Monthly Archives: January 2024

secondhand.

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DETERMINED: Manoj is proudly destined to put his name on the list of Guinness Book of World Records. He can write A-Z in 6 seconds using both his hands.
DETERMINED:
manoj is proudly destined to put his name on the list of guinness book of world records.
he can write A-Z in 6 seconds using both his hands.
i’m not quite there yet, but sometimes my ideas spring up so quickly that i really wish i had his super power.
instead, i write notes with one hand, on any scrap, napkin, rock, or available writing surface.
even though i’m only using one hand, trying to decipher it later is not always easy.
good thing i’m also into puzzles.

“i only wish i could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.”

*-teresa of avila,

*also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.

photo credit: usha wagle gautam, gulf times

so annoying!

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a found list of annoyances above

i really love these so much

i really love that someone wrote them down

i am not annoyed by found lists

a few things i am annoyed with:

-mosquitoes

 

-cold coffee

 

-wet wool touching me

 

-trying to undo an old roll of tape that tears into tiny strips

 

-most technology when it refuses to work correctly

even if 97% of the time it is due to something i am doing or not doing

 

-yodelers, unless i am in the alps.

 

what are some of your annoyances?

 

“what annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot compain?”

-marquis de custine

 

maestro.

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 a beautiful, beautiful film

in every way

it will bring you

great music

great joy

great love

great passion

and

will break your heart.

early in the film

felicia, later to be leonard bernstein’s wife

asks him –

“you don’t even know how much you need me, do you?”

and he answers –

“i might.”

through all they endured

together and apart

around the globe and back

they found

the greatest love of their lives

in each other.

brava.

“a work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them;

and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”

-leonard bernstein

image/film credits:  netflix, lea pictures, sikelis productions, amblin entertainment, fred berner films

tiny grass is dreaming.

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小草休扈 请勿扛搅

inaccurate translation:

DO NOT DISTURB. / TINY GRASS IS DREAMING.

while the image of blades of grass sleeping soundly is undeniably adorable,

the chinese public lawn sign posted near the grass was actually meant to read,

accurate translation:

GRASS IS RESTING. DO NOT DISTURB.

i personally prefer the first.

 

“every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― ken liu,  the paper menagerie and other stories

 

 

photo credit: university animal clinic

white on white.

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the kinder painted

using play feathers and real fingers

and colors they mixed and made

 one

chose to paint

only white on white paper

 to see what it would look like

 it was a beautiful painting

all nuance and shade and texture.

“renoir said once that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white.”
– ambroise vollard

pixie dust.

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‘We proudly support the local fairy community with cinema and live performances!

Our fairy door is located at the front entrance of our theater.’

(from the beautiful michigan theater)

the fairies have officially moved into the theater at last

(though most likely there long before anyone noticed them)


“trust the pixie dust.”

-author unknown

never surrender.

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received my early primary ballot

checked one box

and done.

feels good

heading off to the clerk’s office .

 

“not voting is not a protest, it’s a surrender.”

-keith ellison, attorney general, state of minnesota, usa

reports.

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*frank the 6-month-old puppy with his report card that hailed him as the “life of the party.”


spending the recent past writing report cards
for the kinder
 always a fascinating trip down memory lane
seeing how far they’ve come already

an unlimited distance still to go
the good, the bad, and the unexplained
all the good hearts, dramas, tears, and laughs
each their very own person
learning as we go.

all of us.

*more of frank the puppy’s report card:

“We sent him there because he is truly the most energetic puppy I have ever met,” his mom told Newsweek. “Our older dog needed a break,” she joked.

When Frank came home with the report card, she was in stitches. “I thought it was hysterical when I saw it because I can only imagine that Frank is probably the class clown that’ll do anything for a laugh and that’s definitely his idea of the best time,” she said.

Described on the card as the “life of the party,” the report also says that Frank loved wrestling with his buddies.

“It makes my heart so happy to know that he has so many pals at preschool,” said Spahr. Working on etiquette skills in his preschool class, the report also told Frank’s owners that his best friends are Daisy, Cooper, Vader, Hudson, and even a dog named Angus Beef.

“my report card always said, ‘jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students.”

-jim carrey

 

credits: newsweek magazine uk, alice gibbs

dance like it’s a snow day.

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oops, it is!! lucky –

20 years ago, these sweet dance moves premiered at the SundanceFilmFestival 🎶🕺🏼

in one of my all-time favorite movies

here’s your chance to watch:

https://fb.watch/pKQ0h11lJR/

“we’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”

— japanese proverb

 

 

credits: searchlight pictures, napoleon dynamite, sundance film festival

 

 

blogging is my cardio.

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