ocean child

[sheofsea]

[frenchhistory]

If you’re in Paris right now

- Emergency special number (if you need information) (please, use it carefully, too many calls will make the line crash): 0800 40 60 05 

- Schools and universities are closed tomorrow. (in the whole country btw)

- In Paris and IDF, it’s advised NOT TO MOVE. Don’t leave your home or the place you’re staying in unless you really have to.

- It seems taxis are free tonight if you need a ride home.

- IF YOU NEED A PLACE TO CRASH IN/ WANTS TO WELCOME SOMEONE: follow the hashtag #PORTEOUVERTE

- 5 metro lines are closed: 3, 5,8 9 and 11

- Maps of the attacks (source: Libération). Streets are probabky closed around these areas.

[sheofsea]

This is the kind of musician I want to be someday.

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dreamland

I fell asleep sitting up and feeding the baby. I was sad to wake up and discover I'm not really Carmen San Diego.

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just dance

Sometimes good parenting meaning playing Mozart or Bach for your small children to enjoy. Sometimes good parenting means you turn on 'Ice Ice Baby' and teach your small children the dance moves from the original music video. Yeah. Daddy is going to be so impressed when he gets home.

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the pain beyond our sight

"A BBC team inside Syria filming for Panorama has witnessed the aftermath of a fresh horrific incident—an incendiary bomb dropped onto a school playground in the north of the country—which has left scores of children with napalm-like burns over their bodies. Eyewitnesses describe a fighter jet dropping the device, a low explosion, followed by columns of fire and smoke."

This is the world in which we live. It's a sobering reminder: hold your family, your freedoms, and your safety close. For each of us who are with our loved ones, who have a good degree of freedom and autonomy, and who are relatively safe from daily warfare, there are a million suffering in ways beyond what we can fathom.

[sheofsea]

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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the music truck

Whenever my kids hear the annoying, off-key organ-grinder sound of an ice cream truck driving past, they might observe out loud, “Oh, there goes the music truck.” Because Mommy and Daddy are horrible liars who don’t want their kids to know what the true purpose of that truck is, because we don’t want to have to argue over expensive frozen desserts at the most inopportune times.

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font

You know a talented designer is being sarcastic in their electronic communications with you when they suddenly start using Comic Sans part-way through the exchange.

[sheofsea]

More, more, more.

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T.G.I.F.

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I arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White

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don’t let it tarnish

There’s a silver lining to everything; it’s just a matter of seeing it from a new angle each day so it doesn’t tarnish.

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to belong

It's odd how some places claim us and become definitive parts of who we are, even if we didn't spend much time there. I've spent a little over half of my life in a desert, but right now, my bones are aching for ocean.

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outside

I occasionally get these overwhelming urges to not only get outside, but to remain outside. More than just camping—I want to just live out of a tent. On a mountain or a beach or somewhere without electric lights and cars and lots of people. I want the lonesome planet. And now with a husband and three kids, that's probably not happening, and that's fair. But heaven knows, today more than ever, I want to just run out into the trees until the stars find me and I'm breathing in the cold quiet of a mountain somewhere

[sheofsea]

Something tells me that the children's toy section on JC Penny's website doesn't make the distinction between minors and adult children.

[sheofsea]

One of the very, very few musicals I adore. I weep every time I go to see it live, and I'm excited to see how it all translates to film.