kinder gets up close.
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“you can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close”
-howard g. hendricks
Jan28
Jan27
tiki.
lucky way to spend an afternoon
having a bookclub meeting with no book
in a tiki bar/restaurant
so many things to see and try
and of course
the ever popular
‘steak ala steak’ and ‘fun noodles’
were options on the bingo card menu
what’s not to love?
“if you are lucky enough to be at the TIKI bar you are lucky enough.”
-author unknown
Jan26
get ahead.
“libraries literally aren’t just places to obtain books for free.
they’re one of the few public spaces left in our society
where you’re allowed to exist without spending any money.”
-a. killian
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image credit: ala (american library archives poster, circa 1921)
Jan25
the best party.
how to know when the party’s over.
—
you haven’t really been to a party
until you’ve been to a kindergarten party
they mean business.
—
“school should be the best party in town”
-peter kline
Jan24
see the song.
“when it’s cold you can see the song.”
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the bird appears to be sending smoke signals as it braves sub-zero temperatures in a park in the city of petrozavodsk, russia. mikhail kalinin, 34, an electric locomotive engineer spotted the chirping bird’s condensation rising up out from it’s beak with the temperature below -5 degrees celsius.
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credits: Mikhail Kalinin/Solent News
Jan23
with wings.
“the man who has no imagination has no wings.”
-muhammad ali
Jan22
the light that gets lost.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Penguin Books, 2005
Jan21
each other.
“people fail to get along because they fear each other;
they fear each other because they don’t know each other;
they don’t know each other
because they have not communicated with each other.”
– dr. martin luther king, jr.
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image credit: shutterstock
Jan20
first snow.
“he sprinkles snow like birds alighting,
it comes down like locusts settling.
the eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness,
and the mind is amazed at its falling.”
-ecclesiasticus
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image credit: craftulate
Jan19
light and shadows.
kinders write by candlelight
find their own shadows
make a tiger on the ceiling.
—
“find beauty not only in the thing itself
but in the pattern of the shadows,
the light and dark which that thing provides.”
-junichiro tanizaki
