Things that just come to mind ~curly thoughts ni joy
Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step — at least for their generation — of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens.
“Take one hour a day and turn that thing off,” Schmidt told graduates at Boston University, where he received an honorary degree and was applauded by an audience that had grown up relying on the technology company’s search engine, e-mail and other services.
“Take your eyes off that screen and look into the eyes of the person you love. Have a conversation, a real conversation,” Schmidt said.
”(via onceaprincess)
For Charlie Challenge #19
http://youmeandcharlie.com/charlie/charlie-challenge-day-19/
Drapes on our living room window.
Dear Joy,
I know that you will be turning 27 in less than 24 hours and I’m very happy that your soul have now caught up with your real age. I know the dream last night was a bit happy but to a certain degree annoying, and maybe it is the universe’s way of saying that you can finally move on.
Your life has always been peppered by challenges and you take things as they are as they happen from day to day. Know that you are always loved by your family and at the end of the day, you will always have a place to come home to.
You may not be the best person when it comes to cleaning messes up or just keeping it cool and simple though you try – too hard maybe. Accept the fact that there are things that are out of your control and you were meant to take on the challenges of life in a responsive way. Do not blame yourself solely for things that you never wanted to happen.
People will get hurt, but always be honest with yourself. Know that you are loved and who cares if people took you for granted for so long with each person taking 2 years or more worth of your time. What matters is you have loved and you know what it means to show and experience what great love can be.
I know you can always be a hopeless romantic and that people take advantage of that from you but never stop believing in the good things in life. Always, always remember that the desire for happiness is more important than the need for pain. Everyone deserves to be happy and that includes you.
Lastly, love and respect yourself as your father did for you as his daughter. Never let anyone trample on your humanity and even if they get the best out of your feelings, know that you continue to make a difference in the world.
Never give up and fly high! =)
Best of luck,
Kay
Silver lime
This unusual and highly attractive wand wood was greatly in vogue in the nineteenth century. Demand outstripped supply, and unscrupulous wandmakers dyed substandard woods in an effort to fool purchasers into believing that they had purchased silver lime. The reasons for these wands’ desirability lay not only in their unusually handsome appearance, but also because they had a reputation for performing best for Seers and those skilled in Legilimency, mysterious arts both, which consequently gave the possessor of a silver lime wand considerable status. When demand was at its height, wandmaker Arturo Cephalopos claimed that the association between silver lime and clairvoyance was ‘a falsehood circulated by merchants like Gerbold Ollivander (my own grandfather), who have overstocked their workshops with silver lime and hope to shift their surplus.’ But Cephalopos was a slipshod wandmaker and an ignoramus, and nobody, Seer or not, was surprised when he went out of business.
Phoenix
This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike.
Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.
