Puzzle me

PS 22 Chorus.
This is my favourite Bjork song, Hoga. Teaching music must be the best job in the world. Look at the kids' faces- they're so committed and uninhibited.
Safe spaces and self expression.

Paper Airplanes

I love kids, I love hanging out with them and hearing what they think, playing games, jumping around, chatting about rhinoceroses or karate. But sometimes you need a little something to focus on. And if you have access to paper, then you have access to awesome. Paper airplanes are fun for everyone, you can decorate them, make whole fleets, create your own airline or design your very own folding technique. You can have races to see whose goes furthest or fastest or straightest. Make them really big or really small and see which ones fly best. Here are 9 airplane designs complete with animated folding diagrams. Last time Mo's niece and nephew were bored at a dinner party we made our own airlines complete with cohesive branding and logos and then launched them down a flight of stairs to see whose flew best. Not mine. Must practice more. :D

Shades of Pink and Orange

I made some strawberry and lemon iced tea today. Loose leaf black tea with a dash of lapsang souchong brewed up nice and strong. The flesh of a lemon squeezed and thrown into the bottle, two or three sliced strawberries and agave nectar to taste. Yum!

I also picked up a miniature rose plant last week. All the blooms were tightly closed and I wasn't sure what colour they would be when they opened. This week they're wide open, smelling lovely and such a pretty soft orange and pink.

It's in the little things. ♥

Life and Love

While listening to Mo speak with an Italian client, I realized that his accent is only really audible when speaking to a non-native english speaker. He stops using articles and his words take on a farsi flair.

I think that means he'll never lose it completely no matter how great his mastery or how Canadian his tongue becomes. It reminds me of our early days together, he was so cute!
Clearly he still is.

Both of these images are from a project that featured young photographers photographing their favourite people. At least, I think they are. Of course, I can't find the link in my bazillions of bookmarks and tineye.com gave me nothing. Note to self: be better organized!

Good Things

I've decided to start a list of good things. A collection of goodness if you will. Sometimes when I'm not feeling so wonderful, all I need is a little reminder of the positive, all of the good that there is in my life and the world around me. Now seems like as good a time to start it as any:

• Wild wind on blue sky days
• Sleeping in a little later than my lovey so that I am awoken with:
  
• Fresh, hot french press coffee first thing in the morning
• Hot water, any time, for my bath or shower. This is a very serious luxury if you've ever gone without
  
• Being sent huge amounts dried fruit and nuts and other sweets from Madar. She still manages to feed us all the way from the other side of the world!
  
• Living minutes away from the ocean and a forest you can get lost in while still having all the conveniences of city living right outside our front door
  
• Luna and the joys of kittenhood
• b                           awwwwwwwwwwwwk4olb hj89999999999999999999999999999999999uuuuuuui Kitten imposed cuddle breaks
 

 

I found the top two images lingering on my hard drive so please excuse my lack of credit. Let me know in the comments if you can pinpoint their origins. Another good thing? Itty bitty font. I feel like I'm sending secret messages. What are your good things? Leave a comment or send me an email, I would love to hear about them. Life is good. Melanie out. ♥