CASH – 3.19

DEBIT – 3.29

CASH & DEBIT

SAME PRICE.

are you sure?

is it me?

am i having trouble doing the math?

or

am I having trouble reading the words?

did someone quit in the middle of doing the sign?

where did it all break down?

please advise.

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‘confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.’

-henry miller

And this is the lady

Whom everyone loves,

Ms. Violet

in her purple gown

Or, on special occasions,

A dress the color

Of sunlight. She sits

In the mossy weeds and waits

To be noticed.

She loves dampness.

She loves attention.

She loves especially

To be picked by careful fingers,

Young fingers, entranced

By what has happened

To the world.

We, the older ones,

Call it Spring,

And we have been through it

Many times.

But there is still nothing

Like the children bringing home

Such happiness

In their small hands.

“Children, It’s Spring”

~Mary Oliver

 

 

 

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art credit: anatomyofmind/etsy

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sitzfleisch

noun:

1. a person’s buttocks

2. power to endure or to persevere in an activity; staying power

example sentences:

‘there was no intermission in the play, and by the fifth act I was feeling the long running time in my sitzfleisch.’

‘eunice’s grandson is a piano prodigy with the sitzfleisch to practice his instrument for four hours every day.’

‘after a few bad grades his freshman year, quentin developed the sitzfleisch to develop study plans for each class and stick to it.’

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now is the time we really need to live the second meaning of this word – staying  power

word origin: German, late 19th century

why this word?

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source credit: word daily

the cats’ gnome forgot to look up

 we forgot to look down

when moving the dresser

 flipping it upside down to be refinished

now i hope the gnome is not finished!

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‘how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up to the sky and disregard what is at their feet?’

-katharina elisabeth goethe

 

 

 

 

‘the opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.’

*marcus aurelius

*Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva-Antoine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.

 

 

 

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art credit: project argentum

 

Pengpeng, Zhou Shasha, Jin Jinjun/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG Getty

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would you hang off the side of a cliff for coffee?

this cafe in Hangzhou, China, rewards adventurers

who complete a rock climb with a cup of joe and some views —

just don’t look down.

(I do love coffee, pretty much any kind, anywhere, but I couldn’t do this.)

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“coffee is a language in itself.”

-jackie chan

Michelin-starred chef heads restaurant entirely staffed by formerly unhoused people

Adam Simmonds is a two-time Michelin-starred chef and Catey Awards Hotel Chef of the Year recipient. And last year, he added chef director of the world’s first restaurant almost entirely staffed by previously unhoused individuals to his resume. Home Kitchen, located in Primrose Hill, London, is a nonprofit fine dining establishment that provides its staff with travel expenses, professional culinary qualifications, and the London living wage.

Aside from some senior members, the team is recruited solely from the unhoused community. If staff members pass a 90-day probation, they’re eligible for a fully paid culinary training course at Westminster Kingsway College. The goals of the whole operation are to kickstart the staff’s careers, address worker shortages in the hospitality industry, and confront the “very flawed public perceptions of what it is to be homeless,” Home Kitchen co-founder Michael Brown told The Guardian.

Simmonds is now working on additional launches in Brighton, England, and San Francisco. “Home Kitchen will act as an accelerant out of poverty for our recruits and an incubator of untapped talent for the catering industry,” he wrote ahead of the London restaurant’s opening. “I believe the restaurant business is an ideal vehicle for social impact, as changing perceptions in this industry can inspire broader societal change.”

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‘although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’

-helen keller

 

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source credits: home kitchen, the guardian