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thewitchesbrewletter · 2 days

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Queens On The Run

When four women finally take the road trip they planned in high school and they find themselves accidentally ticking off their school-time bucket list, they have no idea of the things they'll bump into, sometimes literally.

Some lines from the film –

1) It doesn't matter how old you are. Life is an adventure, and it's never too late to start over.

2) Every last woman has a fierce beast within, and no matter your age, you are the only person alive who can wake that sleeping lioness. Go do it.

3) Sometimes you have to get lost to find out who you are.

4) Thank you all for the greatest adventure of our entire lives. See? Not so bad to get lost and find yourself again. I'm feeling very me. This is me.

5) Be the lead of your own story.

#Queens On The Run #Fugaz de Reinas #spanish film #film #words #spilled words #musings #film lines #lines #film diary #movies #cinema #films #comedy #film scene #film stills

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thewitchesbrewletter · 5 days

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Find the little

Things to keep

You going, those

Small lights to

Tend to, to grow,

To keep you warm

In their steady glow.

– p.bodi

(Journal Page by Poorvi)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 13 days

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I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things that aren't meant for me.

(Journal Page by Poorvi)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 18 days

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I Sit Beside The Fire and Think

I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before I listen for returning feet And voices at the door

– J R R Tolkien

(Picture Credit – Pinterest)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 21 days

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Having Felt It

I have sat upon the seashore and washed away my fears. I have lived so many days now that they are turning into years. I have walked up in the mountains. I have splashed around in streams. I have conjured up ideas that have molded into dreams. I have seen a thousand faces and I've matched a thousand smiles. I have been so many places that I'm losing count of miles. I have heard the wind, so gently, cause the trees to creak and moan, but I have never felt a heart as perfect as your own.

– Jessy Humann

(Picture & Poem Credits – Pinterest)

#having felt it #jessy humann #words #spilled words #thoughts #spilled thoughts #musings #poetry #spilled poetry #spilled poem #poems and poetry #seashore #streams #photographs #photography #mountains #poetryportal #poetry collection

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thewitchesbrewletter · 22 days

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I belong to the mountains,

to the raging streams and quite lakes.

My soul soars on the wind,

as it tears through the snow capped peaks.

I am home with meadows,

dancing in a summer breeze

laughter in the shaking and trembling

of the aspen leaves.

– Maggy Jennings

(Picture & Poem Credits – Pinterest)

#words #spilled words #thoughts #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #musings #maggy jennings #picture #photography #poems and poetry #poetry #poetryportal #spilled poem #spilled poetry #poetry collection #summer breeze #mountains

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thewitchesbrewletter · 25 days

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Soul Flowers

I planted a bunch of flowers

To give to people each day

Everyone I gave a flower to

Had a smile brought to their face

Inside all of the flowers

Were pieces of my soul

No one gives me flowers

So I give them to make me whole

I wondered if I gave enough flowers

Would someone give me one

To prove that someone actually cared

About the good that I had done

So I gave people flowers

The ones that my soul had grown

I failed to notice that the prettiest flowers

Are the ones that grow alone

– Nadia McGhee

(Journal Page by Poorvi)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 29 days

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When Marnie Was There

The film follows Anna Sasaki while she stays with her relatives in a town in the Kushiro wetlands in Hokkaido. Anna comes across a nearby abandoned mansion, where she meets Marnie, a mysterious girl who asks her to promise to keep their secrets from everyone. As summer progresses, Anna spends more time with Marnie and learns the truth about her family and foster care. It explores themes of alienation, loneliness, and forgiveness in childhood.

Some lines from the film –

1) You remember I said last night that you were my secret? Anna nodded. “I knew just what you meant. You’re mine.

2) Didn’t you know, you’re my secret?

3) It was one of those still, grey, pearly days, with no wind, when the sky and water seemed to merge into one, and everything was soft and sad and dreamy.

#when marnie was there #studio ghibli #ghibli films #ghibli movie #ghibli animation #film stills #films #film #film diary #film lines #Anna Sasaki #Marnie #words #spilled words #musings

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thewitchesbrewletter · 1 month

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My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters relocate to rural Japan with their father to spend time with their ill mother. They face a mythical forest sprite and its woodland friends with whom they have many magical adventures.

Some lines from the film –

1) Everybody, try laughing. Then whatever scares you will go away.

2) Magnificent Tree. It's been around since long ago, back in the time when people and trees used to be friends.

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thewitchesbrewletter · 1 month

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Make Me Believe (Sen Inandir)

Two meddling grannies trick their adult grandkids – a magazine editor and a photographer, into a meet-cute that reignites a childhood crush and old grudges that threaten to tear the families and friendships apart. It is a Turkish film.

Some lines from the film –

1) How did it feel when you first saw the photo? Mesmerised, I guess. See, that's my reward then. The photos I take and edit don't just capture the moment. They convey my feelings and my thoughts, my past, my goals for the future. Every part of me that makes up my life. So, I share that with everyone who sees my work. I'm making a connection, a special connection. You can't put a prize on that. It doesn't compare. That's the reward.

2) I don't think you should share your privacy with those who aren't special.

3) Actually... the photos themselves tell the entire story. That's more than enough.

#Make Me Believe #Sen Inandir #film #words #spilled words #musings #film lines #lines #film photography #romantic films #romantic comedy #film diary #movies #cinema #films #film stills #film scene

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thewitchesbrewletter · 1 month

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Feel free to drop a comment down there!

#books and libraries #books and reading #books & libraries #books #novels #reading #book poll #tumblr polls #book polls #novel polls #book discussion #polls #random polls #reader poll

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thewitchesbrewletter · 1 month

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love hides in questions, you cannot ask a thing without giving yourself away. how was your day? (i hope it was good) when can i see you again? (i pray it's soon) do you feel safe with me? (i feel safe with you) what is your favorite color? (i wish to enrobe you in all that makes you smile)

– yoursoulispuremagic

(Journal Page by Poorvi)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 2 months

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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

– Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

#neil gaiman #the ocean at the end of the lane #childhood #moments #small things #words #spilled words #thoughts #spilled thoughts #books & libraries #art #spilled ink #musings #spilled writing

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thewitchesbrewletter · 2 months

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Granita di limone

One cannot speak of Sicily and lemons without a mention of lemon granita, an intensely refreshing sweet-sour frozen confection of sugar mixed with water, lemon juice and rind. Sicilians' passion for granita is such that many eat granita even for breakfast, often accompanied by a soft roll called brioscia, or brioche. In a traditional cafe or bar, with or without brioche, in every season and at any time of day or night, waiters serve up elegant glass dishes with pale yellow scoops of the island's signature delight, granita di limone.

On Sicily's eastern side this passion is connected not only to the coast's prolific lemon groves but also to Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna. Along with plumes of smoke and slow-moving lava flows, the mountain is known for its snow. Before refrigeration, snow provided an astonishing and invaluable source of cold in the relentless scorch of summer. In ancient times Greeks and Romans packed snow into caves on Etna's slopes and withdrew it as needed to chill their wine. Snow merchants profited from Etna's natural cold power into the 1940s, collecting snow from the grottos every night and hauling it in horse-drawn carts down the mountain to Catania, where it was used to preserve food and make ice cream.

The island's earliest Arab residents must certainly have employed Mount Etna's snow for their delicious slushy drink called sarbat or sharbat. A cold fruit-sugar syrup, it was consumed between courses to refresh the palate and likely evolved into the sweet ice we call sorbet or sherbet. Yet it is only legend that sorbet and gelato were born in Sicily during the Arab reign, since real ice cream was not made until the endothermic principle of putting salt on ice was introduced around 1650. Granita, however, is not a true ice cream but a kind of frozen lemonade, and its origin is probably much older, enjoyed long before ice cream was invented. Lemons and sugar, both native to India and Persia, formed a natural marriage of sweet-tart tastes, and the most natural concoction one could make was simply to combine the two.

– Toby Sonneman, Book - Lemon: A Global History

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thewitchesbrewletter · 3 months

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The heart is built of starlight

And time.

A pinprick of longing lost in the dark.

An unbroken chord linking the infinite to the infinite.

My heart wishes upon your heart and the wish is granted.

Meanwhile the world spins.

Meanwhile the universe expands.

Meanwhile the mystery of love reveals itself, again and again, in the mystery of you.

I have gone.

I will return.

– Kelly Barnhill, Novel – The Girl Who Drank the Moon

(Picture Credit – Betsy Bauer Art, Facebook)

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thewitchesbrewletter · 3 months

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Refrigerator of 1963

(Video credit – Instagram dustyoldstuff)

#refrigerator #fridge #practical model #vintage #original receipt #june 10 #1963 #ice maker #kitchen appliances #video

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thewitchesbrewletter · 3 months

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German Words

Some English words are borrowed or taken from German.

Kindergarten – a school or class for young children

Hoodlum – a petty criminal

Delicatessen – prepared food sold in a shop serving

Glitch – minor hitch, lazy person

Loafers – casual leather slip-on shoe/imported or unusual foods; such a shop

Glisten – to shine

Pumpernickel – a dark, dense, sour bread

#english words #german words #foreign origin #word components #roots #languages #english language #borrowed words #words #spilled words #spilled writing #vocabulary #english vocabulary

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