“we always think of borders
as something that separates two peoples
but of course they unite them.
it’s something you have in common, literally.”
-don winslow
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photo credit: getty images
Jan18
Category Archives: Life
Jan17
ice.
crystal lake, northern michigan
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‘ice day’
no school.
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“in skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
-ralph waldo emerson
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image credit: university of michigan
Jan17
letters.
dear mom –
“just a few photos from xmas. still having shutterfly problems so thought i’d better at least send something. felix is talking, saying ‘car, ear, nose’ and magnus is crying over patsy cline songs. just back from swimming at ellen’s house with the dairy cows watching us from the other side of the fence. terry has his triathlon in two weeks then he can finally relax and not train every night. had our outdoor movie night on the weekend and it was great, everyone had fun and the kids got to stay up late and be maniacs.
what’s going on at home?”
<3 love, holli
(a glimpse of life from my daughter who was living far away in australia at the time)
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here’s to
national handwritten letter day
in honor of one of my favorite things.
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“letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
-johann wolfgang von goethe
Jan16
walk.
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image credit: googleimages
Jan15
electricity.
the power went out
just before our dinner party
so we had it anyway
candlelight, a warm fire, and great friends made it even better.
“what is a soul? it’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.”
-ray charles
Jan14
truth.
“wisdom is found only in truth. “
-johann wolfgang von goethe
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image credit: googleimages
Jan13
common to all mankind.
the 1967 outer space treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the moon.
it was the 60’s. the height of the cold war.
they made a treaty not to own the moon.
at the united nations convention of the law of the sea in 1982
it was agreed that the moon, like the high seas,
is considered “res communis” roughly translated to “common to all mankind.”
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credits: mental floss magazine
Jan12
enchanted.
today we found a beautiful flower that survived
under the snow and ice and rain and arctic temperatures of january.
were very surprised.
it must be enchanted.
“the only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature
are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment.
they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”
-g. k. chesterton
Jan11
magnets.
after much trial and error and an ‘aha’ moment,
the kinders figured out what magnets do and found a place to put them.
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“a teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.”
~ever garrison
Jan10
trolls.
i’ve now seen this movie 3 times
couldn’t get the grandies viewing schedules to mesh
so we went in groups
it was colorful, happy, and musical
all felt and sparkles and big hair and eccentric characters
and i have to say
it is a totally fun and trippy, dreamy movie
that asks and answers the question:
“what is the nature of happiness?”
and really, it is quite impossible
not to be happy when you watch this film.
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“it is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
-charles spurgeon
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credits: dreamworks animation, 20th century fox
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