About a month ago, I came home to find this:
Kate and Abby were inspired by the play PInkalicous, which they saw recently with Grandma Carol and Grandpa Steve. In it, a young girl eats so many pink cupcakes she actually turns pink. I can totally dig it. Here’s the bummer: they used stamp pad ink for this particular act of self-expression.
Celebrate Brooklyn kicks off on June 12 with Isaac Hayes in concert- followed by two solid months of great, free performances in Prospect Park. Hope to see you there.
We stumbled upon this in Williamsburg today: 
Which included contests for the Ugliest Bike, Best Old-School Bike, Most Family Friendly Bike, and more. Here are a few highlights:
I saw this truck on the BQE last year. How fabulous is the King of Broccoli? I wish they’d clean this truck.
Sakura Matsuri, the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is my favorite event of the year at BBG. Taiko drumming, sake under the cherry trees, and lilacs in full bloom to boot: what could be better?
A BBG staff person created this terrific time lapse video showing the trees in action, in case you missed it.
I’m not sure what needs more improvement: me or Terminal 7.
When I was little I was a compulsive journaler. As an adult, though, I haven’t felt the need to write it all down, sketch it all out, and chronicle my every move.
Lately, though, as I’ve gotten in to reading blogs, I’ve noticed that blogging can be like journaling: a way to record a quick thought, observation, or other nugget worth keeping. Social media is definitely changing the communications landscape, and I’m into it, big time.
In their book “Media Rules”, Brian Reich and Dan Solomon write,
“The common belief is that the digital generation is motivated to promote their interest on Web sites and through social networks because of ego. But that is not why we do it. As media digitizes, fragments, and moves closer to the audience, the information, experiences and stuff become more a reflection of the community than a product that is delivered to the audience.”
So here I go again.
But this time, I’ve got a different goal: to chronicle the ideas, images, and stories that seem most reflective of where I am today, as a way to keep in touch with family and friends, and to create something I hope my kids might ultimately enjoy reading.
Please let me know what you think.
In “Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the Way we Make Things”, authors William McDonough and Michael talk about ants:
“Consider a community of ants. As part of their daily activity, they:
- safely and effectively handle their own material wastes and that of other species
- grow and harvest their own food while nurturing the ecosystem of which they are a part
- construct houses, farms, dumps, cemeteries, living quarters, and food-storage facilities from materials that can be truly recycled
- create disinfectants and medicines that are healthy, safe, and biodegradable
- maintain soil health for the entire planet.
Individually we are much larger than ants, but collectively their biomass exceeds ours. Just as there is almost no corner of the globe untouched by human presence, there is almost no land habitat, from harsh desert to inner city, untouched by some species of ant. They are a good example of a population whose density and productiveness are not a problem for the rest of the world, because everything they make and use returns to the cradle-to-cradle cycles of nature.”
