a gate in the hedge
leads the way
in
or
out
to
what?
to
where?
is it better
to go
around
or
through
or
walk on by?
—
“the world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
-ralph waldo emerson
Apr6
Author Archives: beth
Apr5
scrub.
i’ve finally found my perfect soap for all this scrubbing.
a little glitter can really turn things around.
—
“it is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.”
-Henry David Thoreau
—
image credit: google images
Apr4
aha.
(not me, but a puppy who has my dream hair color and is comfortably wearing earbuds)
—
that aha moment
when after 62 years and some months
your ear buds once again fall out when walking
you have your glasses on
you look down before trying to put them back in
you notice that earbuds are marked ‘r’ and ‘l’ for right and left
that they are meant to go in the corresponding ears
you realize that you actually do have ear canals
and there is a way to ensure they will not continue to fall out every 3.5 minutes.
—
“the “aha” moment is a validating experience for your efforts
and at the same time changes your paradigm of the world in favor of a more accurate one.
Campbell simply says “it wipes out the ego.”
― R
—
image credit: pinterest
Apr3
without knowing.
– morgan harper nichols
Apr2
census.
‘We Are Part Of The United States’: The 1st People Counted For The 2020 Census
In the fishing village of Toksook Bay, Alaska, the 2020 census officially began last month. The national head count starts in remote Alaska in January because the frozen ground makes it easier to reach the distant communities.
Older residents still remember when they moved their homes, pulled by dog sled, from neighboring Nightmute, Alaska, to make what was once a fishing camp into a permanent settlement. Now dogs abound, but the moving of goods is mainly done with snow machines and all-terrain vehicles.
Lizzie Chimiugak Nenguryarr, an elder of Toksook Bay who recently celebrated what she considered to be at least her 90th birthday, was the first person counted for the 2020 census.
—
“the true test of civilization is not the census,
not the size of the cities,
nor the crops – no,
but the kind of man the country turns out.”
-ralph waldo emerson
—
credits: npr – claire harbage, hansi lo wang
Apr1
1er avril.
—
APRIL FOOL, n.
The March fool with another month added to his folly.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906 (entries 1881–1906)
—
photo credit: pinterest vintage french postcard
Mar31
public image.
that moment when you realize
that your first imminent all schools faculty webinar is in a zoom format
the next moment
when you pull off an instant makeover
and do the best you can to get your look together
the final moment
when your i.t. person clarifies that it will strictly be
a presentation given by our head of schools
no one else will be seen on screen
and you feel a certain sense of relief.
—
You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing. -Christoper Walken
—
image credits: no corgis were harmed/emotionally scarred in the making of this post,
all google images
Mar30
marathon man.
confined by virus, frenchman runs a marathon on his balcony
In the age of confinement, Elisha Nochomovitz figured out a way to run a marathon anyway – back and forth on his 23 foot balcony.
That’s right. He ran 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles) straight, never leaving his 7-meter-long (23-foot) balcony.
He saw it as a physical and mental challenge, but he also shared the images online as a way “to extend my support to the entire medical personnel who are doing an exceptional job. He didn’t exactly make record time. It took him six hours and 48 minutes. He got nauseous, and got worried the neighbors would complain about the pounding of his footsteps. But he did it.
Nochomovitz had been training for a marathon, and said “I needed to assure myself that I could still run 40 kilometers whatever the condition.” He lost track of how many laps he did, but his pedometer kept track while his mind wandered.
“I thought about many things, what’s going to happen, when I see that the world has stopped, sports, economy, finance,” he said. “We learned in history about wars between nations, men and weapons, but this is something that is beyond us.” He especially thought about medics, “the real everyday heroes.”
And he had a key helper. “I had my girlfriend here who was giving me drinks and M&Ms.”
Outside, some onlookers stared in confusion.
And his neighbors? “They were very understanding.”
—
“when you run the marathon, you run against the distance,
not against the other runners and not against the time.”
-haile gebrselassie
Mar29
falling all around.
beautiful walk in the rain today
discovering
a newly made waterfall
spring flowers in the mud
brilliant green moss
growing on the trees
in the quiet woods.
—
“the rain is falling all around,
it falls on field and tree,
Ii rains on the umbrellas here,
and on the ships at sea.”
-robert louis stevenson, a child’s garden of verses
Mar28
intermission.
like our local theater
we will be back
after taking an intermission.
—
“i lost the plot for a while then. and i lost the subplot, the script,
the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.”
―
—
image credit – ann arbor townies, prashant kuma, michigan theater
