from rogueNASA – “Ok, so far we’ve had a pandemic, race wars, a global economic collapse, a presidential impeachment, Brexit, murder hornets, and a contested election. Am I missing anything?”
credits: rogueNASA
“life is an improvisation. you have no idea what’s going to happen next
and you are mostly making things up as you go along.”
stephen colbert
photographic evidence that rudolph was not allowed to play any reindeer games.
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“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
– Coco Chanel
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image credit: google images
this guy may or may not be of scandinavian heritage
but he is definitely befuddled
and would utter the perfect comment, ‘uff da’ if he could.
full deck of cards found on election day
did the player win, lose, or draw?
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“life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
robert louis stevenson
“MYSTERIES, YES”
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
ran into this guy
when out walking
frozen in place
i tried to remember
what to do
if i ever was
to meet a bear in the woods
run, play dead, make myself large, make noise
or
take a picture
leave it in the trees
for the child who left it behind
now, missing it.
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“he looked all alone
and so sad and so blue,
so I said, “oh, dear bear;
there’s a home here for you.”
-ingrod sawubona, A Big-Bear Birthday, Please (English version)
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seeing the bones of this ship on the shores of lake michigan
washed up on the camp arcadia beach
and wondering how they came to be here.
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“the sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning:
we are all in the same boat.
-jacques yves cousteau
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http://www.arcadiami.com/index.php/hidden-exhibits/hidden-shipwrecks/hidden-minnehaha
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credits: maritime history of the great lakes, bowling green state university, camp arcadia
a blustery autumn day
on the shores of lake michigan
the wind and the sea so full of life.
—
as wave is driven by wave
and each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead
so time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
always, forever and new, what was before
is left behind: what never was is now:
and every passing moment is renewed.
-ovid
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lake michigan, arcadia, michigan, usa – october 2020
even brave dragons
have their moments
when they sit down
between the goal posts
the football sits down
on the ground
and
they are just done.
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“by letting it go it all gets done.
the world is won by those who let it go.
but when you try and try
the world is beyond the winning.”
-lao tzu
I didn't have my glasses on.... 