“one ox, two oxen. one fox, two foxen.”
jenny lawson
Happy Chinese New Year in the year of the Ox- 2021!
Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice,
Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar,
this festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of a long-awaited spring!
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image credit: fairycake fair, tokyo station, japantimes.com
a group of penguins in the water is called a raft- on land, they become a waddle.
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“all penguins are the same below the surface,
which I think is as perfect an analogy as we’re likely to get for the futility of racism.”
-Russell Brand
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art credit: Wood print by Kaamran Hafeez, One Penguin in a Large. Group of Penguins
so happy to be celebrating
*Love Makes the World Go Round;
But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
i feel lucky to have a job that keeps me laughing.
who else gets to say/respond to such great things at work?
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“you need to have pants on.”
“try not to touch every person in the room”
“i know you washed your hands this morning, but it is afternoon now.”
“fish don’t really like to be hugged.”
“try to bend your legs to sit on the sled, that is called making them stiff and that is different, try to bend…..”
“did you call me grandpa?”
“it’s important to have both shoes.”
“before we start we all have to promise not to cry if we don’t get to the candy castle first.”
“behind you is that way.”
“why did she call you beth?”
“if you put that in your nose, it might not come out.”
“your snowpants are backwards, let’s see if i can help you fix that.”
“you want to be called something new?”
“i’m pretty sure these are your boots because your parents put them in your bag and they have your name on them.”
“your mom is having a baby but you’re not supposed to tell anyone yet?”
“i’m not sure that ranch dressing is good to drink.”
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each day is the best day ever.
never a day goes by without a laugh or ten.
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image credit: puffin puff pastry, google images
one of my favorite things is to hear a child tell a story.
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image credit: nicolette sowder, wilderchild
should we swim or play ice hockey today?
luckily this sign helps to make the decision easier.
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“i try not to go the obvious route all the time,
but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.”
-al yankovich
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image credit: jim grampie, at gallup park, ann arbor
last weekend
at the 44th annual ann arbor folk festival
5 live streamed hours on saturday night
every kind of music and performance
big and small
i once again
heard beautiful poems played
by my favorite pianist
george winston
whose song ‘thanksgiving’ i heard for the very first time
many years ago on the radio while on a road trip to toronto
having no idea who it was or what the song was
being very moved by it
not knowing if i’d ever hear it again
serendipity stepped in
when driving back home
with a windham hill artists’ compilation cd
an unexpected gift from my host
on which he was a featured artist playing that very song.
“music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
-pablo casals
happy to tell the kinder
there would be 2 stay-home days – a weekend
saturday and sunday
we’d all be back together again on monday
one asked –
‘do you know that friday is already the weekend?’
indeed
i love that way of thinking
this one will live a long and happy life.
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when does your weekend start?
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“every day is a gift. but some days are packaged better.”
-sanhita baruah
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image credit: google images
one of these folks has been around for awhile and has always been ahead of his time.
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“ideas shape the course of history.”
-john maynard keynes
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image credit: british medieval history
One hundred years ago this month, the magician P.T. Selbit ushered his assistant into an upright wooden box, sealed it, laid it flat, and got down to business, sawing the box right down the middle. The show, according to magic experts, was the first time a performer ever sawed someone in half. Why has this trick survived, when so many others haven’t? If you ask magicians, NYT writer Alex Marshall spoke with six — they eventually land on one answer. “It’s just the simplicity of it,” said Mike Caveney, a magician who’s writing a history of this trick. “Magicians say a good trick is one that can be described in a few words, and ‘sawing a lady in half’ is very few words,” he added. As for being the assistant, “When you’re doing it you’re not a passive person,” one magician said. “It’s claustrophobic, and quite noisy, but such fun!”
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” i believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do.
there are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matter what situation you’re in.”
-keke palmer
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Story credit: Alex Marshall, NYT- Image credit: Nolan Pellitier
my favorite self portrait of the season
looks back at you eye-to-eye
confident and unapologetic
something about it – so open and joyful.
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“self portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.”
-eric kandel
