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Rettelle qualifies for prestigious Ironman event
Having recently qualified to compete in next year's Ironman Triathlon World Championship is tremendously fulfilling for Midland's Maggie Rettelle.
But what means even more to Rettelle are the people and the opportunities who helped her achieve this lofty goal, and the qualities of gratitude and compassion that she says are cultivated through multi-sport training.
Rettelle won the 45-49 female division at Ironman Chattanooga in Tennessee on Sept. 30 with a time of 9 hours, 33 minutes, 27 seconds.
Rettelle -- a mother of three, a clinical nutrition manager at St. Mary's of Michigan and the head girls' track and field coach at Dow High School -- finished the grueling competition 1 minute, 8 seconds ahead of second-place Marcella Rietz, who competed in last year's World Championship.
An Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a 26.2-mile run, or marathon.
With her first-place finish, Rettelle -- who has completed one Ironman in each of the past five years -- earned an automatic berth in the Ironman World Championship on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
"I really trained hard for Chattanooga in 2016 and placed fourth in my age group," Rettelle said. "That was when I was like, 'Could I possibly get in the top two to get a slot in the World Championship?' Last year, I did Louisville (Ironman) and placed third and there were two slots (for the Ironman World Championship)."
Rettelle said that her discussions with fellow triathloners often center on the importance of being grateful and being kind.
"At the Ironman awards ceremony, (in conversations with) the women that you go up on the stage with, the main word that came out of all of it was 'gratitude,'" she said.
Rettelle said that she and Rietz, who is from Washington state, have a lot of friends in common through their involvement in the worldwide community of triathloners.
"She said that everyone (in the triathlon community) shows such compassion," Rettelle said.
Locally, Rettelle sees her Ironman achievement as a direct result of her involvement in Mid Michigan Multisport Racing Club (M3RC), which she joined six years ago at the time that she ran her first marathon.
"It's helped me recognize all the things I'm capable of that I never thought (I could do)," Rettelle said of the benefit of being a part of M3RC.
"If you don't know what you're doing, you have to find someone who is more experienced (to help you)," she explained. "That's how I learned (about multi-sport training), and along the way I gained a lot of friendships, too."
In addition to competing in triathlons, Rettelle has run the Boston Marathon five times. She finished 18th in the 45-49 female division in the 2018 Boston Marathon last April.
And in terms of her role as a track coach, Rettelle hopes that her achievements can inspire the young athletes that she coaches.
"I always joke with them that I'm the old lady still competing with them," she said. "It's really fun to share with them the future (potential) that they can have. And to see what great athletes and students they are is rewarding."


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'R for Resistance'. Or, how to approach those creative blocks, procrastination and doubts, that show up over and over again as we live our creative life.
Hurrah hurrah hurrah! 🎉🎊🎁
It's finally here!
I am absolutely delighted to announce that...drum roll please!...I have gone and launched 'The Creative Genius' on YouTube! 😘
Each week I will post a video as part of the series 'An A to Z guide to being a creative genius' xxx
Today, and because of my own faffing over the last month or so to actually DO IT, the episode is 'R for Resistance'. Or, how to approach those creative blocks, procrastination and doubts, that show up over and over again as we live our creative life.
No matter if you're an artist of any description, a company boss, a solo creative entrepreneur, or just often have this sense of malaise or 'meh!' as a background hum to your day to day life, you might find this video a lil inspiring.
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Can we separate art from the artist?
(The following is an exerpt from my article published (and editor's pick! :-)), over on Elephant Journal. You can read the full musings, titled 'Teenage Heartbreak all over again: Michael Jackson & the Falling of our Creative Genius Idols.', by clicking here xx)
"Sure. We can view a painting, hear a poem and piece of music, and be moved, inspired, touched, elated, emoted, and basically, react or respond, to it.
We can have an opinion. We can love it or hate it.
And none of that can have anything to do with its creator.
We might not even know who the artist was behind that particular piece that changed something for us, that lodged itself forever into our memory bank.
But knowing more about the creator can add new layers of understanding, new perspectives of context, and this can change the way we absorb and perceive their art.
Sometimes, irretrievably.
In lieu of the ongoing and shockingly sad revelations that are now pouring out into the light, concerning some of our beloved artists and "genius creators," the question becomes more urgently, not can we—but should we separate the art from the artist?
Betrayal breaks something.
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Because this is the betrayal that I'm palpably feeling right now, I'm naming the artist who has been spotlighted with startling incriminations these past few weeks—one of my childhood heroes, Michael Jackson...."
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How to deal with creative doubt.
D is for doubt.
Doubt has taken up residence and invited the fraudulent one for tea. They're eating rock cakes which are causing all their teeth to fall out, and they're pissing 'tea' outta their orifices! Quite frankly, they stink.
It's no irony in the grand scheme of things, of how life is the careful navigation between and betwixt the dualities that those yogic dudes once spouted about. Yeh. It's taken me twenty years, including one year of yoga teaching retirement, to finally get it. Tis all the dance of the opposites that causes so much trouble, tremble and thorny-ouched days as we pirouette the best we can through our creative lives.
You see, one of the diamonds of absolute clarity that has arisen since beginning a journey with the, (as I call her), 'business shaman', Kat Byles, is in finding my core message that fuels and runs through the intention of what 'The Creative Genius' (my creativity coaching business, keep up in the back loves!! ;-)) is about. It's a 'Fuck, YES!' to one's creativity, sexuality and life force. It's a no brainer for me and as anyone of you knows who has worked with me (or just simply live in my heart as my friend), making your life art, and your art life, is what I have breathed with conviction all of my life. It's me basically. And this 'Fuck, YES!' is a soft, heart fuelled, passionate, pleasurable, delicious, juicy, affirmation of your life. Of your self. Of your heart, and of your art.
Now, in standing at the edge of the unknown, at a new level of visibility, that involves all of me showing up, exposed, present, embodied, engaged, I have run straight into, the wall of resistance. That is, I have come up against my 'NO!'.
Of course.
I understand enough now that what we call in and ask for, which is always and already available to us, what we receive is everything that is in the way of that. You want love? Guaranteed all the ways you seek to hide from, repel, and/or dishonour love will show up. You want clarity? Here's a ginormous bundle of confusion for you to unravel! Asking for faith to show up? Well then let's count the ways suspicion, and turning away from miracles, plays out in your life!! Fun hey!!??? :-/. And so on, and so on.
So here's my 'NO!'. Oh let me count the ways:
Distraction. Check. Procrastination. Check. Perfectionism. Check. Avoidance. Double check. Comparison. Yuk, and Check. Judge. Check check check. Total an utter turning away in a kinda drugged sleep walking. Check mate.
Oh. Shit. :-(
If you resonate with any of the above then now would be a great time to holler 'me too' and send thumbs up my way. It ain't pretty but tis the truth.
The one who doubts is loving this. The bitch! And the fraudulent one. Well, she's gnashing her bleeding gums and looks simply delighted in the pointing out of how can I, the one who is saying 'No!' with such bells and whistles, hold space for others to find their 'YES!'. How ridiculous. As she says 'ridiculous' bright red spittle splays out. As you can imagine this isn't a terribly charming sight!!!
Part of me doesn't want to hear her and desires to sleep a thousand years and wait for Disney's sickly sweet and sugar coated Prince Charming to show up, kiss me whilst I sleep (which is well dodgy!!), and wake me from a life of slumber and responsibility! You see doubt, judge, and the fraudulent one (Fraulein Fraudulent!?? :-)), are bullies. And in believing their bullshit I become their victim.
Victim. Damn.
It just keeps getting better n better!! (Not!)
Let's see what's going on here shall we!? Time to face these miserable uncouth wretches spoiling my afternoon tea partying.
Am I a fraud?
I'm not. Though it may feel like it because I don't have my Americanised ultra smile and glossy hair on right now. Or ever for that matter. I'm a normal woman. Sensitive. Shy. Sweet. Who needs lots of stillness, space and silence otherwise she gets overwhelmed. And who often has a soupcon of tremor in her thigh, and a quiver of terror in the pit of her belly. Fine. These are familiars, and after a lifetime of letting them curtail my 'Yeses', they no longer pose a threat nor a roadblock to the excitement of the muse! :-)
Am I a fraud?
Guaranteed that whenever we stand at a gateway into the next steps of our true becoming any number of our old resistance mechanisms will kick in. It's scary. It's unknown and new. It's exciting but involves letting go of what we know. It's a surrender into. It's about trust. It's a game. It's growth. And if it's truly aligned with who we are, there's a level of uncertainty and thus vulnerability, that rises up to meet us. All of this equals a madcap rush of possible chaos and resistance. (And cake. Very possibly cake.)
If I'm to stand besides you, clear, strong, open, receptive, and trustworthy, then I'll have to have gone through this too. Not just once, but over and over and over again.
Am I a fraud?
What I'm stepping up to do is challenging that part that feels safer hiding away and behind. And yet this call feels oh so right. Alive. Exciting. Playful. And me. Because it feels so clear I am completely naked and raw, exposed and vulnerable. I choose this. I choose to step forwards deeper and wider and into the limitless possibility of the creative void. I choose to say yes to that which makes me feel joy. I choose to walk my talk, and shimmy my lithe limbs, and say 'here I am, here I am!'
Doubt and its annoying friends come in to meet us when we are on to something. When we no longer desire to live in a smallness that devalues and denies who we are. I believe more and more that the force of this resistance is in direct equal power to the force of our greatness. The dance between 'yes' and 'no', between 'life' and 'death', is an eternal waltz until our very last step!
As they say on many a show: Who wins? You decide :-)
Here are some practical tools (from the creative genius warriors rock 'n soul toolbox), to assist you if you find doubt, fraud and friends have come to tea unexpectedly!
*If you find that you have been gripped by the vice of 'NO!': Name it. Claim it. Voice it. So that it can no longer hide and rob you of your light and life. Most of the 'no' thoughts are designed to keep us small, and shame us. Shame's role is to hide us away, and keep us imprisoned. Say 'no way' to your captors. Turn to face them. Question their voice.
*Ask for help and support. No wo(man) is an island. The ego thinks so. The ego believes it doesn't need others. That's not the case. Our strength is in our togetherness. That's my new motto. It's very new for this lone wolf. Reach out to: Peers. Friends. Loved ones. Tribe. Professionals. Nature. Trees. Mountains. The sea. Your dog. Your cat. A terrific and fabulously real creativity coach! :-)
*Make a choice. A conscious choice. Do I desire to live in and from this 'no'? Would I like to learn to move in and from my 'yes'? You don't have to know how. Just keep affirming your choice.
*Accept that life is lived in the uncertainty. In the vulnerability. In the 'not knowing'. Learn how to tread water in this place. Learn how to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. A ship is safe in the harbour but that's not what ships were made for. It's not what you were made for.
*Acceptance. Of all the ways the 'no' moves in. Of all its seductive callings. Of each and every time you cannot resist, are blind to its crafty manoeuvres. Get familiar with these characters: the doubt, the fraud, the judge. The more we choose to pull up a seat and join them at their (by now a complete shambolic!) table, the more they lose their power over us. And listen carefully too, as there may be snippets and whippets of truth amongst their scaremongering. It takes a great discernment to know what's truth and what's lies.
*Make friends with the possibility of failing, of fucking up, of making mahoosive mistakes! Make friends with imperfection.
*Take a deep breath and just go for it. Wobble away. Shake rattle 'n roll. Fall down. Get ya knickers in a twist and your tail feathers caught in the elastic of ya pants.
*Show up anyways in all your glorious humanness. You see, if what calls to come forth lights a rocket in ya pants so that you purr with life and pulse with the yes of Eros, of manifestation, of what turns you on, of what brings you joy, then that's what is being asked of you to bring to life. It's none of your business how to do so perfectly. It's not possible to wait until you're ready otherwise they'll be burying us at sea and our bones will still be rattling in anticipation mode waiting, waiting, waiting.
*Oh yeah. And celebrate the steps. Each one. No matter how small. If what you've done is huge for you then celebrate :-)
*Then, rest.
*And when the next wave comes to carry you (which it will my darling, oh yes it will), rinse and repeat. Strap yourself in and say 'Fuck, YES!' all over again!
With each battle, each surf, our muscle of becoming and navigating this ride, gets stronger. It has to. It will do. It is.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Aho xxx
mPerhaps our only security is in joy.
Let me explain. I had a realisation the other day, that it seems to me that life (God, Spirit etc) always responds to us when we say yes to that which makes us smile. That flutters our heart, that makes us feel a certain oneness, solidity. A kinda 'just this', exact, and very ordinary, absolute ok-ness with everything as it is. Nothing is missing. Nothing more is needed.
This is joy.
And the more that we say hell yes to this joy, it's as if that mystical, magical, unfathomable force, goes, 'you like that hey!? You appreciate this my love? Well have some more ok??' and lo and behold, more of that good stuff, comes in. A bit like one of those supermarket rewards cards. But with points for ze juicy life stuff rather than toilet rolls and humous!! ;-)
Maybe it's our natural state of being. Maybe when we whine and moan and winge and stomp our feet and pout our lips in defiance and resentment and cries of 'not enough/it's not fair/why me!??!!' the more it seems that we are acting like spoilt childish brats, ungrateful and unlovely. And we know how annoying those are don't we, bless 'em! ;-)
Now don't get me wrong. I can, and still do, fall into brat mode. Usually it really does feel like I've slid from mature adult woman into small sulking kid and resentful jealous teenager. More times than I might ordinarily admit, if I'm being honest with you!!!
But it's occurring to me more and more, that when I'm in appreciation, gratitude and joy, everything changes. Life becomes more expansive and beauty-full. And effortless. That last one is the place that feels like home, a relief, and where my shoulders fall back down and my jaw relaxes its stubborn tension.
Choosing joy also brings miracles. I've witnessed this in my own life this last year or so. Choosing to say yes to that which is truly born from my true heart desires, even though it seems impossible, has not yet let me down! Even if that which I've been drooling over has taken time to manifest, it has done so. Opportunities have come in. Unexpected financial flurries have arrived. There's a sense that life comes in to meet us, if we're in a receptive open and gloriously available state. If we are living in and with a curious nod of generosity. This, for me, seems to be the landscape of joy!
Now let's talk about security. If I place my trust in joy it feels like I'm being looked after by a force not in my control. Like I've said, it feels magical. Otherworldly. Grace. Love.
And it doesn't depend on the shifting shenanigans of anything outside of me.
Holy moly!! ;-)
But what have we been taught? Certainly not to follow and trust joy! Oh boy no! We've been taught to place our trust in matters of worldly matter. In things that apparently are in our control. That are tangible and stable and safe. Like money. Jobs. A relationship. A title. A mortgage. You know the ones I'm sure!
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating to let go of these with a maniacal laugh. That would be folly darlings. And stupid. We need our ground. We have to pay our bills, eat, house and look after our loved ones. Contribute to our community and the world. But what if we've clung so tightly, dug our nails in til they've gone white, to that which, by its very nature, can never ever be secure? Stockmarkets rise and fall, as do interest rates, taxes blah blah blah. Businesses go bankrupt, cuts are often made, electricity prices go seemingly up up up like a crazy thing!!!! Relationships are want to being out of our control too, as we are all too aware of I'm sure!! People move away, change, even die. And, I know it's one of the highest forms of spiritual freedom, but, has anyone truly deeply madly captured the absolute ability to have non attachments to our loved ones??!! Really?! I even had a conversation with a dear friend last night about how much my nearly 46 year old teddy means to me. Like I'd run inside my burning home to save it (never have quite worked out if teddy is a boy or a girl. I guess you could say it's a 'they' if we're being all modern about such matters! :-)).
And what about our health? Yes we can certainly make the choices that are good for our health and wellbeing. We can tend to and care for our physical, emotional and mental health. That helps of course. But it won't stop life from sledgehammering us with its roller coaster lunacy. With its odd ailments and illnesses. And as much as those glossy photoshopped ads try insidiously to make us believe, we cannot stop the strange process of ageing and it's beat up effects on all of our faculties. And then there's death. That one is most certainly out of our control!! :-D
Life is both brutal and beauty. Painful and pleasurable. Bitter and sweet. Happiness and sadness. Hopeful and disappointing. Life is both cruel and kind. It both doesn't make sense and it's incredibly simple. It's the very nature of this game of duality! And we've all chosen, in some bizarre and lucky lottery, to be here now. To say 'yep bring it on!' to it all.
And let me be clear here. There is absolutely pointless and indescribable suffering ahappening all the time, that is true unfortunately. There are dangerous fools playing doctor evil with our lives and the earth, yes. Let us not forget that our modern 'civilised' society likes to keep us hypnotised under the acidic and toxic veil of the smoke of fear and terror. To keep feeding the illusion that they have the power. And that we have no choices. But we do darlings, we oh so do. As long as we keep believing that they are controlling us, we remain tethered by puppeteer strings to their macabre train crash seaside show!!
Is this where you really want to place your trust and sense of security? Tell me, how's that working out for you? (If it's working out rather grandly for you then good for you. But in all seriousness, I am curious. Let me know :-))
But I'm not saying to walk around with your head in the clouds of fantasy. Nope. That doesn't work either. Too 'all is love with sugar sprinkles on it' just gives a poisonous taste, a belly ache, and a need to slap back down to earth the one with that banner!! We have to be rooted in reality. Remember?
But we can still choose joy. In our hearts. To steer the ship.
So maybe joy is where our security lies. Underneath everything. The ground from which all experience arises. The foundation floor that takes our foot stomping razzmatazz and quick steps. And maybe this ground of joy lights up like one of those 70's disco floors, with all the colours of our textured lives. Red and green and blue and yellow and orange and…
We might as well dance on it! It's a goddamn disco floor folks!!! ;-)
At the end of the day it's completely our choice whether to focus on one particular colour til it dements us into dementia. Tis this choice that gives us power my loves. But instead of the flashing colours of human suffering, maybe we can choose the floor itself, the grit of the ground, the joy, and perhaps find some wisdom and saucy dance moves when the blue light of grief hits, or the red of rage, or the yellow of fear etc. As I say, tis our choice. It's our choice.
Choose joy.
And see what life offers to you in response.
See you on the dancefloor folks :-) xxx
Aho HH xx
P.S. Do you know that joy is one of the side effects of working with me? I can support you, walk, talk and dance with you, to create your life as art, your art as life, and find that root and well spring of joy. It's part of the creative genius map. And you, my dear, are a creative genius. It's just that we forget. That's all. Tis human of us. We all need to be reminded from time to time. I bless my tribe and teacher for my reminders with deep deep appreciation every day. And joy :-)
Thanks for reading if you're still here :-). Fancy sharing this? Go ahead and spread that joy love darlings 💖💖💖
Thank you. Heidi Hinda x
'Beauty and the Beast', liminal times, and holding the fullness of living a creative life.
Anyone who knows me well, is aware that I am currently working on crafting a selection of retellings of fairy tales. Adult tales with an erotic flavour. At some point (though I am so blessedly aware of how long it takes me to do anything, my uber slow wondrous pace! ;-)), I hope to publish them as a book. I'll keep you posted upon said progress. (Though head over here if you'd like to read one of my tales my love :-))
'Beauty and the Beast' has been sitting with me lately, both sides whispering in my ears, pulling my arms this way and that. Asking me to choose between them. As if i ever could.
For is not this time of the year the liminal time, not quite deep winter's cave, and yet not entirely the fire lit action lands that we have enjoyed over the summer? The bridge between light and dark, creation and destruction, life and death. In response to my last foray into the realm of intimate romantic love are not all relationships, including the ones with our own selves, an ever flowing dance with these pairings? And is not the perennial and seasonal cycles of our creativity and sexuality a continuous merry go round of perpetual change and movement up and down, round and round, and forever in ebb and flow?
Do we dare to offer our 'ugly' to the world, our shame and unworthiness? Can we have the courage to drop the censorship and bow to the fullness of every part of what we say, in whatever language we desire to sculpt it in? Are we able to dig deeper, deeper than a pleasing aesthetic, in search of bones and grit, blood and guts, heartache and fear, and offer all of these as a prayer to the divine?
Can we say yes to both 'Beauty and the Beast'? To hold both in the palms of our hands, allowing them to beat with wings of blood and magic, neither one 'better than' the other? Both a part of the fullness of everything we may hold dear.
Neither one nor the other. Not summer nor winter. In the land of enchantment, and the liminal.
Liminal spaces. Such a delicious word. It means threshold my darling :-)
Transition times. One foot in one place and the other in another. Not quite having stepped over. Holding the space for all to be, to be, to be. No rush. No rush. No rush.
The balance between worlds. The 'upper worlds', all day to day, routine and 'Father Time', work and schedules, the to-do list and all of the myriad moments of a full life; and the 'lower worlds', the pull and draw inwards and downwards, dreaming time, rest, shadowlands and Persephone's seduction, essentially the call to the sovereignty of the soul.
How do we keep them both fed and nourished? How can we find the possibility of holding both in our hearts? How do we acknowledge and respect and honour both for their need for nourishment, attention, care and tending?
I know in myself I can have a tendency to separate aspects of my life. To compartmentalise if you like. To put into boxes. This can work, up to a point, but unless we have very little of these boxes, with very minimal content, then my guessing is at some point, everything starts to spill out and become chaotic and, well, untameable!
The untameable. The wild. The chaos.
Aaaah! Here we are, back in the realm of creativity! ;-) Of life. Of Love. Of everything.
If we ignore one aspect, one 'box', turning away in frustration, in judgement, in a restlessness, we take away its energy, so that it begins to dry out, atrophy, and become a muted grey slab in our vivid technicolour life! We become 'wonky' and unbalanced, either living in high fantasy, unreal and ungrounded, avoiding alone and its gifts, and all doing doing doing and full of sugary coated, if unconscious, denial; or we walk through our days in the thunder, deep intensity, a devilish realm with an absence of joy and other. For soul work is solitary my love. It always will be. As we are both human and divine, we need both.
Why do we have this propensity to turn towards what we perceive as the 'Beauty' in our life, and dismiss with disdain the 'Beast'? For surely, life is about coming to realise that there is a darkness to this beauty that we so long to hold on to, and conversely, there is sweet exquisite heart and wonder if we dare to stay a while with the beast. In life, in love, in art, and in our own dear dear self. We are all of this, and more.
Now, we are, in our essential pure nature, vaster, larger and infinite, in our capacity. Read that again my love. You, dear one, have the ability to stretch far and wide, to bear all of what life demands and beckons off you. It's just the way of our true nature. The key, I believe, is not in necessarily wondering, organising, nor controlling, all of these parts of ourselves. I mean, hell that bloody well doesn't work out terribly well does it my fellow recovering control freaks?! But in shifting one's attention instead, on to the thread that binds all of these parts of one's life together.
The thread? Being in devotion to, in service to, in prayer to, the sacred.
The sacred.
You see, the sacred threads through everything. Nothing in our lives cannot be held by and in the sacred. If it's a part of our living and our experience, then it's a part of everything. And nothing that's in everything, can be separate from us. You may want to read that line again.
When we resist, panic, and try to control, then we are essentially reacting from a place of fear. We all do this. It's part of our human nature. We want to feel like we have a grip on whatever the lunatic hell is going on!! My advice? Loosen the grip, fall into the madness, surrender into the chaos. But, not blindly dear one, not without sight. But instead, by using our night goggles of seeing through the eyes of the Holy. The whole. Holiness and wholeness. And then even our fear is holy, and part of our wholeness.
Endings and beginnings. Is there ever such a thing truly? Sure, on the surface level, in the 'upper' world thinking. And this can cause us pain and heartbreak (I've been there recently). But in the 'lower' world thinking, we can ripen the soul, season it, weather and wizen it with whatever wisdom we can bear to taste and swallow. And then there's the sacred thread that binds both upper and lower worlds, bigger than all, simply holding, with love, clear, solid and still.
Hold all those unanswered questions, that your year may have offered to you as gifts, and that the mind might be feeling like it's running out of time and gotta sort and figure it out by Dec 31st!! Hold these loose and unfinished questions as prayers, as soul poetics. Offer them now to Hades, to Soul, to the shadowlands, to the soil and worms and dead things.
Hold all of life's uncertainties, tipping points and transition times, as a way to grow towards and into the unknown, the winter, because it's coming and ready or not it will ask its own demands of us. It takes strength. And resilience. And a steady stance to weather the storms and to let the leaves of us fall, and to sway and blow this way and that way, and yet still feel rooted in trust as our skeleton is revealed, as we dare to risk becoming exposed. Because we have no choice. Not if we are artists of our lives. Not if we are open to life. Not if we desire to live in full and fierce truth and grace. Not if we know that we know nothing and that to control is ultimately futile (though we give it a damn good go! ;-)). Not if we are willing to take life as our lover. For it will strip us down over and over again. It will rip open our hearts over and over again. It will pour medicine thick and thorough, over and thro us over and over again. And it will blast us open to beauty and truth and wonder and miracles and magic over and over again. If we are willing, life lived in this way will always take us straight back to God. But it's a warriors' path. And a bloody one. And we will be scared.
And I like how the word 'scared' is an anagram for 'sacred'! ;-)
Are you scared yet? Good!
Rattle your bones beauties. Shake rattle and roll. Soul roll that is. As you may know I'm bowing to and daring to commit deeper and deeper to this way of living. Some days I forget. Some days I fall down. Some days I am driven by the scared and not the sacred. So this my loves, this is also a reminder for me too :-) xx
As Shirley Valentine says 'Are we living such a little and calling it a life?'
Liminal lingerings and lushest longing love to you all xx
Thank you for reading xx
Aho xx
Heidi Hinda Chadwick
Creativity. Sexuality. Life. Art. Soul. Love.
July 2019


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Tommy revisits Bradford Hospital to deliver two sessions and share the work of Dementia Carer Voices.
Thank you too Karen Dawber, Chief Nurse, Sally Scales, Deputy Chief Nurse, Sue Franklin, Associate Chief Nurse for QI, Jo Hilton, Assistant Chief Nurse and Nazia Amir, Chief Nurse Office PA for kindly inviting Tommy to speak at two sessions on 12 March across Bradford Teaching Hospital's
Tommy was very honoured to be speaking at the Trust`s Nursing Conference late last year and we were proud to be invited back to give two more talks.
Our project is grateful that Tommy was also invited to write the foreword for the new Dementia Strategy.
We had another brilliant day with remarkable people from across the trust who do remarkable things every day.
Tommy shared our Make a Difference campaign along with Leading Change, Adding Value A Framework (This link will take you away from our website) for Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff.
Thank you to all for another brilliant day and personal pledges below.
Team DCV
My pledge is to be caring and be thankful and look at each people as individuals. Ask what and who matters to all of my patients, so I can help make there stay on ICU a better stay.
Emma Lander
My pledge is to do my daily kindness check and to ensure patients continue to be known by their preferred name and not "Patient A"
Haylie Briggs – Staff Nurse
My pledge is to care and love my mum as she has always done for me.
Lesley Lawton
My pledge is to take time to find out what I can do to help them. Smile to know that I care. Touch to show compassion.
My pledge is that I will always try to make that difference in someone's life, and also make them smile. I will try every day.
Nadia Rasab
I will pledge to be the one that makes a difference every day, whether it's with patients/cars or colleagues.
Samantha Bull
I pledge to have a "kindness check" when the day becomes very stressful. Make sure that I always use the patients name when referring to and addressing them.
The need to be more available, visible and compassionate to my patient and carer – to make the stay in hospital pleasant. Not to forget touch is a great communicator.
My pledge is to listen, love and laugh. Don't be afraid to cry.
I wish to raise awareness of dementia within the Asian community. Unfortunately, dementia is described as some who had lost their mind. Dementia sufferers are told to "snap out of it" "Get out more" "everyone feels isolated at this age – you have to make more effort to meet others"
I pledge to spend that extra time to get to know and learn more about the wonderful people in my care. Learn their story, their experiences what matters most to them. Always treat people with kindness.
I will ensure that all patients are treated as individuals, not as the "bed number "or condition.
My pledge is to develop more skills in my handling of caring for patient who has dementia. I am new to elderly team and I knew that caring them as an individual we have to be person centred approach. To involve them in their care and encourage them to do as much as they can so they will still feel valued and part of society. To provide care from heart, be kind and be respectful.
I pledge to continue to try and understand, ask what matters the most to my friends, family and those I meet. This question, I know will make a difference to people's life.
I pledge to treat every patient as themselves and not let their conditions define who they are.
Maria Khalid
I pledge to treat each person in same ward and make everything they tell me matters and do my best to become in their best condition.
I pledge to make more time to sit and have a conversation with my patients.
My pledge is to in some situations just stop for a moment, hold that wanting hand and sing with that person. The little things made all the most difference
Jemma Kershaw
I pledge not to rush my assessments and take more time to listen to my patient. "Hold that hand sing that song"
Helen Rafferty
I pledge to work with pride and kindness today. Both for myself and for those I am with today.
I will not dismiss the simplest of conversations, they are valuable, they break down barriers and remind us that we are all only human.
My pledge is listening to what matters so I can make a difference.
I pledge to give my mum, Liz a ring more often.
I always ask people what food and drink they enjoy, but I never ask why and what memories they have about them. I always will now.
My pledge is to continue being kind, caring and understanding to patients especially the vulnerable and elderly and patients who don't quite understand where they are.
I pledge to have more understanding life is very difficult a lot for me lately, but I am a very caring person so hopefully my understanding of life will become easier for me.
I pledge rather than as I do can I help to saying "can I help you, is there anything you need or can do for you"
My pledge is always smile and not allow pressures and perhaps personal situations affect the care which I give. Take the time to listen and enjoy a person's company.
I pledge to continue to make my team laugh, tell them how great they are and giving out free hugs. I also pledge to continue singing with our patients at every opportunity, music in a "magical" thing and can illicit wonderful responses.
My pledge is to listen to my mums fears about "losing her mind" instead of dismissing them and brushing them to the side.
My pledge is to ask patients and their family, friends and cares what matters to them. How can I help? It is all about the small things. I will continue to smile at people.
My pledge is to be kind and to share my knowledge to my colleagues. To accept kindness from my colleagues as well. To do my best, nothing more, nothing less.
Louise Rawson
My pledge is to try everyday to find one thing that makes my patients feel like they really matter and that somebody has made the effort to get to know them.
My pledge is to continue to develop my skills and knowledge as a health care professional and place my patients unique and particular stories at the centre of my care and practice.


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"I really, truly appreciate Conor McGregor's style — his fighting style and the way he talks," Johnson said on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "The reason why is because he reminds me of a young Mike Tyson, a young Muhammad Ali, the way he talks.
"Like, I look at him and I don't see him talking trash. I look at him and I see him talking (about) what he sees, where he's like: 'dude, I'm way faster, I move way better than you do, you're slow, I'm going to hit you hard' — which, I believe all these things that he says are true. Like, I believe that his fighting style is good, he understands fighting, and not taking anything away from Dustin Poirier — Dustin Poirier is a huge test — I can appreciate somebody who can talk that stuff and he'll go in there and he'll back it up."
Johnson was curious though to see what would happen should McGregor lose this fight.
"If he loses then, you know, they'll look around like, 'Well, we had a good run, Conor. Let's see what you got to say again.'
"So I'm more intrigued by that fight because I think that fight has more stakes going into it, because it's like, one, I'm pretty sure if Conor wins it, then he can be fighting 'old man Swanson,' as he called him, Cub Swanson next. And then, who knows, he could be fighting Chad Mendes or Jose Aldo for the title after those two fight. We'll see."
There is huge praise being heaped on Conor McGregor; being compared to Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, both legends in the boxing World. McGregor can keep this sort of praise coming his way by starting with a win over Dustin Poirier on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
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Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Old Harrisburg Academy / Dixon University Center
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1940 view of Hunter Hall, the original structure on the Harrisburg Academy Campus later replaced by the State System of Higher Education Headquarters Building.
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1932 aerial view of the Harrisburg Academy Campus.
Erected by The Harrisburg History Project Commissioned by Mayor Stephen R. Reed.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Pennsylvania, The Harrisburg History Project marker series.
Location. 40° 17.68′ N, 76° 54.339′ W. Marker is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in Dauphin County. Marker is on N. Front Street 0.2 miles south of Graham Street, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Harrisburg PA 17102, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Zembo Shrine Temple (approx. 0.3 miles away); Former William Penn High School Italian Lake (approx. 0.3 miles away); Dauphin County Civil War Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); Harrisburg (approx. half a mile away); Camp Curtin Fire Company No. 13 (approx. 0.8 miles away); Camp Curtin Memorial-Mitchell United Methodist Church (approx. 1.1 miles away); Camp Curtin (approx. 1.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Harrisburg.
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Credits. This page was last revised on December 5, 2019. This page originally submitted on March 22, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. This page has been viewed 1,838 times since then and 37 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 22, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. 4. submitted on April 9, 2011, by John K. Robinson of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.


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Curious George Learns About the Transforming Retail Industry
Posted on by Alissa DeJonge
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the musical Curious George and The Golden Meatball at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford. Based on the books by Margaret and H.A. Rey, this live performance about a mischievous monkey had my son, husband, and I laughing and clapping the whole time.
However, what appeared on the surface as a sweet musical for young children, also had some deeper concepts embedded in the themes. Consider what Curious George teaches about economic development and how the retail industry is changing:
- George's neighbor, Chef Pisghetti, owns a restaurant whose customers have stopped visiting because they are utilizing a Meatballs-o-Matic machine. That's right George, the use of technology in the home has exploded over the past few decades. From in-house surveillance systems to 'smart' refrigerators that add items to a shopping list when you are running low, to automatic flushing toilets, the use of technology has a seemingly endless supply of possibilities in the home and beyond. However, traditional retail, such as a restaurant, needs to reinvent itself in order to stay relevant and turn users of technology once again into customers.
- George enters Chef's meatballs in the world-famous Golden Meatball Contest and wins the top prize, which floods the restaurant with customers who want to meet the masterful cook and enjoy delicious food. Congratulations to George, and to those retail establishments that prioritize the customer's experience above everything else. Traditional storefront retailers that remain profitable during this time of industry transition are adopting a hybrid approach of retaining less inventory on site and enhancing a shopping social experience.
Little did I know that attending this musical would provide such a window into an industry transition. The musical is being performed through December 20, so if you get a chance please check it out. Who knew that a Young Audience Series could also relate to an economist? Imagine that!


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It should go without saying that wind and wind noise do not cause cancer. Anybody with a synapse-firing brain can deduce this fact. However, there is a difference between windmills and wind turbines, but it's not as big a difference as you might think. They're both using wind to power their mechanisms, but the way in which they use this natural resource is what distinguishes between the two. Let's dive in, shall we?
You frequently see windmills on farms, or the cover of Don Quixote books. Yes, yes. Wind Farms are where the turbines reside, but regular farming farms are where the windmills are at. Windmills use wind to power the mechanism, which is made up of vanes that work the camshaft connected to gears and rods that are connected to two millstones at the base that grind, or mill (hence the name), grain. The shapes of these windmills with their larger base are due to the size of the millstones at the bottom of the entire mechanism. Wind propels the vanes and sets the whole thing in motion. Windpumps have the same mechanics, but they're used to draw water up from the ground and push it into a well.
Windmill technology has been around – and stayed much the same – since the 7th century when it was created in a region that is now Iran and Afghanistan. A century later this new development in farming was used widely in the Middle East as well as China, where European explorers found and bought the technology. The most notable region where windmills flourish today are the Netherlands, where windpumps were used to drain their flood plains in the 14th century. The inconsistency and unpredictability of wind led to the decline of windmills during the Industrial Revolution, though windmills are still used today.
Wind Turbines
So for the windmill, the force of the wind is used for one very specific task. Wind turbines, on the other hand, take this renewable resource and harness its power to create power for electrical use. Turbines convert the wind into energy that is either stored in a battery for later use, used in electrical equipment, or transported across power lines. These turbines work like a regular motor, only backwards. Instead of using electricity to create movement, the movement from the wind creates the energy.
Turbines have been used for powering electrics since the late 1880s in Scotland. The very first wind turbine was used in Vermont during the 40s. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry played a major role in preventing this renewable energy from spreading earlier in our country's time. Fortunately, when the oil and gas industry suffered a comeuppance in the 70s, it was clear we needed an alternative solution and thus wind energy so a resurgence. Since that time nations all over the world have been investing in wind energy. The largest wind farm in America is in Kern County, California, where over 300 wind turbines are kept.
So Why Wind?
Well, why not? The wind will blow whether or not we choose to take advantage of its power, we may as well use it. But more than that, these turbines don't have emissions, and are therefore considered a clean energy source. They can be used in large farms or in a different set-up for residential use. Wind energy is also among the cheapest types of wind energy costing mere pennies per kilowatt.
However, every action has an equal or greater reaction. It's more expensive to install a wind farm than regular fossil fuel systems, so recovering the costs takes years. They also have an impact on the wildlife where they are built, whether it's on land or offshore. Technology is coming to reduce the danger to birds and bats, but in some areas, the amount of land or sea that needs clearing to house these metal giants directly impacts the habitats for wildlife. And due to the amount of space required for turbines means more densely populated areas are less likely to reap the benefits of this resource. And on days when the wind doesn't blow, the turbine doesn't work.
All this being said, in order to improve our environment and protect the planet for future generations, solutions need to be explored and expanded. Wind energy isn't the only type of clean energy available to us, but it's one worth investing in to invest in our future. As for the noise… it might be unpleasant, but it certainly won't give you cancer.


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Inline PDFs etc in Safari
I posted an article last August about Safari supporting SVG, and someone said to try an inline object tag to view it. So I'm trying it out. It seems to work in Safari. If you are seeing "Reid News" in big black italic text to the right then it is working for you, too.
The reason I bring this up now is that there is an article on MacSlash today that talks about Safari support for inline PDFs, PSDs, and any other file format that QuickTime supports. Interesting, but ultimately it won't go anywhere because 97% of the world is stuck with IE/Windows, which doesn't even handle inline PNGs properly!


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