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“A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters – sometimes very hastily – but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Maurice Sendak, as noted by Luke Davies in an article in the Brisbane Times, December 3, 2011.

Photograph of Maurice Sendak by Joyce Dopkeen.

 

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“we can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

– thornton wilder

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  5. Today I attended my poetry group meeting and the theme was ‘Buffet’ and presented this piece for my fellow poets to chew on …
    “Deep and Deeper?”
    while afloat we keep seeking
    and building boats that keep leaking
    time sails by and we keep weeping

    I often wonder how deep
    humanity’s knowledge is
    yet unseen …
    how deep are our oceans
    yet unseen …
    how deep is the universe
    yet unseen …
    how deep is humanity’s love
    for one another
    yet unseen …

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  9. This story makes my heart happy. I suspect that very few of us, as children, did not eat paper of some kind and we all survived. And apparently yours was so delicious that it didn’t even need any condiments or a glass of milk to wash it down!

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  10. This story makes my heart happy. I suspect that very few of us, as children, did not eat paper of some kind and we all survived. And apparently yours was so delicious that it didn’t even need any condiments or a glass of milk to wash it down!

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  35. Lol, I had to read twice. I thought she/(you) must mean the dog ate it. No, the boy ate it.
    Well, bon appetit!

    Re: start
    Has the project gown over time? OR grown over, over time? (just trying to be funny)

    I feel the same as gerald r. massey every time I fly.

    It might look like “The Nutcracker”, but it plays like Hallowe’en!

    Don’t get me going on that packaging!!! AAaarrrgghhh!!!!

    We have Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Canada, but we celebrate it a week earlier. Our Thanksgiving is on the second Monday.

    Thanks for all the cool posts, Beth! Have a great week!

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