The most charming thing I've seen in a long time. Yay old people dancing!! (Oh and, you know, one of them happens to be Twyla Tharp.)

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After class yesterday, my first-ever dance-compliment (and by the teacher ( Read more... )

Last week at job #1, when I finished pruning back the peonies along Joanne's driveway, this old lady came out of the house next door and called out,

"Young lady, I've been watching you prune those peonies, and I just wanted to tell you that you've done a fine job with them. They're perfect. It looks like God did them."

True love is not the helpless desire
to possess the cherished object of
one's fervent affection;

True love is the disciplined generosity
we require of ourselves for the sake of another
when we would rather be selfish

- The Emperor of Ocean Park

Me on park bench in Riverside Park reading James Herriot. Middle-aged guy with tennis racket saunters over, asks what I’m reading. Surprised by my voice, asks me if I’m from sweden "because of my accent," I laugh and say no, born and raised here. He blushes, says he feels foolish, but that it was all worth it for a glimpse of "those blue eyes" ( ( Read more... )

....when you take off the tightly-laced shoes and scratchy socks you've been wearing all day, and slip your feet into fuzzy ocelot slippers and wiggle your liberated toes....mmmmmm :)

I socializeAlso, I just discovered that if you smile at someone big enough, long enough, they will eventually, without fail, smile back!* It's like mind control ( Read more... )

It’s nice-I can look in the mirror now and say “I’m nineteen.” I’ve always wanted to be nineteen. I think the next great age is twenty-six. I have this feeling I’ll be very wise by then. But I like where I am right now. It’s a good age.

It's fun to see the bus drivers grinning and waving madly when they pass each other on the road, and making faces at each other, and silly little gestures that must be inside jokes because they make no sense otherwise, and laughing hysterically as they drive away. They're so happy to have seen each other, it's this giddy little moment like when ( Read more... )

I just got spam email for a revolving bow tie.