"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence....When I was ten, I read fairytales in ( Read more... )

Just a quick thing before the professor arrives: "I still feel a sense of indeterminate but infinite possibility on entering a lift, particularly a small one with white walls. That to date the doors that have opened have always done so in the same time, and world, and even the same building in which I started out seems merely fortuitous - evidence ( Read more... )

We'll start with a quote: To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
ee cummings

I picked up some protection charms for the kids, from Maria. Though it's so hard to make sure Clara has these things... ( Read more... )

In non-Registration news, it seems that Jedi isn't. But he is good with kids. Go figure. And I got jelly babies from that female Doctor, who seems to think I'm too young to be Alured's mom. I keep trying to remind myself that someday it'll be a compliment.

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