Happy Mother’s Day to my gorgeous mom, who never thought she was gorgeous. #prettywrong

barba chocolatada.

Posted on April 21, 2013

For better and worse I am a verbal person and live largely in a world of words. And I need to become more aware, occasionally do become more aware, of more elemental forms of communication with the body and with movement. Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement. And I’m sure this was how people, human beings, first bonded, maybe chanting or dancing around the bonfire when there wasn’t much in the way of language.

“The Man Who Took His Life as a Dance” - Dr. Oliver Sacks in the NY Times, on seeing his books choreographed into dance.

Posted on April 17, 2013

The way we try to recruit girls into STEM fields is all wrong. We typically compare them to some great woman or someone that has gone before them. We are saying, “Hey, you can be like Madam Curie or Sally Ride.” It is recruiting by intimidation. We need to change that message. We need to recruit by appealing to WHY we need them in STEM. We NEED you to help make the world a better place We NEED you to help discover the cure for cancer. We NEED you because you have the ability to change the course of humanity for the better.

Tim Holt —Thoughts on why we still see the number of females in STEM fields fall way behind their male counterparts.

[ Because, discovering the cure for cancer? Changing the course of humanity? Not intimidating at all. ]

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Posted on April 17, 2013 via Holt Think: Ed, Creativity, Tech, Administration with 110 notes

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men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. a woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. that sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.

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Posted on April 16, 2013 via bride price. with 13,097 notes

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19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women

A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to social connectedness in the USA ― Daniel German & Caitlin Lally

There are more “non-humans” on TV than women. Talk about unequal gender representation in the media.

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Posted on April 3, 2013 via paper dreams, honey with 15,004 notes

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In the 100 years since we really got serious about education as a universally good idea, we’ve managed to take the 15 years of children’s lives that should be the most carefree, inquisitive, and memorable and fill them with a motley collection of stress and a neurotic fear of failure. Education is a dress-up box of good intentions, swivel-eyed utopianism, cruel competition, guilt, snobbery, wish fulfillment, special pleading, government intervention, bureaucracy, and social engineering. And no one is smart enough now to understand how we can stop it. Parents have no rational defense against the byzantine demands of the education-industrial complex. But this multi-national business says that they’re acting in the children’s best interests.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents. This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

- A.A. Gill in Vanity Fair

Posted on April 2, 2013

Ball drop. (at Children’s Museum of Denver)

Posted on March 29, 2013

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are

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Posted on March 27, 2013 via Head full of clouds. Feet full of lead with 5,921 notes

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awelltraveledwoman:

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re aproaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:
‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave.

I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?”
My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.”

Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square infront of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in throught the door and kindly asks
‘Do you have a suspended coffee ?’

It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm bevarage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwitch or a whole meal.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support ? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients… I am sure many of them will like it.

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Oh my. This is so good.