All images courtesy From Me To You (A Photography Blog). I love to see elegance in fashion.
These photos hearken to a time before people grossly misunderstood irony. [By which I mean tights are not pants and etc.] ...to a time when people cared to look nice and dressed with dignity - for themselves, the occasion, and their company.
Do you remember when you were a kid - and you thought that if you covered your eyes that you were magically invisible...?
There are large chunks of my day where I operate as though I'm completely invisible - we're talking ninja on super-duper stealth mode in the dead of night invisible - all because I'm sporting my iPod. Maybe I'm like a stealth ninja masquerading as a rock star....
What's that you say? Invisible fail?!
How about all y'all? I know I can't be the only one... right?
Video head's up courtesy Pirate D'Amour ...whose music I love - and therefore I pay attention when she recommends things for my listening enjoyment. Yes. I mean me.
Speaking of shout outs... I'd like to dedicate this song (or maybe just the video) to the guys over at Dog House Diaries. If you're not a fan, you should be.
So we lost our game tonight. It was pretty ugly, and since I'm a fan of all things lovely and wonderful, I won't go too much into the deets. But even though I had an amazing day today - all things considered - I was still feeling just a little bit low.
But then I saw this picture. She is the kind of grown-up woman I want to be. Swinging on the swings is one of my favorite things to do. I don't know her, but I think I just might have a girl-crush on her.
The following presentation on the necessity of creativity in education from Sir Ken Robinson is truly amazing. Head's up courtesy Nazy.
It is obvious that there is something amiss in the ways in which education and information are viewed, understood and applied - in its Riḍván Message of 2010, the Universal House of Justice says "Passivity is bred by the forces of society today. A desire to be entertained is nurtured from childhood, with increasing efficiency, cultivating generations willing to be led by whoever proves skillful at appealing to superficial emotions. Even in many educational systems students are treated as though they were receptacles designed to receive information. [...]the Bahá'í world has succeeded in developing a culture which promotes a way of thinking, studying, and acting, in which all consider themselves as treading a common path of service -- supporting one another and advancing together, respectful of the knowledge that each one possesses at any given moment...."
They further point to the need for "an environment conducive to the spiritual empowerment of individuals, who will come to see themselves as active agents of their own learning, as protagonists of a constant effort to apply knowledge to effect individual and collective transformation."
The success of our future as a society (and I mean global society) hinges on rethinking information and education - there are people in the world... people all around you who are doing just that. Creatively. Fearlessly. Purposefully. Join them.
I will be visiting this lovely place - Mazra'ih - in a few short hours. This picture was taken on my visit last year - and I'm hoping to see what magic comes out of the good old camera this year. Mazra'ih is truly one of my favorite places - not least because it brought Bahá'u'lláh so much joy....
I also have a water polo game tonight - this time in Tel Aviv proper. As last week's game was so close, I really think that we have a chance of winning this time! I'll keep y'all posted - even if it's not the news we were hoping for (I mean me?).
Also... I thought that since I talk about reading so much (Bayan loves his new books so far!), I'd share with you all something I read yesterday that really excited and inspired me. The Universal House of Justice, as recently as April 2010, addresses (among a myriad other things) some fundamental concepts of social action.
"The perpetuation of ignorance is a most grievous form of oppression; it reinforces the many walls of prejudice that stand as barriers to the realization of the oneness of humankind [...]. Access to knowledge is the right of every human being, and participation in its generation, application and diffusion a responsibility that all must shoulder in the great enterprise of building a prosperous world civilization - each individual according to his or her talents and abilities."
All images courtesy From Me To You (A Photography Blog). I love to see elegance in fashion. 
