Gentle SPECTRUMS discussion

Guests of the two reading challenges "Ethereal" and "Gentle Spectrums": your first prize activity has arrived! Consult the main blog and let's have fun with this. :) Sincerely, Carolyn. http://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2014/07...

Nina wins for "Gentle Spectrums" in Bulgaria and Rain wins for "Ethreal" in the southern USA! Congratulations to both of these lovely members. Read all of the details, browse the photographs, and comment at the RIEDEL Fascination blog.

Congrats Nina!

Ah yes, two girls from whom I haven't heard in ages. They won at this time two years ago. Nina is a sweet friend who must have graduated as a doctor recently. I hope to hear from her. It's been a year. Rest assured, I will send out the call for everyone and sundry to "show me their stash" again! I love seeing where people keep their books, how many they have, how messy: I just love it. And would love reactions to mine too, piles I that I have to say have worsened since the photos I took.

Rain joined my first year of Ethereal. We enjoyed writing several times. I haven't heard from her since she was in hospital with infections 1 1/2 year ago. Probably no longer blogging. She comes from a Wicca family and sent me healing Reiki energy as soon as Lovey died, a fact I still can't believe, to look at his face in pictures. Such a key part of our family. Actually, we lost him two weeks after I wrote the last post above! July 31, 2014, buried August 1, 2014. Rain unbelievably got us through his funeral. She picked us off the ground at our worst, making us calm through unimaginable pain. I will forever be grateful to her for that. She loves helping people and surely helped me. She spoke of a kitten she lost (my Love nearly turned 4) and how she felt she had failed him; a horrible regret I had pondered before we figured out he had had a heart failure. A God-send person all around.