And Then, There Are Times
“She makes the sound, the sound the sea makes to calm me down”
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Movie Recipes
And another great campaign (Thanks Carlitos 🙂 ):
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Superheroes
Tadahiro Kanemasu is a Japanese man who dresses up in a Power Rangers suit for two hours every day and helps strangers down to a subway platform in Tokyo. He carries strollers and heavy objects down the stairs in his costume. He says that Japanese people find it hard to accept help, they feel obligated to the other person, so the mask helps him out. Kanemasu is now looking to expand his hero service, hoping to recruit others in different colored Ranger suits : )
A few weeks ago, I was talking about the country’s current political situation with my co-worker Sara and then she pauses and says: “Do you know what we need?”. Now, Sara is an opinionated girl, and I love listening to her theories, so I waited for the end of her sentence, which I believed had the  long-awaited solution to Lebanon’s intricate problems… And she says “We need a Batman”, “Someone  who will anonymously fight for the good”. Weirdly enough, it made complete sense : ) Now we just gotta find him.
“So give me hope in the darkness and I will see the light
Cause oh they gave me such a fright”
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It Will Make You Free
” ‘no’  might make them angry; but it will make you free.”- Nayyirah Waheed
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You Feel Like a Kid Still
“Guess we’re still kids on the run.”
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I’ll Leave The Door Unlocked
By a man with OCD, about love and OCD.
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The World Still Holds These Details
“Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you.
By marshaling your attention to these words, helpfully framed in a distinct border of white, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses: the hum of the fluorescent lights, the ambient noise in a large room, the places your chair presses against your legs or back, your tongue touching the roof of your mouth, the tension you are holding in your shoulders or jaw, the map of the cool and warm places on your body, the constant hum of traffic or a distant lawn-mower, the blurred view of your own shoulders and torso in your peripheral vision, a chirp of a bug or whine of a kitchen appliance.
(…) Part of normal human development is learning to notice less than we are able to. The world is awash in details of color, form, sound — but to function, we have to ignore some of it. The world still holds these details.” -Horowitz (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/)
A few weeks ago, I was in the garden of a friend in the mountains having a conversation with another friend. He made me stop talking in the middle of a heated debate to challenge me at counting the different sounds around us and at guessing what they were (he was probably trying to gear the attention away from the debate) (and it worked). And so we spent at least ten minutes alternating complete silence with analysis of the sounds. I must admit, those were very weird ten minutes. But quite fun nonetheless.
We would gain a lot by switching on our curious eyes in familiar places. The eyes that usually function only when we travel, the ones that notice small details, question, analyze and realize.
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Smail of the Day 
