not my photo but i thought this woman's attitude definetely deserved a post of it's own.
Do you like surprises?
it depends. usually i do, but i'm sure i could find some i wouldn't.
kind of a vague question, isn't it?
just recently me and my husband decided we'd cut our almost 4 y.o. daughter's hair as short as mia farrow's in "rosemary's baby". we were planning to do so for a long time and finally made the decision and went ahead with it. we thought she'd might feel a little weird but instead, she loved the cut and especially the fact that there's no hair on her little cute face anymore.
we also thought everybody (including our families) would hate the cut, since they all campaign for long princess-like hair, but contrary to our expectations everybody also loved it, and wherever she goes people are all over her with compliments and smiles and "awww"s. so the day before yesterday she and my husband had this talk:
him: you look so pretty with that new haircut! have you noticed how everybody likes your new hair?
her: u-hum.
him: that's because you're very pretty. everybody thinks you're beautiful.
her: no!
him: no? don't you believe people think you're beautiful?
her: no!
him: do you think you're beautiful?
her: u-hum.
him: so why don't you believe people think you're beautiful?
her: how can they know if i'm beautiful, they don't really know me!
see? she's beautiful.
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
literature. i have always been a literature freak, especially concerning world literature classics and movements. i guess what enticed me was that collective consciousness of each age that was made eternal through books.
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
- Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
so a few days ago i watched a DVD called "what the bleep do we know?" (name in portuguese, for my brazilian friends, is "quem somos nós?", a terrible translation). it's an existentialist documentary based on quantum physics and it's fascinatingly mind-boggling. every scene just made me feel even more thrilled than the previous one, and at the end my juices were flowing so badly i couldn't help but produce something, so i wrote a lot, developed some photshoot ideas, established some short-term goals and so on and so forth.
i highly recommend it to anyone who wants to shift from what is established as reality to something new, mind-opening and refreshing. i'll watch it some more times just to develop those concepts more and more in my mind, and also to write down the books written by the people who talked in it and add them to my wishlist.
so, how far down the rabbit hole do you wanna go?
so, this is my first post here at vox. ta-dah!
to be perfectly honest, i do not have the slightest idea of what i'm gonna use this space for, since i'm not an active blogger or anything like that, and i requested a vox code just out of sheer curiosity. it seemed like a nice tool and i just couldn't resist giving it a try.
if you're a more experienced vox user and ended up reading this newbie post, please leave a comment so i can visit other people's journals and communities (if there is such a thing here on vox), or point me to some directions and ideas.
thanks ;)
Was wondering where the photo was taken -- ah, New York. How fitting! read more
on a sign against neoliberalism