Category Archives: Life

Nov22

kennedy on kennedy.

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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.

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my kennedy family

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“the essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. “

-john updike

Nov21

temperature.

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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

Nov18

rhythm of life.

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“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

 

Nov15

thank you’s.

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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

Nov14

shorthand of emotion.

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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

Nov13

on world kindness day.

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“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

Nov12

open book.

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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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“the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
-albert einstein

 

 

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source credits: P4 Gothenberg radio, Dagens Nyheter

Nov11

remembrance.

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“in war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”

-jose narosky

 

 

 

 

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art credit: jenni gray, art candy www.etsy.com/shop/artcandyaustralia .

 

 

 

Nov8

reclaiming.

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Life finds a way : when nature reclaims space.

We humans transform landscapes and leave our unmistakable marks on the world.

But these marks are not always indelible,

because when we move out, nature quickly moves in to stake its claim once more.

-BBC Science

Nov7

welcome november.

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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