{"id":5491,"date":"2021-12-26T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2021-12-25T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T20:11:40","slug":"7-imps-7-kicks-775-featuring-tim-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks #775: Featuring Tim Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2021\/12\/Tim Miller 2021.jpg\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a snowy holiday image from author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timmillerillustration.com\/\">Tim Miller<\/a><\/strong>. I always love to see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?s=%22tim+miller%22\">his work<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I hope all of you reading this had a happy holiday, however you celebrate it!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><font size=3><strong>* * * Jules&#8217;s Kicks * * *<\/strong><\/font><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Note for any new readers: 7-Imp\u2019s 7 Kicks is a weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. New kickers are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>1)<\/strong><\/font> Down time. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>2)<\/strong><\/font> The lights at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/\">Cheekwood<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>3)<\/strong><\/font> For a Christmas gift, I got <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/samphillips.com\/words?page=news_item&#038;NewsID=3765647638918&#038;last_page=words\">handwritten lyrics<\/a><\/strong> of my favorite song by Sam Phillips. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>4)<\/strong><\/font> Eisha&#8217;s in town!<\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>5)<\/strong><\/font> That part in the television adaptation of Raymond Briggs&#8217;s <em>The Snowman<\/em> where the Snowman leads the boy outside and is pulling him into the air and the strings build and build. <\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>6)<\/strong><\/font> Paul McCartney&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781631492563\">The Lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=4><strong>7)<\/strong><\/font> What Matt Tavares said. (Read more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/23\/magazine\/shoes-photos.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.)<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Carle\u2019s shoes. Wow, what a picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WNE6KapCfk\">pic.twitter.com\/WNE6KapCfk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Tavares (@tavaresbooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tavaresbooks\/status\/1474185479562084352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><font size=4>YOUR<\/font><\/strong> kicks this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a snowy holiday image from author-illustrator Tim Miller. I always love to see his work. 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