Day 4616: Storytime - A Tree & "Let Them Eat Cake!"

"Pieces":collage and stamps.

     

  

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Click:  Judith Hill. You Were Always on My Mind

 

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Storytime

I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one-ton truck refused to start.

While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands.

When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation... His face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward, he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

'Oh, that's my trouble tree,' he replied 'I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children... So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning, I pick them up again.' 'Funny thing is,' he smiled,' when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. We all need a Tree!

Let Them Eat Cake ?!!!

San Francisco art museum, the Legion of Honor, recently held a massive outdoor CAKE event to celebrate the opening of a phenomenal new retrospective of the work of Bay Area painter, Wayne Theibaud, titled “Art Comes from Art.” The event also celebrated, well, Cake - for cakes sake. 

People personally baked over a thousand cakes and brought them to the Legion of Honor for all to enjoy. Everyone displayed their cakes, and if you brought a cake to share, you got to refill your cake box with pieces from other people’s cakes. The event wasn’t just a spectacular exhibition of the art of cake baking, but also the art of the gift. A true display of communal and reciprocal creativity.

(did anyone else think of bugs?)

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, a toda marcha, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

 

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