Day: April 7, 2026

My Storied Life 4-7-26

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April 7th, 2026

1968 Top 10 Highest-Grossing & Award Winning Films

  • Charly 👍🏼
    • 41st Academy Awards Best Actor: Cliff Robertson
    • 26th Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay, Adapted in a Drama, Comedy or Musical: Stirling Silliphant
    • 26th Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay, Original in a Drama, Comedy or Musical: Stirling Silliphant

“Cliff Robertson actually did a very good job at playing both parts of himself in this film. Even the future predictions he made for 2018 were mostly correct from the writer’s ideas in 1968. Maybe sometimes ignorance IS bliss.”

Daily Gratitude 4-7-26

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April 7th, 2026

  • I appreciate getting into my car after it has warmed up in the sun all day.
  • I am grateful for an excellent sniffer as I love to smell the wonderful bakes and cooks my lovely husband creates.
  • I am grateful for the color blue as it is my favorite and my eye color.
  • I appreciate the vast music library on Spotify affording me the opportunity to listen to anything I desire.
  • I am blessed to have a silly sense of humor and love that my silliness tickles my husband.

My Musical Life 4-7-26

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April 7th, 2026

#90 The Mighty Quinn (Manfred Mann) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn🪄
Everybody’s building ships and boats
Some are building monuments
Others jotting down notes
Everybody’s in despair
Every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy🪄
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn🪄
I like to go just like the west, I like my sugar sweet
But jumping queues and making haste
Just ain’t my cup of meat
Everyone’s beneath the trees feeding pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
All the pigeons gonna run to him🪄
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn🪄
Let me do what I wanna do, I can’t decide at all
Just tell me where to put it
And I’ll tell you who to call
Nobody can get no sleep, there’s someone on everyone’s toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody’s gonna want to doze🪄
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

My Abundant Life 4-7-26

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April 7th, 2026

Come Alive With Color

“With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don’t dare, you are doomed to dullness.”

Shirley Conran (English Author and Designer; September 21st, 1932 to May 9th, 2024)

“To build a wardrobe with staying power, invest in classic colors for the foundation—black, white, navy, gray, beige, camel, tan, khaki, ivory, and the ‘reds’ including wine and russet.”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”

John Ruskin (English Art Critic; February 8th, 1819 to January 20th, 1900)

“I like the idea of selecting color chips from a paint store to begin building your color palette.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 110-111 of 501.

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