While almost there to the end of 2025, I saw a sign in Brookline, Massachusetts letting me l know that I was almost there.
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No matter what my goals or destinations are, I keep feeling like I’m almost there. Maybe that’s because I keep adjusting what “there” means to me.
Can you see how I’m almost there in my other images for today?
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Wondering when this blog post will end? We’re almost there.
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Thanks to all who are here now for this almost-there post, including YOU!
I sang “You Don’t Scare Me “ in Brookline yesterday and wasn’t scared when
You don’t scare me, scary world!
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You don’t scare me, September 21, 2025!
… and Aaron’s old jellyfish costume.
You don’t scare me, YouTube, when you give me this new error message when I try to share videos.
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I am so grateful to people who don’t scare me, including YOU!
Today’s post could have been titled
Day 2096: Welcome y’all, come on in and stay awhile,
Day 2096: News & Blog,
Day 2096: Essential Knowledge,
Day 2096: Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn,
Day 2096: Dude! September isn’t even over,
Day 2096: So Far So Good,
Day 2096: That’s What She Said,
Day 2096: Creating a Buzz,
Day 2096: Whatever you are, be a good one,
Day 2096: What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?,
Day 2096: Outliers/Being Mortal,
Day 2096: Self-care for the real world,
or Day 2096: There’s beauty in simplicity, BUT I prefer the title
Day 2096: Bloom where you are planted.
Do you like that title or do you prefer another?
Since I bloom where I am planted, I bought something at the Brookline Booksmith yesterday. Any guesses?
Today’s post also could have been titled
Day 2096: JAZPNO or Day 2096: Jazz Piano, because this comes up on YouTube when I search for “Jazz piano bloom where you are planted.”
Today’s post could also have been titled Day 2096: Thanks to everybody who helped me create this post and — of course! — YOU.
Sometimes, I find it beautiful to deliberately misspell the word beautiful, as Lewis Carroll did in the mock turtle’s beau-ootiful song from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Beautiful Soup.”
Here’s beeeeootifulll Gene Wilder, as the mock turtle, singing beau-ootifullly in one of the beeootiful Alice in Wonderland movies.
Yesterday, I spent some beeootiful time with my beeeooooootiful son Aaron and my beau-ootiful beau Michael in beautiful Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, which has a beeoootiful book store, many beeeooteeful restaurants, AND a beeoooteefulllll art deco movie theater.
At the beeooooteefull Booksmith, I spotted this beautifully signed poster:
The beeoootifulll author, George Saunders, has byootifully written
Thanks, Booksmith
You are more byootifull
Then this phlower
Luv.
George Saunders
… which I find beeoootiful, in many ways.
What do you find beeooootiful, in this moment, where you are?
Here are 57 varieties of additional beeeooootiful photos I snapped last night:
WordPress uploaded all of those quickly and smoothly. Beautiful !
Are there any of those images you find particularly beeoootiful? It would be so beautiful if you’d let us know why! And if you wish, I’ll let you know, as best I can, why I took that beeooootiful shot.
Which reminds me of an exchange I had with somebody who asked me a question, many beeootiful moons ago, while I was taking lots of photos in his neighborhood:
Unknown neighbor: I’m sure I’m not the only one who would like to ask you this, but why do you take so many pictures around here?
Me: Of course! I’m glad you asked. I write a daily blog and I take pictures of things I find interesting and beautiful.
Neighbor: That’s okay, then.
Many beeeoootiful thanks to neighbors, Aaron, Michael, beau-ootiful Lewis Carroll, Alices in Wonderlands, Gene Wilder, turtles (mock and otherwise), Brookline Booksmith, George Saunders, the Regal Beagle restaurant (although none of us had the Beau-ootiful Soo-oop), the Coolidge Corner Theater, gangs of Harleys, The Wolfpack, and all the other beeeooootiful things I saw yesterday. And special thanks to beeeeeeeooooooooteeefullll you, for visiting today.