May 23, 2013

A good day in so many ways. On this day as all others I continue to be blessed.
1. I got the summer job at Prospect Park Zoo!! So so excited to finally be one step closer to my dream of working with animals and sharing my love for them with other people. I plan on making the absolute most out of this opportunity that has been given to me.
2. I had my first cello lesson in over half a year!! New teacher = new playing habits; what a great time to get a fresh start on my posture and technique while rekindling my passion for solo performance.
3. I bought Khaled Hosseini’s new book And The Mountains Echoed!! I have been waiting for this moment since finishing his first two novels that changed my view of the world and have since become my top two all-time favorites.

jellyfishes:

beluga whales are so fuckin cute they’re always happy and smiling like

helooooo!!

HIIIIIIIIII !!!!

hey friend !

looook they are FRIENDS!!!!!

they are growing old together still smiling i am gonna crY

May 18, 2013

Joel Stein’s newest article isn’t trying to piss us off. Perceptive readers will understand that his columns are never trying to piss us off; his strength lies in his verbal abusiveness, because that’s how he draws you in and forces you to instinctively disagree with him, even if you agree with him. His writing has a lot more depth than he and the marketing artists at Time make it out to be. Anyone who has looked beyond the derisive cover page will see that he has a good point, and it’s a scary one. Our generation has a glossy veneer that we paint on ourselves with the same hands we use to take 17 selfies a day. We have everything we could ask for, but what we don’t have is substance. As he points out later on, we have much more potential and a lot more room for opinion and challenging convention than any of the generations preceding us; but we are doing next to nothing and if we don’t get our shit together and start reaching for more than empty accolades, then we have nowhere to go from here. People who are getting riled up by the generalization are missing the main idea and are simply proving the point he makes about pervasive narcissism among millennials.