Pink and navy are a terrific summer color combination. Here are two outfits featuring a navy sleeveless blouse and a pink polka dot cardigan. I like that the sleeveless quality ensures no awkward bunching under the cardigan arm, but the blouse has a bit of a flounce along the edge of the armhole so if you take off the cardigan, you're not wearing a tank top or something at work. Of course, people at my workplace are quite happy to wear tank tops and worse in the summer, and the HR people we share a floor with really lead the way. For example, one woman was wearing a sundress (the kind that is basically a strapless dress but with tiny straps over the shoulder) and flip flops. Sigh.
Tuesday, 5/22/18
Long pants that suit the spring weather and a floral scarf for some pattern mixing.
OCPW: $15.47
Monday, 7/16/18
With capri pants and a necklace for warm weather. It was 82 freaking degrees in my office when I got to work (it can get quite bad over the weekend while the A/C is turned off, but this is the hottest indoor day yet) so I ended up dumping the cardigan within about 5 minutes. I'm not sure that I put it on again for the rest of the day. But it looked nice as I drove to work, walked across the parking lot, and took the elevator up to my office, right?
OCPW: $10.21
This ibis is rocking the bright pink with specks of white very well. The Simmons Aviary at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha was pretty terrific--an exhibit where you can "see more than 500 birds in the world's second largest free-flight aviary." This made me curious about where the world's largest free flight aviary is, and came across this discussion. It appears that Simmons might actually be third (as of 2016), behind the ones at Birds of Eden in South Africa (5.7 acres) and Jurong Bird Park in Singapore (4.9 acres). Both of those zoos sound like fabulous places to visit. Maybe someday.
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| Henry Doorly Zoo |
In other news...I enjoyed this (not overly technical) article about What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read to Them based on a recent neuroscience study in which four year old kids' brains were scanned with a functional MRI machine while they were presented with an audio story (no pictures), the illustrated pages of a storybook with an audio voiceover (the condition that mimics a child being read to from a book), or an animated cartoon. The storybook with voiceover condition led to the highest levels of connectivity among the visual perception, imagery, default mode (used for internal reflection), and language networks of the brain.
The takeaway:
In an ideal world, you would always be there to read to your child. The results of this small, preliminary study also suggest that, when parents do turn to electronic devices for young children, they should gravitate toward the most stripped-down version of a narrated, illustrated ebook, as opposed to either audio-only or animation.
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