May 11, 2008
“ Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.
Julian Barnes, in Flaubert’s Parrot (via jennabee:candywrapper)
May 10, 2008
I knew the weather was supposed to be bad this weekend so last night I started to make a wide brimmed sun hat hoping that I could will a sunny day into existence.  While I won’t take credit for the sun showing up this afternoon I will say that it was a hope fulfilled.
I knew the weather was supposed to be bad this weekend so last night I started to make a wide brimmed sun hat hoping that I could will a sunny day into existence.  While I won’t take credit for the sun showing up this afternoon I will say that it was a hope fulfilled.
Look he’s holding the sun!  I never get tired of these pictures.  I know they are trite but every time I see one I always giggle a little.

Look he’s holding the sun! 

I never get tired of these pictures.  I know they are trite but every time I see one I always giggle a little.

  • me: remember to work first than play.
  • c: but don't forget to love first too.
May 9, 2008
This is one of the sweetest things I have seen all day.  These boys are way too cute, and pretty good, with their acoustic cover of “The Light”, one of my favorite Common songs.
(via somethingchanged) This is exactly how I feel today.  I am so, so ridiculously tired.

(via somethingchanged)

This is exactly how I feel today.  I am so, so ridiculously tired.

I find it fascinating how animal behaviors mirror human behaviors…or is it the other way around?…or are we just one in the same?  It seems that females frustration with insensitive males is everywhere around us. Even my wife is quick to confirm that it is a fact and entirely true. So, one hopes that driving to remote places will take one’s mind off such stereotyped assessments. But then you happen to stumble upon a pair of tree swallows going at it, where the female (on the left), is flapping, and twittering, and calling at the male (on the right), with no success whatsoever. So, I’m looking at them and cannot help but asking myself, is there a lesson to be learned here? Are we putting, deliberately, sharp edges between us and them? I drive away with no clear answer but still able to hear the frustration.  - Mike Lascut

I find it fascinating how animal behaviors mirror human behaviors…or is it the other way around?…or are we just one in the same? 

It seems that females frustration with insensitive males is everywhere around us. Even my wife is quick to confirm that it is a fact and entirely true. So, one hopes that driving to remote places will take one’s mind off such stereotyped assessments.

But then you happen to stumble upon a pair of tree swallows going at it, where the female (on the left), is flapping, and twittering, and calling at the male (on the right), with no success whatsoever. So, I’m looking at them and cannot help but asking myself, is there a lesson to be learned here? Are we putting, deliberately, sharp edges between us and them?

I drive away with no clear answer but still able to hear the frustration.
 

- Mike Lascut

juliaallison:

Usually I limit my involvement in friends’ relationships to advice, but sometimes I wonder - especially when I hear shit like this - if more of us stood up for our friends and said “This behavior is NOT ACCEPTABLE,” would we have to watch it happen over and over?

Maybe our complacency is the problem. We’re so worried about “minding our own business” that we neglect to actually do what’s right.

Do you agree? When is it okay to tell off your friend’s guy? When is it okay to stand up for her? I think everyone concurs that you can intervene at the level of physical abuse - but what about belittling her, making her feel like she’s nothing, yelling at her and generally being a total psychopath?

It seems that the general consensus is that women should stay out their girl friend’s relationships but I vehemently disagree.  I was in a terrible relationship that had been going on for way too long and one of my girlfriends took me aside and intervened.  Her message was simple and direct: You don’t have to live like this anymore; It is not ok for him to treat you this way; I will support you no matter what your decision is.  She was calm and non-judgemental.  I always wondered how smart women could subject themselves to the kind of relationship that I had eventually found myself in but in the end I was too blind to see my way out.  I am endlessly grateful for her courage to speak up, her wisdom to find the right words that I would and could hear and mostly her support and love. 

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running (via noahkalina)

“Death is real”. - Win Butler summarizing his outlook on life in eleven words or less.

Yoga/ LA in the 70s (via mathewparkin:nevver)
Yoga/ LA in the 70s (via mathewparkin:nevver)
“ Mothers, I’ve learned from floor polish commercials, have to give 100 percent. Fatherhood is not unlike the Special Olympics. Sometimes you get a medal just for showing up.

Dutch from Sweet Juniper! (via jessicalouise)

Can I post this without sounding like I am standing on a soap box? 

One of my good friend’s is the bread winner in her family.  She out earns her husband at least three times over but does three times as much of the child rearing.  He is a great guy and a fantastic father but the work load is unequally distributed.  As a bonus he has been known to throw out under handed comments when she asks for help with their child along the lines of, I would have thought that you would want to do that with [said child] since you have been away at work all day.  When their child is sick she usually is the one to take off from work despite her job being the one most important to the sustainability of their lifestyle.  In the past women did the majority of the child-rearing and the household chores because they either didn’t work or earned significantly less than their husbands.  Maybe it is only in the families that I am intimately familiar with, but domestically women are still decades behind men.

ps…N, please, please, please tell me that you threw all of the spoons on the floor this morning and there is a picture to serve as proof?  Also, if you hate this tell me and I will take it down xx

May 8, 2008
“ Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Sign hanging in Albert Einstein’s office at Princeton

You're right, who knew......

carolynannahall:

This is just classic from the very funny Noelle Hancock.

I was having drinks with my friend Manish last weekend when he stopped to admire my new sandals. “I like them because the straps are thick,” he said, looking them over with approval. “Not too revealing.”

“It’s possible to have shoes that are too revealing?” I asked.

“Absolutely,” he said. “If a girl is showing too much foot, I assume that she’s a slut. Especially – especially – if they’re lace-up. I think it’s part of the fall-out from Sex and the City.”

“I thought the slut litmus test was always the tramp stamp — whether or not the girl has a back tattoo?” I said.

“Oh, strappy sandals are the new back tattoo,” he declared. “The first thing I do when I meet a girl is check out her feet. If her shoes are too skimpy, I won’t go there.” Who knew?

I am in so much trouble as strappy shoes are one of the things I most look forward to about summer.

“ And it is not the first time women have been cunningly ensnared. Each successive feminist wave was followed by a powerful and destructive backlash that put women in ever tighter situations. First we were trapped in society at large, then in our homes and now we are trapped in our bodies. Our focus has become more intense. It now rests sharply on us, on ourselves and on our faults.
From here (via gauntlet)