like me when driving at night, or writing, if you added in a pair of glasses and fingers crossed,
knowing i’ll get there somehow, not sure exactly when, and just trusting the process
—
‘writing is like driving a car at night.
you can see only as far as your headlights,
but you can make the whole trip that way.”
-e.l. doctrow
always enjoyed bob marley
the new biopic musical film about him
was a bit disjointed
but
leads were very good
his message stood strong
music was a great bonus
especially loved the real footage at the end.
—
“love the life you live, live the life you love.”
-bob marley
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image credit: paramount pictures
who could resist this classic?
happy valentine’s day!
Formed in 1966, The Valentines were a popular Perth band favoring soul and British mod sounds. They had a local hit with Arthur Alexander’s Every Day I Have To Cry. In 1967 they went to the national finals of Hoadleys’ Battle of the Sounds in Melbourne and moved there later in the year. They eventually became national teenybopper idols after the success of My Old Man’s A Groovy Old Man.
The band featured notable co-lead vocalists: Bon Scott (1946-1980), later famous as AC/DC’s lead singer from 1974, and Vince Lovegrove (1947-2012), journalist, TV presenter, booking agent and film maker.
—
“there are more love songs than anything else.
if songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”
-frank zappa
source credit: Ian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of Australian Rock & Pop (1999), pp.660-661
a delightful surprise
getting back into the car
thinking of my next stop
a gentle knock on my window
opened to hear a smiling stranger say,
‘i just wanted to give these to you, have a beautiful day.’
holding this lovely little bouquet
making my way back into the day
made all the sweeter with this gift.
—
“happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”
– john arrigan
the kinder were very worried about a tree that had lost some of its bark
they spent a long time finding little chunks of bark lying on the ground
trying to piece it back together and fill it in like a puzzle.
some had questions about how it might have fallen off.
‘was it a big, big storm?’
‘did something hurt it?’
‘did it get sick?’
some had thoughts about the tree.
‘i remember this tree from when we played here.’
‘that’s kind of sad.’
‘don’t worry, i saw in a book that it will be okay.’
try as they might, they couldn’t get the bark
to stick back on the bare part of the trunk
they left the pieces nearby on the ground around it
used a stick to mark where it was
gave it a hug before we walked back to our classroom.
—
“there’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
-bob ross
“the war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.”
-john f. kennedy
*celebrating world read aloud day
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“we have an obligation to read aloud to our children. to read them things they enjoy. to read to them stories we are already tired of. to do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.”
-neil gaiman, english author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays
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art credit: ‘gnome’ by rien poortvliet, illustrator
“i have learned that to be with those i like is enough.”
-walt whitman
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art credit: olga soldo
“the best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.”
-joyce meyer
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art credit- L Józef Wilkoń – Leopanter
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
I didn't have my glasses on.... 