uit, terwijl één van de bestuursorganen een nieuw ImaginoTransference operating system – UltraWord^tm – probeert door te drukken. En ondertussen wordt Thursday belaagd door Aoris Hades, een mnemonomorph, die er bijna in slaagt haar herinneringen aan haar man, of beter gezegd, haar herinneringen aan wat dan ook, uit te wissen.

Libris pulled the first sheet off a flipchart. There was a picture of an old book.
'Well,' he began, 'when we first came up with the "page" concept in BOOK v1 we thought we'd reached the zenith of story containment – compact, easy to read, and by using integrated PageNumber^tm and SpineTitle^tm technologies, we had a system of indexing far superior to anything SCROLL could offer. Over the years—'
Here he flipped the chart over to show us varying styles of books through the ages.
'—we have been refining the BOOK system. Illustrations were the first upgrade at 1.1, standardised spelling at v3.1 and vowel and irregular verb stability in v4.2. Today we use BOOK v8.3, one of the most stable and complex ImaginoTransference thechnologies ever devised – the smooth transfer of the written word into the reader's imagination has never been faster.'

Deel 1, The Eyre Affair, zal ik zeker niet lezen (Wide Sargosso Sea vond ik nog net acceptabel;  verder moet het echt niet gaan). En deel 2, Lost in a Good Book, stond niet op de plank, dus daarom maar begonnen in deel 3. Ik denk niet dat ik nog terugga naar deel 2, maar deel 4, Something Rotten, wil ik nog wel eens meenemen. Dit verhaal had in elk geval genoeg vaart, en een ingenieuze setting. De "name dropping" en de meligheid waar ik bang voor was, vielen erg mee. De setting van het verhaal is ingenieus, en de vaart blijft er goed in, op een paar kleine overbodige excursies na (rage counselling in Wuthering Heights???).

The past few months have been kind of hellish for me for various reasons.  I have pulled back from a great many things because I have had no desire to do anything, be around anyone, or even practice my spirituality.  Then a few weeks ago I posted I have a pair of Screech owls on my property.  Granted I said that usually owls don't have the best reputations and many cultures fear them.  But like myclette said owls aren't evil as so many folks think.  They are wise, all knowing, and are the eyes to our souls and usually mean change.  Great change.

 

I am not exactly sure what Great Change is heading my way.  I probably won't even know it until it is done and gone.  That is usually how the Gods work.  Anu and Macha are real good at these changes. Brigid has been appearing to me more and more lately as has Maeve.  I have been working with Maeve since before we left OK.  I have made great strides in what Maeve has been imparting to me.  The main point that this lovely but  sexy drama death Goddess has hammered into my head is to be happy with my body.  And I don't mean with how it looks.  I have never really had an issue with how I look.  I may not be a stunning beauty but I am one hot MILF.  What Maeve did for me is to remind me that I am a woman first and that my body changes with time and that it is OKAY!  To embrace it.  To take time for myself.  Maeve appeared to me right after I pulled her card from the Goddess Healing deck and I am so happy that she made time for me.

 

I didn't tell anyone that Maeve has been working with me because so many in the Tuatha would have pointed out or went and researched that Maeve is quite the lil Bitch when provoked and her Goddess relatives and friends are just as blood thirsty as Maeve is when you mess with her or hers.  So many don't realize that Maeve is the embodiment of a strong beutiful woman and embraces her sexuility and her body.  This is and was exactly what I needed at the time I was dignoised with diabetes and having a hard time coming to terms that in this life I am a Mother before I am anything else and I needed to balance that with my needs instead of focusing on motherhood or woman hood.

 

As for Brigid appearing more and more to me, those conversations and workings are still confidential.  But Brigid is the one that pointed out to me that it was time to move on with the Goddess Healing Deck.  Maeve would always be there for me when I needed her but it was time to move on to the next Goddess and realize that just because some of the Goddesses may not be Irish or even another Celtic deity to either work with them or find their Celtic equvlant (sp?). 

 

To celebrate and pay honor to Maeve my past few months dealings with Her, I am off to get my brows waxed and a manicure and pedicure.  And once Randy is home we are going to have a romantic dinner with OUT the kids and give Maeve a lil late night show   :D

 

I'll let you all know who the next Goddess is that gets to help me change for the better:D

Recently I went to the lake near my home to take pictures.At the lake, I found a patch of yellow iris at the edge of the lake.  I had never seen these before at the lake.  As I moved closer, a black bird with red under it's wings captured my attention. It seemed to be hurt, but flew out of range any time I moved toward it.  Soon I noticed a pattern. If I moved closer to the bed of iris, then the bird came back to distract me.  And then I noticed the small brown bird attending a nest in the middle of the iris bed. It is nice to know someone is watching over you and taking care of you. I am envious.

 

Someone made this video of photos for Rachel. I actually cried when i watched it. She is truly loved. Why do bad things always happen to great people? Why does that always happen? No matter what. You never know how much you mean to a person until something bad happens. Then people truly come out to show that they care. I love that.

 

I hope with everything in my being that she will come out ok.

 

Please.

 

Here is a website her sister put together for us.

tags, tags, tags... Do you seach by tags? Are tags magnetic? Are tags magical? tags, tags, tags... Don't you just love tags? I think I'll tag myself with five-thousand sticky-notes. What shall I write on the sticky-notes? They will be magnetic, magical yellow, sticky-note tags and I will adore them.

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