This Isn't April

Let's try the Hodge Podge today where I will be linking without participating. 


1.July 15th is National Give Something Away Day.  What can you give away? Lots Will you? Not likely
2. Do you have a mantra? Please share with the class if you feel comfortable doing so. Did anyone die, which is a way of telling myself that everything (short of death) has a way of working out. 
3. Who does the grocery shopping in your house? How many times a week do you shop? Do you make a list or pray for inspiration in the produce aisle? John shops; I shop; We shop together. We both use a List. My policy is to avoid the grocery store for as long as possible. 
4. Is there a TV show you're embarrassed to say you watch? Yes. You're going to tell us what it is, right? Yes.  DWTS. Sometimes, I do have to avert my eyes or busy myself with something else to be able to "watch" this program. I do not do well with lewd and this show descends to that level regularly. 
5. A recent article listed fifteen words we should eliminate from our (written) vocabulary in order to sound smarter-
that, went, honestly, absolutely, very, really, amazing, always, never, literally, just, maybe, stuff, things, and irregardless
Of the fifteen, which word is your most overused?
Honestly, that is really just literally absolutely never, maybe never, the most ridiculous stuff I have ever read irregardless — wait, irregardless is always not even a word! What a tedious chore to figure out which word I use most often. I know this: I do not use irregardless. Who thinks of these things?
6. So apparently dying your hair gray (in your youth!) is a thing right now. It's called 'The Granny Hair' trend. Your thoughts? Your choice. My choice to laugh at such foolishness. That's okay. I laugh at the "Youth" often just as my elders laughed at me back in the day.
7. A while back Buzz Feed asked members to share the most beautiful sentence they've read in a piece of literature. A hard thing to narrow down, at least for me, but let's try. What's one of the most beautiful sentences you've ever read in a piece of literature?
Cheating here as I have been rather brief so far. I took note of this paragraph when I read Enchanted April last year...I loved it so.

 

They left the path, and clambered down the olive terraces, down and down, to where at the bottom the warm, sleepy sea heaved gently among the rocks. There a pine-tree grew close to the water, and they sat under it, and a few yards away was a fishing-boat lying motionless and green-bellied on the water. The ripples of the sea made little gurgling noises at their feet. They screwed up their eyes to be able to look into the blaze of light beyond the shade of their tree. The hot smell from the pine-needles and from the cushions of wild thyme that padded the spaces between the rocks, and sometimes a smell of pure honey from a clump of warm irises up behind them in the sun, puffed across their faces. Very soon Mrs. Wilkins took her shoes and stockings off, and let her feet hang in the water. After watching her a minute Mrs. Arbuthnot did the same. Their happiness was then complete. Their husbands would not have known them. They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.

 

~from Enchanted April chapter 8
Oh to be a "cup of acceptance" more often. God has given me so much to enjoy.
8. Insert your own random thought here. I am such a creature of habit like those of you who have mentioned the same phenomena. When I looked back to see when I was last discussing Enchanted April, I looked in April archives. Makes sense, but no, I was last writing about *Enchanted April in July 2014.* Weird. 
You may still be able to find this movie on Netflix. I did and will be enjoying it again today!
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