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blissfleur: Oh my gosh this is so pretty

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:58:05 +1000

blissfleur:

Oh my gosh this is so pretty

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:30:47 +1000

awkwardsituationist: “world of averages” - composite images...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:43:40 +1000

awkwardsituationist:

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:16:01 +1000

sketchmedesire: Lennon and Maisy - Ho Hey (The Lumineers...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:07:35 +1000

sketchmedesire:

Lennon and Maisy - Ho Hey (The Lumineers Cover)

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:05:45 +1100

yes please!

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:47:27 +1100

yes please!

"I am a mother of three girls, ages 2, 6, and 8. Two of them are Sandy Hook School students – one in..."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:05:20 +1100

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I am a mother of three girls, ages 2, 6, and 8. Two of them are Sandy Hook School students – one in first grade, one in third grade. I would like to share with you our experience with Dec 14th and my feelings on gun control.

My third grader has gone thru some deep grief over the loss of her siblings’ friends. She was devastated by the loss of the teachers, especially her principal, Dawn Hocksprung, whom we all loved. She is angry that this has happened, that lives were lost so tragically and that she can no longer go to her school. When she was evacuated that day to the fire house, she did not know if her little sister had survived. She struggles with the concept that there is evil in the world, that something this horrific could happen to this town, to her, to her sisters, to her friends. She is 8.

In addition to the tragic loss of her playmates, friends, and teachers, my first grader suffers from PTSD. She was in the first room by the entrance to the school. Her teacher was able to gather the children into the tiny bathroom inside the classroom. There she stood, with 14 of her classmates and her teacher, all of them crying. You see, she heard what was happening on the other side of the wall. She heard everything. Shooting. Screaming. Pleading. She was sure she was going to die that day and did not want to die for Christmas. Imagine what this must have been like.

With PTSD comes fear – all kinds of fear. Each time she hears a loud or unfamiliar noise, she experiences the fear she had in that bathroom. She is not alone. All of her classmates have PTSD. She struggles nightly with nightmares, difficulty falling asleep, and being afraid to go anywhere in her own home. At school she becomes withdrawn, crying daily, covering her ears when it gets too loud and waiting for this to happen again. She is 6.

Imagine being this age and living like this. My children face their fears every day by getting on the bus and going to school. Would you be able to do the same? How would you feel if these were your children?

Although we are getting help and trying to heal, this will affect us for the rest of our lives. We are thankful that by the grace of god, our children came home to us on Dec. 14. As a family and a community, we are deeply saddened and heartbroken at the loss of so many innocent children and beloved teachers.

We are also furious.

Furious that 26 families must suffer with grief so deep and so wide that it is unimaginable.

Furious that the innocence and safety of my children’s lives has been taken.

Furious that someone had access to the type of weapon used in this massacre.

Furious that this type of weapon is even legal.

Furious that gun makers make ammunition with such high rounds and our government does nothing to stop them.

Furious that the ban on assault weapons was carelessly left to expire.

Furious that lawmakers let the gun lobbyists have so much control.

Furious that somehow, someone’s right to own a gun is more important than my children’s rights to life.

Furious that common sense has gone out the window.

Furious that lawmakers are too scared to take a stand.

The “what if’s” never stop going through my mind. What if this weapon were still banned? What if there weren’t high capacity rounds? What if the shooter had different bullets? I think the carnage would have been a lot less. Yes, there would have been losses. But there would have been time. Time to react and possibly make a difference.

Those children and teachers had NO CHANCE. They did not just get shot. They got blown apart.

It’s time to stop catering to the gun owners and lobbyists and start caring about our children, our families, our teachers, our friends and our neighbors. The NRA does not care about people, they care about money.

I don’t believe that anyone, other than the military, has a right to own the type of weapon or ammo used at Sandy Hook.

The second amendment is not limitless.

Weapons like the AR15 have no place in society. This is simply common sense.

Veronique Pozner, mother of Noah Pozner, killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, gave this statement which I believe whole-heartedly:
“The equation is terrifyingly simple: Faster weapons equal more fatalities. This is not about the right to bear arms. It is about the right to bear weapons with the capacity for mass destruction.”

We are trying to move forward, but there must be change. If our lawmakers cannot make this change, then we, as a people will elect those who will.

”

- Excerpt from a letter by CARRIE LENDROTH BATTAGLIA, the mother of two children who survived the Sandy Hook school massacre.

I dare the Republican members of Congress to take a meeting with her, or any other parent of the victim of gun violence.
(via inothernews)

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:22:49 +1100

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:01:03 +1100

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cutty-flam: LOUIS C.K., EVERYONE.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:22:46 +1100

cutty-flam:

LOUIS C.K., EVERYONE.

masterpieceinchaos: Portlandia - Soft Opening

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:01:46 +1100

masterpieceinchaos:

Portlandia - Soft Opening

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:46:12 +1100

carroo: ahmahzing

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:26:37 +1100

carroo:

ahmahzing

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:11:21 +1100

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:05:43 +1100

"Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:59:34 +1100

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”

- The Winter of the Air (via beamuppet)

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:54:10 +1100

"I love Aaron Sorkin characters because I, like the rest of the North American world, have a fondness..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:03:33 +1100

“I love Aaron Sorkin characters because I, like the rest of the North American world, have a fondness for witty, East Coast-y, over-educated, well-dressed Jewish guys. The typical Sorkin character is a bleeding heart liberal who is the tiniest bit sassy. They are also deeply moral. The West Wing was entirely populated with these guys, and they frequently had to stand up for what was right. You knew there was a stirring Sorkin speech and some good W. Snuffy Walden scoring on tap every episode.”

- “These Are My Favourite Kinds of Guys, Part One”, Mindy Kaling (via joshlyman)

blua: Living Room At The Charles Moore House By T. Cook

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:14:26 +1100

blua:

Living Room At The Charles Moore House By T. Cook