Wednesday, August 24, 2011

sponge.


"It's frightening at times to think that you are shaping someone's life and who they will become. Often I hear Ruby using one of my expressions, or doing an unfortunate dance move that she learned from me and I'm reminded that she is a sponge, taking it all in, and each moment big or small molds who she is."

It's true, it's some scary stuff.  

*photograph of Jeanne Williams, by Kelly Stuart. via The Glow.
(Do you know The Glow? Where rich, beautiful and occasionally vapid mothers are photographed and interviewed with their small, beautiful and sometimes scared-looking  children in their huge, perfect, immaculately styled homes? It's simultaneously wonderful and terrible. 


 

12 comments:

  1. i think i found out about the glow from you. at least, i blame you for my mini-obsession.

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  2. simultaneously wonderful and terrible indeed. I keep being drawn back to it but I'm still not sure that I like it...

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  3. Thanks for that. Love and hate it!

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  4. oooh, so drawn to reading 'the glow' - so fascinating!

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  5. in this house, there's no hope for cheech's *vocabulary*. oh well, there are worse things.

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  6. RE The Glow: "My most humbling parenting moment so far was realizing Stella should go to preschool in the fall and that admission deadlines were six months ago. We ended up getting really lucky." Lauren Moffet - Wow! that level of humbletude certainly puts Gandhi and Mother Teresa to shame. Who are these awful people with their utter lack of self-awareness?! And breathe....

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  7. yes, that must be scary. i imagine that stopping yourself from swearing must be hard once you have kids. x

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  8. I know it's wrong but I can't help but love it. Kinda makes me feel a bit dirty afterwards though. x

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  9. I'm really glad you posted this. I've looked at it on more than one occasion because, well , it's shot in a great way but I can never shake the feeling that's it's all a little perverted. The right word is vapid for sure.

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  10. "It's simultaneously wonderful and terrible." TOTALLY

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  11. I discovered The Glow a few weeks ago and that was pretty much my take on it too.

    http://talkingtounicorns.blogspot.com/2011/07/glow.html

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play nice.