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Marriage is like a FOOTBALL game....
Football season is finally here! Woot, woot! Saturdays in the fall are my favorite. These warm days are filled with friends, family, delicious food, and cheers for your favorite team! Football is a part of the fabric of my southern life. I am passionate about football and marriage and I see so many ways they are similar. Before we kick off the 2017 football season, I think there may be a message for us today in this comparison of football and marriage. Before you scoff... keep reading.
Now before the big day, aka GAME DAY, arrives, we must find the right person to marry. Our Mr. and Mrs. Right, so to speak. Then we must plan the perfect wedding event. Those activities are very similar to "signing day" in that each team is looking for the perfect player to complete their scheme. That ideal player, like the ideal mate, looks different for all of us. Some teams are looking for strength on the line, or a receiver with great hands. Some people are looking for a spouse with an adventurous spirit, and others want a best friend. People are weeded out through friendships and the dating process. In football, campus visits, are like dating or courting, if you will. The team and the 4-star recruit try each other to see if there is a good fit. Wedding planning is like the grind of two-a-days at summer camp. Having had all three of my children marry in the last five years, I believe that wedding prep may be harder than burpees, monkey rolls, tire drills, and the hot August sun! Admit it, you are beginning to see the similarities!
Now with the players selected and the venue prepared, it's time for the big day! Imagine entering the church as a guest on the day of the wedding. You are greeted by a tuxedo-clad and squeaky-clean face who asks, "Bride or groom?" So you pick your side, and if you know the bride and groom equally well, the usher will pick for you, no neutrality allowed. No one can sit in the aisle! Here in Alabama, this is especially true for football. Everyone has a team, or one is assigned to you. I remember when in the first grade I was asked what team I was for, "Bama or Auburn?" It was a strange question and one that I didn't know the answer to. So, I went home and asked my Dad (LSU '58). He replied, "Tell them you are a Tiger fan!" I did, and so for years, by default, I was seated on the Auburn side of the game. So when the nuptials begin, the church is filled with two teams, the groom's supporters on the right, and the bride's fans on the left. There is usually no cheers, per se, but both sides are quietly pulling for the love birds, and if the kiss is on point, a spontaneous round of applause may follow.
Now the game of football is played in four quarters and divided by an intermission half-way through. The teams line up on either side of the line of scrimmage - an imaginary line that moves throughout the game. This is similar to the logic in many marital disputes. Each team takes turns holding the ball while trying to push their way down the field to score. In football, there are referees who make sure everything is played fair and square, cheerleaders on the side encouraging the team and a whole stadium full of fickle fans! Oh, those fickle fans! This analogy is rich with blog fodder, but let me settle down and unpack the game itself!
1st Quarter- the NEWLYWED years!
If we break down the game of football, we can start to see that each quarter is like a season in our marriage. The kick off, is like the wedding night. All the anticipation that summer camp has brought revs up with the first touch of the ball. It's electrifying! The kick off quite often sets the tone for the game, as does the honeymoon! And if that kick off is returned for a touchdown, the fans go wild! And so will the blushing bride, if you catch my drift! Both football and marriage are incredibly exciting and full of promise. When the two teams step out onto that field of friendly strife, anything can happen! No losers at the moment, just potential winners! Undefeated. No regrets. No mistakes. When a couple starts off their marriage, the sky is the limit as well, and their track record is clean. The couple vows that they will not be saddled with their parent's kind of marriage and are excited to pave a way for a brand new exciting type of life together! This is virtually the tone for the whole first quarter. Anything can happen - each time either team touches the ball, the crowd is quiet and watches in reverent silence to see what will happen next. No disgruntled fans, but loyal spectators fill the stadium. All eyes straining to see which plays will be called, which hyped players are on point and which ones were over sold. By the third drive, or the first year of the marriage, the couple has gotten in their stride. The game, like marriage, is quickly taking shape with a rhythm of work, play, leisure, and worship. Sometimes a score or two are made in the game, as in the married life - maybe a new house is purchased or a new job landed. Then as soon as the quarter ends, the second begins. No fanfare. No marching bands.
2nd Quarter - the GRIND
In this quarter, the players begin to show some wear and tear. In this stage of marriage, most couples have a child or two or haven't been able to have any yet. All chips away at the excitement that happened with the first touch of the ball just 15 minutes before. The second quarter is a grind. Injuries happen. This is where the bulk of life, and football, happen. Memories are made and highlight reels are recorded. If things are going "biscuits and gravy," it can be the happiest time of the game. If things are challenging the fans may get restless and begin to kibitz. Armchair quarterbacks, like the fans who attended the wedding ceremony, get mouthy - "Run the Ball, Kiffin!" The "never has their been such a perfect couple," as stated by the doting relative, is replaced by, "I don't believe he is helping you enough around the house," and "Stand up for yourself, you are no one's maid!" If the game doesn't improve quickly, the restlessness becomes contagious. Some may be calling for a change in the QB, or coach (poor Les), as others are thinking of quitting the whole thing altogether because "marriage is too hard!" Thus, the 7-year itch occurs somewhere in this 2nd quarter of marriage. This quarter always feels like the longest quarter in the game. Maybe because some need a bathroom break, or are dying to see the marching band! Finally, and after what some feel is an eternity, the 2nd Quarter ends, and intermission happens! The kids have grown up and have gone off to college, and the band comes rolling in!
3rd Quarter - EMPTY NEST!
As the fanfare of the half-time show fades, the 3rd Quarter begins. This quarter is a gentler quarter. Those who come back to the field know that victory is within their reach. They are all in their groove and play together like a well-oiled machine. Everyone knows their assignments, for they have been battle tested. They've had a fresh pep talk from the head Coach and have a second lease on life. The same is true for the empty nest stage of marriage. As long as you keep playing together, good things are bound to happen. God rewards the faithful! You have a few more resources, stronger ties that were forged over the first two quarters, more time together, and in short, less stress! Now if at this point you are not winning, and the only thing that was holding you and your spouse together just went off to college, you may throw in the towel and miss the 4th quarter! Don't miss the 4th Quarter! Keep the love of the game alive! Cling to God, our ultimate coach! And read the PLAYBOOK, God's Word - every answer you need to keep scoring points and winning this game is there! Don't quit!
4th Quarter - GLORY!
The 4th quarter is the quarter that gets everyone to their feet and raising their hand in the air showing four fingers - "4!" In this quarter the celebration occurs - fans are once again on their feet, cheering and clapping! Fight songs blare from the band. If it is a close game, the energy is palpable! The teams, although virtually worn out, are giving it their all! They want a victory. In this stage of marriage, the 50th anniversary party is thrown, the children celebrate their parents love and the glorious day of Homecoming looms brightly. It is at this point, when the team, and the couple, have been refined by fire, that they look like championship material. At this point in marriage, so much of the dross has been burned off that each of the couple look more like Jesus than themselves. Then as the team, or the couple, crosses over into heaven, or the SEC Championship, celebration breaks out with the multitudes and the Heavenly choir! And God says, "Well done, my good and faithful servant!" Your marriage was the vehicle to help get you here, just like a quality coaching staff lands the team in the play offs! What a visual! And admit it, the comparison is valid!
The only real difference I see in marriage and football is this: in football you can't quit in the middle of the game. At least, I've never seen it happen. Think how disappointing it would be if you were sitting in the stands, watching LSU beat Bama, and then after the half time an announcer comes over the intercom and announces, "I'm sorry to inform you that the game has been called off. The Alabama football team is loading their buses and leaving early. They have had enough, the game was too hard, the cheering hurt their feelings and they just want to go home to Momma!" OK, maybe that was a bad example, but many LSU fans, myself included, would be fine with that scenario! :) But seriously, this is sometimes the case in marriage. I see the struggle get hard and marriages fail and end up in divorce. Ouch! I know there are times when divorce is the correct answer, so don't be offended. But there are plenty of times when I see Christians give up because the battle is hard and they are trying to do marriage on their own strength. Don't do it! Fight for your marriage! Put in some extra practices, seek professional help. Talk to your head Coach - nothing is impossible with GOD! NOTE: I had to clear that reference up because I know that many Alabama fans thought I was talking about Saban! Stand firm on the field, do not lose your footing and do not forget why you started the game or the vows you spoke before God. Do not give up! If you need a new fight song, go listen to Grayson/Reed's, "Fight for You." It will pep you up for sure!
Love each other well, friends! And, please keep reading!
Now the big question is: Who is ready for some football?


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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Death Cat – Halloween version
This piece started with a photo off Wikimedia Commons. It was inspired by a series of posts on Gigi's blog called Conversation With Death which is now being turned into a book.
Paw Teddy
Thank You Card
I try to do considerate things like giving people heading for the ticket machine my car park ticket if it has plenty of time left on it, buying the Big Issue, donating to charity shops, letting people in a rush go ahead of me in a queue, that kind of thing. All of those things though have one thing in common. The people on the receiving end can see me, and they usually thank me with a smile, and that makes me feel good. My acts of kindness are thus not entirely altruistic – I get pleasure from cheering someone up plus my ego gets a bit of a stroke. Next month's topic on the Artists4Peace Blog is "Random Acts of Art and Kindness". When I saw this I decided to do something different. I wrote an anonymous thank you card to someone whom I had only spent a few minutes with. This is what I wrote:
When dealing with officialdom it is refreshing to come across a worker like yourself: someone pleasant and helpful who does what they say they will promptly and carefully. You brightened my day so I wanted to brighten yours. I hope this works.
Best wishes from a satisfied "customer".
I wrote it on a nice card which had a picture of a stained glass panel by Tiffany. (I've been a Tiffany fan ever since I saw the collection in the Haworth Art Gallery, U.K. as a child. I went back a few years ago with my mother and daughter, and we had a lovely time.) Now that it's been a while since I sent it, I find that I'm worried about it. Did she like it or did she think it was creepy? I have no idea. I can't look in her eyes and know that I made a difference. I'm not sorry I did it but I've found it to be a whole different experience from usual. I expected that I wouldn't feel so good but I didn't expect to be worried.
Maybe my ego wants me to publish this for some more ego-stroking so please don't say anything nice! Feel free NOT to comment on this one! I'm posting it a) because I found it interesting and b) because I want to make sure I have something to submit to the Artists4Peace blog (my muse is sleeping at the moment). 🙂
Duck and Cover
The violent-retaliation camp are firmly dug into their trenches. My "chain of violence" idea didn't make it beyond no-man's land. So here's my next salvo, courtesy of a man who is better with these word thingies than I:
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I expect this to be as effective as a chocolate teapot but I'm posting it anyway, so there. 🙂 I'm ready, head between legs, kissing my ass goodbye…
Manga Studio 5
My brother has started using Manga Studio. No doubt he will soon surpass me, as he does with many things. 😀
Having watched numerous tutorial videos, read a lot of reviews and listened to my sister for once I finally realised that Manga Studio 5 might be something I could use to draw some cartoon stuff. It is very early days but here is my second Manga face (the first is too bad to post):
This was drawn using Mark Crilley's recommended symmetry and while not perfect I am pleased enough with the result to have confidence in doing some character designs for a comic version of one of my books that probably won't ever see the light of day and probably won't actually be Manga.
The software is very easy to use in comparison to the Adobe Creative Suite applications which at times I have found can be a total nightmare. Some of the added advantages of Manga Studio are summarised as follows:
- perspective rulers are easy to set up…
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Rude Awakenings
This post follows on from the previous one; it was prompted by a comment from Colleen. Below is an excerpt from a book called "Rude Awakenings – Two Englishmen on Foot in Buddhism's Holy Land" (which is available at no cost via this website). It is the first of two books written by a Buddhist monk (Ajahn Sucitto) and a layman (Nick Scott) about a pilgrimage they did in India in 1990-91. This section is written by Ajahn Sucitto. I can post the same incident from Nick's perspective if you're interested.
It was about expectation, surely; that was the heart of the problem. I was expecting India to live up to my projections of a "spiritual place." What that seemed to mean was that it would allow me to stand back from it and feel balanced. And that was a demand that India refused to comply with. The way out, surely, was in letting go: let go of getting a clear picture, let go of wanting things to be my way, especially as I didn't even know what "my way" was. Letting go: although it feels like dying, it gives you the freedom to live without self-importance.
I remember sitting in the garden of the forest resthouse while Nick was engaged in the lengthy parleys with the officials; we were about to wander off through a forest supposedly infested with bandits. At one point even talk of an armed guard arose, but one was not forthcoming. Oh well, I should prepare. There was nothing to prepare. Wait. I had a careful shave, by touch, dipping the razor into my steel mug of cold water and fingering my chin and face. There. Ready to go into the unknown.
We walked for an hour, my outer robe folded and tucked over the top of my bag. The bag was hanging on my left shoulder. Across my chest was slung the water bottle and mug so that they dangled by my right side. It was from behind me on that side that the little chap approached. He caught hold of my mug, and as I turned, asked in Hindi where we were going. There were others with him; they were the men who had been sitting on top of the dead buffalo. "To the next village," I said as he tugged my mug urgently. "What is it? Do you want this thing? It's only a mug…"
Then everything blew up. Nick turned round with a menacing expression on his face; someone was tugging my robe on one side while the first man was hauling frantically at the mug on its strap on the other. Three men charged at Nick who was crouched boxer-style; he wheeled and hit them with his backpack, then ran off with the three of them in hot pursuit. I was being lugged in two directions simultaneously by the strap on my water bottle and on my bag, I could only try to get the stuff off and let them have it, but their pulling on it made that impossible. We were going round in circles, with their excitement spinning into frenzy. I had to stop this. "Wait! Wait! Let me get this stuff off!" Momentarily they stood still. They all had axes and staves. The leader glared at me through twisted features and raised his axe.
Funny how your mind goes clear when the options disappear. Why struggle against the inevitable? The only freedom was to go without fear. I bowed my head and pointed the top of my skull toward him, drew the blade of my hand along it from the crown of my head to the brow. "Hit it right there." Something shifted; he backed off, waving his axe and muttering angrily. I stepped forward and repeated the action. Give it away; let it all go.
Things settled. He lowered his axe. I slipped off the bag and the water bottle and stepped back. The three of them began excitedly picking over the treasure. I imagined that they'd rummage around, find there was nothing there of any value, and run off. Two of them picked up the gear and scurried down the track a way. I felt shaky and sat down. Better keep cool – I started chanting softly. Then Nick ambled along with a smile but without his pack or assailants. "I've hidden the money; Bhante, are you all right?"
His return signaled further frenzy. As his assailants returned, the men charged at him with their sticks and began swinging blows; Nick caught most of them on his arms: "All right, all right! I'll show you where." And the mob had streamed off into the forest by the time that I got to my feet, leaving me with one lad, who sullenly resisted my attempts to strike up a conversation. But he was mellow compared to the older men when they returned – without Nick or the bags. They jumped on me and pulled off the bag that I had around my neck containing the relics and Buddha image; they ripped off the waistband that was threaded through my pouch; they clawed under my sabong and dragged the passport out of another pouch that was hanging around my waist.
Then they were off with the loot tied up in bundles on their heads. The leader turned around and said "Your bags are over there," pointing into the forest. "Fine, OK." I said, in a vaguely warm way. The forest went back to silence as usual … a sunny day, with the forested slopes on either side.
I am not sharing this so we can pass judgment on any of the men in the story. Rather, I offer it up as a prompt for reflection. One idea that the story illustrates is that violence begets violence (if you read the story from Nick's perspective you will find that he received quite a beating). One ends up with the chain of violence that I tried to talk about in my last post. Another idea illustrated in the story is a core idea in Buddhism: that the more tightly we cling to things – our possessions, our sense of self, our very lives – the more we suffer. Please let me know what lessons this story brings to you.
Chain of Violence
I don't often write political pieces (or comment on them) because I'm painfully aware of my ignorance in this arena. However, this month on "Artists For Peace" the topic is "Against Violence" and I felt compelled to write.
I keep reading blog posts about how we should fight against injustice and violence, etc. They seem to think that "turning the other cheek" is about ignoring the problem or about cowardice. However, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing braver than to meet violence with nonviolent resistance. You cannot fight fire with fire. That just leads to escalation, and builds up more hatred, resentment and desire for revenge: a chain of violence. There is nothing braver than to risk it all to stand up for your belief in peace; fight with the flames of your heart. I can't say whether I would be brave enough to do it myself because I haven't been tested. Maybe I would be brave enough if my children were fully grown and independent, I don't know.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
I know that if a nation were to give up its arms in today's world it would be a suicidal and irresponsible thing to do. If you live surrounded by people who bear arms then to practice non-violence is very risky. However, I still believe that the right to not bear arms is something that we should work towards for nations and for individuals.
Knitwits & Crafty Stitchers
I had to go to Galway today. Galway is one of my favourite cities (not that I'm familiar with that many, mind you). Today I stumbled upon a little gem tucked away on an industrial estate (Liosban Business Park to be precise). It can be hard to find supplies in the West of Ireland so I was delighted to find such a well-stocked shop with reasonably-priced yarn. People tell me to shop online but I like to get my hands on stuff before I buy it; I guess I'm old-fashioned. I've just checked out their website and it looks like you can order on-line too (for those of you who like that sort of thing). 🙂
I bought the sparkly white yarn because I thought it would be perfect for more Christmas snowflakes.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Ellen Turner, who with her twin sister founded the Love Kitchen, which feeds several hundred people a week and drew national attention, died here on Wednesday. She was 87.
Her death was confirmed by Stanley Cash, her great-nephew.
Ms. Turner and her twin sister, Helen Ashe, worked as nurses before founding the Love Kitchen in 1986 in a church basement here with the mission to serve what they called the five H's: the hungry, homeless, helpless, hopeless and homebound. The Love Kitchen provides clothing and meals from a building on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and delivers food to people who cannot leave their homes.
Dressed in matching outfits and aprons, Ms. Turner and her sister did the cooking and oversaw the work of dozens of volunteers. They appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Secret Millionaire" in 2011 and were the subject of segments on NBC News and CNN.
Patrick Riggins, president of the Love Kitchen's board, said the sisters often recounted three lessons their father had taught them: "There is only one father, and that is the Father in heaven. There is only one race, the human race. And never take the last piece of bread. Someone may come by in need of it."
Ms. Turner, who bragged that she was five minutes older than her sister, was born to sharecropper parents, John Liddell and the former Alice White, on March 8, 1928, in Abbeville, S.C. She and her sister were sent almost daily to what was called the "big house" on the farm property to do chores before school.
"They grew up working," Mr. Riggins said. "Ellen always said the people who owned the land treated them very well. But then there were others who didn't."
Mr. Cash noted that Ms. Turner and her sister had a strict religious upbringing. "They grew up their whole life together," he said. "Dating at that time wasn't like it is today. Socializing with young ladies was done through a church, on the up and up, not in a dark movie theater."
He added: "So whenever one of the twins went on a date, the other sister was there, playing third wheel, like a chaperone. Sometimes they would mess with their dates, switching each other on their date to see if he could tell the difference."
They moved to Knoxville after high school to attend nursing school. Mr. Riggins said the idea to start the Love Kitchen, which is staffed solely by volunteers and operates strictly on donations, came from seeing indigent patients coming into the hospital.
"Ellen was warm, genuine and compassionate," Gov. Bill Haslam, a former Knoxville mayor, said in a statement. "Her smile could turn around a bad day instantly."
Ms. Turner's husband, Leon, died in 2002. Besides her sister and Mr. Cash, survivors include several nephews and nieces.
"It's like a family there," Jerri Shelley said of the Love Kitchen, where she has volunteered for nearly 25 years. "This is going to affect the Knoxville community tremendously. There's so many people that these two women have touched over the years."


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If you have ever been caught in a tidal change, you know the power of such moments. We are in the midst of a 2,600-year shift in ages which moves backwards through the signs. We are graduating from the Age of Pisces and taking on the Age of Aquarius' mission of innovation and inclusion.
Additionally, Aquarius is the sign that has the honor this year of presenting us with two new moons instead of only one. We get a second look at our Aquarian initiation. This second one occurs Feb. 18 at 3:37 p.m. and DO NOT BLINK! Instantly the moon moves to Pisces. Two minutes later (not long enough to make yourself a latte) the sun parades into Pisces too.
We dive from the airy intellectual heights of Aquarius into the soft, fluid feeling world of Pisces in this flash flood of change. The highest Piscean principle is eloquently stated by Chief Seattle. "All things share the same air — the beast, the tree, the man." This is the experiential arena of connecting to our heart-brain where we are all one.
This Aquarian/Pisces theme forces us to contemplate our security as individuals and as a society to step into an invisible, multi-dimension calling us to interdependence and interconnectedness?
Whether or not we consciously feel this sea change, the times they are a changin'. Seriously.
Feb. 18 to March 5
Aquarius, without going all preachy-preachy, get creative about how to bring your broad-mindedness into your professional life. Open your mind, flow to your heart and ahhhh, feel that tidal pull? It's a more inclusive and caring perception you need before you can make progress.
Pisces, five planets in Pisces are on stage, but your get-up-and-go moves to Aries tomorrow. Tides muddy the water as they push and pull toward shore. Your co-workers need your unerring, fluid senses to align with the bigger picture. It may be illogical, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work!
Aries, your ruling planet, Mars, arrives home Feb. 19. Proceed with care. With Uranus, the god of sudden chaos also in Aries, pick your battles. Knee-jerk reactions are not helpful. Are you working for the people or for your ego? Maturity can help but even MacBeth made a big mistake on this one, and the witches warned him! Contemplate and feel it in your gut.
Taurus, your ruler, Venus, runs after Mars into Aries on Feb. 21. This action takes place in your blind spot along with that lightning god, Uranus. You'll be walking the fine line between imagination and the edgy ego when all you wanted was a down-to-earth action plan. Count to 10, then to a hundred. Breath and trust the backroom action. It's coming …
Gemini, TGMID (short for "Thank God, Mercury is Direct") and two personal planets in Aries, you are cleared for takeoff. Any trip, even a short one, can bring clarity. Your gift for logic taps into the ebb and flow of public needs. Fill those needs and watch your endeavors prosper.
Cancer, find some quiet for the arrival of this new moon. You could experience the allness, the oneness. When God speaks, take good notes because then it's back to chopping wood and carrying water — but, oh, baby, it's a whole new world. Seriously, make a date with this new moon.
Leo, you little firebaby. With five planets in watery Pisces on Feb. 17-18, you are out of your element. Water extinguishes fire. Or could it be like the quickening, a spark of life in the amniotic waters. Soften and be still — a deep healing and a rebirth is underway.
Virgo, Mercury direct could bring new colleagues, pets or protocols — whatever — the motion is forward. Murky feelings about partners or a close friend could be kicked up. Bide your time and hone your focus. What does the marriage need? A trip? Alone or together? Take off after Feb. 18.
Libra, your ruler, soft, gentle Venus is off to Aries-Land where the "I" is in opposition to the "thou" and Mr. Mars in Aries will not leave it alone. You will serve the needs of your near and dear this month. A friend could be edging into a fling. Boundaries in dividing work duties are leaky.
Scorpio, Mars in Aries is pointed, active, revolutionary, and personal — you totally get Aries. This energy shows up at work where teamwork goes out the window, but you look good to the boss. Interoffice politics work for you. The personal areas of your chart are bubbling with activity
Sagittarius, Saturn and your ruling planet, Jupiter retrograde, tone down your natural active energy. There is so much going on deep in your personal life. Well, observation and experience trump being in your head. Buckle down and pick your words carefully.
Capricorn, ambition is best used when used for the betterment of all. Upgrade your reading, talking and learning to be as spiritual a leader as you are an organizational one. This is the energy signature of Martin Luther King Jr. Feel what is right and just, and do that. You are getting an overhaul in how to use personal power to empower the group.


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Escaping Uncertainty
Certainty - Uncertainty
Solid - Liquid
Known - Unknown
Actuality - Potentiality
Closed - Open
Rest - Motion
Planned - Random
Control - Chaos
Simple - Complex
Uncertainty is synonymous with creativity. Once you know everything then the game is over.
A mystery bears fruit; it gives and gives, providing us with a plentiful source of nourishment. In explaining the mystery we kill it, and it will no longer give us fruit.
The Child craves certainty, and the Parent likes being certain. The Adult knows that few things in life are certain, and attempts to tolerate ambivalence.
We are always missing something. None of our systems - our theories, or beliefs - are ever sufficient enough to truly capture reality as it is. Certainty can, then, only be achieved by ignoring or disregarding (or 'defeating') conflicting data points; in other words, by closing the self off to certain aspects of reality, and narrowing the field. At some point, in spite of the errant data points, we become certain enough, putting our weight on the bough and trusting that it will hold us.
'Certain enough' may, then, be the best that we - with our necessarily limited view of things - can do. Only an unlimited view can provide true certainty, and this is where the notion of 'God' becomes useful. As humans, it may be that the closest we are able to come to 'certainty' is a high degree of probability, but with God behind us - the ultimate parent, the highest, broadest concept - we are afforded a firm guarantee; the backing we need to affirm or deny, with certainty.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge [...]
[Charles Darwin]
Mystery, or unknowing, is energy. As soon as a mystery is explained, it ceases to be a source of energy.
If we question deep enough there comes a point where answers, if answers could be given, would kill.
We may want to dam the river; but we dam the spring at our peril. In fact, since 'God' is unknowable, we cannot dam the spring of basic existential mystery. 'God' is the energy of all questions and questing; and so the ultimate source of all action and volition.
[John Fowles]
The Aristos, p. 27
Religious worldview - there is a mystery at the heart of everything. There is a ceiling to our ambition. Everything cannot be known. Man is finite, God is infinite.
Scientific worldview - all mysteries can be solved. There is no ceiling on our ambition, no limit to how high we can fly. Everything can be known. Man is infinite, God does not exist.
Everything has a secret.
Everything has an essence that cannot be known. On the outside everything seems to make sense, but on the inside there is a Godly spark that cannot be explained.
For all of us, there is a dimension which we can never grasp, the dimension that lies beyond our being.
[Tzvi Freeman]
'Secret Samech'
If the arts don't hurt, why have them?
It's only modern vanity which supposes that everything can be known or that only what is knowable has a claim upon our interest. The artist and the priest know that there are mysteries beyond anything that can be done with words, sounds or forms.
If we want to live without this sense of mystery, we can of course, but we should be very suspicious of the feeling that everything coheres and that the arts, like everything else, fit comfortably into our lives.
[Denis Donoghue]
The Arts Without Mystery, p. 21
What men really want is not knowledge, but certainty.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
[Bertrand Russell]
Interview in 'The Listener', 1964, and The Triumph of Stupidity
The majority of human beings are only too ready to follow a leader who professes complete conviction, since such a course relieves them from the anxiety inseparable from uncertainty, and from the effort of thinking for themselves.
It is not difficult to point to recent political examples of leaders exhibiting single-minded confidence of a comparable kind, however narrowly based.
As Norman Cohn demonstrated in The Pursuit of the Millennium, utter conviction lends charisma [...] to figures [...]
[Anthony Storr]
Freud, p.125
Lacan suggested that though we believe ourselves to be democrats, most of us are remarkably interested in finding (and then worshipping) authority figures who will promise us the earth.
We desire to have someone else in charge who can make everything OK, someone who is, in a sense, an ideal parent – and we bring this peculiar-sounding bit of our psychological fantasies into the way we navigate politics.
'Jacques Lacan'
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
[Bob Dylan]
"It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
The separation from wife and children, the breaking up of a settled establishment, and the going from the certain to the uncertain - all this was for a moment painful, but I had inured myself to an uncertain life.
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.
But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one would catch a glimpse of that certainty and hitch one's waggon to it.
The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth, p.235
uncertainty may be the most powerful.
If a manager is confident but uncertain - confident that the job will get done but without being certain of exactly the best way of doing it - employees are likely to have more room to be creative, alert, and self-starting. When working for confident but uncertain leaders, we are less likely to feign knowledge or hide mistakes, practices that can be costly to a company.
Admission of uncertainty leads to a search for more information, and with more information there may be more options.
[Ellen Langer]
Mindfulness, p.143
Without the random, there can be no new thing [...] creative thought must always contain a random component.
[Gregory Bateson]
Mind and Nature, p. 160, 200
To me, it's the avenue to insanity, to presume if you keep studying you'll find the answers.
As I got older, I was more able to accept the idea that you don't have certainty of this earth; rather than make you more perplexed and worried, it actually lightens the load when you realize there are no certainties.
[David Bowie]
To be able to feel ambivalent about someone is, for Kleinians, an enormous psychological achievement and the first marker on the path to genuine maturity.
The child will gradually perceive that there is in truth no entirely good and no entirely bad breast, both belong to a mother who is a perplexing mixture of the positive and the negative: a source of pleasure and frustration, joy and suffering.
These complicated psychological realisations belong to what Klein called 'the depressive position,' a moment of soberness and melancholy when the growing child takes on board (unconsciously) the idea that reality is more complicated and less morally neat than it had ever previously imagined: the mother (or other people generally) cannot be neatly blamed for every setback; almost nothing is totally pure or totally evil, things are a perplexing, thought-provoking mixture of the good and bad…
Unfortunately, in Klein's analysis, not everyone makes it to the depressive position, for some get stuck in a mode of primitive splitting she termed (somewhat dauntingly) the 'paranoid-schizoid position'.
For many years, even into adulthood, these cursed people will find themselves unable to tolerate the slightest ambivalence: keen to preserve their sense of their own innocence, they must either hate or love. They must seek scapegoats or idealise.
'Melanie Klein'
In consequence, we have profound, a priori motivation to avoid anomaly, to ignore complexity, and to maintain the structural integrity of our belief systems.
Anything unexpected (new phenomena, new ideas, new people) re-introduces the overwhelming complexity that our beliefs simplify. This introduced complexity, in turn, threatens the stability and security that our beliefs tentatively confer on existence.
Freud described religious beliefs as illusions, motivated by wish-fulfillment. Such beliefs can be more accurately understood as culturally-shared and accepted strategies for pragmatically managing complexity.
[Jordan B. Peterson]
'Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict', in Cortex, December 2002, p. 455
One of the strongest motives in modern life is to explain everything and preferably to explain it away.
The philosopher Gabriel Marcel has distinguished a mystery from a problem in this way. 'A problem,' he says, 'is something which bars my passage. It is before me in its entirety. A mystery is something in which I find myself caught up, and whose essence is therefore not to be before me in its entirety. It is a proper character of problems to be reduced to detail: mystery, on the other hand, i s something which cannot be reduced to detail.'
A character in Yeats's play The Resurrection says: 'What if there is always something that lies outside knowledge, outside order? What if the irrational return?'
The gist of the matter is: a problem is something to be solved; a mystery is something to be witnessed and attested.
[Denis Donoghue]
The Arts Without Mystery, p. 12
In his groundbreaking book, What Is Life?, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1944) argued that living systems survive by reducing their internal entropy, while simultaneously (and necessarily) increasing the entropy that exists in their external environment.
Dynamical systems theorists therefore propose that stable information systems survive only insofar as they are able to effectively manage their internal entropy. Those that cannot effectively dissipate this entropy are destroyed, in a Darwinian fashion (Kauffman, 1993). One consequence of this process is that complex systems tend to return to a relatively small number of stable, low-entropy states (known as attractors; Grassberger & Procaccia, 1983). This is because the vast majority of states that these systems could theoretically inhabit do not provide effective entropy management and are therefore characterized by instability.
[…] entropy reflects the amount of uncertainty about a system: The greater the number of plausible microstates, the more uncertainty about which microstate currently defines the system [...] High psychological entropy occurs during situations in which there are multiple competing frames and behavioral options, none of which is clearly more strongly activated than the others.
[Jacob B. Hirsh, Raymond A. Mar, and Jordan B. Peterson ]
'Psychological Entropy: A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty-Related Anxiety'
Simply stated, uncertainty and related disorder can be diminished by the direct artifice of creating a higher and broader more general concept to represent reality.
[John R. Boyd]
'Destruction and Creation', p. 6
A scientific theory is not one which explains everything that can possibly happen: on the contrary, it rules out most of what could possibly happen, and is therefore itself ruled out if what it rules out happens. So a genuinely scientific theory places itself permanently at risk.
[...] Other theories which claimed to be scientific [...] such as those of Freud and Adler, did not, and could not be made to, put their lives at stake in this way. No conceivable observations could contradict them. They would explain whatever occurred (though differently).
And Popper saw that their ability to explain everything, which so convinced and excited their adherents, was precisely what was most wrong with them.
Popper often pointed out that the secret of the enormous psychological appeal of these various theories lay in their ability to explain everything. To know in advance that whatever happens you will be able to understand it gives you not only a sense of intellectual mastery but, even more important, an emotional sense of secure orientation in the world.
Near the centre of Popper's explanation of the appeal of totalitarianism is a socio-psychological concept which he calls 'the strain of civilization' [...] We often hear it asserted that most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Whether or not this applies to 'most people' there is, I am sure, a vital element of truth in it. Accepting responsibility for our lives involved continually facing difficult choices and decisions, and bearing the consequences of them when they are wrong, and this is burdensome, not to say alarming. And there is something in all of us, something infantile perhaps, which would like to escape it by having the load taken from our shoulders.
However, our strongest instinct being the instinct for survival, our strongest need is probably the need for security; so we are prepared to shift responsibility only to someone or something in whom we have greater confidence than in ourselves.
[...] Above all we want release from fear. And in the end most fears [...] are forms of fear of the unknown. So we are all the time pressing for assurances that the unknown is known really, and that what it contains is something we are going to want anyway.
We embrace religions which assure us that we shall not die, and political philosophies which assure us that society will become perfect in the future, perhaps quite soon.
These needs were met by the unchanging certainties of pre-critical societies, with their authority, hierarchy, ritual, tabu and so on. But with the emergence of man from tribalism and the beginnings of the critical tradition, new and frightening demands began to be made: that the individual should question authority, question what he has always taken for granted, and assume responsibility for himself and for others. By contrast with the old certainties, this threatened society with disruption and the individual with disorientation.
As a result there was from the beginning a reaction against it, both in society at large and [...] within each individual. We purchase freedom at the cost of security, equality at the cost of our self-esteem, and critical self-awareness at the cost of our peace of mind. The price is steep: none of us pays it happily, and many do not want to pay it at all.
So from the beginning of critical thought [...] the developing tradition of civilization has had running parallel to it (or [...] within it) a tradition of reaction against the strain of civilization, which produced accompanying philosophies of return to the womblike security of a precritical or tribal society, or of advance to a Utopia. Because such reactionary and Utopian ideals meet similar needs they have deep and essential affinities [...]
If you think society is going from bad to worse you will want to arrest the processes of change; if you regard yourself as establishing the perfect society of the future you will want to perpetuate that society when you get it, and this likewise will mean arresting the processes of change; so both the reactionary and the Utopian are aiming for an arrested society.
And since change could only conceivably be prevented by the most rigid social control - by stopping people from doing anything on their own initiative which might have serious social consequences - both are led into totalitarianism.
[Bryan Magee]
Popper, p. 43-5, 87-90
Certainty is also related to narrowness, as though the more certain we become of something the less we see.
To put this in context of the neurophysiology of vision: the fovea of the human eye, a tiny region in the retina at the centre of the gaze, is the most pronounced of all the primates. Here resolution is about 100 times that at the periphery.
But it is only about 1 degree across. The part of the visual field that is actually brought into resolution is no more than about 3 degrees across. This is where the narrow focussed beam of left-hemisphere attention is concentrated: what is clearly seen.
[Iain McGilchrist]
The Master and his Emissary, p. 83
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November 12, 2015, 12:23 pm
WATCH: WWE's The Undertaker tombstones a guy in a turkey costume
World Wrestling Entertainment's resident dead man ran afoul with a fowl on his appearance on late-night television Wednesday.
The Undertaker, fresh from his trip to England, made a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in which he performed his trademark tombstone piledriver on a man dressed in a turkey costume (played by fellow WWE wrestler Brad Maddox).
It was part of Fallon's suggestion box skit.
"You should have The Undertaker from the WWE come out and tombstone a guy in a turkey outfit on your show," Fallon read from a card.


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I've just got back from Cisternino, in Southern Italy, where we've spent the past two weeks. We've been there before and it was great to become re-aquainted and also make other discoveries of this beautiful part of Puglia, including Masseria Selvaggi, the Agritoursmo farmhouse where we stayed, and Materia (photo).
One of the reasons we return to Southern Italy is the climate. Again, the weather didn't disappoint, although there were a couple of blowy days and at the beginning of the holiday some cloud with even a bit of rain.
And then there's the food. We ate at a number of restaurants where all you needed was the antipasta. The most expensive meal by far was €55 for two, including wine and liqueurs, and that was at Il Portico, a vegetarian restaurant, which doesn't have a menu, the food just keeps coming. At another restaurant we shared a starter of mussels and for €8 were served 44 of the largest mussels ever. I followed this with a dish of raw salmon and sword-fish, something of an adventure, which proved to be delicious. I did order a side-dish of patatine fritte, i.e. chips, which just goes to prove that you can take the man out of Barking but can't take Barking out of the man!
And then there were the great people we met: Graham, Patrice, Cameron and Nathan; Andrea, Phil, Lewis, Bella and Eve; and especially Rob and Laura who we really missed when they moved up to Tuscany for the second week and hope to meet up with again. We also met David and his family, and it transpired that he was the architect who designed Milton Keynes Railway Station.
The place itself had a fantastic swimming pool, one that you could actually swim in. You could also lie on sunbeds and read, and so to Tony Blair - and no, we weren't staying with Silvio Berlusconi.
Between us we took a pile of books we were looking forward to reading. Cazz read many of them but the day before we went, 'Tony Blair, A Journey', took my eye in Waterstones, and as I dipped into it I found myself drawn. I ended up buying it at the airport and that's all I read - it's 720 pages and the type's fairly small!
I found it compelling and the praise on the back cover and on three pages at the beginning of the book was not exaggerated in my opinion. This memoir gives huge insight into the man and his perspective on what went on behind the scenes during some significant national and world events. It provided me with a greater understanding of the philosophy of New Labour and a deeper appreciation of where the Labour party now finds itself. There are many penetrating insights about effective leadership of an organisation, and indeed a country. And above all it challenged me to think deeply about a number of key issues for our world, seen in their stark reality in the events that have filled the UK national news over the last week or so. Add to this, a relatively light touch with numerous laugh-out-loud passages, and it made a superb read.
I was particularly struck by his reflections on the Middle East, and especially his analysis of the Muslim world. I was fascinated by the statement that he makes a number of times that he's more passionate about religion than politics. In the light of this I guess it's not surprising that these emphases have taken expression in his role as the Quartet Representative to the Middle East and the launching of his Faith Foundation.
If I'm not buried by a mountain of emails over the next few days I might reflect some more, but otherwise, 'Tony Blair, A Journey', comes highly recommended. And I still have a pile of books to look forward to I don't know when!


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Money and God's Unshakable Kingdom
When it comes to money, do you feel anxious and easily shaken?
Last week my wife and I were trying to finish up our taxes, and all of a sudden, everything started going wrong. The program crashed. I couldn't access the software I needed. Doing our taxes is not my favorite pastime to begin with, and that day it was much harder than it actually needed to be.
But as I sat there in my office, I began to remember something. My wife and I were dealing with one detail and it was causing us trouble. But we have a God in heaven who watches everything. Nothing surprises Him, and nothing is out of His expectation. Many things are outside of His will and influence, but He is with us and He is watching.
Maybe this season is difficult for you. Or perhaps you're looking at your budget, and it doesn't look good. Have you been wondering, "Is this working? Am I getting ahead? God, are You in heaven? Can You help me?"
All of us need to learn how to look at our circumstances in their proper context.
The Unshakable Kingdom
If our foundation is built on economics, an income stream, our ability to feel healthy, our finances, a budget, anything of this world—we will be shaken. But our Father in heaven is never shaken:
Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:28–29)
God knows what is true about you. He knows your needs like He knows mine, and He has given us a kingdom that cannot be distressed or upended. That is what you and I are building on—a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
If you believe something that is giving you anxiety, that thought is not built on an unshakable kingdom. At the point where you feel anxious or believe a lie, surrender it to God, for He is a consuming fire and that thing will get smoked in His presence.
A Prayer for Anxious Times
Pray this prayer whenever you feel shaken:
Father God, I repent for having a foot in the world and a foot on Your kingdom. In Jesus' name, I lift that foot out of the world right now and place both feet on the kingdom that is unshakable.
All these anxieties and lies have been mounting up within me. I repent for having them at all, but now they are here, and I acknowledge their presence and offer them to you. I hold out to You every worry I've been dealing with and ask You to burn it up. I offer to You every lie I've believed about You and the world, and I let it go into smoke.
And now I retreat into Your arms. Your arms are capable, and you and I are going to win, because You are this unshakable kingdom.
Father in heaven, thank You for my hands, which are now emptied of fears, anxieties, and the "shakability" offered by the world. I ask that You would fill my hands right now with truth from Your Word. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
For a list of biblical truths about money, click here.
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How to Grow Your Business as an Empath
Dish with Devani Ep. 12 // How to grow your business + thrive as an empath! Are you a sensitive entrepreneur? Do you consider yourself an empath? (An empath is when you are affected by other people's energies and have an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others).
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Often the location a movie is shot becomes one of the characters in the film... Sometimes it's the only interesting thing about the movie.
10. Case in point, Twilight, the Cullen house. Whatever your thoughts on this, uhem, movie, the house was beautiful. It is a real home called The Hoke House, it is 4300 sq.ft and was designed by Jeff Kovel of Skylab Architecture. A different layout for a home, with the combination of the natural wood and windows everywhere this would be an amazing home to spend some time in looking out at the forest.
9. The Notebook, Noah's fixer upper. Also a real home in South Carolina that was distressed for the look of the movie. It's beautiful and grand, yet charming and homey. I think every woman who watched the movie day dreamed of having a balcony like that to paint on while in the nude...among other things.
8. The Great Gatsby, 2013, The Castle. Really every home in this movie was done beautifully from the little cottage to the grand mansion, but I chose to focus the behemoth because the interior design was breathtaking. It is not a real home but was inspired by many grand locations around the world. My favourite is the bedroom, though it could feel weird sleeping in such an open, high ceiling space, visually it is stunning.
7. Home Alone, another real home located in Winnetka, IL. It was built in 1921 and sold for $1.585 mil in 2012. I think a lot of the appeal of this home is the nostalgia, it's beautiful red brick, it's heavily patterned wall paper, that blue tile kitchen counter. Though most of us would redecorate it today it was a fun location for the silliness of the movie. Google it if you want to see how it is currently remodelled.
6. Iron Man, Tony Starks house. Not a real house, and though you and I may have conspiracy ideas about what technology exists out there (or you may not), I doubt anyone is quite living with it in their home to the extent it's depicted in this movie. Still this is a modern, beautiful design with breathtaking views and some pretty badass gadgets.
5. Keanu Reeves house in The Lake House, aka the glass house. This house was built specifically for the movie. 2000 sq.ft of mostly steel and glass, constructed on the ground and then they dug out under it and let the lake flood in for the look they wanted. It was hard to find pics of the interior, but as you can see, you can pretty much see through the whole thing in every shot. Definitely a house you would want in a private location with an investment in blinds. This house was extremely unique and gorgeous in it's own way. It's almost a crime that they tore it down after shooting was finished.
4. The Holiday, Kate Winslet's english home. I love this house. Built just for the movie and done in two weeks. Though it is meant to give the impression of a modest life in the county in a possibly 300 year old home, a real home of it's equal would cost well over $1,000,000 pounds. Reality aside, the sets were absolutely charming with just a touch of fairytale magic that made me want to escape to such a place, and pretty much do the same thing Cameron Diaz. Drink wine, dance around the living room and buy a bunch of books I won't read.
3. Practical Magic, the witches house. Another one built just for the movie unfortunately. Meant to look like a 1850's victorian home it was built in 8 months and destroyed after the movie. Everything in the creation of this home was taken into account from the beautiful garden, the attached solarium/greenhouse, the huge gorgeous parlour, the beautifully unique closed in kitchen, and an attic that is every kids dream.
2. Pride and Prejudice 2005, the Bennet's home. Finally another real brick and mortar home, built in 1662. Insert "they don't make em like they used to" comment here. It is located in Groombridge Place, Kent. Maybe it is because I love this movie so much but this home really is where the heart is. All of the separate rooms has a different feel to it and seems to fit in with the family's interaction with each other. My favourite of course it the ladies parlour where they lounge, fret over men, play with ribbons, and try to not let their mother get on their nerves.
1. Drum roll please.....Beetlejuice, the Maitland's/Deetz's house. First of all this movie is a classic and I love it. This Burton envisioned home, that goes through a transformation for each family living in i,t is a unique piece of the movie. The county, shabby sheik of the Maitland's and then the dark, ultra-modern(for the time), somewhat misguided design of the Deetz's is a feast for the eyes with all the details involved. No matter which look you prefer the layout of the home has that traditional design to it that can be made into...well sky's the limit as far as Tim Burton is concerned. Oh yes, not a real home, they built the shell for the movie and shot the sets in California. No matter, it's a great house that captures our imagination.


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Two girls. One life long adventure.
Florida girls filled with wanderlust brought together by a love of adventures, damn good food, thrifting, an obsession with living life to the fullest and taking photos.
Lady Adventures was spawned by our shared passion for exploring nature, taking road-trips, eating great food and finding hidden gems of the secret spot and vintage kind. Out of the ashes of our lives' unfortunate events, we shunned our day-to-day each weekend and used every ounce of free time to get lost in nature, only to find our true selves. Thus, Lady Adventures was named and founded.
We believe in bringing life back to the basics. Food tastes better when cooked over a campfire. Sand in our hair, freckles sun kissed on our skin, smelling of spring water, salty air, dirt, campfire and other earthly delights are the luxuries offered by our second home in nature. Uneven tan lines, battle scars, bruises on our bodies, and aching muscles are all worthwhile sacrifices for the good of the adventure.
Welcome to Lady Adventures.
Genevieve & Sara work full time jobs so all of our adventures are overnight road trips or day trips. Because we feel it is vastly important to get out in nature in order to decompress from the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day city life, we are naturally drawn to the road each weekend. Most trips can be made from Central Florida (specifically Orlando) on a tank of gas or less and most weekends cost less than $25 per person for lodging/camping and park admission.
The Lady Adventurers abide by the nature motto of "take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time" and encourage all those that spend time in nature to be aware of how you treat the spaces, plant life and animals around you. We feel it is essential to responsibly enjoy your local state parks for when you do, you are voting with your dollars that the parks are important to you.
We are constantly trying new things and are up for any adventurous activity. From stand up paddle boarding to free diving and rope swinging, we love being in and around the water. Luckily, living in Florida allows us to be mermaids most everyday of the year, so we spend a lot of time in the springs, oceans, rivers and lakes of Florida.
We currently take all photos with GoPro and iPhone cameras and we take a lot of photos! While Sara is a professional photographer, we both are crafty enough to always score awesome shots and have had the luxury of photographers joining us to take photos of our adventures.
We hope you enjoy peeking in on our adventures.
Happy Adventures,
Genevieve & Sara


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Henbit Hill has been accepted into the Bloomfield Saturday Market and I'm excited! Come join me and other great vendors for opening day May 19 2018! I'll be rolling out lots of new Tallow Balm products featuring my label re-design that is in process now. I'm working on the labels myself with help from graphic design wizard Leslie Stem. They look super and can't wait to finish up and get them printed.
See you there!
Click here for the Facebook Event Page. Henbit Hill will be sharing a table with the amazing General Sisters. Come check out the space, see what businesses and organizations operate there and pick up some great goods....woodworking, ceramics, prints, textiles, jewelry, photography, herbal medicine, tasty beverages, and so much more!
I'm teaching a free workshop at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Branch, Tues at 630. Come talk herbs with me. We will discuss what tea & medicinal herbs are easy to grow and make some herbal foot soaks and sachets. It'll be fun - free calendula seed packet from my garden! The limit is 20 participants, first come / first serve. Hope to see you there. Check out the workshop link for more information.....
I'll be at the Forest Hills Farmers' Market all summer. Come down and talk plants, pollinators, and herbs with me!
I will be at The Neighborhood Flea in the Strip on Mother's Day with a booth full of
SEEDLING LIST: milkweed, early sunflower, showy tick trefoil, yarrow, mountain mint, black eyed susan, lemon mint, strawberry, native grass mix, calendula, stinging nettle, holy basil, sweet basil, parsley, chamomile, comfrey, sweet potato slips and big heirloom tomato plants.
ABOUT THE FLEA: The Neighborhood Flea is a vibrant, pop up urban Flea Market located in Pittsburgh's historic Strip District. Discover treasures provided by top-quality vendors offering: vintage & antiques, clothing, repurposed furniture, handmade jewelry & cosmetics, fresh flowers, and reclaimed wooden wares.
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This beautiful home located on the scenic 17 Mile drive in Pebble Beach, CA blends bright beach elements with modern luxury. The light hardwood of the cabinets and beige floor tiles accentuate the white granite countertops and stainless steel Miele appliances. The kitchen island has an additional sink, which adds prep space for cooking as well as seating for two.
Large windows above the sink give plenty of natural light throughout the day and provide breathtaking ocean views from anywhere in the room while the open design seamlessly connects the kitchen, dining, and living areas – this adds to the light, airy feel of the home.
Finally a custom built temperature-controlled wine cabinet perfectly stores the owner's wine collection and creates an exquisite display for the bottles.


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3D Ginkgo
The Ginkgo tree in Asia features a very distinctive leaf shape, seen here settling in different angles to each other against the granite-like background. The soft curves of each leaf are soothing to the eye, instilling a warm natural beauty to any interior décor. These unassuming shapes can thus blend in to most design schemes, bringing a humble albeit slightly exotic touch to home, restaurant or office. 3D Ginkgo can also be customized to suit any interior need.
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This Moment Is All There Is.
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Rumi Quotes
If you have illusions about heaven,
lose them.
The soul heard of one attribute of Love
and came to earth.
A hundred attributes of heaven
could never charm her back.
It is here the soul discovers
the reality of LOVE.
If you are a seeker looking for profit go on
and may God be with you,
but I am not willing to exchange my truth,
I have found the heart and will never leave
this house of light.
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A Three-Day Limelight for Karnataka's Investment Opportunities
In 1902, Asia's first hydro-electric power station was setup in Karnataka and, three years later, the State saw India's first electric streetlights in Bangalore's City Market. Known today as the Silicon Valley of India, Karnataka boasts of a highly skilled and qualified workforce, forming the ideal terrain for Research & Development centers of global companies.
This longstanding culture of innovation is certainly what makes Karnataka the preferred investment destination in the country. Invest Karnataka – Global Investors Meet 2016 is a platform to network, converge and find new opportunities for investors doing business in India or planning to. It will be held from Feb 3rd to 5th at the Bangalore Palace.
Karnataka's success can be linked to several factors such as its excellent climate throughout the year or the cosmopolitan environment (it brags of the highest number of international schools in the country), all of which favour its remarkable technological and industrial performance.
Indeed, Bangalore ranks amongst the coveted top eight technology clusters according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review; for which the selection criteria include IP protection, liberal immigration laws, entrepreneurial culture and climate conditions. The State carries out 40% of the country's software exports and hosts nearly half of the R&D centers (44%).
On the industrial side, Karnataka was the first to introduce Industrial Policy - with a vision to maintain a 12% industrial growth per annum, sector specific policies and the Industries' Facilitation Act. It manufactures 40% of the country's aircrafts and spacecrafts, is home to 28% of all India's Biotech companies as well as more than a third of its start-ups. More than 70% of the national coffee production is grown in Karnataka.
The State also sets the example for globalization. On par with the country's exceptional GDP growth at 7%, Karnataka's openness to international trade is double (47%) that of the national average (24%). It attracts the 4th highest FDI in India.
These strengths of Karnataka will be showcased in the three-day event, along with investment opportunities and various projects to attract investments from countries including the USA, Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.
Amongst the 145 projects to be showcased, public infrastructure projects worth 1 lakh crore will be presented for private participation under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.
A great diversity of people and profiles will gather on this occasion, from global leaders and heads of State, policy makers and CEOs of multinationals to Indian corporates and SMEs, associations, entrepreneurs, academicians and more.
There will be a plethora of roundtables, networking meetings and seminars, as well as a 100 thousand square-feet exhibition area and more than 300 stalls. To top it all, the State government has launched a mobile application for the event, giving an overview of Karnataka's advantages, sectors for investment, speaker sessions and keeping investors updated on the latest news about the State.
As Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) for Commerce and Industry, K Ratnaprabha's final objective is to attract INR 5 lakh crore of investment, of which 1 lakh crore will be the realistic target in this meet, and create employment opportunities for 15 lakh persons all over Karnataka. Meanwhile, in an interview with Deccan Herald, German Consul General Jörn Rohde stressed the importance of infrastructure to meet these objectives. "It is a reliable parameter for investment so that you can have sustained growth. Reliable investment parameters and infrastructure are the preconditions for becoming competitive in a globalised economy. Karnataka is competing with other states, and other destinations in Asia", he reminded.
Amelie Chodron de Courcel | Senior Consultant International Trade
Arsha Consulting
Read more:
Invest Karnataka
Invest Karnataka 2016 (PDF- 2.70 MB)
Karnataka is unique when it comes to investment
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Our goal is help ordinary citizens identify how their everyday discussions and frustrations play a role in the very wonky discussions occurring in their state capitals and in Washington, D.C. between their elected officials and other influential policy makers.
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The religious and ethnic festival to commemorate the birth of Christ, is nearing. Preparations are in full swing. Christmas is celebrated every year on the 25th of December. The annual celebration is not only a festival of the Christian community but also it is an amalgamation of people of different societal culture across the globe. The festival celebrated every year brings about a sense of conjointness in the hearts of people.
How the idea of Christmas cake came into being ?
Going back to history, when Christmas cake was first made, the recipe was very different from what we know today as a pastry cake. Christmas celebrations were made after a long day of fasting for twelve days. Basically to feed the hungry beings, on Christmas, a meat porridge was prepared, dense and with some pieces of dried fruits added in it. An entirely different preparation from the sweet cakes that we taste today. A simple preparation away from all sorts of luxurious fruit cakes or puddings, yet made delicious and special with the plums added to it.
A gradual transformation in the age old tradition :
Every person whether poor or rich made this kind of meaty porridge at their homes and shared the happiness together with their friends and family at midnight. Owing to the scarcity of the dried fruits and sugar plums were added instead. The inclusion of the former however imparted a special taste to the every day porridge. Apples and some other fruits carefully hand-plucked were chosen to dry and preserve for the Christmas feast. Thereafter with the onset of the eighteenth century, as sugar and dried fruits and sweeteners became increasingly available, they were being used in larger quantities more often. Gradually the porridge making practice with lots of vegetables, meat, whole wheat, oatmeal and other staple ingredients were lessened. Instead sweeter ingredients substituted the place for the former. It is when the idea of using flour breadcrumbs milk and creams came into being. This way the traditional style of making Christmas porridge metamorphosed into a rich delicious pudding. Search for cakes delivery UK to get the perfect website that will help you reach you to your dear ones in the sweetest and the most surprising way.
Puddings were wrapped up in a light cloth and boiled. The richer section of the society however had ovens at their homes, and they initially began baking the cake mixture – like today's Christmas cake. Usually made on the day of 'stir-up-sunday' event, these cakes had a good shelf life. The sugar and sometimes the alcohol added acted as a preservative, that made the cake tastier over the time. Send cake online and deliver happiness, with the shortest expense of energy.
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Pressured to "Bank": A Testicular Cancer Survivor's Story
Many men like Isaac Marston (and myself) who face cancer treatments are presented with the dilemma of what to do with the millions of our baby-makers before they become blasted with radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Men are discouraged from conceiving children from sperm that's been exposed to the crazy toxic treatments, and are given the option to bank their sperm beforehand. Once cancer treatments are green-lit, we have a tiny window of time to fork over hundreds of dollars during a workday to bank our sperm so we still have the opportunity to have kids without the super high risk of often-tragic consequences.
Banking sperm is an option, but Isaac's brief story highlights the guilt and pressure that was placed on him:
I am a nonseminoma testicular cancer survivor. Before starting treatment I was told I needed to bank sperm as I might not be able to have children after. I was very unconcerned about the children I may or may not be able to father and didn't want to bank sperm. In my mind that should have been the end of the conversation but it wasn't. Over the following days and weeks the oncology staff kept bringing it up basically telling me I didn't have a choice. I kept on refusing. I mean what were they really going to do to get it out of me? I was worried about surviving the cancer not the feelings of my future un-conceived children.
Thanks Isaac for bringing up this important perspective!