“mel comes over at least five or six nights a week.
it’s over 60 years now, we’ve been friends.
we watch television
looking for good movies or television shows that we like.”
–carl reiner, who turned 94 yesterday
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a friend is what the heart needs all the time. – henry van dyke
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spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
– doug larson
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the palais idéal in hauterives, france is a unique structure. it is made entirely out of stones that postman, ferdinand cheval collected on his mail route.
one night, cheval dreamed about building a palace. he thought nothing of this dream for years, until one day in the spring of 1879, when his foot caught on an unusual-looking rock during his postal route. the rock was so fascinating to cheval that he took it home to admire it. it also gave him an idea.
for the next 33 years, cheval continued picking up more stones during his postal route, first putting them in his pockets, then graduating to a basket, and finally using a wheelbarrow. each one of the stones was hand-selected by cheval to play a part in the construction of his dream palace.
for more than three decades, cheval spent his nights building his home by the light of an oil lamp, and his days delivering the mail. he completed work on the palace in 1912.
today, the palace is a protected landmark and is open to visitors. though cheval wished to be buried in his palace when he died, this was illegal at the time, so he spent an additional eight years building a mausoleum for himself in the town cemetery. he finished just in time, too; cheval passed away on august 19, 1924, approximately one year after completing the mausoleum, which remains his final resting place.
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whenever we witness art in a building,
we are aware of an energy contained by it.
– arthur erickson
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credits: jenny morrill, mental floss uk
tension is who you think you should be.
relaxation is who you are.
~chinese proverb
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never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness,
but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
– ludwig wittgenstein
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happy st. patrick’s day
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the kinder team in action on the big dig,
in search of dinosaur bones.
some do the labor,
some supervise.
their dino artifacts go on display
for all to enjoy
in the playground museum.
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the dinosaur’s eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good,
an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
– eric johnston
rescue joey makes mischief.
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“when a child is locked in the bathroom with water running
and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. ”
― erma bombeck
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image credit: the kangaroo sanctuary alice springs, australia
we are often too late with our brilliance. we are on time delay.
the only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips.
the rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road
maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
– richard schiff
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in honor of national potato chip day.
and brilliant people everywhere.
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skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion.
everything else is a distraction.
– talib kweli
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credits: open homes, open hearts, ahmad alhssani
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credit: mentalfloss magazine
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