C. (Comment, never msg).’s Comments (group member since Jan 30, 2014)

C. (Comment, never msg).’s comments from the Gentle SPECTRUMS group.

I am Carolyn, creator and hostess of "Ethereal", "My Kind Of Mystery", "Gentle Spectrums" for five years and "Celtic Coasts" for three years. Here is the headquarters 2018 menu at my blog at which to join them all! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/headqu...

It is winter in Manitoba, snowy and warmer lately. As we pray for our missing cat, Conan, to return in the spring, or for the right folks to notice his poster or tattoo; books and a few TV shows bring enjoyment and relaxation to me.

"Gentle Spectrums" 2018 is finished and can be joined! The accompanying review page might take a few days because its eleven categories make the most work. However we are grooving. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/gentle...

I was thrilled to find precious and even older teddy bears and dolls when I cleaned out my parent's home to ensure we had all personal belongings. As I have written in many reviews, explaining the recent wave of children's literature, I have kept my things with me for years. I did not know there was more, stored way back in places not easy to see. Teddy bears and dolls I could not have seen in 35 years, probably because Mom didn't unpack them when we bought our one and only house.... I recognized them right away! It is a time capsule in which I am deriving tremendous pleasure. I suddenly knew how important those faces were and have baby pictures of me with some.

I pray for the people, animals, and their homes and belongings in California. After the forest fires were mud slides. Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey, whose homes are safe but some neighbours' houses weren't, explained mud slides are more dangerous than it sounds to people who haven't seen them. I am grateful about my lifelong belongings whenever I hear of anyone in need. When I lived in the city, I donated a lot of clothes, books, and knickknacks, to women's aboriginal shelters.

The new "My Kind Of Mystery" page has been made! I will add its companion review page shortly. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/mykind...

It's almost time to send you birthday mail anew. I have been awaiting reassurance that you received your Christmas mail! I'd like to clarify where you receive it. Parcels go to your porch? Do envelopes go somewhere else and that is why you don't check daily?

Your Mom shares it, or looks at it on your behalf? If it wasn't in your mailbox, please ask if she parked it at her house or yours. I must be one or the other. I would like you to have your card and Phyllis A. Whitney book. It was mailed a little before Christmas, so that it would slightly late. Xoxo.

We have a fresh, new review page too! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/ethere...

We have a fresh, new review page too! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/celtic...

Our new year's page is ready for Celtic Coasts 2018! I will make the accompanying pages and menus later. Here it is! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/celtic...

Do you want a peek at Ethereal 2018? The accompanying menus aren't done yet but my sign-up page is back! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/ethere...

A reminder that my blog's most recent post, though called "Ethereal", summarizes all four of my groups. Each post, few and far between, covered everything at the time I posted. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2018/0...

I hope you fill in a few "Ethereal" links so I am not the only one in that review page! I'll leave it open for a couple of months. It is lovely that you will be active overall. I hope you like my blog post. Love, Carolyn.

The closing-out summary is finished! Even if you did not do Ethereal, please pop by. My updates are few and far between, so I summarize information relevant to all participants, of any of my groups. Happy new year 2018!
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Hello Erin! I knew we would have chatted about it. I got it right away, really a surprising couple of days after my birthday. It brought me a lot of joy, along with the cards in person of family and the friends visiting me for music, food, and a board game. Sometimes the United States surprises me with how fast stuff arrives. I hope so because I can't believe it is December! I haven't started one Christmas card yet and I'm usually done by this time!

Your air freshner with a funny remark about cats has been sitting on my dresser ever since, behind my bed where I read. We have a small room and use my dresser as a headboard. I love your card like I said and plan to use your bookmark for my next book, if not the present one. Love, Carolyn!.

Erin, I think you missed my note among your book updates. Last month, really only a few days after my birthday, I received your birthday card and the little gifts with it. I thank you again with heart, because it was the only one by mail this year! I did receive several from Ron, my parents, who brought one from my travelling brother and sister-in-law, and three friends in person. But yours comprised my birthday mail this year, which was important just for that. How sweet the jokey pet deodorizer and bookmark are and your card too, made your whole mail even nicer. Love, Carolyn.

We have heard preaching all our lives that a safe life matters, compared to belongings. We can overcome and restart homes, wardrobes, menetoes, and necessities too. I will not argue that. This is the attitude people parted from them have to adopt. It is a relief when these things are safe along with us; the personal belongings more than buildings and necessities. I have found that shifting homes still feels like home when the lives and personal items fill them, from building to building.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that the personal possessions don't matter, which we have deemed the touchstones of our physical lives. They survive us and carry energy. Through that energy we feel joy by using, seeing, or interacting with personal objects. With this in mind: I pray that the people, animals, and their individual worlds are safe in California. It is hard to picture forest fires when snow is blanketing our milieu thickly but low precipitation is a problem there. Store what you care about at some distance and be safe, forest animals and all.

Here is our update post for CELTIC COASTS! I think it is worth visiting even if you aren't in the group this year. You have been in it before, or would like to next year. Most of all, it gives a summary about me and my groups generally, no matter which ones you are in. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/1...

Happy birthday to me! It is my special, magical day! I pray it brings all positive and good things, like Conan being home with us.

It is a pity the nine year-old's time is over. I will add my light for his family. I'm very glad there is every reason to believe Conan is all right. I am certain that everyone's prayers kept him alive and safely from the first day, as frustrating as it is that this was four months ago. He's all right: we only need to find him. The right person spots him and contacts us, or we find him, or he comes the rest of the way home to us. Snow could have slowed him, or hiding wisely from a scare, or being with people.

We are asking townspeople to be observant about tattooes and posters / fliers. Him, people from whom he is probably being hosted, or us: three ways for us to be reuinted. :) By November 18th is the only gift I need and would give me permament happiness and relief! Like will look good after this! But I'll look forward to my birthday as much as I can and what fun, to know a card will be coming from you. Xoxoxoxo.

Your on-going support for my son equivalent cat, Conan's, safe return home means a lot. We are at four months since we heard from him concertely, a mouse left at a door in the morning.. However more townspeople are helping me lately and my on-line search is boosted too. Although worried, we brush off unhappy suggestions because that doesn't get any work done. No one worrying about their loved-one needs to be told. Human nature fights to keep our minds out of the negative. Our faith is not shaken that postiive outcomes are likely and that our boy will return, or we will find him safely.

A boy in Maine, USA came to my attention, who might only have this month left. He survived stage four of a type of cancer for four years. He got a taste of receiving cards and loves it, as I have all my life. I look forward to cards and a visit for my birthday in four days! A little subdued because Conan isn't here yet but with most of the excitement. And girls my age hope another 45 years come to me and the people I love.

He, Jacob, is having an early Christmas and has begun to receive cards from around the world. His address is at this article and although sad, I would be very pleased to take part. Caring people love having the power to do anything they can, to make someone happy or assist them. A USA stamp is not a lot, for someone who is a card person. http://wric.com/2017/11/07/9-year-old...

We are determined Conan is well and that we will have a positive outcome: be reunited. Here in Manitoba, it has snowed and winter temperatures are here. We expect to see Conan any day. Either he was far off enough that it takes time to carefully travel home, or he has been with people off & on. In case these did not notice tattoos or local posters, I have alerted again on-line. We now ask everyone who sees it to spread the word to anyone they know in our area. If our baby is indoors with anyone, rather than making his way here already, we'll get the message to them.

It was fine for Conan to have an unusual, outdoors birthday for himself September 7. My birthday is in eleven days. The best gift to possibly be bestowed would be to have him home. Announcing his homecoming and safe arrival will be my most relieved, grateful announcement I have ever made. Yours truly, Carolyn.