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Marlene Dietrich: “It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.”

Today Norway celebrates its Constitution (May 17, ‘syttende mai’), so GRATULERER MED DAGEN Norge (Congratulations Norway)!!

We are both dressed up and ready to enjoy a nice day with friends. It is Misha’s first ‘syttende mai’ (he was in NL last year, while I was in Mozambique); I am sure he will love waving the flag! 😉

I believe that balance is the key to (almost) everything in life and it is fantastic to see it represented in this truly amazing act by Miyoko Shida! In the end it all comes down to one feather…nice!

See it for yourself and make sure to watch the whole clip; it will reveal how fragile balance can be… 😉

Miyoko Shida’s YouTube channel has other versions of this performance in a higher quality, I just loved the music of this one better.

Bob Edwards: “When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”

Robert Heinlein: “In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

I guess that not many people will understand what the babies in the YouTube video below are discussing, but I am sure Misha does; this is exactly how he communicates with me these days, HILARIOUS! 😉

Sooo sweet and fantastic to see his speech developing; at least one new word a day, both norwegian and dutch…HERO!

I will show the video to him tomorrow and come with his translation, *if* he has one! 😉

Franklin P. Jones: “The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.”

Now that the snow is all gone, it is time to change the previous winter wonderland cross country crossroad header graphic for one that better suits the time of year.

Norway will celebrate its Constitution in four days, on May 17 (‘syttende mai‘); everyone will be out, dressed up, waving flags and getting drunk! 😉 It is expected to be wet all day unfortunately, oh well, still four days to go and weather predictions are exactly what they are…predictions! Hmm, I will do my infamous sun dance just in case! 😉

W. Lee Grant: “Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.”

Olive Schreiner: “We bear the world and we make it… There was never a great man who had not a great mother – it is hardly an exaggeration.”

I found a worthy successor to the two TV series that I got hooked on (‘Lie to Me‘ and ‘Person of Interest‘), and just in time I might add; all available episodes of those two series fell of the unwatched list! 😉

There have been two ‘in-betweeners’, Paradox and Sherlock (especially the lather is pretty awesome!), though the new kid in town is called Neal Caffrey, the main character in ‘White Collar‘…the first two season (out of the four available) were great, so once again; hooked and couch potato nights hehe, me like! 😉

Segal’s Law: “A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”

Miriam Beard: “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

I bet most of you heard or seen the lithograph print of the ‘Escherian Stairwell‘  (named for the Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher). An interesting though obvious impossible concept…until last week; have a look for yourself at the video below, the third video of the ‘Can You Imagine’ series about interesting facts, stories and myths of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This one documents the existence of an ‘Escherian Stairwell’ at RIT, and yes, it *does* violate the laws of physics and basic logic by looping back into itself!!

Haha, it is quite a workout, running up this one! 😉

Denis Diderot: “Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.”

I guess the song from the sheet music below is best performed playing the flute, eh? 😉

A catchy tune this is…LoL!

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Jay Leno: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”

Real Live Preacher: “You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.”

Wow, it has been quite a long ‘white’ season this year (Norway has two seasons; the white season and the non-white season, aka rainy season 😉 ). The season started Monday October 29th 2012 and the picture below shows that it is safe to bet that it ends tomorrow, May 7th 2013; weather predictions show 20C and blue skies. 😉 Heyhey, that’s less than 6 months in winter wonderland…it was nice for as long as it lasted, though I am all in for a long, warm and sunny summer now! 😉

Albert Camus: “We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”