While Cal chooses and stacks cutters, she hums… little boxes on the hillside. “Are weeeeeee — baking cutouts?” Tal pulls sugar from the shelf. “Coooooooo-keys! Yum, yum, yum!” Nią’s voice is just loud enough to be heard over sounds of sawing and pounding that are wafting across the yard. “Looks like another neighbor is making the switch from light tan to dark gray siding.”
“There is much restraint… and wisdom… in minding one’s own business.”
And also it appears you are tinkering around a personal philosophy in the Typist quote.
Really love that too!
At work today one of the things we are working from is the idea that if you cannot express something simply, you don’t yet understand it well enough.
I wonder how I can pair the idea that truth only exists in the present (and includes the contradiction) with the idea of simplicity and clarity around “understanding.”
"And the children go to summer camp and then to the un-i-versity". Sometimes it sure does feel that fast.
"There's a pink one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one. And they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same." Well played Malvina, well played.
So other commenters are praising the thought and philosophy behind the photo and I, of course, am sitting here wondering, "Okay, dog, easy; heart, basic; strawwwwwwwberrrrryyyy? Short pineapple? Upside-down jelly fish? Yes, take a sugar cookie in that shape and smear it with jelly, that would work!"
Ya wanna know what I think about this love letter??
Bravo!
I particularly like the contradiction of Cal humming “little boxes on the hillside” as she stacks cookie cutters. At first suggesting a complement to the notion of “cookie-cutter” houses or boxes, while subtly using three very different shapes and compositions of cutters.
Conformity, be it siding colors or favorite TV shows, often is an element of validation of group membership!
I like your closing emphasis on minding one’s own business and operating from the perspective of one’s own experiences.
Love this Gail:
“There is much restraint… and wisdom… in minding one’s own business.”
And also it appears you are tinkering around a personal philosophy in the Typist quote.
Really love that too!
At work today one of the things we are working from is the idea that if you cannot express something simply, you don’t yet understand it well enough.
I wonder how I can pair the idea that truth only exists in the present (and includes the contradiction) with the idea of simplicity and clarity around “understanding.”
Hmmm...thanks for getting me thinking!
#Truth
“Truth can only be found in the present moment.
To see the contradiction, and act as only you can, with the experience you have accumulated.”
~Typist
Love this!
"And the children go to summer camp and then to the un-i-versity". Sometimes it sure does feel that fast.
"There's a pink one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one. And they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same." Well played Malvina, well played.
So other commenters are praising the thought and philosophy behind the photo and I, of course, am sitting here wondering, "Okay, dog, easy; heart, basic; strawwwwwwwberrrrryyyy? Short pineapple? Upside-down jelly fish? Yes, take a sugar cookie in that shape and smear it with jelly, that would work!"
Probably a strawberry...
Ya wanna know what I think about this love letter??
Bravo!
I particularly like the contradiction of Cal humming “little boxes on the hillside” as she stacks cookie cutters. At first suggesting a complement to the notion of “cookie-cutter” houses or boxes, while subtly using three very different shapes and compositions of cutters.
Conformity, be it siding colors or favorite TV shows, often is an element of validation of group membership!
I like your closing emphasis on minding one’s own business and operating from the perspective of one’s own experiences.