at the verrry cool
elk rapids cinema
old, but mighty good
something magical about an old movie house.
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‘what’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater?
you go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything –
the moment the lights go down is often the best part.’
j.j. abrams
perfect branding.
what could possibly go wrong?
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“the opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
-voltaire
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stoney cabin toyshop, elk rapids, mi, usa
night slowly arrives
warmly wraps around the lake
color fades away.
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“of all the paths you take in life make some lead to the lake.”
– unknown
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on glen lake, empire, michigan, usa – summer 2024
cowboy singer charley crockett
his low, smoky, smooth voice, like whiskey
vintage cowboy crooner gave a great show.
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‘i think a lot of it has to do with putting your heart into what you do and wanting to entertain people.’
-gene autry, the most famous singing cowboy of all
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royal oak music theater, michigan, usa, summer 2024
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Matthew Charles Crockett (born1984) is an American blues, country, jazz, americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released twelve studio albums since 2015, with Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Blues Albums chart and The Man from Waco breaking the US Billboard 200
ten years have passed
since the moment
when my entire 6-pack of grandies
at last
all on the same continent
met for the very first time
in a large box on my front lawn
as long as i live
i will never forget that moment.
‘cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be.’
– jm gaffigan
at the noodle restaurant
opened my fortune after dinner
it was thrown away with my plate
can’t quite figure out what it meant
not sure how to live my life from here on out.
what do you think this fortune means?
‘live for the nights you can’t remember with the people you’ll never forget.’
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on the morning of the onset of the recent global outages
my sister was scheduled to fly in for a visit
as soon as i heard about it
i warned her that her flights might get complicated
but somehow she managed to get on two scheduled flights
fly across the country and land within 15 minutes of her original arrival time
we found her suitcase in a baggage claim area that was mostly shut down
with luggage on a carousel but no people from the corresponding flights to claim them
a line that grew longer with each incoming flight filing lost luggage claims
surrounded by people left and right with cancelled flights
she somehow managed to get through the eye of the needle unscathed
how lucky is that?
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‘we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’
-albert einstein
i think we all get news overload now and then
getting puffy is not good for anyone
good to step away as needed.
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‘winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing.
okay, now you’re the mayor.
the bad news is, now you’re the mayor.’
*clint eastwood, american actor, director, mayor
*Clint Eastwood made a successful foray into elected politics. He won election as mayor in April 1986 (until 1988), of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (population 4,000), small town and artists’ community on the Monterey Peninsula.
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image credit: scott metzger
thanks to the library consortium, and the detroit public libraries
i recently had the pleasure of attending an online talk
featuring one of my favorite authors, kate dicamillo
just as friendly and full of whimsy as i had imagined
she talked about how she got her ideas
for stories and characters
how they became a part of her
i’ve loved her books for years
she writes for children of all ages
in the last few years i’ve read some of them again
with new eyes and life experience
i’ve been even more taken with them
each filled with hope and joy and spirit
characters who refuse to be anything other than who they are
and who, against the odds, never surrender
she has such a brilliant magic to her writing.
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below is a link to a post i wrote not long ago, about one of my very favorite books of hers, ‘the miraculous journey of edward tulane’, which was beautiful and moved me to tears.
I didn't have my glasses on.... 