Category Archives: Life

enough.

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on this day of thanksgiving, i am grateful for having enough.

“enough is as good as a feast.”

-joshua sylvester

 

 

 

credit: beautiful feast created by the kinder

twists and turns.

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 i love that someone has created a poster

with some of our more interesting twists and turns

 and wonder about the mindset

of the road planning engineers.

were they perhaps going for

 more of an ‘artsy’ and unexpected approach to the roads?

more like the road of life?

“life is full of surprises and serendipity. being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. if you try to plan every step, you may miss these wonderful twists and turns. just find your next adventure – do it well, enjoy it, and then, not now, think about what comes next.”

-Condoleezza Rice – Former U.S. Secretary of State

and a half.

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 my birthday number is a moving target.

i love how the kinder announce they are ‘and a half!’

the moment they have a birthday.

they quite naturally understand this concept. 

today, i am 64.

and a half!

ancestors.

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we’ve been friends for over 40 years

at this gathering

following a recent loss

we came to realize

that between the four of us

we have but one surviving birth parent

making us close to all being orphans

we paid tribute 

offered gratitude

to those who came before us

with all of their strengths and challenges

for had they not lived

there would be no us

nor our children

nor our grandchildren

nor those yet to come.

“the songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children”

-phillip carr-gomm

seeing the world on a monday.

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just another monday as we head back to school

 

“they say to think within the box,

but it’s funny how those in the box never go anywhere,

where those outside it, get to see the world.” 

―anthony liccione 

 

image credit: Children crossing the river on their way to school, Italy, 1959. (Photo by Tino Petrelli)

happy hour.

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friends on november 12th celebrating national happy hour day to the fullest.

why limit happiness to just one hour?

note: happy hour began as an event in the military.

it is believed that the term comes from events organized

by a club called the happy hour social for the United States Navy in 1913.

“fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.”

-william shakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

image credit: google images

going rogue.

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 a very rare photo of a rogue unicorn in the wild.

p.s. i really, really wish this was my shirt.

 

“i always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.”

-vanessa kirby

 

safety.

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“our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.”

-aesop

 

the field museum of natural history, chicago, il, usa

what time is it anyway?

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and with the return of daylight savings time,

this quote is more relevant to me than ever.

i literally just want to know what is the right time?

baskets full.

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we’re gonna need another cart –

 

“the discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation.

the universe is too full of stars.”

― Benjamin Franklin, circa 1700s