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It is very difficult to imagine, when we don't have to deal with it. Load shedding. No electricity for hours. For many people (in Pakistan) it means 1. Can't do work without electricity. 2. can't make food. 3. Can't use air fan when almost 50 degrees celsius 4. Dark in the house. All of these limitations are put on the inhabitons of Pakistan. The rich may buy a generator and solve their issue. But what about those who hardly have money to buy food. Yet ramadan is still to come. The issues of the people living there. It's not easy at all.
Ya Allah, have khaas mercy on them. Help them live a good normal life, without issues about roti kapda makan ( food clothes house), so they also have great chances of prospering. And don't have to deal with the basics. (Maslow behovspyramide). They have talent, but no help. Support them. Make people support them with ikhlas (sincerity). Aamen
Jab ham koi baat me vazn chahte hon, tou Islam ka nazariya samne lane ki koshish karte hai. Kisi ache amal, achi baat mein asr lane keliye uspe khud uska amal hona bohot zarori hai. Theek aise hi, jab koi kisi ko namaz ki dawat dein, to wo khud be-namazi na ho. Aksar kaha jata hai, ke aanso ka matlab hai ke dil narm hai. Yaha thori si clarification ki zarorat shayd hai. Aanso ko sirf Allah vazan kar sakte hai. Lekin phir bhi, koi tou pehchan hogi? Kounsa aanso asli, kounsa aanso nakli? Niyat aur ikhlas to zarori he hi. Lekin ek aur baat bhi hai, jise nazar andaz nahi kar sakte. Woh ye, ke aanso Allah, Hazoor Paak ﷺ, Islam, Iman ki mohabbat ki vajeh se hai, ya ke dunya ki muhabbat ke vajeh se? Vazan tou sirf us aanso mein hai, jo Islam ki muhabbat ki vajeh se girra ho. Chahe woh ruh ka rona ho, ya aanso ki shakl mein aankh se tapke. Allah hamein aur sare ummation ko Islam ki muhabbat ki vajeh se aankhon aur ruh se aanso naseeb ho. Aur vo aanso aisa kamal kar jaye, ke hamara imaan aur amal, zahiri aur batni tarike se, mazbot hojaye. Aamen.
Everyone wants to protect the people they care for. No matter what religion, color, ethnicity you have. You try your best to help, protect, provide for the people you love. If their air is polluted in your city, and your child has allergies or asthma, you will do everything you can to move to a place where he can live a healthy life. If and when we hear about a disease that is spreading because of a virus, almost every family member are eager to help those they love to take a vaccine against it. People are afraid of contagious diseases. When any person is infected with a contagious disease, that person is transferred to a special room in the hospital. Each and every who goes in and out has to wear special clothing. And the things that goes into the room, has to be special cleaned. This is to prevent the disease from spreading to the whole community or town.
The Types Of Diseases Are Many
Some have psychological diseases. Some has physical sickness. Some has sickness in their soul/heart. The last type of sickness, the sickness of the spiritual heart. The place where feelings, emotions take life. Both good and bad. Since we are talking about sickness, I mean feelings like, envy, jealousy, hate, harshness, backbiting, lying, arrogance, making fun of others, looking down on others, slander, etc. Something negative. Since niyah, ikhlas and integrity comes from the spiritual heart. The quality of these three, will affect the disease of the heart. If our heart is diseased, there is no way we will have pure good niyah, ikhlas or integrity. So as being a muslim. If we want Allah to accept our deeds, we have to correct this. Or else no matter how big or gracious deeds we are doing, or people think we are doing, it will be rejected by Allah. What good will it do for us, if the good we do is rejected, in the final account? Ya Allah, grant us to win the struggle of perfectly getting rid of our diseases in our spiritual heart. Aamen.
Choose Good Company And Halal Fun
A spiritual alive heart, who knows the value of spirituality and good behaviour, will not be able to spend time with people who has diseases in their hearts. Their idea of halal fun, differs. A spiritually dead heart, doesn`t mind going to places where he / she can do more sins, like backbiting, lying, slander, vicious tongue, chugl khaur, etc. The heart is dead meaning, these sins doesn`t seem bad. They have fun doing these sins. It`s darkening their heart making it black. On the other side, we have a heart who is spiritually alive, he / she is aware of the effects of sins on their life. They want to make sure that the fun they are doing is actually allowed in Islam. Doing sins, that increase your punishments, is not funny. But rather doing deeds that make their ranks raised in this world and the next, is fun. In other words, when these people step out of their house, towards work or school or any event, they will do the background check, how can I spend my day, doing the right matters, correctly, and also be in constant struggle of correcting myself in the process, because I really want to earn those rewards, without them being rejected. So someone they know, invites them to an event. They will ask for the details. Will there be music there? Will there be a mix gathering between the genders? What is the dress code of the event? hijabi or non-hijabi? What kind of people are attending? Sinners or practising muslims? Will there be halal food? Where is it? How will I be able to get there safely, while also in hijab? From these questions one can imagine, these people doesn`t play with their life. Going on an event, where they might commit sins, is a big issue. They do not want to increase in sins. These people are serious about where they want to spend their eternity. Spending time with people who has diseases in the heart can be very contagious. And it does have an effect on our lives. That is why it is so important to help oneself, to only attend events , where these matters shouldn`t be any issue. There is a reason why Allah has said, that the majority of people in hell-fire will be women. One of the reason is the sins of the tongue. We who have been raised in this community, knows how fast any information travels, before the entire community is talking about it. In other words. We aren`t doing enough when it comes to increasing the healthy-ness of our spiritual heart. How can we explain how fast the whole community knows something, if we muslims in the community weren`t backbiters? If we were obeying Allah and protecting ourself from the sins of the tongue, the info would have died a permanent death, with the first who heard it. Instead the reality is that everyone knows it, within in day.
An Act Of Worship With Highest Reward And Acceptance
If and when we are able to correct our niyah, ikhlas, quality of deed, our deeds will be rewarded and accepted with the highest rewards. No matter how little the deed is. Our intention will be to do every deed for the sake of Allah. I will please my spouse for the sake of Allah. I will fulfil my duties towards my children for the sake of Allah. I will work with integrity at my school and work, for the sake of Allah. I will be good to neighbours, to strangers, to kin for the sake of Allah. I will be good to animals for the sake of Allah. I will help the community for the sake of Allah. When we are able to have these kinds of intentions, Allah isn`t stingy in rewarding us. Allah, has made us because he wants us to come back to Him in a good obedient way. When we are doing good deeds with right intentions and ikhlas, the same right intention and ikhlas will protect us from doing bad deeds. I am not going to lie, because Allah dislikes dishonesty. I am not going to backbite, because Allah dislikes eating your own brothers flesh. I am not going to be selfish and only think about myself. I am not going to slander other people. I am not going to help a marriage break. I am not going to only think about my rights, but I will balance that with also thinking about my duties. If and when we are able to correct ourselves by helping our spirituality to grow, every deed of our conduct, will become an act of worship. Because the intention and sincerity is correct. We aren`t only in the state of ibadah when we are in salah, but also when we are good to our spouse, take care of our children, fulfil our duties for the sake of pleasing Allah. Even that day our spouse is angry at us, we dig in our goodwill, to be good to him / her. I know how difficult fitnah is for a man when he steps out of the house, I will make sure I please my husband sufficiently every day. I know my wife, has had a tough day, I will make dinner for her today. Our parents get angry at us because of their old age, trying to practice sabr with them. My teen is giving my a hard time, maybe he /she is need of more positive attention. When we feed our spiritual heart with Allah`s remembrance our goodwill increases, and we are able to do more for Allah`s Creation. We want to please Allah, to gain Allahs love and because we want to thank Him. Allah has said, You have not thanked me, if you haven`t thanked people. So when we are grateful to others, because we have so many matters we have been helped, we are thanking Allah. And Allah will love us more. And a true alive spiritual heart, wants Allah`s love. When we do good deeds to please Allah and thank Him, He loves us and make the good righteous, also love us. There is no better validation of being a good person, than that the Creator of everything in this Universe, is saying, that He loves you. Ya Allah, make us of those You love. Ya Allah make us of those Hazoor Paak pbuh loves. Ya Allah make us of those, hadrat Jibreel alayhisalam loves. Aamen. Ya Allah, grant us to win the struggle of purifying our hearts from the diseases it has, with tawbah and repentance and shining it up with dhikr of You, every day. Aamen. Ya Allah grant us to win the struggle of correcting our niyah, ikhlas and quality of every deed, so every deed of our conduct is filled with sunnah and becomes an act of worship, which You, Allah accept with the highest rewards and acceptance. Aamen. Grant this to me, my family, my friends, and all ummati, till the end of time. Grant us to win the struggle of perfecting the quality of the purity of our heart, of our soul, of our deeds, of our speech, of our thoughts, of our conduct all the time. Aamen summa aamen.
People often want Allah to support them. People want Allah to love them. We can't compare the creation with the Creator. But still when we do, we will get a glimpse of how we can achieve Allah's love and support through it.
A Mother And Her Child
Every mother is different. But every mother has one thing in common; she loves her child. The child who was made out of her own self, is dearer to her than almost everything. We know that even if our mother is angry at us. She is not able to hate us. If only for a little while. Maybe because we are made from her flesh, and Allah has put mercy in a mother for her child. When we behave in a manner she dislikes, she will most probably get upset. But as time passes, she easily forgives. Even if she denounces the action. She is not able to not love her child. When we want anyone we like to like us, to love us, that person will like us if we behave in a manner that person likes. And when we behave in a manner that person dislikes, that person will dislike us. People does not have such mercy towards us as our mother. If they dislike or hate us, they will still do that. No matter what we do for them. If we draw the similtude to our Creator in this matter, we can easily understand; when we do deeds Allah, likes, with the right intention and sincerity, He loves us. When we make mistakes, and don't make astagfar and tawbah, He dislikes us. But He doesn't hate us. He (Allah) hates our bad deeds. And He loves us so much that the door to Him is always open through sinsere tawbah and repentence. Til our last breath He (Allah) awaits that we will return to Him. When we knit a jersey or draw a drawing, we feel a ownership to it. Allah, our Creator feels a ownership of His creation. Like a parent feels ownership of his child. When a child does something good, the father mother will say to his/her friends, "That's my son" or "That's my daughter". So If our child leaves us to another country or because of anger, and as purily as parents love their children, a part of them will always, wait for their children to come back to their parents, repenting. Allah does also feel ownership to His creation. Through Allah's beautiful creation (world, sun, moon, weather, planets, creatures, humans- inside and whom are eaten and who eats. We can see and comprehend how smart Our Creatur must be. Because everything is so perfectly made, without any mistakes. If Allah's creation is so beautiful and in such perfect system, it is because everything is created by the Most Beautiful and the most perfect in all ways. Allah's Qualities/ Attributes are the Most Perfect. When we do deeds, that Allah likes, He raises our status and says, "you're my friend". Imagine people are very proud of having good, influental people as friends. If the Creator of the whole universe says, that you're his /her friend, you've got yourself the most influential friend there dude. A friend Who just says to it "be" and it is. Don't ever downplay that. And be truly thankful. And correct yourself when your gratefulness decreases. So if we want Him (Allah) to like us, we will accomplish that by living the way He wants us to live our life. And protect us from those things he dislikes. When we will accomplish that, according to our means/ resources, He will love us. If we lack, the ability to do this, we will not be able to achieve this. But a beautiful fact about Allah, is that he does not reward according to results, he rewards us according to our effort. In other words, even if we make mistake often, and we with pure intention and sincerity make tawbah, often, he will help us, and reward us for believing in His Mercy, and not giving up on ourselves. And standing up and trying again, every time we fail.
Support Of A True Friend
The quality, most people appreciate in a good friend, is support. In good days. In bad days. When we support someone, our love for that cause, is seen through our actions. In other words, if we love Allah, and want Him to support us, we can start with supporting the matters He likes. And Allah, Who is All-Hearing and All-Seeing, and knows what we do in private and in public. The All-Knowing of what we do at all times. In other words, we can't hide anything from Him. So when we want to gain His support, we have to be true to ourselves, and clean in our actions, because He knows, when we are un-true. What will we gain of reward, when He can easily read that we just wanted people to know, we didn't do the deed solely for Him. The deed will not be accepted. Such liars, we do not want to become. Lie to our own souls. What is the need for that, when Allah will punish us for it. If we want Allahs support, we have to correct our intention and sincerity and be just as devoted when we are alone as we are in public. Because Allah knows. He can see through us. How foolish we are, and false, when we can't stick to important basic principles of Islam, when we are alone. Just because no-one can see us. A part of imaan/faith is believing that Allah is All-Aware of what we are doing at all times (ihsan). Do we comprehend that the biggest witness of our deeds is our Creator. If He will witness against us, how lost will we be in the hereafter, when our Creator will not even look at us because of His anger towards our disobedience of His rules. Ya Allah, grant us to win our struggle of perfecting our obedience to You (Allah) in public and in private of every moment and deed. For me, my family, my friends and every ummati, till the end of time. Ya Allah, inspire in us good, and protect us from the evil within ourselves. Help us to recognize the good within ourselves, and make it increase our imaan, humility and humbleness with full submissiveness to You. Grant us self-empowerment. Grant us proactiveness in doing good deeds with great sincerity and intentions, so we accomplish deeds with the greatest reward and that You accept. Aameen summa aameen.
It is not difficult to understand that we help and protect those we love, more than others. Even though we are helpful to a stranger in need. It is humanly love, that it hurts us more if someone cause pain to people or creatures who are close to us.
Imagine how much it angers Allah, when someone He loves, is caused pain by people. The honor of a person that is close to Allah is more important to Allah than the qaaba itself. Is it possible for anyone to understand how angry Allah becomes, when someone tries to dis-honor such a person, again and again.
It is not we who decide who Allah will honor. He doesn't look at our possesions, he looks at our sincerity, intention and quality of our deeds according to our capability. No matter how much someone tries to dis-honor someone, if Allah honors him, he will be honoured. Allah honours those who humble themselves for Him.
May Allah lead you to repentence, long before you are seized by the punishments, so that you are able to decrease it or be saved from it. Aameen.
Most of those who wants to prosper try to do as many good deeds we can. Though there are a few important matters we forget in this pursue of reward.
Our deeds will be weighed, not counted.
Based on our intention, sincerity and quality in our deeds depending on our means. Even if we have done a lot of good, if it was for being praised/liked or to achieve something in the world, our intention is not to please Allah. Only those deeds we do solely for our Creator, will be rewarded. A thoughtful muslim will always be struggling to keep his intention and sincerity in check. If he manages this, even if the good deed he/she does is small, the reward can be really great. Similarly, without the right intention and sincerity, a great deed, will be turned back. (Unlikely to be rewarded/may get him/her punished instead).
If we don't fulfil the rights other have on us
We will have to give away our deeds on judgement day, to those people. Allah is not the only one who has a right on us. We must always be correcting our priority list, and give each and every their rights, according to our capability.
We will not be rewarded for our good deeds in the herafter
Without correct faith (imaan). A non-muslim might achieve good in this world from the good they have done. Though without correct faith (belief in One Creator (He is One – Tawheed), (we will be accountable for how we live our life – individually and rewarded or punished accordingly) -Judgement Day, His Angels, the eternal life after death – Herafter, Allahs previous Messengers and His books, and that Prophet Muhammad is the last Messenger of Allah.
This is the bear minimum.
The more we will strive/struggle in this cause the more our ranks will be raised. May Allah keep us focused on always striving/struggling to have the sunnah intentions, sunnah sincerity and sunnah quality in our deeds, so that we will be immensely rewarded. O Allah, accept my supplications. May Allah make it easy for us to prosper in both worlds. Aameen.


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Our son ran away from home all the time because Martha here used to corner him.
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First of all, there are 5 of them. My philosophy is that they have to learn how to get along with each other first so that they can interact with others. Now, I'm not saying that they ALWAYS get along with each other. There are a lot of days where the bickering drives me batty, but for the most part, they get along fairly well.
Second, we have a wonderful church where there are many opportunities for them to make friends. My children love going to church and have many friends there.
Third, they have the activities they are involved in. The Boy and Soccer Girl have made many friends playing soccer, and Ballerina and Little Red have friends at dance class.
Finally, homeschooling allows them to develop social skills that are important in life. My children are able to interact with others of many different ages. While they aren't always the most articulate when speaking with adults, it is a skill we are working on, and they usually do a pretty good job.
I think a lot of people have a misconception about the socialization done in a traditional school setting. To most, this seems to be the only place that children can "be socialized". In actuality, quite the opposite is true. Children in a traditional school setting are only around other children the same age as they are for 6 to 8 hours a day. For the majority of that time, they aren't allowed to "socialize". They usually have about 30 minutes for recess in which to do all of the socialization that most people assume is so important for children to get at school.
I've said before that homeschooling isn't for everyone; I understand that and place no judgment on anyone who chooses a different means to educate their children. I just want people to understand that socialization (or the lack of socialization) is not a reason NOT to homeschool. The definition of socialization is "a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position." This process can and should take place in MANY more places than a traditional school setting.
We had the opportunity to "practice" our socialization skills last week with some friends. We love getting together with this family, and the kids always have a great time. It was so much fun watching my children get filthy hands making mud pies, play on the tire swing, and just hang out with friends.


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Punk music was very male-dominated but there are some great women punk artists such as Siouxsie Sioux and Poly Styrene. I have written about punk and metrosexuality before!
Someone claims that Brigitte Bardot would 'rip Debbie Harry to shreds', showing simultaneously that they know Blondie's work whilst also being able to gently put down the peroxide artiste.
But I have news for them. Debbie Harry is as hard as nails. She would have to be, to make a name for herself in that 'male dominated' arena of punk pop music! NOBODY would rip her to shreds.
SO I am going to list my favourite hard as nails punk WOMEN who are as strong, provocative and downright scary as those punk boys are pretty.
Apart from Debbie Harry, there is of course PJ Harvey, wielding her guitar like a massive cock or a chainsaw:
Kat Bjelland of Babes In Toyland, screaming and writhing her way through the Riot Grrl revolution like no other:
Pauline Black who is a ska singer (ska is influenced by punk) but her attitude is 100% PUNK ROCK:
And finally, the amazing, the fearless, the poetic, the slightly unhinged, Patti Smith (who I am going to see live in concert in September):


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When I discovered I won tickets to Rothbury, my first step was to hit the festival Web site and check out the lineup. I quickly picked out the bands I was familiar with — the must sees — then I went to my gurus of music — my friends — to ask who else they would recommend seeing. From there, I was advised that Secret Machines, Gomez, and Trampled By Turtles were acts I would want to catch. I trust my friends - and quickly built yesterday's Rothbury agenda around those acts.
But not before starting the day with Rothbury yoga. Rothbury yoga is no joke. Yoga with hip hop and R&B as the background music versus sitar-strains and Enya? Something I could definitely get on board with. Refreshed and sweaty, we began our day of music.
We started at Sherwood Court to watch Trampled by Turtles. This five-member bluegrass band is from Minnesota, and the audience seemed to be made up of a lot of Minnesota natives familiar with the group. Their harmonies were amazing, but it was a bit more twang than I like, so we decided to move on to the Ranch Area.
The first band playing was Dead Confederates. As this was a day of musical unknowns for me, I was unfamiliar with every song they played — but it was a rocking set. The Ranch Area was pretty mellow — people kicking back on beach towels and blankets catching some rest, watching the show, enjoying the sun. Many took advantage of the wide open spaces for tossing a Frisbee, or, in one case, a couple playing catch with an imaginary ball (they were quite good at it).
We moved back into the shade for the Secret Machines set. The Ranch Area was filling up and the sun (blessed by the gods of Rothbury, no doubt) was shining down hard on the day. Having been steered towards this band, I had downloaded a couple of their tunes prior to my arrival here. They did not disappoint. In fact, they were far better live.
We stuck around for the Gomez show, a band that I had heard snippets of on "Grey's Anatomy" (who hasn't?). They were thoroughly entertaining, with several extended jams, and more well-known tunes such as "How We Operate" and "See the World".
It was after Gomez our day got tricky - we knew we wanted to see Dave Matthews Band (us and everyone else!), but didn't know any of the other bands playing. My husband and I decided to employ some strategy: We hit the Odeum Stage and figured we'd catch every act until DMB. As the crowds thinned out after each act, we would scoot up. This strategy worked well in two regards as we caught some very amazing musical talent and we had phenomenal "seats" for Dave Matthews.
We arrived in time to catch the second half of a rocking set by Citizen Cope (again, an act I was unfamiliar with), we then scooted forward for Michael Franti and the Spearheads. I know everyone expects everyone to say DMB was "the show of the day" — but not me.
Michael Franti and his group were phenomenal, and not just musically — they had amazing showmanship and had the crowd jumping, dancing and singing along. At one point, Michael Franti commended the Rothbury setup, and discussed the common setup for tossing 'trash" (Recycle, Compost, or Landfill). He then asked the crowd, "Where does one put their chewing gum?" My husband and I were only too happy to shout the answer (Landfill, in case you were wondering), as we had asked that very question from "One Person Who Cares" earlier in the day.
After his set, we moved to our position close to the stage for DMB. It was cramped, no doubt, but the view was phenomenal. Seeing Dave and the band jam to their hits was an experience I won't soon forget. When it comes to musicianship, you'd be hard pressed to find an act that jams like DMB. The highlight for me was their version of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" (and it was funny, as that was the one moment when all of our neighbors in the crowd stopped singing, as they were probably too young when the song came out).
We made our way back to the car in the dark after a phenomenal day of music. Saturday was the kind of day I was hoping for at Rothbury — the kind full of music I had never heard before, sounds and styles to be exposed to. It was the kind of day that will ultimately end up costing me a fortune downloading all my new favorites on iTunes.
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The word "tragic" is often to describe R&B singer Bettye LaVette—but she laughs so hard when talking about her rocky 45-year career that it's clear her setbacks have only made her tougher. As a Detroit teenager, she had a hit with 1962's "My Man—He's A Loving Man," but though she was a friend and tourmate to many soul superstars throughout the decade, LaVette was never able to break into the upper bracket. After a string of excellent singles for small labels like Calla and Silver Fox, LaVette traveled south to Alabama's heralded Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1972 to record an album for Atlantic. The result, Child Of The Seventies, might have been a minor masterpiece of the era, had it ever been released. Instead, Atlantic inexplicably shelved it, leaving LaVette twisting in the wind on the verge of her biggest triumph. From there, she released a smattering of records—including a dark-horse disco hit, "Doin' The Best That I Can"—before spending time in the Broadway show Bubbling Brown Sugar. She realized a dream in 1982 when Motown issued a full-length titled Tell Me A Lie, but the album flopped, and LaVette spent the next two decades in relative limbo.
In 2000, fueled by fresh interest in original soul music, Child Of The Seventies finally saw the light of day in the form of a French import called Souvenirs. Things snowballed from there: After signing to the high-profile Anti- imprint, LaVette recorded 2003's gritty I've Got My Own Hell To Raise. Her new album for Anti- carries some serious baggage: The Scene Of The Crime was recorded in Muscle Shoals at FAME Studios with legendary session musicians David Hood (who played on Child Of The Seventies) and Spooner Oldham. And Hood's son Patterson and his neo-Southern rock group Drive By Truckers were LaVette's backing band for Crime. The singer's still-simmering frustration erupts in the aptly dubbed "Before The Money Came (The Battle Of Bettye LaVette)," Crime's most bitterly personal yet swaggering track. Now 61—and looking and sounding as good as ever—LaVette spoke with The A.V. Club about rejection, vindication, and the correct usage of the term "soul singer." (Apparently there isn't one.)
The A.V. Club: Is "The Battle Of Bettye LaVette" really the first song you've ever written?
Bettye LaVette: For the most part, especially when it comes to telling a story like this one does. I'm not a writer, and I don't think I could write about anything I didn't know. And I don't feel like writing about everything that I do know. [Laughs.] Patterson was my muse, and he talked me into writing that song. He said that anybody who could talk as much as I do could write a song. [Laughs.] Songwriting doesn't even interest me. If you're sitting down talking to Patterson, though, he has to stop at every third word so he can make a note about a song. [Laughs.]
AVC: In "Battle," you sing about David Ruffin and the other early Motown stars who were friends of yours growing up in Detroit. You wound up on Motown in the '80s, but did you ever come close to being signed to the label in the '60s?
BL: Oh, no. I didn't sound enough like a girl for them. [Laughs.] They really wanted a very pop sound. The producers who were my champions there—Clarence Paul, Andrew Williams, Mickey Stevenson—were considered antiquated, left over from the '50s. Even when I did do my album for Motown, it was through connections I had in Memphis and Nashville. [Laughs.] But originally, the only Motown artists that had records before I did were Mary Wells and Smokey Robinson.
AVC: In the '60s you toured with people like Otis Redding and James Brown. Do you have any particular memories or impressions of that experience?
BL: The first six months that I sung, I worked with Otis Redding, Clyde McPhatter, Ben E. King, Barbara Lynn, Clarence "Frogman" Henry. And then in the next five years of my career, I worked with James Brown, The Drifters, gosh, who else was around at that time? [Laughs.] After all these people became stars, I never got to see them very much. Some of them never again; I never got to see Otis again after he started to be a star. But I knew him from singing at the Royal Peacock together. That's a whole little story unto itself. [Laughs.]
AVC: When you eventually signed to Motown in the '80s, did it feel like a vindication?
BL: I was very happy. I still had hopes that the same thing would happen to me that happened to all my old friends. I didn't feel vindicated. I feel vindicated now, 'cause I'm 61, my voice is strong, and I can fit into a size 6. [Laughs.] This is vindication.
AVC: Another thing you bring up in "Battle" is your aborted album, Child Of The Seventies. How did that recording come about?
BL: It was actually the second time I'd been with Atlantic. My first record was on Atlantic in 1962, on a label that was distributed by them. So in the early '70s, Atlantic still knew me from the hit I'd had before. I went down to Muscle Shoals Sound and recorded the album in, David Hood tells me, three days.
AVC: What do you remember about that recording session?
BL: First of all, it was very different from recording in the North. It was so laidback. Nothing was sophisticated; everything was pretty natural. [Laughs.] Like rolling over in bed.
AVC: It seems there were a handful of soul singers from the North who really fit in with the Southern soul scene—people like yourself, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett.
BL: That's probably because we were all the first generation of our families that lived in the North. We had been to the South a lot. It wasn't culture shock. [Laughs.]
AVC: When you first listened to the playback of that record in 1972, did it sound like something special?
BL: Yes. I knew that all these musicians I was working with had recorded all these hit records. I knew the songs were good and that I sang them well. And I knew I was on Atlantic. I had virtually no reason to believe they'd call me and say, "We've decided not to go forward with the project."
AVC: That's what Atlantic told you?
BL: That's exactly what they said. They had sent me plane tickets for a promotional tour. They called and asked for the tickets back and said they had decided not to go forward with the project.
AVC: Did you fight it?
BL: Well, what was I going to say? [Laughs.] Nobody gave me any information. I still really don't know what happened, or what was said in my absence. It was very much like when I was with Calla. I went to the office one day, and no one was there. I never heard from Nate McCalla again, until someone told me he'd been found in a ditch in Arizona or somewhere. [Laughs.]
AVC: How big of a personal setback was not having the album released?
BL: It was a tremendous setback. I didn't know what to do. It was a long time before the Broadway thing came along in 1979. A whole bunch of other stuff happened in between there: big stuff, insignificant stuff, stuff I can't even remember.
AVC: You had a disco hit in the '70s, "Doin' The Best That I Can."
BL: Yes. But before it took off, I asked for release from my contract and told them they could keep any money that the record made. [Laughs.] I left so that I could go to Nashville and record with the same producer, Steve Buckingham. And I never heard from the "Doin' The Best That I Can" people ever again. I guess that's why [Buckingham] felt so compelled to ask me to do the Motown album. He felt bad. [Laughs.] I had gotten myself out of a record that was actually selling. I had no idea disco was going to get as big as it got.
AVC: A lot of soul artists from the '60s and early '70s had disco comebacks later on. What was your opinion of disco at the time?
BL: I didn't like it at all. It was too much music and not enough song, and I'm not a musician or a dancer. I don't need solos to be 20 minutes long. [Laughs.] There's that line I sing in ["Battle"]: "I wouldn't cross over, so it took me a while." A lot of my friends crossed over into disco. A lot of my friends joined churches. A lot of them did all kinds of things. [Laughs.]
AVC: Unlike a lot of soul artists who came up at the same time, you didn't start out singing gospel in church.
BL: No, my parents had hangovers on Sunday morning. [Laughs.] My mother was from Louisiana, though, so the church was very important to them, whether they went or not. But I did go to Catholic school and went through all that, because that was the thing to do.
AVC: Do you think that difference in background had any bearing on the style you developed?
BL: Oh, absolutely, but I didn't know it at the time. I wanted to sound like whatever was selling, whether it was Dionne Warwick or Aretha Franklin. Anything. And since I wasn't selling, I felt like I didn't sound right. I think the first time someone told me they didn't hear anything but blue in my voice, that gave me something to work with. It was probably my manager Jim Lewis who really made me the artist that I am. He said, "We got to stop chasing these stupid little records that are never gonna sell anyway." He came from the big-band era. He said, "You've got to learn some real songs. You've to be a real entertainer. You got to learn how to do your show, whether you've got a record or not." And that's what he pounded into my head for 15 years before he died. He made me learn all the songs that got me the lead role in Bubbling Brown Sugar. When the show was over, I married and moved to New Orleans, but if any of those songs from Bubbling Brown Sugar had been hit records, I would've been off with my nose in the air. [Laughs.]
AVC: Were there any points in your career where you just gave up on music entirely?
BL: Yeah, about every two weeks—from the time something failed to the time something else started. Sometimes people would want to light candles around me, I was so low. [Laughs.] But as soon as I heard the telephone ring, I'd get out my high heels and lipstick and go right back to it. In all my years, no matter what I went through, I always made sure there was enough water and exercise and food involved so that when they called, I would look gorgeous. [Laughs.] Somewhere deep in my heart, I never gave up on those calls, but I wouldn't acknowledge failure by doing anything other than keeping myself healthy. That was the only way you could tell I was waiting for that next call.
AVC: You were never tempted to just let yourself go?
BL: Oh, yeah. I would be working out and crying. I'd be lifting weights, my nose would be running, and I'd say to myself, "Nobody's ever going to see this shit." [Laughs.] It's an extremely humiliating thing. It's not like trying to find a job. In show business, you need people to like you, and people are saying "No." Not just everybody on your block—everybody in the whole fucking world. [Laughs.] And the people who did stick with me—who paid my rent and bought champagne and took me out to dinner and bought me outfits and got me to the gig—all of them kept saying, "Do not quit. Every time somebody hears you, they like you." And I'd say, "Do you know how I old I am? I'm going senile just waiting for something to happen to me." [Laughs.]
AVC: Child Of The Seventies finally got released in 2000 under the name Souvenirs. How did that come about?
BL: The man who released it, Gilles Petard, had been a friend of mine for years. Up until a few years ago, I personally knew all my fans from all around the world. And at various times, they would get gigs together in whatever country they were in, and they would send me money and get my music reissued. Everybody always talked about my Atlantic album in that little group of dead people's fans. [Laughs.] When the whole digital-reissue thing was starting, I was telling a friend of mine in New York that I had a reel-to-reel tape of the Atlantic album. He said, "Well, give it to me," and he took it and put it in stereo and cleaned it all up. I sent it to Gilles in France, and he said, "This has got to be released right now. I'm coming to New York." Then he released it and gave it to me for Christmas. [Laughs.] The industry has never done anything to help me 'til lately. It's just been fans over the years. Even what's happening to me now with [Anti- Records], it came from a friend who asked me to go to San Francisco to sing at a party. He said, "I will have an agent there who you will want to meet." At first, he wasn't going to sign me because I didn't have a manager, I didn't have a record, and I had never sold no records. But he was there and he saw the show, and he said, "Okay, I'll sign you."
AVC: What was the genesis of the new record with Drive By Truckers? Besides knowing Patterson Hood's father David from the Atlantic sessions, was it pretty much a blind date?
BL: My husband is a music historian. There's no one who's ever walked up to a microphone that he doesn't know about. He knew about Drive By Truckers' career, and I knew that Patterson was David's son, and I figured they'd have to be good, or he wouldn't be David's son. I knew that I wasn't changing anything for the album, so I knew they would have to change. And they were gracious enough to do so. [Laughs.]
AVC: Patterson wrote some really great liner notes for the album about the whole process.
BL: Yes. He should win whatever award there is for liner notes. [Laughs.]
AVC: In them, he's really honest about admitting the difficulty he had in making the record. For instance, he says you rejected 50 of the songs he originally suggested for the album.
BL: That's not true. I only rejected 40. [Laughs.] Choosing a song for somebody that you don't know—and especially someone who approaches songs as intimately and personally as I do—is like bringing me a guy and telling me to go to bed with him. You can't choose a song for me. It's very hard for a person younger than me to choose a song for me, and I don't write my own songs. Patterson was able to get me to write ["Battle"] by giving me a premise. He said, "Just write down all the stuff you've been saying since you got here." I was teasing him about the pictures of all the famous singers on the wall of the studio there in Muscle Shoals. I said, "I want my face airbrushed into every one of these goddamn pictures." [Laughs.] Then David was talking about how much he loved David Ruffin's voice, and I said, "I heard David Ruffin when he was sober." [Laughs.] It was like that the while time. They wanted to record over and over, and I refused to do so. They kept saying, "We're close, we're close," and I said, "Damn, close sure didn't kill no birds." I know I got on their nerves, I know I did. They were so glad when it was over. [Laughs.] But they did a good job. You know how women are—as long as you're doing what you want them to do, you're okay.
AVC: How did it feel to be back in Muscle Shoals and in a studio with David after 35 years?
BL: Well, I was with him longer this time. And the first time, they never saw me again. We didn't have a relationship. It's just happened that the best album I had done to date had never been released, and it was recorded at Muscle Shoals. That's my history with Muscle Shoals. It's not the same history as the rest of the artists who recorded there. But it was more of a vindication for me, since I was able to be there again with a strong voice, and I made everyone remember me this time.
AVC: You sang a Dolly Parton song on your previous album, and you cover Willie Nelson and George Jones on your new one. Do you think the kinship between country music and R&B is still is overlooked?
BL: Well, In the past I recorded [Neil Young's] "Heart Of Gold, [First Edition's] "What Condition My Condition Was In," [Charlie Rich's] "Behind Closed Doors." And those were virtually overlooked by me. [Laughs.] I don't look at songs that way. I don't look at them as country songs, though I find that country writers tend to write a stronger song. Once I sing them, they're my songs.
AVC: Solomon Burke made a recent comeback on the same label as you, and newer artists like Sharon Jones and even Amy Winehouse have had a lot of success with a retro soul sound. Why do you think this music has experienced a resurgence lately?
BL: Oh, I don't even care. I think that a great deal of the resurgence of rhythm and blues—I think the word "soul" is a white euphemism; I never heard anyone black call themselves a soul singer unless they were trying to explain themselves to somebody from Japan—comes from the fact that rap artists now try to incorporate a lot of melody. They've gone back and chosen so many things to sample, and it makes young people more and more curious. And they more they look into it, the more they like it. It's a much more solid thing; it's not all wishy-washy. It holds steady. And as they get older, they're going to want that more from music. My grandson was singing along—talking along—with some rap tune, and I said, "Do you know that when you're 45, you're not going to turn to any woman and say those words?" [Laughs.] But it's so incredible how long my voice was considered uncommercial. I think there's a whole other thing that people are looking for now. It has more to do with truth than sound. I think that people are looking for more passion and truth—not just in singing, but in everything.
AVC: Have you heard the Amy Winehouse album?
BL: No, I haven't. I'm not a music enthusiast, really. That isn't what I do in my spare time, and if it was, I wouldn't seek out new artists. Least of all not females. [Laughs.] I don't know if there's any more broadening that I have to do. I don't think there's anything that I could garner from listening to these people. It's they who should be listening.


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In a world where chronic diseases are becoming epidemic it's clear that something is wrong with the way our society forces us to live.
Today's stress (nutritional, emotional, environmental) is higher than it has ever been.
The statistics that follow, about U.S. people, are creepy to say the least:
- 1 out of 2 children will have diabetes in their life
- 1 out of 3 adults will have Type II diabetes in their life
- 1 out of 3 people will have cancer in their life
- 1 out of 5 people will have an autoimmune disease in their life
Why we are losing our battle against chronic diseases
We have been made believe that Medical Doctors know what's best for us. That's not the way it is. They have been trained only in one small piece of medical science known as allopathic reductionism.
Their intent is to keep the disease process under control with prescription drugs, not to cure.
The fact is that medical science includes other kinds of medicine too: naturopathic, chiropractic, homeopathic, osteopathic, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine and so on.
So this begs the question: why on earth we only hear about allopathic reductionism?
Naturopath Peter Glidden explains that, sadly, it's an economic reason. Pharmaceuticals companies, with the support of the government, created a monopoly since the 1920s.
Other kinds of medicine are not recognized, the insurance pays only for MD directed medicine, the media talk only about MD directed medicine and so on.
Bottom line is:
We don't know there is another way, we don't know there are alternatives.
I once worked as a writer for a big New York ad agency. Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure. Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. – Steven Pressfield
Every day of being a medical doctor was chipping away at my integrity. – Lissa Rankin, MD
We are masters of our own destiny
It's becoming evident that western traditional medicine is not the solution to our problems.
In fact, prescription drugs and the modern lifestyle never have been the solution.
We have to analyze the root cause of the diseases; the "whole person" should be focused on, not just the disease itself.
We need a different way of thinking; we need something that the mainstream media are hiding to us.
While we can't change our DNA, we can alter how it expresses itself.
External signals like nutrition, environment in which we live, thoughts, emotions, can influence regulatory proteins that determine how and even whether DNA gets expressed in certain ways.
In other words, we are not victims of our genes. We are masters of our own destiny.
So, what does it takes for the body to thrive?
In my experience there are three elements that need to be considered: nutrition (or in a wider sense biochemistry), emotional stress and physical shape; that's what natural medicine is all about.
1. Nutrition / Biochemistry
Let the food you eat be your medicine.
Let the food you eat slowly kill you or let it slowly heal you.
You can choose, you have control over the food choices you make. What we put in our body really matters.
Don't be fooled to think that junk food is not going to affect your health that much. What we eat alters the chemistry of our body either positively or negatively.
Artificially modifying the chemistry with a prescription drug will only disrupt the biochemistry even more feeding the disease.
We are not deficient in a prescription drug, we are deficient in vitamins and minerals.
Though the symptoms are covered and we are "happy". That's the crazy world we live in!
2. Emotional Stress
Nowadays mental stress is a huge problem, it's probably the major body breaker.
Our life is completely out of balance, we live in constant worries and anxiety, we doubt ourselves.
This might not be visible from the outside but it wears down ourselves from the inside.
Fear is the emotion that leads us. And when fear controls us there's no space for love.
Clearly the body is not going to sustain vitality in that condition: start accepting yourself for just being you; let go of your fears and make space for love.
3. Structure / Physical exercise
A correct structure, or physical shape, is necessary for the body to function properly.
Think of a squared tire: it won't roll.
Physical exercise is a great way to be fit: it lowers the weight, improves the shape and fitness by strengthening muscles and bones, it regulates the glucose metabolism, releases endorphin that make you feel happy and helps regulate sleep.


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Tribal War
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During the month of Ramadan, the research continued while working out the logistics to accommmodate the new workers. To complete the final details, Musafir decided to return to Lamu where it was also easier to meet new team of fundi (builders). Shortly before leaving however, rumors of clashes between two tribes in remote areas had just begun to circulate.
Once in Lamu, the same voices began to grow in intensity including episodes of people fleeing their homes.
The reasons for these conflicts have their roots far back in time and dynamics are not easy to judge. But whatever they are, they are not sufficient to justify the more than one hundred bodies discovered in two mass graves.
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After nearly a month of absence from Kipini, the Musafirs had to see what was really happening. Two decided to return to the banda (boatyard) without using the local transport. They approached Kipini by feet, crossing the savannah while talking with farmers, gradually evaluating the situation.
The trip lasted two days, completely immersed in a wild and wonderful nature. To encourage them to continue, an extraordinary event occurred: a lunar rainbow appeared.
In Kipini there was a heavy army presence and the whole village was under a curfew. The village itself was not affected by the clashes but the people were terrified by what they had seen: two villages were burned and people were forced to leave with what they could carry on their heads, aiming to reach the main road 40 kilometers away.
The exodus continued for days and the army's role in the situation was muddled: their actions were far removed from their supposed role in the situation.
The Musafirs got the impression that the presence of the project was a deterrent to the spread of violence. The banda was in fact visited by many authorities during this period.
The Musafirs chose a neutral approach. They were not there to judge or to impose to others how they should behave.
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In iOS 11 Apple is supplanting the JPEG picture organize with the new HEIC elective. So what is HEIC, what is HEIF, and by what means will they profit iPhone clients?
With the arrival of iOS 11, Apple declared that it was supplanting JPEG records with another picture design called HEIC. Why abandon the business standard of JPEGs, and what does HEIC bring to the table? We examine.
What is HEIC?
HEIC is the record design name Apple has decided for the new HEIF standard. HEIF remains for High Efficiency Image Format, and, as the name recommends, is a more streamlined approach to store picture records. Utilizing propelled, present day pressure strategies it enables advanced photos to be made in littler documents sizes, all while holding higher picture quality than its JPEG elective.
HEIF depends on the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Compression) or H.265 video organize officially utilized on fresher iPhones.
Actually, HEIC isn't generally a configuration all things considered, even more a compartment for pictures and sound. The way Apple has traces its utilization is to store still pictures encoded with the HVEC (H.265) video arrange. This works especially well with Live Photos, as different pictures can be spared in the HEIC compartment. The same is valid for double camera pictures caught on the iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 7 Plus.
HEIC isn't really an Apple innovation by any means, yet was created by the MPEG amass that was additionally in charge of the AAC arrange utilized as a part of iTunes.
What points of interest does HEIC have over JPEG?
While JPEGs have been the devoted standard of online pictures for a fourth of a century, times have proceeded onward. Supplanting the maturing design with HEIC will imply that catching photos on iPhone or iPads will now take up significantly less of the inbuilt stockpiling.
This is uplifting news, as the expanding nature of pictures and recordings (with 4K video now getting to be plainly standard) implies that clients are always watching how much space is left on their gadgets. Apple's selection of the new HEIF organization ought to go far to easing this issue.
This decrease is down to the pressure methods utilized by HEIF. Truth be told, the MPEG amass claims that twice as much data can be put away in a HEIF style picture as a JPEG one of a similar size.
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Apple affirms this by expressing on its iPhone 8 page that "cutting edge HEIF pressure innovation gives you a chance to bring new photographs with an indistinguishable quality from earlier yet at a large portion of the record measure. In this way, snap away." Alternatively, you could choose higher-res documents at an indistinguishable size from their current JPEGs.
The way that HEIC additionally underpins 16-bit profound shading pictures will come as a favored alleviation for iPhoneographers who have seen those supernatural nightfall pictures traded off by terrible banding caused by the 8 bits as of now on offer.
Will despite everything you have the capacity to impart pictures to non-iPhone clients?
Apple as of late uncovered that iPhone clients take more than a trillion photos every year, which is a really amazing number. Yet, even with these immense figures, in all actuality the web and Android clients still make up the main part of individuals, so Apple won't have the capacity to change the world to HEIC at this time.
Rather iOS 11 will change over pictures to JPEG when you need to impart them to non-iPhone-employing companions, or for use on different online networking locales.
Will I have the capacity to open HEIC for Mac records on my Windows PC?
Right now, there are issues with opening HEIC for mac documents on Windows. You can import them on to your hard drive, however when you tap on them you soon wind up noticeably stuck. The Windows Photo application doesn't remember them, and right now there are no HEIC-good photograph editors that we are aware of that can deal with the arrangement.
This is sure to change rapidly, and we expect modules or updates for any semblance of Photoshop to show up sooner rather than later, however at the present time it's troublesome.
There are a couple of applications that will change over HEIC for mac documents to JPG, the most prevalent of which is iMazing HEIC for Mac Converter.
This free application has a straightforward simplified framework, which enables clients to reformat HEIC documents as either JPG or PNG. On the off chance that you favor not to introduce an application for this activity, at that point you could likewise attempt the HEIC to JPG online converter, which does all the encoding in the cloud.
Ideally it won't be long however before we see HEIC embraced in all cases, and implicit to all local applications on Windows, Macs, or Android gadgets. During a time where storage room is at a top notch, it can't come sufficiently quick.


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The Best of Train Travel in Sri Lanka
Just the rails, glinting in the afternoon sun, a jagged slither of sand, and the crashing sea. For miles and miles along the coast.
That's one of my lasting memories of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka has always looked like the tear drop of India on the map to me. In reality, the country covers an area of over 65,000 square kilometres, is about half the size of the UK, and travel distances are often long. After years of being off-limits to travellers during decades of insurgence and bloody civil war, Sri Lanka has seen steadily increasing visitor numbers since 2008/9. In the last couple of years it has continually made the 'Top 10's and 'must see's' of guidebooks and travel sites worldwide.
And with good reason.
In my view, train travel is usually one of the best ways to see a country: its landscapes, its backyards, and of course its people. Despite guesthouses and hotels trying to promote private drivers and advising us not to take the bus andtrain regularly during the trip, train travel in Sri Lanka is one of my fondest memories.
Here are three of the trips I took by train in Sri Lanka, and some tips for train travel in Sri Lanka.
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Colombo to Habarana by Train
For this journey, I was headed to Sigiriya, in the heart of Sri Lanka. Habarana was the closest train station, about a twenty minute drive from Sigiriya itself.
This journey was the longest of my trip in Sri Lanka, at around 8 hours. It was also the quietest. I boarded the train in Colombo Fort station in the early morning darkness at around 6am. The train was in darkness too and that's the way it remained until dawn started to creep in. As we trundled slowly out of Colombo station, daylight started to illuminate the gloomy carriages. It seemed odd to me that the lights inside the train were not switched on, but this didn't seem to phase the other passengers, who, on boarding, promptly went (back) to sleep.
We crawled through the drizzle and grey of Colombo suburbs to the north and east of the city, slowly snaking our way away from concrete buildings towards rice fields and palm trees, punctuated less and less frequently by corrugated iron rooftops. I tried to doze, leaning my head against the window, but as the train picked up speed, the noise of the rattling of the train and vibration through the metal of the carriages only increased, so as to make this a futile exercise.
As we rattled towards the jungle, the rain got increasingly heavy. The downpour added to the atmosphere. The drops drummed on the metal roof of the carriage and slushed everywhere outside, the drips for the most part avoiding the open windows.
The carriage was half full of Sri Lankan families, travelling for the weekend to see relatives in the countryside, but few going as far as Habarana. The train slowly emptied at intermittent halts which seemed to come out of the tropical greenery from nowhere.
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Kandy to Colombo by Train
In the centre of Sri Lanka, the ancient kingdom of Kandy is an attraction in its own right, and is Sri Lanka's second largest city. At 500 metres above sea level it sits at the base of the knuckles mountain range and has a cooler climate than the jungle plains below. Kandy also serves as the gateway to Sri Lankan tea country. There are some tea plantations already up in the hills around Kandy, and these get more plentiful higher up in the hills, on the way to Ella.
On the three hour trip we passed through mountains and jungle. The track wound around the side of the mountains, hugging the rock on one side, and on the other offering dramatic sweeping views of the valley below. The valleys green from the recent rain but now glinting in the sun stretched on for miles against a smoky blue background of more mountains in the distance.
The route to/from Kandy to Colombo is one of the country's most popular, and several trains run per day. Getting on the train that started in Kandy as opposed to the one that runs all the way from Badulla and Ella proved to be a lucky decision, as that meant seats were available when we got on the train in Kandy.
The train quickly filled up along the three hour trip and by the time we had nearly reached Colombo, the carriages were not only full with passengers sitting and standing, but with people hanging on to the outside of the train to via handles and whatever they could grab hold of. Just outside the capital a man passed his backpack through the open window onto the lap of the lady sitting opposite me, so that he could find space to hang on on the outside of the train. Giving my seat to an older lady who'd been standing next to me solicited a lot of giggling from bystanders—clearly regarding me as a stupid tourist for offering up my seat.
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Colombo to Galle by Train and Beyond
This is the one I'd been waiting for. When researching train travel in Sri Lanka, I'd read about this journey online, and seen the railway tracks of 'The Coastal Line' on my arrival in Colombo.
In Colombo itself, the railway line south runs between the city and the Indian Ocean from just beyond the famous Galle Face Hotel to the southern city limits and beyond.
Leaving Colombo for the second time, it was to a very different view than the first. The trains to Galle are Sri Lanka's equivalent of the commuter line. Trains are full to overflowing, with every scrap of space (except possibly the high up luggage racks) taken with someone standing, sitting, or hanging on outside. But the crowding was easy to forget, if only for the reason that there was so much else to look at.
As the train runs endlessly past the sea, the boulders and rocks of Colombo's shoreline turn into slivers of sandy beach next to beach shacks and huts. Standing in the open doorway, the salt breeze provided welcome ventilation for the packed carriages. Looking west out towards the ocean, the afternoon sun was edging its way downwards towards the horizon.
This same, seemingly blissful stretch of track was where the 2004 christmas tsunami hit Sri Lanka worst, and 1500 plus people died, on their way to Galle on the Matara Express train from Colombo to Matara which was hit by the wave. This was the largest single rail disaster in history. Repeated attempts to warn those on the train failed to reach them in time. The tracks, just 200 meters from the sea edge, were completely destroyed.
The line has since been rebuilt, and later upgraded to allow for faster journey times.
After just two hours, we arrived in Galle. Many trains terminate there, but there are some that run further along the coast to Unawatuna, Weligama, Mirisa and Matara. There the view from the train is arguably its most beautiful, over miles of sandy beaches, surf and palm trees. I stayed on the train until nearly the end of the line, which is much quieter too, with the majority of people getting off in Galle.
For anyone travelling in Sri Lanka, if you take one train trip, take this one. The view alone is worth the journey.
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The Train Journey in Sri Lanka that I didn't Take
I have one regret from my trip to Sri Lanka. That is, that I did not take the six hour train journey from Kandy to Ella. Ella is tea country proper, and the line from Kandy—although winding and slow—takes you through beautiful mountains and tea plantations. I hope to one day experience that. (Update: the Tea Train has since become crazy popular with travellers, so we're actually not sure if we want to do this anymore! 🙁 )
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Train Travel in Sri Lanka – Planning, buying tickets and tips
Train travel in Sri Lanka is a fairly relaxed affair, certainly much more so than in neighbouring India. Advance buying of tickets is rarely necessary, with the exception of some of the tourist trains on the Colombo – Kandy line.
Here are some general pointers:
- Most trains in Sri Lanka only have Second and Third class carriages, which means no air conditioning. It can make travel very hot in summer months, but personally I see this is a good thing: open windows make for better photos and plenty of air. The doors stay open on most trains, and doorways (be sure to hold on though!) are one of the best spots to stand if you're looking to enjoy the view or take pictures.
- First class (air conditioned) is available on trains to Kandy, and a special 'Observation Car' (very large windows) is available on tourist trains, run by a private company. These are popular and require advance booking – ask at a railway station or a travel agent in advance to see if they can help you.
- Almost all trains in Sri Lanka are day trains, as distances are mostly not long enough for sleeper trains. There is one sleeper 'night mail' train that runs from Colombo to Batticaloa in the north.
- For unreserved seats, you can just turn up at the station and buy these. Some trains are all unreserved (all trains on the line to Galle are like this), whereas most trains have reserved and unreserved carriages. The unreserved carriages will always be fuller and can get extremely crowded.
- For reserved seats you can buy these in advance from the station. Online booking is not possible via Sri Lankan railways. If for any reason you are keen to buy your train tickets before you arrive in the country, you can use travel agent to buy them for you.
- For further train information, The man in seat 61 has one of the best websites out there for information about train travel, in Sri Lanka and other countries.
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