Another fabulous Maira Kalman illustrated essay — this one focuses on food and includes a visit to the Edible Schoolyard of the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley.
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“If you want to see the future, look at how childhood has changed rather than technology” (via mattcottam via Matt Jones)
“Abecedario Chileno” - Lorenzo Homar collection (via Javier Arbona)
“ 10 is the new 2. We’re infantilizing our kids into incompetence.
Lenore Skenazy
“ How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
D. H. Lawrence
“These are sapeurs, acolytes of a 25-year-old movement called la SAPE—La Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (aka Kitendi, the religion of the cloth) — that revolves around the possession of the most expensive, most luxurious, most extravagant fashion in the world. Followers of SAPE wear $10,000 jackets and $500 shoes, but these mostly young Congolese men otherwise barely eke out a living in the rubble of Kinshasa and Brazzaville or the ghettos of Paris and Brussels, washing dishes or washing bodies, and sometimes selling their own.”
COLORS: Paradise is a Fabulous Suit (more here and here)
