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Love this Amy! As a kid I did love animal crackers, I think it was the variety of shapes. There is a pretty cute animated Netflix movie about magic animal crackers. The frosted circus animals WERE a super treat, I recently looked and I couldn’t find any! I wonder if they are a regional thing, or something else that faded into the past.

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Apr 23, 2023Liked by Amy Cowen

Happy Sunday!

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is something I’m fighting right now. When I get in this place, nothing gets accomplished. I need to get back to breaking these projects into manageable bites. Plan the work and work the plan as my father would say, but darn it, nothing beats the high of the honeymoon phase!😂

My daughter recently picked up a copy of Jawbone to attempt this summer. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Have a beautiful day!

Ps Suddenly I can only think about eating animal crackers!

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I was really into animal crackers as a kid, the ones in the red box with the string. They were considered a special treat, so I still feel like I am getting crazy if I buy a box. 😆

I am very intrigued by Box one!

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Apr 23, 2023Liked by Amy Cowen

This spoke to me -- in thinking of visual art and writing as two very different practices: "Writing is also different. It’s a different vehicle, a different stream, a different mindset. It’s more innate, more intuitive. The flow is different and much, much harder to stem. And everything takes space."

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Apr 24, 2023Liked by Amy Cowen

This is so funny! I hadn't associated animal crackers with snacks for children but with a tv program. In the Netherlands, when I grew up, we had a popular tv program that was called Animal Crackers, it had little movies of animals and a Dutch comedian had a story with funny voices to go with them.

The Netherlands do also have the snacks in the forms of animals but only with the Dutch name.

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