“here’s to fresh coffee and good books and kind hearts and found beauty
and the weird, kindred souls who help us know we are all in this together.”
-nanea hoffman
—
image credit: Branger/Harper’s Bazaar – Vintage Paris 1925
Dec17
Category Archives: Life
Dec8
yet to be.
an ever-evolving downtown public installation
of personal hopes and dreams
yet to be lived
how would you fill in the blank?
—
“the ninety and nine are with dreams, content
but the hope of the world made new,
is the hundredth man who is grimly bent
on making those dreams come true.”
-edgar allan poe
Dec7
hail, yes.
my sweet cherry blossom spring doormat
has met the sour almost winter hail.
—
“he ran away from the rain and was caught in a hailstorm.”
turkish proverb
Dec4
brace yourself.
how you smile when you first get your braces
—
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.
—
“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.
—
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.
—
image credit: wild and precious
Nov25
enough.
on this day of thanksgiving, i am grateful for having enough.
—
“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
