waiting.
(not me, but a local who has a similar style)
—
“patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.”
-joyce meyer
Nov6
Nov5
counting.
and the counting continues…..
—
“there’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done.”
-kenny rogers
Nov4
along for the ride.
on last night’s walk downtown
i was behind a person who was
giving a skeleton a piggyback ride
heading to the polls?
—
“i just enjoy being along for the ride.”
– darryl royal – american football player (1924-2012)
Nov3
“tell the children the truth.” – bob marley
“today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.”
-david icke
–
vote.
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image credit: courier news
Nov2
“am i living in a simulation?” – charlie brooker
who could possibly part with this?
the hurricane simulator
is on the trash heap
behind a bowling alley
why has no one snatched it up?
has it lost its luster, its wind, its power to awe?
looks a time-travel machine to me if there ever was one.
—
“nature isn’t classical, dammit,
and if you want to make a simulation of nature,
you’d better make it quantum mechanical,
and by golly it’s wonderful problem,
because it doesn’t look easy.”
-richard p. feynman (american theoretical physicist)
Nov1
madelines on my mind.
shared a kitchen and an online live cooking class
with one of my grandies today
we had
a fast-working sur la table pastry chef
equipment, ingredients, and time
we both worked hard for 2 hours
improvised along the way
scrambled to find things
as the chef added in a few surprises
like making two royal icings
of different consistencies
all while
white chocolate melted
dark chocolate melted
not burning
never mixing
coloring the icings
buttering and chilling the pan
twice
after many, many steps
we had pretty much trashed the entire kitchen
but in the end
we had created
wonderful french madelines – vanilla bean halloween style
more tiny cakes than cookies.
“cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. and cooking done with care is an act of love.”
-craig claiborne
Oct31
pumpkin king.
“That’s right. I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!”
– Jack Skellington
—
one of my favorite leading men/holiday movies ever.
happy halloween!
—
image credits: walt disney pictures
Oct30
bear in the woods.
ran into this guy
when out walking
frozen in place
i tried to remember
what to do
if i ever was
to meet a bear in the woods
run, play dead, make myself large, make noise
or
take a picture
leave it in the trees
for the child who left it behind
now, missing it.
—
“he looked all alone
and so sad and so blue,
so I said, “oh, dear bear;
there’s a home here for you.”
-ingrod sawubona, A Big-Bear Birthday, Please (English version)
Oct29
art and nature.
an artist’s whimsical sense of humor comes into play after coming upon an unusual tree.
—
“to the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
-auguste rodin
—
gallup park, ann arbor, mi, usa – 2020
Oct28
never too.
reading, listening, drifting.
—
“you’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
dr. seuss
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credit: original oil painting by ColorChic, etsy
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