noisy and colorfully

I have lots of things to say and share and show and tell, but the internet tonight is filled with molasses and tar and peanut butter and Sunday drivers and turtles and the checkout lines at Walmart and a month of Sundays and waiting for Christmas (if you're little) and everything else that's slow. It's taking 10 minutes to load one photo.

I can't be doin' that, naaaw, thas jes too slow for me!

Maybe tomorrow. And yes, I do realize I just posted to say I'm not posting.  SO?

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive

 you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, 

for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least 

think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. 

 ~Mel Brooks

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motionless for lack of wind

We are becalmed*, waiting for the wind to rise again and move us ahead. After a long flurry of activity and self-propelled forward motion, we are suddenly at what feels like a standstill. 

We did everything we thought we should do: prepared the house, waited until we had it on the market to house-hunt with real intention, fluffed it up to perfection before every showing. When we dropped the price the 2nd time, we were so certain we would have a quick sale that we made an offer on River House. 

Since then - silence. Stillness. We are waiting. And wishing** for the wind.

photos: superstock.com, billfrymire.com, flickr.com/photos/davic,

 life.com, tumblr.com, weheartit.com (x2)

*be·calm (b-käm) tr.v. 
  be·calmed, be·calm·ing, be·calms

1. To render motionless for lack of wind

**wish (wish) v.tr.

         1. To long for; want.

         2. To entertain or express wishes for; bid

         3. To call or invoke upon

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