when you’ve had a very long and busy week
and you get a text that reads:
“great news! your adult pinata headband has been delivered.”
and just like that
your world flips and rights itself in an instant.
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“being happy never goes out of style.”
-lilly pulitzer
“A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters – sometimes very hastily – but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
Maurice Sendak, as noted by Luke Davies in an article in the Brisbane Times, December 3, 2011.
Photograph of Maurice Sendak by Joyce Dopkeen.
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“we can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
– thornton wilder
early morning ann arbor
outside of washtenaw dairy
on a home game day
calm before the storm
go blue.
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“you don’t show up on game day and expect to be great.
greatness happens in practice.
you have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
-michael jordan
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photo credit: washtenaw dairy
plane crash in the park
i may have been one of the first on the scene
it appears no living thing
was harmed in this accident
but things are just a little bit sadder in the sandbox without it.
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what do you do when you need a pair of scissors
so you buy a pair of scissors
but you need scissors to cut them out of the package that holds the scissors that will cut them out?
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“humor brings insight and tolerance. irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
-agnes repplier
At The Water’s Edge, 1910. Edward S. Curtis photographed Piegan tepees at the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. The Reservation is bordered by Canada to the north and Glacier Park to the west. Browning, site of tribal headquarters, has an average of 196 days per year with temperatures below freezing.
In Montana, Blackfeet is used as both the singular and plural designation for tribal members. The Siksika of Canada describe themselves as Blackfoot.
“it does not require many words to speak the truth.”
– Chief Joseph, of the Wallowa Band of Nez Perce
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous Americans and commemorates their histories and cultures. It is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October, and is an official city and state holiday in various localities.
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credits: text and digital restoration of photo, gary coffrin, edward s. curtis, native american history site
as a huge fan of reading newspapers in print, i loved reading this news in print:
There’s currently a French castle that’s channeling the past and being built using only medieval construction methods. County Highway has a similar premise, but for the publishing industry.
The U.S.-based newspaper, which launched its first edition over the summer, costs $8.50 and will distribute six issues per year. Most notably, it’s print-only, meaning you won’t find any of its stories online.
“People read differently on the printed page than they do on a screen,” editor David Samuels told The Observer. “The printed page is an immersive experience without constant distractions or the specter of other people’s responses on social media. It’s a much more enriching and human experience.”
Styled after 19th century broadsheets, County Highway cites Charles Dickens, Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and Tom Wolfe as inspirations. And there’s clearly an appetite for it: Samuels said the team hit their year-three subscription and sales targets within three weeks of putting out the first issue. “The response has been tremendous,” he added.
check it out below:
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“i read about eight newspapers in a day. when i’m in a town with only one newspaper, i read it eight times.”
-will rogers
giving a speech has always been a challenge for me
while i love talking
one-on-one, or to a stranger or small group
(and can do so for hours, sorry)
when i have to get up in front of an audience
finding a mic in my hand
it never turns out well
it’s never gotten easier
i’m much better
with story-telling, improv, prattling on, and going off on tangents
so i have reimagined
all of these experiences
as tiny speeches.
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“i can talk for a long time only when it’s about something boring.”
-lydia davis, author
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image credit: harvard business review
the kinder visited the farm today
met farmers megan and amy
said hello to the animals
had a tractor ride
saw the community garden
walked into the pumpkin patch
said thank you to the land and the plants
for making and sharing the pumpkins with us
they’ll give back
by planting the seeds from a pumpkin
to make new pumpkins at school
said thank you to the farmers
who taught us so much
who day in and day out
make all of the magic happen.
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“we have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
-wendell berry
a creepy doll mask,
never will i ever…
with my luck and imagination
i picture it never coming off.
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“a mask tells us more than a face.”
-oscar wilde
I didn't have my glasses on.... 