on april fool’s day and most any day
live life with gusto
even if not everyone is quite on board yet.
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“you will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
-*sidonie gabrielle colette
*Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, best known as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.
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image credit: a. thomas, redbook magazine
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Funny … I forgot it was April Fools Day …
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the calendar was playing a trick on you )
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Actually, today my computer jumped an hour forward in time, but our Daylight-Saving Time doesn’t stop until next Weekend … however my iPhone has the right time … definitely strange, somebody at Mircosoft is fooling around … !!
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I love this photo and quote Beth 🤣🦁
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thanks, sadje, we all need a bit of foolishness from time to time
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Yep we do.
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greatest words/ so well said.
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<3
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I will try to stay unfoolish today, Beth!
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😀
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We used to do ‘Pinch, punch, first of the month’. (On someone’s arm) I suppose that would be classed as physical assault these days, and get you arrested. 👴
Best wishes, Pete.
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We did things like that a well
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🤗
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))))
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It was rare in the 1950s for composers to write a musical directly for the movies rather than for the stage first.
Have you seen the 2018 movie Colette?
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No, but I intend to find it
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Fantastic advice in that quotation :)
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Yes!!
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Ain’t no fool like an old fool. I volunteered long ago.
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Happy April, Beth! :)
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing well,” said someone.
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Foolish or not, always give it your all!
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Gusto! I love that word! 🥰
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It’s such a good one
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That image is just so perfect for this subject!
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Those mama lions know how to have fun!
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They do!
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Happy first of April. 👍😄
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You too, Ute
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The best April Fool’s joke ever is one my cousin Jeff played on his parents by sending them a fake wedding announcement. My aunt was so rattled that she called her son at the school where he was teaching. After she finally settled down, Jeff told her to look on the back of the announcement. There he’d written April Fool’s backwards. This is the stuff of family lore.
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Wow!
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hahaha; great photo and great advice, Beth; April Fool’s Day yesterday — and I missed it; damn !!!
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well, it is still going strong here for a few more hours
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enjoy the tom foolery ; it’s the 2nd here —
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Wonderful post…loved the lions and, of course, I love the movie, Gigi.
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which came first, the book, the movie, or the artist?….)
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Book came out in 1944 and the film came out in 1958. Don’t know about the artist. :)
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it’s a bit hazy, like zsa zsa. the chicken and the egg question
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Forgive me being persnickety, but should it be “even if” and not “even is”?
:)
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No worries, I really appreciate it. I look at it 20 times and don’t see it, but it takes fresh eyes. It’s fixed!)
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Thanks for sharing this idea Anita
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my pleasure
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Huzzah!
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)))
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If we’re too afraid to make fools of ourselves, we’re probably missing out on a whole lot of fun.
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so very true
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Absolutely.
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so important –
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