Tag Archives: life

i can live for two months on a good compliment. – mark twain

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compliment from a random robot?

yes, please.

i’ll take it!

happy trails, nacho.

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and

as suddenly as

nacho the cat not the food

stepped into our lives

and became family

he has exited once more.

–

last night he slept

calm and close

purring and cuddling

warm fur soft and gentle.

tonight it will be quiet.

–

we are made better

for having known him

and

he’ll be

remembered for

his sense of humor

 his friendly ways

and

his love of life.

we will all miss him dearly.

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adios amigo.

until we meet again.

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“there is no death. only a change of worlds.”

– chief seattle

life is too short for traffic. ~dan bellack

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there is something wrong with this.

it’s like starting out your journey

by surrendering to the inevitable traffic jam,

knowing you’ll be frustrated and angry.

what about making

a tiny carry-out espresso cup

instead

that reads:

“just a quick shot to enjoy

as we’re sure you will

soon be arriving

at your destination?” 

i could really go for that.

sculpture.

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moonlight is sculpture.

-nathaniel hawthorne

window.

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short stories are tiny windows into other worlds

and other minds and dreams.

they are journeys you can make to the far side

of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. 

neil gaiman

 

time.

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“we have so much time and so little to do.

strike that, reverse it.”

― roald dahl

men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. ~ralph waldo emerson

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it was science day

we made

solutions and color swirls

learned about buoyancy

floated and sunk things

then

we met

two big horses

a baby cow from scotland

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a ball python

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and

came back to our room

where we met

 a friendly silverback gorilla

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and an anthropologist

who told us all about him

and he shared

his celery snack

and one of

the best discoveries of all

was when we found out

all on our own

that we could

make secret forts

under the big kid’s science table

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it was so great

to have a special day for science

but then every day

is really science day

if we just look around.

be wary then; best safety lies in fear. – shakespeare

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it was the perfect night

for the

corn maze terror

9 of us went in

3 of us made it

all the way through

hangnail moon

chilling  wind

corn up to the sky

eerily waving us in

dark silo in the back

watching it all

and

scary things

so many terrifying things

all along the way

walking out of the corn

and

standing behind us

and

calling our names

and

chasing us

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 scary pic of me hiding in the corn

right at the beginning – excited and scared both

we ran

we startled

we got lost

we shrieked

we fell

we ran more

we tried to

clutch onto each other

 sometimes to strangers

yelled our lungs out

and

somehow

made it to the end

a little bit braver

and

for at least one of us

a lot more scared

than when we went in.

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a true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst,

than in the beginning of danger.

– philip sidney

is…..

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and therein lies the lesson.

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happiness depends upon ourselves

-aristotle

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image credit: google images

connected.

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as the cousins

find ways to stretch their line

they hang on tight

to see just how far they can go

and still be connected.

even the one who resists

cannot escape their web.

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“all things are connected like the blood that unites us.

we do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it.

whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

– chief seattle