Category Archives: Life

helpers.

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grandie f and his friends take a short walk

through their neighborhood

(and now mine)

to help bring a few first things over to my new digs.

the friendliest movers ever.

 

“i get by with a little help from my friends.”

-John lennon

 

rejoice.

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headed off on a family fun river raft float trip 

not real relaxing as expected

but lots of adventures/misadventures instead

so many laughs and we all survived

who could ask for anything more?

“rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.” 

-melissa marr, darkest mercy

 

 

argo park, huron river, Ann Arbor, michigan, u.s.a. – summer 2019

choosing.

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“does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― garth nix
either way, a good choice.
sleeping bear. heritage trail, lake michigan, glen arbor, michigan, usa

traveling north.

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traveling north

I am the driver

but best match

the back seat descriptor.

 

 

 

 

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returning.

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with

one sister visiting

one sister gone too soon

 only brother on his way

 grandchildren in tow

we visited the place

where we had grown up.

it looked much the same

yet felt somehow not.

 much like us.

 

“there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged

to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

-nelson mandela

just perfect.

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f sees how he measures up to the footprints he’s happened upon.

 

“if there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps,

i’d say that my shoe size is too big for them to fill,

but their shoe size is just perfect.”

-queen latifah

impression.

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walking on the sidewalk

finding imprints

left behind by leaves

on what was once wet cement

 

–.

“It’s not the impression you make, it’s the impression you leave.”

-marlyn schwartz, author

grandma or google.

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when driving with grandie f

he asked me 

 what a ‘party line’ was.

he said it was mentioned

in an article he was reading

and it advised him to

 ‘ask a grandma or google’

if he needed an explanation.

I think that was a brilliant suggestion

they understood

that between the two sources

we have most everything covered. 

“as I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”

-prince william

less.

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one day.

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