“H”
What?
He whispered “D – O – G – H”
Huh?
“dog house!”
He glanced at the sheet draped between the sofa and the coffee table.
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following has supreme success
perseverance furthers
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The boy speaks in first letters.
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The little man can concentrate.
He found a dustpan and a broom.
And thought it would be fun to sweep up leaves in the side yard.
At first with his sister, then by himself.
Quietly filling the compost bin.䷅
thus in all his transactions the superior man
carefully considers the beginning -
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, 2016
How can a first (and last) time author write so beautifully?
A lifetime of thinking.
About life and death.And doing.
Masters in English Lit.
Then becoming a Doctor, Neurosurgeon.The book is a powerful, emotional memoir.
A reminder that our days are not guaranteed.
Easy living won’t last forever.And the dying.
What brutally high cost for living.䷩䷂
This weekend, Jonathan Tjarks, a 34 year-old basketball reporter, passed away from cancer after writing this beautiful, haunting essay in March.
And Risk Parity Radio posted an episode about dying.The media gods clearly want me to examine mortality, which has never been a big concern before.
Let’s see where this goes. -
Shang Chi, Destin Daniel Cretton, 2021
This thing has great reviews, critically and popular.
I must be missing something.Stiff dialog and a convoluted plot gummed up the spectacle.
I really wanted to like this movie, but I don’t get it.Is it great for a Marvel Movie?
Maybe it’s being graded on a curve?
But wouldn’t be very Asian.
Even ABC. -
Fantasia, Stokowski, 1940
Of course the music is great.
But it used to be accompanied by grainy VHS images on a small CRT.Now, high definition streaming on the in-law’s 75″ TV.
The main characters are much as I remember.
But those backgrounds.
Now you can tell when the animators went for a sharp line.
Or meant to create texture.
Such detail!Intoxicating!
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Fantasia fit perfectly with our recent obsession with music animation. I’m question our new dinner habits. But at least this is highbrow stuff.
Disney+ has a quirk where their volume plays much quieter than other streaming channels. So we finally hooked up the TV to the amplifier. Now we have high quality sound to go with the high def image.
Living the high life.
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Alice in Wonderland, Geronimi, Jackson, Luske, Kinney, 1951
Delightful musical with psychedelic imagery.
The high def animation is a dream to watch on the big TV.But the pacing was a little slow.
This seventy year old film doesn’t pander to my thrill-a-minute youtube cravings .
(Breaking into song don’t work like it used to).But this is one of my favorite books and an excellent adaptation.
A fitting start for our new Disney+ subscription.䷕䷙
I don’t know if it’s good to have such great TV experiences, but I’ll enjoy it while we continue to indulge.
I’ll happily watch it again if the kids ask for it, but their catalog is so large that I’d be surprised if we repeat anything soon.
And yes, we’ll be paying the Disney tax for a long, long time.
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Maybe this will convince them to learn how to swim next summer.
She wanted to try Marco Polo.
But our pool is too small.
So we used the Master Bedroom.
Hiding in plain sight, walking around Marco.
Except him — he walk right towards us, eyes barely closed.
Or should I say, barely open?䷗䷾
After writing this draft, we swam in the pool.
With such a small pool, the rounds were short, so we played many times.
When she was Marco, I hid behind him.
And this time, he didn’t pretend to shut his eyes. -
I see eight brocades in my future.
Boy wet the bed.
So I slept on the floor on a camping mat.
Quickly fell asleep.
Quickly snapped awake with a crimp in the neck.
Barely slept.
A long weekend as a robot!䷿䷺
perseverance brings good fortune
no remorse -
Standing at the craft table, he peered intently into marks of the past.
He wrote a book report.
Started with the title page.ClARion BOOKS
HOUGhMiFFin coI suggest he copy some of the actual text.
He refused.
Added !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, drew a few lines across the page, and ran off.䷴䷸
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We did our good deed in the morning.
We neglected to take down the nets after harvesting the peaches.
So the tree caught two birds.
Thankfully, we freed them both.
We’ve never been so close to birds before.
It took some unwrapping and untangling to get the hummingbird loose.
He flew up towards the neighbor’s eucalyptus tree.
We had to cut the net to free the little bird with a yellow head.
She raced out into the dense apple tree.
I rolled up the nets.䷯䷦
the jug is broken and leaks