so brilliant
busybody’s will pickup, clean and drop off your laundry,
clean your dorm room or apartment, deliver beverages
created by university students for university students
supply and demand at work.
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‘a good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
-guy kawasaki
the cats’ gnome forgot to look up
we forgot to look down
when moving the dresser
flipping it upside down to be refinished
now i hope the gnome is not finished!
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‘how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up to the sky and disregard what is at their feet?’
-katharina elisabeth goethe
a week filled with celebrations of all kinds
a birthday for my cousin/uncle
(we can’t figure it out exactly)
my grandfather and his father were brothers
76 is a number too big for just one cake
a breakfast get together
with my retired colleagues
at a wonderful coney island
I promise I did not order
this hot fudge cream puff
(but not to say I won’t next time)
a candle lit for a a friend’s new grand baby arriving tonight or tomorrow
(hopefully by the time you read this)
who will be the brightest, shiny-est, youngest member
of a longtime group of friends
life is full of life.
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‘don’t save anything for a special occasion, being alive is a special occasion.’
-mary engelbreit
‘the opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.’
*marcus aurelius
*Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 – 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva-Antoine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.
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art credit: project argentum
It’s clear from this photo that the opening weekend to Venice’s Carnival was quite the celebration, with heaps of confetti in the air and crowds gathered along the city’s famed canals to watch a procession down the waterways. But what you can’t tell from the images alone is that this year, all the confetti and streamers are fully biodegradable, a sustainable twist on the centuries-old festival.
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‘life is a festival only to the wise.’
-ralph waldo emerson
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source credits, Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images, Associated Press
Pengpeng, Zhou Shasha, Jin Jinjun/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG Getty
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would you hang off the side of a cliff for coffee?
this cafe in Hangzhou, China, rewards adventurers
who complete a rock climb with a cup of joe and some views —
just don’t look down.
(I do love coffee, pretty much any kind, anywhere, but I couldn’t do this.)
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“coffee is a language in itself.”
-jackie chan
Michelin-starred chef heads restaurant entirely staffed by formerly unhoused people
Adam Simmonds is a two-time Michelin-starred chef and Catey Awards Hotel Chef of the Year recipient. And last year, he added chef director of the world’s first restaurant almost entirely staffed by previously unhoused individuals to his resume. Home Kitchen, located in Primrose Hill, London, is a nonprofit fine dining establishment that provides its staff with travel expenses, professional culinary qualifications, and the London living wage.
Aside from some senior members, the team is recruited solely from the unhoused community. If staff members pass a 90-day probation, they’re eligible for a fully paid culinary training course at Westminster Kingsway College. The goals of the whole operation are to kickstart the staff’s careers, address worker shortages in the hospitality industry, and confront the “very flawed public perceptions of what it is to be homeless,” Home Kitchen co-founder Michael Brown told The Guardian.
Simmonds is now working on additional launches in Brighton, England, and San Francisco. “Home Kitchen will act as an accelerant out of poverty for our recruits and an incubator of untapped talent for the catering industry,” he wrote ahead of the London restaurant’s opening. “I believe the restaurant business is an ideal vehicle for social impact, as changing perceptions in this industry can inspire broader societal change.”
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‘although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’
-helen keller
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source credits: home kitchen, the guardian
fun spontaneous happy hour yesterday
with longtime friends
relaxed and glad to be together
sharing stories and catching up.
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‘friends come and go like waves in the ocean but the true ones stick like an octopus on your face.’
-simplereminders
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art credit: pinterest
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two very different plays
in one very snowy week
the first, a poignant warning tale
the second, a funny bawdy farce
both about love, life, and loss
both great entertainment
both well acted
both good for the soul.
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‘the entertainment is in the presentation.’
-john mctiernan, american filmmaker and convicted felon
going over the frozen lake to mackinac island, michigan, 1950s
once the only way to get there in the winter months
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while inside:
The Mackinac Island library’s fireplace, which roars with warmth when the temps don’t soar. the fireplace is adorned with tiles that are works of art, and above the fireplace is a Shakespeare quote from “The Tempest,” which is set on a fairy isle, not unlike Mackinac. It reads,
“The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.”
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source credits Mackinac Island Library 2023, Michigan Historical Society
I didn't have my glasses on.... 