The lack of diversity in kids’ books is a real problem for many kids in need. To become strong readers, they need to see themselves in books and stories.
Today, at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, First Book proposed a solution.
READ MORE: http://blog.firstbook.org/2013/06/13/lack-of-diversity-in-kids-books-and-how-to-fix-it/
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Source: firstbook
I spent 2 months and $100 planning this
Worth every penny
God. This.
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Everything is getting on my nerves lately.
Well, everything except the cats.
feeling an intense need to cocoon myself in my art. or vice versa, to
cocoon my art in myself. tired of depending on others and feeling like
community isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in
the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits.
From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality
they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone,
going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to
cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each
other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d
be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
- murakami
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (via theatlantic)
Dear Universe,
Please stop being The Worst today.
Thank you,
Rachel
What in the actual fuck is this.
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Sometimes I worry that I am just too damn lazy to live a creative life, where my main job is creative.
And I wonder if photography is right for me because I like to work with my hands so much.
Another reason why fall/winter is the best: Yammie sleeps under blankets on/near my tummy.
