“as a hopeless romantic, I’m drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.”
-mary kay andrews
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image credit: A Magical Miniature World Of Snails by Vyacheslav Mishchenko
starlings come together and move into the shape of a giant bird.

kinders come together to see if the birds are eating the food they’ve left for them
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“do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”
-marcel marceau
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credits: guy benson, attenborough nature preserve, bbc news east midlands
one grandpa, one art, one village
“life is short, art is long.”
— john ringling
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video credit: bbc news
in honor of the passing of stan lee. the time i met one of his characters in real life and it didn’t go as planned –
I didn't have my glasses on....
when i was 7, i finally had a chance to meet one of my idols, spiderman, who happened to be at the montgomery wards store at our local mall, at the same time as i was. i saw this as fate, and i could not have been more excited, as he had been one of my idols for as long as i could remember.
waiting in line, anxious, worked up, hopping with joy, i finally made my way up to the front to meet him. i was shy, but i was motivated, and so, i asked him to ‘shoot his webs’ for me, one of my favorite superpowers i’d seen him do on tv many times, enabling him to fly from building to building, saving people, and meting out justice on the bad guys.
i will never forget his reaction in response to my quiet, but earnest request. he first…
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