October 2016 archive

Calm down. Don’t think about— Don’t think.

One day when I was talking to a neighbour about something that I wished we could do something about—someone tossing their garbage out of their car onto the road where we walk every day, someone letting their kid drive a dirt bike with no muffler throughout the neighbourhood, someone burning leaves and sending toxic smoke …

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The 100, Madam Secretary, Code Black

If you haven’t yet discovered it, check out The 100 (available on Netflix). There are so many female leaders and principals!  Clarke, her mother, Raven, Octavia, the three grounder leaders… And in one episode, not only does Clarke do something really difficult and really important with Finn, the camera ends with a close-up of her, …

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