like a trophy
standing proud
atop a pedestal
sits one tiny shoe.
—
“let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”
-ryunosuke satoro
Jul26
Jul25
keeping count.
“never have more children than you have car windows.”
-erma bombeck
Jul24
empty.
this came today
inside of a box of something else I had ordered
maybe it was added as a surprise free bonus
for being such a good customer
there were no directions
and no warranty
but I am
looking forward to using it.
—
“even in empty space, time and space still exist”.
-sean m. carroll
Jul23
nuns.
you know you’ve been waiting quite a long time
at the secretary of state’s office
when even a minivan load of nuns get restless.
—
“I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name.
how could I be anything else but what I am having been named madonna?
i would have either ended up a nun or this.”
-madonna ciccone
Jul22
new path.
shopping in the happy garden section today
gloves, pots, dirt, candles, seeds, fairy lights…
and this.
machete much?
—
“if you’re doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding,
but you’re in new ground
and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.”
-jeanine tesori
Jul21
magic.
a little magic to wow us at the beginning of the Ann Arbor art fair
—
“the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― w
― w
Jul20
everywhere.
what’s on your list?
—
image credit: mindful travel
Jul19
11.
50th anniversary of the week of the Apollo 11 moon landing
I was 11
on the cusp of everything
we went over
to my parents’ friends’ house
everyone was transfixed
air was electric
all gathered around the tv
watching
silent and awestruck
gobsmacked
as the first man walked on the moon
spoke his first words on the moon
lots of emotion in the house
I ran to the window to look at the moon
hoping I would see him up there
right in the middle of all of this
the hostess
left to go to the hospital
to have her baby
she named him neil
after that man on the moon.
—
“we ran as if to meet the moon.”
― robert frost
—
image credit: Ann Arbor district library archives
Jul18
helpers.
grandie f and his friends take a short walk
through their neighborhood
(and now mine)
to help bring a few first things over to my new digs.
the friendliest movers ever.
—
“i get by with a little help from my friends.”
-John lennon
Jul17
creepy.
so creepy unpacking from the family tripand finding this giant scary baby surprisein my suitcase.could have been most anyonethere’s more than one suspect in the groupwith this sense of humor.once narrowed downit was clear that she may soonbe making a surprise appearancesomewhere elseI’m just saying…
thanks, family!
—“I tend to scare myself”– stephen king
