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Entitled something to the tune of, I would hate to have to learn English (and in reading over this list, I think I would!)
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Well, the truth is, I've always been a little funny about being pressed for details if I'm not ready to give them up. Aren't we all? It's hard for me to quickly open up about details of a trip, event, movie etc when I'm still processing it myself. Maybe it's rooted in not wanting to talk about something being in the past when I'm still reveling in the fresh memory of it, or maybe I just don't have the brain space to adequately describe where I've just been before I've had the time to see it a little more wholly. I've always struggled with feeling a little unkind fresh from an adventure because friends and family will generously ask how it went and I uncharacteristically dodge verbosity and say, "it was really fun!" and pretty much leave it at that. Then, two days, one week, a month later, I'll just start to babble on about it and unload all of the details ad nauseam. This just happened in returning from Charleston a couple of weekends ago with my favorite ladies--Drew asked how it went, I said it was fun and kind of clammed up. A few days later we were driving somewhere and all of the information just kind of burst out..."and then we...and after that..." and so the stories were told.
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Well, it was a great weekend! We listened to some amazing music (my three favorites were, in this order, Bombadil, David Grisman and Amos Lee), got pretty dirty camping and shook the 'ol money makers. Our photog friend Tom took some great pictures so I'm popping those up. Floyd Fest is great because it's a family friendly festival so it stays very relaxed and there's not a lot of worry about leaving gear etc in the camping area before heading to see the music, and everyone is happy doing their own thing. We laughed and laughed with our friends, staged a foot race, discovered some new artists, and started making plans for next year. Here are just a few of the pictures...
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This website has been entertaining me this afternoon--it's always fun to see yourself in unusual places, I suppose!
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I love mantles because they take on such an alter feel and I do believe that they are the other half of the reason that people love fire places so much (you know, in addition to all of that warmth and crackling and whathaveyou). I recently found this little bird to add to our mantle and I just love that it seemed so at home right next to Drew's beloved glove form as soon as it was there.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.
It will be long ere the marshes resume,
I will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
-Robert Frost
Here's our cat Mable yesterday morning:
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Unfortunately it wasn't the best day ever--a few hiccups that aren't earth shattering, just some things that dampened my mood. I just wrote a sentence about lemons into lemonade and I remembered that I saw a bumper sticker this morning on the back of a very old subaru that read something like, when life hands you lemons just think oh look! free lemons! and additionally saw a little sign in a bookstore this afternoon with a Scottish proverb etched into that read, be happy while you're living for you're a long time dead. At the first of these two I admit to rolling my eyes slightly because it was early and I was already working on some lemons (and possibly driving one) of my own. The second of these sage tid bits just made me laugh a little. How true. So, I came home, caught my breath with Drew, ate some ice cream and took pictures of the little things. The little growing things. And so, without further ado, I share with you some triplés d'affection, or things in three that make me happy.
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Regardless of where you fall on the political scale, I think it's fair to assume that we're all in agreement that we're very lucky to live in a country where you can agree (or disagree) to disagree (or agree) and that there is an over arching theme of each to his/her own. Which brings us to satire.
Here's a website called, Things that are younger than John McCain. It's a blog, not a list, but there were some funny ones on there like, the six pack, the Wizard of Oz, polyester and more if you feel like poking through. I'm not taking this space to knock John McCain, I just think that this is a very amusing and harmless way to voice dissent. I haven't looked, but I'm sure that someone else has put up a site called something to the tune of, Things that have more experience than Barack Obama--in both cases the author might be adding unnescessary fuel to what I consider to be easy (and distracting) points of contention, but it doesn't mean that they won't get a laugh out of me in the process.
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