Beans are sent to Emily, Amy, Kora and Sindor! Our last prompt for September is: "Faris uttered a small sigh" from A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer Finishing the quote: ", and they ran, using their arms as much as their legs to propel themselves through the graveyard, to the ghoul-gate by t...

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Meditation - *Started with 'To be or not to be, that is the question'. What is 'be'? What is that which 'be~s'. *It is content - stuff. *If all of what is here is 'content' (stuff) then what does the stuff be 'in'. What's the container for the stuff? Space. *Space isn't empty. This content is IN the...

A something which happened and which I experienced, even though I have no explanation for it, is the complete eradication of cancer from someone's body. A friend had been diagnosed with cancer, and had the operation and the doctor said he was unable to get it all but at the same time the diagnosis w...

"Yes, there is that wand -- 11 inches, mahogany and pliable -- but I don't remember what the core was. I wonder if that is the last wand that Mr. Ollivander sold of mahogany. I wonder, too, if he didn't have any in stock after that date, that he simply wasn't making them anymore and that wand was so...

"He simply didn't ever make wands with that wood" Tarma muses, half to herself and half to February. She glances at Sindor, wondering if he knows anything about the matter, then looks back at February. "February, do you know why Mr. Ollivander didn't use mahogany or ... if he used to use it and then...

1. What's the most interesting thing you learned in this lesson? I had no idea about the legends of the beginning of soap-making; I'd actually never really thought about it. The whole idea of people observing consequences of interaction with natural sources, and noting the differences, and then choo...

"Oh, how interesting!" Tarma exclaims, her mind going to the Wand-making class and observations about mahogany there, as well as to what Pottermore has to say about it and then to other various sources. She knew that mahogany wasn't mentioned in her class nor on Pottermore. (She knew why 'she' hadn'...

Tarma listens to Sindor and his opening talk. She's glad she signed up for the class and wonders what kind of wonderments will happen during the course of it. Having claimed a chair at the 'Round Table' (and vastly amused to see how Sindor had arranged the desks - shades of Excalibur !), Tarma plops...

Beans are sent to Emily and Sindor! Our fourth prompt for September is: "As they left the common room," from The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan Finishing the quote: "Randall shook his head." from The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by Robert Heinlein Ending up with: As they left the common...

Question: May I send in my homework as a photograph of a hand-written page? Answer: No. Please do not include attachments, neither as an attachment (indicated at bottom of email with paperclip) or embedded in the email. As it says at the top of the Assignment pages - Assignment 1 Do not send attachm...

Happy Birthday, Agent M! I hope you have a very wonderful and marvelous birthday, full of sunshine and magic. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HighBasicBadger-size_restricted.gif partial description of gif: Scene: a table set within a room with a window behind it. On the table is a birthday cake, looks li...

You have until the end of September to send in your matches for this month's Book Trivia Game.

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Happy Birthday, Celeste!

I hope you have a very magical and wonderful birthday!

Beans are sent for the second week! Our third prompt for September is: "In a hole in the ground there lived" from The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien Finishing the quote: "a woman with a curly iced bun clamped to each ear." from Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Ending up with: In a...

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Beans are sent for last week! Our second Prompt for September is: "He had provided, (rather generously he thought)," from Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt Finishing the quote: "tassels, midnight blue shot with gold." from The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley Ending up with He had provided, (rather g...

Autumn has started already, with an abundance of leaves falling from trees and bushes. Colours are changing, too, to include bright reds and golds amongst the leaves in the shrubbery . The sun comes up later and later in the morning, allowing for sleeping in (if that time is available ) while the da...