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The origin of the "high five" is widely unknown, but one thing is for sure: high fives are a great way to show you care and leave you and a friend feeling energized. A simple high five can say so many things. In honor of National High Five Day, here are five reasons high fives make the world a happier place!
High fives build communities
High fives are an easy way to show encouragement, seal a deal, or simply say, "Hey!" Some of the greatest relationships can be formed by sharing a high five. It's just like a hug—for your hand!
High fives increase positivity
A high five is a surefire way to brighten someone's day. Typically a high five comes with a smile, which we all know is contagious. Next time you see someone looking a bit blue, give them a high five. It's guaranteed to bring a smile to their face!
High fives spark laughter
High fives can be silly and creative depending on how far you let your imagination travel. Next time you plan to give a high five, get creative! Do an around-the-back high five; try it while jumping in the air, or surprise a friend with confetti in your hand. The ensuing laughter will be priceless!
Photo courtesy of Cherie J Photography
High fives encourage play
What may start out as a high five could potentially end up in a simple game of tag or an all-out tickle war! Remember high fives can happen anytime and anywhere, just like play!
Photo courtesy of Amanda Westmont
High fives will never go out of style
High fives have been around forever, and they will continue to be around as long as we keep being friendly, keep encouraging one another, and keep playing. So go out and share some high fives! There's no doubt it will make someone's day!
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About a year ago, I saw an article about musical, light-weight swings at a bus stop in Montreal. Fascinated, I began researching and stumbled upon a few other swing projects like the Water-Fall Swing by Dash 7 and the Red Swing Project. After learning about the other projects, I was inspired to create something similar in Dallas that brought back childhood memories and was affordable.
Enjoy this guest blog post from Patrick McDonnell.
In April 2013, I went to an outdoor market held in an empty parking lot, and it occurred to me that the lot would go back to being empty as soon as the market was over. A light bulb went off. Why not put a swing set in an empty parking lot, so that the space could be useful and active after market hours—and yet still be used as a parking lot during the day and weekends?
In June, I came across the HOLSTEE Fellowship while reading articles on GOOD. HOLSTEE, the folks who wrote the "Go Live Your Life" Manifesto, were giving away monthly $1,000 grants to individuals to seed their dream project. I entered the mobile "Swing Park" - a pop-up swing set to transform a parking lot into a park.
I made a 60-second video, and was selected to compete for the public vote on Facebook. People in Dallas helped me campaign from July 1–10 and I won! In August, I received the grant and began to build.
Initially, I wanted to use reclaimed wood to build big, elegant two-person swings inspired by visual artist Ann Hamilton's "The Event of a Thread," a large-scale art installation in New York City. But function quickly trumped form since the swing was going to be outside and had to be mobile. Instead of a wood frame, I decided to use a metal one and made it detachable.
I bought most of the materials on a playground equipment website SwingSetMall.com, and purchased the metal poles and sandbags at The Home Depot, spending a total of $975.37 of the $1,000 HOLSTEE grant.
Here are the materials I used:
The Swing Park debuted at this year's PARK(ing) Day celebration in Dallas. PARK(ing) Day is a global event where citizens reclaim a parking space and transform it into a mini park to promote people-friendly streets and the importance of public spaces. Parks range from yoga classes to pet adoption areas to book giveaways to lounges.
I spent about three hours pre-assembling the swing structure. On PARK(ing) Day, it took twenty minutes to unload it and set it up.
I'm happy to report a few people have contacted me about creating their own Swing Parks. In Dallas, I'm continuing to pop-up the Swing Park around town at different events and eventually want to transition it to a more permanent venue.
My hope is that Swing Parks become a new way to create mini play areas in neglected urban environments like empty parking lots and bus stops, desolate underpasses, dead plazas, or other overlooked city corners that could use a bit of whimsy and fun and serve as a place for people to come together.
It's summer, and the heat is on. Does your neighborhood playground look like it's about to melt? This playground in Houston, Texas actually did:
When the temperature outside is 90-100 degrees, playground equipment and surfacing can get as hot as 130 to 150 degrees, putting kids are at risk of second-degree burns. There's a reason that hot cities suffer from "empty playground syndrome."
But some cities are starting to wise up, making sure to incorporate shade elements into new playground designs and adding them to existing playgrounds. Not only does shade limit UV exposure, but its cooling effect is remarkable. Ian Smith, the Director of Athletics from the Boys and Girls Club of San Fernando Valley in Pacoima, CA says, "Before [adding shade structures], the kids were not able to play on the playground during the day. Now that we have shade, the temperature of the playground area is 15-20 degrees cooler and the kids are able to play safely!"
As Ian points out, during the heat of summer, shade can make the difference between an empty playground and one that's crawling with kids. At a shaded playground, kids will stay longer and play more often.
At KaBOOM!, we try to incorporate shade into our playgrounds when possible. Left: The VIET playground in New Orleans stays crowded all summer long. Right: Kids rejoice in the shade at the Alliance for Women and Children playground in Abilene, Texas.
Know a good shady playground in your area? Help other parents in your area by adding a photo on our Map of Play.
Know a playground that needs some shade? Don't just wring your hands! Listen to this podcast to get some helpful hints for planning and budgeting for a shade project, plus check out these grants from the American Academy of Dermatology and the Shade Foundation of America.
Got any other tips for playing it cool at the playground?
Boredom. Kids hate it, and parents hate hearing about it.
So we turn to sports camps. Video games. Amusement parks. But do we have to "fight boredom" with an endless chain of activities?
In fact, some boredom can be good for your kids. It essentially tells them: Figure out something to do. Use your imagination. Newsweek notes, "In the space between anxiety and boredom [is] where creativity flourishe[s]."
Professor of Social Psychology Paddy O'Donnell points out in The Times, "Boredom shouldn't last long if children are in the right environment where they're dragged off either by curiosity or the desire to socialise. It continues only if there's no one to play with or the environment's too restrictive."
Of course, there's nothing wrong with a week of sports camp, an occasional video game, or a trip to the amusement park, but instead of constantly conjuring up activities to wage war against boredom, think about how you can foster the "right environment" and how that environment can include other kids.
Creating these environments at home, on your street, and at your local park or playground may require some initial legwork, but will save time and headaches down the road. You can relax, bring on the boredom, and watch your child's creativity flourish!
Here are five ideas to ensure that your kids make the most of their boredom this summer:
At home:
Can't get to the beach? Bring the beach home. If you've ever watched your child effortlessly wile away an afternoon digging in the sand at the water's edge, then you know how much they love manipulable environments where they can tinker, explore, create, and destroy. Consider these affordable DIY sandbox and sprinkler ideas.
Photo by courosa (cc).
A pop-up playground can pop up anywhere -- a back yard, front yard, garage, or sidewalk.The best part? It doesn't have to cost a dime. While it may be difficult for adults to envision the play opportunities presented by, say, a cardboard box, paper towel roll, or stack of newspapers, children will inevitably turn scrap materials into their own magical kingdoms.
Photo courtesy of popupadventureplay.org
On your street:
Want to make sure your kids get a summer camp experience full of free play opportunities? Start your own camp, then—on your own street. Inspired by Playborhood founder Mike Lanza's Camp Yale, neighbors Jennifer Antonow and Diana Nemet have been running Camp Iris Way for two summers now. Last year, the camp attracted a whopping 72 children and teens—more than 90 percent of the youth in their neighborhood! Jennifer and Diana offer six simple steps to starting your own camp, insisting that it's not nearly as daunting as it may seem.
Photo via Aaron Selverston, Palo Alto Patch.
At the playground:
For three summers now, we have challenged families to visit as many playgrounds as they can. Tired of seeing so many empty playgrounds, Playground Challenger Liza Sullivan decided to take our Challenge one step further by inviting her neighbors along. The Last Days of Summer Park-A-Day Challenge gave families one park or playground destination each day for one week.
Photo by Joe Shlabotnik (cc).
What ideas do you have for making the most of boredom this summer?
This Saturday, on April 27, GOOD is asking folks around the world to celebrate Neighborday, "a global celebration of the people with whom we share space."
And what better way to celebrate than to turn that space into a place to play? After all, it's not fair that cars always get to hog your street, when it could be filled with hula hoops, bouncy balls, chalk art, and cardboard boxes.
So this Saturday, it's time to claim your street, play with your neighbors, and generally make merry. Just follow our tried-and-true recipe for a perfect playful block party:
How will you celebrate Neighborday?
Illustration by our talented artist in residence, Marian Blair.
Now that spring has officially sprung, it's time to enjoy the warmer weather and longer days. Take advantage of the change in seasons with these five outdoor play ideas, and post a comment or send us a tweet to share your own.
Daylight saving time means extra time outdoors! Take a post-dinner trip to the playground and play until the sun goes down. (It's a great way to make sure your kids get a good night's sleep.) While you're there, snap a photo of the setting sun and add your picture to our Map of Play.
Photo by Hari Hamartia (cc).
Don't let the inevitable April showers deter you from going outdoors. Pull on your boots and get ready to puddle jump. Puddles make for great natural hopscotch courses—use a small rock to determine where to jump next.
Photo by joeltelling (cc).
They say April showers bring May flowers. Hit your nearest park or nature trail and challenge your kids to see how many shapes, sizes, and colors of flowers they can find. (If flowers haven't sprouted up in your neighborhood, go on a spring scavenger hunt and look for worms, birds' nests, and flower buds.)
Photo by cabby dave (cc).
Make a pebble your pal by transforming it into your favorite creature. For added fun, paint a dozen and "hide" them throughout your neighborhood to surprise and delight passersby. Unlike eggs, they won't go rotten!
Photo by Avia Venfica (cc).
What do kids love more than pizza? What about growing their own pizza toppings? Spring is the perfect time to get a garden started—all you need are some seeds and a container or two. If you don't feel like splurging on flower pots, get creative and use old books or a recycled milk jug. Download our guide to starting a pizza garden or watch this video.
Photo by Rachel Tayse (cc).
Does your family have a favorite springtime game or activity? Share your ideas in the comments section below, or send us a tweet (@kaboom).
All children deserve a childhood. But when faced with external circumstances like illness, war, natural disaster, or extreme poverty, some children risk missing out on the simple joys of running, laughing, discovering, and creating.
As our CEO and Founder Darell Hammond recently pointed out in the World Economic Forum blog: "For a child whose life has been turned upside down, play is absolutely essential for maintaining a sense of stability amid turmoil and helping to work through emotional trauma. This is because play is simple, familiar and joyful – all the things that adversity is not."
The right to play is universal. Here are three innovative initiatives that are bringing play to children most in need:
In Deir Ezzor, Syria, citizens have set up an underground school and play area to help children cope with the stark realities of war. Before the school opened, 12-year-old Sultan Mussa told the Al Arabiya News, "I spent the whole day closed up at home because my parents were afraid of the bombing and wouldn't let me go out." Says principal Beda al-Hassan, "This isn't the sort of life children should have."
The school holds classes in the evening, when it is less dangerous for children to venture outside, and though its students are unable to play outdoors, they can use the toys, ping pong table, and chess boards to reclaim their childhoods. Ten-year-old Sidra likes coming to school "because I can play here. My house was bombed and I lost all my toys." The principal's five-year-old son Qutaiba says, "I can't wait for school to end and for play time to begin."
In Blantyre, Malawi, a hospital is harnessing the healing power of play by offering its patients an ambulance-turned-playground. The ambulance, repurposed by a pair of Dutch designers, sports a slide, swing, monkey bars, clubhouse area, and fireman's pole. It is handicap-accessible so that the hospital's wheelchair-bound patients can play alongside other patients and children from the neighborhood.
Photos via Sakaramenta.
Lastly, the P.L.A.Y. initiative, a pilot program created by UNICEF and supported by our national partner Disney, brings our portable Imagination Playground™ units to children living in disaster-recovery conditions and extreme poverty. Recently launched in Haiti and Bangladesh, the initiative helps kids living in challenging circumstances to reconnect with their childhood, and return a sense of normalcy to their daily lives. See Imagination Playground™ in action:
Whether in the United States, Syria or Haiti, kids intuitively understand the importance of play. We just need to make sure that we're giving them the time and space to be kids.
Are you getting ready for National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day? What about No Socks Day? There are all sorts of random holidays, but this week we celebrate a different kind of random—Random Acts of Kindness Week.
Here at KaBOOM!, we know all about the joys of spontaneous play. Whether you want to call them playful acts of kindness or random acts of play, here are seven ways to make friends and strangers smile, this week and beyond:
As you enjoy your holidays, we hope these playing snowmen inspire you to get outside. Granted, snowmen may be a bit less phased by the cold than us warm-blooded humans, but with the right attire and mindset, you too can race down slides, practice handstands, chuck snowballs, climb trees, hang from tree branches, and play sports.
Wishing you very happy holidays and a wonderful New Year -- from all of us at KaBOOM!.
Photo credits: Sliding snowman by Shutter Nutty (cc). Snowball-wielding snowman via Artlenastudios on CentralPark.com. Upside-down snowman via Tom Grimshaw. Tree-climbing snowman by Moxfyre (cc). Cricket-playing snowman by Clare and Stuart Skinner via The Telegraph. Tree-hanging snowman via The Instructables.
Think kids can't handle cold weather? Apparently some schools do, keeping students indoors for recess at mild temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees.
One the other end of the spectrum, one Minnesota elementary school principal told USA Today that his policy is, "if it's 15 below (or warmer), they go out, no matter what... At 20 below, it gets iffy."
One of our favorite mantras, courtesy of ActiveKidsClub.com, is: There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. While this may not hold true during extreme weather events -- for instance, a certain hurricane named Sandy -- it is a good mantra for families to live by as the darkness and cold set in.
So bundle up, and get outside! Here are four of our favorite winter play ideas :
It's tough to get your kids outside when all the other kids in the neighborhood are holed up in front of the TV, so use a block party as an excuse to lure nearby families out of their homes.
Free Range Kids posted a story on one such party in February — in MINNESOTA. If it can be done in Minnesota, you can do it too. Tempt your neighbors with the wafting aromas of chili and hot chocolate and the delighted squeals of playing children.
Photo by Daa Nell (cc).
Kids love an outdoor hide-out, and you don't need nails or construction skills to build one. Kids can build their own with whatever "loose parts" on hand: for instance, tablecloths, shower curtains, cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes, or newspapers.
The best part? The structure isn't permanent so they can keep themselves busy destroying and rebuilding it over and over again. Here are some of our favorite homemade forts.
Photo coutesy of popupadventureplay.org.
Use the weather to explore the properties of matter with your kids and get artistic while you're at it. Create cookie cutter sculptures, colored blocks, lanterns, balloon marbles, and lace -- all out of ice! Visit our Winter Play Pinterest board for more inspiration.
Photo via queenvanna.com .
Fire helps stave off cold and darkness, two elements that can bring on the wintertime blues. If space in your backyard permits, teach your kids how to safely build and feed a fire. It's an amazingly simple way to keep your family entertained outdoors for hours after dusk.
Plus, you can turn winter walks in the park into "treasure hunts" for kindling.
Photo by Daniel Imfeld (cc).
What advice do you have for playing outside through the winter?


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Why is it that students always seem to understand, but then never remember?May 7, 2013
This is worth thinking about because a lot of dumbing down is done in the name of "understanding".
I've had a week to think about what direction I'd like to take with this blog, and what questions or issues it should take on. Do I focus just on mathematics? Do I look at systemic issues? Do I dig into the theories of learning? Over the week I've lined up maybe seven or eight specific things already that I'd like to talk about, and in general they're fitting into around three categories:
1) General pedagogy
2) Specific to maths
3) Maths focus, but with a point or conclusion that could be relevant to other subjects (keep an eye out for something involving Diophantine equations and relativistic quantum mechanics in the weeks to come…)
In some cases there are ideas or knowledge that I've found useful, and so would like to share. In other cases it's more about provoking questions and discussion. Since the first post was fairly general…
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I didn't go into the imbuing part of the practice in detail, but you can find it in both Mystical Oneness and the Nine Aspects of Being and Free Enlightenment.
It's Time To Wake Up
Mystical Oneness and the Nine Aspects of Being is a step-by-step guide to enlightenment and beyond.
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It's Time To Be Happy
We live in divisive times.
It's Time Let Go
Imagine I have only seven days left to live.


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There are and always have been (since the sixth day of creation) apes and humans. But there never have been any "ape-men" as part of an evolutionary process.
In a new high-tech exhibit at the Creation Museum, Dr. David Menton teaches a very succinct message on this. People are amazed at how he can be in a video and yet use his laser to point to various skeletons as he teaches on this subject.
Watch the following video to obtain a glimpse of the new exhibit:
Our talented staff are now working on a "Lucy" exhibit! This fossil chimp is supposed to be related to humans. This new exhibit when opened will debunk this false idea.
Make sure you visit the Creation Museum soon.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,


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Poems from Sweden
BENGT BERG was born in 1946 in Torsby, Värmland, Sweden. He studied German and Nordic languages & Literary and Art studies at Uppsala University. He worked as a freelance writer and translator since 1975. Berg was a Member of the Swedish Parliament from 2010 to 2014.
Since 1990, Bengt has operated the publishing house, Heidruns Förlag, and an Art Café in his home village Fensbol near Torsby in the Province of Värmland.
Bengt Berg's debut poetry collection, Where the Dream Ends, appeared in1974; and since then he has written more than thirty books, mostly poetry. His poems have been translated into Nordic languages, as well as Arabian, Hebrew, English, German, Dutch, Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Vietnamese, Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam. In 2014, he published his Collected Poems, Dikter genom 40 år.
He has participated in many poetry festivals, including Medellín (Colombia), Granada (Nicaragua), Struga (Macedonia), and Druskininkai (Litauania), Nisan (Israel), Jan Smrek Festival (Slovakia), Kritya (India), Târgul Festival de Poezie (Romania), Poetry on the Road (Bremen, Germany), Kathak International Poets Summit (Bangladesh), FIP-LIMA(Peru) among others. Berg has won several Swedish Literary prizes, among them some from The Swedish Academy.
Bengt Berg's poems "are full of humor and warmth, and characterized by sharp insights into the oddities of people and situations. With time he has become more and more aware of form —without sacrificing other merits — and his poems appear at times to have been written by an Eastern master." In his poetry the author offers experiences learned in life blended with curious observations of daily realities. Humour is woven into the poems but Berg has also explored themes that are unusual for this genre. In his programs before live audiences, Bengt Berg is a humorist with a serious side, a performer who gladly stretches the boundaries between different art forms and traditions in poetry. These public appearances contribute to the fact that his books enjoy unusually high sales on the Swedish market.
Too Many Poems Are not
There are so many poems
to discover, poems not
yet written. They hide themselves
here and there: in toolboxes
among screws and nails, screwdriver
and hammers – an oily poem
has curled up in here like an iron caterpillar
or in the linen closet,
among all the sheets and pillowcases
that smell white, there lies
– almost invisible to the naked eye –
a white feather for writing
about peace on earth and freedom
for the imprisoned.
Yes, even the freshly baked
bread that you are eating
is a hiding place for small poems
that go unnoticed, unsung;
they sing quietly for themselves
when they finally reach the stomach
Too many poems
have nowhere to live
no one who wants to care for them,
give them words to eat, rhymes to sleep in,
lovely vowels to play with
when the evening comes.
too many poems
have to live in wastepaper baskets,
abondoned like wilted wildflowers
they want to lie in your pocket,
feel your warmth,
listen to your voice
when you speak, laugh and cry
They want to be written by your pen,
they want to be read by your eyes
and when it rains
they want to get as wet
as you.
(Translation Tim Phillips)
Bengt O Björklund
The artist, journalist, photographer, poet, musician and editor Bengt O Björklund was born in Stockholm 1949. In 1968 he landed in jail in Istanbul for $ 20 worth of hash and met a bunch of international artists, poets and musicians. It was then he embarked on his artistic voyage as well as learning to cook, do yoga and generally get a life.
The source of his inspiration in Turkey was his Japanese friend, the artist Koji Morrishita and the Italian artist, poet, and Dadaist Antonio Rasile.
The character Erich in the movie Midnight Express is based on Bengt.
Bengt has published 8 books of poetry, three are written in English.
Bengt was recently awarded a Sweden Beat Poet Laureate by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc.
I, You and Me.
Down sized by moon and light fading
I the memory of all I am
recede in green beckons of turmoil
never looking back nor grieving
the sadness of this world
ruminating hollering yet still
I the proof of nothing more than passing
hanker with the best of our time
just to make sure I matter
at the close of any day
redeemed so many times
uncounted for by the illustrious
the ones squeezing
all they can from the sweat
of the unfortunate ones
I am the shining orange
at the abysmal border control
the bright light in a look
cast across a confused universe
where I will never concede
streams of solicited dare
and a different kind of courage
that I will not grant nor care for
roll like a cockerel flood
in times of no better judgement
read me not in times of no hope
dream me not when death is a bell
tolling above the silent surf
know I was here and I knew
this was it
even I
The Swedish poet Kristian Carlsson was born in 1978 and lives in Malmö. He writes both in Swedish and English. Since his debut in 1996, he has published more than 40 books, mainly poetry and conceptual writings. In addition to that Carlsson has translated about 30 books, such as Swedish selections of Etel Adnan, Anne Waldman, Valerie Solanas and Rabindranath Tagore, as well as the English anthology "Swedish Poetry Nowadays; An Anthology of 6 Poets in the 21st Century." In 2018 Journeyman Books in Dhaka is publishing "A Languishing Chain of Presence" and "Covering for Language", two English volumes of new and selected poems from his entire career. The Journeyman Books has also published a volume of poems by Kristian Carlsson in Bengal translation by Muhammad Samad. Carlsson is also filmmaker, literary curator and publisher.
"The Batumi Poem" is not to be interpreted in relation to religion. It is a travel poem from Georgia, and relates to the widespread tradition of free range roadside cows in that country alone, where it is a custom within the culture of agriculture; in addition, the poem relates to the well known opening line of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Footnote to Howl": "Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!" – Kristian Carlsson.
The Batumi Poem
Kristian Carlsson, 2018
Unholy unholy unholy
roadside cows,
I agree
that I will agree.
Turning forty I have
wasted my talent
on early poems.
All this time
navigating by heart
to infiltrate the flipside
of language—
all the time put in densely
flowering fields
by the Poetry Dictator,
I need to chew my way down
to recover any soil.
At this state of mind
I run the Autonomous Republic
of Unfolding Language,
ruminate all beauty to its ruin.
Unholy unholy unholy
European highway cows,
all along the countryside mountainsides
of square tea-cozy houses.
Should I have had retired as early
as a ballet dancer, or dropped out
as if it were a school.
I am being detained
by the alphabet
in the cage of interpunctuation.
All the time bearded by
the same letters—
my old poems are expired passports
I can still travel on
only inside this cage.
Unholy unholy unholy
poet, your nothing but a
roadside cow.
At the end of poetry
there's nothing but
the beginning of language.
At the end of language
there's nothing but
the beginning of poetry.
The wall of heat—
a busy cloud
outsourced to
the transparency—
tweets in my face,
tweaks the back
of my head—
with the same cottony beak:
Write, write, write.
Confess to poetry,
tell your lewd thoughts,
may the letters break
every bone in your body
and bare them to this heat
unholy unholy unholy.
Poetry is the auctioning of new space
by sealed bids
where the reader spending most time
will build dreams.
So each morning I have to
be a full-fledged monologist again,
go find what dumpster
the alphabet lies in
wrapped as a stillborn child,
scrape the vernix out of
it's unholy eyes and ears,
look at its grim features
until it speaks
in my own voice:
unholy the misery—
unholy the smile—
unholy the predicament—
unholy the holy—
unholy unholy unholy
roadside cow.
I furnish this poem
with the open grave
of my past decades
where I am to lie
only if I'm ready to spit on it.
I sit patiently
practicing my moo,
participating in my moo,
swallowing everything
but my moo.
I write my moo down
to tell it to myself.
There's no poetry
where limitations set the limits,
there's no poetry
where the expectations set the limits—
if a poem scares you
it becomes your god,
if you reject or refuse it
it becomes your god
unholy unholy unholy.
The stillborn child
has arisen
ravaging my memory
for the placentas
of my two children
being brought to life.
Poetry is all what is seldom seen
of the body.
The poem lends its body
to a white sheet of paper
so that the splints of forgone trees
turn unholy again.
Unholy unholy unholy
roadside cows,
I agree
that I will agree.
Less than poetry
was expected of life
and even less remains.
To the young I am old,
to the old I am young—
I have nothing to hide behind.
I sit patiently
paraphrasing my own moo.
Peter Nyberg (born 1974) is a poet and editor in chief for Populär Poesi, a magazine on poetry. The poems are from Palliative Care (2016).
A social champion
By Peter NYBERG
During the trip, he appears to be curious
asking about fellow passengers backgrounds,
reasoning about things they find interesting
and knows things about their hometowns,
favourite writers and athletes.
He does not become a fly around their eyeballs
like I do.
His morals are impeccable says someone.
On principle, he has no frame schedule at school.
He runs the municipality´s football team and its youths.
He writes articles about politician´s laziness in the local newspaper,
and knows everything about literature but without being an eccentric
like I become.
One summer, he helps me move house,
consoles when the dust under the sofa swirls up
and climbs into the cabinet when a lamp falls.
The second load and we are sweating when he
says he is driven by fear and
must control his environment and
therefore perceived as social but
deep in, he is antisocial
like I am
Karin Brygger is a poet and translator, a cultural journalist with her hometown Gothenburg as her base. She released her first book of poetry 2006 and 2018 she released a book of essays on the Jewish history of Gothenburg. During the fall 2018 her first translation of a novel will be on the market. Karin Brygger is specificly interested in Jewish history and identity. She is the mother of 3. The presented three poems are from a forthcoming book. The translations by Freke Räihä have been revised by the author.
All too rough edges is solace like Russian, a soft calling. Something to cry out for at night when expensive feathers fall from the Danish designer lamp and down onto the bedlinen. A wound can spread horizontally or vertically, or heal, or cease using willpower, medicinal intervention. If I really thought the truth would set me free I would be talking to you about my doubts.
If I believed in solace it would really interest me.
And if night entered my house without pardoning I would place its scornful faces beneath the lamp, so that clearer they would be.
What about the willow trees, you would surely object, are you not going to use them? The birches?
Will you not –
If I knew for what, yes.
If I only knew which bridges broke –
Met once a bridge, laid its pillars on a paper
folded the river. A stretch remained.
Paced it back and forth, kilometre after kilometre.
What can I say?
Relations are just that difficult to fathom.
Two summers in a row she took her mother to Moldavia where roses flaunts. They walked the narrow path. The green gave way. A custodian showed up rake in hand. The twelve foot high monument, where her great grandfather and great grandmother and their sisters and brothers who all disappeared during the war all had their names inscribed, was carved out like a branch-less tree, in limestone. The custodian hummed gently: I painted it green…
It turned out that he had wanted to protect it against vandals, anti-Semitism and the young addicts.
During the second visit they made an attempt to transfer the stone's pattern onto a piece of muslin and now the stone's surface will be embroidered on a veil before the turn of the year.
It is she that introduced me to a certain kind of glass buttons. Precision blanc. All of hers are black and green but mine will be black and red. I have no burial-ground to visit, no roses, nowhere to lay my stones. In lieu I show them to you. That is all.
If I think about it I break. You could almost hear the creaking of the branches, like during thunder. But when I lay my brow against the floor the night is silent.
That is my shame.
It is immense and I carry it badly. It is my constitution, that is weak. A Loon shrieked. The scream ceased. There are still people who still choose the Loon. I lay awake thinking of them, of the letter from Natalie, the one I received last spring. She wrote so sadly about being unlovable. Why did she write that?
I think about my letter to you: "My best sport is hope!"
You are asleep now. I failed my mission. I try: you had a blue sweater around noon. You showed me everything you have done. We drank carbonated water straight from the tap. I stood still behind your back and watched your neck. I did it again. Stood there. The neck had a sunburn. You gave me a pen. I have placed it beneath the mattress. What are you dreaming about?
Your days are not like mine. Of course you sweat like I sweat. But I am frantic and absent-minded, I day-dream, look everywhere for things to give to you. Chestnuts, acorns, apples. One day we will sit beneath the Redwoods, whose rounded tops never dies. Their age counted in rings, their flesh named as heartwood, I know this. I have read up on this. We are eating apples.
But that silent night I sat quiet and watched the rain falling over the tin roofs. I never learn that inside me there is always something that is falling. It hurts.
From Stillness (Stillhetens sträckta halsar, 2002) by Mats Söderlund as translated by Olivia Olsen.
Mats Söderlund made his debut as a poet in 1992 and was awarded The Swedish Writers' Union's prestigious Catapult Award for best literary debut. He has won numerous literary awards and scholarships as a poet and is regarded as an unrivalled nature poet. Söderlund often describes himself as "a forester from the north" with roots deeply entrenched in the Nordic folklore and the Northern narrative tradition where not everything can be explained. Since the debut, he has released nine more collections of poetry, most recently Årorna i Flocktjärn (The Oars in Flocktjärn) 2016. Göra Kärlek (Performing Love) a long essay on masculinity, gender equality and sex was published in 2012. Söderlund's first novel, Observatoriet (The Observatory), was published in May 2013. It's a story about a vulnerable boy growing up in a small village in north of Sweden. In 2018 Mats published the first two parts in a fantasy trilogy on climate change, Ättlingarna (The Descendents). Mats Söderlund was Chairman of the Swedish Writers' Union between 2005 and 2012 and he holds a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Work.
Olivia Olsen is a writer, translator and teacher based in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a BA in Literary Translation and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where she taught fiction to undergraduates. Her translation from the Swedish of poetry collection Homullus Absconditus by Magnus William-Olsson was published by O'Clock Press in 2015, and her latest writing can be found in Black Warrior Review. She is currently at work on The Acrobats, a novella.
with life, with voice and life, with silver and cold, these
bodies that enter me and are me and are the forest
and the very breaths and are the sounds that rise from
me and the smells I emit and are the taste
of silver and iron in my mouth, a voice from the forest deep
my body, a voice that plays
over stems and roots
and sheds its longing
over the leaves' desire, my movement
a distance built into the strength
to go outside a morning like this
when the church bells ring
out over the district
as a warning
as a guide
a solace for those who wander
in its sound you are a stream
the full chime
of courage to forge
ahead a day like this
out a morning like this
when the songs of the dead
echo through the land
the still, redtrembling
land of berries
land of moss
and moor
where you have learned to bear
where you have learned to follow paths
between homes and cabins
between cabins and nothing
paths that seem to lead into nothing
but gather from out there
the roaming souls of the dead
between nothing and
when you are here
you're one of them and
when you listen
to my story
it's their words you hear
the mist, the leaves, the bristle of mosses and patterns of stars
in one another in me and in you and we are these voices
this running water and five swans that
bound tight drag their wings in red sinking skies
and in spite of all this a gaze a recollection and you turn
and you turn again and it's me and it's you
and we turn and the swans rise onto their feet
and beat their sails like ships they rise
and stretch across constellations their tongues their throats
their roars of jealousy of devotion and return here
to the pondwater, the mistenveloped land,
the scenes of pineslopes, marshes and birchwoods,
how you become still how you listen to their broken throats
when they call your name, when they return
and you listen to the writings of their wings when
you see their beaks wide open and their tongues how they
work they circle the land and return
and their eyes shine and you step out onto
the veranda and you call here they come and want
someone to confirm your memory and your child and the
movements in you that are the climbing shadows of the dead
that you sing and hear the white wingbeats
that you cannot help but sing
their wounds and memory's
From When it happens it is already done
(Venaröd förlag, 2017), by Cecilia Persson, as translated by Freke Räihä.
Cecilia Persson (born 1967) is an author, poet and literary critic residing in Lund. Debuted in 2003 and has since been published with seven books and two translations of Syrian poets. She holds a five-year writer's scholarship from the Swedish Writer's Fund.
The Reconciliations
I am writing to you about who I was:
3788 hours on the phone
575 e-mails
93 articles
4 books
476 bags of groceries
132 boxes of groceries
340 tins of Swedish snus
160 packets of cigarettes
27 bouquets of flowers
14 infections
2 heart attacks
102 proclamations of love
43 broken promises
37 dreams of travelling
77 cancelled travel plans
and then I am grateful
for the seven others
who knows who I was
when you deny
who I was
And now we have not talked to each other for a month
I have left fifty-two messages on your
answering machine
written hundreds of letters
out into the void
about what a cruel human being you are
and that I regret every second
I spent with you
When a good friend considerately emphasises
that anger could be a suppressed sorrow
I tell her to go fuck herself as well
I drove the bed to the city dump
and threw all the memories of you into the container
among all the other used furniture
people got sick off
and exchanged for new ones
I stood there spitting and hissing and screaming:
"You, you son of a bitch, you stupid mother fucker!"
and all turned quiet
except the women applauding and squalling:
"Get that bastard. He got it coming."
The short revenge of women
their disposable lives
in black plastic
Ms Jenny Wrangborg (born 1984) is a cook and a poet. She lives in Stockholm and have for the last 14 years been working in kitchens in Sweden, Canada and Norway. Her poetry and prose concerns working conditions in the restaurant industry, solidarity and shortcomings of the struggle to unionize a sector of the economy where few of the workers are organized and the employers are ruthless. The collection Kallskänken (The kitchen) released in 2010, was a huge success, praised by readers and critics alike. 2015-2017 she was the chairman of the Association of Working-Class Writers.
Kallskänken (The kitchen), 2010
Vad ska vi göra med varandra (What should we do about each other), 2014
War alarm
have you heard coffee cups bang against coffee cups
the murmur of an attacking army
standing with your stomach leaned against the bench
with hands building shrimp sandwiches and feet
aching from the weight
pulled between
the roar of freezers
and the screams of the cash-line
in today's
race against the clock
inexorably ticking past the lunch break
beneath the sizzle from the coffee machine
the pop music from the speakers
families, children screaming on the terrace
to the tweet from the microwave ovens
the machine gun clatter of the order frequency
and the juice presser that presses the last few drops
out of us
The black eye
She was the strongest of women; mother of two, waitress,
won everyone's respect with her skills with the drunks in the bar.
She filled in the extra hours when others left the apron on the counter and
asked the manager to go to hell. Was there when people were hospitalized,
attended funerals, fled the authorities.
She was divorced and struggled with pick ups, exchanges, day shift, night shift,
overtime and restraining orders.
When she came to work with a black eye and the manager got to see
her battered face, he said that she should not bring her problems to work.
He could not have her working when she looked like that and if it happened again
she was not welcome back.
I am a human being
I am also human
I need food on the table
a job to go to
I am not invisible
I am also human
I will break if you send me to war
I will rot if you leave me in a trench
I am fragile goods
I am human
my legs ache after eleven hours between cashier and
the headache screams after a whole day in a steep-hot kitchen
the human in me says that it is unreasonable
to earn money for someone else
I am not a machine
I am not invisible
I am the one who takes your money at the gas station
building the car you drive, the being that you send off to war
who rots away in your trenches
I am not invisible
I cook for you and your fine dining
clean your houses
take care of your parents
I am so close
I am fragile goods
it hurts when I fall from scaffolds
slip on the greasy floor
lift the old
my body has no spare parts
because I am not a machine
you can not buy a new one, because you can not buy me
the human in me says that you can not claim my surplus value
because nothing is more valuable than humanity
you can not call me to the office and exchange me for a
faster model
because I am not a machine
I am a human being
I am so close
Three poems from Överlevorna (Schildts & Söderströms, 2018) by Matilda Södergran, as translated by Freke Räihä.
Matilda Södergran (born 1987) is a Finland Swedish poet and translator living in Sweden. Överlevorna (2018) is her fifth book.
p. 29
There was blood and it gathered around the heart.
Boundless comprehension, what do you want?
The curse of compliance.
The wreath of pain around the conversation.
The aversion will come here disguised as reason.
p. 73
Marbled cut surface. Pork-white bliss.
Cut it, and it shall slip from the knife.
Are we this way?
We are a-coming and a-coming and advocate each other,
able to each others well being
Sometimes I am close to bare, minced,
kindred the courage standing in growth in me.
p. 107
Remember the mouth, as left behind with me.
Clear, sweet rind.
There will be a scorn inscribed in the word assured.
To be inside what was fought for. To settle in that this, in short,
shall be seen as the truth.
Obviously carried, carried here by a friend.
Freke Räihä is a poet, translator, literary critic and essayist living in Sweden. This poem is from the 2012 book Nomos (Smockadoll förlag). Two books of poetry are available in English and 15 in Swedish.
In tall grass against the bicycle wheel and falling high and falling low. It could have been a drop handlebar racer, a bmx; towards the sea. Towards walks along the sea. God threw everything I owned in the Baltic; I, but I had help. Sometimes help helped, sometimes it was just Öland; like music, ruins, the circus, trailer homes and the sand that hid anything of value: the I was absolved from all of its value. It was not summer, not at all. Most often it was hardened stones, purified from its sharpness by the sea. We were there, all. All. The sea does not hold any secrets any more, fear and obstacle alone; not in and not out of. The sea summarizes all relation, all weight; paper alone, permits.


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A look around the Mountain West:
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This isn't the first time SMU has made things miserable for TCU. In 2005 TCU beat then-No. 5 Oklahoma, fell against SMU the following week only to finish 11-1 and Mountain West champs.
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Incidentally, two WAC athletes took player of the week honors at the expense of Mountain West teams. New Mexico State back up quarterback Matt Christian who threw for 296 yards and rushed for 101 yards. San Jose State linebacker Keith Smith led with 10 tackles and a forced fumble.
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This past week's vacation opened my eyes to the fact that I am a control freak. Not necessarily controlling of people, but very much controlling of my surroundings and the order of things. This may come as a surprise to you. Or maybe not?
The first realization came when I decided to totally disconnect from work: the definition of a vacation, surely? Handing off control of the day-to-day management of my accounts to my teams was a relatively easy step – they kick ass, after all. Every aspect of each client's work was detailed and delegated. The stuff I could control, that is. The fact is that, working in PR, you are only ever in control of maybe 50 percent of your day. Events can take a turn in a nanosecond. So abdicating that which might happen and which I couldn't control while lying poolside required a leap of faith. Not that I don't trust my teams to do great work; more the realization that I wouldn't be part of the process and, quite frankly, they could get it done with out me.
Next, pre-vacation organization, akin to a military operation. Making sure everyone is equipped with sufficient clothes, toys, sunscreen and so on was the easy part. Packing even was straightforward. It's all the household management stuff that gets complex. Ensuring we had just enough groceries to feed us the days up to our vacation but not so much that it would spoil while we were away. And making sure there were basics in the cupboards for immediate consumption upon our we return. Ditto for laundry. Ensuring all the items needed for vacation were clean and dry in time and making sure there were sufficient clean clothes to come home to. It's all in the details, the planning. General Patraeus would be proud of me.
Vacation travel: I must be in charge of the passports and travel documentation, always.
At the hotel: the immediate urge to unpack and arrange our stuff. Order must be established and maintained, especially if we are all sharing the same living space. And while I'm not overly OCD about hygiene, hotel bathrooms skeeve me out big time. Sharing hotel bathrooms with kids and a husband who tend to deposit damp towels and toothpaste lids on to the floor makes my skin crawl. Sand on bathroom and bedroom floors drive me nuts. Crushed chips and Cheerios on my bed push me over the edge.
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Coming home is, in truth, a control freak's nirvana. Because order and routine needs re-establishing. Cases need unpacking, things need putting away, clothes need laundering, the empty fridge needs re-stocking. Ahhhh! This has been my day today and I've enjoyed every single second of it. Don't tell anyone, but I was even looking forward to it.
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This was sent to me by my brother Lloyd. "Here are Pictures of the Wind Storm that went through Cranbrook B.C. on Friday July 20th. It took two days to clean up the mess. The Pictures are of Reg Buchanan's Place." http://www.flickr.com/photos/36430631@N04/ As you can see from the photo above, German metal was no match for BC Fir.
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Sunday, August 05, 2012
Gone With The Wind...Sometimes we get so interested in earlier history of our families that we forget to record our present-day history. In July, Cranbrook, British Columbia was hit by a violent wind storm that ripped large trees from the ground and left people without electrical power for 8 days. My brother's property looked almost like a war zone.
This was sent to me by my brother Lloyd. "Here are Pictures of the Wind Storm that went through Cranbrook B.C. on Friday July 20th. It took two days to clean up the mess. The Pictures are of Reg Buchanan's Place." http://www.flickr.com/photos/36430631@N04/ As you can see from the photo above, German metal was no match for BC Fir.
Departure from IrelandMy cousin Darlene Perrett sent me a copy of the book "In Search of Buchanan from Anselan to President James Buchanan" written by Irene Martin, copyright 2011. I had hoped for evidence of a connection between the well-documented Ramelton Buchanans in Northern Ireland and my branch of the family, but found nothing tangible. Maybe it will prove useful later. One thing that struck me rather forcefully was the picture on page 108. The author included it because at the bottom it said Buchanan, Printer, but the date and place were what grabbed my attention! If this ship was in port in Derry from June 28 to July 13, there is a chance it was the ship that brought our Buchanans to Quebec, in any case there is an excellent chance that they saw it in Derry. The poster says:
Those Persons who have taken their Passages by
the First Class Coppered Ship
Are required to be in Derry on Tuesday, 13th
JULY, Pay the remainder of their Passage Money,
and go on board, as the Vessel will sail first
fair wind after that date. A few more Passengers
will be taken, on moderate terms, if immediate
application is made to
MR. DAVID MITCHELL, Dungiven, or the Owners,
Derry, June 28, 1847.
The Cargo of the SUPERIOR, just arrived, from
Philadelphia, consisting of Indian Corn, Indian
Meal, Flour, &c., for Sale, on moderate terms.
Transcribed by Gordon Drummond
We don't know when the Buchanan family first boarded ship, but we have a better time line later, so I will work backwards in time.
They traveled west from Kingston to Esquesing, Ontario, where they worked in the harvest: maybe September or October
Prior to this they spent a month in quarantine in Kingston: maybe September or October.
They spent 9 weeks crossing the Atlantic: maybe leaving Ireland in June or July and arriving in Canada about August or September 1847. The quarantine station at Quebec had overflowed, so passengers were being sent on to Kingston, Ontario.
The ship was refitted, I have seen no time period listed but I am guessing two weeks, in late May or early June.
They were out from port 10 days when the ship was damaged in a storm and returned to harbor (same harbor?) for refitting. If it took 10 days to get to the point where they turned around, it maybe took 10 days to return (they would have the wind in their favor now).
From this I would estimate their original departure to be around the beginning of May, 1847.
So there is an excellent chance that they saw the Superior prior to their second departure for Quebec, since Derry was the closest port to Drumquin. They lived on the rural townland of Binnawooda, near the village of Drumquin, County Tyrone, Ireland.


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Hershey Chairman James Nevels Delivers CSR Keynote Address Today at International Corporate Citizenship Conference
Hershey Chairman James Nevels Delivers CSR Keynote Address Today at International Corporate Citizenship Conference
NEWSROOM: The Hershey Company
CONTENT: Newsletter
Hershey Chairman James Nevels Delivers CSR Keynote Address Today at International Corporate Citizenship Conference
James Nevels, Board Chairman of The Hershey Company, delivered a keynote address today titled, "Commerce & Compassion" at the International Corporate Citizenship Conference hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mr. Nevels' speech highlights The Hershey Company's perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, focusing on the company's innovative CocoaLink program, which brings modern technology into West African farming villages. CocoaLink is a first-of-its kind program that uses mobile technology to connect cocoa farmers with useful information about improving farming practices, farm safety, child labor, health, crop disease prevention, post-harvest production and crop marketing. Through SMS text messages delivered in their local language or English, cocoa farmers receive the information at no charge. CocoaLink represents an innovative, yet simple, way to get critical information to cocoa farmers that can have a tremendously positive impact on their livelihoods and communities, including their children.
The speech also highlights Hershey's broader initiatives to improve cocoa communities, including the company's recent commitment to invest $10 million in West Africa through 2017 to continue to work with experts in agriculture, community development and government to achieve progress with cocoa farmers and their families. By 2017, Hershey's public and private partnerships will directly benefit 750,000 African cocoa farmers and more than two million people in cocoa communities across the region.
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is the largest producer of quality chocolate in North America and a global leader in chocolate and sugar confectionery. Headquartered in Hershey, Pa., The Hershey Company has operations throughout the world and more than 12,000 employees. With revenues of nearly $6 billion, Hershey offers confectionery products under more than 25 brand names, including such iconic brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, Hershey's Bliss, Hershey's Special Dark, Kit Kat, Twizzlers, and Ice Breakers. Hershey also offers premium and artisan chocolate products under such brands as Scharffen Berger and Dagoba through the Artisan Confections Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. The company is focused on growing its presence in key international markets such as China and Mexico while continuing to build its competitive advantage in the United States and Canada.
For more than 100 years, The Hershey Company has been a leader in making a positive difference in the communities where its employees live, work and do business. Corporate Social Responsibility is an integral part of the company's global business strategy, which includes goals and priorities focused on fair and ethical business dealings, environmental stewardship, fostering a desirable workplace for employees, and positively impacting society and local communities. Milton Hershey School, established in 1909 by the company's founder and administered by Hershey Trust Company, provides a quality education, housing, and medical care at no cost to children in social and financial need. Students of Milton Hershey School are direct beneficiaries of The Hershey Company's success.
About the International Corporate Citizenship Conference
Hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, this year's conference in Phoenix from March 25-27 is the largest-ever with more than 550 of the top corporate citizenship leaders and thinkers. The conference allows attendees to network with peers and other corporate citizenship experts; learn about the latest trends, best practices and research; listen to inspiring speakers; and leave with new tools, skills and concepts.
James Nevels is joined by other leading speakers who are addressing important themes facing business. They include:
Donald Brandt
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
Edward Z. Fox
Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Arizona Public Service Company
Leisha John
Americas Director of Environmental Sustainability, Ernst & Young
David Jones
Global CEO, Havas
Brendan LeBlanc
Executive Director, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young
Brad Smith
General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Trisa Thompson
Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, Dell
By: JAMES E. NEVELS
March 26, 2012
Good afternoon. It's great to be here in Phoenix. I've looked forward to this trip during the long Philadelphia winter.
Thank you very much for that kind introduction. Target is a world-class retailer and its 5% pledge is an extraordinary commitment by their shoppers and employees to their communities.
And thank you to the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship for hosting this outstanding program and for inviting me to participate. The Center's commitment to a more sustainable world is inspiring and Hershey is proud to be a part of it.
On behalf of the 12,000 global employees of The Hershey Company it's an honor and a pleasure for me to be here today.
We wouldn't be Hershey, however, without sharing some of our great treats. So I do hope you are enjoying the samples we have placed on your tables.
Today, I want to share The Hershey Company's perspective on CSR, from our home site in Pennsylvania to the distant cocoa villages in West Africa, where we source cocoa.
I believe our story is compelling and one that says a great deal about our people and our commitment to doing the right thing. It's also a very personal story for me and one that has a strong impact on me as an African American.
I'd like to also mention that my friend, JP Bilbrey, who is Hershey's CEO, has just returned from West Africa, where he opened our first ever demonstration farm called Hershey Learn to Grow. JP only recently assumed his new position and his trip to West Africa demonstrates how important our leadership team views social responsibility both at home and abroad.
Here's how I would like to tell my story today:
- First, a few thoughts on my personal business philosophy. Let me start from inside the Board Room. CSR is indeed a part of the conversation. A critical part. So I believe each business leader, and specifically a board member, needs to bring his or her values into the board room.
- Second, the team at Hershey helped frame a major business problem and a major CSR issue. The two are clearly interrelated like so many business issues in today's world. Specifically where and how we will continue to obtain cocoa for our chocolate products, which are growing in popularity around the world. And -- how do we help farmers and farming communities live better lives.
The program I will be telling you about is called CocoaLink because it brings modern technology – cell phones – into the farming villages. What's interesting to me about CocoaLink is that it is the kind of program our founder, Milton S. Hershey, would have promoted. After all, he built a second model community called Hershey Cuba. CocoaLink is entrepreneurial and innovative, business focused and good for the community.
- And third, I am not going to pretend that the Hershey way is the only way to approach CSR. It's our story, not a template for all companies. Each of us in this room can learn from each other. For CSR to be relevant to your organization, it has to reflect the spirit, culture and personality of your company – your products and services, customers and employees.
Another speaker at the BCC Conference will be David Jones, whose new book, Who Cares, Wins, tells why good business is better business. As he put it so well,
"There are massive shifts taking place as the social consumer demands that business becomes more socially responsible. 86% of consumers said that they believe companies need to stand for more than just profit… and they will punish those businesses they view as irresponsible."
I very much look forward to your questions, once my remarks are completed.
First, a little on bit on my business philosophy and what I bring to the board at The Hershey Company.
After three decades of working in business and seeing all kinds of organizations, I know that companies are really driven by a collection of their people. It's not the Hershey SEC Proxy that tells the Hershey story; rather, it's what our 12,000 people do each day that matters most.
Everyone from our associates in our manufacturing plants, to our customer- and consumer-facing sales people, to our management, to our outside board members, must have a value system that is consistent with what we stand for as a company.
We are all contributors to Hershey's success, and must be good – no, great – ambassadors for our brands. Just like Milton Hershey was.
As to my values and beliefs, one of my earliest business lessons came when I was about five years old, growing up in Alabama. My parents were 15 when I was born, so as a consequence, I was pretty much raised by my grandparents. And it was my grandfather, who made his living as a nickel-a-week salesman of burial insurance policies, who taught me early ethical principles.
Picture my grandfather on Sundays in Birmingham, Alabama, at our church, collecting five cents per week from his clients. This was after the collection plate went around. Now, I wasn't there just watching. My grandfather put me to work and gave me the task of marking down each client's nickel into the payment book.
Besides not wanting to make any mistakes, what did I learn from him? The lessons, which I apply to The Hershey Company and my own investment advisory firm, The Swarthmore Group, are quite basic:
Number one: Never ask someone to do something you would not do yourself.
Number two: Tell the truth to your clients. If you do lie, you'll have a helluva time remembering what you told them if you didn't tell them the truth to begin with.
And number three: Provide value in all shapes and forms. In Birmingham, or Hershey or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or here in Arizona, I believe it means:
Be a good neighbor,
be a responsible business person,
be an individual who cares about those around them.
One more admonition from my grandfather: You do well by doing good. Milton Hershey described this as commerce with compassion.
You're probably saying that this sounds remarkably like the Golden Rule. Yes it does. And there's a good reason it's called the Golden Rule. It's valuable, and stands the test of time. For my grandfather this saying was more than a few simple truths. I saw him apply them in action.
You might also think that these are good sentiments for a consumer goods company like Hershey, but they don't apply as much to the world of capital and finance in my positions as chairman of an investment advisory firm and as a governor on the board of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Board.
Let's be clear, the Swarthmore Group was not set up like the Calvert Group, a mutual fund organization that is primarily charged with investing in socially responsible projects and companies.
But make no mistake about it; our team has a very specific set of core principles. Our clients are corporations, endowments, pension funds. And since we opened our doors in 1992, we treat each of our client's funds as if they were our own. We're also very clear with clients that we have a long term approach towards investing and don't try to time the market. We are not the firm for all investors and my partners and I are very comfortable with this approach.
A commitment to social responsibility is also fundamental to the business of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. We're one of the 12 regional reserve banks that have the same general role as the US Federal Reserve Bank, in Washington, Chaired by Mr. Ben Bernanke. The Federal Reserve has two roles: To promote full employment and to keep inflation under control.
You don't do this job in a vacuum. Chairman Bernanke goes out of his way to understand that monetary policy impacts real people, real jobs and real hopes.
So, what links these diverse organizations is a desire to be relevant, be of service and be sustainable.
Let me fast-forward from what I learned as a young boy and my business career to my work at The Hershey Company.
You may not know that each time you buy a Hershey's candy bar, a Reese's cup, Hershey's Kisses or Twizzlers, you are actually doing a little bit of good. Let's look at how our consumers see our brands on TV.
[Hershey Advertising Video]
I hope you liked those as much as I do.
The story behind those brands is even more interesting. Why? Because a percentage of each product we sell goes to support The Milton Hershey School, one of the most remarkable institutions with which I've ever been involved.
The company founders, Milton and Catherine Hershey, never had children of their own. And in 1909, 103 years ago, they decided to devote the wealth they earned from the chocolate company to create the Milton Hershey School, a home and school for what were then called orphaned boys. Every shareholder of the company knows that a portion of the profits helps keep the school going in perpetuity.
Today, after 103 years of continuous operations, the Milton Hershey School is a living embodiment of Milton Hershey's dedication to nurturing young students in need, into productive, caring adults. The modern School is a cost-free, private coeducational home and school for racially diverse children from families of low income, limited resources and social need.
It is one of the largest residential K through12 schools in the world.
Milton Hershey School currently has 1,800 students and is located nearby Hershey's headquarters. The school covers every cost associated with tuition, healthcare, housing, clothing, and transportation. That works out to be about 75,000 per student, per year. It's worth every penny and then some. Moreover qualifying students can receive full scholarships.
I could spend my entire time today, talking about this gift from Mr. and Mrs. Hershey as the ultimate CSR story. But the point I want to make is that five-score-and-three-years ago, Mr. Hershey believed it was critical to do the right thing and to give back to our Pennsylvania community.
Let's take a closer look at Milton Hershey School in this TV ad.
[Show Milton Hershey School :60 TV ad]
With the Milton Hershey School as backdrop, it's not a big leap to suggest that The Hershey Company should contribute to other communities, such as farmers in Ghana who grow the cocoa beans that are the key ingredients in all of our delicious chocolate products.
For more than a century we have sourcing cocoa beans from a narrow band along the equator for Hershey chocolate products. While farming practices and communities differ greatly, region by region, it is also true that most cocoa farmers live in what we would describe as impoverished conditions.
Cocoa is their cash crop. Cocoa will help them buy uniforms for their young school children. And yet, as many of you know, companies like Hershey face continuing scrutiny about the issue of child labor on cocoa farms, particularly in West Africa.
The Hershey Company, in tandem with our industry association, has been tackling the issue for many, many years. For example, we sent teachers from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania to help African farm communities in the 1960s. But it's clear to all of us that much more needs to be done. After all, if this were an easy issue to resolve, we would have done so by now.
We are continuing to invest in new approaches and innovations delivered through outstanding partners. Earlier this year Hershey announced a $10 million commitment to West Africa through 2017. We announced targets of directly impacting 750,000 farmers and over two million community members. To understand how we plan to do that, we need to understand the heart of this problem.
The problem is that the cocoa farming industry is not the same as what we know as agri-business. In Ghana alone, there are 700,000 cocoa farmers involved in growing cocoa beans. There is no big corporate entity or even a large collective that can make rules – and enforce them – about who can work on farms and how much they can and will be paid.
So while that issue continues to percolate, The Hershey Company has looked at other ways in which we can help improve the lives of farmers and families in the region.
There's another important business fact that also impacts our plans.
The fact is that the world loves Chocolate and chocolate products and Hershey products in particular. The global demand continues to escalate by 3-4% a year. We are seeing some of our biggest growth in China, India, Mexico and Brazil.
How many of you have lived or traveled in West Africa? Let me see a show of hands.
For those who have not, picture large swaths of land with literally hundreds of thousands of small cocoa farms in the region. And if you never knew, the delicious chocolate we love starts as a large fruit, or a pod, that grows on a cocoa tree. The pods are harvested, split open to extract the beans that are eventually processed into the end product of chocolate.
In this part of the world, the daily information flow that we take for granted in our business and personal lives, is simply not available. Villages are isolated by bad roads and cut off during rainy seasons. A farmer may see an agricultural extension agent once a year, if he is fortunate. As a result, most cocoa farmers use the same growing practices as their grandfathers. Farming has not been modernized and the farmer and his family have not seen their incomes increased.
The cocoa farmers in West Africa, for a variety of reasons, do not produce as much cocoa per acre of farm land, as do farmers in Malaysia and Indonesia. I believe it's a shared interest – for the farmers and Hershey – to help increase the crop yields.
For farmers to learn anything more than what their neighbor knows – such as information about an insect that is attacking trees in another part of the country, or about an irrigation technique that other farmers 100 miles away have used successfully – they would have to either go to a local market or wait for slow-moving word of mouth.
Yet surprisingly, due to the growth of wireless technology, there is wide penetration of cell phone coverage in rural Ghana. This is a game changer.
Many of these same farmers – who may not be able to read or haven't traveled more than 50 kilometers from their homes -- have access to cell phones. Cell phone coverage is about 85 percent of the country. By the way, I didn't say all of the farmers have cell phones. In some areas, there may be one or two cell phones, but 10 different people who have a sim card can use a neighbor's phone.
Now that we have started CocoaLink- Connecting Cocoa Communities -- it seems like an obvious CSR effort. Actually starting this program was a big leap of faith for us and our partners – The Ghana Cocoa Board (known as COCOBOD); the World Cocoa Foundation. We did not know whether the farmers would embrace CocoaLink.
It's also one of those programs that could not have happened until the right elements came into place. It started with an "aha" moment of one of our Hershey employees who was traveling in the region. That gentleman is Andy McCormick, Hershey's Vice President of Public Affairs [gesture toward Andy if possible].
He noticed the number of people using cell phones, and hatched an idea that evolved into the CocoaLink project.
The idea is quite simple: Utilize what is becoming almost ubiquitous technology to provide farmers with information that will help them with yields, crop disease prevention, market and weather news, and information on laws and regulations.
While Hershey is an initial funding sponsor of this program, we're leaving the implementation of the program to Ghanaian local experts. The Cocoa Research Council of Ghana is the major content provider, and we're getting technical support from one of the leading wireless providers.
I believe that this is proof of a CSR program that works. In our case, it started with three partners, but we've now attracted other organizations that see the value. We are collaborating with the existing U.S. Aid program; a Ghanaian NGO with extensive presence in the country; and the US Peace Corps to spread the word and teach farmers how to work with the technology.
We have built in sustainability principles from the start. Within three years of the first message being delivered to farmers, the program will become part of the Ghana Cocoa Board. In other words, Hershey and the World Cocoa Foundation will exit and CocoaLink will be owned and operated by the Ghanaians.
So how does CocoaLink work? We started about 16 months ago with a pilot program in 15 communities covering about 8,000 farmers. Ultimately, we think we can reach 100,000 farmers in about three years.
Signing up is easy. All a farmer needs to do is send a free, simple short text message to the CocoaLink site. CocoaLink is promoting the program through signage and information kiosks at local cocoa markets.
Once a farmer signs up, information will be sent by text and voice messages in local languages and English to subscribers.
Farmers can send questions into CocoaLink by text or voice. And farmers can use the phones for other purposes.
One mother in a village told us that she is now using her phone to keep in touch with teachers at a local school. Anecdotes are fine, but we have real metrics we'll use to measure the effectiveness of the program. These metrics include literacy training, cocoa quality and quantity measurement, and improved farmer incomes.
I am happy to announce today that CocoaLink is on track to reach 25,000 Ghanaian farmers by the end of this year. The Hershey Company and the World Cocoa Foundation are also working to expand CocoaLink into neighboring Ivory Coast, the number one producer of cocoa beans in the world.
I can tell you that being chairman of The Hershey Company is hard work, but there are some fun parts! For instance, I get to go to board meetings in Hershey, PA, and if I want – I get an occasional free pass for the rides at our nearby amusement park!
Setting up CocoaLink was a lot of hard work and attention to details. But I also had the honor and privilege to travel to Ghana in 2011 when we made the public announcement of the program at the Cocoa House in the capital city of Accra. Here is a closer look at CocoaLink and how it works.
[Cocoa Link Video]
It's difficult to put into words how very proud I felt of my company for being part of this program. But I was even more buoyed by the reaction of our partners on that day. The smiles and enthusiasm from COCOBOD, other Ghanaian officials and the World Cocoa Foundation were infectious.
CocoaLink is an extraordinary project. It's making a difference in Ghana and that's a primary objective. I believe CocoaLink is making a difference at Hershey. Our board approved it, and our program brought together an interdisciplinary team that goes beyond the board room and public affairs. Our CSR team included Information Technology, Global Sourcing, and Government Affairs. I wish ideas like this came to us every day.
There's one more personal note I want to make about CocoaLink and my trip to Ghana. This was my second trip to Africa, and while I was there I had a desire to learn a little more about my ancestors.
We arranged a visit to what are known as slave castles. They were built on the coast by several European nations starting in the late 1400's. They have innocuous names such as Elmina Castle or Cape Coast Castle.
Make no mistake about this; these were not fairytale castles or those we associate with Europe.
These were places where traders imprisoned natives in underground storage compartments while waiting to be transported in equally inhumane ships across to the New World.
You can Google Ghana and slave castles to see TV reports of what I saw with my own eyes.
For me, this visit was truly an emotional roller coaster. I walked through the slave castles knowing that's where my ancestors trod.
I know my ancestors got on those boats and sailed across the ocean with no language other than culture.
The odds of their surviving – first the incarceration, then the journey across the Atlantic – were astonishingly slim.
Surprisingly, this visit made me proud in a way I had never been proud before. It took me full circle.
My ancestors had gotten on a boat – not of their free will.
I had gotten on a plane – clearly of my own free will to return to that place, and to do good.
To put it another way, the circularity of the world is only matched by the roundness of the globe.
Allow me to wrap up with a few thoughts:
As far as I'm concerned, corporate social responsibility starts and ends with individual responsibility.
The story I have shared with you today about CocoaLink is yet another manifestation of CSR that has been in place at The Hershey Company for well over a century. It's part of the very fabric of our organization, and will continue to be so.
Let me pose a question and to connect CocoaLink with the other issues going on in West Africa and our best efforts to solve the labor issues. The question is this: "Why would I want to be part of any effort that would continue to enslave my kinsmen?
"I would not!"
We're working on that complex problem.
You know, it is true that business is personal. Very personal. And it should be. You are working very hard for your companies and organizations. You know that embracing CSR means your brand will flourish and thrive in the coming decades. You also know that failure is unacceptable.
So when I look at the remarkable story of Milton Hershey, I think of my friend, Oscar. I met Oscar just once. He's a cocoa farmer and he has a cell phone. We had something in common on that day. For me, it was the affirmation that The Hershey Company – the greatest confectionery company in the world - is investing in solutions to social problems that our consumers expect us and demand us to solve. It's not easy and it's not supposed to be. But like my grandfather said, "You do well by doing good."
That's commerce with compassion.
Thank you and I would be glad to address any of your questions.


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