19th october - The Nod
interesting things i read today:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/10/what-being-a-single-parent-is-really-like-sophie-heawood#img-1
Gradually, you will realise that you, too, have made other people do The Nod all your life. That you moaned about your mum to a friend whose mum was dead, that you complained about being skint to friends who’ll never earn what you do, that you phoned in sick with hangovers when a colleague who lives with a chronic pain condition wouldn’t dream of missing work. A lifetime of selfishness will open up before you like a seam. You will watch a friend lose her two-year-old, who dies for no reason in the night, and clutch your own child very, very tightly and thank God that she is here, and that the smell of her hair is such sweetness that even your nostrils are in love with her. She will become your levity and your gravity. You will be more than able to cope.
bill gates predicted 15 things in 1999 and it all came true (google bill gates prediction for exact link)
boredpanda article about photographing down syndrome persons at various age (from babies to elders) -- the mention that down syndrome is not a disease or a disability. it's profound and hits home hard.(God does not make imperfections and everything is within His plan down to the minisculest of molecules)
boredpanda article about photographing kids as superheroes - these kids, they are all with special medical conditions.