Konfetti Explorations
Konfetti Explorations
Marisabel
Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.
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My daughter is in her Frozen period, and she is obsessed with "Do you want to be a snowman" song. I keep telling her not to put it on... (she can use spotify) because I keep crying at the thought of a child growing up all by herself...
Het lichtend schermpje van de mobiel belooft de kortste weg. Neem die niet! Weersta de verleiding van de kortste weg. Anders heb je voor je het weet je doel bereikt. En daar sta je dan, spijtig om alles waaraan je bent voorbijgegaan....
Whenever I see passages in Sonia's writing, I can't help but wonder if the writer wrote from own experience.
Oh, how could he have forgotten that love, when it arrives, arrives always twinned to its destructive force, as inevitably as God and devil, life and death, home and the leaving of it; that information collected during sweeter moments...
Just came back from my very first in-person bookclub. And maybe it's the optimistic romantic in me, but I think i finally found my tribe!Looking forward to next month! #books #bookclubThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Life In contrast to September, October was like a long stroll along a fiery park noticing the changing of the season, mother nature dressing up in her best red gown, for her big night, before her slumber. With the growing darkness,...
By May, Vermont had entered its fragile season, the trans- parent speckled time of honeysuckle and cloudberries, of spring rain falling in polka dots, which triggered and spun the scent of lilacs and hatched them into clusters of stars.
Sonia considered the enticement of white people by route of peacocks, monsoons, exotic-spice bazaars—exotic to whom? you might ask—but there was legitimate concern over how India would be perceived in the larger world, the fear that...
Bragging alert:My toddler, who turns 3 at the end of December, just read her first word! VOS ( Dutch for 'fox' ) #parenting #proud Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
"Yes, that doesn't make sense, he said. "Should we get up and eat strawberry jam for happiness?" I just love how this character talks!
"I thought Mexico was a country where I could be happy and it wouldn't be a tawdry happiness. I could be miserable and I could as- sume a noble misery. The tragic is elevated in a way it isn't over here, and happiness must necessarily...
I suppose I reached the peak of my Dutchness when I saw this on a reddit ad, and my reaction was "oh rot op!". Hallo werkend Nederland. Ga je eens wat netter kleden! #life #Nederland #DutchThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply...
Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.
I enjoyed reading this. It helped realize I am not alone, and my defenses are reasonable. I figured I would share my strategy for those wondering what to do. Defending my Digital Home I am a mama bear. I don’t allow anyone to disrupt...
I started a linked data catalogue experiment, and it is so pretty! #books #cataloguing #library #data #linked_dataThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.