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About beth

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

give.

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“if you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

-maya angelou

happy valentine’s day to all who give it their all. 

image credit: jefferson market and cakery

marvelous.

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what a birthday for grandie j

on an afternoon spent with family and friends at

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imagine a mash-up of

barnum and bailey

music

guiness book of records memorabilia

carnivals, cotton candy, prize tickets

vintage

coin-operated animatronics, mechanical games

and

collections of very imaginable oddity

along with some 

you could never imagine. 

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it was a boy’s dream come true.

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“once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.”
-neal stephenson

conversation.

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“reading is a conversation. all books talk. but a good book listens as well.”

– mark haddon

every dino has his day.

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t-rex  heads into the weekend with a broken claw, an avengers bandaid, and a few less teeth-

but still standing.


“you know, hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― bill watterson – calvin and hobbes

stillness.

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fire and ice.

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just chillin’ in the polar ice cave

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when quite suddenly

a firefighter

from out of nowhere

makes a daring rescue

and

enters stage left.


“it’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

-louis c. k.

face off.

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detroit red wings face off during hockey night in motown

last season at joe louis arena

“a good hockey player plays where the puck is. a great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. “

-wayne gretzky 

organized.

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m organized the world according to the animals.

some live in the water, some with grass and trees, some with sand and stone, and some with snow and ice. 

“science is organized knowledge. wisdom is organized life.”

-immanuel kant

perhaps.

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image credit: bemorewithlesss.com

glam.

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left wondering

how this sizable and colorful bra

ended up in the bag of children’s dress-up clothes

just sitting there quietly

mixed amongst

the mermaid, the dragon, and the cowboy gear

and who it might belong to.

all i know for sure is that

there is a story in here somewhere. 

“i have never been bored an hour in my life.

i get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen

and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

-william allen white