my sweet cherry blossom spring doormat
has met the sour almost winter hail.
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“he ran away from the rain and was caught in a hailstorm.”
turkish proverb
Dec7
Category Archives: Life
Dec4
brace yourself.
how you smile when you first get your braces
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after many years of delay
it was finally my time
to begin wearing
invisalign braces
4 months in and 14 to go
a little bit of slurring
a lot of brushing
going to the ortho office
sitting in the waiting room
surrounded by 13-year olds
we may have different things on our mind
but we have something in common as well.
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“i’m not going to miss wearing the braces very much.”
-america ferrera
Dec2
hearts to you.
my heart goes out to all children, their families, and their teachers
senselessly lost or hurt this week in a just a moment at a local school.
as a mother, grandmother, teacher, and human
i cannot make sense of it.
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image credit: wild and precious
Dec2
hearts to you.
my heart goes out to all children, their families, and their teachers
senselessly lost or hurt this week in a just a moment at a local school.
as a mother, grandmother, teacher, and human
i cannot make sense of it.
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image credit: wild and precious
Nov25
enough.
on this day of thanksgiving, i am grateful for having enough.
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“enough is as good as a feast.”
-joshua sylvester
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credit: beautiful feast created by the kinder
Nov22
twists and turns.
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
Nov18
and a half.
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!
Nov17
ancestors.
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
Nov15
seeing the world on a monday.
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
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image credit: Children crossing the river on their way to school, Italy, 1959. (Photo by Tino Petrelli)
Nov12
happy hour.
friends on november 12th celebrating national happy hour day to the fullest.
why limit happiness to just one hour?
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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.
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“fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.”
-william shakespeare
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image credit: google images
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