The August Break 2013 - Day 31! - Smile

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, 

but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” 

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

  

Today is the last day of The August Break!

Thanks everyone for coming along on the journey.

See ya around the blog for the regular programming.

Hugs,

Tara

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The August Break 2013 - Day 30 - Sign

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness 

and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” 

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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The August Break 2013 - Day 29 - Favorite Thing

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

~ "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music

Performed by "Maria" (Julie Andrews)

Bun Bun, a favorite thing from my youth.

(Bun Bun came along for knee surgery when I was four, 
and was given her own hospital I.D)

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The August Break 2013 - Day 28 - Smell

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you 

across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."

~ Helen Keller 

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The August Break 2013 - Day 27 - Number

 "A good decision is based on knowledge

and not on numbers."
~ Plato



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The August Break 2013 - Day 26 - Yes

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, 

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, 

and for the blue dream of sky and for everything 

which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

e.e. cummings

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The August Break - Day 24 - Birthday!

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could 

ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the 

most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Happy Birthday to my sweet, intelligent, funny, curious niece!  I love you!

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August Break - Day 25 - Sunday Morning

"I wanna be high, so high 
I wanna be free to know 
The things I do are right 
I wanna be free, just me, babe That's why I'm easy 
I'm easy like Sunday morning"

~ "Easy like Sunday Morning" by Lionel Richie

Good morning!  I had never actually listened to all the lyrics of the song.  It's a break-up song.  Leaving the woman is so obvious, so easy to do, it is as easy as a Sunday morning.  The other thought was Maroon 5's "Driving Slow on Sunday Morning."  Once I looked at those lyrics, I think "driving" is actually a euphemism...  Anyway, Sunday mornings should be easy, so I went with Lionel.  

Astute readers may notice I've gone from Day 23 to Day 25.  I'll come back to Day 24.  It is another prompt I made up for myself, birthday.  I have a lot of photos to go through, so I thought I'd knock out Sunday morning while it is still Sunday morning.  

Bike to the neighborhood diner for breakfast with friends

Coffee and paper before friends arrive

Sunday outfit is braids and yoga clothes.  

With the current hair length I have a bit of a

Pippi Longstocking thing going on.

Time to trim the rose bush, which is out of control, and has 

been taken over by chokeweed / Morning Glory.  I'll probably 

leave since untangling in a rose bush seems a losing proposition.  

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The August Break - Day 23 - Road Trip

"Goin' places that I've never been.
Seein' things that I may never see again
And I can't wait to get on the road again."

~ "On the Road Again" by Willlie Nelson

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The August Break - Day 22 - Midday

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. 

Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

~ William Blake

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