self-importance

Why do people have such a need to feel important? I know everyone's life should matter, but really, you must be really insecure or have really low self-esteem to be manufacturing your own importance. People walk around chattering away on cell phones and twittering incessantly as if the world would stop turning if they didn't put forth their opinion. Must we validate our lives every second to matter? Everyone should be issued business cards at birth with their name and the title "Human Being." That should be all the validation we need.

Maybe we should all have blogs where we can post our opinions and let the best of them rise to the top. I bet we'd all be surprised how similarly we think…

are we what we eat?

I was listening this morning to another story about what we need to eat, what vitamins we need, etc. My father used to say “We’re all just a bunch of chemicals in a big bag,” and paying attention to our particular chemical make-up may be the most important thing we do. We all know that fresh fruits and veggies are good and refined sugar is bad. Why then, are there so many reports about what is good for us and what is harmful? Because we are all different. Fresh strawberries are wonderful- unless you are allergic to them. We must learn over our lifetimes what works for us, and all this health advise should be viewed as guidelines rather than rules. The concept of normal, too, is confusing.
It is normal that we are all different from one another- so different is normal.

today's analogy

Since the title of my blog is "analogies", I thought i'd better include some!

A good friend is like a security blanket for the psyche…

Miss Cellania

Congratulations to one of my favorite bloggers, Miss Cellania, on her 4 year "blogiversary." This blog is on my list of "Daily Sites" and if you haven't seen it yet, you should treat yourself to a visit. It's one of the wittiest sites for funny stories and links I have seen, and I am an avid Mental Flosser…

seeing shouldn't be believing

A couple of days ago, a friend sent me a link to this story in the New York Times:

Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again

By BILL MARSH

The dubious arts of splicing, posing and wholesale erasing in the iconic photography of history. (Be sure to view the slideshow.)

Being a Photoshop user, I am quite accomplished at altering photos when the need arises- not for deception, but to customize/retouch clients' photos. I should not have been at all surprised to learn how long this has been taking place, but I was. It's amazing just how many things never occur to us until they come up in conversation, and it's unnerving to think how much of what we see with our own eyes can't be trusted!

early to rise?

I have never understood the obsession with rising early. It's a known fact that teens' body clocks are meant to start and end the day much later. Personally, my body responds to the sun- waking me earlier in the summer and later in the winter months. We are always fighting for the rights of everyone to follow their own path- equal rights for minorities, gays, the 'differently-abled', etc. I've been apologizing all my life for not waking up early; maybe I'll start a move for awareness of late risers… I never cared much for worms anyway.

50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME

I had forgotten how much I love TIME

50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME

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