Or maybe bathroom-art face? In any event, this little watercolour caught my eye in our room in Baddeck NS, as we headed off to the Cabot Trail. This face is so obvious it’s hard to believe the artist didn’t intend it.
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Posted: 2023 Dec 01
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This Japanese technique to fold shirts in 2 seconds seems to find a secret topology hidden inside clothes
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Q&A Time: Finding the humor in ripped paper. 🤣😂🤣@seawells68 asks why babies take such delight in seeing paper get ripped?
And it’s true, there are videos all over the Internet of babies breaking into fits of laughter as their parents tear up paper in their presence.
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Posted: 2023 Dec 01
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And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.- Lines from Four Quartets by TS Eliot; quoted in Things Worth Remembering, by Douglas Murray
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You’re getting TOO good at this. It is very subtle. I had to squint, and even then…it was fleeting.
Barbara – Oh. I’ve rewired my brain, apparently.
I think I’ll give up on faces. Maybe I’ll watch for phallic symbols instead.
Jim T
Jim – I think the lesson is that we can watch for anything . . .