can’t help it
Pursuit of Happiness
And that's how it's supposed to be... livin' young and wild and free.
Oscar de la Renta Resort 2013,Marike Le Roux
never forget.
for fifty years you were my favourite poem
and i would read you every night knowing i might never understand every word but that was ok
cuz the lines of you were the closest thing to holy i’d ever heard
Thinking thinking thinking
about China is keeping me awake. It is currently 3:42am and I am so psyched that I’ve got a job at Hangzhou Dianzi University!!
When will my life being, you ask? Right now. Goodbye Berkeley, hellooooooo CHINA.
Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use theirposition as mothers to influence society in fighting for an end to all wars. She called for women to stand up against the unjust violence of war through their roles as wife and mother, to protest the futility of their sons killing other mothers’ sons.
Howe wrote:
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed …to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy! :oD
john:
sweet.
Next week’s cover, up online now. Get the story from the artist who created it.
Awesome. A game-changing week in US politics
Totoro bento
Resignification
Confrontation
Here it is. I’m confronting it. 2 years ago, you left me. You left this earth. You left our small family. You never said a word. I was across the world… What could I do? I wish our love was enough to keep you around, but maybe we didn’t tell you enough? I can’t decide if your act was cowardly or courageous. In the end, I guess it was a little of both…
Everyday, bad things happen. Unspeakable things happen. Tonight one of these things almost happened at my own school. I still can’t bring myself to write the words, but know that your memory will never die. Rest in peace, Jeffrey.
