Sounds of Sunday: Harry Baker Part II

A few more by the awesome Harry Baker...







Maybe I will stop bombarding you with these now...

Blue Eyes xx

Bookshelves

My friend recently recommended this amazing site:

Bookshelves

I can't bring myself to type the actual title of the website and have it on my blog! Sorry guys!

Anyway, it has some amazing quotes such as...

A house is not a home without at least one bookshelf full of books.


Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends money on books not clothes. She has problems with closet space because of too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.


I have gone through the pictures and picked the bookshelves that I want at my house! I want a circular one that I can sit in (amazing) and one above me that requires a ladder to reach the books (also amazing).

I fear I may becoming addicted to this site in the same way that I am addicted to reading...

Feeling rather bookish,
Blue Eyes xx

40 of the most powerful photographs ever taken

If you only look at one website today then please let it be this one:

40 of the most powerful photographs ever taken

 A few of those pictures filled my eyes with tears. :'(

 Blue Eyes xx

No more crying!

You will be glad to know that the crying at work has stopped. Yay! I basically just needed to stand up for myself to my new boss and clear up some miscommunications. My job is never going to be 'easy' or stress free, however it is definitely manageable thanks to some of the amazing people I have met in my short seven months in the job. I know plenty of people who will stand up for me (and stand up to me which is something I respect a lot), many of them have already stood up for me in meetings I haven't even been at. At least two have fought for me and I've only heard about it third hand, days after the meeting. That makes me feel loved and important and valued.

I 'got my elbows out' as one of my colleagues would say and I fought myself onto some more exciting work. When I say 'fought my way onto', I mean I went directly to my director (he is my boss's boss's boss) and said that I needed to improve my skillset in a particular area (finance) because I want to do a finance role next year. He's a great guy and recommended that I get involved with a particular project, he spoke to the guy running the project and voila, here I am. I will be working with a new group of people one day a week - the other four I will still be working on my current project - on this new project. It's an interesting one (well, for me anyway, I'm a bit of a nerd...) and I'm glad to have a new challenge.

So, generally work is going well which is good. I need to book a few holidays though...hmmm...where should I go?!

Blue Eyes xx

Monday Musings XIII

A Teen's Brave Response to "I'm a Christian. Unless you're gay"
I think this is actually a pretty powerful article and worth a read.

The Young Danes Undaunted by Europe's Problems
Danish teenagers seem to have a different perspective on the current education system.

Push the Red Button
Hilarious. Nuff said.

I Found Your Camera
I love the idea behind this website and there more publicity it gets, the better.

Premier Christian Broadcasting - Unbelievable? The Conference 2012

Not Quite A Teen, Yet Sold for Sex
Truly horrible. I don't think that things like this happen in 'developed' countries. Clearly I'm wrong.

Blue Eyes xx

Sounds of Sunday: Harry Baker

This guy is amazing. I saw him perform at the YouthWork Summit on Saturday 19th May and thought I would share some of his amazing tunes/poetry with you. Amazing.







What do you think?

Blue Eyes xx

Satish Kumar

I heard Satish Kumar speak last week. He came and did a lunchtime seminar for the economists that work in my office (and, despite not being an economist, I wheedled myself in...). He is the vice-president of the RSPCA, Editor-in-chief of Resurgence magazine, regular contributor to Radio 4 and is famous for completing an 8,000 mile peace walk. 

To find out more about him check out his Wiki page here.

Some of his ideas and thoughts are pretty out there, and there were many cynics in the room. However, he seemed like a great guy with a real compassion for humanity and an inherent ability to see the best in people.

I will leave you with a famous quote of his that I really like...

"Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept."

Thinking,

Blue Eyes xx