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About beth

Ann Arbor-ite writes about enjoying life with all of its ironies and surprises.

wondering.

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after walking up to this truck

i wondered about all the stories it could tell

where it’s been, who it carried, what happened

no one knows for sure

all that’s left is to imagine.

what a ride it must have been!

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“i like stories that leave you wanting more,

leave you wondering, but don’t tell you everything.”

-viggo mortensen

 

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ann arbor – summer 2018

talking heads.

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*LEARN AND PRACTICE VENTRILOQUISM AND PUPPET SKILLS!

(*This offer recently popped up on my local Meetup Group feed, inviting me to join. It would be one of my worst nightmares. Hopefully, the puppets don’t know where I live.)

‘This group is for anyone who wants to learn to do ventriloquism. After buying a puppet and learning to do ventriloquism, I decided to form this group.We will go through all the basics. I have a guide that will help us and we will follow the lessons. I will only use the skills from the best ventriloquists in the country. This group is something that I have wanted to get together for a long time. This group is open to the public. ‘

noooooooooooooo……..

“here’s something you never hear:

now that i’ve worked through all my emotional issues,

i’m free to dedicate my life to ventriloquism!”

– dana gould

 

 

 

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image credits: google images

 

not so random.

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what do a pair of winter boots, a dinosaur, a net, and a light

 have to do with each other?

at one point they were all important to someone

now it’s clear they’re not

 hoping they’ll be important

to someone else very soon. 

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“random things are luxurious to people. it’s personal.”

-l’wren scott

busy?

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 busy ants.

 

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“it is not enough to be busy.

so are the ants.

the question is:

what are we busy about?” 

-henry david thoreau

time travel.

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grandie m

shared his formula

for time travel

with me

but has not come up 

with a return formula

as of yet.

he even made me my very own copy.

i love the cover

and hopefully

everyone’s copy looks like this. 

 

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“the truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.”

-margaret person haddix, Redeemed

mixing it up.

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something tells me that

perhaps the wrong cat

drank the rescue remedy calming drops

from the water bowl.

one is facedown in a bowl of seashells

while the other, (my intended target)

is busy outside

standing up on two feet

looking in at me through the window

and meowing loudly.

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“mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”

-bertolt brecht

midnight.

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floating on the lake at midnight in the quiet air

 

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“there is a budding tomorrow in midnight.”

– john keats

 

 

 

 

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irish hills, michigan, usa – summer 2018

fine.

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i’ll have to take her/his word for it.

(the quote below is more my approach to fine.)

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‘Imperfection is fine.”

-anna wintour

soul.

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aretha performs ‘spirit in the dark’ at the fillmore west – 1971

motown and the whole world will miss you.