On the Road Again and bendy bodies

 See below for my continuing contribution of old cars. 

Enjoy hearing the latest song of resistance...

Sharing with Sepia Saturday!

Oh gymnastics!

Let me see which little granddaughters might have been doing such...before they all grew up!

2013 when they were still involved in YMCA gymnastics!

11 year old Audrey

And 2014 where they practiced in their basement!

7 yo Kate practicing in basement while sisters and cousin watch, waiting for their turn.

Here's Kate in one of her Senior High School pictures. She and Audrey were both into cheer leading as well, while Caroline was on swim teams in high school.

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There is freedom in admitting that you don’t know something, as that allows for a new learning experience to emerge.

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Bonus photos for Sepia Saturday's cars last week!

The original road book...audio takes 11 hours.

Old US 27 in  Clare County, 1950s

Hershey Region AACA antique auto club of America

group camping in the 1920s with a tent trailer kitchen.

Unknown parade with Studebakers

Vintage car displayed R. T. Auto (repairs) in Swanannoa NC 2025.

Antique car in Black Mountain NC, located across the street from Unitarian Universalist Church.

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Aloka and Most Respected Bhikkhu Pannakara

The recognition given to the Buddhist monks by Josh Stein, Governor of North Carolina. Though the monks walked for peace through several other state capitals, this was the first time they received welcome and recognition by a governor.

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

MAYA ANGELOU

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On the road again

 

This goes along with my theme of traveling. Today I'm on the road to my son and his family's home in Columbus OH. The weather reports say it's going to be rainy. Oh no! But I shall persevere! I spent one night in a hotel on the way from home, so am taking my time getting there.

I'm grateful not to be traveling the way people in Asheville NC did in 1886

For a week I'll not see my dear Appalachian Mountains. But instead I'll see my dear granddaughters and their parents (and their friends too quite possibly.)

Just before I wrote this post, I enjoyed this chocolate croissant...and almost forgot to take a photo of it! 

Though I seriously considered flying for the visit, I would not have a non-stop trip. So the worry of moving around with my carry-on in one airport or another was a big concern for my limited breathing and walking these days. The above Pan Am DC-7 was similar to ones on which I was a stewardess in the smaller airports of the Caribbean in 1963. Some places didn't have long enough runways yet for jets.

Willie Nelson sings On the Road Again at the Grand Ole Opry

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Today's quote:

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. 

-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

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Goddess of the day:

4000 year old mother goddess figurine 18.5 cm high -the iconography of the eyes is typical of the late Chalcolithic or early 4th millennium BC.

National Archaeological Museum of Bulgaria, Sofia.

Thanks Jenny Mendes Pottery site on FB

Statues in a pocket park commemorating public education in Berea KY. I stopped to stretch my legs on my 2 day drive to Columbus OH. More of my trip pics will be shared eventually. But of course first I’ll see my family!