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"Let's frighten the dragons," I said to Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Celebration time! Asher was two years old on May 1. Little does he know how eventful life has been around him in those two years. He's blissfully unaware of world events like Covid-19, and the trials and tribulations of those who are near and dear to him. He's two! As part of my tradition of posting on family birthdays, this week's Purdzilla Show post is dedicated to him and his mum! It comes from A.A. Milne's Now We Are Six . Photo of the text from my mother's copy - given to her as a young girl. Us Two Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh. "What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh. ("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.) "I think it ought to be twenty-two." "Just what I think mys...

Below him the view opened out

Before him the view opened out showing a mighty panorama of rugged mountains and canyons lost in darkness, of forests blasted by lightning and the gray bleached bones of long dead trees. Under the low gray clouds the scene was weirdly somber and majestic. the higher ridges and peaks vanished in the low clouds and before him the wide shelf upon which he rode stretched out, bare and unpromising. Louis L'Amour (in Radigan )

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change (Stephen Hawking)

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The learning pit

Dick Cavett:   “What makes you stuck?”   Paul Simon: “Well, everywhere I went, led me where I didn’t want to be. So I was stuck.”

Easy types and hard types (Anne Tyler)

DZHA on Unsplash "Sometimes," she said, "it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over." Anne Tyler (in A Spool Of Blue Thread )

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be (Joan Didion)

 

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease (Naguib Mahfouz)

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