Harvard University's "Justice" class webcast with Michael Sandel. Talented enough to make you think outside the box and even wrap your mind around the box!
Kids are funny. Plus, we can always learn something from them.
Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo. Patience and discipline beget the reward.
When you fall you get right back up and keep dancing. Cute.
I have been obsessed with Ravel's Bolero lately, ever since I serendipitously heard my uni's orchestra practice the piece live. I also learned that this is played in the bohemian seaside resort Vama Veche in Romania every morning at sunrise! Must be even more amazing hearing it while watching the sun rising over the Black Sea.
Random: drooling over these and these beauties and I'm justifying it by telling myself I absolutely *need* new high wedge booties for the fall to be worn with wide leg trousers. (As a side note, I went to Barney's warehouse sale for the first time this year and got two amazing Theory pairs of pants for a total of...prepare yourself....*31 dollars*. I thought I was dreaming when they were rang at the register because the original prices were in the 200s each with some reduction percentages on the tags which you cannot bother to even read, much less to do the math in your head. But I did not even dream they'd be that much reduced!
The sale person at the register kindly decided I needed to be promptly educated on the aspects of the famous sale. Apparently I went on one of the last days when they slash prices on everything already on sale by an additional of 75% off. There were still plenty of goodies left because they put out new stuff every day. And the amazing 3.1 Phillip Lim top with an original price of over $400 that I reluctantly let go off my hands only to be grabbed instantly by a woman on the other side of the rack? The cashier said it would have probably been right under $30. I am now an officially Barney warehouse sale addict and as per her instructions I will be grabbing everything I love next year, bluntly ignore the obnoxious original prices and prepare myself to be pleasantly, insanely, wonderfully surprised!
However, these booties are soo worthy for even, gulp, retail, because geldenbleu is known for high quality leather products that last for years. But in a stroke of luck, I found these on ebay, authentic new in box in my size for a low starting bid price. 'Course I got in on the auction but can't tell you where yet because I'm selfish and you would then all become my new ebay nemeses. Ends in four days so I should curb my enthusiasm for now, really.
Finally, I will make this tomorrow because I am badly craving it and with my picky eater I could not even attempt to call it "dinner", so I will disguise it as an unconventional brunch treat for manana. Yum. Thank you Debra.
Deb's recipes from Smitten Kitchen are simply heavenly.
