.word of the day is: ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking.
also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.
works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.
*suzy dent
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photo credit: elizabeth villanueva
deep within the winter forest
among the snowdrift wide
you can find a magic place
where all the fairies hide.
-author unknown
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nichols arboretum, ann arbor, michigan, usa – winter 2025
When the cold hits, why not just embrace it in a crazy-mazy way?
This year’s ice maze at the Minnesota Ice Festival is more than just the perfect way to freeze your buns off while getting lost — it’s officially the largest ice maze in the world, per Guinness World Records. Boasting over 18,000 square feet of twists and turns, the maze uses 3,452 blocks of ice, each weighing around 425 pounds. Watch a video of the icy labyrinth.
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‘it’s a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end.’
-dale watson, american musician
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source credits: Minnesota Ice Festival, Nice News
‘it is not what a lawyer tells me I may do;
but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.’
-edmund burke
in the same day
an good fortune landed in my hand at lunch
with a bit of a dash
later at another restaurant
a table-available beeper was in my hand
with a warning
not the kind of adventure I was looking for
is this my bold adventure?
I thought about it.
would I boldly go on the lam with this?
what would I do with it anyway?
I think there must be something else ahead.
‘do not know yourself. i want to continue to surprise me.’
-arielle dombasle, rench actress
‘i’ve said this before, and i’ll say it again.
bagels can be an enormous power for good or evil.
it is up to us to decide how we will use them.’
-daniel pinkwater
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in honor of national bagel day
which i somehow missed yesterday
but am happy to celebrate today
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art credit: bagel sunflowers by laurel greenfield art
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fun fact: the first printed mention of bagels is found
in the community regulations of kracow, poland, for the year 1610
stating that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
-leo rosten
what an utterly brilliant idea
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‘adventure is worthwhile, starting right from the airport.’
– insta quote
This letter from Charles in response to a 5th grade student who had written to him as a class assignment to ask, “What Makes a Good Citizen?’
The student, Joel, still has this letter framed at his home,
and the link to the story is below:
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13852729/charles-schulzs-letter-about-democracy-discovered-50-years-later
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Another take on virtue:
Moral beauty can be summarized in one word: virtue. The moral virtues include love, justice/fairness, compassion, wisdom, kindness, honesty, courage, forgiveness, self-sacrifice, etc. It is the enactment of such virtues, the display of them in behavior, which comprises moral beauty. Moral goodness can be noticed through cool cognition, but moral beauty is perceived by a warm heart. Noticing moral goodness may not motivate a human toward prosocial action; but the perception of moral beauty is highly motivating and often leads to prosocial and altruistic behavior. Engagement with moral beauty is the cause of many self-transcendent emotions, but in particular it is cause of the moral emotion of elevation.
-Rhett Diessner, Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies
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image credit: Charles Schulz, American Cartoonist/Author, Peanuts
tempting.
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‘the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B,
but by slowing down and inventing some imaginary letters along the way.’
– douglas pagels
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image credit: tom gauld
I didn't have my glasses on.... 