downtown detroit
on a very chilly and beautiful november evening
sparkling christmas tree
ice
music
family from near and far
laughter
winter market
lots and lots of food
warm drinks
lights
comfort.
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“downtown. lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
and in that moment, i swear we were infinite.”
stephen chbosky
jfk and family – the ones who i thought were my cousins
(a reblog from 10 years ago)
being born a kennedy, for as long as i can remember, i assumed that the other kennedys were just cousins who lived out east. when the killing of jfk happened, 50 years ago, (now 60 years), i had just turned 6, only 4 days before. i was in first grade and i remember being called in from recess and all of the adults were crying. that was the day i found out that i was not actually a cousin, and that people could die from things other than being very, very old. it was one of those days when my world changed forever.
my kennedy family
“the essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. “
-john updike
the temperature has dropped quite a bit and i am ready.
bring it.
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“it doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.”
-steven wright
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image credit: google images
“loves to have record player going or any music at 15 months.
attempts to dance to it and complains when music stops.”
(from my baby book on my ‘rhythm and music’ page, first expression of rhythm)
today, on my birthday, many eons later, not much has changed.
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“life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
some will get angry when the rhythm changes. but life is changing all the time.”
-don miguel ruiz
our class spent time this week talking about gratitude
and the importance of offering thank you’s to people we are grateful for.
the kinder drew pictures and dictated thank you notes for their families.
i had the honor of writing out the words above
for a child’s thank you that he wanted to give to his family.
it was one of simplest, most powerful, and beautiful thank you’s i’ve yet to see.
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“mankind’s greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.”
-wes fesler, american athlete, coach, and author
the university musical society
knew all the right words to get me ramped up about the season.
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“music is the shorthand of emotion.”
– leo tolstoy
“the greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
-meryl streep
kindness in all things, today, and every day.
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image credit: bbc
this is what happened when a swedish library accidentally left a door open
The Gothenburg City Library in Sweden was supposed to be closed last Saturday, but staffers accidentally left a door unlocked. One might imagine that could lead to thievery or destruction, but what actually happened was quite the opposite: Residents simply used the library as usual.
The city said nearly 450 people visited the library that day and 246 books were borrowed. “Nothing was destroyed. It’s absolutely fantastic that you as a Gothenburger come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly,” operations manager Anna Carin Elf told radio station P4 Gothenburg, per the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Arvid Jadenius was among the visitors, alongside his wife and 2-year-old son, and didn’t know anything was amiss until he saw the news on social media.
“It felt good that everyone behaved exactly as usual, they borrowed books, read the newspaper, and so on,” he said in an interview with Göteborgs-Posten, adding, “The citizens of Gothenburg take care of their library. There is obviously a desire to be there.”
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source credits: P4 Gothenberg radio, Dagens Nyheter
“in war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
-jose narosky
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art credit: jenni gray, art candy www.etsy.com/shop/artcandyaustralia .
Life finds a way : when nature reclaims space. -BBC Science
I didn't have my glasses on.... 