Respect

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/guy-is-obsessed-with-becoming-a-mermaid

Sometimes some people like some different things. I get this.

You wouldn't have to ask me twice if Almathea gave me the option to join her.

Working on it

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/travel/national-geographic-kids-travel/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Away from the east coast for work this week, this picture, post and article makes me nostalgic for childhood, and the dreams I got to dream as a lucky little girl living by the Chesapeake Bay.

http://www.cbf.org/

As if you could pick in love...

...as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/the-25-greatest-quotes-about-love/

Living

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

-Dawna Markova

This planet...

A whole new spin on bright ideas

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/health/boyden-brain-map/index.html?hpt=he_c1

I have to admit this kind of makes me giddy about neuroscience in a way that nothing else has for a long time. And, per the date, I'm not kidding. Happy April Fool's day anyway!