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Day 115: Thursday April 25, 2024 - "Sleeping In His Own Bed x 2!"

Song: Ezra Bell - May The Road

Quote: "The role of the artist is exactly the same role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of things you don’t see." ~James Baldwin

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Day 114: Wednesday April 24, 2024 - "Return To The Routine"

Song: Derek Richard Thomas - Just Choose

Quote: the failure to recognize thoughts for what they are—quantum bursts of psychic energy that exist solely in your head—is the primordial human error. ~Dan Harris

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Day 113: Tuesday April 23, 2024 - "Come In Peace"

Song: Wormy - Big Mountain

Quote: “This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.” ― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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Day 112b: Monday April 22, 2024 - "43"

Song: Joe George - Stone's Throw

Quote: “Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ― Homer, The Iliad

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Day 112a: Monday April 22, 2024 -"Birthday Tarot"

Song: Eskimotion - Moment

Quote: Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. ~Theodore Roosevelt

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Day 111: Sunday April 21, 2024 - "Strong Medicine"

Song: Damien Jurado - Beacon Hill

Quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

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Day 110: Saturday April 20, 2024 - "HorseHead"

Song: The Red Clay Strays - Stones Throw

Quote:

Ya know, I don’t care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole.

So read what it says in my buckles boy Take your sunset out of my rise. I will not send you sailing if you came here to drive and I know you came here to drive. That’s why it reads won’t give up on your saddle like I wrote don’t give up on my life like I’ve been typing my name on a horse I drove through the desert as sure as a river he ran and I swear on my shadow he wouldn’t turn back no matter how much slack I typed into his neck. Not everyone wants to go home

to get the sunset painted back into their bones

to have the law with all that slack in its love

pretending to save me

you don’t need to save me

I already did that myself

when your god as my witness

never turned up

there was a typewriter

buried alive in that horse

I rode to get out of the flood.

~Buddy Wakefield

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Day 109: Friday April 19, 2024 - "Setting A Boundary"

Song: Tears for Fears - Shout

Quote: "I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning. ~Charles Bukowski

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Day 108: Thursday April 18, 2024 - "Suck It Philly"

Song: John Craigie - Suck It Philly

Quote: "I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me." ~Ernest Hemingway

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Day 107: Wednesday April 17, 2024 - "Fire Walker"

Song: U2 -- Bad

Quote: "You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago." ~Alan Watts

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Day 106: Tuesday April 16, 2024 - "Cheese Steaks! Wiz and Onions"

Song: Zach Bryan - 28

Quote: "Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." ~Shel Silverstein

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Day 105: Monday April 15, 2024 - "Weenie Roast Finca Picnic"

Song: Mikey Mike - Motion Picture

Quote: “The mind must be given relaxation,” Seneca said, “it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced… so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind.” Daily Stoic

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Day 104: Sunday April 14, 2024 - "Hike in the Cactus Garden"

Song: The Good Husbands - Today (ft. Ryan Caraveo)

Quote: "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'... He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature... Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." ~Albert Einstein

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Day 103: Saturday April 13, 2024 - "Saturday Night Baseball"

Song: Dire Straits - Sultan of Swing

Quote: “God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says.

No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and listen to the drone of the crowd, as below me Shoelss Joe Jackson tenses, watching the angle of the distant bat for a clue as to where the ball will be hit.

I think you're right, Joe,' I say, but softly enough not to disturb his concentration.” ― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

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Day 102: Friday April 12, 2024 - "Desert Beach Days"

Song: Handsome Boy Modeling School - Breakdown (Feat. Jack Johnson)

Quote: “I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.” ― Joan Didion

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Day 101: Thursday April 11, 2024 - "Champions Pizza"

Papa and William got treated to a champions round of pizza tonight for winning the family brackets, with us other three losers footing the bills. Good job boys! Both correctly picked the womens and mens champions, respectively with Big Chicken and UCONN both pulling back to backs. We'll try again next year.

Song: The Good Husbands - Today

Quote: “A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on “x’s and o’s” as compared to time spent learning about people.” ~Coach K

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Day 100: Wednesday April 10, 2024 - "This was 33 Months"

The 33rd month was a blur - the pace of play is picking up as fast as his vocabulary. Always on the run, squealing, smiling, rascaling it up. He's asserting his independence this month and lets you know his opinion is showing he's got all of his alotted Actingham bullheadedness that he was destined for. And its entertaining. Watching boss baby govern the Finca, his little universe. We shared most all this month with my parents who got to check in on him and his growth on more time before the heat of summer. And somewhere in this month we all to seem to notice a little change. Suddenly here in the 33rd month, we had more of a little boy, a 3 year old, than we did the little toddling two year old. His school sees it too - ready to move him up. Sharp as can be, easily excited, in love with his life - so long as it involves Beyonce more than it does sunscreen. This month he sure loved getting up in the morning and "going to see grandma" and god bless here that she was there for it, most every day - I loved it almost as much as he did. Then in the evenings when it was time to wrap it up, he just loved sitting in Papas lap and reading Mighty Tug, Magical Yet, My Truck Is Stuck, Lets Build A Highway. And I was so happy they were here and creating these memories and these happy lovely times. So healthy for him and his little brain. So blessed to have such loving parents and a loving home for our boo-boo to find his own in. I assume each month from here for awhile will be a lot like this one - with noticeable sizable shifts as he comes into his body and his voice and his emotions. And I want to be there for it. - every day, with the same alacrity that my Mom greets him first thing the morning. I want to be there for it to enjoy it and see it, as he grows and stretches, and learns, and wires up...Stay present and fertile for the changes. This is the good stuff - like when he wakes you up at 4am because the muffins must be cooled down now, or when you wake up with a monster truck under your hip in bed, or a foot in your butt crack, or even when we have to tag team putting on the pajamas, this is the good stuff. This is what I am here for. Every day.

Now the whining............... I dont know - not there yet. Maybe Month 34 will teach me that hack.

Favorite Food: Papa's Banana Bread Muffins- even willing to sleep on the kitchen floor until they cool down!

Favorite Song: "Do you want to build a snowman"

Favorite Book: Mighty Tug - BEEEP BEEEEEEEEP! a re-obsession with "My Truck Is Stuck"

Favorite Show: Trash Truck on Netflix, Buster the Bus

Favorite Toy(s): Monster Trucks from Easter Bunny

Best Phrase/ Word: "I want to watcha william show"

Favorite Favorite: Reading books with Papa, Mornings with Grandma

Least Favorite: Dry Red Cheeks

Big First:  Gave a really great gift to a friend (Otis), and finished in the top 650 in the women's bracket challenge on ESPN.

Song: Beyonce - Irreplaceable

Quote: “Toddlers will attach themselves to energies that feel comfortable to them. Because energies don't lie.” ― Mitta Xinindlu

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