Day 566: Must Haves

Today, I’m starting  with something that used to be a Must Have, for my blog posts: a search, on Google Images, for the title.

Here’s what came up, just now, for “Must Haves”:

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I must have something wrong with me, dear readers. I mean, I’ve had one (or maybe two) of all those Must Haves. So what does that make me?  A Have Not?

What do you think?

Now I’m wondering why I must have stopped visiting Google Images for photos.  Perhaps, because I …

1. lost track of doing that,
2. had fears of consequences, for using images that weren’t mine,
3. felt like I had “been there/done that,”
4. had better things to do.

I have not one, single, perfect explanation for this notable change in my blog posts.

I will tell you this, though.  While I must have had good reasons for excluding Google Images in my blog posts lately, I have not any regrets for including them here, today.

I must have something else i can show you before I end this post. How about some photos  from yesterday’s walk?

Must-have confession: I forgot to take my must-have photography equipment with me, but boyfriend Michael was there, and generously offered his iPhone instead.

Ooops! I must have lost track of one of those must-have shots from yesterday. Hold on …

Found it!

Thanks to Michael, my other Must Haves, and to you — of course! — for whatever Must Haves you must have, today.

Day 559: Go Back

I’ve titled this post “Go Back” for many reasons. “Go Back” is …

• What I’m doing tomorrow, to work.
• The fall-back plan, in a favorite movie, The Princess Bride.

(found on YouTube here)

• What dear reader Mark Bialczak is doing tomorrow, to a 9 to 5 job, for the first time in over a year.
• What I wish some ants would do, right now, to their home-based nest, wherever the hell that is.
• The “big moment” of Diane Court’s graduation speech, in another one of my favorite movies, Say Anything.

(Found on YouTube, here, at the beginning of lots of clips from that film)

• What is difficult for me to do, to sleep, after I’m awakened by light, unless I’m wearing this:

• What Oscar likes to do, on our balcony bannister.

• What my son and I are planning to do, next month, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

      

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… which, this year, will  include my stand-up-comedy teacher from the 1980s, Ron Lynch.

(I found this photo of Ron here)

• Something I and other human beings do, in our minds, into the past.
• What I did, yesterday, with people I love, to Arlington, Massachusetts, USA.

   

  

 

I want to go back, for a moment, and say something about that last photo. After boyfriend Michael, son Aaron, and I spent some quality time, yesterday, at the Arlington Alive Summer Arts Block Party, Michael pointed out a personal wish to us:

Buildings under five stories should not, under any circumstances, be called “Towers.”

Here’s my own wish, this morning:

When we go back (no matter how, where, when, or why), we all go without regret, anxiety, or fear.

Thanks to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to Arlington, to everybody who helped make this post possible, and to you — of course! – for going back here, today.

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* These are just a few of the photos I took, last year, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, appearing previously in posts here, here, here, here, here, and here.

One more footnote: When I go back to an old post, I sometimes find things I need to change. Here‘s the commencement speech from Say Anything: