Image courtesy Stock Exchange (Elise McLaughlin)

Taking a hint from Justine, I’m going to take a break from blogging for awhile, at least until I have something intelligent to write. At least until I have an extensive post to write, as well (these one paragraph posts about my life and my work are tiring).

While I’m away, might I suggest some of the sites I visit daily? They’re all I’ve needed to keep informed for some time:

1. The Seattle Times
2. Mike Davidson’s blog (of Newsvine.com fame)
3. Newsvine.com
4. Kelly Smith (of Curious Office / Imagekind.com fame)

See you outside.

My religious beliefs differ (in some areas, greatly, in others, slightly), but I feel all Martin Luther tonight. This is not about religion, however. It’s about the future, and never saying “die.”

Over at divinecaroline.com, there’s a post about wedding photos we’ll all remember. This is a great list of photos that are humorous in their candidness.

Of course, I think the photos that Sean Flanigan took of our wedding came out great, including the fantastic candids (the majority of his photos could be classified as either candid or ‘in the moment,’ a feature I love about his style). Tasia and Jemma took the cake for the finger-in-the-nose shot (above).

As I’ve posted before, I spend part of my week reading up on the life of Riverbend (at the Baghdad Burning blog). Today, a new post appeared with what I can only describe as a heartbreaking statement:

The first evening we arrived, exhausted, dragging suitcases behind us, morale a little bit bruised, the Kurdish family sent over their representative – a 9 year old boy missing two front teeth, holding a lopsided cake, “We’re Abu Mohammed’s house- across from you- mama says if you need anything, just ask- this is our number. Abu Dalia’s family live upstairs, this is their number. We’re all Iraqi too… Welcome to the building.”

I cried that night because for the first time in a long time, so far away from home, I felt the unity that had been stolen from us in 2003.

That paragraph came at the end of her most recent post on moving to Syria, and admitting that she and her family are now refugees.

Why does the world tolerate our war?