Life is Short

 

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”   -Steve Jobs

Rest in Peace, Steve.  Thanks for following your heart. 

Project 52: Phantasmagorical Fog over Long Lake

12:52 Phantasmagorical Fog over Long Lake
Originally uploaded by WhitePineLane

Hey - remember Project 52, my once-weekly photography project that fell by the wayside about a year and a half ago?? Well, it's back - and since I make the rules, I'm picking up where I left off, with week 12 of 52.

Phantasmagorical Fog Over Log Lake. You don't think it's too big of stretch to make the alliteration, do you?

The Royal Wedding and the Horror that was Princess Bea's Hat

What a day yesterday!  What a glorious day for love and lovers everywhere.  Sadly, it was also a day filled with horror for fashion-watchers everywhere, even the Queen....

 

I had gone to get a cup of coffee and had missed Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie getting out of their car and walking in.  Some time later, though, I noticed the most unusual thing I had ever seen - there was a reindeer seated behind the Queen and Prince Philip!  A reindeer?  No wait - what was that??  Augh!  It's Princess Beatrice's HAT!  As we say en francais, << C'est pas POSSIBLE!>>  Good Godfrey what was that girl thinking??

I've heard various hypotheses, including that Fergie dressed the girls as revenge for not being invited, which sounds plausible.

Anyway, the Royals all had a hard day, putting up with that hat.  We really have to give them credit for their stoicism. 

Thanks for the material, Princess Bea!  It was a fun day!

I haven't forgotten

Update:  Here is a 9/11 piece that's much more my style

(although I still like the video below):  

from The Onion, Sep 26, 2001:  

"God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule"

Thanks to my friend Louisa for sharing this article on Facebook.

 

Today is 9/11.
And as much as I hate these wars we are involved in and I think they need to end, when I saw this video posted on my friend Lani's blog, I thought no, I haven't forgotten.
It really is important to remember how we felt that day nine years ago.

My kids were just little that day.  They didn't understand what was happening.  Here my mom and I had just stepped outside with them after five or six straight hours of watching the horrors unfold on the TV.

Disclaimers:
• I believe Afghanistan and Iraq are two completely different things, and that only one of them relates to 9/11.
• I DO NOT like country music (generally). :-P :-)
• I'm not really a political person, I just think it IS important to remember.

Thanks for visiting. On a completely different topic, I'll be around a LOT more starting the week after next when I am BACK TO BEING A STAY-AT-HOME MOM! Woo-Hoo! :-D My motto of the last five years is coming true!