i’ve always loved movies of all kinds
and seeing this poster
brought back warm memories of watching
every western, wwII movie, and screwball comedy on tv
with my dad on lazy saturday afternoons.
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“your children get only one childhood. make it memorable.”
-regina brett
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“like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand,
they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.”
-charles baudelaire
what what’s that red circle thing?
don’t have any idea but we might need it.
what’s that twisty thing? no idea.
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“a safe bit sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. if you’re searching for anything in particular you won’t find it but something falls out of the back that is often more interesting.”
-james m. Barrie
grandie takes a leap – new level of brave
“you may not be the biggest raindrop falling from the sky, but you sure know how to make a splash.”
-robert douglas
please be flexible as my laptop has taken a turn and posts will be in a freestyle format for a bit. (a bit equals 1day-100 years, using computer math algorithm.)
late night croquet
adds a new level of challenge.
next time I’ll be ready
with my night vision goggles.
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“the night plays games.”
-ryan adams
happy i’m still around and sweatin’ with the rest of the michigan oldies – one more special day to celebrate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2021 Governor Whitmer proclaims August 21 as Older Michigander Day LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), is celebrating the state’s more than 2.4 million adults aged 60 years and older by proclaiming Aug. 21 as Older Michigander Day.
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“the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
-Madeleine L’Engle
perspective
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“we are nothing but space dust trying to find its way back to the stars.”
-d.j.
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art credit: bill watterson – calvin and hobbes
“i love walking down the street and seeing faces
and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.”
-ric ocasek
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
ON A SMALL SLICE OF wide-open pasture in the town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, broken-down rocking horses, plastic ponies, metal ponies, and other assorted horse toys have been holding court. As if by magic, ponies have been proliferating along this winding country road, resulting in the peculiar “Ponyhenge.”
The horses started arriving anonymously sometime in 2010, with the placement of a lone hobby horse along picturesque Old Sudbury Road, about 15 miles west of Boston. How and why the rusty little fellow appeared is a mystery, even to Lincolnites who’ve been around a while. One story has the first horse hanging around after a kid’s short-lived lemonade stand, another that he was left over from a Christmas display.
Whatever the real story might be, after the first one appeared things started to get strange. More horses—hobby horses, rocking horses, and horse figurines—began appearing at the site. They are periodically rearranged, sometimes in a circle, sometimes in rows like race horses. Other times they are simply scattered and knocked around, as if they’ve come back from a long night of carousing.
The herd has been growing faster of late, with twice as many horses put out to pasture as there were a couple of years ago. Oddly, no one takes them away—the arrangement only morphs and grows, much to the delight of the family that owns the land. As the owner told the Boston Globe in 2015, “There was something lovely about it being anonymous, and now every time we go away, another one appears.”
While it’s on privately owned land, Ponyhenge is open to anyone who wants to visit.
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“they swayed about upon a rocking horse. and thought it pegasus.”
-john keats
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credits: atlas obscura, soaringraven
I didn't have my glasses on.... 