Month: November 2015

(Exhausted) pleasant person speaking

Don’t know about you, but when I’m feeling tired and over scheduled I can become overly sensitive and a tad emotional. Finding myself there this week, I lashed out unnecessarily at one of my colleagues. I have since apologised. Took me six days to do so. Two spent personally justifying my behaviour, two determining a solution to the situation that caused my reaction in the first place and two more recognising the impact my actions might have had on the greater team.

Thing is, I’d let myself down. I had failed to live by my personal charter of being a positive influence, a level headed, calm, collected role model for the team. Yep. Time to apologise. And I thank Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) for that. Why? Flipping through an old Frankie magazine I came across several quotes for which she is famed:

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HONY – a celebration of individuality

A celebration of individuality…

Strangers. New York strangers to be exact. Their stories and portraiture both heartfelt and moving. A celebration of individuality, a window on the world…I was curious for more. Friends, thrilled to be owners of the then newly released, now best selling Humans of New York  ignited this thirst and soon I was stalking Brandon Stanton as he continued collecting portraits from New York and now over 20 additional countries including Iran, Iraq and Pakistan.

A window on the world…

tumblr_mah6wc8a6R1qfiubfBrandon set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers back in 2010. Along the way he started collecting short stories and little quotes from the people he met to add to their portraits.

Beautiful, funny, poignant, fascinating…Brandon shared the stories and images on his blog Humans of New York and, being the blog hunter and gatherer that I am, just had to join the 8 million plus followers. The concept has since inspired similar blogs around the world and I’m simply brimming with voyeuristic joy.

A droplet in an ocean of humanity…

 

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