Category: Personal

Tuesday on the web

After we got George's GRE scores on Saturday, we basically spent the rest of the day in low-key celebration mode.  I drank maybe a whole bottle of champagne but didn't really feel drunk all day - I just kept sipping.  We hung around with Colin and Sai, went to go see the pretty seriously bad Due Date and had a lazy celebration day.  It was fun.  We need more low-key friend days.  Photos here are an ice cream truck (?) in the movie theatre parking lot and a beautiful arrangement Sara has in her bathroom.  Who has something this pretty in their bathroom?

On the Web

I have to admit a big fat FAIL for On the Web this week.  I have but one link to share with you, though it is a good one.  Maybe the internet sucked this week, but it's probably me traveling and things and spending less time browsing, which can only be a good thing, right? TC & Jane - Los Altos via Voltron of Awesomeness This is the most amazing wedding I have ever seen. I think I might need to go back and redo my wedding with a Halloween theme.  Also, Jeff Newsom is definitely one of my top 5 favorite photographers.  This man is endlessly creative and interesting.  If you're even remotely interested in photography and wedding photography in particular, you need to be subscribed to his feed. yummy - ice cream truck in arlington, va flower arrangement in sara's bathroom
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2/12 Books: Sex at Dawn

A pre-book review note: This is a long review of a non-fiction book about marriage and sex.  It has absolutely nothing to do with photography and really very little to do with any of the things I normally blog about.  For an overview of the 12 Books project and to see the other books I'll be reviewing here (just one on average per month), check the subheader at the bottom of the post. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality pretty much sold me on their argument, which leaves me in a bit of a lurch, for the moment.  Not too long from now, I'm sure I'll forget most of what I learned and go back to thinking about sex and marriage as I always have.  But for just a brief moment here, I'll pause while I sort these things out and bring you a book review that really rattled my assumptions. Authors Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá ask a few simple questions that I think most of us would probably brush off (I'm certainly attempting to, even having read the book):
Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband-wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species - as ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor?  Dare we ask whether mothers, fathers, and children are all being shoe-horned into a family structure that suits none of us?  Might the contemporary pandemics of fracturing families, parental exhaustion, and confused, resentful children be predictable consequences of what is, in truth, a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?
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