Adventures in housewifery: Cooking, crafting, and not a lot of cleaning
I said I was keeping some pictures in reserve for a wintery day and since our driveway is currently a sheet of ice in most places, I thought this might be a good refresher of what summer feels like. Enjoy!
“Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.” –B. B. King
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”- Aretha Franklin
“Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.”- Octavia E. Butler
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”-Shirley Chisholm
“We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.”-Stacey Abrams
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”- James Baldwin
“Playing a game together actually builds up bonds and trust and cooperation. We actually build stronger social relationships as a result.”- Jane McGonigal, Game designer
“We shouldn’t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination. Those things can help us in life.”-Hayao Miyazaki
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”-Henri Matisse
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”-Erik H. Erikson
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” –Ursula K. Le Guin
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”- E. B. White
“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’- Anna Quindlen
“My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.”-George Takei
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”-Ogden Nash
“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”-Catherynne M. Valente
“Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” — Jean-Luc Picard
“Respect is earned, not bestowed.” — Deanna Troi
“Leave bigotry in your quarters; there’s no room for it on the bridge.” — Captain Kirk
“You can use logic to justify almost anything. That’s its power. And it’s flaw.” — Captain Cathryn Janeway
“Then die in ignorance. I can waste no more time on you.”- Worf
“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
— Terry Pratchett (I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4))
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“For many years, I’ve wanted to do one, and I’ve always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, ‘Oh well. Christmas albums don’t sell,’ and things like that. But that’s not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.”- Aretha Franklin
“On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o’clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It’s always cold.”- Tove Jansson
“Christmas and a cappella – what we learned really, really well is that they go extremely well together.”- Kevin Olusola (Pentatonix)
“The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it’s a very family-centered holiday.”- Marcus Samuelsson
“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”- Johnny Carson
“You’re creating ‘ it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You’re not manufacturing somebody else’s plan, somebody else’s blueprint, somebody else’s idea that’s not yours. So when you’re creating, that’s the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.”-Alice Coltrane
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”-Andy Warhol
“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.”― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
“When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crak
“In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson
“That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
― Zoe Whittall, Holding Still For As Long As Possible
“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
― Miles Davis
“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
― Kurt Vonnegut