Tag Archives: power

Mar28

r.e.s.p.e.c.t.

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thinking of Aretha Franklin during her birthday week

 powerful singer and powerful person

who sang so many powerful songs

including

RESPECT

an anthem

to civil rights and women’s rights

personal power

knowing

she’d be proud today

if she were still with us

as people will fill the streets

across the country

to stand and sing and march

to take back their rights

reclaiming their power

no kings.

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‘stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

you will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.’

-norman vincent peale

 

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*Aretha Louise Franklin , 1942 – 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the “Queen of Soul”, she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time. 

 

 

 

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photo image: don hunstein, Getty

 

 

Aug16

day 5.

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just a short walk to the river – always full of power and light

(and the power and light have returned to the land!)

thank you to the community for keeping everyone going

 

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 “one thing you can never underestimate is the power of water.”

-joe teti

Aug14

*day 3.

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May be an image of 1 person, brick wall and outdoors
washtenaw dairy has power – a beacon of light!
ice cream didn’t melt – a small miracle 
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“life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.
it really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”
-james patterson
*(updated estimated time for my power restoration – monday at 11:30pm)

Aug13

2nd day.

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wild storm

then power out for 700,000

can’t stop this from shining through

Apr27

who we are.

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Jul15

la fete nationale. (posted a day late, and a euro short)

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Rue Montorgueil in Paris

 

“An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

 

on bastille day, all these years later, let history remind us that change is always possible. 

 

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art credit: Claude Monet, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris 1878

Feb10

little dark house.

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back in the day

when my girls were little

if there was a power outage

I would tell them

we were just like the family

in ‘the little house on the prairie’

 we could pretend we were them

 have lots of fun

it was okay for a while

until it got old

the novelty wore off

when there was

no pa playin’ the fiddle

no butter to churn

no humming and singing

no stitchin’ to be done

no cows to milk

 then we just had to wait it out

and it was not fun.

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“where a light can’t live, i know i can’t.” 

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

 

 

 

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image credit: nbc tv

 

Dec20

conscience.

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Feb24

power down.

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a lovely ladies’ weekend spent with friends at the lake house

 with a long hike through the winter woods

  wonderful comfort foods and wine to share

warm blankets, pajamas, slippers

long discussions

on one thing leading to another

ranging from

our favorite cutlery (i prefer small pieces)

to our grown children (we do the best we can)

to humor (what’s funny to one…)

to politics, the state of the world, and more

(each with our own perspectives, experiences, and ideas)

no subject off limits 

then spoiling ourselves with magic spa treatments

so relaxing and so powerful in so many ways.

“i feel like i’m a super hero diva and my power is glitter.”

-jujubes

Nov5

misfits.

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for all the oddballs and misfits out there,

eventually, if you just follow your path,

you will reach somewhere no one else has.

you are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

-twinkle khanna