lola rocks

"Hello Los Angeles! Are you ready to ROCK?"





My friends' almost 5 year old daughter, Lola, treated me her to incredible version of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" (dad on drums).

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read this out loud

I'd go by Michael

end of summer garden

today's inspiration: May Lemke

Leslie Lemke didn't have a great start in life. He was born with severe birth defects that required doctors to remove his eyes. He had cerebral palsy and was mentally retarded. His own mother gave him up for adoption, and a nurse named May Lemke (who at the time was 52 and raising 5 children of her own) adopted him when he was six months old.

As a young child, May force-fed Leslie to teach him how to swallow. He could not stand until he was 12. At 15 he walked for the first time , May would strap his body to hers in the hopes that he would eventually mimic the movements. She also put his hands on hers as she played simple tunes on the piano, and she would sing to him

At 16 years of age May woke to find Leslie playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Leslie, who had no classical music training, was playing the piece flawlessly after hearing it just once earlier on the television.

Leslie's achievments are remarkable, and his abilities speak to how little we understand about the human brain...but it's May's achievments that are most inspiring to me, and her abilities show the true power of the human heart. Plus she was about the cutest thing ever (she died in 1993 of Alzheimers).

We need more Mays.

carnival!

It was like walking around the remnants of a giant burst pinata.

the impermanence of feelings

"If you squeeze sand too tightly, it runs through your fingers"

That's what Joni Mitchell said to Graham Nash when she ended their love affair.

8

This is the latest crop circle, discovered on 8/8/08 in Wiltshire England...I've always liked this whole crop circle thing. Whether taken as art or messages from extra-terrestrials it excites my mind.

So, in further celebration of the number 8, a circle that turns round upon itself.... and means many things, including magic and infinite possibility....

THE NECESSITY OF APPEARING
IN YOUR OWN FACE

There are days when that is the last place
in the world where you want to be but you
have to be there, like a movie, because it
features you.

-Richard Brautigan

CSI Backyard

puggle time

I never get sick of these guys...

Cyclops blinding is a clothing optional sport
Blinded cyclops penis watching...clothing required.

momversations

Me: Hi Mom.
Mom: Oh hi honey, can I call you back? I'm in the middle of making my funeral arrangements*

Later on that day

Mom: Well honey, I'm going to be cremated. You dont mind, do you? But I've made sure that you can see my body beforehand if you want, I know how you like to look at dead things.


*my mom is perfectly healthy outside of having degenerative eye disease and fuzzy logic.

OG

I feel ready...