Beth Cartwright

What a talented team to create another stunning cover and reveal. Thank you! #HouseofSorrowingStars 🏰 🗝 🥀 💫 🧿

I own a small bakery. Business has been slow. Rent is up. I was thinking about closing. Last Friday, a teenager came in. He looked nervous. He counted out change for a cookie. He was short 50 cents. "It's okay," I said. "Take it." He ate it at a table, looking at his math homework. He looked stuck. I used to be a math tutor. I walked over. "Quadratic equations?" He nodded. "I don't get it." I sat down and helped him for 20 minutes. He got it. He left smiling. The next day, he came back with two friends. They bought cookies. The day after that, five kids came. Apparently, he told the school, "The lady at the bakery helps with homework." Now, my bakery is the after-school hang-out spot. It's loud. It's messy. There are backpacks everywhere. Yesterday, I found a note in the tip jar. It was wrapped around a $20 bill. "Thanks for helping my son pass math. A Mom." I'm not closing the bakery. I think I finally found my purpose. It's not cookies. It's community.

I might just wait here for a little bit... #travel #caribbean #summer #beachlife

“Life, after all, is but one great insomnia and there is a lucid half-awakeness about everything we think or do.” ~ Fernando Pessoa

An unforgotten love, tucked away for a lifetime... #UnAmore #enricoaudenino #francescolagi #stefanoaccorsi #micaelaramazzotti

#wendycope #poetry

Happy World Introvert Day. This is a day for the dreamers. The thinkers. The quiet ones. The ones sitting in the back of the room or standing at the edges. The ones who know more than they show and feel more than they let on. Today we celebrate introverts.

The way through autumn and into winter...🍂 #englishcountryside #Derbyshire #walk #landscape #nature

Life cycle of a blackberry. #irishwildlifetrust

@CakePigeon3 Thank you! 😊

A siesta then an Elliniko. It's like still being on holiday...

Sitting in one of the prettiest harbours in the world dreaming that I live here. #greece #symi

Spathoxorto/Σπαθοχορτο used the oil of flowers to heal the sword wounds inflicted during ancient Spartan battles. Now, it is used to treat slightly less heroic wounds. It is also marvellous for softening dry skin. Flowers, oil, and sunshine in a jar. Σπαθολαδο/sword oil.

Evening.

This is the problem, especially in the NHS, education etc.

I love a tangled garden full of wild flowers and overgrown ferns.

Home is where the hawthorn is. #Derbyshire #nature

@DMan1504 Sending gentle thoughts. X