love the library’s front window
‘love your neighbor’
‘you’re all neighbors.’
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‘being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.’
-gladys taber, american author
Nov4
Nov3
‘the future is unwritten.’ joe strummer, the clash
now that it’s november
I went on my annual quest
to buy a planning calendar
for the coming year
lo and behold
after going to three stores
not one of them
had a single 2026 calendar
each store seemed puzzled
that none had arrived yet
is this a bad sign
for the coming year?
for the future?
what’s up with 2026?
am i not supposed
to be planning anything
after December 31, 2025?
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‘tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.’
-og mandino, american author and inspirational speaker
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art credit: the michigan daily
Nov2
dream clocks.
‘calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.’
-michael ende
(on daylight savings day)
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art credit: Dream Clocks, by Phil Greenwood, etching and aqua tint, Welsh artist, born 1943
Nov1
black medicine water.
coffee on the morning after halloween
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A list of words for coffee in ten different languages…
10. Welsh = coffi
9. French = café
8. Manx = caffee
7. Romanian = cafea
6. Dutch = koffie
5. German = kaffee
4. Swedish = kaffe
3. Malagasy = kafe
2. Icelandic = kaffi
1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)
(plus others found later and added in below)
Tamil: Kaapi
Hungarian- kávé
Indonesian: Kopi
Spanish: Cafe
Korean: kuppi
Swedish slang for coffee: Java or Kip.
Snutkaffe (cop-coffe): standard black coffee with absolutely no sugar or milk.
Preferably from a gas station.
Onondaga word for coffee: either khófi or ohnegaijíh (black alcohol)
trump: covfefe
The phrase in Welsh according to the BBC for “I like coffee” is “dw’in hoffi coffi”
which does rhyme.
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I pretty much will drink any coffee. turkish prison coffee, gas station coffee, day old, microwaved, reheated, etc. I especially love the Ojibwe translation (black medicine water), which I find to be quite accurate. anyone have any others?
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‘coffee is a language in itself.’
-jackie chan
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source credits: random and all over the place
Oct31
on halloween.
‘when black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam
may luck be yours on halloween.’
-author unknown
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image credit: pinterest
Oct30
unreliable narrator.
i love telling stories about things that have happened and each time I tell them (just ask my family and friends), they may be just the slightest bit different, but they are as I remember them. perhaps i’m an unreliable narrator, as memoirists are known to be, and i’m okay with that-
‘I won’t tell you the story the way it happened, I’ll tell it to you the way I remember it.’
-Pam Houston
the actual definition of an unreliable narrator as written into literature or film, is the following:
an unreliable narrator is a character who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised.They can be found in a wide range from children to mature characters.
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‘I think that at the end of the day I’m drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there’s a real rewarding sense if you feel like you’ve cracked it.
-damon lindelof
Oct29
every single one.
we must do everything to keep them safe. every single one of them.
near and far
basic needs
food, medicine, shelter.
Oct28
cooking with the witch.
cooking for the holiday
—
‘i watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.’
-laura esquivel
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image source: Dorrie and the Blue Witch by Patricia Coombs
Oct27
palette.
this thoughtful young artist
has left a painter’s palette
and kind hearts
for any passerby
feeling inspired
to create
using the colors left for them
moved by
the surroundings
and such kind generosity.
—
‘a world of colors on the palette remained….
wandering…
on canvases still emerging.’
-wassily kandinsky
Oct26
reforesting the amazon, 100 million trees at a time.
Skydiving legend, Luigi Cani, aims to breathe new life into our world
The Earth is one giant, living organism, and we have the privilege of calling it home. We enjoy the beauty of blue skies, the shade of magnificent trees, the lulling motion of waves.
Being able to breathe clean air is largely a result of the way plants retrieve carbon and purify the air on our planet home. The Amazon forest functions as Earth’s lungs. But deforestation has made it difficult for the jungle to do its job.
Though there are many efforts to plant trees, the remoteness of the jungles makes it difficult. Drop in Luigi Cani, the world-record-holding skydiver who completed a wingsuit jump on a motorcycle into the Grand Canyon and felt like there was something he could do. After 14,000 jumps, Cani was ready to put his skills to good use.
“I’ve been jumping for 25 years, and I’ve always pushed the limits with risky jumps,” he says. “Now, I’m 51 years old, and I don’t have that drive for danger anymore. I want to do something to help.”
Cani picked a 100-square-kilometer patch of land that needed to be reseeded in the northern part of the rainforest. The planning was meticulous. For two months, seeds were collected by hand from nearby native plants. A biodegradable box the size of a refrigerator was designed and built, a landing site was identified, and all the permits were secured from the local and federal governments. The box had its own drag parachute to slow it down so Cani could catch up to it as it fell, open it at the right altitude, then safely jettison away and deploy his chute.
“It was the only jump where I held my breath the entire time,” Cani recalls. “I struggled to hold the box. I nearly broke my wrist and fingers. I managed to stabilize myself at about 6,000 feet.”
The result was a cloud of 100 million seeds, bursting from the box like mad insects and settling into a gentle storm of potential trees floating from the sky in a beautiful eruption of life. The seeds drifted to exactly where they needed to be. Ultimately, 95% would germinate successfully. Like a proud father, Cani charts their growth via satellite images. Some of the trees will reach 50 meters in height, a tall cluster of sentries guarding the Amazon for generations to come.
Cani isn’t done with his efforts to care for our earthly home. His next jump will bring skydiving and ocean cleanup together. “Like the seed drop, this next project will have real meaning behind it.”
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‘to plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow.’
-author unknown
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source credits: passiton.com, unwaste the planet, foundation for a better life
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