{ Monday, February 11, 2008 }
- A Flock of Pigeons. You have to buy them individually though.
- According to my New York Times Sunday Magazine, girls have more latitude in their identities, while boys are trapped in boyness. "...if ushered into a room and told they could play with anything, nearly half the boys chose "feminine" toys as often as "masculine" toys, provided they believed nobody, especially their fathers, would find out." Boys aren't really given the leeway to, say, "create an amazing dance routine." We've really got to figure out how, as a culture, we can stop doing this.
- T.S. Eliot says somewhere that hell is where nothing connects.
- Finally she supplicates the God of Wisdom, Enki, who fashions tiny spirit-helpers from the dirt under his fingernails.
LINK | 9:11 PM | TB
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there is a rather astounding number of boys in my world whose answer to the question 'what is your favorite color?' is PINK. these are school-age boys, 6 and 7 and 8 year-olds, and yes, when they tell me that their favorite color is pink, they also say "i know that boys aren't supposed to like pink" and then they always say "but i like pink anyway." when given a box of crayons, the shades they show me are anywhere from a light baby pink to a vibrant magenta. happiness, i think, is a light pink crayon in the hand of a boy who loves what he's coloring.
pinkhurst | February 12, 2008 12:14 PM