Versace, Vuitton, Givenchy! We spend so much time wondering and gossiping what this celeb or that movie star is wearing? Is it a Isaac Mizrahi? No, that is a Viviene Westwood original, someone else yells. We spend even more time wishing that we could have those clothes. But, given the constant shootings, the muggings that are emblazoned in the newspapers and appear to be daily staple of the 24-hour news stations, we do not spend that much time thinking about what kind of gear we need for our minds.

On the way to my daughters gymnastics class tonight. She says from the backseat, "mom put the piano song on"
And so I did.

Angelina Jolie adopted another son. His name is Pham but she changed it to Pax Thien which translates into Peaceful Sky. He’s three.

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.

Smothered under cakes
Of powdered flowers
Painted sceneries of hypocrisy
Dance in barbed wire cages
Invisible to all within

“I was 13 years old trying to get someone to buy me cigarettes at a variety store in the fairly good neighborhood of my city. I was approached by a middle-aged man with a car seat in the back of his mini van, who had exposed himself to me and propositioned me to watch him masturbate and in return he would buy me smokes. He was insistent and conniving with his words and behavior, I didn’t feel like I had a choice. I felt sick to my stomach and anxious, I wanted someone to help me but I really wanted smokes too.”

(quoted by an anonymous youth)