Category Archives: Life

9/11 after 20 years – never gone.

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Messages at NYC’s Union Square after the 9/11 attack – North Sullivan

 

“it has been said that time heals all wounds. i don’t agree. the wounds remain.

time – the mind, protecting its sanity –

covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens,

but it is never gone.”

-rose kennedy

more dance numbers, please.

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Calvin: They say the world is a stage.

But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.

Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

— Calvin and Hobbes, from “Calvin & Hobbes,” on the tragicomedy of life

 

 

 

image credit: sbs

how long is forever?

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the usps has announced that the price of forever stamps is going up

isn’t that the purpose of buying forever stamps,

so you never ever have to pay more or wonder what the current price is?

so forever isn’t forever?

i decided to ask my reliable old friend, merriam webster –

forever adverb

for·​ev·​er | \ fə-ˈre-vər  , fȯ-; Southern often fə-ˈe-və \

Definition of forever 

1

for a limitless time

wants to live forever

2

at all times CONTINUALLY

is forever making bad puns

forever noun

Definition of forever 

a seemingly interminable time excessively long

it took her forever to find the answer

i then asked my two steves for their answer:

” intend to live forever. so far, so good.”

-steven wright

“nothing cannot exist forever.”

-stephen hawking

Good cheer.

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Celebrating in color at the end

of a long summer season.

“I drink to the general joy

of the whole table”

-Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 41

Fire.

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Relaxing around the fire

with cold drinks and warm friends

on a late summer night

in the irish hills.

“the four building blocks of the universe

are fire, water, gravel, and vinyl.”

-dave barry

memorable.

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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.

 

the art of lounging around.

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yeti has mastered the lounging skill quite naturally and with no training at all.

“like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand,

they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.”

-charles baudelaire

Junk drawer

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what what’s that red circle thing?

don’t have any idea but we might need it.

what’s that twisty thing? no idea.

“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

splash.

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grandie takes a leap – new level of brave

splash down!

“you may not be the biggest raindrop falling from the sky, but you sure know how to make a splash.”

-robert douglas

topsy-turvy. again.

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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.)