I spent several hours tonight adding pictures to my Quotes I Love page. There was a photo of one of the old Friday Supper crew chiefs, Dave Roscoe --------> in my alma mater's recent journal. Dave Roscoe is the one who said, "When I say three, I mean four," a quote I quote repeatedly in my life. When I saw the photo, I instantly thought that it would be great to put it next to his quote.

    After doing that, I got The Paperclip Syndrome: all I wanted out of the junk drawer was a paperclip, but three hours later I was still cleaning out the junk drawer, sorting stuff into piles, and putting most of it back in the drawer. I ended up putting photos all the way down the page! It looks good. 

    It was my intention to do this all along, but I had just put one photo by the top quote when I was creating this website this past winter in a Quick Solve effort to get a photo near the top of every page.

 

    My lovely wife is secretly a beach bum in disguise. A good sunny day at the beach will change her whole disposition. She's been feeling a bit down lately, so I took her to the beach today.

    We went to our new favorite beach to go to from home: Rock Neck State Park in East Lyme CT. We'd been going to the next beach south down the coast — Hammonasset Beach State Park — for quite a while because while Nancy the beach bum loves the ocean, Nancy the geologist doesn't really like the "rough" sand at Hammon- asset. So last time we looked for the next closest public beach in Connecticut... and that's Rock Neck State Park.  Luckily, it has "good sand", so that's our #1 choice from now on. It's also, luckily, very easy to get to: it's highway all the way. Yay.

    So we had a great time at the beach, Nancy got her disposition (and skin color) adjusted, and things are just fine. 

 

    And today, my lovely wife and I went to see Holland Hoagland's exhibit of sculpted birds made out of paper at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Center in Hadley MA. It was delightfully amazing. Each feather, each claw, each little tiny details was made by hand... and out of paper. There was a larger than life sized great blue heron in front of the window, a turkey vulture flying across the ceiling, ← a kingfisher, a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding on a hibiscus, and several others. It wasn't a large exhibit, but it certainly was impressive.

 

    This afternoon, my lovely wife and I went to a matinee showing of Man on Wire, a docu- mentary about tightrope walker Philippe Petit →. Specifically, it was about his amazing walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in August of 1974. I had just graduated from high school at the time, and considered this man who just did what he had to do for the sake of his art one of my heroes. 

     The movie was everything I wanted it to be: accurate, suspenseful, lots of archival footage, lots of 1-on-1 with Philippe Petit himself. Yay!

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