Thoughtful Tuesday

I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. — Toni Morrison

Thoughtful Tuesday

If you feel that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to a world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, ‘The world is quiet here,’ as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
— Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

Thoughtful Tuesday

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Friday Find

Arthur Darvill’s (Doctor Who’s Rory Williams) mother Ellie Darvill voiced and manipulated the Why Bird puppet on the popular BBC children’s programme Playdays

Thoughtful Tuesday

Be good to yourself, be excellent to others, and do everything with love.
— John Wolf,

Wouldn't it be great if I had a super cool reason for not updating, like I'd been on an amazing journey through unexplored wildernesses without internet access, or I'd been involved in a top secret government project on which I was not allowed to report even the slightest detail? That would make this entry much better. I'd be useless in a wilderness, though, and I don't know what I would bring to any government project, aside from being quite good with Google, but they probably have a lot of people who can do that. I do however have many excuses/ reasons for being a rubbish blogger, including but not limited to, feeling like I don’t have much of interest/importance to say at the moment or when inspiration does strike I don’t seem to have the time to sit down and write about it. Still I like having a space to say it if they ever do align. I don't particularly want to abandon it or anything and I do enjoy reading the blogs of all the people I follow so I suppose for now I'll just keep appearing sporadically.
In the spirit of what’s gone before I’m easing myself back in with a quick meme:

I was unofficially tagged by Kristin at http://mylifeasateacup.blogspot.co.uk


Here are the questions if you want to play along as well!
1. What is your name
2. Blog URL
3. Write: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4. Favourite quote
5. Favourite book (at the moment)
6. Favourite band/singers (at the moment)
7. Say anything you want
8. Tag 3-5 bloggers

Thoughtful Tuesday

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton