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Droopy yellow tulips.  This was a send-off breakfast for my sister before she moved away to New Zealand.  That’s her phone on the table.  My mom had made fresh-squeezed orange juice (in the glasses), and my dad had baked cinnamon-raisin bread (in the back on the counter).  The little painting behind the bread was made by my brother some years ago.

Droopy yellow tulips.  This was a send-off breakfast for my sister before she moved away to New Zealand.  That’s her phone on the table.  My mom had made fresh-squeezed orange juice (in the glasses), and my dad had baked cinnamon-raisin bread (in the back on the counter).  The little painting behind the bread was made by my brother some years ago.

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Camellias in the Tomato Can

Camellias in the Tomato Can

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Daffies in a Mason Jar on the Coffee Table

Daffies in a Mason Jar on the Coffee Table

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"The process of Mastery, then, is one of acceptance. It is a quiet embracing of what is. It is a non-resistence. It is a gentle walking into the moment, knowing that it holds for us, always, what is best for us all ways. Do you believe this? Then it is true."
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Ranunculi on the end table.

Ranunculi on the end table.

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Magnolias from the tree in our front yard, in a wine glass on the kitchen windowsill.  Even the tiniest bud, that was completely closed, opened up in just a couple of days.

Magnolias from the tree in our front yard, in a wine glass on the kitchen windowsill.  Even the tiniest bud, that was completely closed, opened up in just a couple of days.

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Daffodils in the kitchen.  Had them in the big vase at left, looked much better when I moved them to the smaller silver vase.

Daffodils in the kitchen.  Had them in the big vase at left, looked much better when I moved them to the smaller silver vase.

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Nice look inside the workings of the awesome design company Instrument.

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Our ECD, JD Hooge, presented one week ago at CreativeMornings. This is a video of his entire talk shot by Paul Searle. Thanks Paul and CreativeMornings for getting this up so fast!

-ZB

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"I want to come at the subject of the present by showing how consciousness dashes and ambles around the labyrinthine tracks of the mind, returning again and again, however briefly, to the senses: “If there were but one erect and solid standing tree in the woods, all creatures would go to rub against it and make sure of their footing.” But so long as I stay in my thoughts, my foot slides under trees; I fall, or I dance."

— Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.  Perhaps the most positively beautiful and astonishing thing I’ve ever read.

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Dining room bouquet, courtesy of Trader Joe’s

Dining room bouquet, courtesy of Trader Joe’s