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“I love walking in the rain, 'cause then no-one knows I'm crying.”
~ Unknown
TIME: 6:30 AM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: More Rain
Wednesday night, into Thursday afternoon, it rained ... and rained ... and rained.
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
~ Anton Chekhov
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: iPod Touch
Cam is not an overly passionate kid ... unless we're talking about music. Cam watches very little TV (maybe 2-3 hours per week) but spends every waking - and sleeping - moment listening to music.
Last night he took his iPod to youth group at church. When he and a couple of the boys were wrestling around, he took his phone and his iPod out of his pants so that he wouldn't cause any damage to either of them. In the span of about 10 minutes, someone decided to hit Cam's iPod screen with his phone.
I feel terrible for him. He did the right thing. Took care of something he values. And someone else decided to take that from him. This is one of those times when, as a parent, you want to be able to make this right, but it will be quite some time before I can finagle my finances enough to make this one right.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
TIME: 8:30 AM
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Rain
You know it's a dreary day when your color photo looks black and white.
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“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
TIME: 12:30 PM
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Tree
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
~ C.S. Lewis
TIME: 8:30 AM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Egg
Looks like one of my neighborhood robins became a mom on Mother's Day!
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Do you think that a California girl is supposed to have curls and wear a jean size 3?
All the curves in all the right places, spray tanned faces just like on TV?
And we read in the gospel of Vogue that we're all suppose to dress and move and be
Visions of perfection
Such a misconception
'Cause the real connection is deeper than the eye can see
(from "True Beauty")
TIME: 7:00 PM
PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: Mandisa
Mandisa performed at our church tonight. She was truly amazing. I stayed to purchase her CD's and to get an autograph for Cam. I'm not one to be enamored by famous people, but when I got to the autograph table, I decided to suck it up and participate in the photo op ... for the sake of the blog ...
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“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
~ Sophia Loren
TIME: 6:00 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Vacuum
A few months ago I received this card. The sender (and fellow blogger), in a random act of kindness, sent me a gift. She knew times were tough and she reached out. When I thanked her, I told her what I planned on doing with the gift. She said:
I was going to suggest you have some fun with [it] BUT it is a gift and a gift is for the receiver to do with as they wish.
Well, I'm a bit practical, and I feel a great deal of responsibility to choose needs over wants. Cam and I have been living in the apartment for 5 months now - 5 months without a vacuum cleaner. I've been researching vacuums for two months - reading user and consumer reports reviews - and I finally made a decision earlier in the week.
I know the giver might not believe this, but I did have fun using the vacuum today, and each time I do this "chore" I will be thinking of - and grateful for - her!
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