Mad Love

I few of my very good friends and favorite couples are engaged. It seems like all at once, so this is a little shout out to all of them. Best wishes for cake and love and adventures together into the sunset...xoxo.

In ancient Athens, as in contemporary America, true democracy was always an ideal, never a fact.

Review of the Onassis Cultural Center's "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens"

Will you go out with me?

Remember 7th grade... tights, lipgloss, the new Green Day album playing in the background as you did whatever it was you were doing to make yourself look fabulous? Well, I guess kids aren't doing it anymore, or they are, but they aren't dressing up first. Interesting article on dating...I'm assuimng all of this has to do with internetal relations i.e. face face and space space, but it is sort of sad that no one is up for the akward silences at the Frisko Freeze anymore.

The Demise of Dating read.

Stocking options...

#1 click, click, zoom...


I have the G7, but the new model looks snazzy too. I've never been happier with a piece of equipment. Its proved to be user friendly in every way. Highly recommend this if you are looking for a new hobby. Just be warned that you will find yourself spending hours photographing things such as sliced fruit and raindrops. ooohh aaaww.

#2 Give a little bit, give a little bit of your love to me...



I've said it before, but this npo is fantastic. Besides, you already have everything you really want anyway, right? Give some chickens or an ox to a family in need. Your heart will smile. Heifer International is the place to go.

#3 Green tea anyone?



Yes please...along with these other sites, GreenToys Inc. makes eco-friendly goods for tiny children. Here are a few others...Fat Brain Toys, Think Button
and Great Green Baby., although you could also just grab a recycled cardboard box and let the kids play in it, since everyone knows they make the best forts anyway.

#4 Panda love...



I'm not big on green consumption in general, since its still consumption, but at a friend's baby shower I happened to accidentally feel up a bamboo jumper she was given and I thought my fingers had touched a piece of heaven cake. It is the softest material, and so good for the planet, so buy away.

Sprig and kickypants both carry nice things.

Okay, and for #5...la te da la te da la te da.


Death Cab For Cutie's Narrow Stairs.
Lucinda William's Little Honey.
Jazmine Sullivan's Fearless.
Traveling Wilburys' Traveling Wilburys.
Radiohead's In Rainbows.
Spoons' ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga.
Rilo Kiley's Under The Blacklight.

xoxo

time and again

When I was little I would steal my parent's national geographic magazine as soon as it hit the kitchen table. My brother and I would take it downstairs and sit on the couch and flip through the pages as fast as we could.

Now that things are a bit more instant, some of the magic that the magazine brought to our house has been replaced with the bombarding internet imagery and constant uploading from everyone with a camera. But, this image reminded me of flipping a page and being in love with a photo.

The "Your shot" pages are pretty fun too.

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree!

Its that time of year again. There is nothing more magical than lighting up the tree for the first time. Little trees being strapped snuggly onto car roofs and strung with lights and fancy ribbon. So, whats the best thing for these trees? Read this article from NYT to find out. Want more? Go to treehugger and find it.

Fa la la la la.. la la la laaa.

nice photos

I'm interested in the aura idea. Of course I am.

www.vanderoer.com

heartbreak

This interview with Charlie Rose and Mumbai eyewitnesses recounts some of the bravery and heroism that came out of such a horrible act. It makes me want to cry. The sense of love people have for absolute strangers, its confusing. There will always be heros found in the most unsuspecting places. My thoughts and prayers go out to all who were affected by this tragic event.

a little tale

I went into the woods in my sleep. It was early morning, almost 4am and I could hear the birds whispering to each other in the trees. I didn't remember to put any shoes on when I left my bed, so I was very quiet on the path. I crept up a Madrone tree. Climbed to the top. It was too dark to see the branches and I fell back to the ground. Both of my legs had turned into shapes I couldn't make out. They shuffled and slid beneath me. I felt surrounded by the dark. It was penetrable, but thick.

Later I found myself sleeping again in a narrow space between two stumps. Moss had grown over my arms and I was fixed to this place. I tried to pull the moss off. I grappled giant stretches of it, but every time I pulled away at it, more would take its place. It smelled like a ship in the night. I began to worry that I might miss breakfast.

The birds woke up and ate away the moss. They started to sing the breakfast song. I was hungry. They gave me some eggs which I put in my pocket.

The light began. The woods looked like woods instead of the thick dark space. I crawled. There was a sound like the breathing of a snake. It leaked through the branches and nearer. When I turned around there was a beast. It was extremely old and had the body of a white whale. It croaked as if it were made of wood. It had the feet of a pacaderm. It spoke in the hissy snake voice and pushed against my knees. It told me to give it the eggs so I did. I put them in the dirt by its snout and I waited to see what would happen.

It ate them very slowly.

I was sort of disappointed. It shook its whale fur coat and made a circle before it lay down on my path. It breathed with great huffs of its back.

I left it with the egg shells.

In the morning I woke up to find out I was still very hungry. I made a strawberry toast sandwich. We were out of eggs.

song of the day today

Fake PlaaAAAaaaAAaastic. ;)