“Highliiiiyt, cahhhh-pee, payst, tag.” Tal sighs and feeds the machine. “Lucy and Ethel got to eat chahhhlk-let.”
“There will always be parts —” Nia encourages, “that we don’t particularly enjoy.”
“Showing up consistently… builds trust.” Calliope hands Thalia a gingersnap. “The trick… is to make a game of it.”
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.
~Mark Twain: Excerpt from Tom Sawyer
A note from LoveLetterist:
In seventh grade, no boys tried out for the school play.
I earned the role of Tom Sawyer.
There's an old snapshot somewhere of me on stage wearing a straw hat. 😂
We never know when something stored in our memory bank will be useful!
Today at 10:00 Central I'm reading Chapter 17 from POISE live. (link below)
This chapter features Jack Helocker, who was here every day in 3mm comments, lifting my thoughts throughout cancer treatment.
Can you come?
https://meetn.com/gailboenning
I am so sorry I missed it! I have been trying! Today was take your Dad and his best friend to breakfast day. Dad hasn't driven since December 23rd. It's better this way for everything one concerned. But now I need a chauffeur hat.