what a lovely day for a walk in ann arbor
with some of my friends and neighbors
“today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light
chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt,
and then the shadow sweeps it away. you know you’re alive. you take huge steps,
trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet.”
― annie dillard
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image 1 credit: ann arbor townies
“women hold up half the sky. “
-mao zedong
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image credit: google images
“in transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don’t think it leaves.”
– valerie simpson
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photo image: pinterest
“every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop.
i’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. “
-orville redenbacher
“so random but a couple months ago a boy scout came to our door selling popcorn.
he told V, “i know it’s not as good as the cookies but it’s what we do.” 😂😂
-facebook quote from my daughter’s friend, m
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image credit: victor nunes art
“we always think of borders
as something that separates two peoples
but of course they unite them.
it’s something you have in common, literally.”
-don winslow
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photo credit: getty images
crystal lake, northern michigan
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‘ice day’
no school.
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“in skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
-ralph waldo emerson
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image credit: university of michigan
dear mom –
“just a few photos from xmas. still having shutterfly problems so thought i’d better at least send something. felix is talking, saying ‘car, ear, nose’ and magnus is crying over patsy cline songs. just back from swimming at ellen’s house with the dairy cows watching us from the other side of the fence. terry has his triathlon in two weeks then he can finally relax and not train every night. had our outdoor movie night on the weekend and it was great, everyone had fun and the kids got to stay up late and be maniacs.
what’s going on at home?”
<3 love, holli
(a glimpse of life from my daughter who was living far away in australia at the time)
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here’s to
national handwritten letter day
in honor of one of my favorite things.
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“letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
-johann wolfgang von goethe
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image credit: googleimages
the power went out
just before our dinner party
so we had it anyway
candlelight, a warm fire, and great friends made it even better.
“what is a soul? it’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.”
-ray charles
“wisdom is found only in truth. “
-johann wolfgang von goethe
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image credit: googleimages
I didn't have my glasses on.... 