In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5%. How come the epidemic of ADHD—which has become firmly established in the United States—has almost completely passed over children in France?
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
h4ilstorm: IMG_2966 (by Darren Wood)
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
What’s Not Here
I start out on this road, call it
love or emptiness. I only know what’s
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not here: resentment seeds, back-
scratching greed, worrying about out-
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come, fear of people. When a bird gets
free, it doesn’t go back for remnants
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left on the bottom of the cage! Close
by, I’m rain. Far off, a cloud of fire.
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I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease.
Branches tremble; the roots are still.
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I am a universe in a handful of dirt,
whole when totally demolished. Talk
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about choices does not apply to me.
While intelligence considers options,
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I am somewhere lost in the wind.
~ Rumi
Kids are more impressionable than you, but kids can also be less restricted by cultural gender norms than you. Kids are more creative than you, and they’re better at making superheroes than you.
This is a mini art project where I draw superheroes based on the costumes worn by little girls.
Where are you now…
how sad it is that we create a society where we raise boys to base their self worth on whether or not they can trick unsuspecting women into sleeping with them and we raise girls to base their self worth on how long they lasted until they were tricked
a moment of recognition for those ships you shipped before you knew what shipping was
You can change the direction this train is moving just by thinking about it.
That is freaky.
Freaky train.
Whoa!
ihonestlydontevenknowhatsgoingon:
spot the fannibal
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
Den of Geek Looks At The Name Of The Doctor
Den of Geek look at the plot threads left hanging by the ending of The Name of The Doctor. Beware spoilers…
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/25687/the-big-questions-from-doctor-who-the-name-of-the-doctor
I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.
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