sitting around the campfire
with music, friends and stories
winding down from a day on the lake.
—
“once all the power goes out,
there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.”
-jim james
Jul9
Tag Archives: life
Jul8
left behind.
i wonder
what happened
at the train station
coming or going
to cause someone
to leave
what once filled their suitcase
behind.
—
“the present changes the past.
looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
*kiran desai
*Kiran Desai is an Indian author whose novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 “most influential” global Indian women.
Jul1
cheeky monkey.
this lamp popped up online
bringing me great joy
making me laugh out loud
each and every time i’ve looked at it
i may have to buy it
or at least put a picture of it somewhere
there is no accounting for good taste
when you know, you know.
p.s. someone once said i reminded them of a cheeky monkey, and i loved it, perhaps i saw a bit of myself in this.
do you have an unusual object that brings you unexplained joy?
—
“i just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.”
-author unknown
Jun28
absence.
Cinzia Paolina De Lio was dismissed in 2017 after she reappeared for four months and triggered complaints.
Italy’s highest court confirmed the dismissal after a legal battle, saying her absences showed a “permanent and absolute ineptitude”. Ms De Lio has condemned the ruling and vowed to “reconstruct the truth”.
The secondary school teacher, who specialises in history and philosophy, said she had documents to prove her story but told Repubblica newspaper: “Sorry, but right now I’m at the beach.”
“I will reconstruct the truth of the facts of this absolutely unique and surreal story”, she said adding, “I don’t answer questions from journalists thrown around that wouldn’t do justice to the truth of my story.”
Ms De Lio was reinstated in 2018 after a ruling by a judge in Venice but the education ministry appealed against the decision and it was reversed by the Supreme Court of Cassation last week.
The ministry argued that the teacher had kept out of the classroom for 20 out of her 24 years of service. For the first 10 years she was completely absent, and her absences in the other 14 years were attributed to sickness, personal or family reasons.
The court heard that in a four-month period in 2015 when she did teach in Chioggia near Venice, students complained of her lack of preparedness, her failure to bring textbooks and her “random and improvised” way of marking. An inspection found she was “unprepared” and “inattentive”, and students refused to take part in her classes as she was distracted by her phone.
Her 2017 dismissal turned into a legal battle, going through an appeal and counter-appeal, before finally arriving at the top court. Her defence of “freedom of teaching” was rejected by the court which argued it was the teacher’s responsibility to guarantee students’ right to study.
Describing herself now as a freelance journalist, she told Italian media that she had documents to refute the claim that she had been absent for 20 years. The education ministry said it would “increasingly strive to ensure that the activity of teaching is carried out with adequate professionalism”.
—
“absence is presence with distance.”
-taeyoon choi
Jun16
spots.
i spot the sun.
—
“easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car.
easy to spot an opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunities.
easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad.
you become what you constantly think about. watch yourself.”
—
poetry credit: unknown at poetry matters
Jun5
rubber sole.
found:
one lost sole
—
“if you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”
-charles bukowski
Jun1
in early june.
after 3 years
my little stick
left untouched
given time and space
has grown into
a baby peony tree
well worth the wait
for its very first bloom.
—
“in early june, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
-john steinbeck
May21
hit.
when coming home
not only did i find the pinata’s footprint
but also the foot.
this has all the makings of an organized hit
it’s a working crime scene at the moment.
—
Jefe : I have put many beautiful pinatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little surprises.
El Guapo : Many pinatas?
Jefe : Oh yes, many!
El Guapo : Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
Jefe : A what?
El Guapo : A *plethora*.
Jefe : Oh yes, you have a plethora.
-From the 1986 film, The Three Amigos:
May17
reflection.
looking into the river on a bright day in may
—
“time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.”
-paul cezanne
—
argo park, huron river, ann arbor, michigan, usa – 2023
May10
spring chickens.
the kinder, who are spring chickens, check out the other spring chickens
and the other spring chickens check out the kinder.
—
“the sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken!”
-bob dylan
I didn't have my glasses on.... 