Monthly Archives: July 2025

age with mischief.

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our friend, the birthday queen 

celebrates

with a relaxed and festive pool party 

we go around the circle

sharing stories of our connections

while she glows and cheers the day.

‘your time on earth is limited, don’t try to age with grace.

age with mischief, audacity, and a damn good story to tell.

-author unknown

 

 

 

on ice cream day, if you happen to be in Venezuela.

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‘you can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream.

it’s like a sauce!’

-chris pratt

 

source credit: Gastro Obscura

legacy passed on from a daughter.

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To those wondering what my dad would have to say about Trump,
here’s a clue…

earning for learning.

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 Saline tween turns rocks into college fund:

Eleven-year-old Tucker Lambert hopes money earned from his startup – he digs rocks out of neighboring farm fields and sells them to landscapers – will pay for him to attend the University of Michigan, M-Live reports.

 The rocks, if left in the ground, would damage farm equipment, so Tucker digs them out and sells them from $1 to $50 depending on the size.

Customers can buy the rocks by setting up an appointment with his father. If you don’t need any rocks, you are welcome to contribute to his GoFundMe campaign here

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tuckers-rocks

Tucker’s Rocks est. 2024 Rocks, Stones Boulders, Landscaping Rocks

From Dad:

My 11 year old son has collected rocks for 2 years now. Tucker is a very busy young man. He collects the rocks from local farmers’ fields. He sells these to save money for his future college fund.

Tucker does all this with one four wheeler and one wagon. He digs the rocks out with a shovel. He is a small operation,  located in Saline, Michigan.

“build your house on the rock of learning;

no one can take your education away from you.”

  – john spence

creative endeavors.

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here we meet again

 my former kindergarten student

now at the annual Ann Arbor art fair

having grown into a wonderful human

and innovative artist.

‘creativity is like scientific research in that it involves things that haven’t been done before. as such, creative endeavors are essentially experiments, and if they really unique, you have no idea what will happen.’

-tina seeling

 

* tina seeling is an american educator, entrepreneur, and author of 17 books on creativity and innovation. she is a faculty member at Stanford University and currently the executive director of the Knight-Hennesy Scholars.

 

https://www.masonkupina.com

mosaics.

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‘we are mosaics — pieces of light, love, history, stars

— glued together with magic and music and words.’

– anita krizzan

 

 

image credit: nature, asbmb journal

found!

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you truly never know what you’ll find at ikea

I even found one of my grandsons

waaaaaay up on a shelf

and he was only $6.99!

‘being lost is worth the being found.’

-neil diamond

kafferep.

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continuing my week of ikea moments…

laughter and cookies

who could possibly resist?

‘nothing is worth more than laughter.

it is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.’

-frida kahlo

lamp.

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this family has really chosen well.

their new lamp can even walk itself out of the store. 

‘ i like change. a new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.’

-Madonna

 

‘there are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.’ -josh billings

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(still shot of our video capture, not a tech glitch)

when you are waiting

for your family to arrive at Ikea

for the day’s adventure

and you notice

you and carol, the friendly greeter

are dressed in matching outfits

you naturally greet them together.

‘all who joy would win must share it.

happiness was born a twin.’

-lord byron