Inked Well!!

Yes, it is inked very well indeed! The book "Inkheart" and it's sequel "Inkspell" are the first two books of a planned trilogy by author Cornelia Funke. Intended for young adult readers, yet this story should appeal to adults, it certainly did to me! It will be a painful wait for the third book! Hopefully a movie will be along soon to tide me over!

Bored?

How can anyone be bored? So much to do and take interest in. So many places for your mind to take refuge from the hard ships of life or the monotamy of your job, your commute, or your wait in line.

Art for one thing can lift you from the daily grind, whether your creating it (with your hands or in your mind) or obsurving it in the nature around you or in the urban city scape you pass through.

People are the best relief from the dangers of bordom. They are almost everywhere and they need you as much as you need them even if they don't realize or admit it.

Where I Live

I am blessed to live in a wonderful area! An island nesteled close to the fertile planes of the Skagit Valley, between the great mountian ranges of the Cascades and Olympics. There is a place in the Skagit River delta where you can look around 360 degress and see the river, the salt water, fields of tulips, two volcanos of the Cascade mountians and the Olympic mountian massif.

As important as the great natural beauty is the warm hearted, friendly people who inhabit the area. The west coast of the USA is known for open minded, progressive and friendly people.

My Return

I feel I have returned, returned from the busyness of summer. Glad to find out my blog has not been closed for lack of activity. Hope to have a real entry soon, should start working on it today.

Best Friends

It's so great to have dear friendships. Sadly that is something that is easily lost as people get older. Spouses, children, careers, added responsibilities all conspire to distract you from one of the most basic needs—friendships! I find it takes a lot more work to maintain close friendships at 50 then it did in my teens and twenties. Even if I am willing to make the effort and sacrifices to nurture a close friendship finding someone else (who I would want to be friends with in the first place) able to do the same can be very rare.

Music's Reentry

Music as made a powerful reentry into my life. Why now after all these years laying dormant? It went into hibernation the day poverty drove me to sell my LP collection—around 1974 I reckon. It's not to say that I went music-less during the intervening years. I had folk music and sea chanties and a bit of this and that to keep me company. But I wasn't driven like I was in the early '70s—and today.