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May 13, 2012
Travel decisions: Iceland or Istanbul?
My boyfriend and I will be travelling to the UK this coming October, to visit my family. We have about 4 - 5 days during which we plan to take a side trip.. somewhere. We've both been to the 'usual' destinations (Spain, France, etc) so are looking for something a bit more adventuresome. We've narrowed it down to two options - Istanbul or Iceland. Help us decide! I've listed my considerations for and against each place below.
We'd both love to go. I worry that 4 days won't be enough to fully explore the entire country, and if that's the case then I'd rather save it for a longer trip. I've read some
about Iceland which lead me to believe that while Reykjavik is neat, you really ought to get out and explore the rest of the country as well. Is 4 days enough time? I'm happy to rent a car if that's necessary, but would honestly prefer not to have the hassle. Still, I'm dragging my boyfriend across the world to visit my family and Iceland is his first choice, so if it's doable or worth it, I can definitely be persuaded.
I've travelled in India and Senegal and loved both places (more than Europe), so this is feeling more 'adventuresome' to me than Iceland. I feel like we could easily see the city in the time we've got. The boyfriend could be talked into it but wasn't as "OMGexcited" as I was at the idea. Seems like it will be a more "hustle and bustle" trip as opposed to a relaxing nature-oriented trip. Looking through
, my vision of exploring amazing ancient cities on foot seem to be.. perfectly matched to Istanbul.
We'll probably book lodging through AirBnB for whichever location we decide on, and airfare from/to London seems to be comparable. Other pertinent information: We live in Portland, Or; have passable French and Spanish between us; I am an EU Citizen and he is not. I loved art history, he is more contemporary-art minded. We're in our mid 20s and definitely qualify as foodies (that sounds pretentious - but we're not.)
Have you been to either of these places? What's October like? How much time do you need? Alternately, is there a third, perfect location we haven't considered yet?
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Istanbul is my favorite city in the world, and I've been to quite a few. I spent two weeks there and could have done a month, which I can't say for any other city I've been to. That said four days is fine - a couple days for the usual (but amazing) tourist haunts and a couple for wandering / sitting at the street cafe drinking apple tea and playing backgammon. I haven't been to Iceland but I do get the same impression about having to get out of town, and I think you'll have a lot of your limited time taken up with transit.
[This is me resisting writing 1000 words about how amazing Istanbul is.]
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Istanbul in October is lovely. The architecture and art is
. The food is delicious. The people are generally warm. To my eyes, it was worth going just to see the mosques. Never seen any buildings as beautiful on the inside.
It is also 13 million people making around $15k each per year. It's a little on the busy, noisy, dirty and hard-sell side of European cities. Lots of hustle.
It's also not as massive as you might expect from those numbers. It's incredibly
, not towering or cavernous. Not NYC. Outside of a sort of 6km-on-a-side old city enclosed in the Theodosian walls, and Beyoğlu north of the Golden Horn, and Üsküdar across the Bosphorus, you get into pretty predictable infinite suburbs stretching to the horizon. Worth wandering around in, but self-similar. I was surprised how compact the central areas were, how much of it I could walk easily.
But even inside that region you'll have a ton of stuff to get absorbed into. The street-level culture is just amazing. It's like walking a city-sized labyrinth with something stunning and ancient and elaborate at every turn. There are many many layers of interesting history and culture to dig through. It would be hard to get bored.
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Both are great.
As you surmise, Istanbul is going to be an urban destination with all that implies - walking, crowds, cars, cafes, etc. Iceland is going to be more of a "one day for Reykjavik, then drive around or bus around to otherworldly natural spots" destination.
I'd guess at that time of year Iceland will be chilly, rainy, and windy, so figure that into your plans if you are thinking of hiking. (Double check this though - I went in March and I don't know if October is parallel. Weather when I was there was not bad, but we definitely wanted coats and hats for hiking.) I think you're right that you wouldn't have enough time to see the whole country in 4 days, but you could have a great time in the southwest. I think it would be a great, much more chill vacation with some time to decompress away from people, so you might think about whether that will be valuable for boyfriend. Wandering Istanbul you will be constantly surrounded by people.
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on May 14, 2012
Forgot to add: chilly is good, because it makes the ubiquitous hot tubs even more glorious.
posted by
on May 14, 2012
Istanbul is great for historical art, better than one would expect for contemporary art (the Istanbul Modern
is worth seeing), fantastic for food (though potentially the really good food is a bit harder to find than it might be in Iceland. The Sultanahmet area of Istanbul had the worst kebaps in my experience!) and if you can get out of the city and see some of the suburbs along with Bosphorus it is beautifully cosmopolitan and in places, quite sophisticated. Ortakoy is a beautiful place, for example.
October is good there.
It is definitely not nature-ish, except that the Bosphorus is spectacular. I mean, it is very densely populated and is a city, and one that doesn't place great value on parks and the like. But there is plenty to do there for 4 days. French, Spanish and EU citizenship all irrelevant. But there are plenty of English speakers in the city and visas are easily acquired on arrival.
I lived there, and I've never been to Iceland.... which I have heard is also excellent! It's pretty cheap? Does that tip the scales at all?
In terms of coverage, Istanbul could definitely stretch beyond 4 days but you could see a lot in that time as long as you stayed pretty focused on old-city and Taksim. Public transport can take a bit of getting used to... there are no regular stops on Dolmus's (mini buses) and you have to ask the drivers to stop in Turkish! But anyway, no prob for you probably-- stick with the funicular, tram and walking and you'll see plenty. There are regular buses too.
I imagine both would be excellent!
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on May 14, 2012
I was in Iceland last October, and can confirm the chilly, rainy aspect. Also, daylight gets pretty scarce. Think 8am to 6pm at best. If you guys are really interested in seeing the country, especially outside Reykjavik, you'll almost certainly want more than 4 days in October.
All that said, I'm going back to Iceland this October.
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I'm actually here to suggest a 3rd location (based on your question you were open to it) that I think may hit the criteria for both you and your partner: the Caddadocia region in Turkey.
I replied to
this question in great detail about a few day trip to that area.
I'm not going to hit all the same points here so you can look at that answer, too, to see if something else hits your interest.
I also need to mention some biases in advance, so please also take this into consideration (as in, other previous responses may be better if they don't have these biases). I've travelled a lot in Europe and Africa before. I'm also driven by novelty. If it resembles something that I've seen before, it does hold my interest as much.
So where I am going with this is that Istanbul did not really hold my attention that much. Had I not been to Europe that much before, the art would have been more novel.Had I not seen mosques before, it also would have been novel. But to me, it was very similar, a crowded city/hustle and bustle/and if I could go back in time I would done a day or two max in Istanbul and spent all the time in Capedocia.
The things in Capedocia that I think would meet your list combined list is there is more nature. One of the highlights of my time there was getting a hiking trail map from the tourist center and walking out and into
Pigeon valley
. The landscape was really unique. It is not uncommon to see horses wandering around (unfences) and people tending to the land. As you walk or wander, you may find a church in a cave and you pay someone to open the door. You are one of the few people there. There are many other hiking areas there but there was just not enough time.
If you like adventuresome (actually I'm not sure what you mean by that...it could mean anything in terms of travel), but I also loved the outdoor museums,especially the
Zelve outdoor museum
.I had to take a bus and walk a few miles but it was not as touristy. You see old churches/communities carved into caves. To see them,you sometimes need to climb ladders, crawl through a few tunnels, etc. It met my desire to explore and was a phenomenal high.
If you see the Goreme outdoor museum (similar,more tourists), you can walk around the land outside the area. There are other churches/formerhabitation places in caves...and you can walk through and explore. Almost no one is there.
I also paid for a day tour of the region (there was not much time)-it was the easiest way to see an underground city.This also captured my imagination/interest because I haven't seen it before.
Never been to Iceland, it is on my list of places to go, but I can't speak comparatively to it.
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They're two vastly different experiences. I love Istanbul. I would love to live there. Spending 4 days there is more about the "city experience" than anything else (and that sort of thing is one of my favorite vacations).
With 4 days in Iceland, you can spend a day in Reykjavik, 2 days taking "adventure tours" (hiking on a glacier, ice-climbing, going to
, etc.), and the 4th day at the Blue Lagoon before you leave. If you're comfortable that this is "enough", then go for Iceland.
posted by
on May 14, 2012
Here is a consideration: if you are from the US, it will be much easier (and cheaper) to jet off to Iceland some other time than it would be to travel to Istanbul some other time.
posted by
on May 14, 2012
I've been to both and I agree with above that the weather is not as good in Iceland in October.
I went to Iceland last year for the fabulous
Iceland Airwaves
music festival. We were there 4 days with one day to spend seeing the countryside. The weather was very windy and changable. It was sunny, then hailing, then raining. Kind of amazing actually. I don't like the heat, so it was perfect for me.
If food is a big consideration, Iceland is not really known for it's cuisine. Most restaurants are international. We did go to one cafe serving traditional food, but they are rare. So if you want to eat new exciting foods, go to Istanbul.
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posted by
on May 14, 2012
I went to Iceland in September.
You really have to get out of Reykjavik, although it is a very lovely city.
Even a 15 minute drive outside of Reykjavik there is a strange change in the landscapes that looks like nothing I've seen anywhere else on earth.
--Visit the town of Vik on the South coast---the sand is Black and you feel as though you are in Hell.
--Visit Dettifoss waterfall in the Northeast if you want to feel like you are at the edge of the earth.
--At Husey on the East coast you can stay at a little hostel and go horsebackriding.
-- I recommend renting a car. Me and my two friends rented a tiny little Citroen in Reykjavik and drove counter clockwise around the whole island on the Ring Road. It took us around 9 days. we slept in the car, so we could park anywhere the hell we wanted (on the edge of a cliff, in the middle of a huge valley, in a farmer's field, on a beach, etc.)
-Skip the blue lagoon and instead visit the affordable community swimming gyms for hot springs. Blue Lagoon is a nice tourist trap which offers not much more than those lovely community gyms.
If you don't leave Reykjavik you don't see Iceland. Did you know they sent astronauts to train in Iceland's interiour before they were sent to the moon? Gives you an idea of the geography there.
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on May 14, 2012
I love both places. They are SO SO SO different. And gjc is right - it is way cheaper and easier to get to Iceland from North America than it is to get to Istanbul from North America.
I've been to Iceland twice, for four or five days each time. I spent most of my time in Reykjavik both times, plus adventure tours. I went in March and December - so, yeah, the weather is not *great* and in October there's going to be less daylight than you're used to, but I kind of loved it. The short days in December (really, really short) made for a relaxing visit. And whoever said that bad weather makes the hot tubs even more awesome is right. Plus: more time to spot the Northern Lights. I had a lot of great food in Iceland, though for the most part it was the same kind of stuff I would eat in the US. People are very friendly and good-looking. In terms of culture there is nothing ancient and not much "old" about Iceland. I did not rent a car, which meant to get out of the city I had to take tours (there is very little public transport in Iceland). I loved the tour of the Snaefellesnes peninsula I took with
I've spent four days in Istanbul, too. Istanbul is intense - as crowded as New York or London, and the people are more in-your-face. The cultural tourist sites are AMAZING. The food is delicious (and often cheap), although the corn on the cob is not as good as it looks. You can get a rabbit to tell your fortune. There is hot tea service on ferries and intercity buses. Someone is always trying to sell you something. I'd actually recommend staying at a hotel that offers breakfast because Turkish breakfast is
the best breakfast
, but since it includes like 10 different things, all of which need some prep, you probably won't bother with it if you're self-catering. (Actually I specifically recommend, for a first-time brief visit to Istanbul, that you stay in a hotel in Sultanahmet with a rooftop terrace.)
Short-short version: Iceland is chill. You can't see the whole country in four days but so what? Istanbul is intense. You can't see all of Istanbul in four days either. Basically, you're going to have to decide which kind of vacation you want to have.
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Iceland will definitely be more expensive. I've been to both Istanbul and Iceland.
Istanbul is really cheap for food, drinks, activities, and accommodation and given the population I think more likely to have an AirBnB scene? - i'm not sure about Iceland.
In general Iceland is really quite expensive and to make the most of it you really need your own car to drive around I believe. Food in particular is quite pricey because a lot of it is imported / flown in. Its an amazing environment and so remote. The problem is you might have trouble finding AirBnB accomodation in the smaller towns around Iceland. and a basic hotel will be 80 Euros a night (double).
just one consideration..
posted by
on May 14, 2012
It is not true that a basic hotel in Iceland (at least in Reykjavik in the off-season) will be 80 Euros a night - I think you could safely budget 50-60 USD if you look for deals. My last trip I stayed in a boring-but-comfortable hotel for $40 a night, but that was in December. My rule of thumb for Reykjavik at least is that services and experiences are very reasonably priced, but goods (including food) are very expensive.
posted by
on May 14, 2012
Yes also what mskyle said: Turkish breakfast is absolutely the best breakfast.
posted by
on May 14, 2012
Iceland Hotel Search; http://search.hotel.is/
I think finding a 50-60 USD hotel is going to be a bit tough outside of Reykjavik. or do you mean $50 USD per person?
That website lists a lot of the Hotels in Iceland. - there really are not that many hotels. And as it heads towards December some of the hotels in more remote areas do actually shut down for the season.
posted by
on May 15, 2012
Iceland Air usually has a deal on where you can go to London via Reykjavik out of North America and your Iceland stopover for however many days you want comes at no extra cost. I have been dying to do that trip for ages!
posted by
on May 15, 2012
Thanks, everyone! I think we've decided to save Iceland for another time, and are both super excited about the possibility of cave hotels (CAVE HOTELS) in the region suggested by Wolfster.
gohabsgo, I so wish we could take advantage of that offer they've got, but for this trip we need to be in London for 1-2 days and then have 5 days to kill - so the layover part doesn't work - maybe next time!!
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The electoral pact made record gains in the 2008 elections and, as much for political convenience as anything else, soon coalesced into a proper coalition as was required to deny the Barisan Natioan coalition government in four states. DAP and PAS had previously been unsuccessful in efforts to form a coalition due to disparate ideals, but opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's reformist PKR, formed after he was sacked as Deputy Prime Minister in 1998, is seen as the facilitator for common policy platforms between the secular DAP and Islamic PAS.
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Sincerely I believe that it is not the party that make the difference, but the credibility of their leaders. If BN was honest and clean as they were during the initial stages, then there would be no reason for a CHANGE!!!
If you view the other tab on BN and view the list of leadership, you will clearly notice the conversion from GOOD to EVIL.
It's time for a CHANGE!!! Get the opposition on board and give them a chance to prove what they can do.
I am confident that the opposition can make a change for the better!!!
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Your Brain in Love
- Thursday, November 19, 2009
Heal if you're a blue mood lover. A blue mood lover (one who is sad or depressed) may be suffering from brain problems in the deep limbic system. Some possible treatments: Do some meaningful physical labor, preferably outdoors (from gardening to working on your car) to elevate your mood. Eat frequent meals and snacks to keep your blood sugar levels steady and your energy up. Take a supplement like fish oil. Ask your doctor about prescribing antidepressant medication. Go outside each day to get some natural sunlight if possible, and consider using a therapeutic lamp indoors. Laugh as often as you can. Make love with your spouse regularly. Create an environment that fosters bright moods, such as by playing joyful music while you do household chores and decorating with colors that make you feel cheerful. Make your home, workplace, and car as attractive as possible, since being around beauty will elevate your mood. Avoid making any major decisions (especially in your marriage) until you feel better, since depression seriously skews your perspective on people and situations.
Heal if you're an agitated lover. An agitated lover (one who is easily angered or irritated) may be suffering from brain problems in the temporal lobes. Some possible treatments: Ask your doctor about prescribing appropriate medications. Take a supplement like fish oil. Avoid sugar in your diet as much as possible, since it leads to low blood sugar, which leads to aggressiveness. Play classical music to calm down. Go dancing with your spouse, because the combination of movement and music calms your brain. Get seven to nine hours of deep, restful sleep every night. Use a biofeedback device to manage your stress. Take anger management classes. Celebrate the good memories you have each day to turn negative thoughts into positive ones.
Heal if you're an anxious lover. An anxious lover (one who is panicked or fearful) may be suffering from brain problems in the basil ganglia. Recognize that you have the power to control your anxiety through techniques such as adding something familiar to an uncomfortable situation to make you feel more comfortable. Turn your worries into prayers. Question your anxious thoughts, asking yourself: "Is there another way to think about the same situation that might be more true, kind, uplifting, or positive?" Focus your attention on the area of your body that feels most anxious, and imagine a warm, healing light melting it away. Talk through an issue that's bothering you with a friend. Consider adopting a pet, since studies have shown that they help people reduce their anxiety levels. Exercise. Take a bath. Get a massage. Drink some hot tea. Use calming nutrition and supplements, and consider anti-anxiety medications.
Practice key behaviors toward your spouse. Show your spouse kindness, patience, forgiveness, and honesty as often as you can. When you make these behaviors habits, you'll fuel the flames of passion in your marriage.
Adapted from This is Your Brain in Love: New Scientific Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage, copyright 2010 by Dr. Earl Henslin. Published by Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tn., www.thomasnelson.com.
Dr. Earl Henslin is a licensed counselor and author of six books and numerous professional articles. For the past fourteen years, working closely with brain imaging research pioneer, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Henslin has been integrating brain imaging in patient treatment.
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We've devised many clever and inventive ways for keeping our salad greens fresh from Monday to Friday, all with varying degrees of success. But this method from Dorie Greenspan might just take the cake.
Dorie prefers to keep her washed and dried greens in a plastic bag, but here's the twist: before sealing it up, she blows a little puff of air into the bag. She says that the carbon dioxide from your breath will keep the greens green all week long!
Dorie has never steered us wrong in the past, and this tip comes from her latest book Around My French Table. We're very curious to give it a try.
Do any of you use this method for keeping your greens fresh? What else have you tried?
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This method has never failed me: I wash and then air dry them in a colander for a few hours after which I spin them dry in my salad spinner and then wrap them up in paper towels. I either stick those in a plastic bag or in my tupperware fridge saver containers. Sometimes I may have to switch out the paper towels with a fresh one mid-week but not always. This works for me every time.
I use a salad spinner and a paper towel or two, as well. But I learned the key to washing greens, or any produce: Put them in a bowl and cover with water. Swish the contents around for a few seconds. Then let it sit for about 5 minutes. Then gently lift the contents out and toss into a colander. This way, all the sediment and junk falls to the bottom!
we use the paper-towel roll-up trick, too. it works like a charm.
I wash mine, spin them in my spinner and leave a little water in the bottom. That way, they get some air, and the small amount of water keeps them moist. Hasn't failed me yet.
ditto on rosebud's method. even without the washing. i would add the following step: suck out the air in the bag until the plastic is clinging tightly to the veggies/herbs. then seal. stuff can last for days and days and days like this and still stay fresh.
Debbie Meyer green bags work like a charm. I was a skeptic until I got some and they are just SO AWESOME for keeping produce fresh.
at restaurants, you line a plastic container with towels. At home, wash, spin dry, and LOOSELY lay in a paper towel lined container, cover with a paper towel, top, and refrigerate for almost 2 weeks. Also do this for herbs-you'll be amazed.
I do pretty much the same thing. I wash the greens, spin dry, then if I have time I air dry on paper towels for an hour or two. Then I roll up the paper towels, stick in a zipper bag, and squeeze out as much air as possible. Then I blow into it and seal. They really do last longer this way!
The only method that works beautifully and consistently for me is this: Rinse the greens and spin them dry. Place them into a clean, dry bowl and cover with a damp paper towel. Then loosely cover the bowl with plastic wrap. If the towel dries out partway through the week, re-wet it.
One time when I picked up some fresh greens from the farmer's market, the guy did this. At the time I thought it was gross, but those greens stayed fresh in the fridge all week!


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Mitch Hanley, Senior Producer
A few times when I was in elementary school, my mom took me out of school to go to the annual pro-life march at the Minnesota state capitol. I remember waiting for a shuttle from Colonial Square in Wayzata, standing in Rexall Drug's entrance next to a woman with a sign that read, "Real Feminists are Pro-Life." At that age, I didn't know what a feminist was and remember asking my mom, but I don't think her answer made it any clearer for me. Isn't everybody for women's rights?
One particular year we were at the capitol and I remember signs that had pictures of aborted fetuses pasted to foamcore; another striking display was a grim reaper effigy being toted around by a cross made of 2x4s, which the strong winds made even more terrifying. My memory tells me that each time it was a gray, overcast January day, with exhaust-covered snow heaped upon the banks of the streets. I don't know what I was thinking of it at the time, but my recollection is that we were doing what was needed.
I remember screenings of The Silent Scream were offered in my church's basement. My parents never let me watch it. I guess I was too young to witness that strong a message. But I went to the capitol each year because it was what my mom asked of me. I would do it for her then, and I would like to say I would support her today, a little over a year since she passed away, but I cannot be sure.
My mom always called me her "Jesus-baby," a moniker my siblings still give me grief about (and perhaps now my colleagues), and an affection my mom expressed to me as late as her death bed. I'm not sure I know the entire story behind this nickname, but I do know that mom quit smoking and drinking two years before I was born and also had a born-again experience during the time when charismatic Christianity was firing up Roman Catholic parishes in the early 70's. I also know that her doctor tried to persuade her to have a hysterectomy around this time — my mother had had 5 children already. I don't know how much of this, or all of it, is what shaped my mom's views on abortion, but they do represent some of the circumstances.
I am very conflicted on where I stand on abortion. I can't say I would abide by the pro-life position if my wife and I found ourselves in a place which would be too challenging for us at some stage in our lives. I do, however, wish that there were fewer abortions, as I think it is a choice and commitment of such anguish for a woman that no one ever wants to undertake, if possible.
And so this contentious struggle continues, without much progress. Maybe I have softened due to the inevitability of maturing, though doubtful. But I can point to something Rod Dreher said on a recent SOF program that was revealing to me.
"If I were pro-choice, I would feel very strongly about it and I would find it very difficult to compromise."
What's there to do when you can't compromise and are unwilling to see the opposite perspective? When I say that I am passionate about my beliefs, I guess I am speaking theoretically. My problem is that I see both perspectives as valid, a convenient strategy my dad and I argue about that he calls situational ethics. He feels that there are absolutes in one's faith and you need to abide by those, no matter the scenario. I feel as though no decision is free from the circumstances, and it is the very apt approach to regarding hindsight or looking back on previous decisions that allow us to progress.
Perhaps that's what I am, pro-gress. But I am sure we all are.
[Editor's note: Out of the hundreds of responses we've received about abortion, many people are wrestling with same personal and societal conundrums of legalization. I encourage you to visit our map and read some, and submit you're own perspectives.]
Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer
This presidential election feels like it's moving at gastropod's pace. As subtle as a leviathan, this large body exerts an irresistable gravitational force on everything around it. We keep talking about it here in the office, but we're also wondering how much politics we can all handle, and trying to balance relevance against saturation.
We're trying to give voice to some interesting people during this election season, but next week, we'll back off the political stuff and re-air our show on autism. Following that, a show on leadership, religion, gender, and race with the dynamic preacher Vashti McKenzie. It's about her but also very much about the issue of biography in this election cycle.
Then comes the weekend prior to the election. What to do…
We will be airing a repeat that week, and the question came up: relevance or saturation? Can we provide a non-political alternative, or should we offer something useful for the occasion? We decided that we couldn't well ignore the reality of the situation — gravitational pull.
So we went back and forth on what show we wanted to repeat that weekend. An initial thought was our program with three prominent Evangelical Christians. Pro: a look at how this influential community, if they vote as a bloc as in past elections, might sway the election. Con: an abundance of coverage of this issue lately.
Then came the thought of airing our classic program, A History of Doubt. Pro: remaining skeptical in the face of dogmas (and partisanship?). Con: it's not a political show, so let's not force it to be.
So finally, we decided to repeat our program on the history of the church-state separation in the U.S. Pro: interesting historical perspective on the issue of faith and politics and how they've related. Con? It is a fairly new program, but the timeliness of the subject seems to override that concern.
The week after the election, we'll broadcast our new program on the science of revenge and forgiveness (and yes, we do talk about some politics in that, too). And the next couple of weeks/months will see some serious, newsy topics: Shia Islam in the context of Iran and geopolitics; potentially the economy, finance, and what we do with all this depressing information; and a potential two-parter on the ethics of international aid and development.
Lots of serious shows coming up looking at serious issues. It's a serious season, I guess.
Amara Hark-Weber, Production Intern
Two weeks ag I began working with Speaking of Faith as a production intern, and I am excited to be both at SOF and in Minnesota. I grew up here in St. Paul, but have lived elsewhere for the past several years, most recently studying at the London School of Economics in the UK. Returning to Minnesota and starting at Speaking of Faith are both unexpected gifts that have cropped up rather suddenly in my life. Just a few months ago, I had planned on staying in London and trying to make my way in the UK. I came back to St. Paul to finish my thesis, and at the last minute decided to stay.
Returning home isn't always easy. In some ways, it is harder than leaving. Things shift gradually while we are away, and the differences, which aren't always apparent to the eye, are felt deep in our gut. No matter where we are, we constantly readjust ourselves to subtle changes in the world around us. Returning home forces one to confront the many changes that have occurred in our absence all at once. As I start at SOF, I am excited to be on a team of individuals who think deeply about the ways in which the world changes and does not change, and the subtle differences in each of our interpretations of this. The themes that I pick up in the show — faith, difference, belonging, and perception — have run as undercurrents in my life abroad, and are resurfacing again as I begin to sort through my past and my present.
I will be with Speaking of Faith for the next six months. Unlike many media internships, I am lucky in that I will be learning not only about the production of a weekly show, but also about the power of a simple conversation to spur deep questioning, thought, and growth. I am tremendously excited to begin, and I look forward to the next several months.
Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer
Well, Ramadan is officially over and I've spent the past few days at various parties celebrating by eating, eating, and, oh yeah, eating. What ends up happening on Eid (after the morning communal prayer at the mosque) is usually this circuit of house visits, going from family to family, eating, popping in and out, eating, seeing people, chatting, eating, then heading off to another house party. At each new house, I'm just too polite to say, "I understand you've been slaving over a hot stove all day, but I just came from two other parties. I can't eat anymore. Touch my belly. Touch it!"
Yesterday was thankfully free of parties, as is tonight, but apparently my cousin and his family (and I) are booked for two Saturday parties, the first at 11:00 am. It's going to be a long day. To what could I compare all this? Thanksgiving—both the word and the holiday. Eid is basically several days of eating and socializing and, hopefully, feeling happy to be alive.
My colleague Rob McGinley Myers, who sits next to me, asked me if the experience of fasting changes the way I look at food. I admit that it doesn't turn me into a saint in my everyday life, but it absolutely affects how I think about politics. I can choose to stop starving. A lot of people can't.
Anyway, a hearty Eid mubarak to those who are (still?) celebrating.
Rob McGinley Myers, Associate Producer
the Left and the Right — in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, we were struck by the fact that the 2008 Democratic National Convention was the first modern DNC that began each day with an invocation and ended each night with a benediction. Our guest Amy Sullivan said, "As I was watching it, what I felt was less kind of a sense that I was witnessing something new and more a disbelief that this hadn't existed before." By contrast, Republican conventions have long included invocations and benedictions.
Joel Hunter, a pro-life Evangelical and a registered Republican who serves as the senior pastor to a 12,000-member congregation in Florida. The final benediction at the Republican National Convention was delivered by Dan Yeary, a Southern Baptist pastor of North Phoenix Baptist Church, where John McCain's wife is a member.
Let us know what you think of these two prayers. Does this religious language ennoble the sometimes less than noble sentiments of these political gatherings? Or do you agree with one of our previous guests, Steve Waldman, that injecting religion into politics can actually hurt religion, by sullying it with the baggage that political figures carry?
Krista Tippett, Host
On Thursday night before the debate, I wrote something that meant a great deal to me. It was about a trip I made to Ole Miss in August and the incredible symbolism of that the debate on that campus, a cultural triumph it signified far larger than who won or lost.
The drama in financial markets nearly stopped the debate completely, and overshadowed a few hours of reflection we might have allowed ourselves on race. But Scott Simon did a lovely piece on Saturday morning, and Slate produced this: "Negro to Address Ole Miss Class" (The headline you won't be reading about tonight's presidential debate.) A white presidential candidate in civil debate against a black presidential candidate is a monumental, quiet victory of a milestone worth pondering, and celebrating, in a world in which bad news gets all the attention.
Krista Tippett, Host
I spent three fascinating, moving days in Oxford, Mississippi at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in August — the site of the first scheduled presidential debate. I was honored with an invitation to speak to the remarkable Honors College of Ole Miss by its dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzales. Oxford was the home of William Faulkner, and it is one of the most intriguing places I have ever visited — marked by a loveliness of people as well as place. Even then, in mid-August, the Secret Service and other affiliated debate authorities had begun to tear up and rearrange that beautiful campus — building elaborate security perimeters and state of the art communications
facilities for thousands of journalists. The august building in which I was to speak, the appointed site of the debate, had already been locked down and quarantined. I couldn't help but think of all these practicalities — at public expense — as I heard John McCain's announcement of his wish to postpone the debate yesterday. I imagine many hearts sank in Oxford.
And it's been a wild ride for them all along. The first debate was originally planned to focus on issues of domestic policy and the economy. The Ole Miss faculty and administration created an interdisciplinary semester curriculum around these issues. They lined up an astonishing array of visiting lectures and extracurricular seminars. Then just as school began, the McCain and Obama campaigns agreed to shift the Ole Miss debate focus to foreign policy. Right now it looks like the original plan was more prescient. The university took the change in stride, moving forward with its own well-laid plans, though with some understandable frustration. I joked — but not all in jest — that by November the students at Ole Miss will be the best-informed, most well-rounded thinkers in the nation.
But there are deeper issues at play around this debate, in particular, a convergence of more fundamental national dynamics that could easily be missed in all the politicking around this ultra-politicized event. In 1962, the nation's eyes focused on Oxford and Ole Miss, as race riots accompanied the integration of the university by a determined African-American student named James Meredith. In just a few days there, I learned that for people who live in and love Oxford even in 2008, history's subdivisions and ephiphanies still fall on either side of this living memory: time is divided into "before Meredith" and "after Meredith."
I remember especially one woman who stood with me at the monument to James Meredith at the center of the campus — a wonderful dean at the honors college from an old Oxford family. Her grandparents were close friends of William Faulkner and his wife, icons of a paradoxical past — at once immensely gracious and essentially cruel. She spoke of how after the riots hearts and minds changed individually and ultimately collectively. She suggested, softly, that Oxford has become something of a model for how people and communities can evolve. This is not a story so often told. She said, "We had to realize that we had been wrong — and wrong about a way of life we loved." I was humbled to be in her presence. I have not spent much time in the Deep South in my life, though I grew up in Oklahoma, where issues of race and bigotry have not often enough met with profound public reflection. In Oxford, I saw people wrestling carefully, searchingly, self-critically, and gracefully with the unresolved American encounter with race. I was impressed.
And so hosting this historic 2008 civil debate between a white candidate for president and an African-American candidate for president means more to the people of Oxford than most of us can imagine. The current chancellor of the university was himself a student "during Meredith." History is present at Ole Miss, and it is history that we have scarcely found ways in our common life to name and discuss even in the midst of Barack Obama's historic candidacy. I for one will be watching the people of Oxford tomorrow, not just the candidates. I hope very much that the debate happens.
Colleen Scheck, Producer
If you've never listened to the SOF Playlist that accompanies each program, I highly recommend checking out the list for this week's show exploring the meaning and sounds of the approaching Jewish High Holy Days, "Days of Awe." You can hear full-length tracks of each song played in the program.
As we were preparing this program for rebroadcast, I was struck by the beauty and diversity of the music Mitch compiled, which is inspired by this sacred time. I looked a little more closely into the background of some of the songs, discovering some interesting history and modern context. Here are a few examples:
"On Rosh Hashanah"
Bassist David Chevan's 10-minute rendition of "On Rosh Hashanah" is a contemporary jazz composition that fuses Jewish and non-Jewish musical influences. Chevan, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia, grew up in a Conservative-Egalitarian synagogue where he led services from the age of 10. He's melded sacred music with jazz for years, and he currently performs with an ensemble called The Afro-Semitic Experience. Their compositions blend a wide range of music influenced by both Jewish and African-American traditions, from 18th-century cantorial works to the music of Sly Stone and Mahalia Jackson. In this 2002 NPR profile of Chevan and Afro-Semitic pianist Warren Byrd, they describe how the point of their collaboration is to address differences and commalities among faiths and races in America.
"On Rosh Hashanah" is from Chevan's 2003 album, The Days of Awe: Meditations for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur. A review of the album called it a "groundbreaking work if only because it is the first time that a jazz musician (or any instrumental musician) has ever made a recording solely devoted to the music of the Jewish High Holy Days." "On Rosh Hashanah" features Chevan, The Afro-Semitic Experience, and trumpeter Frank London. Like many of the works on the album, it's based on a 1907 recording by the famous early 20th-century cantor Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt.
"Rivers of Babylon"
Rabbi Sharon Brous sent us this version of Psalm 137 (expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem) as one example of "the vibe of services at IKAR." Originally recorded for an IKAR Shabbat CD, she says it is also used for High Holy Days, and she calls it "one of the most soulful compositions" she's ever heard. It's based on the 1972 version written by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of The Melodians — a 1960's Jamaican rock-steady reggae trio. It first appeared in the sound track to the 1972 movie The Harder They Come — a film based on the life of Ivanhoe "Rhyging" Martin, a Jamaican criminal who achieved fame in the 1940s. Many other musicians have covered it, including Boney M, Sinead O'Connor, the Neville Brothers, and Sublime.
As in her conversation with Krista, the influence of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on Brous surfaces again in this quote from IKAR's Web site: "Heschel taught that music is the only language that is compatible with the wonder and mystery of being."
The lead female voice on "Rivers of Babylon" is Jessica Meyer, a former IKAR member who taught prayer music to children and sang at services. A former actress (she was in Roman Polanski's The Pianist), Meyer gave up a burgeoning Hollywood career to become a cantor. She recounts what drew her to IKAR:
"I was a Hebrew School dropout. Disgusted with the Judaism 'Lite' espoused by the Conservative synagogue of my childhood, I went in search of a spiritually vibrant, politically engaged Jewish community committed to a culture of Jewish learning and prayer. I did not find it until I came to an IKAR service…
The music of prayer at IKAR is electrifying. The melodies range from Ashkenazi old school to Carlebach, to one inspired by a Sufi chant! The people who lead services are not performing, they're praying. (It is amazing how much closer people can come to a prayer when they have the freedom to explore for themselves – when there isn't a someone performing it for them.)
It took me many years, and three continents to find Ikar. It is a blessing to be a part of this community."
Check out the "Days of Awe" play list for other songs by Leonard Cohen, the BBC Symphony, and Barbara Streisand. Which ones resonate with you?
Krista Tippett, Host
I wanted to share a tremendously informative piece of writing that came into my inbox yesterday — an essay by Omer M. Mozaffar about the passing of Warith Deen (often referred to as W.Deen) Mohammed titled "American Islam Enters its Next Phase." Mohammed was a gentle but towering figure in the history of Islam in the U.S., yet remains little known in the culture at large.
Fully one-third of U.S. Muslims are African-American, with a noble, fascinating history and th
eological trajectory all their own. We first waded into these waters when we did an early post-9/11 program on "Progressive Islam in America." (If you listen you will find that it sounds quite different from the programming we do now, though it remains kindred in spirit and intent.) One of the voices in that show is the supersmart fast-talking Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, a third-generation African-American Muslim. I will never forget discovering her, and discovering all I learned about African-American Islam as I prepared to speak with her.
I'll boil my most surprising learning down to this: although Louis Farrakhan is still to this day known best and heeded in U.S. culture as the face and voice of African-American Islam, he has long spoken for only a sliver of this movement (tens of thousands as opposed to millions). The vast majority of the African-American Islamic community went through a profound mini-reformation, which W.Deen Mohammed led and exemplified and which mirrored the conversion Malcolm X underwent near the time of his death — away from the more militant, racially separatist roots of Farrakhan and Elija Muhammad (W.Deen's father) and towards a universalist, orthodox Sunni Islam. To put a finer point on this: Farrakhan speaks for tens of thousands; but the gentle Mohammed embodied a religiosity of millions who, as Mozaffer says, will now move into their next phase as a community formed by his example.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
It's a mixed bag when somebody verbalizes what others dare not express. There's always one loud-mouth that says something that makes people around him feel completely uncomfortable, even if he's saying something that is at the back of others' minds.
From David Kirkpatrick's "Abortion Issues Again Dividing Catholic Votes" in this morning's online edition of The New York Times:
"One parishioner ruled out voting for Mr. Obama explicitly because he is black. "Are they going to make it the Black House?" Ray McCormick asked, to embarrassed hushing from a half dozen others gathered around the rectory kitchen. (Five of the six, all lifelong Democrats who supported Mrs. Clinton in the primary, said they now lean toward Mr. McCain.)"
Unfortunately, I hear some of the people (loved ones included) from my home when I read this statement. I just have to wonder if some Catholic voters aren't using the Vatican's stances on abortion and homosexuality as a pretext, a protective shield for their prejudices. And this gets conflated in reporting about Catholic and Evangelical voters and the issues that will determine these voters' decisions in the booth.
For one, I'd like to thank the man for articulating a sentiment — racially discriminatory though it may be — to a reporter, in public. I may have cringed, but it needed to be said — in a parish rectory, no less. And thank you to Mr. Kirkpatrick for diligently teasing out the lingering mindset of racial discrimination from social issues girded by one's faith.
As you can see, I have strong opinions about this. What do you see? What do you think?
Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer
I woke up this morning around 4:45 a.m. to eat before my day of fasting. To keep myself from passing out into my leftover veggie omelet from the night before, I turned on the TV. It was about 4:55 a.m. The first thing that confronted me as I scooped food into my mouth was the destruction of Haiti. People standing in mud, broken. Helicopters dropping off bags of food, long lines, the complete absence of buildings. The government has apparently stopped counting the death toll. Without numbers, the reporting on Haiti is going to end up even further down from where I found it: the last report of the hour.
Following the report, the beautiful, dark-haired host smiles with her moist lips and signs off, wishing me a good day. A good day? Are you mad?! I'm ready to intentionally deny myself food to try vainly to understand where I stand in this world. As I'm eating, there are people on the other side of the glass who are traumatized after three (or four?) hurricanes. And the host has the gall to wish me a nice day? Did she even watch the segment that just aired? The cognitive dissonance was a bit much, but there I sat with my leftover veggie omelet, my juicy organic yellow peach, my full glass of milk, and my disgust of the human race, cursing at the screen. I heard Heschel blaring at me, at the newscaster: "Some are guilty, but all are responsible."
At 5:30 a.m., I went back to bed, to catch a few more hours of sleep before heading off to work. I lay there wishing for a red cape and blue tights and the chance to fly across the continent and do something. But you never see Superman fighting systemic poverty, or downgrading hurricanes by flying in a counter-Coriolis trajectory. He fights Lex Luthor.
It's the afternoon now. I'm still hungry, but come 7:23 p.m. tonight, I'll eat. I can. Yet today, my life feels like the platitudes of that news anchor. I saw something horrible, yet I got on with my day.
In conversations I've had with friends on this subject, the answer is invariably that it's my duty to live my life more fully and more appreciatively, that the more tempting response of sullenness isn't going to help anyone. Instead, bring your earnestness into whatever else you do. Working here is important to me because I can integrate my skills and energy toward something that is, in my view, part of some larger solution. And that's good. Still, every time my cheeks stick from thirst, they drag my thoughts back to this morning, faithfully as a dog on a leash.
Krista Tippett, Host
Kate got me into yoga — coming in day after day last fall glowing from Bikram. Bikram was too hot for me, literally, but I discovered "Core Power" soon after and was hooked. And grateful. Kate is thinking of posting a photo of herself in corpse pose. It doesn't occur to me to do something like that, as I am incredibly word-centric. And that is part of the reason yoga is fantastically healing for me. I came off a long stretch of years of writing my book where I was desperate for a break from the thoughts in my head. Yoga has taken me out of my head. Rather, more accurately, it has helped me center myself, including the thoughts in my head, in my body. This is a relief, practically a whole new life.
As I've grown into this practice, I've experienced other intriguing epiphanies. About six months in on a very regular routine, I experienced a surge of energy. This was nearly overwhelming for a few weeks; I was sleeping several hours less than normal and waking up energized. It was as though yoga had unblocked or tapped more energy than my metabolism knew what to do with. And after about a month, that stabilized, settled down. I also went through a period a few months in of a deep, visceral, unnamable sadness. I've written in my book and done radio about my history of clinical depression; and for someone who has struggled with depression, sadness can be scary. But this felt natural and safe somehow. The scary part was that it eluded words and conscious analysis; I could not think it through. As it was arising in my body, I sensed it would have to work its way out of my body. And it did. I do speak about this with Seane Corn in our interview, something I'd been looking forward to.
There's a lot of talk in yoga about taking the practice "off the mat" — letting its lessons infuse daily life. I didn't notice this immediately, and the ways I find it happening now are quite mundane. But they're still powerful; they are reordering some of the ways I approach what is mundane. So, for example, I've always been driven and goal-oriented. But in flow yoga, every transition is as important as every finished pose; and grace in transitions is as important as getting the final poses right. Somewhat to my surprise, I find that I'm able (sometimes, not all the time!) to spend more time and care on graceful transitioning and processing as on final products in other parts of my life. This is liberating — it's like I've been missing whole stages of experience, at an ordinary level, all my life.
Finally, I also see the deepest lessons of yoga taking hold on me as I go lighter rather than harder on myself as I in fact become more advanced. This is perhaps the first passionate endeavor in my life in which I am absolutely content that I don't have to be great or best or always better. I take as much pleasure in slow poses as in fast; I cut myself slack when I'm tired or distracted. I let messy, inconsistent life be what it is. I learn to delight in my body just as it is, at 47. And this does somehow translate into being easier on everything and everyone else around me. For a lifelong perfectionistic over-achiever, this is a seismic step forward into wisdom. I'm amazed to find this practice helping me literally embody many of the great spiritual teachings of my own faith and those that inspire me in others. So I'm grateful to Kate, and grateful to all the sages and practitioners who kept this spiritual technology alive for something like 5,000 years so that I and other 21st-century mortals could discover it when we need it most.
Mitch Hanley, Senior Producer
Yesterday we had our cuts and copy session for an upcoming program on forgiveness and revenge and today we recorded the script. I am now looking for music to use in the program and thought I'd reach out to you for help. What music do you find evocative in expressing forgiveness? How about the desire for revenge? It doesn't necessarily have to be a song explicitly about these themes, and thus instrumental pieces are always welcome.
So, whaddya got? I am all ears!
—Mike McCullough, from his interview with Krista
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I've never tried fly fishing, and I haven't fished at all since I was a kid. But working these past couple weeks on our show "Fishing with Mystery" brought back a visceral memory of that unmistakable tug on my line. Though I haven't experienced it in almost 20 years, I'll never forget what it's like to go from reeling in an inanimate object to feeling that sudden connection to a living creature beneath the water's surface.
It's no wonder people often use fishing as a metaphor to describe the creative process. While working on this show, I was trying to come up with literary references to fishing. Luckily, the availability of searchable online texts makes this kind of literary fishing a lot easier. I cast my line into the pond of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, searched on the word "fish," and came up with a whopper.
The abridged passage below became a part of the show, and I think it perfectly captures one of the ideas James Prosek explores in his work. Namely, that nature can help take us away from reality, and into our dreams, but that it simultaneously pulls us back to the immediate reality that's always there if we pay attention.
Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and, partly with a view to the next day's dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight…communicating by a long flaxen line with mysterious nocturnal fishes which had their dwelling forty feet below….It was very queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense. Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.


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Syndicated host Michael Baisden has been espousing the value of mentoring for years. And he puts his money where his mouth is: he donated $10,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America earlier this month in Atlanta for a Mentoring Brothers in Action National Summit.
"Long-term mentoring is the fastest way to save these kids," said Baisden in an interview before leaving for Miami. In 2010, he traveled to 72 cities to drum up support for mentoring.
Baisden, who is heard in Atlanta on Majic 107.5/97.5, said he is so busy with his radio show that he can't do one-on-one mentoring himself. "I invest the money. I use my platform on the radio. I promote it," he said. "Everybody has a role."
Baisden is now on 78 radio affiliates. Majic has been one of his biggest platforms for several years, going back to when he was on Grown Folks Radio at 102.5.
He said in recent years, he has had to cut back on the amount of time he spends talking on the air. Arbitron people meter research tends to show listeners like the talk tight.
"The focus is on the quality of the content," he said, "not the quantity. We're playing more music. We're talking about more substantive things."
Still, relationship talk is his bread and butter. Long before Steve Harvey, he wrote a book called "The Maintenance Man" that sold more than 300,000 copies, a big best seller. He has finished a sequel set to be released in June. (Baisden refuses to get into a competition with Atlanta-based Harvey, whose two relationships books have sold more than 2 million copies and has a film coming out based one the first one. "It's not in me," he said. "He's been very respectful of me.")
Locally, Baisden is very popular. In January, his program tied for third among 25 to 54 year olds, behind only Ryan Cameron on V-103 and Sean Hannity on AM750 and FM 95.5 News/Talk WSB.
Baisden is an unabashed Pres. Barack Obama supporter. He foresees re-election. "It's going to be a landslide," he said. "I say that because after all the smoke settles from distractions such as abortion, gay rights and contraception, they realize they can't attack him on other issues like foreign policy, education and defense."
Obama, he said, "is the coolest guy in the history of politics. Who else could have endured all of this: the birthers, the people who call him a socialist?"
He still believes Mitt Romney will be Obama's Republican opponent. "He isn't crazy but he's talking crazy to appeal to that 20 percent," he said. "Sometimes, you go so far to the right, how do you come back? That stuff is going to come back and haunt him" for independents.
And he was never thought Herman Cain was a serious candidate. "He was very entertaining. He was good for ratings," he said.
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Thank you for who you are to this society of humanity, for you help us all. I am a member of The Abyssinian Baptist Church. The Abyssinian Fund is the only non-governmental organiation operating in Ethiopia founded by an African American Church. As co-chair for raising funds through our ministry, Black Teachers Who Care, I would like some air time to appeal to your audience. Rev. Nicholas Richards, founder and director will be interviewed this Tuesday 28th by Chuck Scarborough at 7pm. Please let me know how to contact you for further discussion of this. We train the coffee farmer to help them earn a better living. Thank you for your time. look forward to hearing from you. Peace and Love.


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