Change- not alone outside the American dream
My daughters are 10 and almost 7. They have lived in a second floor apartment for most of their lives. They are not deprived. Do not feel sorry for them. As children of America, living simply, in a small apartment, sharing a room, not having a big lush grassy yard - they are odd. Assumed poor. As children of the world, they are in good company. Next week we will move into a different type of rental in Vancouver BC Canada. It will be the garden level of a house in the center of the city. We will lose our dishwasher and in-suite laundry. We will gain a neighborhood, children nearby, a school 3 blocks away and a fenced yard. It’s small. But in spite of a profound belief that children don’t need a grassy yard to thrive, we are excited for the girls to have a yard…as well as all the wonder that comes from living in a big city and the sense of community that comes with knowing your family isn’t the only family to choose (or be forced into) a joyous life that isn’t “the American dream.”
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle (via jourreveur)
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Kids and their tweets
Aliyah asked for another TV show tonight at bed time. David playfully tossed a toy phone at her and said “Call someone who cares.” Aliyah picked it up and said, “Oh look, I have 2 new tweets.” *snort
Man About Town
Classy beautiful new cover Man About Town Magazine: ”the modern journal for the man who is already trend and news savvy but wants greater depth than other media currently offers.”
Participating in the sensual pleasure of another is a powerful and precious gift. Use it often, wisely and enjoy it fully.
So you know, why we yawn – it’s not why you thought we did – and why yawning is contagious.
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
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Drew - Riverside Park
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I am a mom to girls, an actor's wife, a designer , a dancer, a knitter and a sexy super hero (true story). I dance, leap, stumble and meander through this adventure called life. Sometimes I soar.
