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Introduction to Harmonic Pattern Scenario Planner The present state of Forex market can go through many different possible price paths to reach its future destination. Future is dynamic. Therefore, planning your trade with possible future scenario is an important step for your success. To meet such a concept, we introduce the Predictive harmonic Pattern Scanner, Harmonic Pattern Scenario Planner. By simulating many possible price scenario, which can happen in the future, the Harmonic Patte
The script is intended for automatic placing of Sell Stop pending orders, Stop Losses and Take Profits on the user specified levels. This script is not that useful as "Virtual pending buy stop", since short positions are opened as Bid price crosses the levels. Thus spread widening is not dangerous. Nevertheless, you need to have this script to prevent unwanted hitting of the Stop Loss levels. Main Purposes: Automation of the process of placing the Sell Stop pending orders, Stop Losses and T
Volume is an important indicator in combination with price movements. Volumes Overaverage Notifier informs you when activity is entering the market. Features This indicator is able to notify you via push notifications, alerts, sounds and emails when it is recognizing rising volume above a customizable level. The volumes histogram is divided and colored in 4 different parts - low, normal, high and ultrahigh volume levels. Low volume zones are drawn as a rectangle into the chart. How to Use
Supply Demand with Mean Reversion Concept The concept of supply demand trading rely on the quantity mismatching between buying and selling volumes in financial markets. To typical traders, supply demand zone serves as the turning point. When we looked at its original concept, we have found that the original supply demand trading can be performed better at mean reversion period rather than trend period. For the demonstration of this concept, for any supply demand zone to work as an successful tr
A classic pivot point indicator with three support lines, three resistance lines and history, nothing unusual here :) What's different about this one is that it will show correct pivot lines on Monday if you have some weekend candles. If you want to trade in different time zone there is also the possibility to shift time (hours and minutes). Pivot points are very useful tools that use the previous bars to project support and resistance levels for future bars. So if you use them for trading it
The script is intended for automatic placing of Buy Stop pending orders, Stop Losses and Take Profits on the user specified levels. Main Purposes: Avoiding unwanted entering a long position in case of false hitting the level as a result of widening of the spread by a dealing center. Avoiding unwanted triggering of a Stop Loss in case a quote pierces a significant level (fractal) without further confirmation with the close price. Setting a necessary virtual order and entering the market in
Safe Automatic is a safe MetaТrader 5 trading robot working autonomously on a VPS server. The good results are achieved on EURUSD. Trading Strategy The EA applies modified versions of a trend-following strategy, half-pyramiding, scalping, Elliott Wave method and speculating trading with a deposit protection. The EA switches the strategies automatically. The program also takes the news calendar into account: the robot does not enter the market in a 10-minute interval before and after a news rel
The indicator displays economic news on the currency chart (the appropriate data must be downloaded from the Internet - please see the download instructions on the screenshots provided). The list of currencies (countries) is customizable. By default it shows all currencies. The main parameters come with a built-in description. In addition, there are parameters for advanced users. News items are divided into 3 categories by degree of importance. There is a great flexibility in display parameter s
The Triangular Arbitrage EA exploits inefficiencies between three related currency pairs, placing offsetting transactions which cancel each other for a net profit. Easy to set up and supervise No indicators or hard analysis needed The strategy is time-frame independent Under ideal trading conditions, triangular arbitrage is a zero-risk strategy Arbitrage is a high-volume strategy and generates a lot of rebatesIt implements a set of unique features: You decide which pair set
qAutoActivation indicator is one of the main components of Trading Chaos Expert trading expert panel. The indicator displays the current trend on the current timeframe. This is the first indicator that is attached to the chart and saved in the trading complex template. It defines what trading signals from the expert panel should be automated for market entry (bullish or bearish ones). When the trend changes, the indicator changes the line color and, at the same time, highlights the trading pane
The Expert Advisor implements the classic "triangular arbitrage", which is successfully used by hedge funds. "Triangular" arbitrage refers to a class of neutral-market strategies, in which the profit or loss of open positions does not depend on the direction of the market movement as a whole. In order to take profit, the EA exploits a weak spot of market makers - it utilizes the difficulty of balancing cross rates of all currency pairs. The advantages of the strategy are the following: n
This indicator combines the Japanese candlestick pattern analyzer and the Japanese candlestick pattern indicator. It will be useful for both manual and automated trading. The indicator features buttons for switching between patterns and displays points from the open price of the candlestick following a given pattern to the close price of the bar specified in the settings on the chart. It will be beneficial to seekers of new patterns who would like to use new combinations. You can analyze various
We present you an effective software solution for arbitrage between brokers. The Arbitrage on the market became widespread due to decentralization. There are many liquidity providers, whose quotes differ for various reasons. By tracking the dynamics of changes in the quotes of different brokers, it is possible to determine the delayed and leading brokers, thereby predicting the future prices of the delayed broker for a short time. Knowing these prices and using efficient built-in software filte
News Loader Pro is a tool that automatically updates every economic news in real time with detailed information from several online data sources. It uses the unique technology to load data with full details from popular Forex websites. An alert will be sent to your mobile/email before an upcoming news release. Moreover, it also marks the news release points on the chart for further review and research. In Forex trading, news is one of the important factors that move
This indicator is an adaptation of the MQL4 TDI writen by Dean Malone. It uses RSI oscillator to assist traders to identify market conditions and reversals. Many strategies have been developed involving TDI or similar indicators which proves it's reliability and potential profitability. Blue shadow and yellow market line can be removed from chart in the indicator options panel. A file with instructions is available upon request.
带有自动参数设置的剥头皮 您是否希望有一款 EA 能够自动计算交易参数且能适应当前行情状态? 我们为您介绍我们针对外汇市场开发的新品。这是即时报价剥头皮 EA,用于 МТ4 和 МТ5 - 即时报价狙击手。 交易完全自动化。忘掉持续监控 - 这个 EA 能够独立交易。它的设置已经按照我们在真实帐号的测试结果进行了优化。 本 EA 绝对可以与任何货币对工作。交易系统的所有参数都自动计算,并取决于货币对当前点差。 在反向运动情况下,系统使用止损和智能均摊系统。 您不相信它?查验 EA 的演示版。 我们还提供一个版本 剥头皮 MetaTrader 4 版 系统帐户检测; 用于 MetaTrader 5 的平均系统。 系统演示版用于真实图表查验: Exp-TickSniper DEMO。 主要参数: 本系统基于进入 MetaTrader4 - MetaTrader 5 的即时报价的速度。它会自动确定下单价位,即时报价速度,以及加仓和追踪停止的距离。 OnlyModify - 允许 EA 工作在跟踪当前仓位模式下,而无需基于新信号开新单的。
Does not support hedging orders on a single symbol on MT5 MultiMTCopier MT5Receiver - new and improved multi-terminal positions copier for your real/demo account, works faster, requires less, flexible in managing and upgrading, new information support. This Expert Advisor is designed for the MetaTrader 5 terminal, trades will be copied into this terminal. MultiMTCopier: The EA will copy all positions without delays Additionally integrated notification in situations requiring user attention
Pipfinite creates unique, high quality and affordable trading tools. Our tools may or may not work for you, so we strongly suggest to try the Demo Version for MT4 first. Please test the indicator prior to purchasing to determine if it works for you. We want your good reviews, so hurry up and test it for free...we hope you will find it useful. Combo Energy Beam with Swing Control Strategy: Confirm swing pullback signals Watch Video: (Click Here)Energy Beam with Trend Laser Strate
VirtualTradePad - is a contol panel for working with orders in МetaТrader 5 : buy, sell, buystop, buylimit, sellstop, selllimit, close, delete, modify, tralling stop. VirtualTradePad won 2nd prize in the "Best Control Panel in the MQL5 Language" Contest. The panel consists of 5 tabs. Demo versions: VirtualTradePad PositionsStyle VirtualTradePad Ordersstyle VirtualTradePad SignalsStyleDemo version of the panel - VirtualTradePad LiteProfit or Loss PadINFO PadYou can also try this panel for
这是现成的交易系统。 本指标非重绘,无滞后。85% 的交易可盈利。止盈超过止损 3-15 倍! 它可工作于所有货币对,所有时间帧。 有两种简单方式来过滤指标信号: 比较更久周期的指标方向。 使用标准 MACD 指标,若指标值接近 0,则不要入场。输入参数描述: DrawHistogram - 启用/禁用绘制直方图。 DrawArrow - 启用/禁用绘制箭头。 DrawLine - 启用/禁用绘制线。 Mode - 工作于收盘柱线/当前柱线。 Alerts - 启用/禁用提示。 E-mail notifications - 启用/禁用邮件通知。 Push notifications - 启用/禁用推送通知。
Pipfinite creates unique, high quality and affordable trading tools. Our tools may or may not work for you, so we strongly suggest to try the Demo Version for MT4 first. Please test the indicator prior to purchasing to determine if it works for you. We want your good reviews, so hurry up and test it for free...we hope you will find it useful. Attention Exit Signals are NOT to be used in entering a trade! Exit means closing your trades to avoid correction/reversal which can wipe out existing
本指标可以让您享受两个最流行的产品来分析在感兴趣的价位的请求量和市场成交量: 真实市场深度图表 真实报价足迹成交量图表本产品结合两个指标的效力,并以单个文件提供。 反危机出售。今日低价。赶紧! 真实的 COMBO 市场深度功能和报价成交量图表,完全等同于原始指标。您将享受这两款产品结合为单一超级指标的力量!下面是您将得到的功能: 真实市场深度图表 股民专用工具现已在 MetaTrader 5 上可用。真实市场深度图表 指标在图表上以直方条的形式显示可视化的市场深度,并在实时模式下刷新。 利用 真实市场深度图表 指标您可以正确评估市场请求并从图表上看到大的市场。这可以 100% 的精确剥头皮和设置持仓止损。 指标以两种相应颜色的水平直方条形式显示买和卖的请求 (买-卖)。价格图表上给定级别的显示条和它们的长度与请求的交易量相应。此外, 它指示买卖请求的最大交易量。 此指标显示买卖请求总数量作为堆积面积图。这可以评估当经过下一价位时将会执行的请求总量。买卖请求总数量也显示在图表上。 省缺, 指标显示在图表背景上, 且它不会干扰任何其它指标。当使用指标交易时, 建议使
Currency Power Meter显示了主要货币对彼此的力量。该指标显示货币/对当前时刻在一段时间内的相对强度(每天,每周,每月)。它是日间交易,波段交易和适期期权头寸交易者有用。 货币的权力是市场走势的真正原因:对最弱货币最强的货币将结合成一个最趋势对。我们知道,趋势使得货币和所有的交易者喜欢趋势。 你有没有问过自己,为什么有些行业似乎有一个良好的信号,但仍然会失败?原因是你只看到个别的信号在您喜欢的一双,但没有对所有的人,这是更好地做出决定货币权力的忽视。因此,这一指标显示哪些货币是最强的,哪些是最薄弱的,因此最趋势对。它也让你知道哪些货币(因而对)是中性的,你应该避免进行交易了。 突出特点: 实时和主要货币的视觉存在对他人的权力。 每日,每周,每月:分析周期之间切换。 提示信息时,货币或对改变它的电源。 通知发送到移动和电子邮件时货币或对改变它的电源。 选择字号以适应你的屏幕分辨率。 注:指标可能需要一段时间来分析和安排货币细胞在第一次加载新的时间表,所以请等待,直到它完成。 用户指南:
Trade in the opposite directions with HedgeTerminalApi library! HedgeTerminalApi is a program interface allowing you to use HedgeTerminal virtualization technologies in your robots and scripts. With HedgeTerminalApi, you are able to trade in the opposite directions when two or more trading algorithms occupy opposite positions on a single symbol. The library allows robots to track their positions even if these positions overlap entirely or partially. Moreover, with this library, you are able to
Pipfinite creates unique, high quality and affordable trading tools. Our tools may or may not work for you, so we strongly suggest to try the Demo Version for MT4 first. Please test the indicator prior to purchasing to determine if it works for you. We want your good reviews, so hurry up and test it for free...we hope you will find it useful. Combo Breakout Analyzer with Volume Critical Strategy: Enter confirmed reversal setups Watch Video: (Click Here)Breakout Analyzer with Strength
Exp COPYLOT CLIENT for MT5 is a copier for the МetaТrader 5 platform. It copies forex trades from any accounts. Including those from terminals МТ5 and МТ4. Setup Install the Expert Advisor in the terminal where you want to copy trades. Specify any text label name as pathRead, for example, "COPY". This should match the master terminal (to bind the two terminals). To copy trades, you need to install the free Master copier in the terminal from where you want to copy the trades: COPYLOT
The MultiTimeFramesAnalis indicator analyzes 19 time frames from M1 to D1. If there is a bullish candlestick, the rectangle is green, if there is a bearish candlestick, the rectangle is red, if there is a Dodji - the color is yellow. Furthermore, it calculates indicator values based on the current trend strength. This indicator can be used as an individual trading system. The input parameters are the binding coordinates of the indicator window to the left top corner of the main chart. You can at
int limit, i;
int counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
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在 for 之前加下面一行 Print 打印出结果, 在MT4"显示"->"终端"->"EA交易"里即可看到你要的输出答案. 因为指标里的 start() 在指标启动时就会被触发第一次, 接下来触发要靠价格跳动, 在第一次触发时, limit 会等于 Bars, 因为IndicatorCounted()是 0, 所以指标会将全部K棒数据都计算一遍. 到来第二次之后 limit 就会变成 2, 所以 for 回圈在第二次触发后会变成 for (i=0; i<2; i++), 也就是 Bars 与 IndicatorCounted() 会一直维持差1的特性, 因为 counted_bars 有作了次 counted_bars --;. 你自己写的答案应该是正确的.
Print("Bars:"," ",Bars," IndicatorCounted():",IndicatorCounted()," limit:", limit);
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by skatingtripods » Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:06 pm
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by Rusty » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:52 am
Skating Tripods wrote:So if Abraham wins, he's probably Pavlik's next challenger?
by swerb » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:21 am
Rusty wrote:Skating Tripods wrote:So if Abraham wins, he's probably Pavlik's next challenger?My guess is that Arthur Abraham will never face Pavlik immediately after fighting Miranda.Look for Rubio, Mayorga, or Winky Wright to be Kelly's next opponent, it's just more realistic.Abraham, Sturm, and Calzache are notoriously protected Euro fighters, so don't hold your breath on any of those guys.I'm still shocked that Abraham is actually willing to fight Miranda in the US. He gets my respect for taking that fight and I can't wait to see it go down.
by swerb » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:18 pm
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by Guest » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:24 am
by Rusty » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:26 am
FightDr wrote:I think it would be a great fight.Abraham's chin is pretty damn solid.
by Guest » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:07 am
by swerb » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:47 am
FightDr wrote:Everybody wants to fight De La Hoya because of the payday.I watched the first Abraham-Miranda fight yesterday again also. He fought 7 rounds with a broken jaw. It was bleeding like a faucet and he didn't stop fighting or coming forward. If Abraham-Pavlik goes down it's going to be a great fight, and a tough one for The Ghost.
by peeker643 » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:24 am
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by swerb » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:33 am
Peeker643 wrote:Anyone watch Chazz Witherspoon get pummeled?Berto looked terrific but Chazz 'The Gentleman' Witherspoon was gentlemanly in that it appeared he didn't believe in settling a dispute with his fists.He was horrible.I flipped between Berto's clinical destruction of Mikki Rodrigue and the Spike fights. I know it was free but tat was a mediocre card. Fiorovanti- Sanchez was enjoyable and Kendall Grove was impressive as well but that was three hours of not much else.
by Rusty » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:59 pm
While Miranda was still on the canvas being attended to by the ring doctor, Alexander Abraham, Arthur's brother, kicked Miranda in the head. That prompted someone from Miranda's corner to try to get into the ring with a folding chair. It took on a WWE twist. But this hatred and venom was real. Alexander Abraham was arrested by the Seminole Tribal Police and later turned over to Broward County Sheriffs and taken to jail. He was awaiting bail late Saturday night. Arthur Abraham was fined $100,000 by the Florida State Athletic Commission for failure to control his entourage.
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by Rusty » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:32 am
FightDr wrote:The above comments are totally false. I rewatched the footage and nothing happened in the ring.http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=16222&more=1
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Walk, Don't Run
How hiking can speed up your trail runs
Do you think walking is anathema to trail running? You're plain wrong. ...
Photo by Kevin Steele
Do you think walking is anathema to trail running? You're plain wrong. It's all a matter of degrees. Even the world's best trail runners walk when the terrain, slope and distance dictate they do so.
And, we're not just talking about ultramarathons. For instance, during the 12-kilometer 2010 World Mountain Running Championships, Max King, the second American on the United States' silver-medal-winning team, "didn't walk much, but there was a steep two-mile section of which I walked probably 10 percent. I never like to [walk], but sometimes it just makes sense."
Why Walk
As humans, we have two primary forms of bipedal locomotion: running and walking. As a general rule, walking is more energy efficient at slower speeds while running is more efficient at faster speeds. This principle does not change when we begin charging up a hill. The constant tug of gravity's pull does, however, reduce the speed at which the transition from running to walking occurs, for two reasons.
First, there's the physics. Running is essentially a series of bounds separated by a moment of suspension. During the suspension phase, gravity accelerates us downward, which results in a "tall" parabolic arc with an increased vertical component. We use significant energy to launch ourselves into the suspension phase against the pull of gravity.
On the other hand, walking lacks the moment of suspension. Instead, we travel in a series of "flatter" circular arcs. When we run up a hill, we need to exaggerate the height of flight phase, while there is no flight phase to exaggerate when walking uphill. Ultrarunner Krissy Moehl succinctly crystallized this concept, "Walking takes the bouncing out of your stride."
Second, as a hill's gradient increases, so will the effort required to run up it. In longer races, the effort needed to run a particular incline may exceed the average effort a runner will optimally expend during the race and, therefore, burn through fuel stores too fast. In shorter races, it might simply be impossible to continue running up a steep pitch.


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Rilke follows the course of change through seasons and captures the loneliness of uncertainty in everyday life. Includes Joanna Macy's brilliant reading of "Onto a Vast Plain."
A philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy's path wound from the CIA to Tibetan Buddhism, to translating the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that exquisite poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal. Now in her 80s, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history — with possibilities of unraveling, or of creating, a life-sustaining human society.
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is a philosopher of ecology and a scholar of Buddhism. Her translations include Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, A Year with Rilke, and the recently re-released In Praise of Mortality. She is the co-author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects.
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You can read and listen to all the Rainer Maria Rilke poetry Joanna Macy recited for us for the show. Enjoy and share them with others:
» "Onto a Vast Plain"
» "The Swan"
» "Widening Circles"
» "The Secret of Death"
» "Go to the Limits of Your Longing"
» "Let This Darkness be a Bell Tower"
» "Dear Darkening Ground"
» "God's True Cloak"
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"Where do you find hope and inspiration when confronting your own or this planet's mortality?*
Confronted by such an immense question, humbled and stupefied by its immensity, I really only feel fit to walk into the kitchen, set coffee, take a moment to give heart spirit thought quiet free reign.
Adrift in thoughts. Swelling in waves. Each wave resonates. The waves play upon each other, continue and continue. Not simply growing, but moving in every direction, form, related, unrelated, above, below, deeper taller higher, swirling, waves interwoven logically, waves in counterpoint, waves without clear relationships. Ballet of waves, small symphony of waves.
And by now, coffee, ready, delicious, pulling me back to shore.
Mortality. Grandparents die, parents die, childhood friends die, school friends die, media seek easy profit by titillating us with shocking news of celebrity deaths. Tragic dramatic deaths. Anonymous innocents buried in rubble and numbers. Outside our kitchen window, Elm tree leaves turn from lush end-summer greens to autumn yellows. A man gets a jumpstart for his car's dead battery. The news is not good. More die.
Take my father: worked hard, got cancer, died young, I spent six years wondering, "What was the sense of that?..." I kept a Death Journal, filled it with obituary clippings, glimpses of peoples' lives and ends, to try to reconcile myself to death.
To paraphrase Joanna Macy, "Embrace what you know is real and it will set you free to experience in full."
I'm grateful I had the time, means and opportunity to dwell on death: I feel it liberated me.
Over time I came to a vastly fuller and gratifying sense of wonder at the diversity of lives well-lived, and how death is present in every moment. Because I saw death as ubiquitous, impossible to avoid, I stopped fearing or avoiding it. I no longer saw death as some deviant punctuating the smooth Status Quo fabric of life, nor as a remote abstract icon causing panic, fear, confusion, adrenaline. But rather Death as full and profoundly-present partner and friend in Life's Journey.
I know: hard to swallow. Western clichés are so life-biased; Western clichés view death as a morbid obsession. There's strong Western taboe against dwelling on death. Or being positive about death. Openness to death isolates.
A self-perpetuating spiral escalates to isolate us.
In the West, death is the Elephant in the Living Room.
The cards are stacked against that changing. Start with practicalities: time. Most people find it hard to find sufficient time to live. Who has time to confront death, let alone to befriend death? We tend to believe we'll have plenty of time for death when we're dead. For better or worse, we turn a blind eye to death, push death away at the expense of trying to live. It's the Western Way.
Our pragmatic, urbanized, shiny conditionally-reinforced mediatized blindness to our connection with the living glory of the universe turns "living mortality" into a stranger. We simplify death as one-dimensional Darth Vader: dark, threatening, faceless, no past, no future, just go away and leave us alone. Strangeness intensifies xenophobia. So we invest in taller stronger antiseptic electric fences to hold the stranger at bay.
Not every life adheres to blindness. My mother loved to garden. Her energy, life, breath, fruits of her labors all flowed from her body into the earth, bringing the bounties of life to loved ones to share her tables, perfumed blossoms, passion for colors, passage of seasons. We recycled and composted endlessly, giving countless generations and rebirth of life from death to life.
After a long life beautifully lived, her body as great-grandmother confided to that same earth, in which she worked and was part of countless cycles of life death rebirth life.
Given her place in that interwoven web of constantly dynamic being, it is impossible for me to not witness her on-going full presence in everything at every moment in all the profound pulsating energy and glory of the sun earth universe. She is here and alive, make no mistake of that. Not as trite physical body, but beautifully incarnate and expansively reflected in the universe that she loved, absorbed, moved in, lived to her fullest, and all which carry on amazingly. As I write I hear wind in the trees, swaying full with her presence.
I love this gorgeous rich sense of being part of the tapestry of this earth, profound joy and gratefulness in this gift of mortality and life interwoven.
O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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Up until July 21, 2008 I seemed to have gotten an abundance of my inspiration from my companion and love Michael. On that day he made his transition into the life process of death rather suddenly leaving me with all of the trappings of this life we had built together which included at 14 year old son who was beginning high school and a 24 year old daughter 2 weeks away from marriage.
In our 22 years together I had the grace of his adoration for me to inspire me and give me hope. In the two years since his leaving this physical plane, I have been able to get in touch with that energy he held out to me in every moment of every day. Without the words he visioned for me the Divine within myself. He adored that Divinity and called it to me in his love even in those times I could not feel it in myself.
I am inspired by his work with me in our years to be a beacon of grace to others in my life and to be a witness in adoration to the Divine within them.
Being that we live in an impermanent and divine world, our relationship to our planet makes our task one of great importance. I lean into the grief I feel with the events our humanity has created that has brought pain to our nature (both our planet's and our own's)! In my willingness to feel the many facets of the grief, I hope to bring about the Divine into healing our world.
Michael helped me in that contract that is mine now. My children and their travels through their lives give me practice. My community and my world reflect my efforts......
Today is
the morning after
Yom Kippur.
I find it hard to
put food in my mouth.
I woke with
a subtle headache,
undoubtedly from
going without
coffee for 48 hours,
and though I've
made myself a cup,
I don't really want
to drink it.
I want to go outside
and drink in
the wide silence,
to be with
the earth.
On the radio
Joanna Macy is
reading Rilke to me,
reminding me
to remember
the beauty
of this world…
"World is lover,
world is self;
it's okay for our
hearts to be broken
over the world…"
For this
I've needed
for I am just
a foolish woman
over the world…
Today is
Today is
the morning after
Yom Kippur.
I find it hard to
put food in my mouth.
I woke with
a subtle headache,
undoubtedly from
going without
coffee for 48 hours,
and though I've
made myself a cup,
I don't really want
to drink it.
I want to go outside
and drink in
the wide silence,
to be with
the earth.
On the radio
Joanna Macy is
reading Rilke to me,
reminding me
to remember
the beauty
of this world…
"World is lover,
world is self;
it's okay for our
hearts to be broken
over the world…"
For this
I've needed
for I am just
a foolish woman
over the world…
Bai tho rat hay, day y nghia
I made a special point of listening to the recent Being program in which Joanna Macy elucidates the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. I was unfamiliar with Joanna Macy and, until the title of one of her Rilke translations was mentioned did I connect her with The Book of Hours, a volume I have long had on my poetry shelves.
Rilke has always been a poet I turn to in times of grief, and when my husband died suddenly this past February, the Duino Elegies once again topped the stack of books on my nightstand. I made copies of a Rilke poem that has always been special to both of us to give out at his funeral. It is from The Sonnets of Orpheus—"Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were/ behind you, like the winter that has just gone by…."
My husband underwent many successful transformations in his 66 years—athlete (college swim team, bicyclist, Taekwando black belt, rollerblader), US Naval officer, scientist (he held a Ph.D. in Biology), farrier (after grad school he rebelled against animal research and attended the Oklahoma Farriers' College), financial analyst (earned his Certified Financial Analyst designation), and, in the last year of his life, a devout Catholic—but through all of it, he was primarily a seeker. Although he was not a serious reader of poetry and never understood my own poems, something in Rilke's work touched him deeply. The lines he quoted often were from Dove that ventured outside: "Ah the ball that we dared, that we hurled into infinite space,/ doesn't it fill our hands differently with its return:/ heavier by the weight of where it has been."
He seemed, in his intense living, determined to be heavier at his end by the weight of where he had been despite his genetically flawed heart. After forty years in a partnership, the sudden loss of that partner has shattered my way of being, but I have found comfort in many wonderful ways: solitude (I often walk to our beautiful garden cemetery downtown and sit among the graves of Emily Dickinson's cousins), art (drawing, folding origami cranes), film (esp the films of Ingmar Bergman), and Tai Chi (learning the 108 moves and now doing the complete set several times a week has calmed my anxiety). But highest on my list of resources are nature and literature: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking helped me understand the emotional/physical reality of sudden loss (she, too, had been married 40 years and her husband also died of ventricular fibrillation); Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard reinforced the power and miracle of nature in grief (his wife had just died of cancer when he undertook this journey into the Himalayans); and Rilke has taught me how to go down into the dark cave of grief and mine it for self-understanding:
It's possible I am pushing through solid rock
in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone;
I am such a long way in I see no way through,
and no space: everything is close to my face,
and everything close to my face is stone.
I don't have much knowledge yet in grief
so this massive darkness makes me small.
You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in:
then your great transforming will happen to me,
and my great grief cry will happen to you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
(Translated by Robert Bly)
There is the best kind of hope in that. Thank you for Being. --Judy Loest
This is beautifully touching.
This is beautifully touching.
Dear Krista, Thank you for all your work, and especially the program tonight with Joanna Macy's readings of Rilke . Her translations made vivid our connection to a larger world and psyche, so helpful at a moment when I am particularly aware of personal worry and pain. Let me share with you a couple of my recent paintings, where I have tried to follow the poet's charge 'to flow' and 'to be', in my own way. (downloaded here). Thank you again for your beautiful efforts to enlighten us. Sincerely, Jamie Rauchman
Wow! Wow! Wow! (Not Bow-wow-wow)That woman is , as they might have said in Britain in the 90"s, f'n brilliant! What an inspiration ! 81 years ! (Sorry, I never use exclamations but how can you NOT in regards to your guest to-day?) I'm in tears still. There ARE some great souls left. I'd given up.
Thank you so much for launching On Being with Joanna Macy speaking about her profound and fierce love for our planet home. What a fitting baptism for the new program.! To listen to Joanna and Krista conversing was both very enlivening and comforting.
In my long search to understand the "mobius strip" of deep grief and love I experience for our planet, I have turned to Joanna and her teachings again and again over the years. I was fortunate to have a monthlong training on the Oregon coast with Joanna and her husband, Fran, three years ago.
I'm a mindfulness teacher and offer classes and workshops based on the tremendous forms Joanna has developed for aiding people to touch their deep love for the world and let that love inform their lifestyle choices. www.mindfulnessforchangingtimes.
Kaia Svien
Hello - I listened to the "a wild love for the world" program on the way home to VA from St. Louis where I had been working on a project titled "Transcend2010". This temporary community public art project is a version of others I have been doing, and am scheduled to do in other communities. They all are based or mutual trust. The fact that they are well received and understood gives me immense hope. Because the projects are temporary I was especially moved by the quote from Rilke - "Is not impermanence the fragrance of our days".
The links below will give you the general idea of these projects that involve borrowing 100's of ladders from a community, building a metaphorical sculptural representation of their interconnected hopes and dreams - and then returning all the ladders to their owners in the community.
I am amazed that we can make these projects work in today's seemingly selfish world that often seems not to even care about itself. I am inspired by the people that lend me (a stranger in their community) a ladder to make a sculpture about the way their own hopes are tied to those of the whole community.
Thanks for "Speaking of Faith" & "Being" - they give me hope too!
Yours truly, Charlie
For info on "Rise Up Grand Rapids" see:
Videos of "Rise Up Winston Salem" project:
Transcend2010 IN THE NEWS:
I find hope, actually hope I do at least, in the fact that the world is the important thing. This world will outlast us most likely. We are a small piece of the world and much too self-important. I find hope that I will die and, without a doubt, be reborn as parts of this beautiful world. We will do damage to ourselves as humans, but I honestly believe that we cannot do long-term (longer than our limited perspective as beings who hang around for 80 or so years) damage to this wonderful creation that is our world.
The Speaking Of Faith episode centering around an eighty-one year old Joanna Macy was a wonderful journey. Her life history alone was fascinating but the real connection I felt was the manner in which her religious beliefs formed over the years of her life. Like myself Joanna became troubled with the dogma associated with religious practices and beliefs and soon after chose to no longer believe or be involved. Until a time in her life when she came across the poetry of Rilke, who's spirituality based poems are written from the viewpoint of the larger picture of us being one with nature. In the inspiration from his poetry she found that she was able to find a connection with God in how the nature of him relates to our physical world.
I especially enjoyed the time in which she began reflecting at her own hands saying that these hands are not just hers alone. They are the hands that symbolize all of those before and after us. The same hands that learned to crawl, build, walk and weave. In addition to this I also enjoyed when she reflects on the passing of her husband and what may happen to us when we pass. She sees it as a comfort that maybe our bodies at the end of our lives may just become one with the Earth and that being enough. That we are completing a sort of circle of life in doing this, giving back to the Earth that sustained our life. And that we should focus on the life we are living now, to appreciate and make the most of what we can while we can and to "live in the moment". What a beautiful thought!
Joanna discovered herself throughout her life, found passions, fought for those passions and lived to better our world and others. She truly is an inspiration to others.
Kerrie Foley
Joanna Macy interview.
In Dec of 2009, while simultaneously searching for meaning in my work and life, I stumbled upon Joanna Macy's translations of Rilke's poetry. Since that discovery I have spent a year with Rilke, reading and painting his poetic interpretations of spirituality and infusing my life and life work with his words. Thank you, Krista, for this interview and for making the connection for me between Rilke's words and Joanna's translations of his words. As Joanna said about finding that first Book of Hours in a German Bookshop, that the furniture had been rearranged in her head, I now feel Joanna voice and spirit with me as I sit and reflect on Rilke's poetry. With this voice comes her wisdom, her connection and passions for our world, and her sense of presentness. Thank you for widening my circle.
Image below, Like Mist From Unhurried Clouds,
Sharon Kingston
Reading Rilke Paintings
This show interviewed a woman named JoAnna Macey that was once a Christian but converted to Buddhism, and became an activist and philosopher. She talked about how she became an environmental activist, too, and how the decisions we make today are going to affect future generations from now, and how they will affect sound and body. We should feel grief and despair for things like clear cutting our forests and contaminating our waters. We are not supposed to run from the feelings of outrage or fear towards our environment, but to look at this, be with it, keep breathing, and it will then turn to reveal the other face of the world; our love for the world and our connectedness with all life. If we love our world, we should be able to face it. We should be able to look at the Gulf oil spill and the scum it left, and how it destroyed life in the ocean. If our mother or child has cancer, we shouldn't avoid looking at them, but instead love them until we can't love anymore. Joanna also talked about how Rilke poetry nourishes her vision that we are in a time where we are in an industrial world but need to focus on how to live in a world of sustainability. One of the poems talked about how God became the Earth and how God talked about the darkness, and how He wanted one more hour to love everything on Earth. We need to love our world because it won't be healed without love, and this is the theory that keeps JoAnna going. Her ultimate goal is for us to achieve a life sustaining society; energy, food, new ways of measuring prosperity and wealth, new ways to communicate in non-violent ways, etc. How we choose to invest our energy in our hearts and mind will pave the path to how we choose to invest our energy in the world. Our Earth is not our supply house for resources and it isn't a sewer, either, but our Earth is love.
Rilke's words have helped me get through numerous tough times in my life, including the death of my father. Many days after the event were spent buried in Stephen Mitchell's book "Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke", in particular his translation of "Requiem For a Friend". I wrote the following poem for my father not long after reading it for the first time. It's definitely influenced by what I read, along with a conversation had between Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell about Indra's net of gems. It's been many years since he died now, but sometimes it still feels as though it happened just yesterday.
After the Fall
The snow is falling father,
Outside your cold window,
It's a frigid and bitter weather,
Icy and white below,
Can you feel us father,
We're all here,
Your three sons; and mother,
All struggling with our fear,
You fell so fast,
One moment alert at the top of the stair,
The next curled at the foot aghast,
Broken and bleeding and scared,
Oh how I wish I'd returned that call,
Your message recorded without a reply,
And I've so many things I'd tell you now,
Now that you're about to die,
It's been so long since we really talked,
About home and the coulee and your trips with Marly,
The back roads you walked,
The ginseng gardens, or the Amish in the valley.
But that's not the stuff I'd speak of in the end,
Not stuff of the day or the hour,
But of things left unsaid that of the heart rend,
That I'd have you understand forever.
You grew old locked in a fence,
With one self beating another,
How could you know that it would take you so low, and break you of all confidence,
If I had my choice, if I could hear your dear voice, of this I'd now speak of together.
I know how it troubled you so
That bent and shamed you lost your health and employment,
But I'm older now with my own sorrow,
And know something of self made confinement.
Yes we three sons have done quite well,
At ease in worlds you never were, of books and complex computations,
But life is long, and time moves on, and rips us with revelation.
I've had my share, of divorce and decay, of grief and despair, of bitter self recrimination,
And of this I'm now sure, in the face of much pain,
Life is a game of eternal internal integrations.
You need not think that I loved you less, for those things you never achieved,
Or the boyhood wishes I once had of you, but in the end never received,
Conditional love has become a confusing thing, a thing from which divisiveness springs,
Take from me the unconditional sort, and the hope for what healing it may bring.
Mother has told me of the yawning ache in you,
Over long lost days, when tired and tried, you found so little time for play,
But I have done the same father, and feel that yawning ache too,
For long lost days, and the time I withheld, from a dear wife now far away,
Our suffering should count for something shouldn't it? Something other than rue.
Mistakes are mistakes. I'd ask you to let them lay.
Strange to see you like this after that long agonizing ride,
Unconscious. Quiet.
Your heart unraveling inside.
I couldn't drive for all the sobbing and the need to lose myself in the night.
Thinking of death and the grave.
Not morbid thoughts, but thoughts to challenge my days.
And questions.
For instance: where will you be after you're gone?
I once thought "nowhere" in the strictest sense of the word.
But now I'm no longer so sure.
I've walked in old grief an open question, from dusk to midnight to dawn.
Thinking muddy thoughts, big picture involutions,
Spending evenings in books, in silent conversations, with scientists, poets, and philosophers,
I know you've wondered at it all.
But I have found something father,
Something strange and troubling, and often fearful, I've discovered the god inside,
The only word I can find to describe it though certain to strain belief.
The "is" made manifest in the whirl of an I,
Without expectation, as I found it tonight, lost in the black outside.
A sense of presence, Of expansion about the sky.
It's an old old story isn't it?
I no longer know what you believe.
I'd ask you if I could.
But if I'm right, there's no need.
There's no me, no you, but only a single I,
Caught in a net of gems.
Good-bye father.
I see that your body has died.
It's simple, really. I find both in the simple first hand experience in the natural world of the senses, and in the thoughts and dreams that grow from that. After years I'm beginning to see that there are faces everywhere looking back. And a poem came to me:
- for Rob
All things show their faces when we do.
All things speak when we do.
All things appear when we do.
The first face, the first word,
they blossom into all the others.
They all are true.
A river runs by my house, and I'm beginning to sense it there too.
Very moved by Joanna Macy's sharing, only heard today (03/20/11) on my local NPR affiliate in western NC.
Everywhere: In honor of Joanna Macy
everywhere I see beauty
the first slippery silver kiss of love
the resonance of old friendships
the gleam of snow against the sunrise
how the winter finally gives itself to spring
and the intimate abundance of the earth itself
and everywhere I see ugliness
the brutality of war
the unbending shadow of regret and shame
the willingness to kill for money and pretension
the indignities we suffer at the hands and words
of one another
and the deep, lonely cut of death's loss
but herein lies the magic, if any can be found
to recognize
that what touches me here
and what touches you there
affects the very ground beneath our feet
flows into the water that wraps this planet
and drifts above the farthest flung stars
out and beyond
around and inside
each one of us
and it is the daily ebb and flow of this life
the push and pull of it
that draws us ever nearer
into the bittersweet embracing of the world
and in that holding—that embrace
the image of this planet—this earth—this love
becomes firmly fixed across our hearts
like a postage stamp of pure adoration
bearing our intentions and resolve
beyond where we can see today
a love letter
carried far into the tomorrows of this universe
long after we are gone
i touch the world
and it touches me
and there is no difference if it is here or there—
it is everywhere
Gaye F. Colvin
I want to say (belatedly after years of listening to your show) that you and your guests have nourished my head and heart in such wonderful ways. You have shared with me stories and music and ideas of wondrous breadth that I would never have found on my own. Given me a "jumping off place" for further exploration.
I usually find myself alone in the kitchen cooking on Sunday mornings while my husband goes to church. I used to feel rather guilty about that. But I find myself regularly excited to share what I've heard that morning with him when he comes home.
My Sundays alone in the kitchen with men and women from around the world were central to finding a calm centeredness - and also at times a sorrow and tears - both essential to balance I suppose. For myself I would not trade my cookie making with Joanna Macy and yourself this morning for anything. Would that I could give you both a warm oatmeal cookie!
I lost my son three years ago and my grief has been my constant, delilitating companion. When Joanna shared the image of the swan settling into the receptive waters and his regal grace - oh how that image touched my soul. How wounderful to hear the laughter and acceptance in her voice - it was as if she were reaching out with this gift to me and saying, "it is alright to grieve but loss does not preclude joy." I can see my beautiful son gliding on the calm waters.
Thank you both,
I find hope in seeing the
I find hope in seeing the American people wake up to what the rest of the world knows about them. I take hope that the American people are beginning to see the Koch Brothers and the nasty methods of ruling elites to perpetrate and perpetuate scarcity and ecological exploitation of this world, which in turn leads to fear of lack, and the beginnings of evil rising. I delight that these evil doers like Tsar Nicholas or Kaiser Wilhelm are playing their grandfathers' cards in arrogance ever closer to the widening spot light of our expanding consciousness of cause and effect. Each round they come closer and closer to toppling themselves, just as their peers have all done before them.
Once American people can see how these ancient practices of Kings are still being used against them by their "betters" in their flawed constitutional democracy, and start to protect themselves with a greater social construction, we can expect much better times on this earth.
It was Spinoza who said that our collective social constructions are what reveal divinity in us on earth. I agree with him. I look forward to the future social constructions we will collectively agree upon to improve on our US constitution in the next round which is clearly been rigged to favor rulers and their property rather than the majority and their economic security. Once we do that, we will see through the lies and duplicity of the few we serve who truly profit from poverty, economic insecurity, social unrest, power vacuum and violence all over the world in resource rich lands.
My great hope is that the people starting in Wisconsin will wake up for our own version of a peaceful 1848, 1989, and now 2011 velvet revolution of consciousness of the true laws of cause and effect! Perhaps, we can show the Mayans a different 2012 prophecy!
Has there ever been such an
Has there ever been such an immediate response to an On Being program as this?
I don't remember one. Fifteen years ago there were no real conversations
about religion taking place on or off the radio. Moyers on PBS and that was about it.
Thank you Krista. This program is a continuing gift.
I have been reading Joanna
I have been reading Joanna Macy's Rilke for at least a decade. After I have observed 13 things from my kitchen window, and written them down, I read from "A Year with Rilke."
From his poems, I have gained a better understanding of our basic humanity, of how to listen to the earth and give back, the net beyond and yet within, big enough to hold all of us, and how every living thing is essential to its well-being. Rilke is the poet that sustains, Joanna Macy the beam of the light that highlights the way into Rilke's profound reflections. Praise is my only response.
What a lovely show. I am new
What a lovely show. I am new to your show, know very little about Rilke. Your interview with Joanna Macy was delicious and inspiring. Thank you!
Hi! Great show! How do I find
Hi! Great show! How do I find out what the song is that closes the show (50:10)? Is an original piece? Or a "cover" of a classic I don't know about? It sounds hauntingly familiar to the 2007 Viral Video song, "Chocolate Rain". Trying to find out if this is an ironic derivative or if the viral song is a derivative of a jazz classic that I should know.
Thanks for the help!!
Such an excellent interview
Such an excellent interview with Ms. Macey, a seaswell of a voice into which so many of us can
realisticalloy plug and find a direction in this "turning" (from Heidegger) and Ms. Macey. I've
been doing a book on poetics of photography -- PhotoPoetics: 3 Secrets of Poetic Photography --
and this interview put some missing pieces into place for my overall message that centrally
wires into Whitman (who did influence Rilke and too many other genii to mention)... Please
continue this level of work, Ms. Tippett (I also use your interview with V V Raman
for material for my book re: the complementary relationship of poetry and science (which
Whitamn did understand) AND WHY NOT DO AN INTERVIEW WITH SOMEONE WHO IS DEEP
INTO WHITMAN? He is our (artists') "unconscious" said C. K. Williams in On Whitman.
Or have you done such an interview?
With gratitude for your Rilke
With gratitude for your Rilke reflections, this poem.
November Is the Name
for Neighbor
Tuesday when I wake up
I'll walk to my town hall
to make our country again.
November is a party's
weather. Isn't a leaf a vote,
the wind winding down its
burnt campaign? There's more
than enough to complain about,
set right, with one vote.
Memory is a way to remember.
And stopping, before I ballot,
to see the crushed bird, that barred
owl—that one vote—wings'
splayed, cast on the paved road.
Isn't it fair to say a feather is more
than a feather when it meets
my eye. Say aye here, if you want
to be remembered. If you want
to see what's here. Because
of what we've made of the weather.
Because of the party the wind makes
when it calls us together,
by the side of the road. Say
when we cross paths again,
checking ourselves off the checklist.
Say when November is the name
for neighbor.
Gary Margolis
Middlebury, VT
wonderful, deep, light...the
wonderful, deep, light...the best of female approach to buddhism and poetry
It was breathtaking listening
It was breathtaking listening to this episode. I felt like I had landed on another planet and was trying, unsuccessfully to pick up the language.
I have just listened to this
I have just listened to this conversation between Joanna and Krista and, like you, found it breathtaking (and breath giving). I have never read through these kinds of comments and never replied. So this is a first, but here I am. I felt that I wanted to respond to you and encourage you to listen to this interview - again and maybe again and again. I notice your name is signed: Kurt Mudgeon. Perhaps it is your given name but I'm guessing it's more a name for a way you feel you are - as in - curmudgeon. I can imagine it would be hard for someone who has taken up "curmudgeon" to pick up the language. But I wonder if, with practice, you can! Best wishes. Denni
The Rilke program was one of
The Rilke program was one of your very best, so significant and beautifujl. Thank yhou!!
"Taking Refuge in our
"Taking Refuge in our inextricable identity with the living Earth ..."
Linus, the cockatoo, bites the cage for two reasons. Firstly, he's bored. Secondly, it gets my attention. Whether I want to give it or not, I'm instantly magnetized to the sound of it. Doh! Not that! Rust. Rust. Rust. Beneath that teflon coating is steel and future rust.
The first thing he did when he came to my house was dismantle one of the bars of the cage. It made such a deep impression on him that I was so emotionally invested in keeping him from doing this that now he wakes me up this way every morning --because it works! I'm instantly energized. I've been known to sneak downstairs to see exactly what he is doing. Is he biting the cage or taking a quarter inch hunk out of one of his perches?
"Really? That's how you want to connect?" I ask him feeling a little vexed when I see him doing it again. Even I can see that I am putting a lot of energy into doing something about this behavior--moving perches, moving cages, hanging toys, changing the room and its occupants relationships to one another in space. I know, it sounds subtle, but it works.
Now my macaw is doing it. Tick, tick, tick. There's only one way to stop these birds from being so bad. It is to keep my emotions perfectly smooth when it happens. Not even a tiny bit of interest can escape. Power is a reward. I am handing it over and they are leading me with it. Grr! It's the same thing my brother used to do to make me mad enough to chase him. Aggravation is a form of humor. It's a way of having fun in a world of cages and an ocean of sameness. I've got to turn things around.
To get them to follow me to a new game, I have to make them forget about how it effects me. So the answer isn't in controlling them. It's in controlling me. I've had years of practice with this. Before they knew and trusted me, that's how I got all of them to stop biting me. This technique takes time, but the faster and better I can do it, the less I'll be reinforcing what I don't want to see.
I begin working on the macaw first because she's just starting this business. I can already get her to stop after just a few minutes because the whole reasons she's doing it isn't working.
I leave the cockatoo cage open and start washing dishes in response to him doing it. He asks me what I am doing and before long he makes a new game of hanging on the outside of the door --which he hasn't done before. See? A new behavior is already starting to manifest. The solution is not so far away now that I've identified the problem and created a strategy, but I don't JUST ignore them. I understand that the underlying reason they're doing this is because they want is more attention. They want more than ever and for no reason at all. So that's how I give it to them-- more and more for no reason--unassociated with this drama.
This is not about reason. It's about empathy. I feed our connection and before long they'll stop aggravating me to get what they're needing and our relationship will be deeper still. They're easy to love! And this transformation is what our hearts are for. This is the work it does best.
Good education
Good education
Thank you for such a
Thank you for such a wonderful interview with Joanna Macy. What an inspirational woman! How comforting it is to know that someone is out there making sure our planet stays safe so that many more generations can feel their love for God by enjoying it. I enjoyed all Rilke's poems that Joanna read and they made me remember my dad who left this world 14 years ago. He lived life through God and the earth which is something I cherish. You truly can live through the people you love.
My life's blood is river deep
My life's blood is river deep, depths difficult to know, recognize, as it moves, silent, heavy to the sea. On Being comes. My blood-river-running in response to Krista and her guests here in middle of my night, lifts as a lover, pelvis, heart into sounds, words, lips of the guest, and Krista. And I know all must be well for they, recording guest after guest calling me forth from washing my dishes, hurrying, and scurrying to bed so I can get back up. In Rilke sacred forest and other guests, too, we run luminously through, recognizing ourselves. It is music of Krista unfolding into my kitchen, here I at 79 and so much left to braid, weave from the world, into myself before I let go onto the lake and float ripples expanding enlarging the circles.
Krista don't run away under pressure from new management and all of the rattle revving up storm, spinning and grabbing everywhere anything but fight to last breath and stay with us here, our mouths yearning and wanting to lift, lift into flight into our own magical being. For in this show we recognize sweet breath from the hills down into valleys, water for our journey. We not alone, strengthened, weep and giggle in the knowing, and meeting ourselves.
apparently Joanna Macy got
apparently Joanna Macy got the face she deserved..in it can be seen the contemplative spirit, the strength of insightful kindness and patience, her capacious heart and much more, it is a beautiful and handsome face, well earned and ever improving...
I looked at my bookshelf
I looked at my bookshelf today, at Widening Circles, and thought it has been awhile since I've listened to On Being! Like, a long time actually. So I looked you up and found your most recent episode. Synchronicity much? :) I was then led to hear some other podcasts, including the interview with Nadia, which resonated with me very much. Thank you for filling up my cup today and reminding that my world is sacred.
Perhaps a poem tattoo is in order, to wear something of myself on the outside.
On the subject of tattoos, I think the reason for their popularity may have something to do with our short memories in our ADD culture.
Wonderful program to wake up
Wonderful program to wake up to on Sunday morning. Thank-you for have radio show!
I wake most Sundays to the
I wake most Sundays to the radio and either quickly rise to get on with the day, or quickly hush the alarm and turn back to sleep. Today, I stayed in bed listening. Your reflections and readings resonated as I struggle with the sadness of loss and the fear of the unknown. Thank you for reminding me that every end is, in fact, a beginning. And that we are all connected through time. Death is just a moment in the continuity.
Sometimes I just think what
Sometimes I just think what is the meaning of life. Why do we exist? And what is the point of us living and dying? Sometimes I think, "Is the universe just an accident? It was never meant to be. It doesn't have a purpose other than being there." And I always wonder what was there before our universe. Nothing, I guess. Now that you think about it, you could never imagine what nothing would be. If you are just floating around for a few seconds you live before you suffocate through lack of air, what would you see? Nothing. You wouldn't see black. You wouldn't see white. But what would you see?
I think just flashes of everything I have seen before. And nothing else. Just my imagination. As nothing would be there, your mind could create it. And so you live through whatever you think of and see a vision of it. Since it is the only thing that can possibly be there.
What is the purpose of the universe? Just there. And then we go into life. All everyone wants to do is to survive and keep the species going. I guess that is the only purpose we are here. To be here and keep the species alive. Whether it is a bug or an animal or even a human. The whole purpose is to be there and keep reproducing. And to create new purpose in life. We have created economics, countries, and everything out of plain survival. We have now created whole systems – governments and so much more.
And then we set out new goals in life. Sometimes made by other humans. Become big, popular, famous, and rich. Everyone will love you and adore you if you become all these things. And then there is everything else. For every other species, they have also created things like this. At least most of them. Dogs love to play with balls.
But then, there is also fighting. Humans are cruel. What is the point of being mean to one another? For your own personal gain? What will that equal? There are murderers, killers all over the world. People that have gone insane and completely lost their minds. In their minds, they have no more care for anything. They wildly go around doing what they feel like. What is the point of all this? Fighting? it seems like just one way of humans slowly committing suicide. Every time someone dies by the hand of another person, it brings us all only tiniest bit closer to extinguishing the human race until there is nothing left, not even you. What if mankind falls? What is the point of falling? There is so much new purpose in life. Life is just brief. Everything is so small. Makes me feel sad. About what life is like. It is like a leaf. Tossed into a fire. And it slowly glides down until it touches the fire and dies. It goes away until there is nothing left. This is the way of life.
As a leaf falls down, twists and turns happen. While your leaf is falling, you could get extremely rich. You could be a legend. And so much can happen. Only until it all goes away to lose all of it to yourself. You won't be able to experience it any more. You won't be able to do anything. You won't be able to think. You won't be able to see. You won't be able to hear. You won't be able to do anything. You will be nothing. Just like before you were born. And the leaf was just tossed. But then again, what could happen after death? Nobody can tell the tale. It is one of the bigger mysteries of life. That is where religion comes in. Hinduism, Christianity. What is it really? Is it just a way to make people feel safe? Something to make death not as scary. It seems just like a big excuse. So you can feel safe from death. And that something is looking after you. Taking care of you.
But what happens after life? Do you just lose all of it? But who knows. Then again, there are so many leaves. Some are just tossed. Some are just so close that they can feel the heat. And the purpose of my life? I don't know. I don't have any purpose. So why not just have fun with it? Enjoy it while it lasts? And doing good for the world. It will just make it better. People will remember me after I pass.
And what would happen to your life? Do you have a purpose?
Thank you for sharing your peace, solitude and passion for the contribution others have given to you in your own journey. It is inspiring to me and takes me back to my writing and my appreciation for the our responsibility to create a beautiful world and a beautiful experience in every moment by who we are being.... Fall in love with self, fall in love with all and love from abundance all that is in this moment because it is the only one which exists. There is not more, not better, not bigger or faster or stronger, it is what it is now and it is enough because we say so.....Thank you
After listening to this
After listening to this remarkable woman, my reflection has taken on the form of a poem- with some of her words finding there way into it.Hope its not too indulgent to share it here..
I have not a dollar to my name but I am rich because of you.
I trace your jewel-filled caverns, pulling from open treasure chests, pools of gold
Selfless mother, you offer it all up for us
The wind, sweeping, rustling leaves in deep forests of stately giants
Ancient trees breathing mysteries from long ago
The glowing dawn suffusing cumulus clouds
Morning birds waking dreams
The crisp mountain air and warm, salty sea
Small creatures, engines whirring, wings flit over wild flowers
The rainstorm comes and goes, leaving its delicious scent behind
While the cricket plays his rhythmic song
The moon arrives, hung aloft a deep indigo blanket and holding those immemorial fireflies
I want for nothing
I love every wild part of you
Each cell belongs to you and you to me
I was born of you and will return to you once more
My bones made into ash and swallowed into the depths of you
No soul could live outside your primordial nest
Breathe, manna, water
You provide all for your children and ask for nothing in return
Greedily we take
Pulling from your depths and destroying untamed, delicate beauty
The earth is not a sewer but our larger body
And we cannot destroy her without destroying ourselves
We hold onto delusions amid concrete jungles of convenience and consumption
But invincibility is a farce
We are nothing without her.
Some things can't be silenced
And there is fight yet in the ancient mother
Bursts of violent fury betray her pain; tempests, scorched earth, unforgiving walls of fire and water
Begging us to stop pulling from her
Stop your hurried business
Hear her cries
The people of the past held this sacred knowledge close
We are her children, honour-bound
It is the time to remember what we have forgotten
The future of humanity lies here
This episode came to me just
This episode came to me just at the right time. I have suffered two great loses in the last nine months; first the death of my mother and then very recently, the death of my grandfather, who really served more as a father figure to me than a grandfather. I have often felt lost in the last nine months, not sure of where I fit in without these people gone who grounded me. But I have not lost hope that happiness will return. This episode confirmed that while the struggle may be long, beauty and growth are everywhere. In a strange way, I should almost be grateful for such loss at the age of 25. Then add in the fact that Ms. Macy is an amazing ecologist whom actually sees a future where humans learns to live sustainability. She's a woman after my own heart! Thank you for the inspiration On Being and thank you Ms. Macy.
Loved, Loved this interview
Loved, Loved this interview with Joanna Macy! I was standing at the counter this evening, cutting up onions and contemplating conversations I shared with some fellow hospice chaplains and social workers this afternoon, and your bright voices suddenly joined me in my kitchen - as if you'd been standing there the entire time..eloquently lobbing thoughts back and forth about death as a vitally transformative process..about the results of fearing our grief for the earth and ourselves...about finding the deeper love and understanding born in the silence of our darkest places.. Thank you for sharing your rich conversation and hearty laughter..your easy dialogue as you invoked Rilke's spirit..I almost offered you each a glass of wine as I was sauteing the broccoli and looking out the window into the cold beauty of a Montana night sky..and it was only then that I remembered you were visiting my kitchen via the air waves. I will return to this interview/conversation for inspiration and comfort when my heart becomes heavy with the vitriol battle between ranchers and wolves.. the merciless drilling into our sacred mountains and prairies for so-called profit..when I feel despair about the Great Forgetting of who we truly are. Thank you both for bringing me back to mercy, compassion, and hope. And for showing up on a cold, starry night in Montana.
This is one of the best
This is one of the best programs ever. Just listening to Ms. Macy was like a meditation. Thank you!
First of all, I enjoy your podcast, Krista. It entered at a monumental time in my life. Since then, I have kept up regularly with your podcasts. On this particular episode, I researched Joanna and I see she wrote a book called Pass It On: Five Stories that Can Change the World. Well, in 1988 I made my own Christmas cards and it said on the cover, "Love, Peace, Joy" (open the card) and it said could save the world pass it on. I found it very curious how close the wording was to Joanna's book. How do I find out how and when she came up with the title? Thank you all for On Being.
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0k second try at this...simply how did Johanna come upwith her title Pass it on? CUrious because in 1988 I made my own Christmas cards that read on cover Love Joy Peace (open the card) Could save the World Pass it on!
Thank you for this piece.
Thank you for this piece. During the part about having grief about what is happening to our planet, in order to find our love, I started crying, then sobbing, as that grief was released. I went outside a while later and found a tree. From the moment I put my hands on it, I started sobbing uncontrollably because I felt so incredibly connected to the tree. I felt at one with it. Loved it. Felt as though whatever was happening to it, or to nature at large, would also affect me.
This is an important truth to process. I hope more people have a similar experience. Thank you.
This interview was a balm for
This interview was a balm for me, applied to bit of a crisis of confidence about being a nature writer. I don't see many others out walking, and I have felt overwhelmed, at times, by the barriers to publication and wider public interest.This interview, as well as another On Being interview with Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry, recent walks with others with a "wild love for the world" at local nature centers, and reading Marie Winn's Central Park after Dark--within this week they have all reminded me that what Macy calls The Great Turning is a pivotal time, that these things matter deeply, and that it is a privilege to find ways to bring them into the light.
Beautiful show. Love Macy
Beautiful show. Love Macy reading Rilke, her hopefulness and passion for our world.
Dear Krista,
Dear Krista,
My name is Charles Travis, and I listened to your discussion with Joanna Macy with interest and appreciation. I am a geographer, and am relocating from Trinity College Dublin, to the University of Texas, Arlington to take up an assistant professor position in the department of geography. While at Trinity, I helped set up the Center for Environmental Humanities (see Irish Times like below)and we are a member of an international consortium "Humanities for the Environment"
I would be interested in contacting Joanna, and am wondering if you could pass on my details. As I have not received my new UTA email, I can still be contacted via my TCD email: email@example.com
I thank you for featuring Joanna.
Charles Travis
As I listen to this program,
As I listen to this program, on my morning trek to the grocery store, I am perplex at the number of westerners who have adopted one form of eastern philosophy as their guiding light. Then I think of those countries which these philosophies dominate, and cannot help wonder why none have spawned a form of government which practices the selflessness and support of the least of its citizens. Are these life philosophies too focused on the self and not on community? I feel the same about self segregating contemplative communities of the Christian faith. Too much focus on the self and too little about the wider needs of the community.
And lastly too many westerners who are ever ready to spread their eastern philosophies reside in western countries where their alternative views are tolerated. Why would they not move to a country where they could be surrounded with like minded people?
A beautiful and inspirational
A beautiful and inspirational program which will help me as I prepare for the death of a dear friend and later, my own death experience.
Forgive me. I do not have a
Forgive me. I do not have a reflection to give you but a request. Would it be possible to get the original German poems as Rilke wrote them to go with the translations by Joanna Macy? I would like to read the originals with the help of her translations. I can't find them online.
Thank you.
Thank you for this fluid
Thank you for this fluid episode with its convincing voice coming from the heart.
As I was listening, one point stuck to my mind though, which I revisited through the transcript to try to get it unstuck.
When Mrs Macy says "Ours is the suffering and ours is the harvest" I am ambivalent about how to read that "ours". It could mean "ours as mankind" or "ours as you and I, individuals". If it is a global statement, it is false, because the suffering is far from being ours only, it is widely borne by others realms, and by the Earth itself. The best scientific minds have warned us in 2015 that the 6th extinction has started and that 50% of the ocean life has been destroyed in the last 50 years!
Thus I can only take her statement as a variant of the individual injunction: "as you make your bed so you must lie in it", in which case there is some truth to it, but in a wider sense I find John 4:38 more accurate: "I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor". It underlines our belonging to a life-stream in which we are not only harvesting the crop that others have sown but in which we also have the responsibility of sowing what others will harvest. "Others" mean the entire biosphere community.
Fortunately, sowing is compatible with singing because, even if the seeds do not sprout, as Mrs Macy puts it: "maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world". Singing while sowing can only make us more present and, as she also puts it: "The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here, and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that".
Right on, Mrs Macy, thank you for showing up and thank you for On-Being, a great sowing machine.
What an inspired and lovely
What an inspired and lovely episode. Ms. Macy's readings and general conversation was so impactful to me. I look forward to reading her translations, having now been exposed to Rilke. Thanks, I did not want this to end.
The Germans have always had
The Germans have always had an affinity for Buddhism.
The only criticism I would
The only criticism I would make of On Being is that it promotes searching - which is great - for the truth, the good, the just, the beautiful - but it never seems to have hope of finding it. Jesus speaks of the man who found the pearl of great price and sold all he had to buy it - the truth can be found, and finding it is the point, though I applaud of course all those who are searching.
Of course even those who have
Of course even those who have found it - or whom Truth has found - always search for more - 'I ran after your fragrance' Song of Songs.
Joanna Macy's ideas thrill me
Joanna Macy's ideas thrill me. Her words in the Council of all Beings influenced my work thirty years ago and I turned my life to environmental education. I would love to see the Rilke poems she spoke in her interview, but cannot find them on the website. Could you assist?
Here they are:
Here they are:
and in other translations here
and here
and etc.
Thank you for this
Thank you for this introduction to both Joanna Macy and Rainer Rilke. I shared this with my mom who I accompanied to the seabrook nuclear power protest as a child. It helped shape who I am and how I make my way in the world. I have learned a lot from today's broadcast and have saved the podcast to listen to again. I am happy to again cross in Joanna's circle, the vibration of this introduction will give me lots' to explore.
Thank you
I love "On Being". By the
I love "On Being". By the time it comes on each week, I've heard much too much about politics, war and the financial markets--three sides of the same coin, as it were. Thanks for helping us all breathe a little deeper and perhaps think that way, too.
Re Joanna Macy and Rilke, listeners might like to know that there's a new German film about the poet and his relationship with Lou Andreas-Salome. I reviewed it for World Literature Today:
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Frank Beck
New York
My wife and I loved listening
My wife and I loved listening to this podcast together recently. The kids were somewhat bored for parts of it but had a lot of fun also given Joanna Macy's direct way of speaking. It led to a great discussion in the car on a long drive home.
Our reflections:
First, I remember meeting one of the greatest investors in the world some years ago for the first time. What I admired most about him was how he would literally CHEW on a word, phrase, idea, etc. for many minutes at a time and keep coming back to it. He was digesting the idea one by one, tossing out what was unnecessary, and taking in its core. It left a truly lasting impression.
Joanna was the same. She makes many references to how an idea has become literally a part of her. More than chewing, or digesting, she is a complete devourer of ideas; perhaps it shows more because of her age. Some of the lovely phrases that showed this were when she mentioned the changing of the furniture in her brain, how something became part of her blood stream, something changed her blood structure, and even the greater idea of humanity incorporating all universal history and one with this beautiful planet we call home.
We all were impressed by how Joanna seemed to have lived in the present throughout her life. How she came to respect the Tibetans she worked with and how she protested nuclear energy (not sure I agree with what she believes) with her son. She also, as with the Elizabeth Gilbert podcast, seems to be a living example of following her curiosity rather than a single, defined passion. As one of us said, she was looking for her passions in many areas and didn't give herself so completely to one passion that she closed the doors to others.
One final idea that we loved (perhaps because it was so present in us as we had just lost someone in the family recently), was regarding the best part about death being that one understands the dead being and oneself much better than when they were alive. So true!
Joanna was a true pleasure to listen to because of how REAL she was. She doesn't sound like the philosopher and poetry lover that she is, Her matter of fact reply to Krista's question about grief was a great example of this. Maybe it's because she's seen so much of life over her years and many experiences? Of course, age probably helps because what does she care if someone is displeased with her tone.
Finally, it was so fun to listen to her idea of pain being the other side of love. As in meditation, she advises to just be with the pain the way one would be with a sick child or loved one. We can accept the sickness and be with it because we love the person. In a similar way, she says, let's just accept that the world has a lot of problems and get on with our work rather than obsess about all that is wrong.
Sage advice!
PS - the final message and the title of this podcast reminds of the #revolutionarylove of which the Middle Church speaks so eloquently and forcefully.
Joanna is a great example of
Joanna is a great example of the intersectionality of our current paper. Throughout her life she had many different experiences through professions, religions, and activist. Bringing all of these points of view into one life created a vision for Joanna that was unlike any other.
Joanna was pushed by "Grief" when dealing with the environmental issues. Seeing what we were doing to our world worried her especially with nuclear power plants. She sees how it all trickles down and affects everything in our lives contaminating our water and impacting the wildlife by introducing a foreign substance. Joanna suggests not to run away from the grief, or the pain, or the fear when you can make a difference, saying "it turns."
Joanna realizes the connectedness we have with our environment. How everything we do affects the world around us and will alter the lives of the wildlife. Her interest in poetry also gives her the opportunity to see the world through words.
Joanna believes the world is going through a revolution due to advancement in technology. Rilke senses that times will get dark in the future and he did not know about the world wars or the concentration camps, but predicted the horrible times of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Oh my, Joanna, I wish i
Oh my, Joanna, I wish i could tell the whole story, but let me say, i was so , so not wanting to go to church this morning. but not any reason for what was there. Now, I suppose i may have grabbed an imagined offensive tabu from the cookie jar to buttress my grump, but its a fairly new place and I this time, i was sure it was me, i didn't want to see. I didn't need to even remind myself, of the abundant experienced proof that after game show is almost always better than my imagined pre-game show. No, I knew, I just didn't want to go around anyone feeling like i did this morning. I remember seeing the side walk out my front door. Thinking, "I guess my feet are going after all." In the car, after a few minutes on the way, my wife knowing, i barely escaped out the door, we agreed to finish the podcast from last night." , (which was at the halfway point. ) Since we rewound last night and it was so much better, i had to rewind again but this time, to the poem and the words around it. Where God is personified as the "Dark Earth" or was it "dark brown earth" ( i don't know, i just saw the Dark Indiana Clay, I so love) . What happened next, well, I don't share that kind of depth, with anyone, nor could I and I certainly cannot on pages like these. Though having Sherri there, was just, well, so right.
But my dear!, out of nowhere,, this poem transformed a reluctant grumpy old mood into a young lover! It was so sudden, so unexpected, to realize i actually do have a huge love for this world. Something , I was certain, that on this day, on this morning I did not have love and felt as though i was a fool to think i ever did or ever really will have it to a point that ever matters! Yet all the sudden this change of mind, this quietness and then, I was happy, happy to just to be on my way to where i normally go. I thought
"This was it, I was 'showing up'" as they say and it was not just, "enough" to arrive, it was everything. It was all I was suppose to do, well, not to just arrive, but to have faith, that if i did, I'd be okay when i got there. Why, because I got your point. I agreed, it does not always matter if i am optimistic, I had made it out the door and I believed. And that was before i started listening, but then with your help, I now remembered what it was my feet believed. That i do care, I do love. And i had hope that seemed so likely, that one day, my life and all of its love for this world, will be seen, or at least it will make good case for itself, and it will be a convincing case I can live with. So thank you Joanna. I had to stop and thank you. Well really, thank you both thank you Krista for following your own feet in to work some days , well thank you All, all of you that brought me these words.
Deeply grateful and
Deeply grateful and profoundly inspired by this interview with Joanna Macy. What a precious gift to the world she is, as are the timeless and transcendent verses of Rilke that she shared.


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NICHOLAS, Jack Leroy, 59, of Atlanta died March 26, 2013.
He is survived by his sons, Troy (Jackie) of Oregon, Zach of Bay City, Adam, Westonlee, and Austin all of Atlanta; daughters, Tanja Nicholas of Oregon, Heidy (Mikeal) Van Horn of Bay City, Jessie (Kurtis) Norton of St Helen, Sarabrooke Nicholas of Temple, Texas, and Hollie Nicholas of Atlanta; the mother of his children, Gerri Detloff; nine grandchildren; one great-grandchild; mother, Faye Cobb of Oregon; brother, Jim; and sisters, Diane Nicholas of Oregon, and Vicky (Victor) Hajzduk of Pennsylvania.
Funeral services will be held on March 28, 2013, at 4 p.m. at the Green Funeral Home, Atlanta. Visitation hours will be held from 12 p.m. until time of services at the funeral home. Condolence messages can be sent via its website, www.greenfuneralhomes.com


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (409 votes).
In short: Amazing!In full: Do it,those undulations are tough but the marshals (thank you to you all), and the very supportive general public, passers by, family and friends of other runners really helped me as I had a really tough race. A tummy bug mistaken for nerves meant a slow time, but the wonderful atmosphere means I will be back next year to enjoy? it all again. Newbies, don't worry, just accept it for what it is, a great marathon.Date of review: May 27, 2013
In short: Truly special placeIn full: After my second 10in10 (and 22nd outing round the Lake) I kind of know the course pretty well now! It's certainly tough in parts, and the traffic can be hairy if you're not used to it, but it is a great race. My fastest day this year was only 11 minutes outside my new PB (on the much flatter Brighton course) so a fast time is not impossible.I love Brathay and the marathon. It's certainly a race I'd recommend to anyone who fancies a bit of a challenge.Date of review: May 26, 2013
Date of review: May 21, 2013
In short: Hilly, hard work but rewarding and very well organisedDate of review: May 21, 2013
In short: ExcellentDate of review: May 21, 2013
In short: My first marathon, challenging but do-able, train for hills! Would do it again.Date of review: May 21, 2013
In short: everyone should do it!In full: Love this course, fantastic scenery and just the right amount of hills to be challenging but not a killer. Always well organised and great support from marshals and local people on course.Date of review: May 21, 2013
In short: Hard as heck, but the achievement, views & the finish are worth it (promise)In full: Ok, this was my first marathon & yes I under estimated the challenge (I grew up in Norfolk & live in what I can confirm is flat cambridgeshire)The hill at 7 miles is evil, but if you push up it, it's over soon enough, ice cream hill at 20 miles came on me before I realised & fortunately that meant it was also over soon enough. DO NOT misunderstand me, those hills are nasty, but you're running in the Lakes, shocker! After 20 miles its not too bad (but see the end), the rest is rolling hills +/- 20-30 meters & their not too bad but they are relentless.For me (I work in k's) k's 23-25 were the ones that finished my 3:30 challenge, those hills do not get the credit they deserve, think they lull you in and mentally kick you, with four crests and then more hill aheadHowever, the crowds were relentless, the support fantastic even on the most remote spot, they biked there and clapped all day long (& had sweets awesome!)The finish was awesome, but watch out for the bridge over the river & the one last hill up the drive I could have cried, why, why, why would you do that ;o)If you want to say you've done one of the toughest most beautiful marathons this is for you, but if you like pain do the ten in ten that group are inspiring & amazing, one day...Yes I will do this again, but a flat next (I hurt and am reviewing remembering every step and dreaming about the hills & views, IT IS WORTH IT, but train, train, trainDate of review: May 21, 2013
In short: Amazing weekendIn full: My husband and myself ran to Brathay from Fleetwood then did the marathon with a total of 88 miles over 3 days. We love the course as makes you work a little harder and the scenery is gorgeous. The 10 in 10 runners are fantastic and we was honoured to spend the weekend with them. We will be back next year for the marathon.Date of review: May 21, 2013
In short: A very special marathon but very hardIn full: Second time running this one and I loved it. Alongside chester this is the best marathon out there in my opinion. This was my third marathon in a month and I paid fro it in the last six miles. Tough hills at about 7,15,21 and constant sharp up and sharp down. Fantastic organization and stewards. Breathtaking views and the finish is the best anywhere . Loved the Kendal mint cake very friendly race and the fantastic 10 in 10Date of review: May 21, 2013
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My interest in plants tends more toward groups than individual species and this collection is apt to reflect that. I also have a weird dichotomous fondness for wetlands and deserts, so hold on to your hat. And I've always wanted to have a botanic garden. Here's my chance.


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
when a challenge calls...
This first card is for the My Mind's Eye card sketch challenge. Remember My Mind's Eye and I go way back. Always a favorite!This second card is for Make it Monday over at Papertrey Ink using paint and stamps...love how the little tags turned out using this technique...And finally my Create: card challenge that I love so much! This week the challenge was to use these little flags which I just happen to have some around from my recent Pebbles project for Glue Arts...Ok, so now to enter these and get back to work... Just remember that I have a giveaway two posts down and the Really Reasonable Blog Hop is just below.
14 comments:
- cards by cara said...
Congrats on your MIM shoutout! Gorgeous card ...
- September 13, 2011 at 7:15 PM
- Carla Cabrera said...
Great cards. Congrats on your shout out.
- September 13, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- callyannc said...
Beautiful! TFS callyAnn
- September 13, 2011 at 8:24 PM
- Sandi said...
Loved your creative on this card! So sweet!
- September 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM
- Suzanne Russell said...
Love them all! I found you through MIM and I especially love the one you did for that challenge. Stamping with paint is a fun technique I am just learning. Thanks for the inspiration!
- September 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- Meredith MacRitchie said...
Just found your blog through the MIM shout out - your cards are stunning!! I am so glad I found you. Your MIM card totally inspired me to try out this technique... thanks for sharing! I am glad to follow your blog :)
- September 13, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- ♥ Marlou ♥ said...
love all 3 Andrea, beautiful :) I love MME too, their papers are just yummy!! :)
- September 14, 2011 at 5:30 AM
- Cheryl Nelson said...
These are ALL just FABULOUS!
- September 14, 2011 at 7:04 AM
- Dana F. said...
Wow, these are all fabulous cards! I'm glad, Nichole highlighted your MIM entry and so made me follow the link :) Congrats on your shoutout!
- September 14, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Mandy said...
Such beautiful projects Andrea.
- September 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- Chris and Paige Evans said...
What a beautiful trio of cards Andrea! So detailed and amazing. Great work :)
- September 15, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Jona Panesa said...
lovely cards!!!! loved the shabby look!
- September 16, 2011 at 2:28 AM
- Sylvia/LittleTreasures said...
These are all ADORABLE.
- September 16, 2011 at 2:41 AM
- Lea L. said...
These are all so pretty!! I love the soft colors and beautiful stamping!
- September 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM


text: I did consider but did not mention that in my post and I believe it played into Barry's feeling on passing Mays. However I think that played a small part, a very small part, skin color was a bigger factor. A while back when asked about how he thought he would be viewed compared to Ruth when he leaves the game Barry gave some words but ended with, "don't forget I'm black and Ruth was white. Many times he has brought skin color into his statements over the years.Originally Posted by Sultan_1895-1948


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My first year in college, I was dubbed the "singing freshman" because I used to regularly and vocally sing as I walked around campus. Some people looked at me askance, but I always wondered why they weren't singing. I never thought my non-conventional, self-expression would connect me to Hasidic Judaism until I encountered the teachings of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer a.k.a the Baal Shem Tov (which means Master of the Good Name).
The Baal Shem Tov was a Jewish mystic and teacher who lived in the late 17th and early 18th century Ukraine. He revolutionized Eastern European Jewish culture and changed the course of Jewish history. He founded what is now called the Hasidic movement and taught God could be known not just by the elite, but by all people through "serving God with joy." Ordinary mundane life, he taught, could be revealed as sacred and awesome through "raising the sparks" of our everyday actions with godly intention. A Hasid was someone who went beyond the letter of the law and lived life fully. Part of his practice was a form of ecstatic singing meditation that would bring the singer to a state of dvekut, a "union with God." He taught that "through music you can reach joy and dvekut with the Infinite One, blessed be He." These sacred melodies called niggunim were and still are sung around Shabbat tables, and at other sacred gatherings around the world.
This niggun called "Shalosh Tinuous" ("the three stanzas") is one of the most famous Hasidic niggunim. The first stanza was composed by the Baal Shem Tov, the second by his student and successor Rabbi Shmuel Dov Ber who is known as "The Maggid," and the third stanza by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, a student of the Maggid who founded the Lubavitch movement.
Ecstatic music has always been a part of Jewish spiritual practice. The Book of Samuel describes that part of King Saul's transformation from an ordinary man into a king was that he would "meet a band of prophets coming down from a high place with a lute, a drum, a pipe, and a lyre before them; and they shall prophecy: and the spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you shall prophecy with them, and shall be turned into another man."
When I get deep enough into a niggun, all my thoughts settle and quiet down, I remember my Godly soul, and it feels like I am no longer singing the niggun. Rather, the niggun is singing me.
Special thanks to Nichoach Chabad for the recording.
Ethan Stephen Press lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. You can read more of his work on The Huffington Post.


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