what happened here?
bear? flame? vehicle? meteor? dinosaur?
other?
—
‘wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it.
to him this was important.’
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jun3
the hole story?
Jun2
scurryfunge.
who’s with me on this? have any of you also scurryfunged?
To scurryfunge is to hurriedly clean the house before company arrives. This word has had a looser meaning of “to move rapidly” since the early 19th century but likely wasn’t used in the sense of a rapid cleanup until the 1950s, when it appeared in U.S. regional dialects. One definition was included in the 1975 book Maine Lingo by John Gould: “a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door.” “Scurry” means “to move in or as if in a brisk pace,” but “Funge” remains a bit of an etymological mystery. This is debated. Some sources say it was a word in Old English, others say it is of “jocular formation.’’
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source credits: babushka cat, interesting words, maine lingo, john gould
Jun1
mismatch.
rushed to grab a pair of earrings
on my way out the door
wore them all night
when i got home
took them out
noticed.
something .
—
‘a mismatch is the only kind of match that’s worth making.”
– david levithan, american young adult ficiton author and editor
May31
learning day?
dad and young son
with balance bike
sunny day
park path empty
lots of room to learn
tipping over, getting up
getting on, pushing off
wobbling, hanging on
both smiling
i ask
is today a learning day?
dad answers
every day is a learning day.
—
“for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
– Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
May30
lightin’ up.
candle hack of the day:
light candles with uncooked spaghetti
new to me: if you don’t have a match or a lighter, and you want to light a candle, or you’ve got a candle sitting at the bottom of a tall, thin jar, you may be wondering how to reach the wick to light it. grab some dry spaghetti from the pantry instead, which works beautifully as an extra-long matchstick. with caution, light the piece of spaghetti on the stove, then take the flaming piece of pasta and carefully use it to light whatever candles you so choose. voila!
note: when i first learned about this hack, i started looking for examples, and it led to me down a rabbit hole, to a whole candle/pasta industry…
candles that look like pasta, pasta candleholders, candles in your pasta, party candles shaped like pasta….hoo boy, it’s endless..
quotes from Reddit users:
“Either light some spaghetti. Or, get your shoes on, get in the car, go to the store, spend money on a thing, then come back and then light the candle. Brother that ain’t easier.”
“Tiny matches and flames scare me, so this keeps my fingers back and is so easy.”
“Once I didn’t have any matches to light my menorah, so I lit a slice of spaghetti on fire with my stove and it worked beautifully.”
‘Safety Skeptics’ responses/quotes:
“Lighting a candle with a spaghetti noodle is not recommended because spaghetti takes a significant amount of time to ignite.
“When the spaghetti finally lights, it can curl over, posing a fire hazard as it may drop on toes, pets, the floor, or into the candle itself.”
wear shoes, tell you pets to beware and choose your own adventure.
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source credits: better report, anthropologie,south lake grills, reddit, etsy
May29
pitching is not just for baseball.
now that spring is in full bloom and summer is almost upon us,
take a break from the heat with a refreshing winter story
the world’s ‘coolest’ pitching contest in frozen Baltic Sea
to watch:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0nl7c2d/watch
In Oulu, Finland, an annual winter competition is held in an inlet of the frozen Baltic Sea.
Here, competitors pitch their startup company and business ideas whilst standing inside an ice hole.
—
‘the only safe thing is to take a chance.’
-elaine may
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source credits: The Travel Show, BBC
May28
beyond this point.
Dad’s 1972 commencement address to Ithaca College graduates
(shared by Anne C. Serling)
May27
night rain.
Kasamatsu Shirō (Japanese, 1898–1991)
“Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond”, 1938, Woodblock Print
—
‘rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth without rain, there would be no life.’
-john updike
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Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, Kasamatsu Shirō; was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin-Janga and Sosaku-Hanga styles of woodblock printing.
Kasamatsu was born in Tokyo in 1898 and apprenticed at the age of 13 to Kaburagi Kivokata , a traditional master of Bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape and was given the pseudonym Shiro by his teacher, which he used as a signature mark in his prints. Kasamatsu exhibited his paintings in government sponsored juried exhibitions. He completed his first woodblock prints in 1919 for Shozaburo Watanabe after the publisher saw his paintings on exhibit. Almost all the woodblocks were destroyed in a fire in Watanabe’s print shop following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto in the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own Sosaku-Hanga style and produced nearly 80 prints between 1955 and 1965.
May26
one of these things…
snoopy, human organ, snoopy…
—
“one of these things is not like the others. one of these things just doesn’t belong.”
–Sesame Street
May25
we will remember them.
thank you for your service and sacrifice
on memorial day and every day
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text credit: excerpt from the fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon’s 1914 poem, “For the Fallen”, known as the “Ode of Remembrance,” frequently used to honor those who gave their lives in service.
image credit: facebook
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