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   Food. We are all obsessed with it. Are we eating too much? Too little? Are we eating healthy enough? Are we eating unhealthy again? What happened to when we were little and aspartame and fried foods didn’t really matter since a chicken nugget was just a chicken nugget? Good fats. Bad fats. Carcinogens. I’d…

   Snow from heaven Ice from fire  Sleet from hate Rain from desire.  Thunder from darkness  Lightning from light  Puddles from blindness  Rainbows from sight.  Sandstorms from vengeance  Sunshine from mercy  Flooding from rage  And war from controversy. 

   1. Remember it’s not Monday.  2. It’s basically the weekend. It three days from it.  3. It’s two full days until Friday.  4. If you drink coffee, at least you’re awake now.  5. If you’re addicted to coffee, the coffee didn’t really help all that much.  6. If you don’t drink coffee, there’s tea. …

   While you’re enjoying the weekend, take a moment to see how people are faring in other parts of the world. Learn and share about this wonderful project for empowering young girls and breaking the cycle of poverty by Allison Bartley.  http://gofund.me/84ja44n8

   Life sometimes presents even the beyond amateur iPhone photographer with images that you cannot screw up. Here is one of them. It’s less of a house and more of a museum. Gorgeous. 

   Look out at the courtyard See the start of an adventure See dragons in the corners And waves that climb the sands.  See pillars, pinnacles, & patios Displaying heroes of all lands.  And celebrate not knowing The fact that life is going- Barreling wildly off the guided, narrow path.  And watch the sun still…

   I tried to discourage him. I really did. I said dog modeling is no world for a pooch like him. But he didn’t listen to me. He’s set off on this grand adventure of posing for pictures and trying to get me to take pictures of him every day just for kicks. I do…

   So Robin Williams, then Bowie, now Rickman. (Bowie and Rickman in the same week.) My childhood… May they all rest in peace.  The stars are even brighter tonight. And eighty years or not, Mr. Rickman, the answer is still always. 

   The world is a war zone, and we’re just people in it. We are creatures of habit. Turn on the news. Look at the faces of the people on the screen. You don’t know them. You don’t know what’s going on in the world. You sigh and look at the body count, shrugging. At…

   You know how some words just come off as good or bad? It’s not the word’s fault. It’s just a bunch of letters strung together. Although, I suppose if you put it that way, then Shakespeare was just a bunch of letters arranged in pretty little squares. Languages are complex like that. Yet I…