Category Archives: choice

Jan2

food for the soul.

Posted on January 2, 2024 by beth

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when you’ve recently climbed way back up onto the healthy wagon

you have to choose between

the warm fudgy chocolate cake and creamy vanilla ice cream with a dark chocolate drizzle

the healthy fresh green juice

you make a deal with yourself

indulge in a bit of chocolate wonder right now

drink the magic green elixir

for your next meal

(which should offset all you’ve just eaten, call it even)

but somehow

the juice never makes it home

so the universe

has made the the decision for you.

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“food for the body is not enough. there must be food for the soul.”

– dorothy day

Oct19

choose wisely.

Posted on October 19, 2023 by beth

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no matter how tired you are

when coming into the faculty room

to grab a cup of coffee

at the start of another day

look closely at the flavorings offered

choose wisely.

what will it be today?

caramel? chocolate? or bleach water?

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“once you make a choice, you have no choice.”

-anna chin-williams

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photo credit: c. hull – thank you!

Feb8

choose.

Posted on February 8, 2023 by beth

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a choice that is never wrong.

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“there is only love. everything else is our resistance to it.”

-terces englehart

May21

push and pull.

Posted on May 21, 2022 by beth

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my favorite indignant complaint of the month

straight from our local ‘next door’ site.

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“So half of ann arbor doors are PUSH. But the other half are all PULL. Can’t the CITY make up their minds about anything??? I’m drafting a letter to Governor Whitmer if you want to sign. We can not be expected to remember which is push or which is pull! I am just tired of this. Life is stressful and having to constantly push or, wait, PULL is nonsense at this point.”

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“a man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards;

as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”

ludwig wittgenstein

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art credit: gary larson, the far side