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Low Carb Living ~ Chocolate Coffee Mousse
Sometimes CHOCOLATE is just what is needed! In a week that hosts an IRS DEADLINE, chocolate is most certainly REQUIRED. It has been a CRAZY week at work -- has me dreaming of the more casual, laid back days of summer. I've been wanting to play with a pot de creme recipe but for the ease of this recipe, I will have to wait until time is more plentiful -- maybe for Easter dessert. Thank goodness dark chocolate can be part of a low carb diet :)
Chocolate Coffee Mousse
(Printable Version)
2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp imitation brandy
2 Tbsps instant espresso granules
4 Tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 cup sweetener (I used Splenda granules - I prefer Truvia but I was wanting to keep the carbs as low as possible)
In a large bowl, whip the cream on high speed until almost forming peaks. Add all remaining ingredients, except sour cream, one at a time, mixing on low speed. Add sour cream and mix in. Serve in small, individual, serving dishes. Garnish with chopped nuts or grated dark chocolate. Makes 12 servings. 170 calories and 3 net carbs per serving.
8 comments:
camp and cottage living said...:
I make homemade chocolate pudding at least three times a week. I need it! This will be a nice change.
Debbie said...:
I'm pinning so fast that I'm spinning on this one. I can't wait to make this!
Kim said...:
Mmmm, two of my favorite things - chocolate and coffee.
ღ soraya ღ said...:
nice post thanks for sharing...
Heather's Blog-o-rama said...:
Yummyy!!!! Now I want a dark chocolate bar and a nice cup of coffee to go with it :) Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather :)
Shug said...:
Geez.....I need it now...I need some chocolate! This has been a busy, busy week and I, like you have had my head stuck in books...putting in some overtime hours for the IRS.
Chocolate will do the trick of getting me back on track..
SavoringTime in the Kitchen said...:
This does sound quick and delicious! When you have time for a real pot de creme check out Dorie Greenspan's recipe - it's my favorite! It's on my blog somewhere.
Leila Hill said...:
Great! Off to buy ingredients now! Thank you :)


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FRONT ROYAL -- Ty Helmick called it a meatball pitch: A savory high fastball trucking through the middle of the plate.
It came during the second inning of an April 18 game against James Wood. Helmick was the leadoff batter. All Helmick wanted to do was put the ball in play.
"I was just trying to get on base, get something started," Helmick said.
When he saw that meatball pitch, though, his eyes lit up.
Helmick hacked at the ball. His bat got underneath it, perhaps too much, he thought. But the blast kept soaring and soaring.
Helmick rounded first base and didn't know where the ball was. He stopped on second base on the assumption that he couldn't have pelted out anything more than a double.
He looked to his coaches. They were twirling their fingers in a circular motion. Helmick's hit had cleared the fences of Charles Hott Field.
Helmick didn't even get to see it leave the park.
The solo shot was the third of Helmick's career, and the second of his 2011 season. It was also the only run scored in a 1-0 win.
"I didn't think at the time that it was going to be a game-winning home run," Skyline pitcher Luke Pingley said. "Later on in the game, I figured out, it's the only run we're going to score."
Helmick's recently made a habit of ripping off consequential hits in crucial moments.
In a 3-2 win over Sherando on April 14, Helmick drove in the game-tying and game-winning runs with a single in the bottom of the sixth.
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"I always talk about seniors stepping up," first-year Skyline coach Ben Taylor said. "And that's what it looks like.
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He's also about combining steady power with high average. Last season Helmick held a .415 average and belted five doubles, a home run and 14 RBIs.
As a designated hitter, Helmick was a unanimous first team all-Northwestern District selection, and a second team all-Region II selection.
And Helmick's game-winning antics at the plate probably couldn't have come against two more fitting teams.
In their short playoff history, the Hawks have twice been knocked out of the Northwestern District tournament by the Colonels. After finally getting past James Wood in last season's tournament play-in game, Skyline immediately lost a 7-6 nail-biter to top-seeded Sherando.
Now Skyline's proven that, even with a couple of lopsided nondistrict losses against Spotswood and Kettle Run, it's entirely capable of playing with the better teams in the Northwestern District.
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Confidence is all Skyline's really lacked these past few seasons. The talent has been there; Pingley has been there; Helmick has been there.
Only the wins have been absent.
"We knew we were a good team, we just had to play to our potential," Pingley said. "We hadn't been doing that much, but if we just play to our potential, we'll be fine."
Here's an indication of Skyline's potential this season: Pingley is batting .364 with one homer. David Thomas is batting .314. George Carter has eight RBIs. And Helmick has two doubles, two homers and seven RBIs.
But what has Helmick most impressed this season is Skyline's defense. In the win against James Wood -- a game that hinged on stout defensive play because of its lack of scoring -- Skyline committed no errors.
"It's pretty hard [to do] at the high school level, but it was a pretty good game," Helmick said of Skyline's pristine defense. "We're playing a whole lot better defense, not as many errors, and our pitching's really good this year."
Thus, the recent rise of pitcher Joe Bass -- whose complete-game shutout against the Colonels proves the Hawks aren't wholly reliant on Pingley's arm -- has also been an intriguing dynamic to Skyline's season.
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In 1967, Kounellis was included in an important group exhibition entitled Arte povera e IM spazio at the Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa. Curator Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to refer to the humble materials, sometimes described as detritus, which Kounellis and others were employing at the time to make their elemental, anti-elitist art. Kounellis had his first solo show in New York in 1972 at the Sonnabend Gallery. During the 1970s and 1980s, his work was shown in many exhibitions; among these was a solo show that traveled in the early 1980s to several museums in Europe, including the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Obra Social, Caja de Pensiones, Madrid; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. In 1985, the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, mounted an important exhibition of the artist's production. The following year, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, staged a retrospective exhibition of Kounellis's work; the show traveled to the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal. In 1989, the artist was given an exhibition at the Espai Pobenou in Barcelona. In 1994, Kounellis installed a selection of more than thirty years of his work in a boat called Ionion and docked this floating retrospective in his home port of Piraeus. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía held an exhibition of Kounellis's work in Madrid in 1997.
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For over 25 years, companies have valued our ability to serve as their early warning system—to interpret emerging issues and trends in the sustainable development agenda and help them anticipate, understand and respond to shifts in the business landscape. In 2013, SustainAbility re-launched a dedicated function to regularly track and interpret "what's next"—our Ten Trends of 2013 series is the distillation and public output of our thinking over the year.
More than ten years after the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) study of hormone-disrupting chemicals—commonly found in agricultural pesticides and household items like plastics and cosmetics—turned up "weak" evidence on the connection to human health, much has changed. In 2013, when WHO and UNEP refreshed their study, a panel of 16 scientists from 10 countries found "emerging evidence for adverse reproductive outcomes' and mounting evidence for effects on thyroids, brains and metabolism." The report concludes that we are now facing a "global threat" that all national governments should address.
Some governments have heeded the warning, albeit slowly and in part. In 2013, we've seen the EU place a moratorium on neonicotinoids&, pesticides linked to declines in bee populations around the world that put at risk bees' roles in pollinating three quarters of the world's crops. What's more, the European Food Safety Authority warned that neonicotinoids may harm the development of unborn babies and called for cutting maximum exposure levels. Beyond "neonics," the U.S. FDA has proposed a rule requiring manufacturers to prove antibacterial soaps are safe. …
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For over 25 years, companies have valued our ability to serve as their early warning system—to interpret emerging issues and trends in the sustainable development agenda and help them anticipate, understand and respond to shifts in the business landscape. In 2013, SustainAbility re-launched a dedicated function to regularly track and interpret "what's next"—our Ten Trends of 2013 series is the distillation and public output of our thinking over the year.
Every year, a number of organizations publish long-term energy forecasts. The two most recent ones were the World Energy Outlook 2013 from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 from ExxonMobil. These reports paint a future that is more or less the same when it comes to how fossil fuels contribute to our energy future – the IEA predicts that 75% of global energy demand will come from fossil fuels by 2035 (vs. 82% today) while ExxonMobil forecasts a similar figure for 2040.
While these robust research pieces are must reads for anyone working in the energy space, a variety of technical, environmental and societal factors make their predictions about the future of energy more uncertain than ever. …
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For over 25 years, companies have valued our ability to serve as their early warning system—to interpret emerging issues and trends in the sustainable development agenda and help them anticipate, understand and respond to shifts in the business landscape. In 2013, SustainAbility re-launched a dedicated function to regularly track and interpret "what's next"—our Ten Trends of 2013 series is the distillation and public output of our thinking over the year.
In the wake of the 2007/8 financial crisis, the phrase "financial engineering" has come to have a negative connotation, conjuring images of math wizards creating esoteric financial products that brought our global financial system to its knees. While such engineering is showing signs of a gradual rebirth, we see a new form of financial engineering happening–one that promises beneficial social and environmental outcomes. …


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Favourite Bromance (part 1): Larry Stylinson
- niall looks like he got pushed, or like he just bent his knees and hit the floor omg nialler
- zayn looks like he is falling off a cliff (god forbid that oh my)
- liam looks like a bomb exploded in front of him and i don't even know how to describe his legs
- louis looks like he got scared and was about to run but tripped like those girls in horror movies
- and harry looks like he did a karate kick but just flailed down
How will I know if this time you're staying or walking away. I forgave you for something you didn't even realize happened. You hurt me and you did nothing about it. You continued on with your life and I was forever effected by this. I never told anyone about that time. Nobody knows. I never told anyone how I cried myself to sleep every night. How I stayed awake always wondering the same: why me? The reason I never told anyone is because I knew no one would care. That is the reason I'm like this now. Why I'm so guarded. I don't trust anyone. I don't tell people how I feel. I don't share secrets. I don't have a best friend. If someone as close as you, someone I thought truly cared for me, could hurt me with the blink of an eye, why wouldn't anybody else do the same? I trust no one and so far it's working just fine. Yes, it's harder for me to get close to people but at least I'm positive I won't get hurt. At least I won't be left in the rain pitying myself for trusting you. Never again will that happen. Never. That's the only thing this has helped me with. Thank you for opening my eyes and helping me see that everyone has the power to hurt you.
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Delightful tour.... Teen with me just loved it. I did too. Would do it on next NYC visit.
One word.. Brilliant
This is a really funny trip. Lets you see the major sights without all the boring bits. We laughed until we cried. Would do again. Great.
So much fun
amazing! A must do!
Great way to spend a rainy evening! Lots of fun, music, loud!
I recommend THE RIDE to everyone who wants to put a smile on their face. So full of surprises and laughter. The staff was so professional and fun. I have recommended it already to so many.
Great for the whole family!
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It was so much fun, we laughed the whole time and enjoyed the little surprises. I would definintely recomment "The Ride"
Possibly the only way to see NYC! Amazing!
Could not have had more fun. First night in NY and had a blast.
Without doubt a must do for a first visit to New York. Best at night. Took my two grandchildren and for the rest of the holiday that's all they could talk about.
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Finding Companies that Hire
Lots of people would like to work from home without starting their own business. The reality is that unless you already have contacts with a company, few are willing to have employees working from home without some previous employment history. It is expensive for a company to set up the telecommunications system for teleworkers. It is much more cost effective for them to hire independent consultants or small business owners to outsource their additional needs.
You may have seen signs post at residential street corners that say you can make lots of money with your computer at home. Beware! The old saying "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!" is very pertinent here. Too many times you must pay for training or products that you can't do anything with. In some cases, you are purchasing a kit that tells you how to set up your own ad in order for others to call you to buy this same kit. The Federal Trade Commission regularly investigates such companies and rules against them as legitimate opportunities.
So, where does that leave you? If you truly want to work from home, consider starting your own home-based business. It's not easy – nothing worth doing is ever easy. But the rewards can be great. There are lots of resources to help you get started including the archives at the Small Business Advocate, books such as 101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women by Priscilla Huff, Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century by Paul and Sarah Edwards, and Making Money With Your Computer At Home by Paul and Sarah Edwards. Don't forget to check small business start-up courses at your local community college or Small Business Development Center.
The questions you should ask yourself include:
• What are my skills? What do I have a passion for? Is there a need for this as a business?
• Do I have the discipline to work from home? Do I manage my time well? Am I organized?
• How much income do I need/want? How quickly do I need to have an income?
• How much time do I have to devote to networking and marketing a new business?
If, after thinking this through, you find you don't have the commitment to starting and operating a home-based business, the only option is to find employment in hopes it might become a teleworking position in the future.


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Appendix B Workshop Agenda Improving the Translation of Research Findings into Clinical Practice: I. The Potential and Problems of Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation Wednesday, May 3, 1989 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Session One: Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome and Opening Remarks Samuel Thier, President, Institute of Medicine Gerald Laubach, Chair, Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine Setting the Stage Keynote Address 8:45 a.m. Technological Innovation and Evaluation in Medicine Samuel Thier, Institute of Medicine Session Two: Outcomes and Evaluative Research Moderator: Paul Parkman, Food and Drug Administration 202
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APPENDIX B 9:15 a.m. The Selection of Endpoints in Evaluative Research John Bunker, Stanford University 9:45 a.m. 203 Advances in Health Status Measurement: The Potential to Improve Experimental and Non-Experimental Data Collection Marilyn Bergner, Johns Hopkins University 10:15 a.m. General Discussion 10:45 a.m. Break Session Three: Modern Epidemiologic Methods for Obtaining Primary Evidence Moderator: Paul Stolley, University of Pennsylvania 11:00 a.m. What Is Outcomes Research? John Wennberg, Dartmouth College 11:45 a.m. Strengths and Weaknesses of Health Insurance Data Systems for Assessing Outcomes Leslie Roos and Noralou Roos, University of Manitoba, Canada 12:15 p.m. General Discussion 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Lunch Prescription-Event Monitoring: An Example of Total Population Post-Marketing Drug Surveillance William Unman, Drug Safety Research Unit, United Kingdom Discussant: Brian Strom, University of Pennsylvania 2:30 p.m. General Discussion Session Four: Modern Methods to Synthesize Existing Evidence Moderator: Frederick Mosteller, Harvard University 3:00 p.m. The Value of Modern Methods of Decision Analysis Albert Mulley, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Getting Pregnant
Labor and Delivery
Baby and Beyond
Mine was doing everything Kim explains yesterday. Today it's back to normal on my phone- and was on my laptop early this am as well- bumping up threads and bolding them and showing my name S the last post when I posted etc whereas it was not doing that last night
Yeah, I was having the same issue yesterday but it seems to have been resolved today.
The number of U.S. states in which a person can marry the person they love regardless of gender: 30 and counting!
I still cannot get a response to show up in the guns thread.
Molly, Morgan, Mia and Carson
It is showing up! I posted you a long reply clarifying and apologizing and explaining. Here, I'll copy it here for you
I posted that at like 7 this am. You can't see it though? Can other people see it? I can see it, and the new post you just made with the duh comment again, its like the third one showing up.I apologize, and you are right, in picking out one sentence without context I can see how you can perhaps say that. I have never ever argued that we actually ban all handguns, or that we amend our constitution to do so. Ever. I apologize for the duh, but I felt frustrated that you could actually have been reading my posts all along, pluck one statement entirely out of context, and argue that it is my "position". It isn't and has never been, and I feel as though you would know that, but I know that lots of people participate in these debates do maybe you honestly didn't mean to reduce and misrepresent my position, so forgive my frustration.
It might be like you saying "I WANT every school to have prayer in it!" because of course, as a Christian you would (and should!) probably want that, but, perhaps, as an American, you value separation of Church and State. So while you may want every public school to have prayer because you personally value prayer, you maybe would not actually vote for that because you value the constitution more. If I took one sentence saying "Prayer WOULD be good in the schools!" but ignored the hundreds saying "But I value our constitution more" that would be falsely representing your position. It wouldn't be some big A-HA on my part. Do you see what I am saying? For any of you reading along Lisa said NONE Of this stuff ever I'm just trying to draw a plausable analogy along constitutional lines.
In my heart of COURSE I want no guns at all. However, I believe in our right to bear arms, and I don't want to take this thing so far as to take away our constitutional right to do so. I just want to find a sane, safe way to have both sides "win" on this. I want us to have smaller, saner arms. The kind which actually protect us from the big bad robbers but don't let us play soldier in schools. I've tried to be rational like that, but also admit the reality of my hearts wish. Of course the little girl in me wants no guns at all. What Mom wouldn't want that on some imaginary utopian level? (Except for an anti pacifist, of course) I also want unicorn to exist. Shoot me (ha. Get it?).
The last post I can see in Guns is #190. It keeps showing up as unread, but there is nothing new when I check.
Mom to Arianna (5), Conner (3) and Trent (my baby)
I have been on here many times today, and never saw Melissa's post.
ETA - The last post I see says post 190. I post a comment just saying "testing", before I posted it said it should be post 199, but it never posted and all I still see is post 190.
I can see GUNS highlighted and it says that Bonita responded but if I go to it I don't see the response.
Mom to Elizabeth (6) and Corinne (4)
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Waking up…
From one of those nights when the world is too big
and all the light and love in heaven
can't hold time still -
and all the quiet, heart-stopping breaths
can't keep us together -
Yet in every fleeting moment that turns to memory
we are made whole.
To all of you wonderful friends and family who´ve taken the time to read my blogs, I apologize for not writing these past few weeks since I left Bolivia. While traveling on my own through Chile and Argentina I experienced so many things at such an enormous velocity that I´m only just now beginning to absorb what happened and how I´ve changed, so let me just reflect on the main points…
Before leaving Bolivia I´d never felt so much strength or courage or sense of adventure. The only thing I wanted was to see and experience the world on my own - no rules, no in inhibitions, no worries. What I didn´t count on though was the degree to which I would begin to miss friends and family and everything familiar. The first week in Chile that I spent with Panchita was indescribable - from watching the sunset at Viña del Mar to exploring the houses of Pablo Neruda - every day was a beautiful new experience, and by pure luck I met wonderful people like Saher and Jesika who I also helped me get to know Santiago from an outsider´s perspecitve, and who made sure I was never alone. Everything changed, however, when my time in Chile came to a close and I began to contemplate going to Buenos Aires completely alone. What had I been thinking to go on a 20 hour bus ride by myself to a city where I knew no one and was prepared only with a guide book and a map? Would I find friends? Would I be safe? Would I be able to see and do everything that I´d planned?
The answer to these questions was at some point both yes and no. Again, by some sort of pre-destined providence I met a great guy on the bus named Milton Peralta who helped me find a hostel upon arriving to Buenos Aires. (I was incredibly un-intelligent and didn´t make a reservation beforehand, so we spent about 2 hours walking around Palermo trying to find somewhere decent that had space available.) After that we spent the next few days together, but when the weekend rolled around we had to go our separate ways due to schedules and interests - also the hostel where we´d ended up was apparently a big party place on the weekend, so after spending two nights in a ¨mixed¨dorm with 7 other guys and not being able to sleep until 5 in the morning, I decided it was time for a change of accomodations.
Enter Jenny Lee - a fellow UGA student who´s doing an internship with the US Embassy in Buenos Aires. Although we didn´t know each other well before coming to Buenos Aires, by some miracle she saw on facebook that I was there and when I needed an emergency place to stay after a rough weekend, she and her host let me spend the night before moving to a new hostel. This is when things got tricky - after the rough first hostel experience, I wanted NOTHING more than to go home! All I could think of was being with family and friends and getting out of a solitude which for a few days became like a kind of prison. On Monday the 16th I called my parents begging them to change my flights so I could come home early, but aside from the fact that it would have been ridiculously expensive, something has been keeping me here to finish the journey I´ve begun. It´s taken the support of family and many many friends, both new and old, to get me through these past few weeks, but if I hadn´t stayed I wouldn´t have gotten to see a show at Teatro Colón, or watch the sunset in Colonia, Uruguay, or eat chocolate con churros in Cafe Tortoni, or watch the sunrise over the Andes mountains, or sing Wonderwall with a street-performer in Valparaiso, or return to my wonderful family here in Santa Cruz.
I guess what I´ve realized most through my travels is that it´s not so much the places you see, but the people you meet, the things you learn, and the wisdom you put to use that define your experiences. Every single person that I´ve ever known and loved has been with me in some form on this journey, including those I´ve met along the road, and holding them all close has allowed me to see the world through their eyes, just as hopefully they´ll soon be able to see the world through mine.
Somewhere in the past few months I´ve realized that maturing doesn´t necessarily mean being more independent - it can also mean knowing when to ask for help, and understanding just how much family and friends mean to you, no matter who or where those people may be. Maybe before I was trying to grow up too fast - or reach a new ¨level¨of maturity or adulthood, but now I think I´ve truly realized that you never stop learning and growing and changing, and that´s exactly why we have to treasure each moment - for better or for worse. The adventure never ends, and though my time abroad is now almost over, I can´t even begin to imagine where my life will go from here.
musicproblems: Today is my last rehearsal with the Banda Sinfonica Juvenil de Santa Cruz….there have definitely been some tears shed…
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First things first, if you haven´t yet, listen to this song, ¨The Water,¨by Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling. It´s simple beauty is heart-warming and it´s calm wisdom is changing my life every day.
Now, have you had a listen? I hope so, because this blog won´t mean as much without having heard it. Before I begin, I want you to think about the line I´m everywhere now, the way is a vow to the wind of each breath by and by. How often do we fail to give every moment our full passion and attention? How often do we forget that the way to keep living is as simple as continuing to breath and trust that whatever other joy or sorrow will either become a part of us or pass with time? And on being everywhere: what if we´re made larger than ourselves when other people carry away what they learned or came to know from us? Maybe that´s our actual size and place in the world - the influence we´ve had on the lives of other people, however large or small or dull or illuminating.
It´s startling to think that in exactly 2 days I´ll be flying to yet another new place and discovering more new people and ways of life. As I write this blog, I wonder whether I should be summing up my time in Bolivia, or counting down the days until my new adventure begins… It seems as if I´m only just beginning to realize the enormous amount of things I could do or could have done here. Would even more theory classes and rehearsals and projects have made my time here better or more significant? Would continuing to work at the school/orphanage have made a huge difference in the lives of the children there? I would like to believe so, however as I´m beginning to realize, simply being here and showing a love for music and people has changed several, if not many lives - including my own. Take an 11-year-old girl without parents for example: to have someone´s lap (my lap in this case) just to sit and be happy and sing in seems to be worth much more than conjugating verbs or learning rhythms. Love demonstrated simply an without condition is what the world seems to need more of. Bolivia is a place which I´ll admit took time to win my heart, but it was definitely worth the wait, and it´s a comfort to know as I leave that I´ll always have a home here to come back to.
That being said, despite being sad to leave my new-found family in Santa Cruz, it´s impossible for me not to be over-joyed to begin traveling again! I can´t even begin to imagine what I´ll see and do and learn in the next few weeks, and I think that´s the most exciting part. Every day I´m filled more and more with adrenaline-pumped anticipation! At the same time though, I´ve been dearly missing my family and friends. Maybe traveling is like a rubberband, and the farther you go, the more you´re pulled back somehow to what you left behind. It´s not that I want to return home now, but rather that I feel more attached to my beginnings with every passing day, especially with my birthday coming up in 4 days.
Is that also a part being of everywhere? Having your heart and mind be in a million places at once? If so, then here´s to enjoying the journey while still finding peace through it all, because from here my heart and mind will only continue to wander.
So, since Saturday, life here in Santa Cruz has been first and foremost characterized by torrential and ceaseless down-pours of cold, blustery rain. Needless to say, it´s made transporation and scheduling difficult, but despite the annoyance of some bothersome raindrops, musicing and adventuring has continued in full force.
This past weekend, I decided to visit the small mission towns of San Javier and Concepción on my own. These two places are part of a circuit of mission towns which were once occupied by Jesuit priests and contain a unique culture of Catholic and Bolivian traditions which influenced their art, music, and worship. (check out this website for some good pictures and info!http://chiquitania.com/) Most notably, during the 1990s several manuscripts of Bolivian Baroque music were discovered, and that music led to the creation of an international festival of Bolivian Renaissance and Baroque music which is held in Santa Cruz and the mission towns every two years. (sadly there was a festival this year which I missed by only a week because of final exams…)
That being said, since I´m interested in ethnomusicology I was needless to say very excited to finally visit a few of the towns, but little did I know what waited for me on Saturday. What was supposed to be a 4 hour trip ended up taking 8 hours because of a road that was blocked by protesters, so I couldn´t make it to San Javier, and didn´t get to Concepción until around 7pm. However, in that 9 hour drive on my own I was completely absorbed by beautiful landscapes, new cultures, and time to think and reflect on what my time here has meant so far. The clouds melted into rain which fell to the earth that held miles and miles of sunflowers and trees and green fields. Later in the day the sun illuminated the hills with a golden light that was almost heart-breaking. One would think that such a long trip would be somewhat lonely, but as I watched the world pass by around me I somehow felt closer to God or creation or whatever you want to call the divine power which orders the universe. It was as if everyone I love was right there with me - that time and distance didn´t exist. I by no means came to any conclusions on how my trip has affected me thus far, but suffice it to say that I´m beginning to measure my work in inspiration and perseverance rather than by quantity.
Now, a break from the philosophical ramble. When I finally got to Concepción it wasn´t very late, but since it was already dark I was rather nervous navigating a new town on my own. Luckily a nice taxi driver (and by taxi I mean motor scooter) took me straight to my hotel and left me his number in case I needed anything. The next morning I awoke to startling bright sunlight and a baby monkey as a breakfast companion! After that I went to mass at the main church, went to the mission museum, and had just enough time for lunch before getting on a bus back home. The return trip, though road-block free, included a lack of diesel which left us stranded on the side of the road for about 2 hours before another bus could pick us up. At that point I was laughing at myself for how nervouse I´d been riding the micros my first week here, because when the bus ran out of diesel I at first seriously thought I´d have to hitch-hike back to Santa Cruz on my own after dark!
This week I´ve begun working with a different organization called Asociacion Pro Arte y Cultura (Pro-Art and Culture Association). They are the group which organizes the music festivals, so I´ve loved being in their offices and getting a chance to see how they function. Unfortunately I haven´t been able to put any music skills to use since right now they have me updating a data-base of their donors from the past 14 years, but regardless, it´s opening the door to new opportunities and experiences. I was a bit sad to leave the school where I´d been teaching English on Monday since I´ll no longer be working there, but something in me knew that it was time to try something new, and as my friend Cayley says, the kids there were buggers, but cute buggers.
In the afternoons now I´ve been teaching basic violin and theory, even dipping into some aural skills! It´s been amazing to see how the most elementary of musical skills can change how a beginner perceives and thinks about music, and I hope that my last two weeks here continue to get better (and drier) with every day!
Yesterday I had the fortune of sitting in on a SICOR rehearsal in a place called La Pampa which is about 15 minutes outside of Santa Cruz. SICOR (Sistema de coros y orquestas) is modeled after El Sistema Venezuela, which is a youth orchestra program dedicated specifically to transforming children´s lives through music. Over the past two years I have conducted research on the growth and dissemination of the El Sistema model across Venezuela, Latin America, and the rest of the world, but despite the countless hours spent studying and writing about the topic, I still got choked up when I walked in to the small building where the children were rehearsing here in Bolivia and I heard two young cellists practicing Beethoven´s Ode to Joy. It never gets old to see the joy of music make a person come to life, especially a beginner who has only just started exploring the depth and power of harmony and rhythm and moving in time with an ensemble as if it were a being unto itself. (for more info on El Sistema, check here!http://www.fesnojiv.gob.ve/en/el-sistema-as-a-model.html )
This past week I´d been rather discouaged with my work since it seemed I wasn´t really getting through to the kids that needed the most help. Also I´ve felt rather trapped teaching English when I know I´m passionate about and have the capability to assist in other areas. Luckily, for my last two weeks I will be working with the Asociacion Pro Arte y Cultura which organizes biannual music and theater festivals. So although I know it will only be for a short amount of time, I´m extremely grateful for the new opportunity that I´ve been given.
It´s hard to believe that I now only have two weeks left in Santa Cruz before I venture to Chile and Argentina, and the rapid passing of time has truly made me examine the quality of my time spent here. That will be a topic for a later blog post, but for now the best I can do is enjoy every minute of my time left here, and try to learn how to accept the path that seems to have chosen me.
Look forward to another post after my visit to two mission towns, San Javier and Concepcion, this weekend!
So the past few weeks since I´ve actually written a blog have flown by, but I´ll do my best to cover everything that´s happened since then.
Samaipata, which I now realize I didn´t really describe in the last blog, is a beautiful mountain town about 3 hours outside of Santa Cruz which I visited with Cayley, Ivon, and a new volunteer who´d just arrived that week named Chloe Shum. The town itself was amazingly diverse given it´s size and location (it was probably only 3 to 4 football fields long), but what it lacked in size it made up for in charm and natural beauty. El Fuerte, which is one of the oldest archeological sites on the continent, was nestled in a breathe-taking mountain pass. Although it was incredible secluded, I somehow felt more connected to humanity and civilizations past there as I did when I was in Italy a few years ago. The awe-inspiring scenery seemed to open up endless doors for imagination, and brought joy that I didn´t even realize I was missing. On the second day we went to a place called Las Cuevas where we played in pools and water falls for a few hours. I didn´t realize it then, but being in that water and watching rainbows fly out of the mist was one of the most life-giving and happiest things I´ve ever done.
The next week flew by since Cayley and I were getting ready to go to La Paz. I began helping with some theory and basic music classes that are given as a part of the youth orchestra program, and teaching there was surprisingly rejuvenating since all the students actually love what they´re doing and want to be there. Teaching music at the school is difficult because for the most part students see music as just another class that they don´want to pay attention in.
La Paz was an experience I´m not sure that I was physically or mentally prepared for before leaving, but the journey was nevertheless life-changing. The first day was wonderful as the altitude didn´t affect us as much and it wasn´t terribly cold. Our first stop was at a musical instrument museum which Cayley had to drag me out of, and the rest of the day was spent exploring markets and plazas. Fun side note, my first real hosteling experience at a place called Pirwa was awesome, but unfortunately set the bar high for the other accomodations we stayed in which were less than spectacular at the very best.
Monday we spent the morning walking through La Paz again before catching a bus in the afternoon to Copacabana which is on the shore of Lake Titicaca and is a major stopping point between La Paz and Puno, Peru. It was much more touristy than I´d expected, but regardless, the views were spectacular and the thrill of being in another new was exhilirating. That night we met Nate and Jessie, a couple from the US who had just celebrated 500 days of traveling around the world together. We happened to have dinner together and discovered we were staying at the same hostel. Unfortunately I got altitude sickness that night and almost passed out at the dinner table, but luckily Cayley was there to save me, and Nate and Jessie were very understanding. Their journey is both inspiring and incredible daunting to me at the same time. Part of the traveler in me would love to just pick and leave for two years and see the entire world, but it´s also hard to imagine leaving everything behind for that long and not staying in any one place for more than a month or so. It definitely challenges my mission ¨to learn how to be at home in the world,¨but at the same time the fact that they´re 10 years older than me makes a journey like theirs more feasible.
Meeting Nate and Jessie was probably the best thing that happend in our week of traveling, because we all four ended up traveling together for the next 3 days, and their Cayley and I benefitted greatly from their help. On Tuesday we all went to Isla del sol, which is about an hour and a half away by boat from Copacabana and is supposedly the birthplace of the Inca people.Despite being a nightmare at times, it was one of my favorite parts of the whole trip. The physical demands of hiking in the cold would have been enough, but add to that hunger, fatigue, and being about 12,000ft. and things start to get messy. About every 5 steps I took I wanted nothing more than to turn around and go sleep in our hostel, but something finally delivered us safely to the top of the island to see a sunset which was too beautiful for words. The look out where we finally stopped was freezing and windy, but observing the world from that point was serene and calming. The immense quiet which pressed upon us from all sides was broken only by the small sounds of the town down below and travelers sharing stories and dreaming. There was (and is still) enough uncertainty in my life at that moment that everything seemed vibrant and exciting, but there was also enough purpose to make me know I was exactly where I needed to be - amidst the ruins of an ancient beginning, and the yearning of dreamers whose lives were unfolding in cascades before them.
Returning to La Paz on Wednesday was difficult, but Thursday we were able to revist several markets and favorite places before returning to Santa Cruz that evening. Since I was awake for more of that flota ride it became extremely surreal to watch one landscape melt into another ina place so completely foreign. Thinking back now, the most striking aspect of La Paz was feeling like a complete outsider. Even though it´s the same country, I felt much more singled out as a foreigner there than I do in Santa Cruz. (I´m frequently asked if I´m Cruceña, which makes me quite happy.) It´s obvious that the cultures are very different between the two regions here, and it´s something I´ll have to continue to be aware and careful of.
As I mentioned in my last blog, Friday´s rehearsal was a disaster, but luckily I recovered enough on Satruday to have a good performance on Sunday. They Selmer Mark II also ended up being in poor condition, and I only got it 15 minutes before the concert, but after finishing my solo and seeing the smiles on peoples´faces, that didn´t matter at all. The saddest part about Sunday was that Cayley left to go home. I CANNOT imagine what this trip would have been like without her, and it´s been strange not having her here this week. It´s amazing how close people can become in 4 weeks, but I guess when you´re traveling you´re able to see people for who they really are. I know we´ll see each other again eventually, but we were both crying when she left for the airport. That and hearing of my Tio Jorge´s death in El Salvador made for a difficult weekend, but luckily Chloe and I have been getting closer, and there are now 3 new volunteers working with the orchestra who I am now late to meet for coffee. Hopefully meeting them will open up some new opportunities to volunteeer during my last few weeks in Santa Cruz, but for now I can only wait and wish and wonder….
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So I promise I´ll write a longer post about La Paz and Copacabana at some point, because last week was quite and adventure, but for now let me describe the last rehearsal before the concert I´m performing as a soloist in TOMORROW.
The Good: The band director, Hernan Quispe, is an incredible well-tempered, understanding, and nice man. If he weren´t, last night could have been much worse.
The Bad: After having gotten in from La Paz at about 10am yesterday after an 18 hour bus ride, I was needless to say exhausted and still somewhat sick from the altitude and different climate. This in itself would have made for a difficult rehearsal, but on top of that I was taking altitude medication occastionally causes numbness and tingling. Last night instead of just my arms and hands being numb, my lips and cheeks went numb as well…right before I had to play the solo…… talk about a bad run-through.
The Ugly: After the terrible run through I was apoligizing to the director (whose saxophone I´m borrowing) when then instrument literally fell apart in my hands. One loose peg finally fell off which caused several springs to fall off and then several keys….obviously it wasn´t my fault since all I did was pick the horn up, but needless to say I was embarassed, frustrated, and then without an instrument 2 days before a performance.
The Good: I now get to play the orchestra director´s Selmer Mark II!
The Bad: Probably won´t get to practice on it until an hour or so before the concert tomorrow….
Lessons learned: Be prepared for ANYTHING. Don´t take altitude meds before playing saxophone, and trust that everything will work out…eventually…


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Jim Baron said his guys "beat a good team today." Jordan Heath has said he takes pride in blocking shots. He must be pretty proud of his effort Thursday against Loyola then. Heath scored a career-high 21 points and pulled down 11 rebounds and fell just three blocks short of a triple-double as Canisius took down Loyola (Md.) 91-79 behind all five starters scoring in double-figures. "Our guys did a good job," head coach Jim Baron said very simply. "They came out very spunky and spontaneous and they were ready to go." Heath blocked five of his seven shots in the second half and altered many more throughout the way. The Griffs led by as many as 21 points in the game but a 13-0 run by Loyola led by Robert Olson's game high 27 points, late in the second half got them within five with 4:16 left. With the score 82-76 with just over three minutes left, junior point guard Billy Baron drained a deep three-pointer late in the shot clock to ultimately seal the win for his Griffs. "He's been playing very very consistent and making plays," said Baron of his son's play. "He's been getting beat up too pretty intensely but he made some big plays when we needed him… He made a couple of great passes. He's been around. He has that kind of poise and that kind of leadership." The Griffs shot an unbelievable percentage from the floor shooting over 60 percent for the game and nearly 70 percent from beyond the arch. Isaac Sosa scored 19 points, connecting on six of his seven long balls. Heath also hit three treys. Billy Baron scored 16 points to go along with seven assists, and Harold Washington and Chris Manhertz had 13 and 11 points respectively. Canisius committed 16 turnovers compared to just three for Loyola but the hot shooting was able to dismiss the alarming stat. The 91 points scored by Canisius marked the highest total in a regular season regulation game since a 92-83 victory against Iona on February 20, 2005. The ability to score inside and outside is becoming more lethal for the Griffins. The combination of the Heath and Manhertz combined for 32 points and nine offensive rebounds. Heath became the first Canisius player with at least 20 points and ten rebounds since Elton Frazier did against Niagara on January 29, 2010. The road doesn't get any easier fr Canisius as they play host to Iona, a team they lost to earlier in the season in a shooting battle 97-87. If you're coming to the game, make sure to wear your running shoes because the game is sure to be a track meet. Photo courtesy of lasvegassun.com The post Hot Shooting Propels Canisius past Loyola (Md.) appeared first on Queen City Sports.
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A fisherman in Alaska took home a catch for the ages recently when he reeled in a 40-pound shortraker rockfish that experts believe is at least 200 years old. The Daily Sitka Journal reported that Henry Liebman of Seattle was deep-sea fishing off the coast of Alaska on June 21 when he hooked the record-setting shortraker fish from a depth of approximately 900 feet. (source)
it's cool that you found a unique creature but did you really need to take it home and put it on your wall fucking bastard
(Source: trynottodrown)
Jesus fucking Christ. Please do take the advice of everyone else and shush. As an Alaskan I can say WITH PERSONAL...