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Not One More: "SUBURBIA."

SUBURBIA from Antonio Oreña-Barlin on Vimeo .

The Tactile World of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection

Hands of Bresson from kogonada on Vimeo . A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection. // criterion.com Music: Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 20, D. 959 (used in Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar)

one mother, two daughters: Portrait photography

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Happy Birthday, Anne.

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Steve from Blues Clues sings "I want to be your Alpha Male" Pretty sure this isn't a joke.

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(Ask any mom of a college-bound teen: We are all still slightly in love with Steve from Blues Clues. And consider "Joe" little more than a tacky poser.)

It takes a superhero to change lives: We call her Mom: -- Zooey, Issue #20, May 2014

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Honor of a lifetime!  A feature in  ZOOEY magazine  by who? By yours truly. But, if anyone considers what I've done in the superhero status because of the food allergy activism I've done, or the work I've gone to from having a child with a peanut allergy, has no idea how easy I've had things compared to so many other parents of much more allergic kids.  I've had it easy. The feature is about my journey raising a child with a severe peanut allergy.  And it's just a taste of what my book is about.  I have been working on a book about everything I've learned in my seven years of founding and administrating a very active, fast-growing support  group of nearly 6,000 thousand people called  Parents Of Kids With A Severe Peanut Allergy .  A group of parents who find themselves in the very same boat of being new parents at the same time they also find themselves unexpectedly saddled with the additional burden that their beloved child can die...

Days Of Heaven. Opening scene

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Perfect opening monologue. I've never forgotten this young actress's voice and the way her rough, honest, simple delivery sets up the rest of the film so powerfully.  It's rare you can use a vocal quality to set a naturalistic tone for an entire film like Malick does with this one.