if you want to smile
possibly even laugh out loud
spend 40 seconds
watching the clip below
i dare you not to guffaw.
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1787924727052251191
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‘everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to someone else.’
-will rogers
just curious
when waking up in the morning
at my friend’s house
why there was a large frying pan
on the bottom shelf of the nightstand
next to where i had been sleeping?
was this a hint that i was expected to chef our breakfast?
was this a self-defense weapon to use as needed?
had someone forgotten where they set down their pan?
had someone gone on a late-night eating in bed food bender?
when i inquired, one answered:
‘oh, is that the one that is usually hanging in the closet?’
what, there’s one usually hanging in the closet?
another answered:
‘what frying pan?’
host woke up and said,
‘ i was going to give that one away.’
oh, of course.
that’s the perfect place to leave it to remember to give it away.
i loved waking up with a surprise, a mystery, and a smile.
(and there really was an even larger frying pan hanging in the hall closet.)
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“there are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown.
it is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed.
-on the contrary, it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.”
-bengt i. samuelsson
when you’ve just settled in for the night
and someone calls asking you to go out
you roll your eyes, you sigh
then have a couple of ways to turn down the offer,
one leaves the caller with a better feeling about you than the other:
option#1
“i don’t feel like going out tonight.”
lazy
unoriginal
puts the blame on you
option#2
“for now, my place is here.”
surprising
philosophical
you answer to a higher power
—
choose your words wisely.
—
“facts matter not at all. perception is everything. it’s certainty.”
-stephen colbert
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credits: franklin springboro library, take a hike photography
reasons why that reader is frowning:
1.they just read the book they put off for 393,348 years and it’s excellent, why didn’t they read it sooner?
2. they are in a fight with their to be read pile and it is winning.
3. someone just said, “why don’t you read the books you have before getting more?”
4. all of the above.
5, ?
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“let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
~ voltaire, born in 1694.
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credits: good living, paper fury
really didn’t think anything of
carrying a pinata head in my passenger seat
to take to a friend’s birthday celebration
until
parking and grabbing a gift out of my car
the person in the car next to me
gave me the oddest look
after seeing my pinata head just sitting there
(a pinata true crime scene?)
i realize
this is probably not something that most people do
but to me
this is just a part of a celebration
and i do.
—
“if one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”
-betty white
a found list of annoyances above
i really love these so much
i really love that someone wrote them down
i am not annoyed by found lists
a few things i am annoyed with:
-mosquitoes
-cold coffee
-wet wool touching me
-trying to undo an old roll of tape that tears into tiny strips
-most technology when it refuses to work correctly
even if 97% of the time it is due to something i am doing or not doing
-yodelers, unless i am in the alps.
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what are some of your annoyances?
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“what annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot compain?”
-marquis de custine
as michiganders
we grew up with detroit’s famous vernors ginger ale
not only was is good to drink and make floats and shakes out of it
but we used it as at least 80% of our medicine
if you felt
nauseous, had a virus, flu, unexplained itching, headache, were sore, tired, dizzy
or suffered from an unlimited litany of ailments
you were put to bed
and given cold vernors to sip on
but when the hot vernors showed up
on your bedroom tray
you knew your prognosis was much worse
and your days possibly numbered.
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“there is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great,
and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
-orison swett marden
getting ready for the holidays
takes a bit of time
but always worth it .
i hope no one else has this same style.
Peace & Prosperity to All!, Duke
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
inside my car at the car wash
music on
relaxing
feeling that underwater seaweed or giant squid on my hood vibe
yet the highlight
is getting to the end
seeing the ‘theme’ setup in a corner –
captain’s wheel, the bluest water, navigation devices
understanding why it is called
‘the lighthouse’
performance art at its finest and my clean car is merely a bonus
it’s really an immersive sensory art experience on the cheap.
—
“told you. everything sounds better in a car wash.”
-sarah dessen
I didn't have my glasses on.... 