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SBJ Article: A Conversation With Emily Jones
by Springfield Business Journal
Why start DotCom Therapy?
We have been developing this company about a year, but we officially founded it in March. We, Rachel and I, wanted to come up with a solution for this problem we had identified. We went to graduate school together and were research partners. She was working in a neuro clinic here in Springfield and I was working in the education field down in Branson, and we really saw a need. There is a lack of therapists in general. Patients who come through the hospital and need a specific therapy – whether it be rehab after a stroke or voice therapy related to Parkinson's disease – the doctor recommend to them, there aren't enough therapists to fill the need. The neuro clinic she worked for had a huge wait list. I was seeing kids who I couldn't actually make it to see. They would be receiving their speech therapy from a teacher and I would just be supervising.
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DOTCOM Therapy in the Press
DotCom Therapy Introduces Online Psychology Services to Address Mental Health in Schools
by Lauren De Lay-Curcio
June 29
DotCom Therapy Releases Latest Video: "How Does Online Therapy Work in Schools"
by The DCT Team
April 09
DotCom Therapy® Clubhouse and Marketplace Officially Opens For Business
by Lauren De Lay-Curcio
February 14
Entrepreneur Magazine Recognizes Female Founded Health Tech Startup
by Lauren Delay-Curcio
January 18
DotCom Therapy® Makes Strategic Hire to Ensure Clinical Excellence
by DCT Executive Branch
December 11
DotCom Therapy® Becomes a Nationwide Telehealth Leader in Bilingual Service Offerings
by DCT Executive Branch
December 07
DotCom Therapy® Receives 2017 Wisconsin Innovation Award For Revolutionary Work in The Therapy Field
by Lauren Curcio
November 10
DotCom Therapy® announces new Ambassador Team
by DCT Executive Branch
August 11
DotCom Therapy Connects Resource-Strapped Schools with Therapists Through Tech
by Erik Lorenzsonn, The Cap Times
June 22
DotCom Therapy Partners with Learning By Design, Inc.® for Delivery of Skilled Literacy Intervention
by Elise Mitchell M.S. CCC-SLP DotCom Therapy, Executive Director
March 14
Solution to rural speech therapy shortage topic of presentation to special education conference
by The DCT Team
February 06
DotCom Therapy Aims to Curb Speech Therapy Shortage
by Lauren Wilmet UW-Madison student via WisBusiness.com
December 05
DotCom Therapy Feature in 417 Magazine
by Matt Lemmon of 417 Magazine
October 20
Rachel Robinson recognized in Biz 417's 20 under 30 Class of 2016
by Matt Lemmon
Photos by: Brandon Alms
September 11
DotCom Therapy Co-Founders to Present at 30th World Congress of the IALP in Dublin, Ireland
by The DCT Team
March 17
SBJ Article: A Conversation With Emily Jones
by Springfield Business Journal
February 05
Local business gives back by supporting non-profits for children with disabilities
by KY3
February 04
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An old work colleague and friend asked me if I practice goal setting and if I am conscious about my career steps… Wanting some advice on how she can adapt it to her career goals and I thought – why not share.
Goal setting… I am a lover of goal setting as I believe it fits under the organisation tag… which, is a massive 'pastime' of mine – I LOVE being organised!
For me, my career movements have always been looking to the 'bigger picture' what can I learn, extract and gain from in the company / my manager / the role. I have been very conscious of this and looking for organisations that have a larger marketing department and area to move. This was my first intention early in my career and have now found that this isn't necessary the best option. Working for places where the marketing team is smaller you are open to hands on tasks, get involved in a lot more strategy and your work is diverse as appose to having your specific task to do and not open to other areas of the business. For example the role that I am in now, with a marketing department of 2, we work very closely going over the marketing strategy and direction together giving me leverage to share my ideas and gain experience in the 'high-end' business and marketing planning. So there are pros and cons for both avenues but the larger organisations tend have to more room to move.
Quick tip – Keep track of your achievements. List them as you hit a target or if you think, yep… I kicked arse in that campaign… write it down and keep it. This is good for movements within the business, pay rises conversations and even when you apply for a new job. This is a biggy and great habit to get into.
Little story share – When I was still at uni I was working part time in a little local pharmacy. Towards the end of my degree I started to think about what I wanted to do, areas I wanted to work and how I got get that first foot in the door position. Pharmacy was the obvious option, I knew pharmacy and was confident with it. So – I researched pharmacy brands that where larger and had a marketing department. I applied for a pharmacy assistant position with still 6 months of uni to go, in the interview I was open and honest about wanting to get some experience in that area will be graduating soon. I won the position and started working on the shop floor doing volunteer work in the head office. I graduated and they created a position for me to step into. This would not have happened if I hadn't started to think about my career movements and what I needed to do to get to my first ever marketing position.
My goal setting was quite specific. I had a goal to be a manager by the time I was 25. And I got there (1 week prior to my 25th birthday I started a role as a Brand Manager). My career and my goals have changed to move with me to suit the direction I am heading – and be sure to be open to this as things change without warning. Previously I just had personal goals that I kept to myself and made specific movements to make sure I was heading in that direction. Now I am more open with them and I think this has worked better for me. I have a vision board with images on what I want to do / achieve in 2014 and I have specifically written down where I see myself in 12 months' time and what I need to do /change / develop to get there. I am open and reasonably transparent with my goals. I find this is great for me to stay on track and best way to achieve that I have set out to.
I always put timeframes on my goals. If something happens that, that needs to change, that is ok – I just work better with timeframes.
I also like to include a few little quick win goals that I am ultra-keen to do and know if I put my mind to it I can achieve them, put some time frames on and get them done. These are more like intentions that I give myself. Again… think my organisational anal-ness (as my fiancé calls it) comes out. Although, I truly believe this has helped me achieve my goals and get to where I want to be in my career (and personal life).
Having direction is a good thing and goal setting can play a very positive part in your career direction and movements. Be conscious of the decisions you make. I was conscious of not just taking a role for the pay or job title and looking at the company and asking myself, will I be performing the tasks that best represent myself and where I want to be? This may mean that I need to work under someone who will pass on their expertise onto me. Or may mean that my job title is lower but I am performing tasks of a higher calibre. Be open and be willing to learn.

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Google's "Landing Page Quality" Program Should Help Publishers
Google has posted a Landing page quality update which describes how AdWord bidders are encouraged to provide quality landing pages. Low-quality landing pages cost advertisers more than high-quality landing pages.
As a publisher, I think think this is great for two reasons:
- It discourages those annoying "made for AdSense" sites that have no content and ads only. I hate those sites! no-one likes landing on them. It is disappointing when I think of a great domain name, only to find it is being wasted on an ad page.
- It provides my visitors with a better experience, should they decide to visit one of my sponsors. If they click an ad, and end up on some sub-standard site, how does that help them? If it doesn't help them, it doesn't help me!
I've not bought and ads for any of my businesses yet. When I do, I think this move will help me too. It will reduce competition from sub-standard sites.
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The post was authored by Ben Baker.
Qbot, AKA Qakbot, has been around for since at least 2008, but it recently experienced a large surge in development and deployments. Qbot primarily targets sensitive information like banking credentials. Here we are unveiling recent changes to the malware that haven't been made public yet.
Qbot's primary means of infection is as a payload in browser exploit kits. Website administrators often use FTP to access their servers, so Qbot attempts to steal FTP credentials to add these servers to its malware hosting infrastructure. Qbot can also spread across a network using SMB, which makes it very difficult to remove from an unprotected network.
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A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
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We are a talk radio show that features interviews with some of the biggest names in mixed martial arts, such as UFC superstars Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddell and "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Tito Ortiz. The music beds for the show are hard rock/metal. We frequently broadcast on location from UFC fights in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
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The name that I need incorporated into the logo is "Rear Naked Radio".
I am looking for rock and roll imagery to accompany a radio talk show that covers mixed martial arts: The fastest growing sport in America. Our listener demographic is young, male, and aggressive. The people who listen to our show like loud music, wear lots of black, and enjoy watching two guys fight in a cage.
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A road trip is always a good idea. Anyone who's ever glimpsed the filaments of the Milky Way beyond glowing dashboard lights and felt the freedom contained therein would understand why. In a car, you're the master of your own destiny. The land sprawls out in front of you offering a million miles of possibility. Where will you go? What will you do?
So it seems only right that TransWorld's trip to Spain this past winter became TransWorld's road trip to Spain (or road trip through Spain, actually—because you can't really drive across the Atlantic). Zac Marben, Laura Hadar, Eiki Helgason, Remi Lamazouere, photographer Eric Bergeri, filmer Pierre Minhondo, and I flew into Barcelona from destinations all over the world, and we turned our faces toward the road. Sitting on a sunny curb awaiting our rental cars, everyone was delirious with jetlag and Laura was sick as a dog with the flu. Nevertheless, we had the whole of Spain before us—rugged mountain ranges, grand festive cities, and countless bowls of paella. The month was February. The time was 4:00 p.m. A storm was brewing to the northwest. We got in the cars and split that way toward the Spain/France border, the Pyrenees Mountains, and of course, snow.
Part I: Baquiera-Beret Bound The roads of Spain don't look any different than American roads. They're made of cracked asphalt with white lines painted down the sides. To our surprise, though, the Spanish countryside looked exactly like Spain. Outside our windows, Barcelona's balmy palm trees gave way to rolling, dusty grasslands and eventually the deep shadowy canyons that preceded the Pyrenees. The moon rose at dusk over old brick barns and orchards lay barren for winter. In the darkness we wound our way up a steep chasm with sheer cliffs falling away to the right. Finally, about five hours of tired-eyed driving later, we reached our mountain destination—an ancient stone village called Vielha (vee-ay-ha) just down the road from one of Spain's biggest ski resorts, Baqueira-Beret.
Although relatively unexplored by North American travelers, the Pyrenees is a mighty mountain range that spans three countries (Spain, France, and Andorra), forming a massive cresting divider between the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and the rest of central Europe. We had no idea what to expect, but as we pulled into the parking lot of Baqueira the next morning we were impressed by the raw majesty of the peaks all around us.
Photographer Antxon Epelde and Spanish pro-snowboarding legend Iker Fernandez were waiting for us at the resort. It was around noon, and no one was in a hurry. On the itinerary were coffee and sandwiches. Such is the pace of life in Spain—it's easy style. People sleep late and eat meals even later. As a testament to the local vibe, we never once arrived at the mountain before eleven a.m. We were also turned away from restaurants on several occasions when we arrived at seven or eight p.m., only to find that it was still "too early for dinner."
"Keet–chin closed until nine," the proprietor would say kindly, pointing to the clock and ushering us back out the door.
Anyway, we could see from the sundeck where noontime baguettes were being crunched that there was plenty for the taking on the slopes of Baqueira. Slightly reminiscent of Jackson Hole, the place was full of steep, wooded gullies and rocky outcroppings. Not even bothering to get on the chairlift, we spend the afternoon hiking right off the roadside around a little winter playground sprinkled with cornice drops and kicker spots.
"That's the highest mountain in the Pyrenees," said Antxon proudly, pointing to the 11,000-foot Pico Del Aneto, part of the dramatic mountain-scape that was the backdrop to the jump we'd built.
"Spanish people are so proud of their Pyrenees," Eric whispered to me a few minutes later. "They're always acting like they're as good as the Alps." Of course, as a Frenchman, Bergeri's heart belongs to that great mountain range of central Europe—the Alps. It was a rivalry of mountain ranges, and as an outsider, I couldn't help but laugh about it.
The Pyrenees are actually lower in elevation than the Alps (the highest Alpine peak being Mont Blanc at 16,000 feet). Thus, Spain's great range does get the huge coastal snowfalls, but it warms up fast and isn't always blessed with that ultralight powder found in the French Alps. However, while a trip to the Alps entails forking over fistfuls of euros and elbowing German tourists for a spot in the liftline, visiting the Pyrenees means fairly empty slopes and dramatically cheaper prices.
Back at the hotel, Laura was still in the throes of a nasty sickness. Her face was bed-sheet white and she was sleeping about 23 hours per day—only waking long enough to hack up a lung and pop some pills. I was her roommate, and in an effort to not contract her plague, I became a compulsive hand-washer. Thankfully, by day three she was finally feeling better.
Unfortunately for Laura, our most glorious powder day occurred while she was down and out. One afternoon it started snowing and didn't stop, probably dumping four feet in 24 hours. We awoke the next morning to total chaos. The road was a rally track, tiny European cars went missing in unplowed parking lots, and up at the resort, things were shoulder deep. It was too wet and chaotic for cameras, so we left them behind and had an undocumented all-time afternoon. It was all rooster tails and powder poppers—plus plenty of nosedives and cartwheels.
The thing about a road trip is that when it's time to go—you know. You can feel it like a pressure drop deep in your chest cavity. The storm started breaking up, leaving behind a massive sketchy snowpack and treacherous avalanche conditions. It seemed like a prime time to split for the city and let things settle down. Madrid was calling, so we packed up and made a hasty exit east.
Part II: Madrid—A Trip Through The Night
We roared our rental wagons down out of the mountains and out onto the windswept Castilian plain. Madrid is the highest European capital at nearly 2,200 feet, and our path there was marked by sandstone mesas cut deeply with gorges, dusk-washed fields overlooked by distant snowy peaks, and then the gleaming metropolis itself—still a bustle despite the post-midnight hour of our arrival.
"Are we going out?" asked Eric. It was one a.m. and we'd been driving forever. Where I live, going out at such an hour would mean squeezing in one drink before last call, but one a.m. was almost too early to party in Madrid. We were tired as hell, though, and lured by the promise of riding a new resort the next day, we forewent the bars for a good night's sleep.
The resort of Navacerrada sits less than an hour outside Madrid in rocky, arid mountains—a lot like Bear Mountain in Southern California, actually. It's the day-trip destination for the city snow lovers. As we rounded the final bend in the road, all we could see was a couple slushy lanes packed with skiers … but hey, anything is fun in the sunshine. It was a bright shiny day, so we made like we were in SoCal, hiked up into the pine trees, and got busy jibbing.
That evening it was finally time for some Spanish nightlife. However, instead of the wild discos and flamenco dancing of our imagination, we got stuck on a busy street of frat-party beer bars. The night was obviously cursed, because on our way back to the hotel, none of the discos would even allow us inside their doors. Why? Dress code. You see, Madrid is the financial center of the Iberian Peninsula. Money counts there, and compared to the Gucci-clad slicks strutting the city's boulevards, we looked like a bunch of slobs. Oh well.
The next morning we hopped on the subway and cruised the sunny streets.
"I can't believe I haven't even found a Spanish girlfriend yet!" said Zac in disbelief as he posted up on a street corner asking beautiful señoritas if they'd take a picture with him.
I'm not sure how successful he was because suddenly I realized that my camera was gone. I reminisced back to when that greasy guy bumped into me a little too hard on the subway earlier in the morning. F—k, I'd been pickpocketed! Ah, well, I had to count my blessings that I still had my cash and passport. Still, there was one precious photo on there that I'd snapped during last night's wanderings. Camera-be-damned, I'll never again see that sweet snapshot of the grand Palacio de Comunicaciones blooming all pink in the streetlights under a deep black sky split by the full moon. Too bad. It seemed like a good time to exit Madrid, and that's what we swiftly did.
Part III: The High Aragon
With cars tightly packed, we set our crosshairs on the High Aragon—a central Pyrenees region just southwest of Basque Country. It was a beautiful drive through the lazy Spanish afternoon, meandering past rolling river valleys bedecked with distant castles and fortresses. Camp was made in a town called Jaca (ha-ka), where the attraction of note was a primeval stone citadel—complete with drawbridge and empty moat.
The next morning we visited Iker's home stomping grounds, the resort of Astun. As we stood blinking in the blazing sun, we took in the buffet of wind-carved confections spreading out before us—at least a dozen perfect windlips within a stone's throw, and as many send-able rollers with endless landings. Apparently, the area's windy winter storms turn a series of treeless ridges into these naturally perfect jumps. A few days later, we stopped by the nearby resort of Formigal and found a similar phenomenon.
"I love this place," said Iker, following our gaze out over Astun's bounty of natural airtime. "I learned so many tricks here." Then, pointing out a particularly prime lip with a never-ending landing, "Actually, that's where I did my first backside seven."
According to Iker and Antxon, there aren't really any legitimate terrain parks in Spain. And halfpipes? Nah. But we soon realized that with terrain like this, who needs parks? Throw a snowball in any direction and you'd hit a knob or wind-carved cornice that, with only a few minutes' build time, becomes an immaculate lip sending you into the sweet eternity of a powder landing. Tempt me with all the park jumps in California and I'd still choose the former.
And choose we did—for the next several days working through windlips like bluebirds hopping from branch to branch. Laura was feeling better, Zac was feeling worse (whiplash, I think), and the ever-mellow Eiki and Remi were just about even. Bergeri's trigger finger was gunning. The sun was shining. We were in Spain!
Part IV: Barcelona, Baby
I'm not qualified to say that Barcelona is one of the most badass cities in Europe simply because I haven't actually been to every city in Europe. With that said, Barcelona is one of the most badass cities in Europe. It's a cobblestone labyrinth, where ancient chapels and renown surrealist museums are tucked in so tightly amongst the butcher shops and postcard vendors that you might miss them altogether, instead getting sucked into a sprawling vegetable market to buy ice-cold coconut milk that tastes just like heaven.
So there we were in this famous city, a mere two days from the end of the trip. We were all crazy to do something crazy. We'd worked so hard over the past two weeks and now it was time to blow it off. Spanish style, we sat down in an old stone square for a feast of fragrant paella (Spain's luscious garble of rice, sausage, seafood, and spices), followed by hours of wandering around the old town. Every time you started to feel a little parched, a street vendor carrying a six-pack emerged from the shadows to quench your thirst. Creatures of the night would fall into step with us and whisper secretive offers in our ear … "Hashish, lady, you like to smoke marijuana?" and so on and so forth. Not until all hours of the early morning did we straggle back into our hotel rooms to sleep the sleep of the dead.
The great thing about Barcelona is how accessible everything is. Whatever you want to do or see is within walking distance—modern art museums, skate spots, the beach, Gaudi's art nouveau architectural explosions, and outdoor cafes. Just ramble around and soak it all in alongside about a thousand other people doing the same thing. We did exactly that, and then hopped on our respective planes to fly thousands of miles back to wherever we came from. That was it.
So as you sit watching the fresh snow fall down on the Rocky Mountains or scrape your car after a great New England nor'easter, know that just over the Atlantic there's another set of mountains, another storm. Remember that the "terrain parks" in Spain are sculpted by the hand of the wind, and that snow falls by the truckload when the heavens so dictate. The locals are proud and friendly, and they're just taking it easy. That's life in Spain. If you want to be part of it, just hop on a plane and then get in a car. It's that simple, and this story is proof.


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IIRC, Susan Faludi discovered in an interview she did for Backlash that Randall Terry got the idea for Operation Rescue after his infertile wife took to hanging around the local abortion clinic holding a sign that read "Don't Kill Your Baby–Give It To Me." I feel very sorry for anyone, infertile or no, who got married to Randall Terry, but the sentiment drives me nuts. And it just…won't…go…away. This popped up on a couple of adoption-related FB groups I frequent recently.(It made me so mad I downloaded it under the title "Fuuuck youuuuuuuuuuu.")
"God loves you and your baby." Translation: We don't love you. We think you're an incubator. Too bad God doesn't love you enough to fix your life so you could raise your own baby, if that's why you're aborting. Truth is, we don't care why you're aborting. Women's lives are never complicated, and certainly not by such easy-peasy little ol' events as pregnancies and child rearing. Women don't actually have feelings. Well, women like the wonderful Christian lady in the photo do, but the kind of woman who even considers having an abortion? Pffft. Fuck them. Er, I mean, God loves you!
"Don't abort!" Translation: Don't carry on with the twenty-minute, actually-safer-than-pregnancy-and-childbirth procedure you decided on long before you had to encounter our righteous asses on the way to your appointment. Do what we, two strangers who know nothing about your life, want you to do!
"We will adopt your baby!" Translation: Come on, just devote the next several months of your life to making a human being out of your flesh and blood and bones? Pwease? Risk your health, perhaps even your life, just because we asked you to? Pleeeease? And then give birth and hand over the baby to us? We'll be your best friends, honest.
"Come talk to us!" Translation: We don't give a flying fuck about you, but you have something we want. Come on, Girl! C'mere! [whistles] That's a good girl, who's a goood girl?
How dare you people, whoever you are? If you think she's aborting because she can't afford a baby, how dare you attempt to prey on her instead of doing the truly Christlike thing: offering to help? If you think she's aborting because she's alone and scared, or can't face her parents, how fucking dare you decide this is a situation for you to gain from rather than offering to help? If you think she's a beloved child of God and your sister in Christ, why can't you have the least speck of empathy for her and offer to help? How dare you see her as less human than the embryo you believe she's carrying? (She might be going to the women's health center for any number of other reasons, you know.)
How dare you expect anyone to give you a baby to raise?
And how dare you call an embryo a baby? You fucking well know better.


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[It's been gratifying to see some teachers have been putting some of the activities and ideas from the blog into practice. One practitioner who's been coaching his students for a long time and has provided us with plenty of ideas for the blog is our good friend, Mark McKinnon. Mark teaches, trains and writes in Barcelona, and we're very lucky this week to read about his experience in the classroom. Over to you, Mark, and thanks for being our first guest blogger!…]
I have been taking on the responsibility for my students' learning outside the classroom for quite a number of years now. Helping my learners learn how to learn simply made sense to me. I naturally saw myself as teacher-coach much like a player-coach would be to a sports team.
As any new coach would, I dived into my new job with great enthusiasm. My students were eventually presented with an entire itinerary of what to do outside the classroom and how to do it. This outside class plan was presented to them little by little, for example, this week's idea for practicing your English outside class.
However, the initial reaction I received from some of my students was not at all positive. Asking them to comment on our work together by anonymous questionnaire proved to be the key to complete honesty. Although the majority of them were positive about the coaching, there were quite a number of students who were under the impression that my demonstrations were "taking time away from their language study in the classroom" or "taking away from their speaking time in class".
I realised that although my coaching ideas were good and very useful for most of my learners, I simply wasn't involving them in the coaching process enough. Somehow they were missing the point and I was certainly to blame for that.
By dealing with learner coaching communicatively in the classroom I have since found a better balance. The learners need to feel involved in the process and coaching should be integrated with classroom work.
Here is one idea to integrate learner coaching into classroom work:
A two-week learner diary
The students identify an area that they would like to improve. It helps if this is guided, for example, giving them a list of areas to choose from.
- Each student decides what he or she is going to do to improve this area. Again it helps if there is a list of ideas to choose from. These ideas identify a clear activity and can contain some guidance.
- Each student then makes a timetable of when they are going to do this extra work. They should be realistic about the times they are free to do extra study.
- They will then work on this area outside the classroom for two weeks.
- Two weeks later they prepare answers to the following questions before they come to class:
- What have you done to improve your chosen language area?
- Do you think you have improved? Why?
- What problems have you had while working on this language area?
- What material have you found to help you? (Web based or published material)
- The students sit in small groups to discuss the questions.
The result of this is that the students are more involved in the language practice process. They choose their own area of language to improve therefore they are responsible for their own learning. It's communicative as the language learning discussion is prepared and carried out by them. The students are much more open to your coaching as they discuss the problems they have had. There is also a clear opportunity to swap material, websites and ideas for further practice. I have also found that by treating this speaking activity just like any other discussion they have in class, that means giving them correction and feedback on their speaking, my students feel that their "English learning time" and "English speaking time" are not being restricted in any way.


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Shorties (An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, An Iron Maiden Videogame, and more)
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Yesterday after we visited a beautiful beach in Mississippi, we arrived at New Orleans. Last night I went out with my friends, and we went to the French Quarter. I heard that there were a lot people in the French Quarter, but I did not find many people in there last night. There are a lot of bars there, and every bar had some people. I really wanted to attend them. Unfortunately, I am underage.
This morning I had a bus trip. A native driver took us to visit the city. He is not only a driver, but also a tour guard. This guy took us to a lot of places and buildings that are very famous and classical. He told us many historical stories about these places and buildings. For example, a lot of houses in New Orleans are built very tall. The guard told us that this way can in case of the hurricane. There are so many things like this one. I could learn a lot from the bus trip. I can learn a lot about African American's history and culture. Then the bus took me to the finally destination-- Zulu Land. It is an African American museum. It shows the history about the slavery. It was my first time to see many facts about slavery with my own eyes. The museum listed a lot of cultural relics and historical documents about slavery. I knew that slavers had to wear fetters when they were working. I knew that if a slaver wanted to be free, he or she had to pay 400 dollars to his or her slave owner every day. 400 dollars!! That is impossible at that time. So the slavers had to work until their death. Slavery is a sadness and tragic history. It cannot happen again.
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Things of God Theatrical is a "theatrical space" which allows you to Strut your Spiritual Stuff !
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Every week, willing & available performers will strut their scriptural stuff in segments according to their theatrical talents, bringing to abundant life the Lords proverbs, parables, promises, & psalms. The acts of these performers will vary in length from 1 – 10 minutes based on the degree of pizzazz of the player. The items, interviews & intervals in this sideshow will be compered & weaved together by an equally talented theatrically interested support team.
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Things Theatrical is designed to be a great way to explore your "God given giftings" in a theatrical environment. Incredible opportunity exists to present Jesus to both secular & "Body of Christ" audiences across Australia & the world. Thousands of performance invitations are knocked back every year by "Theatrical Evangelists". It is my hope & prayer that the Lord will raise up many excellent theatrically skilled performers & support crews to meet the ever increasing demand.
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Archive for the 'Events' Category
Hollywood Bowl has announced its summer lineup. You can view the complete calendar here. This year there seems to be something for everyone! Series include Classical Tuesdays & Thursdays, Jazz at the Bowl, Weekend Spectaculars, KCRW's World Festival, Sunday Sunset Concerts, and Special Concerts. It's the sound of summer!
It happens every year. Whether you're single, coupled up, or going out for drinks with the girls, inevitably you keep pushing back on making the dinner reservation, perhaps due to the prevalence of pricey prix fixe menus or holding out hopes for a date and then suddenly Valentine's Day has arrived and every restaurant in town seems to be booked. Fear not! I've compiled a list of Valentine's Day ideas, parties, and film screenings all over town great for couples, groups, and singles alike. Happy Valentine's Day!
A list of all the best Los Angeles events and things to do our great city has to offer in February from live readings, music performances, Chinese New Year festivals, art shows, anti-Valentines Day events, and food. Lots of food. Enjoy!
Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018! Here is a collection of all the best Los Angeles events our great city has to offer in January. From the Uncorked Wine Festival, dineLA Restaurant, The LA Art Show, and many more, you won't be at a loss for things to do in Los Angeles this month. Enjoy!
It's almost New Year's Eve in Los Angeles and around the world. You might be furiously trying to find some last minute entertainment to ring in the new year only to find tickets have sold out or open tables are impossible to find. Below, we've compiled a list of 16 things to do this NYE in LA, from the free to the pricey, the swanky to laid-back, the family-friendly to the adults only.Wherever you are this New Year's Eve, here's wishing everyone a very happy new year!
The holiday season has arrived and with it the annual mad dash to a crowded department store, any department store, to try to find a bevy of last minute gifts. We do this, I imagine, because we feel the department store will be a catchall one-stop stop for across-the-board gifts for all the different people in our lives. Last year as I stood in a long line at a busy big box department store that will go unnamed waiting to pay for a Fitbit or two, staring down at my gift list at all the names I hadn't crossed off and the boxes I hadn't checked off while I got to thinking that holiday shopping had to be more fun than this. And then it dawned on me that just a few days before at Sunset Plaza on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood I had had a leisurely late lunch at the divine The Butcher, The Baker, and The Cappuccino Maker and afterward had strolled the Plaza's many fine shops. It was a stress-free, casual, and, yes, fun experience and I knew I had to get back to the Plaza to complete my holiday shopping. This year, you should do the same. Here are six great shops to check out at Sunset Plaza.
Look no further for all the best Los Angeles holiday events this December 2017, from meeting Santa and his reindeer to singing Christmas carols, bar hopping for a good cause, and scooping up crafty gifts at holiday markets, this list of the city's best events and things to do this season will help make L.A. a winter wonderland all month long.
Look no further for all the best Los Angeles events this November 2017 including art shows, film festivals, cocktail celebrations, holiday benefits, & much more!
Summer may be over in Los Angeles, but like the weather here, our town offers bright spots throughout the year including special events, street festivals, food and wine tastings, movie nights, and concerts. Here you will find all the best October events and things to do including Los Angeles Music Video Festival, a Hocus Pocus screening at Malibu Wines, Eastside Food Festival at Mack Sennett Studios, Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and many more! Read more…
The secret is out! The annual The Secret Art Show will return Saturday, September 30th at ATB Studios in Burbank! Which "secret" artist creations will you take home?
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Sparkling Sugar Plum
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Black Tea, Peony Petals, White Sugar, Corn Syrup, Gum Arabic, Carnuba Wax, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor
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Leaves2 tsp
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I was really surprised at the depth of flavor in this cup the first time I tried it - I expected a very artificial, very cloying, nondescript "fruitish" flavor as one sometimes finds in fruit-flavored teas on the market. I was blown away by the strength of the cup and the richness of the plum. I let mine steep long and at 212, and it was delectable with a splash of cream and some rock sugar. Would order again!
Wonderful mild flavor and the plum is perfect. The sparkling sugar crystals are absolutely beautiful in the tea cup. I never expected to love the way a tea looks too!
After taking afternoon tea in an establishment in the desert, how thrilled I was to google Sparkling Sugar Plum and have me directed to Whistling Kettle! I was so happy to try this delicious tea once more. A sweet plum in a black tea with what, wait, could it really be a crystal floating on the surface? ;)
This tea has a great plum jam aroma and looks very festive with its glittery crystals. When I brewed it for four minutes it tasted like really high quality black tea with a very mild plum flavour. I put the leaves back in the tea for another two minutes and added a 1/4 tsp of sugar which helped develop the plum flavour.
I had this when I visited the Troy location during the Victorian Stroll, and I was hoping to take some home because it was so delicious. So happy I'm able to get it shipped to me! I like that even without the rock sugar it was still sweet from the sugar crystals. And I've never had my tea actually SPARKLE. A+ Whistling Kettle.


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CHOLERA OUTBREAK MITIGATION PROJECTadmin
Spending many of the days in and around the truck Penelope in close quarters with teammates, mentors and locals challenged my introversion, but also gave me a chance to practice humility through servanthood. Most of the days were spent driving and the road conditions made car sickness a daily struggle. I praise God that his grace was sufficient for me, even helping me to find joy in the mundane tasks of cooking, cleaning, and preparing camp.
As stories were exchanged around the campfire, often with broken English aided with Google translate, the theme of a living God as one who hears, speaks and moves before us became more apparent. Conversations with local believers who rode along with us to help us told of testimonies that often involved death threats, nights spent in prison, and social ostracism as a consequence of professing to believe in Christ.
As I look back at my life, I am in awe at how God has been shaping my heart, giving me an appetite for a trip of this nature. It reminds me of the assurance I have that in God's book are written all the days that were planned for me before any of them had passed. While this trip appealed to my sense of adventure, it wasn't always this way. In fact I vowed to never go again after spending much of my first backcountry trip during high school in the mountains of Beijing wet, hungry and sleep-deprived. Yet here I was a few years later. As the desert changed to grassland and then to alpine mountains, the vastness of the land provoked a sense of urgency I had never quite felt before. Toronto is often talked about being a very special mission field as people from all nations have gathered here to study, to do business and to live. But who was going to travel multiple days on foot, through the valleys and over the hills to proclaim the good news to nomads?
Not only do nomadic peoples move around with their possessions, but also carry a distinct worldview which can be summarized as: NO t individual, M obility as an asset, values A utonomy and views themselves as D istinct from settled peoples. As we began to scratch the surface of nomadic thinking, I began to question many of the values I had set as default for myself.
One nomad encounter experience especially stands out. The years I had spent in Japan taught me that it was very important to avoid causing inconvenience for others. Yet a dozen of us were invited in spontaneously as we travelled through the countryside. As we sat down on the grass around a rectangular picnic blanket and was served tea and fermented mare's milk, I came to understand that hospitality didn't require meticulous planning, but simply the willingness of the host to set aside time for any guest passing by.
As we spent more time with pastoralist nomads, understanding the relationship between a shepherd and his sheep illustrated my relationship with God more vividly. A young man who often spent his days looking over the sheep of several families shared that trustworthiness is the most important quality in the making of a good shepherd (Psalm 145:13). Similarly, the sheep knew the shepherd and if a stranger walked through a flock of sheep, the sheep would scatter to avoid him (Psalm 23:1; John 10:27). Although graphic and bloody, seeing the slaughtering of a sheep also deepened my understanding of Christ as a sacrifice for my sins (Isaiah 53:7). After seeing many of these things with my own eyes, I was challenged to not only know God's word but to also put my trust and hope in it.
Having spent 40 days living out of a 35L backpack, I returned home questioning my preconception of comfort and fulfillment through material possessions. As I looked at the boxes of things that had been gathering dust in the storage room, my heart sank, ashamed in the way my life was centered around my possessions. I have since begun to donate, sell and throw away many of the things I do not need.
For a diehard football fan, traveling without any internet or television access during a World Cup year was almost unthinkable. I was challenged to lay those desires before God and to seek him first. In his grace, I was not only able to catch the fixtures Japan played in when we stayed in town, but was also able to share in joy of playing with local kids. Although not without pain, as I reflect I praise God for all that he has been teaching me: that I would decrease while he would increase.
Each passing day feels more and more like waking up from a dream. The details, the people, and the flavors all slowly start to fade away. It is a place that is often overlooked by many. Who would pray for them? And who will go to them? Consider this that 93% of the world's nomadic peoples are unreached. Would you continue to pray with me, that the Lord of the harvest would send out more workers, especially to the nomadic peoples of Central Asia?
Contact SIM if you feel God calling you to go where Christ is least known!


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This year I decided to finally break my habit of sleeping in and started getting up between 6:30 and 7 AM. I have always been the furthest thing from a morning person, but I have found getting up earlier has allowed me to be more productive with my days. It can be hard to all of a sudden shake up your sleep schedule and get up early, so to help here are some of my personal tips for becoming a morning person + my go-to breakfast recipe!
There's no easy way of getting up early, so one of two ways you can do it is to just bite the bullet and get out of bed at the time you want to wake up. It will be hard and it will take a few days for your body to get use to it, but this is what personally worked best for me. I found just committing to it to be the option that would least likely result in me giving up. Make sure to set your alarm for the time you want and actually get out of bed at that time the next morning. Put your alarm on the other side of room if you have to, or have a family member or roommate wake you up if possible.
Now if biting the bullet isn't the best option for you, the other thing you can do is start setting your alarm 15 minutes earlier each morning until you get to the time that you want to wake up. That means you also have to start going to bed 15 minutes earlier each day too. This will help you slowly adjust to waking up earlier, but won't be as sudden.
This one is extremely important. Using your phone in bed usually results in you staying up way later than you meant to, or staying in bed longer in the morning. In order to actually start getting up and starting your day earlier, you have to stop using your phone in bed. Make it a habit to sit at your desk or in a chair in the morning & night to do your scroll through social media or catch up on events. This will prevent you from being tempted to stay in bed longer than you should and help you fall asleep easier at night.
Getting your blood flowing and body moving will help make waking up earlier easier and quicker. Do a few stretches in the morning to get your body going or do your favorite mini morning workout. Just do this for 5-10 minutes and your mind and body will be ready to start the day!
Your body needs fuel in the morning, so it's important to have a full breakfast to keep it going throughout the day. After all, there's nothing worse than a mid morning crash. My personal favorite breakfast recently has been smoothie bowls. They are good for you and filling, which can help you jump start your morning. I thought I would share with you how I personally make my smoothie bowls, so you can give it a try!:
I put the acai, frozen fruit, kefir, protein powder, and a small amount of milk into a blender and blend it. I never measure anything to a specific amount, it all just depends on how big of a bowl you want or if you are sharing with others. Just make sure to make the smoothie bowl thicker than you would a normally smoothie. Because of this I usually add more kefir (you can use yogurt as a substitute) than I do milk. Once it's all blended I put it in a bowl and top it with vanilla granola, fresh fruit, and finish off with a drizzle of honey on top. You can use any toppings or fruit you want in your smoothie bowl, so experiment and find a combo that you like best!
In order to start your day earlier, you also have to call it a night earlier too. I know it is hard especially when so much is happening at night when it comes to social media and television, but if you don't you'll feel even worse in the morning. Start moving up your night routine earlier to where you can get a decent amount of sleep and still be up at the time you want to. It may be hard now but it will be worth it in the end!
And those are my tips to help you become a morning person! Just remember that like everything it will take time and some getting use to, but once you get in the routine of it it will seem like second nature.
These are some great tips! I'm just naturally a night owl, but one of these days maybe I'll master the early bird routine lol. This smoothie bowl sounds sooo delicious! So naturally, I'll be trying this out 😉
Thank you love! I'm naturally a night owl too, so it can be done haha. And the smoothie bowls are amazing! Let me know if you try it what you think x
Lovely tips!
I'm a nail artist/blogger who used to do nails in the evening after my pet "duties" were done. Recently though that time frame hasn't worked for me and it seems 5/6 AM is the only time I can paint my nails…Unfortunately, I'm not a morning person so these tips will definitely help!
Thank you so much Monica! I'm so glad these tips could help x
22 year old blogger sharing my adventure through my twenties, life's simple moments + blogging tips with lots of outfits in between, all to hopefully inspire you!
I'm so glad you are here! I'm Kara, a 22 year old lifestyle and fashion blogger. Kara'sCloset is where I share my adventure through my twenties, life's simple moments, and blogging tips with lots of outfits in between, all to hopefully inspire you!


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Rareseeds: The next time you pull a vibrantly colored carrot out of the soil, or sink your teeth into a delicious and colorful heirloom tomato, please don't forget to thank your ancestors! It was their diligent and loving selection of traits over centuries that crafted the incredible diversity we enjoy today. As home gardeners and market farmers, we can appreciate the patient and thoughtful practice of selective breeding by those who came before us. They shared our interest in the most delicious varieties for cooking, the most stunning varieties to entice and dazzle customers, and the most rugged varieties that thrived in adverse conditions. The seed savers of yesteryear have bequeathed these incredible heirlooms to the next generation of farmers. With today's renewed love of local foods and home gardening, we continue to cherish these beautiful heirlooms that represent their hard work and love. It is not clear whether our ancestors fully understood the correlation between nutrient density and plant pigments; perhaps for them it was more about their visual appeal. In any case, these highly nutritious and colorful veggies have been passed down for us to enjoy. Let's celebrate the gift of gorgeous heirlooms by growing a rainbow of nutrition!
eat a rainbow @rareseeds


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Geek Brunch Episode 76Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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Hosts Heath Holland and Mike Myers are joined by Bill, DBM on the forums for episode 76 of Geek Brunch. This show features the song "Grandpa Never Banged A Kangaroo" by Baron Von Lichtenstein. If you can come up with something more interesting than that, feel free… I'm tapped out of show notes.


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10 Effective Tips to Become a Health / Life Insurance Agent
If you love exciting career, then becoming a health insurance agent will be right for you. What do you need for being an agent and what are the restrictions in stepping into this career? Let's discuss
What health insurance agents do? Basically their duties is to sell policies to consumers for helping in covering the cost of medical care or any risk and losses due to illness, injury or accident.
You may be categorized into agents known as health and life insurers. As a health and life insurer, you may sell life insurance policies in addition with health insurance policies. Here, your career is dependent on your education level and type. Non-grades should not be counted; as there are graduated students are awaiting to have this job.
More and more universities now provide opportunity to study with insurance and insurer can be taken from students who have been graduated from other such areas-
- Mathematics
- Economics
- Public relation etc.
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Career councilors are the great trainer for jobs and they assist in finding perfect career as well as study field according to your passion.
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After completing any courses regarding to your work filed, you, ay need the license of selling insurance on your state. If you are inefficient, then this work field will be hard nut to crack for you. But a hard working and efficient insurance agent can earn much more from this career. But being successful is not easy for an insurance agent. Hearing "NO" with obscenities is not uncommon for an insurance agent. But those who can tolerate the rejections have great flexibility and effort of doing the job.
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There are many kinds of insurance, the best one is selling life insurance. For insurance license, contract with your states license board. All states have health insurance agent with life insurance agent license accompanied with life insurance qualifications. Sometime, educational test, finger prints and testing requirements will be needed to be provided.
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Background investigation is another fact in insurance agency. You need a certificate of completion your education and clearance notice also.
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You can also take part in life insurance and health insurance exam for better qualified. And passing in this exam is also important. Using standard test-taking strategies is necessary for maximizing performance. A passing score may be 70 percent or higher. And after passing exam you will get your temporary license. You will get formal certificate from insurance board that will support to build career.
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Then find employment with and insurance company for starting up your career. Before you starting sell health insurance legally, at least 1 year sponsorship relationship is required.
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In this case you can choose to be a captive insurance agent. As captive agents sign contracts that promise to representing only one insurance company. Checking with local insurance agencies is 1st step for beginning the license process.
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Becoming a life insurance agent is unconditionally great career choice, with many employment opportunities and lots of growth opportunities also. It is a job including meeting people procedures, helping people and those who work hard for having generous salary, commission and bonus packages will enjoy this job. You will represent the image and efficiency of a company.
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Evaluation of characteristic of each client is necessary for sales agent. And they must to be confident about themselves. There are several opportunities such as advertising sales agent, who sale advertising space to business and individuals. Insurance underwriters who decide to provide insurance under terms. Financial advisor who advices for financing, investments, savings, insurance etc.
Tips 10:
Agents may face competition but with their efficiency and they can communicate and being connected with consistent way of success. Though it is a challenging job, there are huge opportunity of being successful with career and life.


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June 24th will be PJ Babies and Bagels –
evening addition from 4pm-5pm at Glendale pool.
Play fun games with your little one like "Lifeguard says" (Simon says) and learn a little about the dead sea–
(Did you know it's not a sea, it's landlocked saltwater lake between Israel and Jordan?)
Swim Diapers required for both big pool and baby pool. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside at the infant toddler center
Please RSVP to Jenn at email@example.com
There is no charge for this monthly group.
PJ Library is sponsored in partnership locally by the Eugene M. & Betty N. Levin Family Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Community


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Camera to Go offline
In another of our Milestone XProtect series of HOWTO blogs, I'll take you through how to license new cameras whilst not connected to the Internet.
Why might you want to licence a camera offline?
Any manager of a security system needs to make decisions about how that system is connected to the network. We encounter XProtect-based security systems of all sizes and configurations. Some are connected to the Internet and some are not. XProtect's mobile server capability would require an online connection, but if you have no need for this feature or tie your network down tightly your XProtect server may be operating offline, and in this case you'll be licensing cameras offline.
How easy is the licensing process?
In general, it's very easy. Once you have XProtect installed, your online Milestone account set up and your SLC added (you may have followed our XProtect installation HOWTO), it really is extremely easy to license cameras online. All you need is the username and password for your online account and the process is a couple of clicks away.
That is, of course, if you have an internet connection. If not, it's a little more involved, and goes like this:
- 1) Export license request file
- 2) Upload file to Milestone online
- 3) Receive license file by email
- 4) Import license file
Note that an internet connection will be required to complete the process, but the final step can be done on any machine that is connected, not necessarily the machine running your XProtect management server.
Step 1 – Export the License Request File
So I will pick up at the point where I have added a camera in an unlicensed state within the licensing grace period (see image below). As mentioned above, you would normally just go to File -> Activate License Online. However, having no Internet connection means this process cannot be used.
The method to use involves generating a License Request File (.lrq) to be uploaded to Milestone later. To start the process go to 'File' -> 'Manage License Offline', then select 'Export License for Activation', as shown.
Next, you will see the following window.
This screen lists the devices you have added on your system and whether or not they have used a license (i.e. have previously been activated). My screenshot shows two unlicensed cameras. I will need 1 license for each camera so I simply choose 'Ok'.
You will then be asked to save a file with the extension .lrq. Save this onto a USB stick so you can upload it from a machine with an internet connection, as below.
Step 2 – Submitting the license for validation
Now I have the license request file for the cameras, I need to submit this to Milestone online to manually license the cameras. This is done through your online account.
Log in to your online Milestone account via their 'Software Registration Service Centre' and click 'Current SLC's'. Depending on how many SLC's you have you may need to select from a list. Select the link for the correct SLC you want to add the camera to.
On this page you will see the link to 'Upload License Request'. Use this option to import your .lrq file from your USB stick.
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By Lynda Lehmann | Updated 9/6/15
Back in the 60s, I read the humanist psychologists. Seems they all talked about one kind of process or another. The process of learning, the process of rebelling, the process of creating, the process of loving. I read Abraham Maslow, Karl Rogers, Alan Watts, Rollo May, to name a few. There were so many, I can't remember them all. No matter what their particular slant, the emphasis in those years seemed to be on either "being" or "becoming." At the tender age of 19 or 20, I knew I was nowhere near the mark. All the concepts made sense, but it was intellectual sense, not the kind that resonates deep inside.
Now, many decades later, I look back in awe at how much "becoming" I missed. Living in the suburbs, raising a child and participating in all the cooperative functions that mostly mothers ran, even while they juggled jobs, homemaking and child-rearing, had many satisfactions. But my creativity was relegated to the sidelines of my experience.
I often wrote fiction during the toddler nap years, and through nursery school as well. During the elementary and later years of our daughter's schooling I penned four novels and a bunch of stories: mostly soft, sociological science fiction for young adults, with feminist and environmental themes. So I always played around with ideas, and have two of four novels that I hold dear because they embrace my deepest values. (The other two novels were fun but were more "entertainment" than value-driven.)
I finally gave up the writing to pursue my art, which had for years been on the back burner even though I took an occasional painting class at the local art league, to keep my hand in it. One day I may pick up those manuscripts and send them out again. But right now I'll stay with the art. Both painting and writing are consuming processes that require total commitment, and I'm not one of those people who can do everything. I'm not willing to sacrifice quality (or what I perceive as quality) for quantity.
Now, at my "seasoned" age, I have both the time and space to devote myself to creative process. Finally, it IS a process, and I'm grasping the "Being-ness" that everyone was talking about in the 60s. In the past year, I have fallen in love with painting. I could eat and sleep, walk and talk, painting. I awaken with ideas and images floating precariously on the surface of my consciousness, like glowing beacons on a turbulent stream. I avoid getting up to make notes on them, because my excitement will most likely keep me up all night!
The process has taken over and finally, it's not being truncated by other concerns. I'm still delinquent on gardening and as domestically challenged as ever, but I don't mind defaulting on some of those obligations. And if dinner is a little late, well, no one is going to starve.
It's not as if I don't have any problems or concerns for the world. I do, like every other human being. But the overriding feeling, as I delve more and more into the feel and character of the paint, is bliss. I am fortunate to be experiencing this joy. One thing leads to another each image calls for a dozen or a thousand variations. The bounty is overwhelming; the color and rhythm and flow of it, the most satisfying experience I have had in this life. I thank the powers that be for this creative impulse that is at once a joy and a burden. But if I have to have a burden, creativity is the burden I want.
The only real difference between then and now, is that I finally have continuity, the time to BE in the experience. I have process. Thank goodness for process. •
© 2007 Lynda Lehmann. All rights reserved.
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Ready for a fresh start in your wellness journey? This classic series by Jill Badonsky is a great primer into new beginnings at any time of the year.
· Happy New Rear
· A New Phase
· Imaginary Friends
· Trust Your Instincts
· Sculpting Your Health
· Give Me a Quote
· Yoga and Creativity
· Imaginative, Healthy Eating


text: How to Choose a Heating and Air Conditioning Company Posted April 27, 2017 At Patterson & Stirling Inc, we know that picking a company to provide heating and air conditioning service in Erie is a big decision. You want a consistent company that provides excellent service. And you should! When it comes to your home luxury, you shouldn't make sacrifices. We can assist with suggestions on what to look for before you form a choice. Take these things into consideration when searching for the company that will be liable for your heating and cooling service. Do your homework. You should gather some knowledge before you start your search. Make comments about your existing system, including maintenance history, any problems you have with it and its model. While you're compiling information, be sure to check what the license and insurance conditions are for heating and air conditioning service providers in Erie. Ask around. Ask your friends, family and co-workers to see if they have any suggestions. Knowing someone who has had a wonderful experience with a company can be one of the best ways to know what to look for. Installation and Service Get proposals from more than one company. Make sure they're in writing and itemized. You'll want to contrast cost, energy efficiency and warranty information. Plus, you'll want to see referrals from their existing customers. The cheapest heating and air conditioning service provider may not truly be the top value. Think about how all these factors will influence you and your home comfort over time before you make a decision. Plan on a detailed home evaluation. A great heating and air conditioning company will do a thorough examination of your home and your existing system to understand your needs and suggest the best system to meet them. Never offer your business to a company who offers you a quote over the phone without ever examining at your home. First impressions matter. When a contractor arrives at your home to examine for your quote, pay attention to your meeting. They should be professional, helpful and on time. You'll be relying on this company to keep your home comfort amplified season after season, so if they don't make a good first impression, you may want to keep well away from them. When you're looking for a company to offer your heating and air conditioning service, you ought to have the best. This list should get you on the right track. If you'd like more information about what Patterson & Stirling Inc can provide for your home comfort in Erie, give us a call at 814-308-0416. We'll be ready to help! Back To Blog