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I was very fortunate in having two wonderful parents, who gave me a very happy start in life. My father, William Logan Selkirk, was born on September 5 1904. He was educated at King Edward's School Birmingham, which is one of the great grammar schools — I think it was in fact a public school: Enoch Powell was a pupil at several years later. He would have liked to go on to become a dentist, just as his great friend Fred Esher, who became my godfather, went on to become a psychiatrist. But it was not to be. The Selkirks did not go to university, but went into the metal business, and it was decreed that he should become a foundryman. I have no idea how he spent his time at Birmingham. They lived at 82 Trafalgar Road, though I have never managed to find out where it was. I do not know how he met my mother: I think they belong to something called the Fellowship of Youth, and she was a keen Girl Guide, and I think they may have met through the Fellowship of Youth.
(A search on the web reveals the FOY society, which is I think, the Fellowship of Youth. It was originally founded as a Unitarian organisation in 1924 and reached its peak in the 1930s with 24 branches. It was never specifically Unitarian, but I gather it still exists, though without the influence it had in the 1930s)
They married on 3rd September 1934 which must have been two days before my father's 30th birthday. The previous year they had been on a fortnight's holiday together, driving my mother's Austin seven through the Lake District; they left a diary of their trip. I think they spend their time in a small tent, though what went on in the small tent, I do not know. I hope they misbehaved! But after Birmingham, my father went to work in Luton, and I always claim that I was conceived in Luton, – I think they were living there nine months before I was born. Though where they lived or where my father worked, I do not know
They then moved to Rochester, in Kent, where I was born in 1937 at the Denmark House nursing home, which now appears to be I think an old peoples home. Again I do not know where father worked, but according to my birth certificate, they were living at 233 Maidstone Road, Rochester, and my father was a metallurgical chemist. But otherwise I know nothing, apart from the fact there is a photograph of me in Rochester Castle were the birds were threatening to peck my toes.
But by 1939 they had moved to Loughborough where Frank was born, and from this point onwards I begin to have memories of my parents and where they worked and lived. They lived at 24 Burton Street, which we revisited several years ago, and of which I have photos. My father worked at Herbert Morris, crane manufacturers.
I have just purchased a book called 'Cranes and Craftsmen: the story of Herbert Morris Ltd", and from this I learn that Herbert Morris was born in 1864 to an entrepreneurial father, but at the age of 21 he set out on his own as an import/export merchant, and soon began a importing a range of pulleys from Germany which proved successful. In 1889, he purchased a manufacturing outfit in Sheffield, which in 1897 he moved to Loughborough, a quiet agricultural town that was trying to convert itself into a manufacturing centre. The firm expanded rapidly and continue to expand in the 1930s when it acquired a number of other failing crane manufacturers including the crane manufacturing business of Henry Royce, of Rolls-Royce fame. At the time my father went there, it was one of the leading crane manufacturers in the world. It survived the war but by the 1970s it was suffering from foreign competition. It suffered a bad fire in 1980 and went under soon after. I have not found details of this.
My father worked there throughout the war. He was in a reserved occupation, which meant that he could not be called up to serve in the army, but he worked jolly hard. I think that for several years, he was working seven days a week continuously, often I think an 8 or 9 or even 10 hour day so he was pretty exhausted, and my mother had to bring us up. Though in the middle of it all, Stuart was born in 1943.
Once the war ended in 1945, they moved to a bigger house, Southernhay, Charnwood Road, helped no doubt by Uncle William's money. However they did not stay there very long before my father got a job in Northampton.
This was with the Northampton Foundry Company which was a subsidiary of the Northampton Machinery Company which made machinery for the shoemaking firms in Northampton. It was owned by J V Collier, who was a prominent figure in Northampton and later became mayor of Northampton. It was a flourishing business in Kingsthorpe Bottom, which was the river valley between Kingsthorpe and Northampton proper – as you went into Northampton who came to the huge Barratt shoe factory on the left just after the hollow. The foundry company was a subsidiary of the main manufacturing company and provided it with its cast iron, though I think it did quite a lot of outside work. Indeed I think over half its work came from outside
However my father did not really get on with J V Collier. I think my father was not really forceful enough , to be a works manager – I don't quite know what role he had. But there was what might be called a class problem in that we lived in a fairly grand house at Hillcroft, Boughton Green Road, a detached house at the top of the hill where Boughton Green Road debouched into the countryside. It stood in three acres of land, and he had three sons who were being educated at private schools and I think for Jack Collier was rather put out that one of his minions should have this private money to live such a comparatively grand life. Nevertheless my father was essentially a very modest person, he did not own a car at Northampton, and he went to work at first on the bus though later he bought a Vespa motorcycle.
Eventually they parted company. I don't know why, but I think my parents had a fairly miserable time and my father was unemployed for about six months. I know that for a couple of months he went to work down at Poole in Dorset on a trial basis but again the trial clearly did not work out, and eventually they solved the problem by going farming. But that is another story.
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How could the performance have been better?
Speed up the narration. I had to speed up my listening equipment to keep from nodding off.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, but only certain people that I know would like this type of "home is where the hate is," type book.
What did you like best about this story?
The complex group of characters with complicated relationships, most doomed from the start, highlighted by the sadly tainted Stella and her heartbreaking history. The author weaves, the tugs at the thread to unravel the secrets binding the characters both dead and living.
Which character – as performed by Ann Marie Lee – was your favorite?
I most liked the elderly lady who was sick, whom the main female character visited to get information and just to get out of the oppressive quicksand atmosphere on the rest of the island.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not really.
Any additional comments?
The book being set on an island in a culture that developed almost in an isolated setting with histories and secrets known only to islanders reminded me of my small hometown where you were either an insider or an outsider. They pretend to be nice to outsiders, but it never lasts long and often the welcome mat is rolled up and a net of viciousness can be dropped upon the unknowing stranger. I could relate very well to this part. I was away from my small town for years and when I returned, I was treated almost as an outsider. It was not a pleasant experience. Oh, and my town is not an island, its a land-locked wide spot in the road in Northeast Texas!

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GHADA AMER was on a plane bound for Cairo in February when she read a newspaper review of the many shrouds, veils and head masks that were included in the fall collections shown that month in New York and Paris. They indicated, it was said, that Muslim-ization was seeping into Western fashion.
"My first reaction was fear," said Ms. Amer, an Egyptian-born artist who works in New York and who has made many controversial pieces by subverting the traditional symbols of feminine repression in Islamic cultures. She once embroidered a burka and veil with love poems, giving them a sexual charge, and has designed garment bags with verses from the Koran that refer to women.
Given her penchant for political allegory, a fear of stylistic artfulness from the likes of Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld may seem irrational. But Ms. Amer was concerned that the designers' incorporation of covered-up looks was a gloomy reaction to the turmoil of war and curbs on personal liberties in the West.
"What concerns me is what this says about what is going on in the world right now, when we are losing a lot of rights for people, for women especially, and for privacy," she said. "Sometimes trends in fashion reflect something else that is happening in society."
The setting for this conversation was the Seventh Avenue offices of Calvin Klein, where Ms. Amer was explaining her theory to Francisco Costa, the house's women's wear designer. The worlds of fashion and art (and music and entertainment) have become so intertwined in the last decade that cerebral exchanges between artists and designers are not unusual.Continue reading the main story
But in this case Mr. Costa, who will act as a chairman of a benefit tonight for the Whitney Museum of American Art, had approached Ms. Amer and two other artists, Vik Muniz and Billy Sullivan, to create artwork that is specifically about fashion. The work will be shown at the Whitney Art Party, an event for young patrons of the museum that has become popular with the fashionable crowd. Then it will be installed in the windows of the Calvin Klein boutique on Madison Avenue.
Quite coincidentally, each artist's proposal was based on the idea of a man's white dress shirt. "I found it very cool that there was a connection there, but nobody had talked about it beforehand," Mr. Costa said as he went over the designs.
Ms. Amer's concept, inspired by her reaction to the fall collections, was for Mr. Costa to design an elongated dress shirt that she would embroider with a dictionary definition of the word "fear." Mr. Muniz, a visual artist, planned to assemble a diptych that combined a photograph of a sculptural rendition of a white shirt made of wire next to a real shirt painted with the image of the wire sculpture. Mr. Sullivan, an illustrator, intended to document Ms. Amer's work with a series of photographs and sketches.
Mr. Muniz said the dress shirt was an obvious choice as a base for the works. "As far as you can talk about an article of clothing, a white shirt is archetypal," he said.
"If you cannot make a white shirt, you cannot design," Mr. Costa responded. "It would be like going to a French restaurant with bad bread."
From this common starting point, Mr. Costa and the artists soon found unexpected differences in their creative approaches, most notably in their attitudes toward fashion. Mr. Costa, betraying his trade, said he owns only white shirts and bluejeans because he does not like to think about what he is wearing, but Ms. Amer and Mr. Muniz were interested in the symbolic power of something as simple as a white shirt.
"This kind of shirt we call in Egypt a 'Western shirt,' " Ms. Amer said. "It is so contrary to a djellaba. It is a Western concept that you wear when you want to feel civilized."
Ms. Amer's work typically incorporates text as a means of illustrating how a subject is perceived differently depending on cultural context. At the Indianapolis Museum of Art, she once dug graves in the lawn in the shape of letters spelling "love," and at Wellesley College, she embedded multiple definitions of "terrorism" in the pink and green wallpaper, paper napkins and tablecloths of its Davis Museum cafe.
"I don't consider this to be a fashion piece," she said. "It is an art piece. I think at the beginning Francisco was a little bit scared of working together, but I didn't care what happens. It is more the fashion people than the artists who put a difference between fashion and art."
Mr. Costa did not dispute this. "My subject matter is making dresses," he said. "It almost didn't feel right in a way when Ghada wanted to make this shirt, but she reversed my way of thinking. In order to validate her concept, it has to be something that is not sterile."
Using a pattern of block letters designed by Ms. Amer, Mr. Costa created a lace fabric that was hand-embroidered in India for the final work. "It has to be sexy," she said.
Last week Mr. Sullivan took several photographs of the model Missy Rayder wearing a prototype of the "fear" shirt. He then used them as the basis for sketches and a 30-by-42-inch pastel drawing. At the same time Mr. Muniz began constructing the wire sculpture of a white shirt, which will be represented alongside shirts that Mr. Costa is hand-painting with an image of the sculpture. The piece is called "Two Wire Shirts." When he discussed his plans with Mr. Costa, Mr. Muniz brought up a famous work by Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs," made up of a chair, a photograph of a chair and a dictionary definition of the word "chair."
"Whenever I think of a collaboration, I think of two panels," Mr. Muniz said. "I look at fashion magazines to see what is going on. There is a symbiosis there between fashion and art, in what happens naturally. But I'm fascinated by fashion because I really don't understand anything about it."
Ms. Amer and Mr. Muniz asked Mr. Costa to take them on a tour of his studio and to explain the intricacies of his work. He showed them around but demurred from talking too much about fashion.
Reflecting on the process this week, Mr. Costa said he had a difficult time at the beginning because he had resisted the artists' concepts to create work so closely aligned with his designs. "I was really frightened at first that people would perceive I was trying to do art," he said. "I didn't want to make a dress or a shirt. What seemed to me to be something I thought of as naff, was something that for them was real."
Mr. Muniz, who like Mr. Costa was born in Brazil, seemed to understand.
"We have a saying in Brazil," he said, "that in the blacksmith's house the screws are made out of wood."Continue reading the main story


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Les Bleus played two matches this week one against Spain and the other against Congo (with their second 'A' team). The Congo game ended in a scoreless draw while the Spain game saw the Iberian giant earn a last minute 1-0 victory. Unfortunately I was unable to watch either match but did "watch" via the play by play on the web.
The Congo game is one of those international scrimmages that is very difficult to draw any conclusions from other than France was not able to score...but did throw out there a number of the "youth" - Nasri, Menez, and Mandanda. Of course Domenech also put out Boumsong....why? Again, why is the former Auxerre defender being considered....if he is on the roster for next summer's tournament I may return my FFF fan card.
So what of the second game, against Spain? From what I was able to determine from the online commentary both teams had their moments of controlling the game and neither team was able to really put its stamp on the game with Spain getting a late game winner. The main concern coming out of the match is France's lack of goal scoring...I realize one game is not a trend. However when you have the luxury of leaving a goal scorer such as Trezeguet off your roster and have players of the likes of Henry, Anelka, Cisse, and Benzema at your disposal you need to make your opponent's keeper work slightly harder than it appeared that both Congo and Spain's keepers had to work.
Domenech's next few months will all be about finding out the proper combination up front and in support of the strikers. It is clear that he is looking at Benzema-Henry-Anelka as his top three strikers, with Cisse, Menez, Briand as the players vying for the 4th slot, but which pairing to lean on? While I realize it is taboo, I might argue that Benzema - Anelka could be the combination up front....this will never happen since Titi will always have his spot in the starting line up. However Anelka and Benzema have demonstrated they can play different styles depending on what the situation calls for...they can roam the 18 yard box, carry the ball from deep, play alone up front, are able to appear on either wing, and both can score with their head. While I am not ready to say Henry is done, he has dropped a level from his glory days of Arsenal. Might he better as a late game, change of pace option? Not sure this will ever happen or even considered, however based on recent form it would appear that Benzema and Anelka may cause opposing defenses more problems than Henry....
Welcome to the "Frog," my little piece of cyberspace to talk about my passion - le foot (or soccer for my North American friends) especially anything around French football. Of course I will have some guest contributors that might want to discuss other aspects of footy! I support Les Bleus, Arsenal and PSG but really just love watching, analyzing and following the beautiful game. "You have to trust your teammates, always. If not we are lost."
Friday, February 08, 2008
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Forgives one another
A little explained, a little endured, a little forgiven, and the quarrel is cured.
Overcoming the enemy by power is half a victory, whereas overcoming the enemy by love is a complete victory. Love your enemies. From them you learn your faults.
The Bible teaches us that:
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." - Matthew 6:14
But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. - Luke 6:35-37
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Designing a Mini Greenhouse
An engineering challenge
The purpose of this engineering challenge involves research, investigation, design and construction to help maximize thermal energy contained within a plant growing system given a constant source of light radiation.
The transfer of light radiation into thermal energy, surrounding a growing plant, can be control through the design and construction of a plant housing unit that provides greater insulation ability than a standard plastic unit current employed in the classroom.
The design of a mini greenhouse is limited to the size of plants and the area covering a flat surface. Materials used in this design needs to be a good insulator resisting the transfer of thermal energy through surfaces.
The physical dimensions (circle, square, triangular hexagonal and parabolic) and the sturdiness of material (cardboard, plastic, paper ceramic) can be utilized to maximize thermal energy retention.
Research on the design of mini greenhouses helps to spur innovative thought and development of ideas witnessed online. You can modify a known design or create a new design based upon experience in physics and knowledge base.
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(In the Name of Allah (SWT), Most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praise and thanks are due to Allah, Lord of the Realms and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger (SAWS) and upon all his family and companions)
Fasting is practiced in the month of Ramadan and this is where we are told the importance and glory of this special month and how we are to experience and practice the appropriate learning to make the real difference and this is why you as a believer should know how Fasting In The Month Of Ramadan is Defined:
In one variant of al-Bukhari, "He has left his food and drink and appetites for My sake. Fasting is Mine and I repay it. Any other good deed I repay with ten like it."
In a variant of Muslim, "Every action of the son of Adam is multiplied. A good action receives from ten to seven hundred times."
Allah Almighty said, "Fasting is Mine and I repay it. He leaves his appetites and food for My sake. The faster experiences two joys: a joy when he breaks his fast and a joy when he meets his Lord. The changed breath in the mouth of the faster is more fragrant to Allah than the scent of musk."
1216. Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The one who spends out two kinds of actions in the way of Allah will be summoned from the gates of the Garden and told, 'O slave of Allah this is better.'
"All the people who did the prayer will be called from the gate of the prayer. All the people who did jihad will be called from the gate of jihad. All the people who fasted will be called from the gate of Rayyan. All the people who gave sadaqa will be called from the gate of sadaqa."
Abu Bakr said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, Messenger of Allah. No one called from those gates will feel distress. Will anyone be called from all those gates?" He said, "Yes, and I hope that you will be among them." [Agreed upon]


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The outrageous liberal governmental issues of the Catholic Church's Pope Francis have driven some even inside rarified circles in the Vatican to address regardless of whether Francis is really a true blue Pope.
They generally say that you should judge a man by the general population he encircles himself with, and for Francis' situation, he aligns himself with the most radical components of the Church.
One of Pope Francis' nearest relates to the Catholic church is a Jesuit cleric named Father John Martin, who fills in as an American guide to Francis in the Vatican. Fr. Martin was as of late named to the high-positioning authority position of consultor to the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications.
Fr. Martin has created a discussion over a large number of his hostile to Trump comments before, including one where he said that the way Trump treats settlers is much the same as the Nazis' treatment of Jews amid the Holocaust. Obviously, one of the principal thing that Francis' new mouthpiece Martin did in his new part is bash Republicans for passing expense change that incorporates tax breaks for the greater part of Americans.
Tweeted Fr. Martin as of late, "The US will soon confront the outcomes of a #TaxBill that takes cash from the poor to provide for the rich." He included, "The individuals who voted in favor of it will confront results later when they are judged. Do you believe Jesus' words about being judged on how we watch over the poor don't make a difference? Reconsider." Do you think the as of now radical Vatican needs to butt out of American legislative issues?


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NEW YORK -- Reaching for greater size and economic power in the rapidly changing managed health care market, Travelers Inc. and Metlife said yesterday that they were in the process of exploring "possible alliances among their health care operations."
By joining their forces, the two New York-based companies would get closer to the big leagues of managed care, although they would still be considerably behind the largest national health insurers, Kaiser Permanente, Prudential, Cigna and Aetna.
In a brief written statement after a number of reports that the two companies were discussing the possibility of merging their health care businesses, Metlife, a unit of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and Travelers said the talks were "exploratory." They added that "it would be premature to speculate on the outcome, if any."


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Hello! It's another wintry day in New England today! I don't mind at all, that's what December is all about in these parts. Ask me in March and I may be ready to scream but right now I am digging the weather.
You all know I have been working with Steve, the trainer from, Fitness Your Weigh. Although I go to the gym 3 times during the week and see him every Wednesday I knew I needed more weight training than once a week. I have the Abs Diet book at home that has different exercises in it that uses dumbbells that is meant for people to do right at home. I had told Steve I was going to do these during the week to get in at least one other weight training session. He looked through the book with me and had me do the exercises with him. He wrote notes in the book about form (knees bent, strong core, curved back) and even drew a few pictures of a modified move. He also took some pictures of me doing the moves so I would be able to remember how to do them on my own.
I had many of you ask what kind of exercises I did at home last night so I will walk you through my workout. From start to finish it took me a half hour to get through them and I did work up a bit of a sweat doing them.
1. Squat with dumbbells. I have 8 lb weights that I used and Steve had me add a side kick to the move. I did 12 on each leg.
2. Bent over rows. I paused at the top of each move. 12 reps of these.
3. Military presses – I lowered the weight to my eyes. 12 reps
4. Upright Row 12 reps
5.Tricep Kickbacks – 12 reps
6. Wall Squat – 25 second hold
7. Bicep Curl – 12 reps
8. Leg Curl – 12 reps
9. Raised feet crunches – 12 reps
10. Bent Knee leg Raise – 12 reps
11.Raised Knee in – 12 reps
12.Flutter kick – 10 reps
13. Oblique Rotation – 15 reps
14. Oblique V up – 10 reps
15. Wood chop – 15 reps
16. Plank – one minute hold
17. Side Bridge – 6 reps each side
18. Bicycle – 15 reps
19. Superman – 12 reps
So, that was my at home workout. As you can see, the moves are basic and anyone can do these. Steve helped with my form and gave me pointers, but if I can do these, you can too. Question of the day: Do you do any type of workout at home?


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We wait. Some more than others. We wait. Different ways. We wait. For different things. I have sat quietly ... rarely, as the holidays are busy for me and my family ... thinking about a specific truth: people throughout the Old Testament sat, like me, only for much longer periods of time, waiting on the … Continue reading "Just" Wait
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We Dream
"When the Lord brought back [a]the captive ones of Zion, We were like those who dream. 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter And our tongue with joyful shouting; Then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them." 3 The Lord has done great things for us; We are glad." Psalm … Continue reading We Dream
NEW photos of my week and a short Sunday sermon
I was blessed by this post, and I believe you will also. Otherwise I would not have reblogged this. Peace.
Happy Sunday! You know, one of the great things about buying myself roses, is that I get to photography them while they're fresh (previous post) and then again when they're all dried up!
I recently visited a NEW online art exhibit, all of paintings of Christ…His childhood, His ministry and the Last Supper. This is one of my favorites by Laurie Olson Lisonbee (Here's the link to the gallery)
Jesus wanted the Twelve—and He wants each of us—to learn that humility and service are worthy characteristics we should seek to obtain. He taught that no one is too important to serve others.
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The Hand of God
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Something Is Wrong . . .
Something ... is wrong, and yes ... some things are right. And, yes: there will always be something wrong. And, yes: there will always be some things that are right. For some reason, maybe I know what that reason is, I sensed the strong pull to take time out of the bedlam to acknowledge that … Continue reading Something Is Wrong . . .
Hell's Concierge
When I read this post, I felt compelled to reblog this. Through my own eyes, and through the experience of sitting with many folks in recovery, I felt like this writer brings it to the table: freedom from addiction, in the context of intense battle, being aware of "Hell's Concierce". Peace, T
It's so easy to get caught up in life and forget that I'm an addict. When other troubles are acting up, or someone I love is hurting, I can slip away from the vigilance needed.
It's also easy, and deadly, to get caught up in results–to fall into dissatisfaction when life is getting harder and not easier. It's easy for me to flirt with despair when my mental health symptoms rob my life in recovery of health and joy. It's easy to feel that I'm on a trip to a city that's not living up to my hopes, having spent too much and not having a good enough time. To feel lonely and bored in my metaphorical hotel room.
That's when it's tempting to pick up that handy phone and press the button for the concierge. The gentleman or lady who can get things, recommend activities, obtain tickets or otherwise…
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To Read is to Fly
We are, for the most part, bloggers, readers and writers. This post is about readers. I hope you are blessed. Peace, T
Mom's Day: Joy, Celebration, Ambivalence
Mom's Day. Joy. Celebration. Ambivalence. A fine line, Ambivalence. I could drift into "my stuff", my baggage, my blues. With age, my awareness of that fine line grows. Grappling continues, with ambivalence, even with my awareness. One explanation, for "ambivalence", came through a lecture. "Ambivalence is the existence of two mutually exclusive emotions, concepts, realities, … Continue reading Mom's Day: Joy, Celebration, Ambivalence
This causes me to tremble
From one of the great blogs that I follow, "The Seeker". I felt compelled to reblog this wonderful piece.
Was I there?
At the crack of dawn, when everybody is still asleep, before the narrow streets of Old Jerusalem turn into a market place and become crowded with people, we were there to do the Via Dolorosa and reflect what it was to be there.
Via Dolorosa is a Way of Sorrow. It is long winding narrow streets of Old Jerusalem starting from Ecce Homo Convent to the Basilica of Holy Sepulchre. We carried the cross as the way Jesus carried it from being judge by Pilate and the people at the Judgement Hall all the way to Golgotha, the site of the crucifixion.
There are fourteen stations that we stopped along the way:
I. Jesus is condemned to death
II. Jesus takes up the Cross
III. Jesus falls under the Cross for the first time
IV. Jesus meets his Mother
V. Simon the Cyrenian is forced to carry the…
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Jump for Joy
This is a 1:37 visual story about a good looking dog who has a great deal of joy … And he reminds us about joy. Enjoy!
It's great to be alive.
The grace of a gazelle, the bound of a bunny, the heart of a hound… We can't help but smile at this jubilant pup!


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