oh, i remember now.
—
“in november you begin to know how long winter can be.”
-martha gellhorn
Nov30
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Nov29
“nobody roots for goliath.” – wilt chamberlain
in a snow bowl game
with rivalry roots from way back when
that hadn’t been won
by
the university of michigan over the ohio state university
in so many years
at last the wolverines bring a victory home
and with the win
michigan stadium is filled with jubilant fans
spilling out onto the field
and into the very, very happy town of ann arbor.
—
“you don’t have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.”
-carson palmer
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photo credits: mlive
Nov28
cruciverbalist.
a wonderful surprise
from one cruciverbalist to another
this full-page spread crossword puzzle with 723 clues
what madness is this?
my dream come true.
—
“our whole life is solving puzzles.”
-erno rubik
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cru·ci·ver·bal·ist (kro͞o′sə-vûr′bə-lĭst)
n.
1. A constructor of crosswords.
2. An enthusiast of word games, especially of crosswords.
Nov27
remembered.
4 of the 6-pack taking their turn in group charades.
6 of the 6-pack will have different memories of thanksgiving.
—
“it’s like your children talking about holidays,
you find they have quite a different memory of it from you.
perhaps everything is not how it is,
but how it is remembered.”
-denis norden
Nov26
outside.
outside
—
“i cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
-nathaniel hawthorne
Nov25
enough.
on this day of thanksgiving, i am grateful for having enough.
—
“enough is as good as a feast.”
-joshua sylvester
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credit: beautiful feast created by the kinder
Nov24
more alive.
awaiting tomorrow’s gathering.
—
“this is the power of gathering
it inspires us – delightfully
to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful
in a word, more alive.”
-alice waters
—
art credit: Debbie and Mike Schramer, using treasures they gathered from the forest.
Nov23
rapunzel reimagined.
not to be outdone
after one of his classmates
dramatically hung her long braid down from the tower
declaring she was rapunzel
ih decided he wanted to be rapunzel too
dramatically hanging his bangs down from the tower
declaring he was rapunzel
and it’s true
you can never have too many rapunzels.
Nov22
twists and turns.
i love that someone has created a poster
with some of our more interesting twists and turns
and wonder about the mindset
of the road planning engineers.
were they perhaps going for
more of an ‘artsy’ and unexpected approach to the roads?
more like the road of life?
—
“life is full of surprises and serendipity. being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. if you try to plan every step, you may miss these wonderful twists and turns. just find your next adventure – do it well, enjoy it, and then, not now, think about what comes next.”
-Condoleezza Rice – Former U.S. Secretary of State
Nov21
cloud flowers.
finding a mushroom village – autumn in sugarbush park
—
“mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world,
because the real mushroom plant was underground.
the parts you could see – what most people called a mushroom –
was just a brief apparition. a cloud flower.”
-margaret atwood, the year of the flood
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