Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 07, 2023

I was quite surprised to find a bunch of recipes for chamomile cookies.

Always light the flame w/a shot of Bacardi 151. Temper’s may flare up and don’t burn any facial hair but blow the cookie flames completely out before inhaling.

Gotta luv the doodle’s of noodle fun.(⁠╬⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)⁠⊰⁠⊹ฺ.

My good friend Brent liked to say, “Different strokes, for different folks”.

‘The canvas can do miracles’.

Contretemps? Just refer to your moral compass, to find True North.

Fun fact: compasses actually point away from the pole. You are holding it backwards.

Chamomile is supposed to be calming…but, frankly, after the many contretemps, I need to calm my self!

Pass the crumpets and sugar cubes, please!

Peter Rabbit should not have complained about getting some chamomile tea, it’s delicious.

Contretemps…literally “against times.” I doubt we’d be against chamomile cookies.

Plenty of peaches, peaches for free…

May the Yellow Bird of Argle-Bargle never light upon your head. I got nothing against mangoes, however.

Fig Newton, or mango’ll up in Newton. Law of physics, gravity.

Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. Mango’s split in halves, one for me, one for you.

In spite of what AI says, this predicament is best served by a question mark to the right of the leakage …!

(WHAT’S THE QUESTION?)

Cookies and any flavor of tea.

chamomile lawn on a walk

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Artistic potpourri, with a flavoring of Picasso (dove) sprinkled over an entrée of Peter Blume (Mussolini caricature; see The Eternal City, 1934-1937, MoMA https://tinyurl.com/3d8wsvac ), with a garnish by Will Holt, English-language lyricist and sometime-singer of “Lemon Tree” https://tinyurl.com/4aen23zk .

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N.B. I was a big Will Holt fan back in the late ‘50s-early’60s. Heard him perform at Chicago’s old Gate of Horn (legendary folk venue); especially liked his versions of Kurt Weill songs (and have his record with wife Dolly Jonah including such, I think on the Elektra label) https://tinyurl.com/5n8xfj2c ….

…I always debate if I should accept cookies or not…