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image credit: blackmoon photo, austin
Aug1
august shines.
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image credit: blackmoon photo, austin
Jul31
distraction.
sometimes you find it
even in the
most unlikely of places
like tucked away
under a picnic table
on a farm with gentle deer
that you feed
apples and leaves to
while indoor tennis lessons
are going on in the barn
a ping pong table
standing by
waiting to be played upon
a farm house, museum, and gardens
sitting quietly
all surrounded
by corn fields and a golf course
way out in the middle of nowhere.
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“skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion.
everything else is a distraction.”
-talib kweli
Jul30
possibilities for sale, but not today.
unfortunately
this door was locked
when I happened upon it.
that’s an awful lot to pack into one store.
like the costco of the possibility world.
I wonder if they offer free samples.
what do you think I would find inside?
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“there are many spokes on the wheel of life.
first, we’re here to explore new possibilities.”
-ray charles
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ann arbor,michigan, usa – summer 2019
Jul28
chatting.
friends meet under the bridge
and relax into an after-dinner chat.
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“I’d be smiling and chatting away,
and my mind would be floating around somewhere else
like a balloon with a broken string.”
-haruki murakami
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Ann Arbor, mi – summer 2019
Jul27
two shoes.
and what was just one shoe
perched up high
has now grown to two shoes
overnight.
the only thing missing is the wearer
hopefully not sitting
perched here
tomorrow morning.
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“comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.”
-shel silverstein
Jul26
shoe.
like a trophy
standing proud
atop a pedestal
sits one tiny shoe.
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“let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”
-ryunosuke satoro
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.
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“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.
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“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?
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“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
