Monthly Archives: November 2023

Nov20

oh, deer!

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notice posted by the sebastian county sheriff’s office as a reminder to drivers (and deer):

We have received a few reports that some deer, for whatever reason, are not using the designated deer crossing areas along our county roads and state highways.  If any deer follow our page, please know that we put these signs up at some expense to the taxpayers.  We’d appreciate you crossing at the designated areas.  To our motoring community, please watch for these deer that are blatantly disobeying the law.

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“a small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. is there a way i can get reimbursed? please call.”

-dave barry

Nov19

santa for the goal!

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driving home

listening to

the detroit red wings hockey team

playing an international game in sweden

got distracted for a minute

 thinking about something 

soon realizing

i no longer heard the game

but was instead was now listening to 

christmas music

on a station

that jumps into the holiday music early each year

a station

i didn’t have programmed in

 didn’t flip to

an early christmas mystery/miracle/conspriacy perhaps?

did the wings somehow get beat out by santa?

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“radio is the playground of coincidence.”

-sarah vowell

 

Nov18

rhythm of life.

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“loves to have record player going or any music at 15 months.

attempts to dance to it and complains when music stops.”

(from my baby book on my ‘rhythm and music’ page, first expression of rhythm)

today, on my birthday, many eons later, not much has changed.

 

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“life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance.

some will get angry when the rhythm changes. but life is changing all the time.”

-don miguel ruiz

 

Nov17

one for the books.

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There are now Little Free Libraries on all seven continents. The first Little Free Library in Antarctica was established a few years ago at the South Pole by Russell Schnell. Schnell—an atmospheric scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the International Panel on Climate Change—built the Little Free Library at his home in Boulder, Colorado, in November then shipped it to the South Pole, where he had previously traveled for work.

what book would you want to add to this little library?

 

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“without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.”

-tamora pierce, american fantasy fiction author

 

 

 

 

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source credits: littlefree ibrary.org

Nov16

100% fancy.

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where has this been all of my glitter/sprinkle-loving life?!

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“but this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn’t done before.”
― gregory maguire, author
Nov15

thank you’s.

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our class spent time this week talking about gratitude

and the importance of offering thank you’s to people we are grateful for.

the kinder drew pictures and dictated thank you notes for their families.

i had the honor of writing out the words above

for a child’s thank you that he wanted to give to his family.

it was one of simplest, most powerful, and beautiful thank you’s i’ve yet to see.

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“mankind’s greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.”

-wes fesler, american athlete, coach, and author

Nov14

shorthand of emotion.

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the university musical society

knew all the right words to get me ramped up about the season.

 

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“music is the shorthand of emotion.”

– leo tolstoy

Nov13

on world kindness day.

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“the greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

-meryl streep

 

kindness in all things, today, and every day.

 

 

 

 

 

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image credit: bbc

Nov12

open book.

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this is what happened when a swedish library accidentally left a door open

 

The Gothenburg City Library in Sweden was supposed to be closed last Saturday, but staffers accidentally left a door unlocked. One might imagine that could lead to thievery or destruction, but what actually happened was quite the opposite: Residents simply used the library as usual.

The city said nearly 450 people visited the library that day and 246 books were borrowed. “Nothing was destroyed. It’s absolutely fantastic that you as a Gothenburger come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly,” operations manager Anna Carin Elf told radio station P4 Gothenburg, per the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

Arvid Jadenius was among the visitors, alongside his wife and 2-year-old son, and didn’t know anything was amiss until he saw the news on social media.

“It felt good that everyone behaved exactly as usual, they borrowed books, read the newspaper, and so on,” he said in an interview with Göteborgs-Posten, adding, “The citizens of Gothenburg take care of their library. There is obviously a desire to be there.”

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“the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
-albert einstein

 

 

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source credits: P4 Gothenberg radio, Dagens Nyheter

Nov11

remembrance.

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“in war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”

-jose narosky

 

 

 

 

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art credit: jenni gray, art candy www.etsy.com/shop/artcandyaustralia .