silly saturday

from @qikipedia:

hawaiian pizza was invented by a greek-born man in canada and inspired by chinese cuisine. 

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

chinese proverb:

a good talker does not equal a good listener.

whimsical wednesday

it's whimsical wednesday and we are taking a journey! it's a picture journey.  look through magazines or online to find a picture of a place you would like to be right now.  your current mood might influence where you'd like to be. the picture can be of any place; a museum, a restaurant, a cozy room, an exotic location on the other side of the world. it might even be your own home for which you need no picture! enjoy your journey and share your "i'd like to be here right now" location with the whimsey project. 

this is the place i would like to be right now:

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=436 

(my bucket list is very short so the wish to visit the glass beach is very special.)

trivia tuesday

from curiosity.com:

the QUETZALCOATLUS was a flying reptile the size of a giraffe that lived during the time of the dinosaurs!

miscellaneous monday

are you adding to your 2019 time capsule? what is this? at the beginning of the year, we gathered a container to hold all manner of items throughout the year we wanted as reminders for the year's events. we included the 2018 holiday season to begin our collection.  if you haven't been keeping a 2019 time capsule, today is a great day to being. collect a container to hold ticket stubs, programs, cards, gift wrap, postcards or whatever else you have that will help you remember a 2019 event. for a new year's eve or new year's day activity, we will look through all the items in our 2019 time capsule container.  mine is stuffed and there's still four months to add to it! wheeee..... 

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book continues to be steven feld's sound and sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in kaluli expression. this book details an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system among the kaluli people of papua new guinea.

silly saturday

from @qikipedia:

the man who designs BART (bay area rapid transit) maps is named BART.

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

@uberfacts:

you are twice as likely to die of feeling unloved and lonely than being overweight.

whimsical wednesday

for whimsical wednesday, a puzzle of sorts! there's a goose in the photograph. when you find it, reply yes!

trivia tuesday

from @omgfacts:

sliced bread was sold for the first time on july 7, 1928, by the chillicothe baking company located in missouri. 

miscellaneous monday

when building is book! from the mind circle: 

https://themindcircle.com/giant-3d-bookshelf/  

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is steven feld's sound and sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in kaluli expression. this volume is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system undertaken among the kalui people of papua new guinea. 

silly saturday

amazing coincidences from @uberfacts:  

https://uber-facts.com/you-have-to-see-these-18-amazing-coincidences-to-believe-them/  

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

a bear @A_single_bear:

if you are not a bear, i hope you enjoy being whatever it is you are just as much as i enjoy being a bear. i am a bear.

whimsical wednesday

we are having an adventure for whimsical wednesday! i am away from home and do not know what adventure is forthcoming on this day but there will be one! what will your adventure be? share it with the whimsey project. 

trivia tuesday

from @uberfacts:

coca-cola never patented their secret formula because doing so would require them to disclose the ingredients publicly.

miscellaneous monday

scruffy entertainment. a thoughtful, eye opening article for me. you might find it so as well. from mother nature network:

https://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blogs/in-priase-scruffy-hospitality  

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. i am reading michael faquhar's a treasury of royal scandals: the shocking true stories of history's wickedest, weirdest, most wanton kings, queens, tsars, popes and emperors. wow! talk about people behaving badly; eye popping examples of extreme hubris! 

silly saturday

from @qikipedia:

johann sebastian bach wrote an opera about coffee addiction!

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

from eckhart tolle:

awareness is the greatest agent for change.

whimsical wednesday

it's the first wednesday of august; our day to make connections for whimsical wednesday. call, write, email, text, send a card to others. get together with people you haven't seen in awhile. surprise someone with something, anything, no matter how simple or small (such as a single flower, a few tea bags, their favorite candy). everyone likes to be thought of and it means so much to both giver and recipient.

my whimsical wednesday connections will include writing a bunch of catch up letters to people who have written me that need responses. and, for a surprise, i will give a friend a bottle of spice (powdered lemon of all things!) i found online that she had been unable to find locally. and make arrangements to get together with friends on a later date. 

trivia tuesday

from @qikipedia:

"puhpowee" means the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight in the native american potawatomi language.

miscellaneous monday

postcrossing! i received an email from postcrossing on saturday, august 3rd wishing me a happy postcrossingversary. i have been postcrossing for three years. in that time i have sent and received 185 postcards from all around the world including the united states. when cards arrive in the mail, they are admired or giggled at, dated and put in the postcrossing card box. there are no plans for the cards other than to store them at this point. throwing them away is out of the question as they represent so much and they are potential art journaling fodder! every one who participates in postcrossing does it differently. my practice is to send five or six cards a month, all prepared in one session and mailed at the same time. if you might be interested in participating here's the link to making friends around the world:

https://www.postcrossing.com

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is loren eiseley's the immense journey. like lorenz, eiseley was a prominent 20th century scientist; an anthropologist. this book, like lorenz's, discusses his work. it's an immense journey.

silly saturday

photo friday

barley

thoughtful thursday

b.d. schiers:

when your thoughts go wandering, just sit there and let them go, but don't go with them. just keep sitting.