ThinMint

"The fact that our heart yearns for something earth cannot supply is proof that Heaven must be our home." ~ CS Lewis

Good morning and Happy Friday!

"Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day." Shira Tamir

Happy Birthday to all the October babies!

Happy (belated) Birthday to all the September babies!

Oh my stars, Friends!!!! I cannot believe I forgot to post for the birthdays on the 1st for September and October 🤦🏻‍♀️ So sorry for the oversight!

His mercies are new every morning Lamentations 3:23

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." –Emily Brontë

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus

"This. And no plans." ~ThinMint Have a gorgeous weekend, Friends 🧡

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events? https://x.com/bumpstockbarbie/status/2105217104840466860?s=46

I drink a lot of warm drinks throughout the year —especially hot chocolate. My oldest may join me when the temperature drops. The rest of the family however does not indulge until a snow event or cookie decorating party. It's for the latter that I am reaching out to my friends here. For the last couple of years I have been looking for a hot beverage dispenser or carafe for when I make my homemade hot chocolate. I'd like to purchase one very soon. Will you please share your recommendation? ❄️ In exchange, I offer this video I came across a few days ago for some autumn ambience in the background. If the jazzy notes are not your beat, just turn down or mute and enjoy the eye candy 😊

"If I stand on my tip toes, I can see autumn from here." ~ Unknown

"September slipped by into a gold and crimson graciousness of October." LM Montgomery from Anne of Avonlea

For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. John 1:16