Monthly Archives: April 2023

poetry of the foot.

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how will she dance with only one shoe

all i can picture

is that tiny ballerina

in the music box

dancing

around and around and around

up on her toes

forever

on just one foot.

“dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
-john dryden-

easter bonnets.

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happy day to all who celebrate the return of spring

in their own very fine way.

in their easter finest. happy day to all who celebrate spring -

“i still believe in santa, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy and true love. don’t even try to tell me different.”

-dolly parton

 

art credits: vicky sawyer

he bring of the chocolate.

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“the rabbit of easter.  he bring of the chocolate.”

-david sedaris

photo credit: from my favorite chocolatier with a cause, peace by chocolate

https://peacebychocolate.ca/

link to my earlier post about their story:

https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/?s=peace+by+chocolate

rabbit shadows.

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“the other day when i was walking through the woods,

i saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree”

-steven wright

 

art credit: vicky sawyer

rabbit coming soon. is that you?

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“hallo, rabbit,” he said, “is that you?”

“let’s pretend it isn’t,” said rabbit, “and see what happens.” 

A. A. Milne

 

art credit: painting (Counting Invisible Stars) by Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi

sow the seeds.

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The image of the child musician crying was classified as one of the most emotional photographs of modern history. This photo was taken of a 12-year-old Brazilian boy (Diego Frazzo Turkato), playing the violin at the funeral of his teacher who rescued him from the environment of poverty and crime in which he lived.

In this image, humanity speaks with the strongest voice in the world:

“Cultivate love and kindness in a child to sow the seeds of compassion. And only then you will build a great civilization, a great nation “.  – dalai lama

credits: Photographer: Marcos Tristao

“what wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

-jean-jacque rousseau

plans.

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this really has put a damper on my plans. 

 

“plans are things that change. “

-fujio cho

morning detail.

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when you start the day

by adding the soup broth instead of the almond milk

into your morning coffee

you know that your spring break is truly over. 

‘the detail is as important as the essential is. when it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”

-christian dior

yet to ask.

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just booked my next adventure

off to the rainforest in costa rica

104 days from now.

they had me at

coffee, monkeys, trees, water, the unknown, and chocolate.

“the rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.”

-mark plotkin

they should have signed up for direct deposit.

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https://youtu.be/4VdMdboymT8

(if you have 2 minutes, watch the above scene from ‘take the money and run,’

what i consider to be woody allen’s funniest film of all time,

 to get in the proper mindset for a recent local story. )

Investigators eventually caught up to the men (Love and Hill), thanks to the note passed to a teller at Community Choice Credit Union in Redford on Feb. 4. In that case, investigators allege Love handed the note over which asked for $20,000 in cash and threatened to shoot people if there was any “funny business.”

That note was allegedly written on the back of a paycheck stub that was traced back to a temp agency that linked the account and pay stub to Love. A similar note was passed on Feb. 10 at a robbery of the Christian Financial Credit Union in Harper Woods. That note was also written a paycheck stub that police analyzed and allegedly contained a fingerprint belonging to Love on the note.

The men were eventually arrested on March 3 shortly after robbing the Fifth Third Bank in Grosse Pointe Woods. Authorities who were tracking Love’s cellphone in real time noticed a break in his daily trend and shortly thereafter the bank robbery was reported in an area near where Love’s phone was located. Hill and Love have been charged with bank robbery, conspiracy to commit bank robbery and other incidental crimes.

Bank Teller #1 : Does this look like “gub” or “gun”?

Bank Teller #2 : Gun. See? But what does “abt” mean?

Virgil It’s “act”. A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.

Bank Teller #1 : Oh, I see. This is a holdup.

– virgil (woody allen, in ‘take the money and run’

 

credits: matt durr, mlive, abc pictures