what a wonderful collaboration between the library and local seed organizations
once again showing how important a library is to a community
“inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.”
-farrah gray
Apr23
Author Archives: beth
Apr22
on earth day, and every day.
kinder in their natural habitat capturing the ever-elusive giant stick
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“live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink,
taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth.”
-henry david thoreau
Apr21
to the bat cave!
Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave, Ridgedale, Missouri
If there’s another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don’t know about it.
IN THE MISSOURI OZARKS, THE Bat Bar gives new meaning to the term “watering hole.” It’s next to a waterfall within a mountaintop cave. The good thing is it’s never all that crowded, unless you count the bats.
Visitors park at the Top of the Rock welcome center and take golf carts through a 2.5-mile woodland path over streams and bridges, stopping at both a butterfly garden and a scenic overlook calledEagle Pass. Shortly into the trip, the trail dips into the Lost Canyon Cave, wherein lies the one-of-a-kind bar. Tipplers remain in their carts as they park next to the wood-built bar constructed in 2014. “Better Settle Your Nerves,” reads a paint-splashed board below the counter. They can choose from a number of cocktails, from John L’s Hoop-de-Hoo (vodka, tonic, and grapefruit), the Cannonball (amaretto, bourbon, and pineapple juice), or Bat’s Blood (vodka with strawberry and peach lemonade). Bottled beer and wine by the glass are also available.
Take your time rolling through the Lost Canyon Cave: It’s home to a natural waterfall, a live bat colony, and the skeletons of both a saber-tooth tiger and a short-faced bear. Visitors aren’t allowed to walk around the cave itself, but a railed pathway snakes around the waterfall pool at the heart of the lantern-lit cave.
If the bar does get the best of you, Big Cedar Lodge always has overnight housing available.
Carts are available for rentals from 8:00 a.m. until 45 minutes before sunset. Drivers are permitted alcohol, but not before signing a liability waiver.
“come on, robin, to the bat cave! there’s not a moment to lose!”
-batman
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credits: atlas obscura, trip advisor
Apr20
noetic or poetic?
NOETIC
no-ED-ik
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Greek, mid-17th century
Definition: Relating to mental activity or the intellect.
Examples in a sentence:
“The philosophy department attracts noetic students.”
“Noah was equally athletic and noetic”
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Some travel life,
Shining brightly noetic
But as for me,
I’d rather wax poetic.
-beth
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image credit: npr brightside
Apr19
this time.
even though
it’s mid-april
and the skies
delivered snow today
i thought back to a few days ago
when just like today
i had my sandals on
and came upon
a mother and child
in the sun
taking time
to create art
with simple and happy words
‘have a nice day’
for anyone in the neighborhood
who may come by
needing this message.
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“this time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
-ralph waldo emerson
Apr18
dangerous games.
oh, how i would have loved to see this exhibit
i played with each and every one of these games
and lived to tell.
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“parents shouldn’t assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
kids don’t.
we do.”
-maurice sendak
Apr17
hoppy easter.
“Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hopping down the bunny trail
Hippity-hopping,
Easter’s on its way”
-Jack Rollins
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This guy can really hop!!
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image credit: roger the kangaroo, at the kangaroo rescue sanctuary, alice springs, australia
Apr16
tucked in.
on the night before…
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“In the book A Wrinkle in Time, it says that time is like a big old rumpled blanket.
What I’d like is to be caught in one of those wrinkles.
Tucked away. Hidden in a small tight fold.”
– Author: Carol Rifka Brunt
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Image credit: “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes” by Du Bose Heyward, illustrated by Marjorie Hack, Houghton Mifflon Company, Boston, MA, 1939,
Apr15
#nopeepsleftbehind.
earth day is coming soon
how will you reuse, recycle, or repurpose
your peeps?
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“uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.”
-j.r.d. tata
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photo credit: google images
Apr14
let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world. napoleon bonaparte
this may or may not be an actual photo of me in inaction
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imagine my disappointment
when receiving the response below
after volunteering for a study
that i was born to
training for this my whole life
i am a natural
this is my skill set
known to fall asleep literally anywhere at any time
regardless of what is going on around me
especially within minutes of being seated
as a passenger in any moving vehicle
who gets a rejection letter from the circadian research lab?!
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Napping in a Motor Vehicle Seat Study
Hello Beth,
Thank you for your interest in the Napping in a Motor Vehicle Seat Study. Unfortunately, you are not eligible for the study. You may be eligible for other studies being done at the University of Michigan.
Sincerely,
Research Technician Associate
Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory
University of Michigan
Michigan Medicine
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“i can’t take a traditional yoga class or anything. i’ll just lay down and take a nap on the mat”
-jessica st. clair
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photo image: atoz animals
