"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

~ Thomas Paine

"When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us."

~ Prince

"Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness."

~ Jeremy Bentham

"Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments."

~ Stephen Crane

"The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself."

~ Seneca the Younger

"I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense."

~ Allen Ginsberg

Hello everyone! Hope you've had a good week!

I survived my doctor appointment on Wednesday and I've got skin growing in the middle of my boo-boo! That means the graft is working! I'm so glad!

Nothing else much is happening this week, which is good. Sally has Wednesday off to take care of her grandson while her other grandbaby has to go out of town for surgery for her poor little teeth. I'm hoping to get some writing done that day. We'll see.

Then again it's the Quantam Bang and I've been reading all morning! They have some great fiction on there, so stop by and check it out!

June is National Iced Tea Month, so here's a recipe! I hope y'all like it!



( Sweet Tea Bunt Cake )

"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened."

~ Thomas Hardy

"Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny."

~ Liam James

"A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions"

~ Norman Vincent Peale

"A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions."

~ Mikhail Bakunin

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."

~ Bob Hope

Doing this by phone. Electricity is out. Tornado was on edge of town. We are warm, but safe.

~☆~☆~☆~

Update: Our electricity came back an hour ago. So, from 7am to 5pm, we were without power, all over town. There is conflicting reports of an f1 tornado or just super high winds. I'm going to go with tornado based on the amount of damage around town.

I have some downed limbs. Neighbors have downed trees. I don't think that there are any deaths, but we shall see.

Stay safe everyone.

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."

~ Thomas Moore

"The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon."

~ Peter Marshall

Good morning everyone! Well, it's still morning for me. Hope you had a great week!

I finally got my skin graft! WHOOT! So glad that's going on. Hopefully, that means my leg will be healed up in a couple of months! I'm excited!

Sally took me to the dermatologist on Tuesday and that went well. So that's good. It was hilarious because Sally hadn't done laundry and was in this gauzy skirt and was in the door of her car when she pulled up in. LOL!

She also saw it while cooking in the kitchen and forgot she was in a skirt. She thought it was a rodent of some kind and squealed. We both about bust a gut laughing!

Since tomorrow is Memorial Day, my normal doctor appointment got squished into the tail end of Wednesday. So I'll be out late again. This time I think, Sally's going to work that day until I leave so that means she can fix me lunch and dinner to have when I get back, so yay!


There's quite a line of storms in the Midwest, headed toward WV. I hope no one gets hurt in them. I heard several people were killed in a tornado last night in Texas. Terrible. And hopefully, my power won't go out!

I have a summer treat for a recipe today! I used to eat this all the time at church potlucks and during the summer. Okay, we used Cool Whip instead of whipping heavy cream, but it was good! I hope you like it!



( Lime Gelatin Salad )

Enjoy!

"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."

~ Jack Vance

Title: Between a Candle and a Star
Author: Amejisuto
Fandom: Harry Potter
Relationships: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Malfoy, and other canon relationships.
Genre: Time travel fix-it, Alternate Universe
Warnings: Canon-level violence, hand-wavy past relationships, character bashing. Grammarly beta.
Summary: Magic can only survive if it is balanced. Equal. Grey. Harry Potter is sent back in time to fix it.

I don't own Harry, I just borrow him for a while.



Chapter Twenty-Seven