Where is My Mind

This comic by the marvelous Tom Gauld says it all. 

Your Words

The Little Prince was published on this day in 1943 and a New York Herald Tribune reviewer captured its timeless magic perfectly:  

“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

Sidewalk Flowers – an illustrated ode to presence and the art of noticing in a culture of productivity and distraction. From the piece:

"How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives," Annie Dillard wrote in her magnificent defense of living with presence. But in our age of productivity, we spend our days running away from boredom, never mind its creative and spiritual benefits, and toward maximum efficiency. Under the tyranny of multitasking, the unitasking necessary for the art of noticing has been exiled from our daily lives. And yet, as we grow increasingly disillusioned with the notion of “work/life balance,” something in our modern souls is aching for the resuscitation of this dying capacity for presence. That capacity is especially essential in parenting, where the cultural trope of the device-distracted parent is an increasingly disquieting pandemic.

a freshman year enlightenment of mine

girls changing wherever because being ladylike isn’t a thing when everyone’s a lady

girls who literally couldn’t give less of a shit about their appearance

freshmen who care too much about their appearance (watch them turn into seniors who stopped giving a shit)

uniform violations for the silliest things—colored shirt under your uniform instead of a white one, wrong shoes, patterned head band, wrong color socks

seniors with skirts SO FUCKING SHORT not because of some tired stereotype but because who the fuck wants to buy another skirt when you bought two or three in freshman year when you were like 13

actually by senior year all your uniform pieces are falling apart. even your socks

boys from your brother school trying to get with you except they haven’t realized that 1) they’re gross testosterone lumps and 2) lesbians are a thing

that one girl who always wears the optional pants and is absent on days when the skirt is required

everyone’s obsessed with food and always sneaks out to the local starbucks/corner store

everyone cusses

hugging allll the time

there’s always little groups of people singing???

bathrooms are extremely neat

if someone is crying soMEONE ALWAYS COMES AND HELPS THEM OUT

body hair shaving does not happen on any sort of regular basis, indeed informal competitions about leg hair length and conversations about the possibility of braiding arm pit hair happen

It really does not matter how much you hate someone, you will take their side against the nuns.

Sister Mary Principal, Sister Mary Vice-Principal, Sister Mary Library…

Girls giving each other stuff for Valentine’s Day isn’t a lesbian only thing. Candy and cards for the BFFs is totally cool.

lesbian couples who are super open about their relationship

people are almost always giving compliments to each other and making you feel good about yourself

more often than not these compliments are about how nice your butt looks or your boobs look

someone is literally always carrying advil or midol and is willing to share because the school nurse sucks

any time there is a relatively young guy in the school everybody freaks out

For Yoko Ono's 72nd birthday today, her quirky illustrated poems, drawings, and instructions for life.

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