(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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Apr1
Tag Archives: life
Mar30
gnosiophobia.
“lalalalalalalalalalalala……..”
gnosiophobia is the fear of knowledge.
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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
Mar22
bread and poetry.
yes, that is
a cookie groundhog
with a chocolate chip face
popping out of a bagel hole
covered in cream cheese snow
sprinkled with smashed up wafer cookie dirt .
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in honor of world poetry day (yesterday)
and groundhog day (in february)
and bread and peace. (everyday)
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“peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”
-pablo neruda
Mar21
lukewarm.
how excited was i
when i discovered
that my local mcdonald’s
chose to give me this special cup?!
what a statement this was
what a compliment
they must have been waiting
for just the right customer to come along
this lid was like a badge of honor
clearly written in two languages
for all the world to see
i carried it with pride
as i went to add my cream
and it was then
that i noticed
that it had come from
a huge sleeve of coffee cup lids
all carrying the exact same message.
clearly written
in two languages.
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“when you’re hot, you’re hot; when you’re not, you’re not.”
-flip wilson
