so mad i missed his call
i really wanted to answer and ask him,
“you talkin’ to me??!”
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“no, i don’t regret anything at this point.
that may change on the next phone call,
but at the moment i don’t regret anything.”
-william shatner
it’s a big decision, take your time.
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national donut day is celebrated on the first friday of june. established by the salvation army in 1938 to honor the “donut lassies” — women who served donuts (originally a European delicacy) to hungry american soldiers duringWW I. once they returned home, american soldiers longed for the donuts they had overseas. they grew increasingly popular in the u.s., and americans have been loving donuts ever since.
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“do-not touch my donut.”
-me
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image credit: washtenaw dairy
how i imagined my first day of retirement
but alas
it’s getting my tires switched, finishing report cards, and running errands
but i did sleep in until almost six
so there’s hope for tomorrow….
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“my goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
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art credit: by kilkeny killkeny cats
how lucky am i that this was both for me?
—
on this
my very last day of teaching
soon to be retired
with who knows what
adventure still to come.
—
“if i thought i knew what was going to happen, it wouldn’t be worth doing. the challenge is how joyfully, with what sense of fun and adventure and playfulness, we will greet it. we don’t have to look for what the next thing will be.if experience is any judge, it’ll come flowing toward us like a river.”
-stephen colbert
a look back, it’s that time of year again, and some things never change –
1. since peaches are not quite in season yet, take a bag of frozen peaches out of freezer to defrost in fridge, go to sleep dreaming of healthy breakfast smoothie
2. take peaches out of fridge on the next day to chop up and create delicious and guilt-free smoothie
3. notice the fridge shelf below bag is a bit sticky
4. notice the bag has leaked (even though it’s unopened), while defrosting
5. take everything off of sticky shelf
6. notice peach juice has leaked to the back of the shelf and hardened into a solid gel
7. take out giant sticky shelf and place in sink
8. turn on hot water to melt off hardened peach juice gel
9. notice peach juice has dripped down into fridge drawers below where the shelf was
10. take out drawers
11. say a few things back to fridge that is now incessantly beeping due to door being ajar too long
12. feel my feet getting wet and turn back to sink
13. notice hot water running on shelf placed in sink is somehow flowing over it and onto counter and beyond
14. notice water has also flowed into junk drawer and cupboards below counter while on its way to the floor
15. slide on floor as i turn off water, pull out junk drawer, empty it, throw away things that are waterlogged
16. empty cupboards below, dry out everything, grab beach towels to clean up floor
17. turn back to fridge, still beeping, notice bottom of fridge has peach juice on it also, now that drawers have been removed
18. get more towels, empty entire fridge, wash and dry everything, replace shelves and drawers and contents, wash and dry floor
16. cut open peach bag, notice the peaches are now dried out due to lack of juice. put them in a bowl. add whipped cream. back to healthy eating plan tomorrow.
17. notice one ant milling around, sensing a dot of sticky peach nectar somewhere.
warning when visiting the farm.
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“how is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take a warning?’
jonathan swift-
quot
the kinder hold the baby chicks with gentle hands
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‘teach children
by word, and by example,
to be kind to animals
not just for the animals sake,
but for the sake of all who are weaker than they are.’
-adapted by val silver
my favorite kinder shirt of the week
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“give me time and I’ll give you a revolution.”
-alexander mcqueen
