is this a carb or carb-free on food pyramid?
so are they anti or pro pasta?
“isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
-pawan mishra, author, screenwriter, director
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photo credit: google images
Jul8
Jul7
fine print.
can anyone actually read the fine print on this coupon?
if not,
perhaps you need glasses!
frustrating, but this is no accident
what great marketing this actually is.
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‘the best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.’
-tom fishbourne.
*Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a student at Harvard Business School. Fishburne’s cartoons have grown by word of mouth to reach hundreds of thousands of marketers every week and have been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. His cartoons have appeared on a billboard ad in Times Square, helped win a Guinness World Record, and turned up in a top-secret NSA presentation released by Edward Snowden.
Since 2010, Marketoonist has developed visual content marketing campaigns for businesses such as Google, IBM, Kronos, and LinkedIn. Fishburne is a frequent keynote speaker on marketing, innovation, and creativity, using cartoons, case studies, and his marketing career to tell the story visually. He is the author of “Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoon from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings”
Jul6
seven generations.
At the Omega Institute near Rhinebeck, New York, a striking assemblage of metal figures stands on the grass beside the library. You look through the hollow in each to the last, and smallest, figure, which contains an unborn child. This sculpture set was created by the artist Frederick Franck to honor the traditional teaching of the elders of the Six Nations of the Haudenosonee, or Iroquois, that we must be mindful of the consequences of our actions, down to the seventh generation beyond ourselves.
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‘In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.’
-Wilma Mankiller
*Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010) was a Native American activist and the first woman elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She served from 1985 to 1995 and was a strong advocate for the rights of American Indians and women.
Jul5
frida and granizo.
happy birthday to Frida Kahlo, one of my favorite artists
Born on July 5th, 1907, she was one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. This photograph, titled “Frida with Granizo, Coyoacán,” captures Frida Kahlo alongside her beloved pet deer, Granizo. The presence of Granizo highlights Frida’s love for animals and the natural world. This photo is one of many that document Kahlo’s life and intimate moments at her home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Frida had an extraordinary talent and indomitable spirit.
“everything exists, and moves, under only one law – life.”
― The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Image: Nickolas Muray, Frida with Granzio, Coyoacan, 1939, printed later, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Nickolas Muray Photo Archive, 2018.25.q
Jul4
fragile fireworks and freedom on the fourth.
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‘those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.’
-thomas paine
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*Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, author, and revolutionary. He is best known for his influential pamphlets, particularly Common Sense which advocated for American independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. His writings helped to shape the political ideologies of the time and inspired both the American and French Revolutions.
Jul3
coincidences happen.
An English book collector was riffling through a children’s novel he’d picked up from a thrift shop when he stumbled upon a happy surprise: notes his wife had written 50 years ago as a child.
A collector of around 50 novels by the late Enid Blyton, a bestselling children’s author who penned an estimated 800 books over four decades, Steve Mills told the BBC he was “completely gobsmacked” by the discovery. He was going through some new additions when he found the writings from his wife, Karen, in a copy of The Naughtiest Girl Again, which had been donated by her mother in the 1970s.
It somehow ended up in a thrift store in Rayleigh, a town in the U.K. that’s more than 160 miles away from where she grew up in Staffordshire. Steve, who has loved Blyton’s books since he was a child, told SWNS, “We’ve taken it as one of the universe’s strange coincidences.”
“I had a load of books that I bought and it wasn’t until a couple of months went by that I was rearranging the books,” he continued. “I decided to look through them properly, opened one up, and recognized the number on the front cover.”
It turned out to be his wife’s old address. “I jokingly showed it to her and she turned the next page. There was her name, address, phone number, and drawings,” Steve recalled. “Her parents are in their 80s and they were delighted when we told them.”
Karen was also overjoyed to find her old notes, which she had penned alongside “stick-figure” drawings of her family. “She was equally shocked,” Steve told the BBC. “It was actually quite a cute thing to look at.”
But that wasn’t all: Steve later found more books in his collection that also contained his wife’s annotations. “Lo and behold, there was a second and third book belonging to my wife,” The other books all had Karen’s musings scrawled inside. Steve also discovered a note that reads, “I have got 12 of Enid Blytons books,” her missing punctuation evidence of her, and is determined to track down the remaining nine.
This serendipitous story has earned rave reviews from the public: Steve posted about the notes on an Enid Blyton Fan Group on Facebook, and has so far received 1,300 likes. “It’s touched on people’s heartstrings and there’s a lot of people out there who would love to find things from their childhood,” he said. “It was a simpler life and that’s why I like them so much.”
‘coincidences happen, but i’ve come to believe they are actually quite rare.
something is at work, okay? somewhere in the universe, (or behind it),
a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.’
-stephen king
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Source credits: BBC, Faye Mayerb SWNS
Jul2
‘being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.’ -gladys saber
happy belated Canada Day
to my friendly neighbors upstairs in the north
sorry I missed it
but as you might have heard
we’ve had a lot going on
downstairs here in the south
I decided to paddle over
right across the detroit river
from michigan to canada
rather than drive through our border
to say thanks for everything, eh?
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‘the happiest people i know are people who don’t even think about being happy.
they just think about being good neighbors,
good people.
and then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy being good.’
-harold s. kushner
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photo credit: google images
Jul1
brazen July.
“the summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of july.”
-francis thompson
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image credit: bush sunflowers, j. kellog
Jun30
fitness tuxedo.
one of the marathoners must have lost a shoe along the way
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‘a shoe is just a shoe until someone steps in it.
the reason I buy a special shoe for my marathon
is not because it’s going to turn me into an elite runner.
the reason is that when I step into this shoe,
it signals the depth of meaning I’m putting into the moment.
better said, this shoe is like a fitness tuxedo.’
-quotes from the movie, ‘Air’
Jun29
breaks.
-quotes from The Office, NBC TV
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beckley park, ann arbor, mi, usa – summer 2025
I didn't have my glasses on.... 