Unicorn Day - A Dog's Point of View

The Hunt of the Unicorn 

My hound won’t give chase.

No foe of his, this pure beast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn…
https://twitter.com/LaurelShimer/status/1248359654360363008

Was Living Together a Sin in Tudor Times?

Many folks today, think living together, without being married is a modern idea. 

In the first half of the sixteenth century, HenryVIII’s fifth wife, Catherine  Howard, and Francis Dereham were definitely a Tudor couple.

Drop Those Daisies - Time Needs Heroines To Stay Busy

Action scenes are a blast to write. 
And then it’s time to edit.
I just found that my protagonist (heroine), Bella Salas, is standing around watching a life and death struggle- while holding a bunch of daisies. Gotta put that gal to work.

Bumble Bee Travels Through Time

We all travel through time in our own way.

This time traveling Bumble Bee is working hard making her alternative style of honey in my Pride Of Madeira blooms.

 Yes - out here in California we're doing Spring. 

https://www.buzzaboutbees.net/Do-Bumblebees-Make-Honey.html

Time Traveling Trees - Coast Redwood Takes it Slow

Sequoia semperviren
a.k.a. Coast Redwood

A whole colony of time travellers live over the fence from me here in California's San Francisco Bay Area.

These Coast Redwoods take their time travel slow. They just put their roots down for one to two millenniums. No magic charm or Time Machine required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens

The Planner - But Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

It takes a lot of time just to corral all my different schemes, projects, and proposals.
Just for one day I'd like to be one of those people who ask, "But where do you get your ideas?" 
Only for one day.

The Planner: Slipping Off To Time Portals Unknown

Today, The Planner, wants to toss her carefully laid out planner in the air 

And head for an unknown Time Portal.

The Planner: My California Primary Ballot MAILED

Most Important Task in my Erin Condren Planner this Week

Had a great walk to the mailbox with my husband and dog after supper last night. We could only drop two completed ballots into the box. The pooch doesn't get one. 

Though I bet somebody's dog is voting out there.

What We Moderns Forget: Envelopes

The letter had been lost for 450 years. It’s envelope had gotten stuck under the inside flap of an old ledger box. No museum archivist had noticed it until Will Sainsbury came along to do a little research of his own.

I must have edited that scene fifteen to twenty times, before it occurred to me that a letter written in  the era of Elizabeth the First would probably not have been enclosed in an envelope,

Back in ancient days of BCE, Babylonians and Chinese people are known to have provided protective wrappings for some communications. It’s not totally beyond the realms of possibility others throughout the ages sometimes protected something important. 

But we better just fold up Will’s letter, seal it, and push it in under the lid.

More on Envelopes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pushing-the-envelope-144581278/

What We Moderns Forget: Light

In the 'midst of an historical story WHO HERE has not forgotten that our heroine needs to grab a candle, lamp, torch, or perhaps a shuttered lantern when she trips off to run into the antagonist?

Planners are Liminal Spaces : From Everyday to Imagined

My Erin Condren Catchall Planner Earlier This Week

#Planners are also #LiminalSpace - Because they lead from my everyday world to a mystic land, where I get everything done as imagined.

 

I adorn my #decoratedPlanner weekly, with collages of favorite designs, photos, stickers, and flip-back windows that hide private ideas. A washi tape hinge allows the decorative paper to flip back, so I can write private plans and ideas underneath.

Dog's Eye View of Liminal Space

Dog's have their own view of  #LiminalSpace.

Jasper* finds it between sea and shore in  History Rich Half Moon Bay, CA

*If you're looking to be rescued by a dog, check Jasper's first home at Tiramisu Dog Rescue. They saved him from, what would have been, a very short life on the streets, And he was cared for and trained extremely well.

A Time Portal is Liminal Space

A time portal is neither here nor there. 

 It exists in Liminal Space* 

Shall we stop and consider our choices?

Or let Time take us where she wills?
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* Liminal Space is the area between here and there. It is also between the ordinary world and the mystic.

Slow Traveller: New Lamps for Old!

Time Portal in the Alhambra Palace, Granada Spain

Basma was enchanted by the Sorcerer who called out "New Lamps for Old!" 

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Tales of the Arabian Nights traveled to the Muslim Stronghold, shown here in Granda Spain, 700 years before the Reconquista.

What will I find when I follow the path through this time portal?

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Mechanics: Favorite way to Travel Through Time

 Ancient Roman Coin - Spes  - Goddess of Hope
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spes

My favorite way to travel through time is using a charmed object. 

What's yours?