(painting of a talented model who is not me,
but could be a close match
if i only knew how to play the piano, read music, and was cheeky monkey.)
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sunday is my very favorite day for doing something pointless or absolutely nothing.
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“weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
— bill watterson
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art credit: litus gallery
a cinco de mayo
public service motivational reminder:
some days you just lose your head.
(but there’s always at least one mini tootsie roll still up in there)
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“it’s a lot easier to lose your head than to keep it.”
– suzanne collins
another beautiful outdoor adventure day
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“in this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania,
quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked.”
-margaret wise brown, american children’s book author
good planets are hard to find
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photo credit: earthtalk
why is it
that within 5 seconds and 2 steps
when carrying a plate with a fork on it
that the fork somehow slams to the ground
even when i’m focused, keeping the plate level, moving at a normal pace
is it math? science? is my body always a just a bit a-kilter?
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*in reading about what dropping a fork means, all i that i can find are superstitions.
after looking at superstitions from around the globe, from a variety of cultures, both historical and current
many disagree about what will happen when you drop a fork
but they seem to be narrowed down to three major things that will happen soon:
good news, bad news, or love.
this explains a lot of my life.,
but why the fork falls remains a mystery.
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“if they drop a fork, you give them another one”
– from ‘caddyshack’
He first thought the wooden figurines – a man and a woman – were put in his mailbox by mistake. He wondered if someone in the neighborhood was playing a joke. “I went around to the other homes on the cul-de-sac to see if anyone else had gotten dolls in their mailbox,” he said. “No one had.”
After moving into his home with his wife 5 years ago, he ordered a custom mailbox designed to look like their Powell’s home. While it is against the law for someone other than the mailbox owner and the mail carrier to put items in a mailbox, Powell could see why a doll family might want to move in.
He was amused, but his first thought was to evict the couple and their belongings into the garbage can. But then, struck by a change of heart, he pushed the couple and their belongings to the back of the mailbox and went about his business.
That was just the beginning of the story. Soon after, someone dropped off a dog for the couple living in the mailbox, along with a rug and even some art for the wall. Then came a four-poster bed.
“I thought, ‘OK, someone is really playing a joke on me,’” Powell said, admitting that by this time he was enamored by the situation and wanted to have some fun with it. “I didn’t think it was my neighbors.”
He went on Nextdoor, and asked whether anyone would fess up and admit they put Mary and Shelley in his mailbox, or if they knew who did. No one came forward, so he posted again, joking that he’d contacted the police and asked them to do extra patrols of his mailbox.
“The whole thing got rather whimsical,” he said. “I have a quirky sense of humor.”
When Halloween rolled around, Mary and Shelley were mysteriously replaced by two dolls in skeleton costumes. Around Christmas, Mary and Shelley reappeared with miniature-sized gifts for their mailbox home. Powell took pictures and documented it all on Nextdoor.
Many posters, he said, were leaving comments and sending Powell messages asking for the next installment.
At some point, a second mystery note appeared, claiming the Mary and Shelley dolls formerly lived in a two-story Dutch-style doll house, but had decided Powell’s mailbox house was more accommodating for their cousin Shirley – a third figurine with a broken leg – who sometimes visited the couple.
“Then, after the ice storm, I did a post that said the family was locked in the mailbox and couldn’t get out,” Powell said. “Somebody asked if they lost power, I said ‘No, they don’t have power to begin with, but they do have a wood burning stove and were working from home.’”
In the beginning, Powell said, he was worried the mail carrier would stop delivering the mail. Given the large size of the mailbox, space has not been an issue.
Powell said no new furniture or other items have arrived in the last month or so. Still, at this point, he’s not sure he’s ready to learn the true identity of the person who brought Mary and Shelley into his life.
“I’m kind of enjoying the mystery,” he said. “I look forward to new things being added to the mailbox.”
The author of numerous health-related books, Powell says the experience has given him a new idea.
“I am thinking, given the reaction (on Nextdoor), of writing a children’s book,” he said. “I think it creates a novel story.”
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“everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.
-l. frank baum
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credits: Laura Colvin, lcolvin@hometownlife.com
how will she dance with only one shoe
all i can picture
is that tiny ballerina
in the music box
dancing
around and around and around
up on her toes
forever
on just one foot.
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“dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
-john dryden-
when you start the day
by adding the soup broth instead of the almond milk
into your morning coffee
you know that your spring break is truly over.
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‘the detail is as important as the essential is. when it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”
-christian dior
“the thing I love about vegas is there’s something for any type of mood you’re in
and something for any kind of adventure you seek out.”
-christina tosi
floating down the lazy river in the middle of the desert.
“most people think of las vegas, and they think of extravagance.
but it’s really a mix between fantasy and laziness.”
-gia coppola
I didn't have my glasses on.... 