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the source.

“sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,

but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― thich nhat hanh

no work?

meeting of some sort

with a group of people

who i don’t know

outside of my classroom window

engineers, landscapers, randoms, arborists, cement people, pokemon go players?

here to meet about ?

the lawn, the building, weather, cafeteria menu, fantasy football, favorite colors?

ideas?

 

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“we are going to continue having these meetings, every day, until i find out why no work is getting done.”

*richard moran

*Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based speaker, investor, venture capitalist, author and president emeritus of Menlo College. He is known for his series of business books beginning with, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality that established the genre of “Business Bullet Books.”

strong like mama.

love his parents for this. 

 

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“strong moms raise strong children who can change the world.”

– Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (2014)

it’s all in the presentation.

well…

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 “the charm of food presentation lies in the surprise it brings to the table.”

-restaurantmode.com

 

calm and happy nature.

trail gate ahead. and love. and maybe bananas.

the future is bright. 

 

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“he who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.”

-plato

 

 

 

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photo: bandemeer park, ann arbor, michigan, usa – spring 2024

 

 

on earth day.

“no water, no life. no blue, no green.”

*sylvia earle

 

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*Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer.

She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large since 1998.

 

 

 

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image credit: mayo clinic

amadeus.

created in the style of an old-style viennese cafe

amadeus restaurant

downtown ann srbor

warm, intimate, lovely

live classical music on weekends

soft glowing ambience

attentive servers

with dishes

representing central europe

 (poland, hungary and austria)

european wines and beers

rich coffee

finish with homemade desserts, pastries or tortes

 after so much beautiful food, impossible to do

we must come back.

“*Rock Me Amadeus.”

-Falco

 

 * lyric from song recorded by Austrian musician Falco. To date, the single is the only German language song to peak at number one of the Billboard Hot 100. It was Falco’s only number one hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, despite his popularity in his native Austria and much of Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

miracle mile.

built in 1960

less than 3 years after i was born

this magical miracle mile movie drive-in and i grew up together

i never got over how wonderful going to see anything was

pajamas with feet, blankets, popcorn, sticky lemonade

jockeying for space with my sibs in the station wagon

never made it through a second feature

carried sound asleep into my bed

stories still playing out in my dreams.

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“isn’t if funny how day by day, nothing changes, but when we look back, everything is different.”

c.s. lewis

 

 

amazons.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence that some Greek myths might be more than just stories. Per The Observer, researchers excavated graves in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, and found “battle-scarred female archers” buried with weapons, including arrowheads, a dagger, and a mace.
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This information, combined with previous findings, suggests that the women may have been Amazons who lived 4,000 years ago. The Amazons were a group of skilled female warriors and hunters who often came head-to-head with the Greeks, according to epic poems like the Iliad and Argonautica.
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But as historian Bettany Hughes told The Observer, they were likely real people who lived beyond literature. “It shows that there’s truth behind the myths and legends of ancient Greece,” she said of the archaeological findings. She explores the discovery further in a new documentary series, Bettany Hughes’ Treasures of the World, which recently premiered on the U.K.’s Channel 4.

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“Strength is not measured by physical prowess,

but by the indomitable spirit of a warrior woman.”

– suzanne collins, (author of the hunger games)

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Source credits: image: dea/g.dagliorti/de agostini,  text -the observer