by beth on October 14, 2010
I’m a big fan of this fountain. It’s The Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain sculpted by Corrado Parducci in 1939. Although around here everyone just calls it Bear Fountain. There is something magical about it in my mind. I wish it had been still working when we were at the Detroit Zoo, it’s spectacular to see it bathed in water. However, there is something wistful about seeing the bears there without the water bathing their bodies. I can’t put my finger on it but it reminds me of waiting for times long gone by.
It also made a surprise cameo in the movie Coraline…snow globe, snow globe there’s no place like home.
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by beth on October 13, 2010
I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. Part of the reason I used the word confused in my blog title here is because I AM confused. Mike has joked with me for years that I’m a confused homemaker, complete with degree in hand & a drive to do try to do it all even if I’m not sure I want to. I’m in a perpetual state of confusion. I’ve been this way for my whole life. I’m pretty sure I came out of the womb like this. I think there are pictures of me as a baby wringing my hands over which toy to play with next.
I STILL have no idea what I want to be when I grow up in terms of a career. All I know is that I hope I’m a good person who loves life & loves the people around her fiercely well. And maybe that is enough? Maybe that’s what we are supposed to be doing here? What I’m supposed to be doing? You’d think by now I’d have figured this out. But maybe no one ever figures it out? Maybe that’s part of all this. We’re all working our way through “it” & just doing what we love & loving is what “it” is. It’s that deep love that when we die we hope & pray to be bathed in, the good we’ve done & been a part of. Or maybe I’m just telling myself that to feel better.
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by beth on October 13, 2010
We saw this guy at the zoo. A great thinker relaxing in the warm Autumn day.
I began to wonder what he was thinking about. Perhaps he was going to give us the answers to world peace because if you didn’t know gorillas are largely peaceful creatures. It seems King Kong got it all wrong, which is weird because I get all my scientific & historical information from movies & if movies are wrong. Well, I’m not sure what to do.
Then he did this. And I thought ya know maybe us & these gorillas are more alike us than we’d like to admit. I mean I was waiting for him to reach for a newspaper & go into the bathroom for 45 minutes.
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by beth on October 12, 2010
Yesterday we went to the zoo. I brought my camera. I am trying to bring my camera more. I was hoping (maybe) I’d have a chance to take some pictures of the changes this Fall/Autumn.
You know until this weekend I never really thought much about how we call it Fall/Autumn. But then my second son pointed out it’s the only season we call two different names.
He said it’s because it’s special. Right now the world us getting ready to go to sleep until spring. Like before he goes to bed, he needs time. Time to play, to relax & night comes around slowly with daylight fading until the moon is shinning bright. I like the idea of easing into a long relaxing sleep before we are renewed in spring. Too bad I don’t like the idea of the cold that comes before the awakening.
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