“The closest thing we can get to a crystal ball is history.”
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Another Type of Magic
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, Thoughts on November 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Sally Forth!
Posted in Other, tagged Thoughts, citizenship, community, #365Ways, voting, election day, #365Ways2025 on November 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s Election Day in the US! Want to have a say in your community and its policies, in who represents you and for what? Voting is all this and more.
Haven’t voted yet? There’s still lots of time.
Need info on where or how to vote? These sites have you covered:
And if you have additional questions or run into issues, there’s also this election protection hotline (complete with memorable phone numbers!): 866ourvote.org
- English 866-OUR-VOTE: 866-687-8683
- Spanish/English 888-VE-Y-VOTA: 888-839-8682
- Asian Languages/English 888-API-VOTE: 888-274-8683
- Arabic/English 844-YALLA-US: 844-925-5287
Sally forth, citizens, and be heard!
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Nothing, and Everything
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #WhereDoIdeasComeFrom, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on November 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
My office is filled with random yet interesting items. Maybe a color caught my eye, or a puzzle, or a map (or a bit of pottery, a magic wand, a decoder ring, a set of travel watercolors, or or or). All things that spark my creativity or capture an experience I want to remember.
For example: Mr Man and I had a special dinner a while back.
Appetizer: mussels steamed with a great deal of garlic and a perfectly reasonable amount of white wine.
Flavor: excellent.
Bonus: an unexpected gift, the tiniest pearl I have ever seen.
Taking a picture of it was a challenge, it’s that small.
I keep it in memory of that night. It’s worth nothing, and everything.
“But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods both.”
– John Steinbeck
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Some Days You Just Need to Watch a Baby Elephant Play with a Pumpkin
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, funny, inspiration, something nice on October 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Some days you just need to watch a baby elephant play with a pumpkin. If today is that sort of day for you, you’re welcome!
A baby elephant stole the show at Oregon Zoo’s pumpkin-smashing event | AP News
A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton pumpkins.
Freaking adorable.
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Don’t Delay
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #whoops!, lessons for living, procrastination, Thoughts on October 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Some days seem designed to deliver a lesson. I won’t go into the sadly uninteresting and happily trifling details, but today’s lesson for me?
Time comes for us all. Don’t put stuff off!
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Truth
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #DefineWaste, philosophizing, Thoughts on October 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
— Seneca
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I Might Not Go This Far, But It Was Pretty
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on October 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We drove out to woods yesterday, the gently curving country road surrounded by rolling hills and turning leaves and the crisp cool air of an autumn evening.
Welcome, fall.
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
— John Donne
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A Nice Reminder
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, art, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on October 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Here’s an illustrated short by Rich Wells, capturing an epiphany he had outside a tire shop.
“I thought l’d take the words from my notebook and make something visual.
A reminder to myself that all this everyday stuff – admin, errands, school runs, park trips, waiting in lines, meal times –
it’s all a gift”
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Learning Stuff
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, learning stuff, Thoughts on October 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It’s a brave act to embrace incompetence. What’s delightful is that it’s a temporary state.
— Michael Bungay Stanier
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Least Expected
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on October 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Ikea is many things: an overwhelming shopping destination, a supply chain and engineering marvel, an unexpected beacon of sustainability, source of endless jokes about infuriating instructions, and a good place for meatballs.
It can also surprise you, as it did when I went looking for one thing and discovered something I’ve been looking for years: An affordable, practical, decently sized cake carrier.
It’s not a big deal, but when you need to transport a cake across town without it ending up in heap in the back of the car, it can be important.
Important enough to consider shelling out for an overpriced carrier? Not quite, as it happens.
Because I don’t need to move cakes all that often, I’ve been putting this purchase off for years. I’m glad I did, because now, C$12.99 + tax later, I am the proud possessor of a decent cake carrier. (I also picked up a year’s supply of that critical Swedish ingredient, lingonberries.)
Thanks for this, Ikea, and for the reminder that solutions are sometimes where they’re least expected.
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