the 14 year old in me is crushing on this teenager.
when i am bored and sick (yes, again!) i search the internet for “the next big thing”.
Oh hi
I was in New York for two weeks.
It was incredible.
Pictures and stories soon.
AMOROUS MUSINGS
H.K. Bottomly Defends Same Sex Education in Letter to Editor →
PREACH ON PRESIDENT BOTTOMLY!
The debate over same-sex education in public schools (“Single-Sex Education Is Assailed in Report,” news article, Sept. 23) is an important one. As a scientist, I look forward to the day when the data can be synthesized and presented by scholars more objectively.
This report correctly points to inconclusive evidence on one side, yet blithely lauds inconclusive evidence on the other. We need more good research, not strident advocacy.
What in my view is irrefutable — given the extraordinary success and satisfaction of Wellesley graduates — is that women’s colleges are a vital and vibrant part of the educational landscape and should be offered to all young women as a choice.
I know that our graduates (among them, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state, and Madeleine K. Albright, a former secretary of state) would confirm that single-sex education helped give them the confidence and skills to contribute significantly in all arenas.
H. KIM BOTTOMLY
President, Wellesley College
Wellesley, Mass., Sept. 24, 2011
The high five liberated everybody. It gave you permission to enjoy your high points.
— Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim in The History and Mystery of the High Five (via courtneylewis)
Rene Ricard “Then Loves Takes Us…”
Which you can conveniently purchase via Exhibition A as of TODAY
I have written into them, in my own blood, everything that I have experienced and endured,
— Gustav Mahler upon finishing his Second Symphony (as quoted in the New York Times)
Frank Ocean’s voice really does it for me.
(Source: frankocean)
Ottolenghi
Ottolenghi: Love is the Right Word on Nowness.com.
One of my favorite places to eat in London.
Things I’ve been thinking about ….
1 // Storytelling of all sorts
2// Pho (starting to be the season)
3// X-factor (I take all the blame for this, although S’s cousin did have something to do with it).
4// BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
A book buying binge has hit Geneva, the likes of which have not been seen since my last trip to New York and many a fateful hour at the Strand.
Currently reading: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing
super beautiful.
if only my own mark-ups to the NYT ever turned out 1/100th as incredible.
Fred Tomaselli paints intricate psychedelic patterns onto covers of the New York Times.
Up beat pop song of the moment.
I sometimes miss tuning into Casey Cassum’s (Kassum?) weekly countdown — where you were guaranteed to hear the same songs for about 6 weeks solid before a changing of the guard.
Occasionally a girl needs to feel like the carefree 12-year-old version of herself…. and this Maroon 5 track is hitting the spot right now.
Pending Travel
From the age of about 4 to 18, I never spent more than 3 years in the same location and before you ask, no my family was not in the military.
This means a few things:
1/ I am one mean packer and mover (esp if you give me the help of one or both of my sisters, if all else fails in our collective lives — we could found THE BEST moving company)
2/ Memories remain in my mind, but are seldom tied to objects (with the exception of books, books are treasures that should only be given up when they are of the “I bought this book to read on the transatlantic flight” variety.
3/ I am not easily intimidated in a room of strangers
4/ It is hard for me to answer the question of where I am from
It also means, that I get restless easily, VERY easily (ask S. if you do not believe me).
Thankfully, my job provides me with ample distraction on a relatively regular basis (did I mention getting ash clouded into New Delhi and taking 4 flights to make my way back to Geneva?)
In the following weeks I will be hitting the following cities: Zurich, London and New York and there is a sliver of hope for a real field visit to either an Eastern European or southern African locale — I will be spending 2 glorious weeks in my home away from home away from home, NYC. There will be BBQs, there will be shopping, there will be hang time at Mantiques Modern, there will be endless hours of laughter and dancing — my soul will be SO full of joy by the end.
I cannot wait to exercise some serious built-up travel excitement.
I cannot describe my love of k pop adequately, and it was this song that got it all started for me. This parody would warm my heart on even the coldest of cold days back in my drafty and much-loved apartment in Boston.
thedailywhat: Crazyass Japanese Thing of the Day: “Shōwa Generation” mock K-popsters Girls’ Generation with a parody of their 2009 hit song “Gee.”
via tiffanyneedham
A few recent snapshots
La ferme de Saint Maurice
Lausanne with Soul Clap
Vernier with UDC poster correction
Geneva’s best car
Annual hiking trip, HELLO MATTERHORN
Beautiful gardening video from Tiger In A Jar.
This reminds me of when I was very little and we lived in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia (aka The Plains, Virginia). My mother and step father created some really beautiful gardens on our farm (which was called Hotspur and located on a road that went from being called something like Rt 24 to Rock Hill Mill Road — I kid you not). My mother and step father each had a horse of 2 (each new one brought into the family, more beautiful than the next — my favorite wouldn’t be purchased until we moved into town — a real beaut, a mix between a thoroughbred and a Clydesdale).
Anway, I am rambling — but when we were kids, we had one massive garden patch right under the best climbing tree on the property. My mom would plant sunflowers that I imagined were giants and reached above even my tall step father and eventually we had to put a fence around the garden so that the deer wouldn’t come and eat everything in the night.
The glory of this garden were the amazing cucumbers that would sprout each year, and also great varieties of lettuce. (I still crave cold cucumber soup in the summer with SO MUCH DILL due to summers with an abundance of cukes).
My mom had a thing for tomatoes, but I was never much of a fan as a kid — I loved tomato tarts with Champagne mustard and beautiful mozzerella but I liked mine sans tomates.
Also, we had a long drive way that ended in a loop (kind of like a lasso). In the middle of that gravel laso, my mom and step father built a garden that was a red bricked knot with 5 different plots contained in the knot. I think they based it off a garden that they saw in a beautiful English landscaping book that was in our library. That was always full of all things flowering — including a childhood favorite, zinnias.
My mother would always faithfully wear the zinnia bouquets that I wove together for her, even though she was dreadfully allergic to bees and even though zinnias and bees loved each other more than I loved reading a good book in bed at the time (and let’s be honest, still do…)
Sadly, the people that bought Hotspur from my family pulled that knot garden out tout de suite upon moving in as we set off for what turned into only a 6-month adventure living in the US Virgin Islands. That story for another time…..
Anyway, that all seems like a very long time ago and this video reminded me of all of that…. pretty special, right?
