look amongst the twigs over there

okay, since i’m uploading fotos and having difficulties here – for now everything will continue to happen over at the old and what yet may stay permanent nest.

update. and a soul-health break.

merry christmas eve from nashville

all is good but my email isn’t working. i can receive messages but can’t reply.
so, to jude smithey et all who’ve been in touch, i’m sorry for not getting back to you. i’ll try using joel’s email as an alternative over the coming days and in the meantime, all is good here – great, actually. busy. and exciting. and relaxed. and full of love and togetherness.

there’s a beautiful tree and paper chains and after lots of fun shopping there’s a big bundle of gifts to be wrapped and present-ed at the Dark family gathering tomorrow.
i’m feeling very at home and we’ve got a really good thing going on here. so much to celebrate and joy to be felt.

i’ll post photos tonight. but right now there’s two gifts to be tracked down before the stores shut for the holidays and then we head to Christmas Eve communion at DPC.

hi to all in belfast. wish we were closer.
more soon, i promise.

so, until later, take 5…

peace be with you, dear friends…

LB

under the pink

or, suffer the little (girl) children…

(in 1918) the Ladies’ Home Journal wrote: “There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger colour is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”

– Ben Goldacre, Out of the blue and pink in the Guardian

fast forward to 2009 and there’s a pink car accessories aisle in Halfords. seriously. (cue loud gagging)

somedays it’s hard not to think the world has gone completely mad.

this article on feminist books for kids has provoked some heated opinionating over at The Guardian. amongst the almost two hundred comments, i discovered a reference to PinkStinks – a website devoted in part to battling the ubiquitous pink trend in products for girls…