1. How she worries people are going to react whenever she arrives anywhere.
2. What Elizabeth Taylor likes about Richard Burton most — his anger.
4. That walking is just too bouncy. It must be punished.
5. The International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.
6. "Inspirational quotes from my 11-year-old on today's hike."
7. "Mona Lisa" transformed into a photographically real-looking face.
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Liz and Richard interest was Jean Shepherd's example of pathetic female soap opera addiction, relating an overheard bus conversation about two women's worlds.
It has its new form today on the left.
Everyone should visit the Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago! It's a favorite of mine. Also worth a visit if you find yourself in Cork is the Butter Museum.
Julia Roberts doppelganger can pop in my place anytime she wants.
#4. When I was first re-doing our house my wife did not move for almost 6 months after me. I was making a lot of woodwork to match the old materials and I would go by a lumberyard 2-3 evenings after work. Most times at a particular intersection, there was a young man who carried a boom box and walked even more "bouncy" than the guy on tic toc. I would tell my wife how I looked forward to seeing "bouncy boy" and how his exuberance just motivated me to rush home to make molding, casing, plinths and rosettes long into the night. Eventually she saw "bouncy boy" and looked forward to seeing him. This went on for years. One time, my wife said "wow, bouncy boy is getting old". And then one day, we never saw him again. I hope he just moved. The world needs more people with "too bouncy walks".
Another great haul.
The grand-daughter was just the best though.
Mona Lisa.
All good. #3 made me cry.
A granddaughter's love made me cry. Autistic walking made me think that we are all autistic. Or is it just me?
3 for sweet sentiment. None of the others sounded promising, so I can't actually say they were a let-down, can I?
The bouncy walker comes off as a sorehead. "There was something wrong with my way of being in the world." Good grief lighten up.
My brother walked that way starting out as a child, and it had nothing to do with autism; he just instinctively strode to the ball of his foot instead of the heel -- like a sprinter's stride, or a cheetah's. He was coached out of it, not out of malice or for punishment, but because it's generally believed we do better walking heel-toe than toe.
Diomedes was a bouncy walker -- in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida he's seen approaching far off; Agamemnon asks, "Is that not yond Diomed?" Ulysses answers:
’Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.
He rises on the toe; that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.
A real treasure trove today! The favorite granddaughter one brought tears to my eyes so it wins by a drop of salt. Kudos to Granddad too for his texting, grammatical and punctuated.
"Kudos to Granddad too for his texting, grammatical and punctuated."
I'm a little skeptical, because why did he need to tell her he doesn't have teeth and needs soft food? She'd know that.
But I liked "mash potatoes" for "mashed potatoes." That's a nice touch if the texts were faked. And it's a good story even if it's fiction or part fiction.
Door Greeter first and Autistic bouncer second.
For me, it's the background music in a granddaughter's love that made my heart feel hugged. I wonder how that same song track would have affected the vibe of the inspirational quotes from the 11 year old. It might have made them feel all loving and nostalgic.
The kid on the hike sure is inspirational... if you aspire to be a complaining pain in the neck.
Whenever she arrives, was funny but now I'm going to constantly have a moment of panic from now on, before arriving at someone's place.
The inspirational quotes was a terrific concept, somewhat ruined by the almost robotic speech of the narrator.
I have an autistic son who is now 22 and a senior in college. He’s six feet tall, thin as a rail, and he literally skips from one end of our house to the other many times a day. I wish I had half his energy.
3 is the best! 6 is funny. 4 just makes shake my head. He should have an L brand on his forehead.
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