It's the last Friday of the month at Renaissance Academy, AND the end of October. So I dressed up like a witch (sort of) and we carved pumpkins and ate pumpkin cake and Rice Crispy treats. Fun!

Cool October night..... Happy Mariah

Good morning. Beauty.

This lady's excited. I've joined a writing club, wherein we are given a prompt once a month, and we go to town. Looking forward to the first assignment!

Listening to Lisa Morales has brought this gal and her absolutely beautiful version of this song to mind. She's from these parts, plays in Austin a lot. No one does this old tune like she does.

Such a wonderful time, at the Smithville Spoken Word meeting! This is a local poetry circle that meets once a month, and I'm so delighted to see how much talent ferments in our little town. Actually, the next town over, but poets from Bastrop contribute too. I'm inspired!

I like poets.

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

PERSPECTIVE.......

Me: Those paintings look like waves of the sea, infused with and reflecting sunlight.

He: They look like paper that got wet and dried funny.

Saturday night the singer who was performing talked a little about her mother, for whom she'd written some songs. She said that though her mother was very educated - spoke eleven languages and had a PhD in Mexican literature - she was filled with wonder and fascination, and responded to each experience as if it were the first. My husband leaned over and said, "That's just like you.".
That may be one of the greatest compliments I've ever gotten.

Lisa Morales. I'd never heard of her before, but she's good. Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe was a tiny old hole in the wall - perfect ambiance. Great show.

 The view from our balcony in Galveston. My Home By The Sea.  <3

 My sweet little condo, which is to be rented out for a year. I'm going to miss it. Going back for one more visit, next weekend.

 The pool, from the balcony outside our front door.

 Nothing between me and Africa but some more of this stuff. And a few islands. I love thinking abut that.

Houston. Where every building is a monument. Going past it, in a marvelous mood, listening to Thank You by Zeppelin, which is also something of a monument. Perfect.

Leaving town with a married man! Heading for the coast...... in a few hours we'll be dining on seafood beside the sea. And a night in the condo. And some time staring out over the water....... Mmmm....... I've needed this. 

1. A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and making complete sense.

2. The subject of a sentence is that about which something is being said.

3. The predicate of a sentence is that which is being said about the subject.

....Little girl wrapping her mind around the word order, trying to make sense of it. When it clicks, it's a beautiful thing.

Last night we hd a beer tasting for the investors in our up-coming new pizzeria and brewery. It was a great success! Good things coming!

Yesterday, Renaissance Academy had the Beavers' dinner, from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, for lunch. It was a big hit and a lot of fun.  <3

Snack time at Renaissance Academy.

Zero is not the absence of numbers. Zero is the sum of all numbers. Whoa.

....not that those the fairies love are always carried off - they may merely grow

 silent and strange, and taken to lonely wanderings in the "gentle" places. 

 Such will, in after times, be great poets or musicians, or fairy doctors.......

                             - W.B. Yeats

Dayum.
This sounded SO good on the car's sound system yesterday....... wow

Driving through post card country - rolling hills swathed iin cotton, cattle, corn, and oil pumps - in a marvelous mood. With a handsome foreigner with gray temples at the wheel.  Listening to Low Spark of High Heel Boys on the excellent sound system. If I felt any better, I'd be sick.

A certain very white man sounding like a certain black man. A couple of my favorite singers, whom I would never have connected in my mind if Boz hadn't done this. Mm-mm-mm!