Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 41

who and what and why

"We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are."

–Madeline L'Engle (1918-2007)

water for schools

One photo shows a boy in Ethiopia. The other a boy in the USA. The bottles show the quality of water they have to drink. No prize for guessing whose bottle is whose.

Half of all schools around the world, have no access to clean water. This autumn Charity: water is launching Water for Schools--a student-led campaign to bring clean safe drinking water to at least 100 schools in developing nations in the first year. It'll take $2M to get there so they'll need everyone's help to do it...

find out h...

Red and Orange Streak

"Red and Orange Streak" (1919), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)
(from the exhibition "Abstraction" at the Whitney)

As Holland Cotter in the NYT said, there are two Georgia O'Keeffes. The most familiar is the who does all those cow skulls and flower paintings. I am sure it reveals me as an ignoramus, but I've never much liked them.

The other O'Keeffe is the abstract painter. Her abstract works are, to me, much more interesting. But they are mostly overlooked and it's the flowers that she's known f...

coney island rides

PHOTO: polaroid transfer

wonder

"The World does not lack for wonders,
but only for wonder."

–G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

The last Welsh-born true Prince of Wales

Today, 16 September, in 1400, Owain Glyndwr, was proclaimed Prince of Wales. He was the last truly Welsh-born Prince of Wales...

Here's part 1 of a great BBC documentary about this hero. An intellectual, cultured, Prince who reluctantly led his countrymen to war against England in the 15th century and came so close to achieving a remarkable transformation of his country.



Makes a girl extra proud of her Welsh ancestry.

But what I want to know is... why is he so NOT well known? When we've all hea...

Andrew Peterson's book: North or Be Eaten!

Unless you want lyrical, musical language, do you? You're in...

Bomu Medical Center, Mombassa, Kenya

Recently my friend Naomi from the wonderful children's charity, Project Sunshine, visited Kenya and brought books to build the library of Bomu Medical Center in Mombasa, which serves over 2,300 children and families living with HIV.

To help build their library, one of the books they brought along was Being a Pig is Nice (seen in this photo below with Project Sunshine volunteers in the Project Sunshine playroom). How cool is that?

For me it's especially cool because I was born in East Africa a...

remembering... 8 years on

More photos of the towers before the attacks here

fabulousness to share...

I finally got to meet Jago (the fabulous illustrator) last month in Cornwall. Read more here.

And if it's all not too exciting for you, then there's also this:


The brand new sparkly JESUS STORYBOOK BIBLE website just went live and if you head over there you can download free mp3s of the upcoming audio (read by David--Hercule Poirot--Suchet!) and win books, enter sweepstakes, do Q&A with Jago, David, and all kinds of other lovely stuff like that.

And... not only that... but ... steady yourselves....