I saw this inspirational quote in the last days of 2015.
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Shredded Wheat with Chocolate Milk and Fresh Mint
Let’s face it. Shredded Wheat is a pretty dull cereal.
I eat it because it doesn’t have a whole whack of processed sugar in it that I can’t taste much of in other cereals. This is especially true of the organic stuff that for some reason, tend to carry a ton of sugar in it, when you don’t even get to enjoy it in the healthy taste!
There’s no salt in Shredded Wheat, either. Even its shape ain’t interesting. It’s just the antithesis of cereal today in many ways.
So what did I do tonight to make my Shredded Wheat pre-bedtime snack more interesting?
Die Cut Paper Origami
Origami is interesting for its technique, but it can also be interesting for the paper used if you’re not just using conventional paper or origami paper. There is origami paper with prints, metallic shine, maybe even texture. However, tonight, I took things to a different level for myself by doing origami with die cut paper.
Penelope LePrevost in Darth Vader Costume for Equestrian
Have you geeks and nerds seen this? I’m sure the really hardcore ones have. Others probably not unless you paid attention to equestrian charity events.
On December 5th in Villepinte, France, world class equestrian show jumper Penelope LePrevost rode as Darth Vader in full costume! She was in the Darth horse role, if you will. 🙂
Now that’s a picture!
Furthermore, her daughter Erin also rode as Princess Leia.
Yes, the horse is strong in this one! 😉
I can’t find any video of the event online, but I wondered if the French went crazy as North Americans would have. They should do that in North America. It would bring down the house!
May the horse be with you, Penelope!
No, seriously! Cause if it weren’t, you’d be falling off the thing! lol
My Big Lift Ferry Poems
I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where one of our mile long suspension bridges is undergoing a redecking in an operation called The Big Lift. They are essentially replacing the bridge piece by piece at night and some weekends. It began last June and will continue until at least December 2016.
In redecking the bridge, the running lane across the bridge that I often use was also taken away. I’m also not a fan of taking the ferry compared to the buses because it is more inconvenient and time consuming. But life is what you make of it, right? So instead of just putting up with all this, I decided to do something to make the best of it.
Last September, I came up with an idea that any time I had to take the ferry to go between Halifax and Dartmouth that the bridge connects, I would commit the ferry time to compose poetry. Not going much during winter, I figured I wasn’t going to get more than 99 written, so I numbered them with two digits. So far, it seems that was a bad decision has I have already written 23, averaging between two and three per trip as they tend to be short poems. At that rate, next summer alone should see a couple hundred written! I’ll have to figure out what to do with this number, like renumbering while I still can correct past posts. Most poems written so far are haiku , with the rest being tanka and general one stanza poems with some rhyme scheme involved. They are rarely about the Big Lift operation itself, though. If they were, I wouldn’t bother telling you about it. 🙂
If you like short poetry, including those forced by circumstance, please do head over to see my Big Lift Ferry Poems collection. I don’t think anybody else is doing such a thing. Too bad most people in the area don’t know much about it, either. I don’t promote my poetry much so it’s like one of those hidden anonymous poetry collections. I’m quite OK with that, but sometimes, I don’t mind writing something about it that gets me excited. 🙂
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