Chapter 93 : Limitations
“Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.”
Nolan Ryan
“Take everything in moderation.” Lady Acacia ...
2022-06-19 16:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 92: Building a clan
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are you need one.”
Jane Howard.
Operation Silversea had fo...
2022-06-16 23:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 91: The Routine
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle
Children learn best through routine which seemed to be the rule by which Lady Acacia lived her life....
2022-06-12 18:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 90: First Supper
The Lodestar Church - The cynosure of the Lodestar Church is to help people find their path through life, to help direct their journey. The Ordinals who preach the faith to the common man never...
2022-06-03 23:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 89: Out of sight out of mind
The Witterings of Wilden the Wanderer - Collected and edited by Simon the Scribe
I have always been foolishly fond of the past, a mediocre man of small stature, I have often thou...
2022-06-01 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTown of Wester
Happy 1st June!
A little larger than what I originally imagined when I started writing Singer, Sailor, Merchant, Mage. However, as I wrote I also realised that there were lots of skills, tra...
June Posting Plan
Thank you for all of your support in getting this far in the story. It's wonderful to see so many of you still interested. May was challenging starting a new job and single parenting my daughter fo...
2022-05-30 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88 continued
“Just making sure you found your way to your room.” Grandfather gestured her forward to enter her room.
“Of course, thank you.” Lady Acacia replied and stepped forward over the thresh...
2022-05-29 21:53:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88: Interview or interrogation
“A police interview is non-accusatory. It is an act of gathering information. An interrogation is accusatory. It is an act of persuasion. “An interrogation is conducted only when the invest...
2022-05-28 22:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 87: A New Visitor
"Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy… The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.”
...
2022-05-21 22:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 86: First Impressions
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
Will Rogers
The Swift
The journey through the archipelago had been precarious and ...
2022-05-20 21:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 85: Garden of delights
“What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”
William Lawson
“What a garden of delight.” W...
2022-05-12 22:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 84: Final days of freedom
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Little did we know it, but our final days of freedom were already counting down. Wan...
2022-05-07 12:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 83: Dealing with the effects
“The most oblivious people are often the happiest.”
George Mayer
Palace of Ponente - 3 months ago.
“In light of the Prince’s proclamatio...
2022-04-30 21:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 82: Unintended consequences
“Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.”
Margaret J Wheatley
...
2022-04-21 18:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostHome - coloured version
Kai doesn't yet have access to colours or paints but maybe it is something he should invest in.
:D
Chapter 81: Mapping my world
“Cartography; from the Greek chartes meaning papyrus, sheet of paper or map and graphein meaning write. It is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics an...
2022-04-17 19:49:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 80: Yoga Yoda Yogi
“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”
Amit Ray
After dinner it was time for training with grandfather, supervis...
2022-04-16 04:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 79: Money doesn’t grow on trees
"I have ways of making money you know nothing of."
John D Rockefeller
After my midday nap with my mother, it was time to work with my sister. Childcare was a full-time...
2022-04-13 14:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostDiscord Channel
Dear Patrons,
Royal Road readers, of which there are many here already, have requested a discord group.
We already have a discord channel which seeing as I don't delete anyone f...
Chapter 78: Harmonious harmonics
"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I am no longer on earth."
Edith Piaf
After our morning or rather our nighttime sailing, I would be tuckered out. I o...
2022-04-12 14:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77: Smooth sailing
"We plunged into the deep waters and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart."
J.R.R. Tolkien.
“Come on Kai, I mean Callen, where ar...
2022-04-03 17:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostKai's expanding world
The idea with the maps is to show a slowly expanding view of the world as he explores more and more. These are the only two for now but have another piece of art in the works and the idea is to kee...
2022-04-02 06:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostFrom within the womb
From Chapter 13: Better Late than Never
What could I add to each room for my mind fortress to continually level a skill or level it at 5 times the normal speed?
For listening, it was f...
2022-04-02 00:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostApril Posting plan
Thank you to everyone who supported me through March I know it has been a quieter month than normal. But now it is time to look at the month ahead and try and work out how much time I have and when...
2022-03-29 21:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76: Less haste more speed
“Walking is man’s best medicine.”
Hippocrates
I was sat wrapped around my rebec, treating it much like a cello for an infant. My fingers tried to pluck away as q...
2022-03-26 15:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 75: Life’s gifts
“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming something more.”
Tony Robbins
After Mercurio and...
2022-03-20 02:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74: Bored of being bored
“I’m so bored, of being bored, because being bored, is really boring.”
Anon
Another boring month with little to do. I was left mainly in my mind now that the eli...
2022-03-15 23:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostWorking on it . . .
This week's list of excuses
This week 3 day work trip from Monday to Wednesday evening has left me shattered Thursday and Friday.
This morning excuses
Ballet
Eye appointment...