pan = all

So with all the pandemic news on the go I started wondering what pan meant. The most common search results are about the Greek god but looking up 'pandemic' in wikipedia gave me a the answer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic). And it shone new light on words like pandemonium, panorama, I love it.

Yay words!

Jane

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Map please!

I love maps. I have a strange compulsion to memorize maps of places I'll be going. When we were in Disney Land we never needed to haul out the guidebook because I always knew where we were. Although sometimes, we took it out anyways because Alex didn't believe me :P

So, anyways, if some omniscient being would like to provide me with a rough map and/or hour by hour schedule of the rest of my life I would gladly memorize and follow it to the letter.

Because life scares me sometimes what with all the gaping possibilities and complete lack of directions.


Thx,
Jane

Kumari

I was browsing through the April Around the World photo gallery on CBC (www.cbc.ca/photogallery/world/2112) and was struck by the 23rd pic. It's of a Kumari, a living goddess in Nepal, she is a young child who after a selection process becomes a goddess and is one until she gets her first period (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kumari).

I was fascinated by the stunning costume and makeup as well as the idea of being a living goddess and how it must feel to return to the everyday mortal world.

I have to find the book 'From Goddess to Mortal' by a former Kumari, Rashmila Shakya.

Jane

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So curves are 'in' now

I just read an article on Times Online about how curves are now in. However, they certainly don't mean curves from 'extra' weight because several women they mention certainly aren't big. Basically a different body type is the new hotness; if you don't have hips you're out. What they fail to recognize is that there are many body types! It's not like we can change our body type at will; I will never have big boobs and my mother will never spontaneously grow my hips. That is life folks. It's called your phenotype. Tada.

Also, this is probably the most ridiculous line in the article, apparently I (being half curvey) cannot wear jeans and a T-shirt because I'll look like "the big girl who doesn't quite have what it takes." Oh no, High School is invading grown up world again.

Jane

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