Who's at the Market?

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett 

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker,

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
Vietnamese Proverb

"I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler."
— Bill Gates

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther 

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.” Yves Saint Laurent

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” Shel Silverstein

“Babies are such a nice way to start people”

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.  ~Epictetus

...talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time she understood it no more than the butterfly did....
Ernest Hemingway



Each week, there's a theme to the posting.  Guess the theme; post it in comments. Then check at the market Information Tent next Saturday to see if you won a $5 gift certificate!

Eye of the Beholder

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee,  the smiling faces.”  (Ashley Smith)

Those who look for beauty, find it. (anonymous)

  If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents.  (Browning)

 

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it's what we do with them that is important.(Jim Rohn)

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Robin Williams 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. --Albert Einstein 

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski

Round Round .... Get Around ...

“One must always have one's boots on and be ready to go.”  Montaigne

"Little by little, one travels far."  Tolkien

"...a journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.." Steinbeck

"I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. "
Billy Connolly (you can give your wee parking angel a day off when you come to Westside Market.)

 Taking an offering to the parking angel

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

— Tate Linden

Click here for another way to organize transportation. 

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle.  Its passenger is its engine. " ~John Howard

“I dread no more the first white in my hair, / Or even age itself, the easy shoe, / The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair / Time, doing this to me, may alter too / My sorrow, into something I can bear.”

 Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes

Mother as market engine.

 For a little while, you can leave the details to someone else.

 

Hunter Gatherer

Ignore, for a moment, the background of asphalt, the plastic pot....here is  hand and  basket, a relationship that was old when the Assyrians were new.

The string bag expands to carry so much weight that the Oxo company has made a high tech ergonomic grip to assist the hand.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel

(If you've got a bag like this from MoMA, you absolutely must use it at the market.)

 

Another way to carry the harvest

"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'"
- Dave Barry

Design is intelligence made visible.

— Alina Wheeler   (That plastic bag on the left doesn't look very smart.)

Excellent advice, originally from 1939 when things looked grim in Britain, but not actually used until 2000 when things looked grim in the colonies. (Shortly after that the slogan was: now panic and freak out.)

Men learn to dislike shopping early

 

 

“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else"......   And have a bag ready to take it home.

Is bringing-your-own-bag so much to ask?