Inklings // March 2025

Happy March! We just got back from some long distance travels and I got everything unpacked today and quite a bit of the laundry done and also soaked and heeled in some bare root roses that arrived while we were gone. It feels like everything is going crazy here, there's just starting to be green everywhere. I was running round in the dark when we arrived home last night checking what had leafed out. 😅 Does it feel like spring where you are? 

And I was so happy to see your entries last month. As always, feel free to join anytime here until the next prompt goes up! 💜 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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March's prompt is:

A scene with strangers meeting / becoming acquainted

I'm in the middle of Elisabeth Grace Foley's A Sidekick's Tale and it's hilarious. I was reading it on the plane yesterday and giggled out loud over this bit so thought it'd be perfect to share:

"And of course one thing led to another, as they always do, and before you knew it Lem and I had got started on a good old-fashioned do-you-remember session. Every once in a while when cousins foregather they drag out of mothballs all the memorable moments in the family history clocked in during their lifetime, and a few winners that've been passed on to them second-hand, and give them a good airing. Well, that was what we did, and Chance sat still as a mouse and listened with a kind of scared look on his face. I don't know if you've ever noticed it, but while the behavior of your family seems perfectly normal to you, it comes across as pretty half-baked to an outsider...

"But then again, the crazier a thing sounds the more people want to hear about it. Eventually Chance got interested in spite of himself and began to loosen up a little bit. He even laughed in the right places. I think he'd been rather afraid of my cousins at first, even though they were mainly harmless except when things went off by accident..." 

Definitely enjoying the tale and looking forward to what happens next. xD 

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Inklings // February 2025

And.... here we are again! 

During February we had family visiting (lotttttts of Ticket to Ride and talking ....and rain) and then I had a big writing project with a deadline (if you're interested, you can read it here) + housekeeping, homeschooling, gardening, all that. 

And spring is definitely spring-ing with fruit blossoms and daffodils and all sorts of deliciousness.  

I'm having so much fun seeing all your entries and wanna keep this going, so I'm just going to do the best I can to get Inklings up whenever possible each month. As long as the next month hasn't gone up, feel free to jump in whenever and participate! 💜 I'll leave this one open for at least the first two weeks of March. 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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February's prompt is:

A scene at the piano

It's been a long time, but I rewatched the '95 Pride and Prejudice with my mom and youngest sister during their visit, and fell in love with it all over again. (Speaking of which, I can't believe this year will be its 30th anniversary! I looked it up and just discovered that it looks like the first ep aired for the first time ever on what would become a significant date for my husband and I as well. 😳 My brain doesn't quite know what to do with that. 😄😂 And I've been wanting to do a proper review of it for a long time, so hoping I can make that happen this year too. That would be kinda special, right?)

There are a number of excellent pianoforte scenes in P&P, but I'm definitely highlighting THE scene below. I couldn't find a lot of screenshots for the actual scene, so I'll share it in its entirety via YT. I know it's summertime in the story, but something about the very sunlight this time of year -- the clear gold of it + the freshness of spring -- just seems to click with the composition of this beautiful scene as well. 

Enjoy!

Have you seen this version of Pride and Prejudice? 

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Inklings // January 2025

Happy January everyone! Hope you've been having a wonderful month. It's been super full here -- between Christmas and Epiphany festivities, garden planning, dental appointments, seasonal flu bug, book studies + playing catch up and going down some major research rabbit trails (long story, whew) -- anyway(!), yes, it's been a full month. 

But I didn't want to miss our first Inklings of the year, so here we are. ;) I'll leave entries open till mid-February, so feel free to jump in anytime in the next couple weeks. 💜

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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January's prompt is:

A scene at sunrise

We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek this month and I just loved the following scene:

"In the mornings they ran through the dewy chill grass that wet their feet and dabbled the hems of their dresses. They liked to splash their bare feet through the grass all strung with dewdrops. They liked to watch the sun rise over the edge of the world.

First everything was grey and still. The sky was grey, the grass was grey with dew, the light was grey and the wind held its breath.

Then sharp streaks of green came into the eastern sky. If there was a little cloud, it turned pink. Laura and Mary sat on the damp, cold rock, hugging their chilly legs. They rested their chins on their knees and watched, and in the grass below them Jack sat, watching, too. But they never could see when the sky first began to be pink. 

The sky was very faintly pink, then it was pinker. The colour went higher up the sky. It grew brighter and deeper. It blazed like fire, and suddenly the little cloud was glittering gold. In the centre of the blazing color, on the flat edge of the earth, a tiny sliver of sun appeared. It was a short streak of white fire. Suddenly the whole sun bounded up, round and huge, far bigger than the ordinary sun and throbbing with so much light that its roundness almost burst.

Laura couldn't help blinking. While she blinked just once, the sky turned blue, the golden cloud vanished. The everyday sun shone over the prairie grasses where thousands of birds were flying and twittering."

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