thoughtful thursday

october 1, 1861, diary entry by charles darwin:

"i am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

whimsical wednesday

in months with five wednesdays, we journal for whimsical wednesday! do you keep any type of journal? if not, today is a great day to begin. what type of journal could you keep? here are the journals i keep, for examples to consider:

*a personal journal.

*a themed journal; i keep a journal about my farm.

*a memory book in which to record random memories. when i think of a memory i wish to write about, i jot down the memory to record at a later time if i can't get to it immediately.

*a notable notebook in which to record random interesting stuff such as quotes, ideas, thoughts, whatever grabs my attention.

*a daily whimsical moments notebook in which to record awesome stuff experienced throughout each day.

*art journals. 

what forms of journaling do you keep? share your practices with the whimsey project. 

trivia tuesday

from @uberfacts:

two brothers once sold a fake goya painting for 1.5 million euros only to discover that they were paid with fake money.

miscellaneous monday

from mental floss: the sweetest sesame street moment; a moment i distinctly remember viewing with my children when they were wee.  it is, indeed, sweet.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/66802/sweetest-sesame-street-moment 

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is laurie lee's memoir of growing up in cotswold following world war one, cider with rosie: a boyhood in the west of england. his prose is amazing. he could write about trash day and it would be words to behold. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project. 

silly saturday

from @qikipedia:

the list of animals not allowed to be kept in homes in russia include all animals from the hominidae family; the one which includes humans.

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

b.d. schiers:

kindness comes from love and compassion. cruelty comes from anger, fear, and hate. when you act with love and compassion you are in control. when you act out of anger, fear and hate, those emotions control you.

whimsical wednesday

it's the first wednesday of october so it's connections day for whimsical wednesday! get yourself connecting with people near and far by whatever means most appropriate for the individual you are connecting with. 

i'll be making phone calls, sending texts, writing letters and cards for people who will benefit from cheery greetings or just because to surprise them. there might even be a get together with friends. what will you do to connect with others? share your connections with the whimsey project!

trivia tuesday

from @qikipedia:

"jaup" is a scots word for a spot of water or wet mud splashed upon the clothes from wet or muddy ground.

miscellaneous monday

what do you think of this, fellow whim-zees?

a very different dwelling featured in dezeen: 

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/07/23/thayer-brick-house-brooks-scarpa-studio-dwell-chicago/

i like it!

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is chronicle books' flowers in art, a bouquet of floral paintings. each painting is paired with a poem. a lovely read. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project.

silly saturday

 magnet from a friend; on the refrigerator!

photo friday

barley

thoughtful thursday

desmond tutu:

do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

whimsical wednesday

we are counting telephone poles for whimsical wednesday! are you leaving home? count the telephone poles between home and your destination. if you make the return trip using a different route, count those poles as well.  are you staying home? go outside, walk to the street and count all the telephone poles within sight. are there more than you might have imagined? about the same as you imagined? or never gave a thought about telephone poles? share your findings with the whimsey project.

trivia tuesday

from merriam-webster:

a "snollygoster" is an unprincipled but shrewd person.

miscellaneous monday

an entry from my daily whimsical moments notebook dated september 4th: "our little buck sat down in the grass near the house for a rest."  there are a few mama deer that have and raise their babies on our land. our little buck, as we call him, is her yearling. he began growing antlers in the spring; just wee nubs at the beginning. he, along, with mama and her twins born this spring, come often to the yard to snuffle up cracked corn thrown in the grass for the birds. the day he sat down in the yard, so close to the house, he was alone sniffing for corn and then he sat! just hanging out in the yard the way a dog would. our little buck!

are you keeping a daily whimsical moments notebook? if not, today is a great day to begin. any notebook will do; develop whatever system works best for you. each day pay attention to those moments that catch your attention or take you by surprise or make you laugh or pause in thought. at the end of the day, record a moment in your notebook.  some days i have more than one so i record them all.  one cannot have too many daily whimsical moments, after all! this daily activity allows us to find a moment of whimsey in a day that might not have been as pleasant or easy as we would have liked. also, we can look back through our whimsical moments notebook and read how wonderful our days actually are amid the responsibilities of life.  

if you are currently keeping a whimsical moments notebook, share an entry with the whimsey project. 

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. i found the neatest book; tales from shakespeare by charles and mary lamb. first published in 1807, this volume of shakespeare's plays was written in prose to better introduce students to the works of the bard. for someone who does not read fiction i am finding this book very pleasant; perhaps because it seems more like a reference book than a book of fiction. one aspect of shakespeare i have discovered by reading the plays written in prose is that the stories are mere fairy tales! and there's always a moral to the story.

silly saturday

retorts!

https://uber-facts.com/18-responses-to-public-notes-that-are-absolutely-hilarious/