“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
—Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that’s life, isn’t it?”
―Gabrielle Zevin
A few of my happy (& sad) moments from this week…
{Back at the Guthrie with my mom…}
{…to see a re-imagined classic!}
{Said goodbye to a dear friend’s father}
{Reading & daydreaming about France}
{An unexpected gift of my very first fine china}
…What made you happy (or sad) this week?
Have a lovely weekend!!
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“…no one is born a great cook,
one learns by doing.”
—Julia Child, My Life in France
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“Tis’ better to live your own life
imperfectly
than to imitate someone else’s
perfectly.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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“Anything with the power to make you laugh
over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time.
I think something like that is
very close to immortality.”
—Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
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“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends,
but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades
and intonations with each passing moment.
A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors.
Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness.”
—Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people
and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?
- it’s the too-huge world vaulting us,
and it’s good-bye.
But we lean forward
to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
—Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
― Barbara Pym
Here are a few of my trivial pleasures from this week…
{Used a gift card to stock up on Outlander series}
{Kimchi and Korean sausage pizza from here…num num!}
{Watched two spectacular firework shows}
{Got my red, white & blue on…}
{Made a yummy 4th of July cake (recipe via here)}
…What made you happy this week?
Have a lovely weekend!!
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“I wanted change and excitement
and to shoot off in all directions myself,
like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“Summer was our best season:
it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots,
or trying to sleep in the treehouse;
summer was everything good to eat;
it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”
—Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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