Tag Archives: grandchildren

Sep2

ride.

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feeding the team while on the road and riding

(using parade candy found on the ground along the route).

” it would be easier if this didn’t start off in slow motion going up a hill and behind a lot of tractors and dogs and babies.”

– felix  (australia/u.s.a.) – team porter

– grandson and famous parade rider

team sky

feeding the team while on the road and riding

(using lab-tested high protein super food).

“i hope to continue doing well in the final stages. it’s good to hear that people have noticed i’m in the race too, even if i prefer to let my legs do the talking.

-fabio aru (astana) – team sky

– some guy who is just a tour de france rider

Aug9

mermaids.

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little mermaids are fish whisperers.

find the fish, talk to them, and send them back to the sea.

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Aug6

true north.

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stopping to ‘fuel up’ with the special six

on our road trip to the north.

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“never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

-ernest hemingway

Aug4

do nothing.

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skipping stones, barefoot, wading,

walking on rocks, talking, and resting

on a slow summer day on the river. 

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“how beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.”

~spanish proverb

Aug3

smiles.

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so glad to be home with all of these grandies’ smiles

and among the big people who go with them.

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“because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

-thich nhat hanh

Jun27

chasing fireflies.

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just at dusk

fireflies

flit

and 

a 

gaggle of grandies

trying to catch up with them

fly.

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“i began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

he taught me that if you are interested in something,

no matter what it is,

go at it at full speed ahead.

embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it

and above all

become passionate about it.

lukewarm is no good.

hot is no good either.

white hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

― roald dahl, My Uncle Oswald

 

Jun10

magic.

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“books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,

flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

-plato

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i stopped over to surprise

little grandie b

on her birthday

brought my gift

gave her a flower

shared a hug

then

she asked

if she could read to me

i had ‘read’ with her

just months before

when she pretended to read

a chapter book

imitating readers

she had seen and heard

excited to be like one of them

but today

she opened a book

read me every word

her little brother

said

“i don’t know how it happened.

but she can just read now.”

i told him

” it is magic.”

i was in awe of her

and

this surprise gift of magic

that she gave to me on her sixth birthday.

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“once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

– frederick douglass

 

May18

frog.

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grandie j learns how to do one of a frog’s many jobs.

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“don’t be a fish; be a frog.

swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.”

– kim young-ha

Apr13

fancy.

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going to the movies

with one of my

six little grandies,

 baby r

for her very first time.

she was all dressed up

so fancy

in

new sparkly too-big blue shoes with tiny clicking heels

 shiny movie star jacket

 polka dot tights

cornflower blue ruffly skirt

tumbling down curly hair

with

booster seat

popcorn

gummies

soda

and

full of so much excitement.

we were the only two in the whole theater

and 

even if we weren’t

it would have felt like we were.

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“i dress to kill, but tastefully”. – freddie mercury

Apr11

rescue.

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is it

a husky?

 polar bear?

sea lion?

penguin?

not sure exactly sure what breed this is,

but i’d be happy to rescue him any day.

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