Gaga Leo
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i am the
bite a chunk of chocolate off the bar and exuberant celebrator kind
what kind of person are you?
—
‘there are two kinds of people in this world:
those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world
and those who are smart enough to know better.’
-tom robbins
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image credits: zomzto, pinterest
founding fathers working on yet another rewrite
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relaxing into having my hair cut
on a busy, bright morning
sudden burst of excitement behind me
founding father hair!
founding father hair!
founding father hair!
a stylist and her client
up and laughing
looking in the mirrors
taking pictures
happy and excited
after having
her very full head of hair
put into
many many rollers
taking them all out
it had
morphed into
roll after roll of hair
an unusual style
i’ve seen
somewhere before
have to admit
her hair
reminded me of
some of our early countrymen
great way to start the day
happy nod to our forefathers
some of the original influencers.
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‘“i have heard, indeed, that my predecessor (President Adams)
sometimes decided things against his council by dashing and trampling his wig on the floor.”
-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (in a letter to William Short, 1807)
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image credits: google images
not me or my mom or my hair but similar situation
except for the smile
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’tis the season
kids return to classrooms
it’s school picture day
mom looks at your hair
finds the sewing scissors
‘let me just trim it up a bit’
or
‘i’ll just snip the uneven part off a little’
or
‘let’s just clean it up a touch’
your bangs
have finally grown
to be the perfect length
a little long
a little shaggy
just
below your eyebrows
hint of a shadow
brushing
just above the top
of your eyelashes
clean-up/trim begins
when it’s ‘done’
your mom
smiles
looks at your hair
you
look so cute
beautiful
you take
a peek in the mirror
long and fancy bangs
have disappeared
‘just a trim’
has returned
your bangs
close to the top
of your forehead
very near
their place of origin
they are
a straight line
that’s for sure
cleaned up
no doubt about that
there is always
next year
when you
will have grown
your bangs out
perfectly.
you hide the scissors…
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*when he was asked if there was a name for his haircut, he replied ‘arthur.’
-george harrison, the beatles
* The name is said to have honored his school friend from Liverpool, Arthur Kelly,
who used to tease a young George about his thick, unruly hair by calling it a “turban.”
still waiting on the front porch
for the ice cream truck
to come down our street
i hear
the faint sound
of chimes
in the distance
any minute now…
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on a neighborhood walk in ann arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2026
does this ever happen to you? i’ve been there. more than once.
—
“i hate when people accuse me of lollygagging when I’m quite clearly dilly-dallying.”
—
while both mean to waste time, Dictionary.com highlights a slight nuance.
Lollygagging is the act of idly wandering or goofing off while fully aware you are avoiding a task.
Dilly-dallying usually involves a bit of distraction or indecisiveness where you delay productivity
by moving slowly or finding smaller, unimportant tasks to do.
glad that no one was counting on me
to be the only photographer at the graduation party
here are two of my shots documenting the fun occasion
i’d classify them as ‘artsy’
‘i came to photography by accident. ‘
– eve arnold
how was i to know
when i walked in
a little cafe
new to me
great food
that when i started
talking to my friend
about to leave
cleaned up our table
distracted
more chatting
saw the open slot
threw my trash in
realized
not trash slot
part of decor
not trash slot
no way to get it out
not trash slot
part of a built-in fake wall
told my friend
two construction workers
sitting near us
busted out laughing
promised not to tell
good thing it was all paper
i’m sure someone else
must have done this before
maybe many
saw our construction guys
outside
laughing again
as they drove off
in their truck
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“there are endless possibilities for new mistakes no one has ever seen before.”
― james irwin, author
ready to drizzle
tear the seal
unwrap
twist off
the cap
no
the glass
how
does
this
happen
do i
have
super human strength
and don’t know it?
—
‘it is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.’
–J.R.R. Tolkien
found this new gift idea when visiting on of my favorite restaurants
now i can get everyone the same thing this year
no returns and it will fit all recipients
just check the box for the occasion
or write in your own
you’re good to go.
—
‘we buy our own toilet paper even here in the white house.’
-Barack Obama, 44th president of the united states
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york ann arbor, michigan, uss
who’s with me on this? have any of you also scurryfunged?
To scurryfunge is to hurriedly clean the house before company arrives. This word has had a looser meaning of “to move rapidly” since the early 19th century but likely wasn’t used in the sense of a rapid cleanup until the 1950s, when it appeared in U.S. regional dialects. One definition was included in the 1975 book Maine Lingo by John Gould: “a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door.” “Scurry” means “to move in or as if in a brisk pace,” but “Funge” remains a bit of an etymological mystery. This is debated. Some sources say it was a word in Old English, others say it is of “jocular formation.’’
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source credits: babushka cat, interesting words, maine lingo, john gould
