April 6

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Happy birthday, Ann! May your year sparkle.

turning newer every day

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Happy birthday, dearest Babi! Letters from Dickinson to Frances and Louise Norcross . . . How short it takes to go, dear, but afterward to c...

fall harvest

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One of my favorites, along with hazelnuts, Brussel sprouts and butternut squash. I keep coming back to this John Keats ode, such a mainsta...

30 years old today!

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Happy birthday to the best younger sister once could ask for. I wish we could take this assortment of flavors, sit on the blanket in the p...

counting

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Happy Birthday, dear Maman! Counting Backwards It’s the physics of acceleration I mind, the way time speeds up Linda Pastan

multiplying joy

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Happy birthday to one of the most treasured people in my little pocket of the world-- may your last year of this decade be full of joy to ...

the town soccer team

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Wow, what a wonderful representation of a community. Iceland's Goalkeeper The Iceland men’s soccer team is nearly impossible not to...

Virginia Woolf

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Google Doodle celebrates Virginia Woolf's 136th birthday One of the 20th century's foremost authors, Woolf was a pioneer in the u...

"my heart is gladder than all these"... future fridays

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Happy birthday, Maman-- I hope it is a joyful, singing day! Here's to many more birthdays, and a month of joy. My heart is ...

get started and keep going...

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Day 26: One of 34 special days, getting started again and again. "Getting started, keeping going, getting started again — in art a...

start of summer

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Happy Birthday, Sweetums! Here's to a year of the pieces falling into some kind of place to create a new patchwork quilt for this upco...

the last generation before the internet

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A person after my own heart--perhaps I was born 2 decades too late! New favorite phrase for my birthday month: analog August "What i...

a small birthday... future Fridays

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I have reached the age when geniuses started to leave this small earth... Alexander the Great, Mozart, Schubert all died around 32 or 33. ...

rainbow balloons

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If I had my own classroom, I would start the new school year with this adorable birthday decoration. via { oh happy day }

A wish for your upcoming year

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Happy birthday, dear Whit. I hope it is a year of positive change, healthier living, and deeper contentment. "If you follow your bl...

best day of June

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Happy, happy birthday, dearest Babi. Wishing you so many happy days in this new adventure, with a few trips to Italy in between. I so mu...

happy day!

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Happy 1st birthday to the cutest little woodland creature, Taiga Turtle! photo via { pinterest }

happy happy birthday!

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Happy, happy birthday, dearest Bahn! Wishing you so much internal sunshine and glitter explosions for this upcoming year! I love you m...

wisdom favors experience (and therefore age)

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“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who w...

december days

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One of the many reasons I love December: Advent and Opa's birthday, days that make me slow down, and inspire reflection. I don...