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Pick up at your hotel for a short transfer through the Luang Prabang countryside to Kuang Si Waterfalls (32km southwest of the city). Along the way, you will drive through beautiful landscapes of rice fields, hills, and small villages. There are also view points overlooking the Mekong River.
Stop en-route to visit a small village which is home to one of the area's many ethnic minorities. You will have an opportunity to learn about their traditions and culture, much of which has remained unchanged for centuries.
Upon reaching Kuang Si Waterfall, relax and enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings. The water tumbles down a large drop and cascades gently in to several cool, clear pools where you can enjoy a refreshing swim.
For the adventurous, it is possible to walk to the top of the falls via a steep track where stunning views await you at the top. Enjoy a gourmet picnic lunch next to the falls before returning to Luang Prabang.
This afternoon upon returning to Luang Prabang, visit the Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre for insight in to the countries various ethnic groups and traditional crafts. Your tour will provide you with information in to the wonders of Laos, enhancing your understanding of this little-known country and its people. (NOTE: closed on Monday). After your visit, transfer back to your hotel. End of Kuang Si Waterfalls.
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Don't despise small beginnings... but don't stay there either!
A couple of weeks ago I had my sixth birthday! February 16th 2017 marked six years in the 'blogosphere' for me. I must admit, I was pretty taken aback. I mean, a lot has happened since that first post. But as I re-read it, I recognised that, in some ways, many things have remained the same. That first post spoke about love. As a recently dumped single, it seemed appropriate to talk about the fact that God's love is so much more vast than any I might ever experience from a man.
Ever since that very first post, I've spoken about how God is bigger, that His love is vast and is beckoning us to dare to dream. Ever since that first post, I've wanted to encourage people not to settle, and I've wanted to help people to see beyond themselves. And that's what I mean by both everything and nothing changing all at the same time.
Six years on and I'm still telling people not to settle, still encouraging you to see beyond yourself and trust in the loving God of immeasurably more as you chase after the dreams you've long held inside of you with full force. You were made for more.
"For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel…" (Zechariah 4:10a)
Seeing only the beginning of something being built can, in some ways, be a little discouraging, can't it? You've got the finish line in mind and you're ready to step over it, but there's all this work to be done first! I've got three points here, which will help you move beyond the rush and discontentment that place can sometimes hold. I also created a LIVE VIDEO in my Facebook community covering these three points, so head over and watch it there if video's more your thing…
1. Bloom where you're planted
Some of you may be familiar with the Parable of the Talents, the fact that the master commended the servant with the two and the five by saying 'well done good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' (Matthew 25 vs 21 & 23)
Maybe right now you feel as though you've been set over 'little'? Perhaps you feel as I did six years ago when I had a message to share with the world and no one to listen?
Bloom! You can make small steps right now towards those bigger dreams. You don't have to wait until you can see everything. You just need to see far enough to make the very next step. Steward what you've been given. If one day you want a business, but right now you've got a blog, make that blog the best you can make it and trust God with what's next.
2. Decide whether you need to prune or uproot
Sometimes we can look at where we are, see that it's not working and decide that the best thing would be to completely end that and start again. Occasionally, that might be the right move. However, it's not the only option!
The definition of pruning is: 'Trim by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems especially to encourage growth.'
Did you catch that? Pruning can actually cause something to grow! This is absolutely the same when it comes to business. Perhaps you need to cut back on the amount of time you're putting into something you're not getting any results from? What could you be doing with that time instead to encourage actual growth within your business?
Of course, uprooting is an option too. The definition of uprooting is: 'To pull something out of the ground or to move from a familiar location.'
Perhaps pruning just won't cut it with your most recent venture. Maybe it would currently be far more beneficial for you to start again. It's totally okay for you to admit that but you must have a plan of action in place for the next steps. So, you're ready to uproot? Where are you being called to replant?
3. Don't be afraid of growth
Marianne Williamson was famously quoted saying:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us…"
This is so true for so many entrepreneurs. We can look at what would truly be possible if we ran full force after our God-given dreams, and instead of chasing those dreams, we shy away from them.
We've got to stop being afraid of growing and changing and becoming more fully who we were born to be. When we ask ourselves things like 'What will people say?' and 'What if I fail?' we're doing our dreams a disservice. We're doing those who are waiting for our work a disservice and we're doing God a disservice by not walking into what He's called us to.


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Families, specialists and advocates share stories and advice about living with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs).
Diagnosing rare diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), or choroideremia can be complex. Here are a few of the tools eye care professionals often use along the diagnostic journey. Read more
More community stories:
Growing participation in My Retina Tracker, the patient registry from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, helps to expand the scientific community's understanding of inherited retinal disease (IRD). Read more
By learning about that process—and seeking out genetic testing—those living with an inherited retinal disease (IRD) may better understand the value of clinical trials. Read more
If you were to ask April Lufriu, crowned Mrs. America in 2011 and Mrs. World in 2012, what the secret to her success has been, she wouldn't hesitate. It is her driving need to raise awareness about the disease that she, her sister, and her children all share—retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Read her story
Whenever we uncover an unmet need in the IRD community, we roll up our sleeves and get to work. Introducing Eye Want 2 Know, a deep dive into the importance of genetic testing and the resources that will help you get started. Read on
Sometimes it takes a village to give birth to a dream. Of course, a celebrity endorsement never hurts, either. Two blind brothers share their vision with the world. Read more
"Dr. Bill" Takeshita, renowned Los Angeles optometrist, was intimately familiar with the dramatic way that vision loss and blindness could change a life. He just never thought it would be his own. Read more
Retinitis pigmentosa may have changed the arc of Joseph Hall's life, but the Chicago man's contagious optimism serves him well. Read more
This grandfather and grandson were both diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as young boys. The difference in their experiences, however, is measured by more than years. Scientific advances in genetic testing and gene therapy research are transforming the diagnostic journey. Read their story
Growing up with a sister who slowly lost her sight to retinitis pigmentosa (RP) could never have prepared April Lufriu, former Mrs. World, for the diagnosis of her own two children. Then, when the retinal specialist asked to examine Lufriu's eyes, the world slid sideways. Read her story
Did you know there are as many as 7,000 rare diseases impacting the lives of ~25–30 million Americans, many of them children? To commemorate Rare Disease Day 2018 and raise awareness of these diseases, we encourage patients to share their stories, build communities, and help advance research for change. Read more
Happy New Year! Before we get too far into 2018, let's look back at 2017 on aSharedVision. We crunched a few numbers to discover: 1) who makes up our community, 2) which stories they are most interested in, and, 3) which inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) they wanted to learn more about. Read on!
We reached out to a University of California, San Francisco clinician and researcher to get her take on the quickly evolving research landscape and the growing mandate for genetic testing. Read more
Once Victoria Romano experienced the magic of working in the classroom at Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind, she knew she'd found her calling. Read her story
Spark Therapeutics has created a video that explains the exciting science behind gene therapy research. It's a short look at how scientists are working to address rare genetic diseases, including inherited retinal disease. Watch the video
You might not consider time trial cycling to be the right option for a legally blind man, but you'd be wrong. Josh Bennett illustrates how determination and grit can open even the most unexpected doors. Read his story
Genetic testing gave Theresa Taylor the information she needed about her Leber congenital amaurosis, and inspired an advocacy trip to Capitol Hill. Read more
While the science of genetics might not actually be rocket science, it's just as complex. We checked in with a genetic counselor, and asked her to explain how genes, DNA, and proteins create the "blueprint of you." Read more
Here's the story of Janet LaBreck, who was one of four siblings born with retinitis pigmentosa. Janet rose above tremendous physical and financial limitations to eventually become President Obama's Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration. Read her story
Becky Andrews, diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 18, found a new freedom in life when she decided to partner with a guide dog. Read more
Approximately 30 million Americans are affected by rare diseases, which is why every year on the last day of February, we celebrate "Rare Disease Day." Read more
Braille might help when reading a book, but it won't help you read a room! Two moms and a teen share tips on how they cope—or help someone else cope—when somebody in the family has an inherited retinal disease (IRD). Watch video
Throughout her pregnancy, Stephanie, whose father has choroideremia, waited for the other shoe to drop. She was a carrier; would her son also have the disease? When that shoe did drop, she put it on, started running, and hasn't stopped since. Read more
At Spark, we are continually talking to patients and their families to understand the needs of the IRD community. You told us you wanted help with genetic testing, and here's one way we responded to that ask. (Note: The community story details a program created by Spark that is not offered at this time.) Read story
When graduating high school student Jack McCormick realized that his Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA due to mutations in the RPE65 gene) could be an obstacle to success, he was devastated. That's when he got busy. Read more
Those living with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) share information with physicians and scientists who are hoping to uncover new ways to address inherited forms of vision loss. Read more
Sofia, 13, believes that success rests in the power of perseverance—and elegant pliés, of course. Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) may be limiting her vision, but it isn't stopping this young ballerina from pursuing what she loves. Watch video
When designing a site for those with low or declining vision, every choice matters. Fonts, colors, and navigational labels take on new significance when it comes to the job of ensuring accessibility. Read more
When doctors diagnosed Amber Bobnar's son with Leber congenital amaurosis in 2005, looking online for support was a lonely and difficult thing. My, how things have changed. Read more
This mother of two won't let declining vision, a lack of available treatment options, or the 1.5-mile swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco stop her efforts to support retinal research. Watch video


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Welcome to our newsletter! // January 2018
You're receiving Seeds of Caring's very first newsletter because you've shown interest in our organization in the past. This edition and future ones are designed to share inspiring news and stories directly to your family from Seeds of Caring. To continue receiving the newsletter 4-6 times per year, you must subscribe here. If you do not take action, you will not receive future newsletters.
AT-HOME KINDNESS CHALLENGE: Create a family kindness manifesto
You may have made a few resolutions already for 2018--eating better or reading more or finally taking time to do [insert that super-important thing]. Here's wishing you success in reaching those goals. Here, too, is a challenge for your family this month: resolve to be--and then chart a specific plan for becoming--a kinder force as a family in your neighborhood, school, church, sports team, or wherever else you create community in 2018. Here's an idea to get you started.
To create a family kindness manifesto:
1. Purchase a chalkboard and grab a piece of chalk or chalk pen.
2. Browse the internet (Pinterest is helpful!) for family manifesto examples. Think about language styles that feel best for your crew. Keep these in mind as you move through steps 3 and 4.
3. Hold a brainstorm session with your family. Ask yourselves a series of questions and discuss freely and openly (no wrong answers!). Jot down your thoughts on a piece of scrap paper.
- What does kindness mean to you?
- Why is being a kind family important to you?
- What are 10-15 ways you can be kinder, collectively?
4. Review your ideas from your brainstorm and pick your favorite five to 10. Document these top ways your family resolves to be kinder in 2018 on your chalkboard. To keep it simple, just make a list (e.g., "Our family will be kinder in 2018 by: x, y, z, a, b). To get fancy, use your Pinterest inspiration to craft a series of statements that capture why you value kindness and how your family plans to pursue it in the new year.
5. Hang your manifesto somewhere prominent. Refer to it often. Use it as a conversation-starter at dinner: "How did we do at pursuing our manifesto today? Does anyone have examples from the week in which they used a commitment from the manifesto? What are ways we can live commitment #1 today?"
Last but not least, share your manifesto with us! We'd LOVE to be inspired by your efforts, and share your projects on the Seeds of Caring Facebook page. Email or shoot us a Facebook message with a photo of your family with your manifesto and a little about your experience creating it.
FEATURE FAMILY: The Dudleys
Worthington mom Lyndsey Dudley's family motto is simple and clear: Be the good. She and her husband Brian have been raising their kids Tate and Harper with this guiding principle for going on seven years now, and so were thrilled to find Seeds of Caring in 2017 as a way to put their values into action as a family.
Lyndsey shares, "Ever since my babies were born, I have said to them above all else, be kind. Be inclusive. Be the good. I have tried to show them through my actions that more is always merrier, and that spreading love and kindness fills you up as much as it fills the hearts of others. I am committed to raising children who recognize unfairness and unjustness in their lives, and strive to do all in their power to make this world a better place for all who share this planet. The events we attend with Seeds of Caring provide a platform for that, and make giving back and helping our community easy and accessible."
The Dudleys have been involved in a range of Seeds of Caring's efforts and events, from trick-or-treating at a local senior center to sponsoring a child in need at the holidays. This past fall, Lyndsey invited her parents, too, for an afternoon of celebrating kindness with Seeds of Caring in honor of National Grandparents Day. Together, three generations of her family read books about kindness, made placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients, and painted kindness rocks to place around their neighborhood.
"Though they loved doing the different crafts and activities, hearing the positive words about kindness and caring were so important, especially in today's troubled world," says Beth Mirmelstein, mom to Lyndsey and grandmother to Tate and Harper. "Words DO matter! Of course, we all talk to the kids about being loving and kind and inclusive, but hearing it outside the family, in the larger world, reinforces the lessons learned at home. It's sort of that 'it takes a village' concept come to fruition."
We agree, and we're grateful that the Dudley family is part of the Seeds of Caring village!
If you'd like to be a feature family for the Seeds of Caring newsletter or special Facebook posts, email us with photos of your family engaged in Seeds of Caring activities, along with a short testimonial about the impact these experiences have had on your family.
QUESTION CORNER: Thoughts for Martin Luther King Day
Monday, January 15, is Martin Luther King Day--a day commemorating the bravery of a national hero who stood up for the fair and equal treatment of all people in our country during the civil rights movement. How do you plan to talk to your kids about the significance of the day? For some helpful tips, we recommend giving this Chicago Tribune article a quick read. Also consider buying this book or checking it out from your local library to read with your children. Find more MLK book ideas here.
Then, sit down with your kids to talk through these questions:
- Have you ever been treated unfairly?
- What if you were treated unfairly because of one of your most basic characteristics? Like the color of your eyes, or how tall you are? How would that make you feel?
- What if you didn't have someone you could tell about being treated unfairly--someone you knew could help to make it right, and protect you?
- How can we be helpers to people who are treated unfairly in our community? How can we make sure their voices are heard and that they are treated fairly in the future?
New Seeds of Caring events are posted on the 1st and 15th of every month. To get your first pick of events, we recommend logging on to our Eventbrite registration page on these dates to view new events and claim your spot. Events are filling fast lately!
Upcoming events that currently have openings include a pet food drive and afternoon of service for AniMeals and Valentine card-making for local homebound residents. Check them out! We'd love see you there. And remember, the next set of all-new events will be posted on the 15th of this month.
We're so glad you're part of our collective effort to make Columbus a kinder place to live and grow. Remember to subscribe here to continue receiving this newsletter.
With any questions or comments about the content of this newsletter, please contact Seeds of Caring Co-Executive Director, Sarah Pirtle, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Some time ago at Rangasthalam success meet, Pawan Kalyan himself revealed that he's suffering from an issue related to eyes hence he is wearing spectacles even during the night. He confirmed that they are not his style statement.
It looks like the Janasena president is getting bothered by the eye infection even after weeks. Other day when he turned up at Nela Ticket audio launch, he's seen wearing the same glasses. But when he occasionally removed them, one could notice that his left eye got some more infection to be cured.
They say that it is a regular eye-infection (maybe conjunctivitis) if we have to go by his swollen upper eye-lid with little lumps and that little redness in the eye. These days Pawan is travelling a lot and following no proper sleeping pattern. Recently he has returned from Australia after a week-long family trip. It seems like all these pressures are causing his eyes to get irritated.
Anyway, with Pawan eyeing on 2019 elections and a long road in-between, he should first take care of health. Hope he recovers well soon.


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News from the ASCLS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC
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The 2019 Annual meeting is almost at a close, but it is not too soon to start to think about next year's meeting.
Save the Date for the 2020 ASCLS Annual Meeting:
June 28- July 2, 2020 in Louisville, KY
The meeting will be held on conjunction with the Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT).
Save the dates for future meetings:
June 27 - July 1, 2021 in Addison, TX (suburban Dallas)
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text: Bobux Recognised for Outstanding Design at Home and Abroad October 20, 2015 No comments We're feeling a bit giddy around the office this week; there has been champagne and grins from ear-to-ear. It's amazing we've managed to get anything done, really. We couldn't wait to share our festive mood with you all. So here's the source of our most recent bout of joviality: for the third time this year, Bobux has been recognised with a highly coveted award. This week caps off a proud year of achievement in Bobux's lifetime with the news that we've received a "Highly Commended" award in the Best Footwear Brand category at the UK Junior Design Awards 2015. This award success follows on from our big win on the international stage at the 2015 Red Dot awards earlier this year, as well as proudly snatching up the Silver prize in New Zealand's own 2015 Best Design Awards. It's a lot for us to take in, so we'll use Homer Simpson's words to sum up our feelings: WOO HOO! Junior Design Awards 2015 Just this week, we were told Bobux has snaffled a "Highly Commended" award at the Best Footwear Brand category in the Junior Design Awards. The awards are given out annually by popular UK mag Junior Magazine to celebrate and share gorgeous designs for kids, from fashion to lifestyle brands and more. This is the second year in a row we've won this commendation, with all our staff deserving a good pat on the back for the solid effort they've put in to put our brand at the top of the competition. The 2015 Best Awards Also this month we've come home with the Silver prize at the 2015 Best Design Awards for New Zealand's Best Product Design: Consumer. Some of the #bobux team looking dashing at the Best Awards :D #bestawards #perfectpurple #designinstitute #nzdesign A photo posted by Bobux (@bobuxshoes) on Oct 8, 2015 at 11:31pm PDT The Best Design Awards have been going since 1988 as an initiative of The Designers Institute of New Zealand. It recognises excellence in a whole bunch of design areas, including graphic, spatial, product and interactive. And there must have been something about our soon-to-be-released Blaze shoe that stole the judge's attention. Actually, there's no doubt about it; going into the competition we were pretty confident our product would carry its weight to the end. Its durability and innovative sole design meets the needs of a active toddler while also offering a pretty chic design for trendy mums and dads. We're especially proud of the animal insoles, designed to help pre-schoolers learn their left from their right when they're putting their shoes on every morning. So we're chuffed such a prestigious institution has recognised our hard work too. The Blaze will be available in February 2016, so you don't have to wait too long now folks! Red Dot Award 2015 The sparkling jewel in the Bobux crown this year was bringing home the Red Dot Award for Product Design – all the way from Germany! Red Dot is not only the largest, but also the most global product design award in the World! That's right, ladies and gents. Bobux's reputation for quality design has gone truly global (though you loyal customers have known about our awesomeness for years, you lovely people). This time, it was our Bobux XPLORER that stole the show – the only footwear product to win an award in the Children and Babies category! For those of you who have followed us a while, you'll be familiar with our X range. The XPLORER is designed to help kids learn to walk, mimicking that soft, unrestricted feel of barefoot walking, while maintaining that street smart look both parents and kids love. Here's what the judges had to say about XPLORER's innovative flexible sole: "The successful symbiosis of a soft first shoe and a stable walking shoe is brought into additional focus by the distinctive design of the sole." It sounds pretty techy, but it's enough to say they're impressed. Hats off to our designers for working hard to achieve that balance. The Red Dot Awards are highly coveted, with over 15,000 submissions across 21 categories every year, so it was a remarkable achievement. We're so stoked about these triumphs we invite you to raise a glass and celebrate Bobux's growing success both internationally and at home. And if you want to make the most of our award-winning products, browse our full selection of products today . Posted in: Design & Style By Sam Taylors Social Media Manager at Bobux Author's Facebook Profile Author's Twitter Profile Related Posts Bobux X Bonnie Mob - Q&A With founder Tracey Samuel Baby Walking Shoes: Science Meets Style Back To School Checklist For Parents The Ultimate Summer Sandals for Kids Summer Style Guide for Toddlers Bobux twitter Bobux facebook Bobux pinterest Bobux tumblr Leave a comment Home Back to Blog


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I hate that the momentum of our society forces people, especially artists into positions they're unhappy with just so they can earn a living, albeit an unsatisfying one.
Artists just want to make art but the cost of living is so high they have to work many hours simply to be able to survive and maintain their art career... However the art created while burdened by the heavy weight of financial responsibilities is work forged from fatigue that has been stifled and compromised compared to their art had they not created it after enduring the grind of soul sucking day.
Lately I've been developing my critical thinking skills and in doing so I realized I'm just scratching the surface of what it means to even think critically. I was flabbergasted by this realization because it made me question my the level of consciousness I approach life with in general. I know that there is room for us to all grow so I challenge all you artists out there to get into your head and wrestle with your demons, emotions, and feelings about life and figure out where or what your bottom line is. Then establish a goal and develop a strategy to close the achievement gap between you and that goal. Once you're on the to achieving your goal you'll start building momentum and you'll be on the fast track to success.
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Dunkirk: THE Movie Of The Summer
May 26th, 1940. The German army have pushed the allied forces all the way to the sea. 400,000 British, Belgian and French troops are left trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, with the English Channel standing between their salvation and impending doom.
This is the subject matter of Christopher Nolan's latest film. The acclaimed director decided to do away with fantastical sci-fi plots and superheroes and adapt a piece of history, and a significant one at that. Whenever Christopher Nolan makes a film there are always tidal waves in the film world, and every cinephile out there was curious to see what the Nolan could do with a true story. On this trip into the past he brings with him cast regulars Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy, along with heavyweights Sir Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance. Nolan is also known to bring in new blood to his films, and he does so by casting newcomers Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan and Harry Styles. Yes, the same Harry Styles from One Direction. The big question was what would Nolan do with a true story? Fans are used to big twists and sci-fi elements in Nolan's films, and none could really predict what he would do now given the fact that a Christopher Nolan film set is basically Area 51.
It's been over two years of secrecy and subtle hints, but the time has finally come. I can wholeheartedly say that this is the movie of the summer, and quite possibly of the entire year because I just can't see anything else beating it. Right from the first second of Dunkirk, you are locked into the experience, and Nolan's incredible direction in this picture create an almost quicksand effect, forever sinking and never letting you up for breath.
To begin with, the cinematography in this film is truly something to behold, partly due to the fact that it was filmed using 70mm film reel and IMAX cameras. As a film nerd, I have an immense love for great camerawork, and it's very rare that a productions cinematography makes me tear up. Dunkirk's cinematography made me tear up. Twice. The vast majority of shots in this movie are fantastic, but some are just truly magnificent. The sequences involving Tom Hardy's character, Farrier, are some of the best airplane shots ever seen in film. IMAX cameras were welded to the wings of the planes during production in order to get the desired angles and the result is astonishing.
One truly great thing about this movie is it's use of practical effects over CGI, and Dunkirk left me questioning "What CGI?". Almost everything you see in this film is practical and real. Scenes were filmed in the town of Dunkirk, actual boats, trucks and planes were used, thousands of extras were hired to play the part of soldiers on the beaches. The attention to detail that Nolan takes in all of his projects is more present than ever, and even the most hardcore of history buffs will find it hard to find falsities in the details.
To speak for the cast, the A-listers give their typically great performances, and the newcomers show that they can hold their own against such names. Onto Harry Styles. I was very sceptical about his inclusion in this production. Sure he can sing. One Direction are the opposite of my cup of tea. But Nolan stressed that he saw potential in the young singer turned actor, and that potential apparently earned him his spot. I have to say, I have ever been more wrong in my life. I was so wrong, that I didn't even think to myself "That's Harry Styles" when watching. I didn't even realise it was him until after a few minutes. For this to be his first feature film, he was handed a hefty amount of dialogue in comparison to some other cast members, and I have to say that he was great.
Now the more I ramble on the more I risk over-hyping this, so I'll begin to conclude. To describe Dunkirk in single words, it would be thrilling, tense, claustrophobic, magnificent and completely unique. There is no single war movie that this can be compared to. The structure in which Nolan chooses to show us these events is truly surprising and leaves a massive impact. Now critics from around the world have criticised Dunkirk for not having characters to care about. There are no scenes in this film where soldiers sit around and discuss their lives back home and get to know each other and in turn we the audience get to know them. Christopher Nolan hasn't made a war film about individuals though; but about every single person included and affected.
The whole thing is almost an exercise in empathy right from the very start. I believe, that Nolan's message in this film that war is about every soldier that did their duty, and the people affected by the tragedy and what those people can also do when faced with such dark times. To sign off, Dunkirk is a demonstration on what cinema is all about, and how cinema should be done. Film reel, practical effects, human extras, it has it all. With this film, Christopher Nolan has crafted his masterpiece, and what a thrilling one at that.
Verdict: 10/10
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one. pink leopard sweater || If this existed in my size it would be in my closet already. Such a cute sweater for that budding fashionista.
two. skateboard || Last summer I saw my sweet nine-year old nieces enjoying their skateboards so much that I made a mental note for my gift guide. No longer for just boys, skateboards are so much fun, especially if they come in these great colors. (more colors on the website as well).
three. paper costume that can be colored in || The perfect and inexpensive gift (only $20) for a kid any age. Even a twelve year old will love this. These are paper costumes that are made to be colored in or embellished. They have different animals too like foxes and leopards. I love anything that stimulates the imagination.
four. kate spade carboard nesting boxes || These are the cutest for storing toys or safekeeping things in closets. I absolutely love the combination of patterns.
five. children's classics book set || These classics are so good for the soul and are so beautifully bound in a rainbow of colors. They would look precious in a bookshelf or in a night-table and are sure to provide hours of enjoyment.
six. peter pan pop-up book || This pop-up books helps bring Peter Pan's story to life with the beautiful images. My daughter has the Alice in Wonderland version and it really is a treasure and so beautiful to look at.
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Hands have a far-reaching job description. They get to hold Dianne's hands, wear my wedding ring, shake hands with potentates, run the cordless drill, pet the dog, write to you, scratch, and catch falling objects like me. Brother Paul writes, "And the eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you'; or again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you."
Although in all honesty, upon landing in a heap, I think my head and hands both were saying to my feet, "Why did you do this to us?" But fundamentally, if my feet weren't doing the best they could to get me back to the car, I would be writing to you from the museum where I fell instead of the house where I'm sitting.
Paul goes on to say, "God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. There are many members, but one body." Or as my Dad used to say in his paraphrase, "Elbows are equal to eyeballs."
Just as my face needed my hands when I fell, we need each other. God designed our bodies to work in a complimentary fashion, and He designed the body of Christ this way as well. We need each other, and sometimes we need each other in extraordinary ways.
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Let's be honest – how many of us can say we love our job? The lucky few who follow their passion or their vocation every day and get paid for it are the people we often watch and admire and wish we could be like.
Even if like me, you're working on getting there (I'm trying to build The Mindful Hub into something that I can create to bring so much good mindful stuff to you all – but it's a slow process whilst still working full time), it can feel like an uphill struggle and meanwhile you need to pay the bills. But what if even if you're not in your dream job, you could still learn to love the job you're in? Well using a little bit of mindful magic you can. Here's how…
1. Even if you think you don't like your job overall, there are probably bits you do like. Are you passionate about writing copy, or engaging in meetings? Do you love your co-workers? Do you enjoy analysing and finding patterns? Are you interested in the strategic bits? Do you love looking at the finished project being created? Are you excited when you close a sale? Work out the bits of the job you do love, and aim to do more of them. Can you take on a specific project. Can you use your initiative to swap bits of your jobs with people who do the same? For example if you have two people doing a similar job on different projects, or a different part of the same organisation, can you suggest a job swap?
2. Try being kinder – one of the biggest problems people have in jobs is either a difficult boss, bitchy co-workers, or those moody people we work with that we all know are having a difficult day because they don't stop taking it out on everyone else. Often a job would be a lot better if the people we worked with behaved differently. What if you sent compassion and kindness to your difficult boss? What would that look like? What if you bring cakes in for all your co-workers, and ask them how they're day is going, then actually listen? Try being extra kind to the moody one. Being kind is not only nice for other people, but it's actually good for both your physical and mental health.
3. Set yourself a goal of what you want to do or achieve – Even if you're not in the place you want to be career/job wise right now. If you know where you want to get to, create a plan, set it in place and then set yourself milestones, so you can see the progress you're making. Maybe you're not ambitious, and just want a happy work environment or find it hard to work with a particular person. Maybe you're in a time of change within the organisation and find that hard. Take some time to reflect on what you want out of work, what that could look like and what contribution you can make to put it place. By taking control you can help yourself make small changes that can make you feel very differently.
4. Meditate – This is a key one. I have a stressful job in a crisis driven sector. The one thing that helps me manage my calmness and stress is meditating every morning. Meditating is as simple as sitting quietly and concentrating on your breath, or it can be listening to music and clearing your thoughts, trying a guided meditation or listening to sounds of rain or nature. It's essentially making time for space in your head – space without thoughts. Thoughts will come and go, that's natural. Let them go like clouds, don't open them up and look into them, or examine them. Let them slide by, and go back to the breath. This small practice every day, for as little as 5-10 minutes will help you manage your workday better.
5. When you're in the bits of the day you don't like, be curious. Explore them with open wonder, like a child would with a new toy. What is it you don't like about this task or moment? Is it a difficult report? A stressful situation? A repetitive task? Then drop back into your body. What I mean by this is feel the weight of your self in your seat, feel your feet on the floor, bring your attention to your breath. Ask yourself is there anything wrong with this moment? Or this one? Or this one? Moment to moment it's actually the the thoughts we think that cause us the stress and unhappiness, not necessarily the tasks we do .Tasks are just tasks – it's our preference whether we like or dislike them. Each time you feel a thought coming that you are not happy, bring yourself back to feeling the weight of yourself sitting or standing, back to the breath and to the present. Allow yourself to examine what you are doing; what does the noise of your fingers on the keyboard sound like? How does the sound of the environment you're working in play out? What sights can you see around you? What can you feel in your hands, under your feet as you work? By anchoring yourself in the present you are removing the thought process that tells you you're not happy, or that you dislike your job.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is an oblique and artful Gothic tale framed as a detective story. The truth seeker is Jekyll's lawyer, Utterson, the book's most prominent character. Jekyll — the gentleman who dabbles in chemical self-transformation — appears only intermittently, never fully speaking for himself until the end, when he discloses the details of the disastrous experiments that unleashed his primitive alter ego. The novel isn't a conventional horror story, lingering on the macabre for its own sake, but an allegory of the divided self, perhaps also a meditation on addiction. Stevenson dramatizes human duality but doesn't analyze its causes, treating it as pervasive and fundamental. For him, the Jekyll-Hyde split is the split in all of us, between the animals we evolved from and the angels we aspire to be.
"Hyde" is the first-time novelist Daniel Levine's ingenious revision of this canonical work, an elevated exercise in fan fiction that complicates and reorients the story by telling it from the perspective of the monster, exposing the tender heart inside the brute and emphasizing the pathos of his predicament. Hyde is an outlet for Jekyll's buried lusts, a manifestation of his banished id, but he is also a person in his own right who longs for acknowledgment and recognition. Far from being the accidental product of Jekyll's experimental potion, he's an integral, abiding second self who first emerged during Jekyll's painful childhood as a defense against severe abuse and then went dormant inside him for decades, until the medicine reawakened him. While Stevenson casts Hyde as purely evil, a creature without a conscience, Levine — by placing him center stage and awarding him a full measure of humanity — portrays him as a wounded innocent, scorned, bewildered and oppressed. He dwells like a squatter in the body that he and Jekyll share, an illegal lodger, without rights.
Levine's book is appreciably longer than Stevenson's, chiefly because it's vastly more subjective, describing the tortured Hyde's interior life as he waits, locked in Jekyll's house, for the authorities to catch up with him after his murder of a member of Parliament who discovered his and Jekyll's secret. The mood is one of frustration and claustrophobia. For as long as he can remember, Hyde has lived as the captive of his master, able to observe the doctor's deeds and draw inferences from his behavior but lacking access to his thoughts. Levine exploits this unusual arrangement to invent a hybrid point of view that fuses the first person and the third. Hyde, the "I," refers to Jekyll as "he" and to their composite being as "we." This fractured perspective takes some getting used to, but eventually it feels logical and apt, elegantly expressing the mind's plurality and its propensity for self-estrangement. We are many, every one of us, peering inward and outward simultaneously and beholding our lives from conflicting, varied angles that we perpetually strive to reconcile. For Hyde, this task is singularly difficult; his peculiar existence denies him wholeness, condemning him to confusion and anxiety.
In "Hyde," the outside world — Victorian London — is as byzantine as its narrator's inner world. It's a murky metropolis of vice and cruelty, especially at night, which is when Hyde can most freely range about, his fearsome visage obscured by shadows. The gaslit, mazelike, foggy city that Stevenson only lightly sketched engrosses and excites Levine, particularly its seamy side of swarming, roaring pubs and vile back-alley brothels. Hyde is drawn to these dubious establishments by impulses he only half understands but is powerless to check because they emanate from Jekyll, the upright scientist and man of means for whom reason and civilized comforts have fallen short. The brothels where he seeks companionship specialize, some of them, in supplying little girls for callous, predatory gentlemen. The girls are slaves, held hostage in much the same way that Hyde is chained to Jekyll, suggesting a moral cleavage within society that mirrors the divided makeup of the main character. This backdrop creates sympathy for Hyde, a being capable of many sins but immune to the one that defines his age, hypocrisy, because he wears no public mask of virtue. He does have a gallant side, however. His affinity for the helpless and exploited impels him to rescue a child prostitute and violently confront a prowling john.
The language of Hyde's long, melancholy monologue — the pleading, anguished final testament of a creature confronting its own extinction — is earthy, lurid and unsparing, a departure from Stevenson's smoother, more decorous prose. The word "spittle" comes up a bit too often, and great attention is paid to noxious odors, filthy garments and uncomfortable bodily sensations. The acts of mastication and defecation are described in graphic, grinding close-up, rendering them equally unappealing. "Hyde," at its core, is a novel of revulsion, its forsaken protagonist severed from true pleasure by a nervous system that's not his own and an acutely jarring upbringing at the hands of a stern, sadistic father. Though the traumas the man inflicted are left vague, some are clearly sexual, the products of his eccentric, warped philosophy of male erotic development. The boy disintegrates under this harsh regimen and brings forth Hyde, his imaginary ally and a vessel for his rage.
By choosing to ground his protagonist's tragic fissure in disfiguring childhood experiences, Levine makes the story feel more contemporary but compromises its universality and somewhat dissipates its mystery, turning a fable into a kind of memoir. The imposition of Freudian psychology on a pre-Freudian scenario feels patronizing and reductive. (Rearranging the past to conform to present theories is one of historical fiction's favorite tricks, but sometimes the temptation is best resisted.) The novel is a pleasure nonetheless, a worthy companion to its predecessor. It's rich in gloomy, moody atmosphere (Levine's London has a brutal steampunk quality), and its narrator's plight is genuinely poignant.
The best parts are those in which Hyde peers out at Jekyll as though he were a stranger, straining to understand him, to know his thoughts. Hyde yearns, above all, for intimacy with his host, for relief from his own isolation, but it eludes him. He's the unconscious mind personified, submerged, ignored and desperate to be heard.


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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
My Trip to Israel, Part III: Misers, Misereres, and Margaritas
[Hotel Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem. Monday, November 26. Wedding Day, and my last day in Israel.]
Greed and marriage are irreconcilable, and their teleological disparity makes weddings exceptionally conflicted. The hall, caterer, florist, band, stylist, clothing store, and printing shop all epitomize insatiable capitalistic avarice, while the bride and groom (should, at least) exemplify the opposite: unity, compromise, and a remarkable willingness to have less so that another might have more. Here in Israel, these diametric combatants palpably digress—the extremes are even further removed from one another than anywhere else. Israel is a land, simultaneously, of sacrosanct Infinity and unspeakable filth, where the best and the worst spiritual forces awkwardly coexist.
Since my very religious brother is going to be married in less than two hours, the wedding hall's acute cupidity seems, to me, even more abominable than it normally might. Despite being part of a family that paid thousands for a 5-hour affair, I am assaulted by miserliness at every turn: five shekels (about $1.50) for an outlet adapter; the same for a pack of crackers. Coffee is double. Jewish tradition maintains that a religious couple should recite Psalms throughout their wedding day, right up until the husband stomps on a glass and the union is official. In light of the hall's financial practices, however, it might be best to recite a revised Psalm 51 not for the couple, but for Hotel Ramat Rachel:
Have mercy on Hotel Ramat Rachel, O G-D,
according to Your unfailing love;
according to Your great compassion
blot out Hotel Ramat Rachel's transgressions.
Wash away all Hotel Ramat Rachel's iniquity
and cleanse Hotel Ramat Rachel from Hotel Ramat Rachel's sin.
For I know Hotel Ramat Rachel's transgressions
and Hotel Ramat Rachel's sin is always before me.
Freedom will be swift, literally—my brother and his fiancée, dipsomaniacs though they are not, picked a hall at which an open bar comes standard. Soon I will be imbibing those shekels I dished out right back into my system, and then some. It is my responsibility to drink my family back into the black. A scotch-and-coke costs about 50 shekels at a trendy Jerusalem bar. A glass of decent wine is 30, and a mixed cocktail is 40. If I drink ten of the first, two of the second, and two of the third, then my family will be 640 shekels further towards even. Granted, that's only about $170, but I'm just one person. If everyone quaffs his or her share we could make my family's money back.
Besides, isn't it our right—nay, our duty—to think (and drink) along the bottom line? If the hall, caterer, florist, band, stylist, clothing store, and printing shop can do it, then why shouldn't we? Sure, you might deploy the "two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right" argument, that joining in their greed is no more defensible than their greed is in the first place. You might call me a hypocrite for deploring avarice and then calling on others and myself to adopt that trait three hours later. You might say, using my earlier statements about weddings—and Israeli society at large—being battles between good and evil, that calculating how much I have to drink to screw the wedding hall might constitute a victory for the latter.
You might be right. I'm not really sure. Inside my frayed emotional universe, I feel like a valiant protector, guarding this family event from greed and vile people, and that by robbing those who are trying to rob me, I am vigilantly fighting back those forces. You might disregard that as a rationalization, and, again, you might be right. But if it's rationality you speak of, I am currently incapable of such a pursuit. I just overpaid for crackers, my brother is getting married tonight, and the twenty-hour project that is my return to New York will begin 120 minutes after the last guest leaves. I'm equal parts jilted, jocular, and jet lagged.
When the alcohol wears off somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, I'll hastily reconstruct my reflections in a fuzzier, cuddlier way: nostalgia is the luxury of the removed. In the meantime, an ironed set of dress clothes awaits me, as do a brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law who have a happily less dire conception of tonight's proceedings than I do.
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I still don't believe we are precisely "what we eat" (thanks to a fast metabolism), because if that was true I'd have chocolate chip cookie eyes and licorice lips, not to mention some fried shrimp earrings. And we are certainly some of what we say — but who here can raise their hand and say they have never lied and their words are like a stream of gold profiting the world? (Put your hand down Pat Robertson) But what if it's just a little bit true that we are what we consume, in terms of the 24/7 media landscape, and in terms of what we hear and regurgitate because it matters to us?
If that's true than I'm probably a conservative liberal and Republican-leaning Democrat, because quite frankly I spend my time working, living and breathing searching for meaning, finding wisdom and humor many steps of the way. I'm not looking for a particular slant, I'm looking for reason and intelligent discussion.
Thus, I am birthing this new "Yeah, that's what I heard" enterprise on a spot I have usually reserved just for my professional work. I spend my days thinking mainly about God's purpose for the world and our lives, the crazy uncomprehendable domain of mainstream sports, and whatever other jumbled, eyebrow raising experiences encompass a given 24-hour segment.
This is the introduction to something I will be posting several times a week, maybe more. What I'd really like though is for you to add your own "Yeah, that's what I heard" experiences in the comments section. Because then — I will have just heard it as well and we can pass around our thinking hats.
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Old Pictures of Świebodzin
An online picture gallery of Old Świebodzin. Schwiebus / Swiebodzin in old pictures.
Digital scans of old picture postcards of the town of Świebodzin, Poland. Pictures of old Schwiebus (Swiebodzin), Poland. This page currently contains twelve images. Use the arrow buttons under each image to see the next photograph in our online historic picture gallery of old Świebodzin, Lubuskie, Poland; a city, which was prior to 1945, Schwiebus, East Brandenburg, Germany.
Further information and photographs of the town as it looks today can be found here: Świebodzin.
Old photos and postcards of Swiebodzin, Poland / Świebodzin, Polska
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So...PART I was the set up...and here we are with PART II, Bunkasai Day one! This is a two day festival, with the first day being for the students and teachers only, and the second day open to the public. So Friday was GO time for all the students to see the result of all their hard work and run through everything before the BIG crazy day on Saturday.
I started off my day in the best way possible, with a MR DONUT jam-filled amazing croissant donut and some nice black coffee in my favorite SAKURA Starbucks mug :)
at 9am we kicked off the fun with the Opening Ceremony where all the students came into the gym with their class shirts on and introduced their theme for the festival. I always love seeing the creativity in the T-shirts and the unity it shows within the homerooms. You think we could get American kids to sit this properly?? rhetorical question. no way.
Each homeroom makes a banner with their theme on it and it is dramatically unraveled in front of everyone. The best one was the 3B class who had christmas lights on their banner! HAHA
once the opening ceremony commences, Bunkasai officially begins!! From 10am-3pm the students have the day free to work their designated classrooms, roam around, check out the other classes, and see the performances on stage.
My first stop was the Library committees table of awesome hand made journals, bookmarks, keychains, etc. Aren't they amazing!?
Next stop was 1A...the first year class that will be going to Torrance next year!
They set their classroom up into three "game stations" representing different countries. How cute is that?!
These boys from 3H reppin their shirts that looked familiar to KITH TREATS designs, but when I asked them if thats where they got the idea from they were like huhhh??
a lot of the classrooms set up their place like a restaurant, which is so cute, and 3I made it an aloha paradise and sold icecream.
How awesome are those CHURRO t-shirts!? I would totally buy one.
2A was so funny...they sold popsicles and juice and had the boys dressed up as girl.
Ok here comes the most impressive room of the day...3E's SPINNING TEACUPS RIDE!!!! Which they called "coffee cups" for some reason haha. I was so impressed by this feat of building a man-powered spinning teacups ride in their class. WOW.
I went on it and it really felt like the teacups ride!!!
A few classes did haunted houses which had lines of 20+ kids in it!
3D sold Keema curry and it was really bomb!
How cute is the design of this class? Loved all the balloons and cheerful colors.
I also got some bracelets made by the art club...they all say "ICHIKASHI" on it, which is the school's nickname. Pretty amazing souvenier for $1!!
A special award needs to be given to 3B class, who put on a FULL PERFORMANCE of Sound of Music!!! Like, a straight up 80 minutes show with singing, dancing, props, lights, music...the whole enchilada. They even made fans with quotes from the musical on it!! Keeping that forever.
Of course the brass band performed in the afternoon and did an incredible job as usual!
The light music club also took to the stage and you can see one of the 2A students here, Ajia, dressed as a girl and singing rock and roll! HAHHA.
two of my awesome coworkers!
The Dance team also took to the stage and killed it!
Ok so 3I wins for my favorite shirt of Bunkasai!! HAHA...it was drawn by one of the students and is a picture of their teachers face! How amazing is that. It looks just like him which makes it even better. I want to make this design into a sticker and put it everywhere!
The S (sports focused) classes always do a dance...a long crazy dance...and here is 3S doing their 30 minute routine!!
And...at 3pm I walked into 2A and found a few students like this...a sure sign of a good day! Things wrapped up smoothly and the kids went to practice, or went home and got some rest before day TWO of the big event!
I had so much fun roaming the halls and seeing as many of the classrooms as I could. So proud to work here!


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Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who returns to his native coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Derrick's life is consumed by the effort to protect the community his great grandfather's grandfather settled as a former slave. He is on the verge of a breakthrough when Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast. After years of restoration work to bring Turkey Creek back from the brink of death, the community gains significant federal support for cultural and ecological preservation. Derrick makes plans to return to Boston to rebuild the life he abandoned, but another disaster seals his fate as a reluctant activist.
"This intimate film tells a gigantic story — about race, about power, about so-called development. But it is also a saga of community, resilience, resistance, and hope. It's not just the drama of a small creek in Mississippi — it's about everything that matters in our society."
— Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools
"The language of power and oppression is omnipresent in Come Hell or High Water, and it doesn't get any better as Katrina pounds Gulfport in 2005. Still no better when the BP oil disaster happens five years after that. The documentary captures Turkey Creek's responses to all of these tragedies — and a few remarkable victories against the powers that be."
— Brentin Mock, Grist
Leah Mahan is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. She has been a fellow at the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing and Story Lab and the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. Leah's film Sweet Old Song (2002) was featured on the PBS series P.O.V. and was selected by film critic Roger Ebert to be screened at his Overlooked Film Festival ("Ebertfest"). The film tells the story of Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, an old-time string band musician who undertakes a bittersweet journey with the woman he loves. In 2013 she completed Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, about a group of determined Mississippians who struggle to save their endangered Gulf Coast community in the face of rampant development, industrial pollution and disaster. She worked with Gulf Coast NGOs to develop a related community journalism project titled Bridge the Gulf. Leah began her career as a research assistant for filmmaker Henry Hampton on the groundbreaking PBS series on the civil rights movement Eyes on the Prize. A sequel to her first film, Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street (1996), was completed in 2013. The films tell the story of a vibrant community organization that transforms a devastated Boston neighborhood through grassroots organizing. Leah's work has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, Independent Television Service, Ford Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She holds a BA in anthropology from Cornell University and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two children.
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Walking the Old Ways : nature, the bardic & druidic arts, holism, Zen, the ecological imagination
from BARDO
The stars are in our belly; the Milky Way our umbilicus.
Is it a consolation that the stuff of which we're made
is star-stuff too?
– That wherever you go you can never fully disappear –
dispersal only: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen.
Tree, rain, coal, glow-worm, horse, gnat, rock.
Roselle Angwin
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
zen & the human condition
My friends, I'm aware that my posts have been fewer and fewer. Right now, my energy levels have ground to a halt as I'm waiting for a glimpse of a way forward: there's much inner change going on and it's all very fluid right now.
Just as significantly, I'm trying to clear my life for at least two months to concentrate on the book, set and partly written in a Brittany forest, which has had such a difficult labour lately (the beginning was so sweet!), and is on the 5th draft.
So rather than adding another 'should' to my interminable list, for the next few weeks I'm intending to repost old blogs, and/or post here items from my various creative works.
Today, here's a reblog (from 2012, when I'd been quite ill) of a post on the perfect imperfections of being human, from the perspective of my adult-life-long (and sometimes erratic) practice of Zen.
Our condition is one of living with joy and sorrow both – that's simply how it is – whatever our circumstances; and we do best to say 'YES' to it all; simply YES. It's the resistance that brings the suffering.
So there has to be a YES to opening my heart over and over to the dharma, which is simply the Way – the journey; in this case right here right now, to what my heart is telling me.
And here on my meditation stool this morning, having decided at last to give myself rest, so a lazy start to Bach on the CD player and a gentle breakfast by the courtyard window, here on the stool I meet those old friends, the 'five hindrances' of the human condition, according to Buddhism: craving, aversion, apathy, anxiety, doubt.
I've been doing this for decades. They don't go away, these old friends; utterly loyal, we meet each other over and over. The good news is I don't fight them so much any more – not quite. I nod, and let my attention rest again in silence. And again. And again. Yes, that's progress!
'We all dread the helplessness of losing control, and yet real freedom lies in recognizing the futility of demanding that life be within our control. Instead, we must learn the willingness to feel—to say yes to—the experience of helplessness itself. This is one of the hidden gifts of serious illness or loss. It pushes us right to our edge, where we may have the good fortune to realize that our only real option is to surrender to our experience and let it just be.' (Ezra Bayda, "The Three Things We Fear Most"; from Tricycle Daily Dharma)
Zazen, Zen sitting meditation, is one of the toughest practices, it seems to me. When sitting, you simply – SIT. How hard is that? When I was a teenager muddling my way towards some sort of path that was spiritual but not 'religious' or monotheistic I learned all kinds of lovely soothing meditation practices with candles and mantras and mudras and visualisations and substitutions of positives for negatives and 'bringing in the light' and chants and prayerbeads. Dreamy trancey stuff.
Then one day I decided I'd give 'proper' Zen meditation a go. Boy, was it tough. Bearing in mind I was a romantic young thing, newly-arrived at university, into poetry, music, New Age stuff and a little experimentation with soft drugs, Zazen shocked me awake.
One austere white room. Half a dozen scary-looking austere silent men, all much older than me. Two forty-minute sitting sessions, facing the white wall, eyes a little open. No movement. No mantra. No guidance. No distraction, not even a candle. No words. Twenty minutes silent slow walking in between the two forty-minute sitting 'sesshins'. My mind, cartwheeling, freefalling, bored, running amok, disliking intensely this confrontation with – itself, no distraction.
You could ask: 'and the point?' – To be present. Really present, in each moment; not to rush towards death in a flurry of trivia and distraction. To peer deeply into everything and everyone you encounter, including your own internal horrors, illusions and errors and the way you visit them not only on yourself but on others. To appreciate the 'isness' of it all; the 'suchness'. To face head-on the fear of emptiness. To live as if everything mattered. And nothing.
Zazen is also perhaps, it seems to me, one of the most courageous meditation practices. You don't attempt to fill the emptiness that arises when we're no longer distracted. You simply watch the mind – its games, its addictions, its evasions and duckings and divings, its endless babble. You watch it. This is how it is. You don't need to hang onto any of it, though the mind will try and try.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you break through this chatter and you fly free, for a little while – 'free of the false, free of the true' as the Zenrin has it. Free of all our conceptualisations, as well as our preoccupations. 'Me, you, these walls, these books, all gone like a waterfall over a cliff.'
I have other spiritual practices besides, mainly on the Old pagan turning dates of the year, that draw on my transpersonal, druidic, Western Mystery Tradition values, but Zazen is core. It's like the movement from a very beautiful very elaborate celebration in an ornate temple to a very simple hut in the woods. How little we need, not how much.
Zen is a practice to do with cutting through the games of ego. It's integrative rather than transcendental – and as someone who craves transcendental experience it's been really useful and grounding for me to stay with something unshowy and simple and direct. The aim is to enquire, to see clearly, into the nature of reality by becoming aware and slipping the bonds of the things that keep us stuck: our fears, our anger and resistance, our greed, our dislikes, our cravings; and seeing them all as ways of distracting ourselves, as reactive constructs of the ego-mind that sit between us and All That Is.
Yep, it's still as hard, sometimes, as when I was a teenager. Sometimes it's not. I'm learning not to resist or judge. And I have discovered that Zazen is the candle. And my heart likes this spaciousness that opens up if I can just sit with everything exactly as it is, without needing to change it or move away or towards it.
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- Anonymous24 January 2018 at 09:12
Very pertinent, Roselle.ReplyDelete
'craving, aversion, apathy, anxiety, doubt.'
Exactly what I've been feeling since November when I assumed that by new year I might be close to the end of my novel. I recognise what you say about your own writing: 'which has had such a difficult labour lately (the beginning was so sweet!), and is on the 5th draft.'
I'm on the umpteenth draft of certain chapters and still have new ones to write. So it's always comforting to know that I'm not alone and to feel that all you say here speaks directly to me even though I'm not a Buddhist and know very little – though value what I have gleaned – and find it creeping into so much of my life.
I haven't read this blog of 2012 (my first year on Iona) so I welcome it, as usual, before diving back into TWR. I still hope to send you something for next week's Jan end/Feb start. Is that still ok?
Meanwhile, Roselle, I wish you well in this shared struggle. Now I know how tough it all is. So, to quote you again – 'Let it just be' or my dad's version, said with a sweet-sad smile: 'that's the way it is'.
With love and thanks, MiriReplies
Hello Miri - I'm glad it resonated for you! 'How it is.'Delete
Yes, TWR is fine whenever; will try best to make room for it at the end of Feb with my usual various end-of-month mentoring commitment.
See you before too long. Glad Jeff is joining us for some of the retreat-time.
Thank you for this. I particularly like the five 'hindrances'. All best wishes for your time out. Am still blogging and trying to write! BxReplyDelete
Hello Belinda - lovely to hear from you. Am so glad you're still writing!ReplyDelete
Oh yes, the five hindrances. Don't we all know them?
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A risk associated with investment in the Eastern Mediterranean Levant BasinI spent a lot of time yesterday viewing this congressional hearing about the Eastern Mediterranean Levant Basin. The discussion here is about the Leviathan and other fields in the Eastern Med, where Cyprus and Israelis interests converge rapidly. There is a very forceful case for Israeli energy security from exploitation of the Leviathan deposit.
I am very happy to see Israel become energy independent, but there are a few things to consider
1) Exploitation of Leviathan will be expensive. I feel it will be difficult for Israel to raise money for the exploitation. Israel could finance this with support from our government (and others) but it will be difficult to attract investors without the promise of accessing larger market. The most proximate large market is Europe.
2) That is where I think things will get nasty. I don't Russia will approve of Israeli plans to become a natural gas supplier to Europe. The Turks for their part will want a cut on all things Cypriot and that is something the Cypriots will find unacceptable.
3) The actual field is spread across the economic zone of a several nations with a history of hostility towards Israel. If actual exploitation begins, it will likely be marred by violent attempts to physically control the space. [see here]
So quite frankly even from the USG perspective - this is a very high risk investment that will need risk management at a very high level.
Some work has been done towards mitigating the risks, specifically Gazprom has been given a role in the development of the field. I am a little surprised by this development, but perhaps Moscow Center feels that an unproven unextracted gas field is not a real threat to an established pipeline pumping gas every second into German production centers.
The Turkish aspirations are likely to be resolved similarly. Again the Turkish deep staters will probably think similarly to the Russians - an actual pipeline (BTC) is very different from an unproven unextracted gas field in the middle of the sea.
I am told that Prime Minister Netanyahu attempted to get this kind of support from President Obama but I gather things were not very good between them. Perhaps the President Trump might be more responsive - from what I hear he is a great fan of PM Netanyahu and they share a common friend with very deep pockets, Sheldon Adelson.
I support any investment in regional security as long as the risks are clearly spelled out and explained to all stakeholders.
It is not clear to me how the Russophiles (a lot of who are openly anti-Semitic) will sit well with supporting an Israel friendly initiative that poses a threat to Russia's dominance over the natural gas markets in Europe.
This looks like a massive faultline here and though it appears things have been papered over for now, it isn't clear to me that this won't open up. That risk is quite serious (even if it is a low probability event), and given how much money has to put into this upfront - it cannot be ignored.
That said - if the US can help the Israelis secure their national energy sources, then there will be significant progress in regional stability.


text: Better late than never. Apparently deciding that two wrongs don't make a right, Governor Mark Sanford said in a statement today that he would reimburse the state of South Carolina for a trip to Argentina on which he met his mistress. "While the purpose of this trip was an entirely professional and appropriate business development trip, I made a mistake while I was there in meeting with the woman who I was unfaithful to my wife with," Sanford said. "That has raised some very legitimate concerns and questions, and as such I am going to reimburse the state for the full cost of the Argentina leg of this trip." According to documents released by the state Department of Commerce, airfare for the trip was $8,644.03 and more than $9,000 on Sanford's expenses alone.


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Sunday, January 30, 2011
A Lightning Trip to Wilkes-Barre
Karen and I made a fast trip to Wilkes-Barre with our eldest this weekend. We'd planned it a while back around a hockey game our daughter's boyfriend would play there. His game was cancelled, but we made the trip anyway, giving the two of them a chance to see each other and us a chance to spend time with them as well. And Wilkes-Barre is a place we had not yet seen.
Daughter #1 is a freshman at Villanova and her young man is at a prep school in Kingston, PA, across the river from Wilkes-Barre. He's a talented hockey player, and a good kid. We missed the opportunity to watch him play, but took the pair of them out for excellent steaks at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse that is part of the new Mohegan Sun Casino at Pocono just outside Wilkes-Barre.
And we had a bit of a walk-around in Wilkes-Barre in a gentle, pretty snowfall. We were surprised by what we thought was a grand-looking mosque, but turned out to be the Irem Temple, designed in the "moorish" style more than 100 years ago as an auditorium for the local masonic lodge. It has a wonderfully-decorated front door, but appears to be deteriorating badly.


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How to say 'Sh*t!' in numerous different languages and lots more about the trials and tribulations of swearing in a foreign language.
I've been an English language teacher for 11 years and it never ceases to amaze me how fascinated people are with swearing in a foreign language.
Not all of my students, of course, ask me for tips on how best to swear in English, but a surprising number do.
There will be two or three weeks of getting-to-know-one-another, whilst learning a bit of preliminary vocabulary and grammar, and then here come the first "by the way, how do you say f**k off in English?" or "how do you say sh*t?" questions.
Swearing in a foreign language seems to be a great ice-breaker, not only between student and teacher, but also between student and practice audience. There is a comedy element to it that lightens the mood and somehow magically facilitates confidence and communication.
Personally, I am not a great fan of swearing in a foreign language or in my own language, but as a foreign language teacher I am receptive to anything that helps a struggling student (let's face it almost all of us struggle!) to engage in and enjoy second language conversation.
I recently wrote another article about the merits of using alcohol as a foreign language learning tool. Similarly, I am not much of a drinker, but I have to recognise how awkward it can be to properly practise one's chosen second language and the godsend that is any tool or tip that genuinely helps.
I would never want to promote excessive habitual alcohol abuse, but a couple of drinks here and there can boost one's confidence when starting out, at least, practising speaking a second language.
It's a similar thing with swearing in a foreign language. If discussing a few taboo words sparks up a conversation and gets people laughing and relaxed then, fantastic, that is gold dust in the quest to learn a second language.
For most people it is only a case of learning the odd dirty word or two. Others may push themselves to remember a selection of choice sentences which string together various profanities for added shock factor.
This shock factor, by the way, is not in sinisterly offending or abusing another poor person. It is all about getting that "Wow, how do you know how to say that!" type of response.
It is funny to hear a foreigner saying things you don't expect. Especially if one manages to pull it off and produce the perfect word in the perfect moment. It shows passion and a deeper understand of the other language that is extremely endearing.
Be warned though. You could also be setting yourself up for a fall in bigging up the expectations of the other person. You might find yourself faced with a sudden barrage of breakneck native as the enthusiastic response. And if you aren't able to match the level of your one or two quirky, consummately executed swear words, it will come as a massive let-down.
We should never forget the true nature of swearing either. You may want to use it ironically as a bit of fun, but we must always be aware that we are using offensive words even when we are swearing in a foreign language.
Swearing is a big part of language, but it's not something to be proud of or to overuse.
Not everyone will see the funny side of your soiree in swearing in a foreign language. Some people will be plain offended. This might be because they simply dislike swearing or maybe because you didn't manage to quite pull off your delivery.
There are numerous pitfalls. It's not only choosing the correct word. It's knowing exactly when to use it, in which context, in which precise moment, with which tone of voice, and to which audience.
It is a perilous challenge trying to swearing in a foreign language, one that is not for the faint-hearted. Personally I think swearing is little more than a bad habit or an indication of a lack of vocabulary. But, as I said, who am I to stand in the way of a potentially really effective ice-breaker and confidence booster.
So, here you go, here is a little introduction. Below I have listed how to say 'Sh*t' in numerous different languages. Enjoy!
Albanian mut
Basque kaka
Belarusian дзярмо
Bulgarian лайна
Catalan merda
Croatian sranje
Czech hovno
Danish lort
Dutch stront
Estonian pask
Finnish paska
French merde
Galician merda
German Scheiße
Greek σκατά
Hungarian szar
Icelandic skít
Irish cac
Italian merda
Latvian sūdi
Lithuanian šūdas
Macedonian срања
Maltese shit
Norwegian dritt
Polish gówno
Portuguese merda
Romanian rahat
Russian дерьмо
Serbian cхит
Slovak hovno
Slovenian sranje
Spanish mierda
Swedish skit
Ukrainian лайно
Welsh cachu
Yiddish דרעק
Bengali বিষ্ঠা
Chinese 狗屎
Filipino shit
Georgian shit
Gujarati છી
Hindi गंदगी
Indonesian kotoran
Japanese たわごと
Kannada ಶಿಟ್
Korean 똥
Malay tahi
Tamil கதை
Telugu ఒంటి
Thai อึ
Urdu گندگی
Vietnamese cứt
Arabic القرف
Azerbaijani shit
Hebrew חרא
Persian گه
Turkish bok
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Truth be told I've never held a golf club, unless you count mini-golf, and well, that's just not the same now is it. Looking to beautiful Antigua, home of 365 beaches, Antigua has two awesome 18-hole courses, one on the west coast, Jolly Harbour, and a championship course which is located north of St. John's, Cedar Valley Golf Club. Both have clubhouses, onsite pro shops with logo items and all your golf equipment.
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