Here is a thing about what I think about clothe :
Is Hiddles even human? He’s too awesome.
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Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…
Tom was absent on Thurs 28th March and Tues 2nd April to allow the family to travel to an Historical Reenactment conference over the Easter weekend.
He was absent from the Cross Country carnival on 9/4 because I gave up torturing my child for Lent and haven’t yet got back into the habit.
Regards
I was a bit annoyed when I came home to find half a dozen roses on the front deck. But he was redeemed by the note that came with them.
“Happy commercial Objectification Day! I hope you like these specially cultivated roses as a dead floral tribute to your awesomeness. Love you lots.”
Latest Painting - ‘Mal’ (Firefly - #9 of 9)
“Love. Can know all the math in the ‘verse but take a boat in the air that you don’t love? She’ll shake you off just as sure as the turnin’ of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down…tell you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens…makes her a home.”
…and there’s your Serenity nine!
The originals are being donated to the amazing team at ‘Can’t Stop The Serenity’ for their annual auction to benefit Equality Now - working for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Find out more here…
Sets of prints of all 9 crew members will be available at my US and UK / Rest of the World sites from Monday, February 8th.
Thank you, thank you, *thank* you for your incredibly kind words and support throughout this project - and to the brilliant actors behind the characters that I’ve rendered in colorful goop - thank you for your tweets, your retweets, and for not minding that I didn’t get your nose quite right ;) Your kindness means the world to me. And of course, thank you Joss - For putting her in the air and for letting us keep her flying…
It’s only been two days (two lonnng days!) but the flow of nice messages, emails and general goodness have spurred me on - and now, here we are :)
Until the next one!
Daniel Gray and Kathleen Starrie - An igloo constructed out of milk cartons filled with colored water and frozen
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I told my daughter that the internet had made me start this Tumblr and she sent me this photo from her phone, it’s a note I wrote last year.
Dear [teacher],
I am allowing Caitlin to miss the Year 8 Gala Day as I am unconvinced of the educational value of compulsory competitive sport against strangers for a child who finds such activity unpleasant.
I believe her time will be better spent catching up on homework at home.
Regards[me]
I thought I’d also said something about frisbee not being high on my list of essential life skills, but I must have edited it for length.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e0620db96f0d98e97a3159fec1f6b012/tumblr_mhojz25I3P1s56l1bo1_500.jpg)
I told my daughter that the internet had made me start this Tumblr and she sent me this photo from her phone, it’s a note I wrote last year.
Dear [teacher],
I am allowing Caitlin to miss the Year 8 Gala Day as I am unconvinced of the educational value of compulsory competitive sport against strangers for a child who finds such activity unpleasant.
I believe her time will be better spent catching up on homework at home.
Regards
[me]I thought I’d also said something about frisbee not being high on my list of essential life skills, but I must have edited it for length.
Swimming carnival
My 11 year old’s school held their swimming carnival on Friday last week, the third day of the first school term. It was also my 21st wedding anniversary and I really wanted him to go so my husband and I would have the day to ourselves. It was not to be.
This morning I wrote the following note:
Dear [teacher],
Tom was absent from school on Friday 1/2/13 because I lacked the fortitude to force him to an event, the mere thought of which invoked extreme misery.
Regards,
[me]
