first concert – dancing to fitz and the tantrums
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“music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.”
cecilia bartoli
Jul22
Tag Archives: children
Jul15
pajama walk.
if getting in your pajamas at 7:30
and going to the playground
and a singing stroll until dark
is wrong,
then we don’t want to be right.
Jul10
guts and care.
when their quesadilla is too hot to eat
leave it to the little ones
to think out of the box.
one holds the quesadilla pieces,
while the other rides the rowing machine
to move the fan to cool the food.
problem solved.
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for every two minutes on the rowing machine
riding fast to cool the food
you can eat one triangle and call it even.
#family math
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‘creating problems is easy. we do it all the time. finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.’
-henry rollins
Jul7
and then there were ten.
what began with two grandies taking a quiet spin
quickly became a magnet for all to take in.
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“what you lose in the swings, you make up on the merry-go-round.” – george v. higgins
Jul1
magical writing.
peaches: “your writing is beautiful. may i read it?”
grandie v: “it’s written in magic fairy language, peaches, so i’ll have to read it to you. it says: fairies, mermaids, and unicorns are magical.”
peaches: “we’re both so lucky that you know magic fairy language.”
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”if i fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don’t remove it
— i might be writing in my dreams.
-terri guillemetsqe
Jun23
lemons.
who wouldn’t buy from these six?
not many customers were available
and most who stopped by
had no money on them
so they changed their marketing plan
added music, dance, costumes
even an impromptu wedding
and
after drinking away
much of the merchandise
everyone still made a profit
not bad for a day’s work.
“if life gives you lemons, don’t settle for simply making lemonade – make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.”
-elizabeth gilbert
Jun7
and suddenly.
to my class on our last day together.
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credit: meister eckhart
Jun6
ninjas don’t wear underwear.
as i walked in with one of the grandies to his ninja training class
and asked if he had everything he needed
before he scrambled off to
jump, climb, twirl, crawl, and yell
his deadpan answer was
“ninjas don’t wear underwear.”
i suspect that he created this rule
because he didn’t feel like putting them on
and he quickly adopted this as his mantra.
ninjas are clever.
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“true ninjas are always outnumbered, because they are individuals.”
-jarius raphel
Jun5
the good thing.
grandie j, age 5, believes in science.
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“by denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
-galileo galilei
Jun3
portrait.
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
-oscar wilde
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image credit: s
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