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Apr6
alive.
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Tag Archives: life
Apr2
rain or shine?
cold, morning rain does little but make one anxious to reach their destination, even if that is work or school. this innovative student solved the problem of hands free walking on one such campus morning in 1969. “U-M engineering student gary keck of detroit is too unconventional to raise an umbrella. he wards off the morning rain with a stylish sombrero. ole!”
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“optimists are neither in denial nor naïve about challenges and difficulties in life.
they simply attend to and acknowledge the positive.”
– eric kim
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credits: oldnews.aadl.org, ann arbor townies
Apr1
on april fools’ day and beyond.
(someone who looks a lot like me at happy hour last night)
“it is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
-max eastman
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image credit: funnytimejoy.com
Mar30
gnosiophobia.
“lalalalalalalalalalalala……..”
gnosiophobia is the fear of knowledge.
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image credit: quickanddirtytips.com
Mar29
“i’m hoping this matter will not involve my eagerness to help you.”- joel
and yet another encounter with a customer service rep
this was the rest of our live chat conversation
once joel and i reached an impasse with no solution:
Joel: Still with me?
Me: yes
Joel: Will there be anything else I can assist you with?
Me: no, thank you anyway
Joel: I’m hoping that this matter will not involve my eagerness to help you.
Joel: Hope you had a great rest of your day.
(somehow i really had hoped that joel would have involved his eagerness to help me…)
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“patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen
in a different order
than the one you have in mind.”
― david g. allen
Mar26
mercy.
afternoon in the rain at the ann arbor immigrants’ march
another power loss at dusk
and a warm dinner date to end the day.
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“a little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”
-pope francis
Mar25
undiscovered brothers.
“community cannot for long feed on itself;
it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond,
their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
-howard thurman
Mar24
l’esprit de l’escalier.
and it was so good, too…!
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L’esprit de l’escalier (French)
literally, stairwell wit—a too-late retort thought of only after departure.
Mar23
mixture.
there is so much going on here
i would love to know his story
i hope that the next time i order from pizza house
he is my delivery guy standing there when i open the door.
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“the salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.”
Mar22
dock porters with heart.
my brother, scott
who never stops raising money for research and awareness
in honor of my nephew, hazen, gone way too soon
so that others may stay.
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thank you to his mackinac island dock porter brothers from so many years ago.
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“say not in grief: “he is no more”, but live in thankfulness that he was.”
-hebrew proverb
