Category Archives: Life

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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what will you do?

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just another typical moment spent in a dance-off with a gorilla

while wearing a mash-up of your baseball team hat and Cub Scout gear

as a flag flies and a Girl Scout looks on.

what will you do today?

 

“it’s fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.”

-walt handelsman

birth.

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and on the day

that a royal prince was born

a baby sister was born

and our butterfly babies were born

each arrival was nothing less than spectacular.

 

“birth is the sudden opening of a window,

through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect.

for what has happened?

a miracle.

you have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.”     

-william macneile dixon

best day.

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not a bad idea to follow a dog’s lead.
“success is to wake up each morning
and consciously decide
that today will be the best day of your life.”
― ken poirot
credits: semi.rad, downtown home and garden