of rainy days + happy lists

listening to:

never let you go - jakaranda (from the parent trap ii soundtrack)

gone, gone, gone - phillip phillips

hello seattle (remix) - owl city

joy unspeakable - mandisa

start of time - gabrielle aplin

i love you, love you - johnny cash

take it all away - owl city

Lord, i need you - matt maher

fly me to the moon - frank sinatra 

hazy - rosi golan

reading:

a tree grows in brooklyn - betty smith

wives and daughters - elizabeth gaskell 

my old journals

the new setapartgirl magazine

loving:

the beginning of fall

the fact that I can drink hot tea without having to sit by the air conditioner

knowing that someone misses you

a clean room

hot cups of peppermint tea in my favorite mug

listening to the oldies

a journal piece / by gabby

a white pillow case / by mary

if not, He is still God

quoting:

"And now, leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I'm eating. I want to think!"

"Good heavens!" said Pippin, "at breakfast?" - j.r.r. tolkien

"Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?" - j.m. barrie (peter pan)

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - a.a. milne. 

"But for my part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." - jane austen

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than the people we are quoting." - john green

"I like people and I like them to like me. But I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside." - f. scott fitzgerald

what have you been quoting, reading, loving, or listening to? please tell me, I do so want to know. 

xx. marcia

p.s. it's rained a lot in the last week, almost to the point of a- well, you know- f l o o d. ;) in all seriousness though, we were completely untouched #benifitsofnotlivingnearariver, but a huge amount of the surrounding area was severely damaged. prayers would be so appreciated.