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It was a gorgeous day today! After we returned from my root canal appointment, we walked with Joker and then did a bit of work in the yard.

I even pulled out my mat and did yoga on the back deck. Spring is coming!

Daylight Savings time. Went for lunch, and then a board game with friends.

Best kombucha yet! Great carbonation 🫧

I’ve been brewing my own since December and we love it.

This is a gorgeous book!

Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed – fading away like water on stone. The words were those that children used to name the natural world around them: acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker – gone! Fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven, willow, wren… all of them gone! The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children’s voices, no longer alive in their stories.

You hold in your hands a spellbook for conjuring back these lost words. To read it you will need to seek, find and speak. It deals in things that are missing and things that are hidden, in absences and in appearances. It is told in gold – the gold of the goldfinches that flit through its pages in charms – and it holds not poems but spells of many kinds that might just, by the old, strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye.

More snow this morning:

More snow coming overnight – staying cozy!