Standing Into Danger: June 2025

Friday, June 20, 2025

Beautiful Things

Connected again, that's a beautiful thing!

It's amazing how much technology impacts our lives.

I'm am very grateful to be back online.

One of the hardest things was missing my music videos

which I play and sing along with throughout the day.

So I've been gorging on my favorite songs,

like this version of "What's Up" performed by Playing for Change.

It features two members of the very talented international group,

Clarence Bekker Milton (Netherlands) and Louis Mhlanga (Zimbabwe).

CB sings with a passion and a joy that radiate, never failing to fill my heart,

and Louie is one intense guitarist, one of my favorites in the world.

I enjoy all the members including Titi Tsira (South Africa)

and Grandpa Elliot (USA) who also appear in this video.

Titi Tsira and the Playing for Change Band

YouTube

Our renovation is moving along, and on Monday Terry and I

went to Urban Lights to choose some light fixtures and fans.

It was more like an Urban Fantasy with a maze of glittering lights.

Terry Follows Rhonda, the Salesperson, into the Maze

Denver, ⁨Colorado, ⁨United States⁩

June 16, 2025

As usual, I am trailing behind.

Denver, ⁨Colorado, ⁨United States⁩

June 16, 2025

Our newest family member is thriving and the next newest is surviving the new arrival.

Three Generations

Krista, Jackson, Donnie with Elsie, and Martin

United Kingdom

June 11, 2025

One of our painters, Juan, put a smile on my face every day,

during the week he spent with his son painting our home.

A Joyful Artist with Paint

Juan

June 6, 2025

Someone who has made me smile for decades.

Terry and I in a Happy Place

Oahu, Hawaii, USA

March 19, 2025

I'm linking to Tom's Aloha Friday, Nicole's Friday Face Off, and Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date,

For Tom: Back to the Moon! ~ Canadian Patrick Roy, accompanied by fellow Canadian Kim Richardson, sings a song that never fails to lift my spirits in a place I WILL see next year, Jurassic Park on Oahu.

Back to the Moon

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For Nicole: Three Special Faces ~ Grandpa Martin takes Jackson to the British Museum of Natural History without the new sister. 😂

One Very Happy Grandpa with Jackson

British Museum of Natural History, London, UK

June 3, 2025

For Rain: White Pines ~ White pines have a special place in Rain's heart, so I'm sharing a photo of some lovely New Brunswick white pines.

White Pines

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Wishing you beautiful things in your life!

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

My next post will be

Friday, June 27, 2025 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

Friday, June 13, 2025

Cut Off!

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I may need a third, fourth, or fifth order of Starbucks coffee and a chocolate croissant.

You may remember that my electrical power and internet was out for hours on IWSG Day.

Now, I have no internet service, so I couldn't write a Friday post or publish it.

I am currently parked at a corner table in the Starbucks near home,

trying to cover essentials.

Life is never dull! 😂

I hope to have internet service again soon.

Have a good weekend!

Life is never dull! 😂

I'm linking to Tom's Aloha Friday, Nicole's Friday Face Off, and Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date,

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

My next post will be

Friday, June 20, 2025 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

IWSG: Wednesday, June 4 ~ Bitten with Wanderlust

It's the first Wednesday of the month,
the day that members of the
Insecure Writer's Support Group
share their writing struggles
and writing successes
and offer their encouragement
and support to fellow writers.

To visit the IWSG website, click here.

To become a member of the IWSG, click here.

Our wonderful co-hosts who are volunteering today,
along with IWSG Founder Alex J. Cavanaugh are

PJ Colando, Pat Garcia, Kim Lajevardi, Melissa Maygrove, and Jean Davis!

Stop by their posts and thank them for hosting.

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Every month the IWSG announces a question that members can answer
with advice, insight, a personal experience, or a story in their IWSG posts.

Or, the question can inspire members
if they aren't sure what to write about on IWSG Day.

Remember the question is optional.

This month's optional question is:

What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult?

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Happy June, Everyone!

I hope all is well with each of you.

I don't remember a time I couldn't read, and I read voraciously while I was growing up.

My parents and other adult family members encouraged me to read,

and they never censored my book choices.

I had free access to all the bookcases in my extended family, and there were many.

One lazy summer afternoon in Charlottetown when I was eight,

I was browsing through my Grandmother MacBeath's bookcase in her living room.

I pulled out a plain black book titled "The Flying Carpet" and opened its cover.

I was expecting magic, genies, and rugs swooping through the air.

The Front Endpapers of The Flying Carpet by Richard Halliburton

Aurora, Colorado, USA

June 2, 2025

Instead, the endpapers were maps covered with routes,

the front cover's of Europe and North Africa, and the back's of India and Asia.

The flying carpet was not a magical rug. It was a plane!

More specifically it was an open cockpit biplane, a modified Stearman C-3B.

Richard Halliburton (forward) and Moye Stephens (aft) sitting in the Flying Carpet

Wikipedia

I read the opening lines: "Ten thousand feet above the California hills. The airplane sailed through the air with the ease and the grace of a sea-gull. It hurdled the clouds, soared over the mountaintops, dived toward the sea, and skimmed the waves."

I was hooked, bitten with wanderlust.