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credits: pbs kids, mister rogers
Jul19
what’s the difference?
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credits: pbs kids, mister rogers
Author Archives: beth
Jul17
nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – ralph waldo emerson
met this group of young entrepreneurs
while walking back
from the downtown art fair
found them
just on the perimeter
in a safe zone
for guerilla marketing
and a cash business
in a bright spot
future lemonade magnates
with
a plan
a happy disposition
and
a wagon-load
full
of quiet enthusiasm
they had made sixty dollars
on the day before
while
rotating jobs
one sign-holder
three salesmen
at street level
offering up cool cups
of
sweet relief
to all who wandered by
with shy smiles
and a price you couldn’t refuse.
Jul16
jiggly.
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credits: the rag birds, ann arbor top of the park summer festival, anne lamott
Jul15
not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~ french proverb
after the lively wedding, a calm morning after
Jul13
i get up in the morning looking for an adventure. – george foreman
today’s plan has quickly become clear.
Jul12
great art picks up where nature ends. ~ marc chagall
the artist’s world is limitless.
it can be found anywhere,
far from where he lives or a few feet away.
it is always on his doorstep.
~paul strand
Jul11
slow pace, long weekend away.
rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day,
listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky,
is by no means waste of time.
~john lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894
Jul10
magic.
j proclaimed,
‘i’m going to swing into magic land.’
we’d been waiting forever
for a chance to play outside in the rain together
there was a fence
branch was weak
chair was shaky
toes were tippy
b created a magic rain slide
“let’s make it soapy”
it was so slippy-flippy
there were great leaps and a great slides
making for
a great afternoon
we got very wet
fell down
slid on the grass
crashed into stuff
got pretty muddy
laughed so hard
best of all
none of us were injured
and it was pure magic.
roald dahl would understand completely.
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credits: roald dahl – george’s marvelous medicine
Jul9
hope.
sitting by the river
relaxed and thinking
this may not end well.
yet hopeful.
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‘hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.
it is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out.’
– vaclav havel
Jul8
if I had to live my life again, i’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. – tallulah bankhead
Man forgets glasses, buys winning lottery ticket
Fairfield, Conn. — A man in southwestern Connecticut who mistakenly bought the wrong lottery ticket is $30,000 wealthier.
Bob Sabo, of Easton, says he didn’t want to wait in line to buy a lottery ticket at the Super Stop & Shop in Fairfield, so he decided to buy a ticket from a lottery vending machine — something he had previously never done.
Sabo says he meant to buy two $20 tickets, but says *he didn’t have his glasses on and instead bought a $30 ticket. When he got home, he discovered the ticket was a winner.
*(and he is clearly my kindred spirit)
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credits: detroit news, associated press, ctlottery.org
I didn't have my glasses on.... 