getting ready to take the big jump. there is power in numbers.
—
“individually, we are one drop. together, we are an ocean.”
– ryunosuke satoro
Oct8
Oct7
round and round.
with so much going on in the world
and all around us
it’s vitally important
to keep an open mind.
—
“our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.”
quote credited to both : alan ginsberg/francis picabia
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image credit: busybrain
Oct6
create something.
kinder quite naturally, know what to do
—
“in a time of destruction, create something.”
-maxine hong kingston
Oct5
piece of my art.
the cats have done it again
(the most likely suspects)
a long while after putting my latest puzzle away
without finding a missing piece
they have left a piece at my feet
now all i have to do is find their secret lair
where i may discover a treasure trove
of all of my missing ‘one-pieces.’
—
“sometimes the hardest pieces of a puzzle to assemble, are the ones missing from the box.”
-dixie waters
Oct4
out of sync.
the design i imagined i would be a part of
more what my part looked like
—
it was a last-minute impulse decision
my friend who was on our high school swim team
said she was going to join our new synchronized swim team
(now known as artistic swimming in the olympics)
i thought it sounded like fun
so i followed along ready to become an aqua artist
looking back
not sure at all why i made this choice
as i clearly remember my p.e. teacher
just weeks before
telling me
(after a 10-minute treading water test)
that i resembled someone who had been shipwrecked
thrashing around just trying to survive
(quite accurate really)
even so
i jumped into the water
where my vision of grace and being a mermaid
quickly blurred into reality
and one reason why you did not see me in the recent olympics.
—
“sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”
-bernardo bertolucci
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image credits: google images
Oct3
happy 62nd birthday, twilight zone.
The Changing of the Guard – 1962
(one of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite shows by one of my favorite writers, rod serling)
OPENING: Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle, bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Spring School for Boys lies on a direct path to another institution, commonly referred to as the Twilight Zone.
Professor Ellis Fowler is an elderly English literature teacher at the Rock Spring School, a boys’ prep school, who is forced into retirement after teaching for 51 years at the school. Looking through his old yearbooks and reminiscing about his former students, he becomes convinced that all of his lessons have been in vain and that he has accomplished nothing with his life.
Deeply depressed, he prepares to kill himself on the night of Christmas Eve next to a statue of the famous educator Horace Mann, with its quote “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” Before he can follow through, however, he is called back to his classroom by a phantom bell, where he is visited by ghosts of several boys who were his students, all dead, several of whom died heroically.
The boys tell him of how he inspired them to become better men, and the difference he made in their lives. One posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions at Iwo Jima; another died of leukemia after exposure to X-rays during research into cancer treatments; another died at Pearl Harbor after saving 12 other men. All were inspired by Fowler’s teachings. Moved to tears, Fowler hears the phantom bell again, and his former pupils disappear. Now accepting of his retirement, content that his life is fuller for having enriched the lives of the boys, he listens to his current students caroling outside his home.
Closing: Professor Ellis Fowler, teacher, who discovered rather belatedly something of his own value. A very small scholastic lesson, from the campus of the Twilight Zone.
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credits: imdb, twilight zone
Oct2
octobers.
“i’m so glad to live in a world where there are octobers.”
-l.m. montgomery
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art credit: aleksandraszmidt.com
Oct1
finding yourself.
A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realizing he was the person they were looking for, local media reports.
Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.
When he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.
Mr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.
But when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: “I am here.” He was taken aside by one of the rescuer workers to give a statement. “Don’t punish me too harshly, officer. My father will kill me,” he reportedly told them. Police then drove Mr Mutlu home. It is not clear if he was given a fine.
—
“you cannot find yourself till you lose yourself.”
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credits:
bbc news
Sep30
we love nature.
kinder frame the natural beauty found around them
“if you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
-laura ingalls wilder
Sep29
stick together.
our rainbow of people
—
“look at the rainbow, it is made up of different colors, yet they do not split,
because they know how beautiful they are when they stick together.”
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