The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
~W B. Yeats
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose
The next time you find yourself overthinking or worrying, stop yourself and take a deep breath. Look at something around you and notice what’s in the present moment. Look at the sky. Feel your heartbeat. Get out of your mind and immerse yourself in the moment.
~Unknown
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
~Rumi
There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.
~Buddha
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Meik Wiking
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
~J Lockwood Huie
Go up to your friends and family tonight, give them a hug and tell them that you love them. You never know when it could be your last chance.
~Nick Susi
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
~Mike Murdoch
Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being.
It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the importance of the simple act of living itself.
~Louisa Thomsen Brits
Like everyone else has told you: we live downstairs now.
Well, not all the way downstairs, because Poppy and Elvis the Jack
Russels live all the way downstairs with their humans. But downstairs
from where we lived before anyhow, and Mummy calls it, "Moving
downstairs," when she talks about it, so I guess I can call it that too.
We like downstairs, because we can see out of the windows without having to wait for someone to lift us up, and there's not so many steps between us and outside. Me and Logan don't really mind about the steps as such, but less steps means Mummy is willing to do more walkies, which makes less steps a very good thing. Also, some stuff is in different places, and that's changed how some things work. Like how it's harder to try and play with my chinchilla sister, Mollie, because we only get to go in where her cage is sometimes. Apart from those things though - plus some different smells we got to investigate when we first got brought down here - living downstairs is just like living upstairs as far as me and Logan are concerned.
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It’s not all been window views and walkies though, because I
also had to go to the vet.I shouldn’t
have needed to go again yet, but my paws were all itchy, and I was biting at
them so much I was being sick, so Daddy took me to the vet.Not that I’m complaining, because I love vet
trips!
Anyway, the vet says I have something called, “Skin
irritation,” and gave Daddy stuff for me.I have to have pills in the morning, and stuff put on my paws in the
evening.I don’t mind too much, because
I get some ham with the pills, and I don’t mind baths.Although, I do wish I didn’t have to wait
forever for the stuff to get rinsed off my paws (Mummy says it’s only five
minutes, but it feels like forever to me).
I can’t tell you if it’s helping my paws yet, because I only
saw the vet a couple of days ago, so it’s too soon to know.
Mummy and Daddy are real proud of me though, because I’m not
making a fuss, and take my pills and put up with the stuff going on my paws
willingly.Hey, it gets me some ham and
attention, so why should I complain?
Oh, and... No. My itchy issue is nothing to do with the new place. It's something that happens to Westies quite often. Sometimes when we're still kind of young, like I am (I'll be three and a half next month) and sometimes when we get old. Not all Westies, but enough of my breed that it's on the list of common Westie health issues. Mummy and Daddy are just hoping they caught it in time to control it and keep it from being a big enough problem for me that it affects my quality of life. So far I'm fine otherwise, including still being waggy-tailed and full of energy and enthusiasm. So, so far so good.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
~Italo Calvino
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Welcome to this week's weekly media shares and reviews post!
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*Disclaimer: no matter what's being reviewed, all opinions in this post are entirely my own, and I reserve the right to have them, regardless of who may or may not share them. Feel free to express your own in the comments, but please respect my right - and the rights of other commenters - to have opinions that might differ from yours, and to express those opinions too.
Also, please remember that I read/watch/listen to things in a variety of genres, and for all ages, so you should make sure you check that the book/movie/show/song is suitable for the intended audience before reading/watching/listening to it, especially if children are involved. I take no responsibility for anything which may happen as a result of failing to do so.
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OK. Let's see what I've been reading, watching, and listening to, and which song I'm going to share this week, shall we? After all, that's the point of this post, and why you're here today, right?
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Reading:
Despite reading a fantastic book, I struggled to get much reading done during the past week, so this week I only read one book. Well, technically only finished the one I started last week, so not even a whole book if you want to be technical. But still... I have a review for you, so here's what I read, along with my book review.
HMS Lanternfish (The Lanternfish, #2)
by C.S. Boyack
My rating: five out of five stars
I was eager to read this book, having read the first in the
trilogy. I was not disappointed. It was a well-written entertaining and
action-packed read, with a plot that moves at a nice pace and keeps you
guessing, an awesome cast of characters - especially those root monsters, which
I'm so glad to see make a return in the pages of this book - and plenty of
evidence that the author has a wonderful imagination. Had it not been for life
stuff getting in the way, I could have happily devoured this book in one sitting.
I highly recommend this series, especially if you enjoy a good pirate adventure
story. I can't wait to see what the crew get up to - or get themselves in to -
in the third installment of the trilogy!
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Watching:
This week I watched the rest of season 4 of "Outlander" and started season 5. I did plan on watching more of "Game Of Thrones" too, since I still need to finish season 7 and watch season 8 of that, but I didn't get to it. So, just some "Outlander" episodes again this week.
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Listening:
This week I haven't been listening to any music. But with how this month - in fact, this year - has been going, I think R.E.M "Everybody Hurts" is an appropriate song right now. So, here it is. Not sure what the video itself is like, but I'm sharing it anyhow, because the words of the song fit.
“The idea of
wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing & seeing where that
takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
~J K Rowling
OK. Well... I have nothing more to say about my own writing right now. However, I finally had a chance to sort several of those writerly posts and articles from the past month or so (though I do still have a bunch to go through). With that being the case, let's see what I have to share with you from them so far, shall we?
“I don’t have to live in the real world—I'm a fiction
writer.”
“Write. Just write. Start. And read as much as you can. Read
widely and read different things, and sometimes while immersed in the multitude
voices of others, you just might find your own.”
“Your
writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of
your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your
voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your
heart, your soul.”
~Meg Rosoff
