Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Details is great at overhearing perfect snippets of conversation as she wanders around her city. Here are two recent favorites:

“It’s a super-duper-duper long shot, but I got nothing else to do, so why not?”

“No, if I make it, we both make it. You’ve got to look at it that way.”

photo via Ryan Gallagher’s Daily Photo

Japanese Ear Flashcard via Becky Lewis, long ago

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