Over this past weekend, during a grocery run, I tossed a magazine into my shopping cart. The main story was about Grace Kelly and the cover photo was intriguing enough that it made me wanna read the article (which, let's be honest, is the job of the cover photo).
Today, while passing time in an auto shop repair lobby, I found myself thumbing through the other pages. I stopped on a well-written piece about the two individuals who created "Time" magazine and, before I knew it, I was sucked in. (And I identify the piece as "well-written" because I don't read the magazine they created and wasn't all that curious about the process they took to get it started before I started reading.)
I passed the waiting time (all three hours of it) reading and pondering. Afterwards, I went to get my morning coffee (*sigh* at 1:30pm) and returned home. I was still chewing on all I'd taken in when I opening up my laptop. From my homepage, there was a link ... from Time Magazine ... on the "100 most influential people in the world" and, for whatever reason, I once again found myself reading about something I'd ordinarily pass by.
Not surprisingly, there were a number of names on this list that the general public doesn't yet know (but likely will). I clicked on a few that looked interesting and then found myself drawn to a videolink about actor/director Ben Stiller and the charity work he's been funding that's going on in Haiti.
It seems he created his own non-profit ("StillerStrong") and was doing work in Haiti before the huge earthquake they recently experienced. The workers that were based on-site managed to reopen their school sooner that expected, if for no other reason than to provide a gathering place, a day care, and a safe place for children to be - as an alternative to spending their days on the streets.
The team that StillerStrong partnered with? Architecture for Humanity Haiti.
And then - just now, in fact - an ex-coworker of mine sent me an email asking if I knew that I was in AFH's book about the Biloxi rebuilding project. (I did not know I was in it - I knew that said book existed, 'tho.)
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It's a world of laughter, a world of fears.
It's a world of joy, and a world of fears.
There's so much that we share that it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Bwoof? Broowf? Brollwof??
I can't seem to be able to just narrow down the clip below to the relevant area, so instead I'll have to leave it as is and say that the action that occurs between 2:11 and 2:23 illustrates pretty accurately how I feel currently.
(I'll also share that if you aren't familiar with this clip, it comes from a show from the late 1980s. This short story was so popular that they spun an entire series with it which ... well, it was a poor substitute from the original. I highly recommend watching parts 1 and 3, so you get the full effect - but yeah, sitting in one position from feeling soooo full ..... I can relate to that.)
(I'll also share that if you aren't familiar with this clip, it comes from a show from the late 1980s. This short story was so popular that they spun an entire series with it which ... well, it was a poor substitute from the original. I highly recommend watching parts 1 and 3, so you get the full effect - but yeah, sitting in one position from feeling soooo full ..... I can relate to that.)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Fuzzy Logic
I thought I was the only one.
I thought that no one else ever took the time to ponder what their pet was thinking when they entered a room ... or suddenly left a comfy seat ... or was looking out a window. Seriously, I really thought that no one else ever thought about these things. Or, at the very least, that no one else ever fairly regularly thought about this kinda stuff. I now realize that I'm incorrect.
The Awesome Boyfriend recently expressed the question out loud ... "What do you think she's thinking when she's doing that?" (whatever "that" may be and the "she", in question, being our cat).
The world may never know. I may never know what possesses her to suddenly glance upwards into the corner just above my head. We'll probably never understand why she gets "kitty rips" and dashes in to/out from a room. We'll likely never figure out why she seems to get such pleasure out of watching the water go down the drain in the bathtub. Perhaps we'll never comprehend what goes through her fuzzy little brain when we're patiently explaining to her that eating plants is wrong. (Yes, yes I realize that there's a translation issue, but beyond that - when we're talking to her, does she hear voices like Charlie Brown's teachers?) Does she roll onto her back because it feels good or because it seems to please us?
Ours is just to wonder why.
I thought that no one else ever took the time to ponder what their pet was thinking when they entered a room ... or suddenly left a comfy seat ... or was looking out a window. Seriously, I really thought that no one else ever thought about these things. Or, at the very least, that no one else ever fairly regularly thought about this kinda stuff. I now realize that I'm incorrect.
The Awesome Boyfriend recently expressed the question out loud ... "What do you think she's thinking when she's doing that?" (whatever "that" may be and the "she", in question, being our cat).
The world may never know. I may never know what possesses her to suddenly glance upwards into the corner just above my head. We'll probably never understand why she gets "kitty rips" and dashes in to/out from a room. We'll likely never figure out why she seems to get such pleasure out of watching the water go down the drain in the bathtub. Perhaps we'll never comprehend what goes through her fuzzy little brain when we're patiently explaining to her that eating plants is wrong. (Yes, yes I realize that there's a translation issue, but beyond that - when we're talking to her, does she hear voices like Charlie Brown's teachers?) Does she roll onto her back because it feels good or because it seems to please us?
Ours is just to wonder why.
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