“in transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don’t think it leaves.”
– valerie simpson
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photo image: pinterest
Jan20
Jan19
“americans love popcorn, and their love doesn’t quit.” – rosecrans baldwin
“every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop.
i’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. “
-orville redenbacher
“so random but a couple months ago a boy scout came to our door selling popcorn.
he told V, “i know it’s not as good as the cookies but it’s what we do.” 😂😂Â
-facebook quote from my daughter’s friend, m
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image credit: victor nunes art
Jan18
borders.
“we always think of borders
as something that separates two peoples
but of course they unite them.
it’s something you have in common, literally.”
-don winslow
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photo credit: getty images
Jan17
ice.
crystal lake, northern michigan
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‘ice day’Â
no school.
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“in skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
-ralph waldo emerson
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image credit: university of michigan
Jan17
letters.
dear mom –
“just a few photos from xmas. still having shutterfly problems so thought i’d better at least send something. felix is talking, saying ‘car, ear, nose’ and magnus is crying over patsy cline songs. just back from swimming at ellen’s house with the dairy cows watching us from the other side of the fence. terry has his triathlon in two weeks then he can finally relax and not train every night. had our outdoor movie night on the weekend and it was great, everyone had fun and the kids got to stay up late and be maniacs.
what’s going on at home?”
<3 love, holli
(a glimpse of life from my daughter who was living far away in australia at the time)
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 here’s to
national handwritten letter day
in honor of one of my favorite things.
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“letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
-johann wolfgang von goethe
Jan16
walk.
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image credit: googleimages
Jan15
electricity.
the power went outÂ
just before our dinner partyÂ
so we had it anyway
candlelight, a warm fire, and great friends made it even better.
“what is a soul? it’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.”
-ray charles
Jan14
truth.
“wisdom is found only in truth. “
-johann wolfgang von goethe
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image credit: googleimages
Jan13
common to all mankind.
the 1967 outer space treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the moon.Â
 it was the 60’s. the height of the cold war.
 they made a treaty not to own the moon.
at the united nations convention of the law of the sea in 1982
it was agreed that the moon, like the high seas,
is considered “res communis” roughly translated to “common to all mankind.”
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credits: mental floss magazine
Jan12
enchanted.
today we found a beautiful flower that survived
under the snow and ice and rain and arctic temperatures of january.
 were very surprised.
it must be enchanted.
“the only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature
are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment.
they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”
-g. k. chesterton
