I am beyond excited about this film. As a devotee of the book as a child, I have been reading it to my own son for about the past year. His imagination is very wild, so the illulstrations sometimes ’scare’ him, but I just know that once he sees this film, [...]
March 27, 2009
Categories: Inspiration . Tags: children, film, where the wild things are . Author: Justine . Comments: Leave a Comment
So on Monday of last week, as we drove home from a swim in my sister-in-law’s pool… my son bursts into uncontrollable fits of sobbing. It scared me so I pulled over and asked him in a panic “what’s wrong?!?!”
In between sobs and sniffs, he tells me that he doesn’t want to kill animals anymore [...]
February 2, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Life . Tags: children, Life, no meat, vegetarian . Author: Justine . Comments: 3 Comments
I’ve wanted to go skydiving since I was about 18. At that time I dated a guy that was a bit of an adrenalin junkie and so I think very early on I got an appreciation for the high one can get when taking a bit of a risk.
I’ve put it off for no other [...]
January 18, 2009
Categories: 101 Things Update, Inspiration . Tags: 101 Things, parachute, skydive, skydiving . Author: Justine . Comments: 3 Comments
It’s been hard to keep up with my RSS reader over the Christmas break, we spent much of it away from computers and while I had my little fix of Facebook for mobile and caught up on a couple of my favourite blogs via the web browser on my blackberry, the service where I was [...]
January 9, 2009
Categories: Faith, Inspiration, Life . Tags: buddhism, buddhist, consequences . Author: Justine . Comments: 1 Comment
This is not actually a reflection on my year that was 2008. That is all here already, in the posts on this blog. This is more for the people I cherish who have had a totally different 2008 to me. Those that have had battles and challenges they never saw coming, and that will leave [...]
December 23, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Life . Tags: 2008, challenges, friends, inspirational people, Life . Author: Justine . Comments: Leave a Comment