“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
WELCOME NOVEMBER…
There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder where we will find it.
And I think November is a great time to take a little peek behind you,
and see just how much you’ve done.
To take stock of your achievements, your endurance,
your survival.
To rest, reinforce, before the festivities envelope us all.
Before beautiful new beginnings.
And most importantly, November is a time to seek out light.
As the natural order darkens, we must find it ourselves.
We must do whatever we can to brighten our day,
our home, the world.
Seek out light wherever you can my friends,
and pay no heed to those who condemn your sparkle.
You are much-needed.
Keep showing up, in that special way only you can do.
And show up for yourself too
(which can sometimes mean not showing up at all).
This year has been hard.
Again.
But beautiful.
Again.
As is the way of life.
As is the way of life.
-Donna Ashworth
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art credit: arthur rackham, british children’s literature illustrator, fall fairies from peter pan, 1906
made a quick stop into a local shop
to grab a couple of bottles of wine for gifts
on my way to the checkout line
there was a food sample display
with small broken pieces of ghiradelli chocolate for tasting
i popped one into my mouth
started chewing
but quickly stopped
when i remembered
i had invisalign on my teeth
so i swallowed what was left of it
assuming it would melt
but instead
it got somewhat stuck in my throat
i started coughing while in line
still not melting
still coughing
somehow i said ‘water’
the checkout person
pointed and said , “run to the drinking fountain!”
so i took off
got a drink
some of the water went down
but still not melting or moving
thought i was going to have to be heimlich-ed
yet again no melting or moving
then somehow it finally made it’s way down
walked back to the counter
cashier told me that some people have that reaction to chocolate
but my issue was that i had popped it into my mouth without a thought
and it quickly went downhill (for a bit, but not downhill enough) from there
finally i emerged from the store with the wine and no chocolate
decided that i should probably think about my chocolate
and not automatically start eating it anytime it is offered
but chocolate does that to a person
it just draws you in.
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“your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that,
as far as chocolate is concerned,
there is no need to involve your brain.’
-dave barry
and here we go,
with daylight saving time changing its mind once again.
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“time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”
– faith baldwin
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image credit: etsy vintage
I didn't have my glasses on.... 