checked up on mother goose’s egg yesterday and it was totally alone
checked today and it was off the rock
sitting broken under water
sad it didn’t survive
life can be so fragile.
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“probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”
-M. F. K. Fisher
Explore what makes “Detroit Industry Murals” a masterpiece in this episode of Bank of America‘s “Masterpiece Moment.”
when i stopped by my favorite coney island restaurant to pick up a giant greek salad
(in detroit, coney dogs and greek food under one roof are a restaurant tradition)
something on their monday special sign stuck out
while the words ‘coney island’ were displayed on 3 signs all around it
and coney island is a part of the restaurant’s name
the special somehow became ‘cony‘ dog monday.
i know how hard it is to be your own editor
and i am easily amused
but it just struck me as really funny
that no one noticed
it’s the most popular item they sell.
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“my spelling is wobbly. it’s good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
-A. A. Milne
mother goose waits patiently on a rock in the river
luckily she has lots of stories to tell until baby’s big enough to swim.
“rock and roll is music, and why should music contribute to…juvenile delinquency?
if people are going to be juvenile delinquents,
they’re going to be delinquents if the hear… mother goose rhymes.”
-elvis presley
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huron river, argo park, ann arbor, michigan, usa – spring 2021
reflection while walking in argo park – spring 2021
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“the way we experience the world is a direct reflection of the world within us.”
“all you have to do is write one true sentence. write the truest sentence you know.”
-ernest hemingway
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image credit: scott metzger
hard to believe
it’s the 50th anniversary
of this movie’s opening
everyone i knew
rushed to the theater
swoon-worthy *ryan o’neal and beautiful ali macgraw
over-emoted their way through it
it was everything we expected
and more
a dramatic, tragic, ill-fated romance
a love story for the ages
inspiring endless tears and endless post-viewing talk
going to see it again and again
somehow hoping for a different ending.
—
” love means never having to say you’re sorry”
– jennifer cavalleiri (ali macgraw in love story)
(we loved this famous confusing quote from the movie, and had deep discussions about what it meant)
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*interesting tidbit –
writer erich segal, based ryan o’neal’s character on a hybrid of his college housemates at harvard:
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore
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image credit: paramount pictures
grandie j and friends have been busy building a bunker fort
every digging tool, even the snow shovel, is in play
lots of work and fun ahead.
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“hold the fort! i am coming!”
-william tecumseh sherman
on the river – welcoming spring
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The Swan
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air –
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music – like the rain pelting the trees – like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds –
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?
– Mary Oliver
yep, you read that right
perfect balance
exactly 12 hours of daylight
and
i’m not going to miss a second of it.
—
“we’re burnin’ daylight!”
-john wayne
I didn't have my glasses on.... 