The Tiny Light

"Making good decisions is boring."

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:10:00 -0700

“Making good decisions is boring.”

- A very fitting quote for this weekend - as I am leaving for Las Vegas tonight with the girls!

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 07:37:06 -0700

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)

thedailywhat: Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The...

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:50:24 -0700

thedailywhat:

Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!

So imperfect it’s perfect.

[thanks, rob!]

Happy Friday! Enjoy this video of an orchestra flash mob.

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:55:57 -0700

Happy Friday! Enjoy this video of an orchestra flash mob.

The perfect ending

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:26:00 -0700

An Australian couple served a cheese wedding cake. What a brilliant idea!

Cheese is the perfect ending to any meal. My ideal evening always includes cheese - so why exclude my [future] wedding?

ambiguoustimes: Maddie the Coonhound.

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:19:45 -0700

ambiguoustimes:

Maddie the Coonhound.

Photo

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:58:34 -0700

A video I found about living on your own - and what may or may...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:39:00 -0700

A video I found about living on your own - and what may or may not be normal. I do a few of these things despite not living alone!

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:45:09 -0700

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

- Anais Nin

Never miss papaya

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:19:39 -0700

This past weekend I took my annual trip to Hawaii to visit my dear Nana who has recently turned 99 years old! Here are a few images from my trip:

I asked my Nana what her secret was to living a healthy, strong and long life. I figured the best advice would come from a 99 year old woman who still lives on her own and is completely sane. Her response: Never miss papaya.

For us doomed mainland residents who don’t have access to fresh, ripe papaya, what have you been told the key to a long life is?

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:40:18 -0700

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

Yummies

Wed, 09 May 2012 18:10:02 -0700

Oh dear, it should be a crime to look so yummy!

I have come across yet another food blog that I love. Above is an image of banana bread crepe cake with butterscotch. I know. The title alone is enough to make drool fall onto my keyboard.

Enough said - I believe I will need to invest in this cookbook, written and photographed by Deb Perelman, the author of the blog.

This video made me laugh. We have all been there.

Sat, 05 May 2012 11:01:52 -0700

This video made me laugh. We have all been there.

"I hope the sun shines And it’s a beautiful day And something reminds you You wish you had stayed"

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:39:00 -0700

“I hope the sun shines
And it’s a beautiful day
And something reminds you
You wish you had stayed”

- Taylor Swift

Patience

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:26:52 -0700

Michael Mape’s photo collages make me think one thing: my god that guy has patience!

He uses pins, vials, and gel caps to piece together various photos of a subject to form a final piece.

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:05:07 -0700

“It takes nothing to join the crowd.
It takes everything to stand alone.”

- Hans F Hansen

"If I’d followed all the rules I’d never have gotten anywhere"

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:19:44 -0700

“If I’d followed all the rules I’d never have gotten anywhere”

- Marilyn Monroe

International food etiquette rules

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:20:54 -0700

I stumbled across this interesting article from Budget Travel on 15 International Food Etiquette Rules That Might Surprise You. I pulled some of the ones I found most interesting to share with you.

Don’t eat anything, even fries, with your hands at a meal in Chile.

Manners here are a little more formal than many other South American countries. So while it might be the most practical to just pick up those fries with your fingers, don’t do it.

In China, don’t flip the fish.

Although you might be used to flipping over a whole fish once you’ve finished one side, don’t—at least not when you’re in China, especially southern China and Hong Kong. That’s because flipping the fish is dao yue in Chinese, a phrase similar to “bad luck.”

In Italy, drink a cappuccino only before noon.

Some Italians say that a late-day cappuccino upsets your stomach, others that it’s a replacement for a meal (it’s common to have just a cappuccino, or a cappuccino and a croissant, for breakfast). Either way, you won’t see Italians ordering one in a café at 3 p.m.—and certainly not after a big dinner. Do so, and you’ll be instantly branded a tourist. If you need that coffee fix, though, an espresso is fine.

At a traditional feast in Georgia, it’s rude to sip your wine.

At what Georgians call a supra (traditional feast), wine is drunk only at toasts. So wait for those… and then down the whole glass at once. On the upside, the glasses tend to be on the small side.

In Japan, never stick your chopsticks upright in your rice.

Between bites, your chopsticks should be placed together right in front of you, parallel to the edge of the table—and nowhere else. If there is a chopsticks rest, you use it, putting the tips you’ve been eating with on the rest. But sticking them upright in a bowl of rice is even worse: During funerals in Japan, the rice bowl of the deceased is placed before their coffin… with their chopsticks upright in the rice.

Have you broken any of these rules? What food etiquette rule gets broken by tourists the most where you live?

Muir Woods National Park

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:55:13 -0700

"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:13:52 -0700

“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”

- Albert Einstein