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This is what water, wind, and time and toil reveal
My mother is seventy-five today. She calls it being as old as three black bears. Last year, my father organized her a surprise party including friends and family from out of state; this year, I came over in the afternoon and gave her a reprint of Dorothy B. Hughes' Ride the Pink Horse (1946) and watched my father decorate almond cupcakes with whipped cream and fresh-made strawberry syrup, which neither my mother nor I would exactly have called a strawberry shortcake, but it was delicious. My brother and his family will come for the birthday observed at the end of the week. I finally got the chance to go for a walk with a camera for the first time in months. The camera then naturally died, but I got a harbinger of spring out of it first. The second photo comes courtesy of my father's phone.
My parents are now reminiscing about "Eve of Destruction." My father used to play it back-to-back with Phil Ochs' "Crucifixion." They are pretty sure it's still on vinyl downstairs.
My parents are now reminiscing about "Eve of Destruction." My father used to play it back-to-back with Phil Ochs' "Crucifixion." They are pretty sure it's still on vinyl downstairs.
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Thank you!
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I shall tell her!
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b) goodness, your camera dying is Just Not Fair.
c) what very colorful pictures, in their own specific ways. (It's also a warmly kind photo of you.)
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I shall tell her!
b) goodness, your camera dying is Just Not Fair.
Just the battery, fortunately! I firmly believe there will be more spring to venture out in. There was spring in 2020.
c) what very colorful pictures, in their own specific ways. (It's also a warmly kind photo of you.)
It's the same light, separated by about half an hour. (Thank you.)
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That is an excellent wish and I will gladly pass it on.
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I'll tell her! And thank you. (That's a great icon.)
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Thank you! It's a picture of a young Chinese actor I like, and I like how the picture looked as soon as I made it black and white.
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Is it from a film or an article or what? I took it at first for a film still.
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An article in Vogue, but also a short film (see here), which I wouldn't say is either actor's best work but both Wang Yibo and Zhou Xun look very cool in it.
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I'll tell her!
It was a good record collection to grow up on.
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That's another lovely picture of you!
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I am collecting all of these wishes to tell her on her birthday observed.
That's another lovely picture of you!
Thank you.
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Also I am so glad that you understand what strawberry shortcake isn't, and can enjoy several things that it isn't without mislabeling them. I am often distressed when someone promises strawberry shortcake and delivers something that has nothing whatsoever to do with shortcake. I really like shortcake.
Anyway happy birthday to your mother.
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That's still a respectable number of bears. The funny thing about the song is that I didn't recognize it from the title, and then as soon as I heard the (quite good) cover used in the original version of the episode, I knew it at once. So it wasn't part of the soundtrack of my adolescence, like Nina Simone or Phil Ochs, but I must have heard it young. There is a surprising amount of stuff from my childhood in apparently permanent storage. One of the reasons
Also I am so glad that you understand what strawberry shortcake isn't, and can enjoy several things that it isn't without mislabeling them. I am often distressed when someone promises strawberry shortcake and delivers something that has nothing whatsoever to do with shortcake. I really like shortcake.
Same! So does my mother. My father likes to experiment. Fortunately, his experiments tend overwhelmingly toward the edible, if occasionally not much like their models at all.
Anyway happy birthday to your mother.
I'll tell her!
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*hugs*
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His memory for a blessing. I am glad it was a good day for remembering. I will pass on your birthday wishes!
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Happy birthday to your mother. One of your names can now be "descended from bears." I think of the blessings that descent empowers you to give out. "May the presence of three bears support and defend you."
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Thank you! The sun stages a good photoshoot.
Happy birthday to your mother
I'll tell her!
(I really do, every time people on the internet wish her well. Ditto the rest of my family.)
One of your names can now be "descended from bears." I think of the blessings that descent empowers you to give out. "May the presence of three bears support and defend you."
Being a child of three bears definitely sounds like a folktale.
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Thank you!
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(I couldn't comment on DW last night from my phone and then I fell asleep.)
Also, the photo of you remains superb and its angles favor your inner dapper.
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WHAT.
Your mother isn't, like, the goddess of corn rot or anything, right?
(I couldn't comment on DW last night from my phone and then I fell asleep.)
(Sleeping is worth it.)
Also, the photo of you remains superb and its angles favor your inner dapper.
Thank you. It was very fine light.
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Your mother isn't, like, the goddess of corn rot or anything, right?
03/09/1959 and mostly her demesne seems to be electrical transformer accidents, car wrecks, and 'toads you don't want to lick.'
EDIT: I TEXTED HER, I AM A GOOD AND DUTIFUL CHILD
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Thank you! I'll tell her. I like her very much.
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Thank you! I will convey your wishes.
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I'll tell her!
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She told me! That was really nice of you.
I am hoping to be outdoors more often soon. I miss it.