dimanche 8 janvier 2012

not my thing / pas mon truc

this, which i've already variously passed on, seems most appropriate today on the occasion of my birthday...
(in which i celebrate, as i always say, not my great age but the day i was born!)

I used to be old like you
too, but it's not my thing.

HAPPY BDAY 2ME / THE TIGER by JOHN VAILLANT



today is my birthday, i wanted, out of john vaillant's THE TIGER
, to extract a quote - at random from pages i'd marked, this, tribute to phenomenal, sturdy life...


... All of these men were seasoned animal skinners; nonetheless, as they worked, they commented often on the smell and on how amazingly tough the tiger's hide was. When they opened the chest cavity, the heart was steaming.


don't know about smell but i too have amazingly tough skin, as they's found out when i've had to minorly be stitched up (not with staples made out of tin can as some man in this book, after encounter with TIGER)
tbc

dimanche 1 janvier 2012

photo de photos de famille 2 /pour bi

bonne année! happy new year!

from the "occupy / indignés" crowd, a quote from a banner in Spain

"Il veulent nous empêcher de rêver,
on va les empêcher de dormir."

"They don't want to let us dream,
we're not going to let them sleep."

seems as good a way to greet the year as any - though others may come to mind in due time...

love to all