Category Archives: Life

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.)

night games.

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late night croquet

adds a new level of challenge.

next time I’ll be ready

with my night vision goggles.

“the night plays games.”

-ryan adams

oldies.

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happy i’m still around and sweatin’ with the rest of the michigan oldies – one more special day to celebrate

Header 2021

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.

 

“the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”

-Madeleine L’Engle

speck.

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perspective

 

“we are nothing but space dust trying to find its way back to the stars.”

-d.j.

 

 

 

art credit: bill watterson – calvin and hobbes

seeing.

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“i love walking down the street and seeing faces

and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.”

-ric ocasek