Monday, July 18, 2011

your work

“Your work is to discover your work and then,
with all your heart,
to give yourself to it.”
– Buddha

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Getting Women Off the Sidelines




senator gillibrand, tory, donna discuss

Sunday, July 3, 2011

WETSUIT LEARNINGS






HISTORY
Surfers prepped for the frigid seas with frantic, almost tribal dances around beach fires, some taking to the water in wool sweaters (occasionally soaked in oil) and/or clunky, immobilizing scuba suits -- anything to stave off impending numbness. Waveriding was commonly conservative; the rational being that not falling and thus staying dry was paramount to getting radical. Enter Jack O'Neill, an inventive San Franciscan and window salesman by trade whose unwillingness to freeze his nuts off would revolutionize watergoing.

Following numerous aborted stabs at a functional, mobile suit, O'Neill found himself aboard a DC-3 passenger plane, studying aisles lined with a peculiar rubber-like substance: neoprene. O'Neill quickly ordered heaps of the stuff, began hand sewing it together and, in 1952, started up San Francisco's first surf shop along its Great Highway. Sales were brisker than the afternoon onshore winds that churned Ocean Beach. Later, he took to the road to market his invention, setting up ice-filled tanks in which he'd submerse his kids for hours to get the point across. Onlookers were stunned and overnight surfing became a year-round affair. O'Neill later moved his headquarters south to Santa Cruz, where both remain today.




sources
http://www.surfline.com/gear/the-wetsuit-primer---a-hood-to-booties-look-at-the-gear-that-keeps-us-warm_40381/
jettygirl

Thursday, June 30, 2011

just overheard: "if i had my life to do over, i'd have more children and less stuff."

- http://twitter.com/#!/atlantishome/statuses/86119852389052417

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Not buy USELESS stuff.

They are like the exotic SOUVENIRS,
that when you return from the trip,
encumber and ruin
the aesthetics of the house.
adr

They all have to wear sneakers to school and participate in gym


“They all have to wear sneakers to school and participate in gym,” she said. “Little girls can’t wear ballet flats, either. Too slippery.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/new-challenge-for-parents-childrens-gender-roles.html?hpw