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Taken at the Bronx Zoo in the skyrail, haha.

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Okay, so this one isn't quite... fitting, or really that spectacular of a photo, or anything. However, I always feel like people miss the point of horseback riding - to be able to work together with a horse to achieve a common goal, whether that be getting somewhere or jumping a fence or even simply just being one with another being.

So why is it we find the need to be the one dominating over the "beast" here? They're clearly not aiming for the same direction, with her tripping the horse just to get her way.

This post at Lifehack about stand-up desks caught my eye. I've found myself working this way at home recently -- we have a jelly cupboard in our library that's about the perfect height for me, and since it's in the middle of our first-floor is the perfect place to check e-mail or work on a project and still keep an eye on the kids. I've also found it to be more comfortable than sitting because a) after a day of sitting I'm ready to stand for a while and b) chasing and lifting a 1-year-old is hell on the back. It's a barebones setup that's nothing like the desk that Lifehack found -- just a laptop, a mouse and a power cord -- but it's been working for me.

On Friday, on the second page of Le Monde appeared a cartoon that portrayed both of the major candidates of the presidential elections on stage in front of their electorate, Royal crying 14 juillet, les bannières - FRANCE CHERIE - Marseillaises en coeur, Sarkozy declaring Préservons bien nos frontières - NOTRE PATRIE - plus français que moi tu meurs and a prompter crying out NATIONALISME out of his hole in the floor.

The event that entered me into adulthood was a negative one with my father that I turned into positive. It was about me not being good enough. I think that the saying "What doensn't kill you only makes you stronger" is extremely true because even negative experiences can be turned into positive ones. I think it's interesting that a quote that seems so off topic can relate so strongly to what forced me to grow up and introduced me to a wider frame of reference which in acutality has forced me to realize what my american dream is that the “American Dream

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