Relaxing around the fire
with cold drinks and warm friends
on a late summer night
in the irish hills.
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“the four building blocks of the universe
are fire, water, gravel, and vinyl.”
-dave barry
Sep5
Fire.
Sep4
memorable.
i’ve always loved movies of all kinds
and seeing this poster
brought back warm memories of watching
every western, wwII movie, and screwball comedy on tv
with my dad on lazy saturday afternoons.
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“your children get only one childhood. make it memorable.”
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-regina brett
Sep3
get in line.
safe travels.
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“if all the cars in the united states were placed end to end,
it would probably be labor day weekend.”
-doug larson
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image credit: national toy museum (record for world’s longest line of toy cars)
Sep2
piaget. (repost-computer still in flux)
*Jean Piaget (1896-1980) in his office.
Shout out to all those who didn’t tidy their office before the start of the school year.
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“simple solutions seldom are. it takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.”
-alfred north whitehead
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*Piaget’s (1936) theory of cognitive development explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait, and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.
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credit: modern language association
Sep1
the art of lounging around.
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“like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand,
they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.”
-charles baudelaire
Aug31
Junk drawer
what what’s that red circle thing?
don’t have any idea but we might need it.
what’s that twisty thing? no idea.
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“a safe bit sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. if you’re searching for anything in particular you won’t find it but something falls out of the back that is often more interesting.”
-james m. Barrie
Aug30
splash.
grandie takes a leap – new level of brave
“you may not be the biggest raindrop falling from the sky, but you sure know how to make a splash.”
-robert douglas
Aug29
topsy-turvy. again.
please be flexible as my laptop has taken a turn and posts will be in a freestyle format for a bit. (a bit equals 1day-100 years, using computer math algorithm.)
Aug29
night games.
late night croquet
adds a new level of challenge.
next time I’ll be ready
with my night vision goggles.
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“the night plays games.”
-ryan adams
Aug28
figuring it out.
how to fit 4 kids and 1 log into 1 boat and get 2 to paddle it to make it move ahead?
use the trial and error and figure it out as you go method.
“if you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it’ll never happen.”
― d
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glen lake, glen arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2021
I didn't have my glasses on.... 