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The Power of Vulnerability
Wow!!!! Startling, honest, true… I WANT to be more courageous.
TED Talks – Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
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King Pigeon of Penn Ave.
Well this post is really about something else entirely but an extraordinarily handsome pigeon stole all my attention on the way home from my bus adventure today and simply MUST be mentioned. Wow – for years now Tuxedo Pigeon of Brighton was the most magnificent pigeon Id ever seen, but today I met the father of all magnificent pigeons – King Pigeon of Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. He walked around with a velvety robe, but the most amazing part was his neck. It was puffy and the widest I’d ever seen from which I imagine he emits a deep burbling mating call that only a King of Pigeons could make and it was smothered lavishly in the most dazzling peacock colours in a waterfall of perfect rainbow feathers. Wow! I stopped walking and just stood there admiring him, then noticed his elegant Lady Pigeon. A fine choice she was, but as I walked past he stood his ground, checked out my boots, while she flurried off hastily. King Pigeon was not about to make way for me. No. I hope to see his fine feathers again some day soon. (more…)
T-Tor to the Power of Ten
Today you’re 10! 120 months old, 3652 days old, 315535082 seconds and counting old. I cant even imagine how much you’ve grown since the last time I held you. It’s been 2 whole years already, and it feels as long as every day that has passed. But I never stop thinking of you and loving on ya! I’ll always love you and be so proud of you my special little boy.
Keep those eyeballs of yours shining!
Love Love Love you with all my heart!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tristan xxxxx
Halloween Theme for Sock Dreams
I’ve been slacking on the updates lately. Just been sort of unwordy lately. I totally forgot to show you the new Halloween Theme I launched for Sock Dreams the other day. Was loads of fun to work on and kept me busy for ages! I’ve also created a gorgeous Halloween Theme e-gift card (launching tomorrow), but you’ll have to send one to someone special (like yourself) if you want to see it ;)
Next I’m working on a Winter Solstice theme. Mmmmmm!
Shape Shifters
Every day things around me seem progressively less and less real and more and more dreamlike. I have moments where I just stop and stand absolutely still, forgetting completely where I was going and not caring… these moments dont frighten me anymore, and instead I’m just enjoying the curious moment where I feel like I’m suspended by belief alone that the floor below me is there, about to watch the whole circus of ‘reality’ around me peel away and realise its all an elaborate dream we’re all participating in, and at some deep down level maybe we all know it. We’re all so good at deceiving ourselves with the grandest of illusions about ourselves that everyone else can plainly see, so why not an illusion of ‘reality’ as well? (more…)
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. (more…)
My Maggie Mae
I totally forgot to update with news that I GOT THE BANJO! She is so beautiful, with mother of pearl inlays and the most crazy sexy twang. I still remember the feeling I had when I first got my hands on her and was walking free down the road, in the rain towards the bus stop.
I haven’t been that excited since Christmas as a kid, it was OVERWHELMING me so much that a squeal burst out of me that sounded something like, “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!HEE HEE HEEE!” which I couldn’t seem to stop, like some kind of deranged leprechaun. (more…)
Black Cat Magical
I’ve been struggling to cope with a lot of strange and uncontrollable feelings for many weeks now. More emotions are surfacing, strange perceptions and instincts, but my ability to express them is numb at the same time. Not able or wanting to write and when I do it doesnt feel right. Energetically I’m feeling the huge shifts happening in the world, evolving at an ever crazy speed towards some unknown unfathomable point coming up soon. And my love and I are drifting ever further away, unreachably far now, while strangely I feel I haven’t been drifting or moving at all… just floating, without really knowing what I’m waiting for or where to go. And grieving him. So much grieving. Yet I’ve felt a knowing under all of it that the path is going to slowly reveal itself, like a gift in almost too many wrappings. I’m stuck at the bit right a the beginning, picking at the celotape wishing I had fingernails, not wanting to ruin the perfect wrapping… afraid of what it might be under all of the paper, hoping I’m ready for it.
About a week ago while I was listening to this song I suddenly felt a bolt jolt through me – “I am going to learn to play the banjo! And I’m going to learn to play this song.” I was so excited about this! For days. I dont really know why! It was also the only thing that seemed to bring me out of the glum. But banjos are expensive and I have other more urgent financial obligations right now. “That’s OK! If I cant afford one, it will come! Just keep thinking about the banjo.” And so I have… (more…)
Mom Punishes Kids By Selling Their Toys on eBay
Beyblade is a Japanese Manga series that has become popular among American children due to the branded spinning top toys associated with the cartoon. The toys come with a little plastic arena to spin around on, and the object of the game is to knock the other guy’s spinning top out of the arena. But what if you want to have a truly epic battle?
A couple of kids expanded their playing field by using the family bathtub as an arena. Here’s the problem: When the toys spun, their metal bottoms tore up the enamel on the tub. When mom got a $500 repair estimate, she decided to make the kids pay by giving up their allowance and selling all their toys on eBay. Above is a photo of the devastated children putting their Beyblade toys up for auction.
And then 4chan, the notoriously anarchic and prank-fueled message board, found the auction and decided to have a little fun with it.
Zinc speeds recovery from colds
The Cochrane Systematic Review of 15 trials (1,360 people), released this month, states:
“We found that zinc (lozenges or syrup) is beneficial in reducing the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people, when taken within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. People taking zinc are also less likely to have persistence of their cold symptoms beyond seven days of treatment. Zinc supplementation for at least five months reduces incidence, school absenteeism and prescription of antibiotics for children with the common cold.”
via healthspan
The Book Surgeon
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
15 Awe-inspiring meticulous creations of Book Surgery »
Wide Winter Sky
2010 a Year in Video // Zak Shelhamer from Zak Shelhamer on Vimeo.
Some of my favorite shots from filming this last year… All filmed with Nikon d5000 and HD Go Pro. Locations include Northern British columbia, Colorado and California.
What is thought without language?
I’m listening to the Season 2 Ep 8 show, Words by RadioLab.
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that.
We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago…
And this just came up:
Shakespeare often combined words to create concepts and new words that we are now so familiar with. I think that surely it must have changed the way we think about things. Opened our minds to new thoughts, ideas and even made us feel different. Possibly feel emotions from being able to look at things so closely.
Here is a list of his new words we use every day that may surprise you. They are all in his writings and he was the first to publish them: (more…)
Libertango
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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