“I don’t always have a 5-year plan. One thing you must always do in life is to keep your learning curve as high as possible.”
Yo-Yo Ma
Aleera took me out down to the shore where we could look back at the town across the lake where home lay while grandfather pre...
2021-09-10 23:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t judge a man by where he is, you don’t know how far he has come!”
C.S.Lewis
"Where is he?" were the first words I heard from my grandfather as he burst through the front door.
"He’s fine. He’s resting." my mother replied.
It took my fath...
2021-09-03 21:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: No longer secret. No longer safe?
“Is it secret? Is it safe?”
Gandalf
Source of Mana! As if managing my hypersensitive state caused by Super Senses was not enough. Suddenly, my insides felt like they were glowin...
2021-09-01 14:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Life has become a state of sensory overload.”
Joseph Curiale
I was found the next morning still curled up in the foetal position on the floor in the main room. When they woke me, the light was blindingly bright whilst also showing more detail than I had ever see...
2021-08-30 12:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
The Usual Suspects
Life moves slowly here. Mother still weaves while Aleera helps and Father still sails and fishes.
I have yet to convince anyone that Fairies did it ...
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
Loren Eisley
My Nighttime Ninja Baby Wizard routine has continued. Next up on my list was water.
“I will command all four elements before I’m one.” I thought to myself. I know it seems like...
2021-08-26 22:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post“The one advantage of playing with fire . . . is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don’t know how to play with it who get burned up.”
Oscar Wilde
My Ninja baby practice has continued and now I am playing with fire or at least trying to. Many a ...
2021-08-25 20:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post“The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.”
Maria Montessori
Turns out my internal clock is wrong, not completely but wrong enough. It turns out I am not yet 1 or at least I would be in my old world but not in this one. There was mo...
2021-08-24 19:54:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis was an idea inspired by the French Revolution and the decimal time that they used in 1792. In practice, it was too complicated to use for this world. Maybe in another story on another world.
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising e...
2021-08-23 22:38:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday Dear Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiii
Happy Birthday to me"
As I finished singing the song to myself I looked around at the rest of my family. Don't think they know the song but they are all l...
2021-08-22 19:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostWeird: Involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly, uncanny, fantastic, bizarre. Or a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
Normal: Conforming to the standard or the common type; usual, regular, typical or expected. Approximately average in any psychological tra...
2021-08-20 22:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostFor true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen
For quick success sometimes you just need to ask Why repeatedly. At least that's what I have discovered regarding opening the dreaded door.
. . .
I'm ta...
2021-08-19 15:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post"Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor - it is best done in shifts, by well - rested people."
Anthony Doerr
Turns out I'm having teething problems in more ways than one.
First off my teeth are coming in and boy is it painful. I'...
2021-08-19 13:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post"Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it."
Yo Yo Ma...
2021-08-18 11:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post""Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them."
Lemony Snicket
Ha! Take that Lemony Snicket. My temper tantrum worked perfectly. It took having a loud tantrum every time I was about to be put back into my swaddling...
2021-08-17 16:27:46 +0000 UTC View Post"You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future.
Eric Carle
I'm so very hungry! At 1 o'clock, I had one helping. At 2 o'clock, I had two helpings. By 3 o'clock, I had two helpings and went back for seconds. I don't know ...
2021-08-16 14:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”
Lemuel Gulliver
Awakening to pangs of hunger, something never felt before, I opened my eyes to a land of giants. I was so small in compari...
2021-08-15 20:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Come with me, where dreams are born and time is never planned."
Peter Pan
It's Delivery Day!
I know this was the plan.
The time overdue.
My own Prison Break!
But I didn't realise it was going to be so painful.
In theory, I knew that del...
2021-08-13 20:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to".
Gandalf the Grey.
I've been in here exactly 6 months now! Well past when I thought I would be born.
But I am a wizard!
Well, hoping to be one day and I am going to sti...
2021-08-13 19:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post"For a hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character."
Cressida Cowell
I might not be a hero but this last month Magic is proving challenging for me.
I have continued to make great progress with ...
2021-08-13 19:39:40 +0000 UTC View Post"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
Roald Dahl
I always believed in magic and now I've found it.
...
2021-08-13 19:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostDay 100 of self isolation!
I’ve been locked in here for 100 days without being able to say a single word.
Without pardon or parole the length of my sentence is ambiguous and unclear
Unable to move properly, still gaining control over my limbs.
There have been good days a...
2021-08-13 19:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostThink my mother has had a drink or two. I know it's not good for babies but do they know it is not good for babies? Really enjoying the feeling but worried about my braincells.
I mean in my old world it wasn't until 1973 that fetal alchol synodrome became a thing and even then it wasn't unt...
2021-08-13 19:34:15 +0000 UTC View PostApproximately 10 cm meters above my head is where my mother's heart is and hence my home.
A mobile home to be sure but one I can't escape from.
Still here, obviously!
Think I'm having a bad day.
Fallen off the wagon, daily routine wise. Everything . . . is . . . just . . ....
2021-08-13 19:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo wondering what other skills I can get whilst I’m here to get me there. Bit stuck with nothings much else to do.
Over the last two months I have learnt a lot of songs but now I seem to have come to the end of my mother's repertoire. It has been very good for my memorisation skill and I ...
2021-08-13 19:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostYou see my kidneys must have started working, or maybe they have worked for a while and I didn't notice. Anyway working kidneys mean urine. Urine means pee and when you are trapped in a balloon it isn't going anywhere but back round in a circle. My very own water cycle.
Which is where my po...
2021-08-13 19:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostI have the skill eavesdrop!
Yes!
This means that there are other prerequisites to gaining skills. Simply listening feeds into the listening skill but I’m guessing that I was able to listen to people who didn’t realise I was listening in order to gain my new skill. Another differen...
2021-08-13 19:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostLike a fish in a bowl, I'm swimming in circles.
More accurately I'm rolling around and floating about but my new life has become a little bit repetitive. Unfortunately, unlike a fish my memory is lasting a little longer than 3 seconds and without any bright new ideas I'm left with a lot of ...
2021-08-13 19:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhen was the last time you listened to someone? Listened, without thinking about what you were going to say in reply? Or waiting for your turn to talk?
Unfortunately, that is all I can do at the moment.
What’s worse I can’t even understand what they are saying. I’m literally lis...
2021-08-13 19:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostThat is the question.
I mean is it better to try and build a stronger foundation before birth, becoming a super baby. Or is it safer to stay as I am and grow naturally? Maybe here all babies are born super.
Is it better to keep it simple and not stand out or should I stand up and face...
2021-08-13 19:21:30 +0000 UTC View Post