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First executive dIrector on board at the BIFF
She will work closely with The BIFF's founding artistic director Kelley Vickery and festival executive assistant Lauren Ferin.
In an e-mail response to questions, Vickery said that Palmer's responsibilities "will mostly be the
business and development needs of the organization, but as a small organization that produces film events throughout the year and the ever-growing festival itself, she will no doubt be a helping hand in everything we do. She is very organized so can really be helpful to me in the overall structure of the BIFF weekend. I am very excited."
According to a BIFF news release, Palmer most recently served as vice president of the National Garden Conservancy's Open Days program, which she helped the organization to launch in 1995. She also worked with Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y; The Union of Concerned Scientists in Boston, and the Brandywine Conservancy in Chadds Ford, Pa.
The decision to hire an executive director has been part of an on-going conversation at The BIFF for nearly 10 years, Vickery said in her e-mail.
"Nearly every film festival has an artistic director and an exec or business director," Vickery explained. "I have been holding down both sides for 12 years, with one part-time employee, Lauren. With the incredible growth that BIFF has had over the last 12 years, it has become glaringly obvious that my job needed to be bifurcated, and we found the perfect person."
Commenting in the news release, newly named BIFF board chair Pat Fili-Krushel said that "with the addition of Laura Palmer as our executive director, and the rich experiences of our two extraordinary new board members [Marcia Feuer, of Richmond, and White Plains, NY; Bob Harper, of Alford, and Los Angeles] and four new advisory board members [Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Maureen Jerome, Nicholas Ma and Sarah Patrick] t he Berkshire International Film Festival launches itself ever higher in the orbit of topflight film festivals."
The BIFF board of directors also includes Karen Allen, Shani Ankori, David Fenkel, Peter Herbst, Daniel Mathieu, Kate Morris, Mary Mott, Elissa Myers, Fern Portnoy, Annie Selke, Kevin Sprague, Richard Stanley and Tania Walker.
BIFF 2018 will be held May 31-June 3 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.
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Title of Bulletin Board: Tennis Forehand, Backhand and Serve
Category: Sport Skills
Suggested Grade Level: 6-8
Materials: Poster Board, Construction Paper, QR code generator, Vimeo.com, EpubBud.com
I created a sport skill series of boards that allows the students at my school to use their iPads for learning. On each poster board there is a skill breakdown with pictures of the forehand, backhand and serve in tennis. There is a skill cues box with the important cues to remember for each stroke used in tennis. Finally, there is a video and iBook available to each student to view upon their mobile device!
If the student uses a standard QR code scanner he or she may scan each QR code that I was able to generate and view a video demonstration of each stroke learned in our tennis unit. I was able to film each stroke and upload them to a video sharing website called Vimeo.
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Body shaming is really not cool, says Huma Qureshi
Huma believes body shaming and criticising a person for his/her body type is not cool.bollywood Updated: Apr 01, 2016 18:57 IST
Huma Qureshi, who was recently seen at the Femina's Style Diva, believes body shaming and criticising a person for his/her body type is not cool.
Huma said, "There are a lot of people out there who are just bullies. They constantly keep telling you that you are too fat, too thin, your teeth are not fine, you can't speak English really well, and you are too short etc."
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"Bullies will be bullies and I think body shaming is something that people all over the world are condoning and condemning because it's not cool. We need to set better role models for young women," she added.
She said, "I would like to say this for the record that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself and that's really important."
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XP Mode Autologon credentials are lost after Windows 7 password change
When the old Windows 7 password expires, the user has to change it during the normal logon. The problem is that after this type of the password change the saved XP Mode autologon credentials are removed from Windows 7 Windows Vault Generic Credentials group. As a consequence the user gets a prompt to enter the XPMUser password whenever he/she starts the virtual application.
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Dear Rich,
thank you very much for the prompt reply. The point is, that Windows 7 users on the machines in question are not supposed to know the XPMUser password. The Windows 7 machines in question run in rather restricted mode in which restricted windows 7 user is only allowed to run just one virtual application.
Perhaps the solution could be to automate the Windows Vault backup and recovery, but that is unfortunately beyond my competence.
In any case I find it not normal that in Windows Vault saved credentials are lost when the user changes her/his logon password in a very standard way.
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As we inch closer to seeing the Foster Streetscape Plan become, well, an actual plan, we're also seeing the reality of budget constraints. The draft plan that will be presented to City Council also comes with a preliminary budget. The itemized list is arranged in order of priority; those at the top are expected to get full funding and implementation, those at the bottom are subject to getting axed.
What's at the bottom of the list?
Trees and ornamental lighting.
With that in mind, a few neighborhood advocates are preemptively working to identify where the local canopy can use some filling in. And by conducting an official tree inventory through the City's Urban Forestry program, we won't have to rely on PBOT to secure the trees for Foster. (We'll still cross our fingers PBOT can find a way to include trees in the streetscape plan, though.)
The Tree Inventory Project goes beyond Foster, though, and will dig deeper into the neighborhood. Volunteers will work on counting and identifying neighborhood trees, so as to get a grasp on the health of the local tree system. The goal, then, is to determine where gaps exist and connect the neighborhood to resources that will allow for the planting of more trees. That would include Foster, as well as the residential streets.
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Our Pet, Juliette dies at age 91
In 1940, Orpheum Theatre manager Ivan Ackery told big-band leader Dal Richards that he should check out a 13-year-old female singer.
"I said, 'Ivan, that's not the kind of image I want, thank you very much,' " Richards recounted in 2013. "He said, 'Just listen to her.' So I listened to her, and she sang, There'll Always Be an England. This was wartime, and she brought the house down."
Juliette Sysak began singing with Richards at Vancouver's top nightspot, the Panorama Roof, atop the Hotel Vancouver. And her career took off.
She would become Canada's most popular female vocalist in the late 1950s and early '60s, the host of a CBC-TV show that had the coveted Saturday night slot after Hockey Night in Canada.
From coast-to-coast-to-coast, she was known as Our Pet, Juliette.
In recent years she has been living in quiet retirement in a South Granville condo. This spring she moved into a care home, and Oct. 26, died at age 91.
"She had no major illnesses," said her friend, Gordon Boyd. "She just simply slipped away Thursday night. It was really very peaceful."
She was born Juliette Augustina Sysak on Aug. 27, 1926, in St. Vital, Man., and started singing early — at seven, she won a talent contest singing the depression-era ballad, Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?, dressed as a boy.
Her family moved to Vancouver when she was 10 and she grew up in Kitsilano. She made so much money singing with Richards that she bought a fur coat to wear to high school.
In 1943-44 she relocated to Toronto to sing on a national CBC Radio show hosted by Alan Young. After moving back to Vancouver, she appeared on the Burns Chuckwagon radio show with the Rhythm Pals, recording a trio of country and western 78s for Al Reusch's Aragon label.
Her talent and star quality led to interest from the U.S. via MCA, the giant talent agency and record company. But she opted to stay in Vancouver and marry musician Tony Cavazzi, who became her manager.
In 1954 she was approached by American big-band leader Harry James to be his singer for a gig at the Hollywood Palladium. James was a star — Frank Sinatra was one of his old singers. But she turned him down.
"There was lots of glory but no money, and work only on a week-to-week basis," said Juliette, who was known for speaking her mind. "I just couldn't see it."
She wound up moving to Toronto, where she appeared on the CBC-TV show Holiday Ranch and then Billy O'Connor's Late Show. In 1956 she was given her own show, Juliette, which ran until 1966.
A 1957 Province story by Ben Metcalfe, one of the founders of Greenpeace, says that she made $450 per week for her TV show, which was sponsored by Players Cigarettes. She also did live shows across the country, like a gig at an auto show in Winnipeg that drew 16,700 people to the Winnipeg Arena.
She was known for her dramatic entrances and glitzy gowns, and for the wholesomeness of her show, which she always ended by saying goodnight to her mother back in Vancouver.
Between 1969 and 1975 she was host of two CBC-TV talk shows, After Noon and Juliette and Friends, as well as the CBC Radio show Talent Scope. She moved back to Vancouver in 1972, but often went back east for work, telling The Vancouver Sun's George Daacon in 1976, "if you're not working in Toronto, you're just not working."
Sadly, her husband Tony developed Alzheimer's and died in 1988. Several years later she started dating another former member of the Richards band, Ray Smith, who had become the president of MacMillan Bloedel. They were together for four years before Smith died in 2005.
She was named to the Order of Canada in 1975, and became a member of the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1994.
She rarely performed after the 1990s.
"The last time was at the Orpheum," said Boyd. "She did a Remembrance Day celebration with Dal Richards several years ago."
Many people asked her why she stopped performing. "Her expression was that was then, this is now," said Boyd.
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Measurement Scales and Standard Systems in Psychology.
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Most discussions of measurement theory are focused on "scales" of measurement, but it is not clear whether reference is made to the mechanisms of measurement or the metric information derived from measurement. This emphasis on scales in measurement theory has not always provided a meaningful or fruitful description of measurement activities in psychology. It is proposed that a new concept, that of a standard system of measurement, be introduced to refer to the mechanism of measurement. There are three types of standard systems: (1) elementary, using human judgment; (2) devised, consisting of tests and physical instruments; and (3) dual-process, or self-report instruments. A measurement theory based on the standard system concept provides for a strengthened rationale for measurement activities in psychology. (Author/BS)
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CBS' unexpected emergence as the ratings leader has been the surprise of the fall season, showing a consistency that has the network competitive in nearly every time period. However, the premiere of the new show "Eleventh Hour" (11.4 million, 3.2/9) arguably was an off-note. The series placed second in the 10 p.m. hour, falling 55% from its "CSI" lead-in.
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Cognitive Radio Using USRPA cognitive radio (CR) network is a disruptive wireless technology alleviating today's spectrum scarcity problem. The CR network paradigm promises open dynamic spectrum allocation, in which every CR (consisting of a pair of nodes, a transmitter and a receiver) opportunistically gains wireless access to the available spectrum without causing harmful interference to authorized users. The underlying radio technology envisioned for CR networks has a large bandwidth, so that it is capable of switching to multiple frequency bands.
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In this project, some answers to these questions will be given by making use of two Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) platforms. We have two USRP UHD N210 transceivers, each equipped with SBX RF boards (they span 400-4400 MHz). The radios can be either programmed with C++ and python scripting, or using Matlab/ Simulink. Some of our recent compressive spectrum sensing techniques can be used to detect which frequency bands are occupied and which are not. These compressive sensing approaches allow us to scan a wide frequency band with sampling rates below the Nyquist rate. Furthermore, we can let the two USRPs collaborate to reduce the sampling rates per USRP even further. Artificial interference can be created using WiFi transmitters. Once the spectrum is scanned, the USRPs need to use the available frequency bands to set up a communication link. In this activity, different communication protocols can be tested.
- Implement compressive spectrum sensing on the USRPs.
- Implement collaborative compressive spectrum sensing on the USRPs.
- Assess the performance of (collaborative) compressive spectrum sensing using WiFi interferers.
- Build a communication link between the USRPs using the available frequency bands.
- Test different communication protocols.
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16 Friday Sep 2016
Posted Abstraction, beliefin
I was told a story of a 13 year old boy who is struggling now between a Bible-based view and a secular, if not atheistic, world view. And about where he is now seems to be wondering what the point of life is, especially if the Bible isn't objectively true. Though young, he sees the alternative society offers up as consumer-driven and ultimately empty.
My first instinct was to feel a little sorry for him that he has to go through this trying time of determining what he believes in while people around him try to convince him to their way of thinking. But I suppose I should also grant that he is smart enough to realize an acquisitive life is fairly meaningless and promises no satisfaction. I've known too many people who've reached middle age and still haven't figured that out.
The question of why we exist is one that philosophers, religious thinkers, and other intellectuals have struggled with for centuries. And maybe that's where I don't measure up as an intellectual…because I don't really care very much about the question. Is it to give glory to God? Is it to be free? Is it to serve each other? Or is it all one big colossal accident and there is no reason? *shrug* I dunno.
In Christianity there is the concept that humans cannot know the mind of God. Whatever His plan is, it IS, and we cannot fathom it. All we can do is have faith that it will take care of us, probably in some way we cannot understand.
That's around where I start. I don't know if the plan is really detailed to every single life and material object and quark of dark matter or whatever. Or maybe all of reality IS the plan. The study of physics and chemistry, etc, is the corner of reality that we've been able to shed light on and get a feel for "well at least we understand that XX works like YY and effects us like ZZ under AA conditions." And while that allows me to believe that we've worked out a tiny section of the plan, I also feel like we've had to simplify what we found in order to make it fit into our language and thereby our mental capacity. This is very much akin to the simplification teachers have to give to Einstein's theory of relativity just so us regular people can begin to grasp it.
And I recognize that the question isn't meant to invoke the physics that got any particular person here, but I bring it up to explain that's where my mind goes. There is a vastness to any plane on which this question is tackled, to such a degree that I would never feel like I had enough solid information to go on. The Bible does specifically say that God created us to glorify him, but what does that mean, really? *shrug* I dunno.
I hope no one came here actually hoping for some direction. I don't know that 13 year old kid above, I hope he's okay and grows up solid in his critical thinking, and open to life and the world around him.
It's just that I probably get the best instruction from the Absurdists (who had a strong tendency to atheists). The idea that there is no meaning to life, that we're here by accident is comfortable to me. It's freeing as I then feel that my choices to try to move myself and my society to somewhere better, somewhere more loving and more accepting, are truly my choices. I don't have to worry about trying to make myself be happy by checking boxes of acquiring any material possessions or even a particular social status – the pursuit of happiness being a completely separate endeavor from trying to live the way I'm supposed to.
The reason people ask the question Why always seems to have another component. Why questions don't settle matters by themselves, they elucidate information that might answer a more basic question that can be difficult to articulate. And the asking of Why questions tends to reveal more about the questioner and the situation than questions of Who or What. "Who ate the last doughnut?" is a very different circumstance than "Why did you eat the last doughnut?" Even though there is a narrow difference between "What did you say?" and "Why did you say that?" there is still a difference.
Asking why we are here requests an answer that would satisfy a hundred Who/What/How questions. If it's to glorify God, we have now have a game plan for what to believe. If it's to be free, now we have an objective. If it's to serve each other now we have a methodology.
Without asking Why we may end up just wandering around, serving our basic needs, and having no idea what to do with the greater capacity we know we have. We didn't build cities, establish complex traditions, study our own histories, pursue scientific discovery, create epic poetry and end various diseases on accident – humans have always seen possibilities greater than themselves and sought them.
But the answer to Why questions sometimes feels too conclusive, even predestined. That is, if the reason we are here is to serve God then all other options are not only sub-optimal, but perhaps morally wrong. And if the Why of our existence is truly inevitable then there is no way NOT to serve God. All actions, thoughts and words would be in line with service to Him. This, of course, does not follow. Not when the Bible gives a pretty firm code of conduct in terms that let us know it's possible to break with, at the cost of breaking with fellowship with God. Eg Anyone who ever took a cookie before dinner and then lied about it knows perfectly well that "Thou Shalt Not Lie" is pretty easy to break. The Commandments, then, can only be expected to instill in us the scruples to behave in an honorable way. They do not literally control us.
So then Why we are here ought to tell us a "preferred" way to live, or a philosophy to aspire to. In other words, the answer satisfies the question, "Now that we find ourselves alive on Earth, what are we to do?" Enough people over the millennia of human existence have found themselves lost in the wake of this query that I have no doubt as to the great value of a satisfactory answer. I don't look down on people who ask it. I just wonder why I'm not one of them.
I believe in God, but as for what God is, I don't know. I believe my human mind cannot fathom God in the same way it cannot fathom the vastness and intricate workings of the universe. But neither God nor the universe need my mind to grasp them in order to exist.
I don't have any solution to Why, just an axiomatic idea. The meaning of life is to live.
23 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted Politicain
Oh Facebook, I wish I could quit you.
I have to write this over here, trying to do anything on Facebook is destroying my calm faster and faster every day. I'll try to keep it short because I'm just reacting, I don't have anything real to say for myself – or rather, I don't really have the time. This is just a few thoughts I need to purge myself of.
I've gotten enough benefit from using Facebook that I find it worth the bother. It is a lot of bother though. I hate most of its infrastructure and if I could redesign it I would probably tear it all apart and start from the ground up. It's honestly a terrible tool, but the only one with a critical mass of users, and as far as modern agoras go, that's all that matters.
So it has let me keep in touch with a few people and it has connected me with people connected to career and creative interests. So all that is very valuable and I'd be loathe to give it up. I have to balance that good against the crap design whenever I get so frustrated I think of quitting Facebook.
The thing pushing me to walk away from Facebook now is politics. It doesn't have to do with how Facebook is designed, and everything to do with how people are acting and what they're writing on FB that's trying every last bit of my patience.
I hate scrolling past awful, attack-oriented macros while I'm barely getting to work on my first cup of coffee. I hate reading what otherwise lovely and delightful friends and family are saying about people who disagree with them politically. I hate the joy people are taking at watching the opposition tear itself apart (NB, the opposition of *both* parties). I hate seeing the sincere comments people leave about wishing for actual violence and real bloodshed among Americans.
And I HATE that people aren't taking ownership of their words and implications. When liberals take specific glee at the violence at Trump rallies and openly hope the Right's love the 2nd Amendment comes to violent riots and EXPLICITLY wish for murder to "thin the herd," I am sick to my stomach. When I listen to conservatives offering apologia for Donald Trump's blustering misogyny and racism because "whatever it takes to beat Hillary" I am beyond disgusted.
Politics is all compromise. It requires working with the other side, that's the whole damn point. Trust me, as a dedicated Green-party member and someone who very resentfully lives a capitalist lifestyle, I can tell you with certainty pure idealism leaves no room to actually do anything. I don't care if you have to "hold your nose" to get somewhere with someone, the point is you're getting somewhere, not digging deeper the same shithole we've been festering in for years. Compromise is necessary to civilization. How am I the only person who caught that in Government class?
What the hell are people thinking? Is that supposed to fix something? Is letting people know your disdain for them really going to set you up better after the election? Is venting your thoughts really going to make you a better person? Is it going to encourage anyone to "shape up?"
Or is it going to ingrain the meme of "liberals are X, and conservatives are Y?" Is it going to encourage more repugnant rhetoric that doesn't always stay verbal? Is venting really about something you have on your mind or is it going along with what friends are already chanting? Is it going to inspire and give solace to people with short fuses and ready armaments?
I'm fucking frustrated. Americans, I know you're better than that, I've seen it for myself. Generous and funny, creative and decent… I can't believe that you're going along with it. Is forgetting all about "by the people for the people" in favor of "us vs them" really what we need right now? You know that "they" are really us, right?
What the fuck are you people doing??
31 Tuesday Mar 2015
Do you remember how you first got online, when you first "hung out" on the Internet?
Not just sent an email or double checked a piece of info via text message. When you actually parked it in front of a computer and had whole conversations with someone who you likely had never met in the flesh. Was it over IRC? AOL chat room? Telnet? Or… did you MUD? Did you MOO?
If You Can Get to Buffalo, now playing at Son of Semele Ensemble, takes a wild and fun look back into those days of invented reality and the sweetness, as well as the danger, of a space with no rules.
Assuming you're not one of those millennials who reached puberty around the same time that Myspace or Facebook came online, and you remember sending pings, checking whois, and developing the ability to read a rapidly scrolling screen as half a dozen people "talked" at the same time, then you really know what made the virtual world…"real." Even though we had text _only_, no images whatsoever, we connected over what people had to say for themselves, strange, hilarious, kind, self-serving, depressive, excitable, sly, cruel, sweet or some combination of all these, it was all we had to go on. They could claim to be a 20 year old female college student, or they could be 35 year old male programmer etc… a. you could only take their word for it (and their server location…but that could be spoofed too) and b. asking a/s/l (age/sex/location) was nigh boring when the conversation was formatted around given subjects – a band, a political position or, in the case of MUDs and MOOs, a shared reality created whole cloth from the consensus of the people participating on the given channel.
Forgive me if this sounds curmudgeonly, but back then we could name ourselves anything that struck our fancy and create a backstory and reality that not only ignored facts but disregarded rules of biology and laws of physics. These days social networking sites (read: Facebook) demand real names and even punish people with names that sound fictional. The social networks of this day are built around the idea that you will only share your real self and your real experiences – with everyone, not merely with a self-selected group of strangers who share a variation of your brand of weird.
When did we lose the chance to create the world we wanted, no matter how mad or self-serving or frivolous? Who took it away? Was it when business people decided to build a platform they could monetize? Was it when the jerks showed up and exploited holes in the consensus for their own jollies? Was it fussbuckets who made fun of nerds who were enjoying themselves in a way that didn't make sense?
Is there anything virtual left in the Internet as we know it today? Is freedom only a byproduct of naivete? Come party with us, we'll explore LambdaMOO together.
If You Can Get to Buffalo closes April 12, 2015.
13 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted Background, context-ual, Theatricalin
At Son of Semele Ensemble we've just put the play CIVILIZATION by Jason Grote into production. The thing it's pretty much entirely about is my life and yours too. (Also, I was the dramaturg.)
Through the last few entries I've been leading to a point of trying to explain the sensation of balancing my life on the toes of one foot. My safe ground has fallen away until now there's just a patch under me where I can be without feeling like I'm imposing on other people. I feel hemmed in, compromised and stressed out.
And there's nothing really special about me. All around me, every where I go, people are getting squeezed in much the same way. I don't have to work hard to find people stressed out by bills, unable to get ahead in their careers, unable to find full time work, unable to get to a point where they can take a full, unencumbered breath and stand on two feet like a fully realized human being.
Even as a society we look around and easily people who have it worse than we do. We're not in a war zone, we're not living in the midst of toxic material (actually, we created that toxic material, most of the time), our strife is nothing like slavery or institutionalized sexual exploitation or a lack of access to education or mass censorship. We can learn whatever we want, say whatever we want, say yes or say no to sex whenever we want and in theory merit is the only thing that lands or limits employment – not race or creed or gender….
And yet. And yet… and yet it's so fucking hard. how? Why? What the hell happened that got all this chaos going, and not in the ordered way of society that we were told we'd get back when we were in school?
We ask those questions and self-appointed authorities try to step in and explain it all. They promise pathways out. They claim they'll teach us how to anticipate things that could go wrong. Or tell us who or what is to blame. (We really like that last one.)
But in actuality the questions are rhetorical. It doesn't matter how we got here, or it doesn't matter that much. Because asking that question betrays the longing for things to "go back to normal." And that is never going to happen.
What the thing is, the thing IS. More importantly, the course of events aren't going to slow down and wishing they would go in reverse is so ridiculous it's almost insane.
KAREN: Do you ever feel like you're made for something different than everyone else.
DAVID: Everyone feels that way. That's why life is so disappointing.
But when we're upset – okay, when I'm upset – childish reactions are to be expected. I pout and blame others and ask unhelpful questions like "WHYYYY??" and complain about life being unfair.
Our civilization seems to be made of supposed adults running around not at all sure how things got to be like this and holding on to the deep seated feeling that it's not supposed to be this hard.
CIVILIZATION is a terrific look at life this very minute, on the last patch of ground we feel we can own. We're all losing our balance in real time. Our civilization is falling apart and the only good thing about it is that we're now allowed to make up whatever the heck we want about what is next.
01 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted context-ualin
I was trying to stop crying. But that just made it all worse. God, trying to cry quietly just sucks.
Even when I'm doing things I like (theatre, voice acting), there's still biding shadows in the back of my mind. I can rather forget that they're there. I can even get so that I forget what it's like and end up criticizing other anxiety-ridden depressives like a normal, non-messed up person. The thing I can't forget, ever, is that stress really brings on the bad brain.
When I'm okay it just pisses me off because it kills so much of my time and energy. On an okay bout like this one, I lose maybe a day. But I've lost months if not years barely able to get out of bed.
I've got *so much* that I want and need to get done that laying about, staring off into space ends up feeling like a cosmic insult I'm giving myself, after all the other abuse I've already laid on me.
Everything I'm good at, everything I want more of, is totally crippled – I can't think creatively, I can't tune into good art or other people's feelings. Every effort feels hobbled; productivity slows way down, assuming I can get anything done at all. And I feel like every single thought has a giant boulder that it has to go around in order to come together in the real world.
There's no real reason to tread all this ground – Allie Brosh already did the job spot on. I mean, the line "No, see, I don't necessarily want to KILL myself…I just want to become dead somehow" is perfect (and in context, hugely funny). But maybe only folks who know what depression is like can get that, and everyone who doesn't know it should count their damned blessings.
What's on my mind is two things: The difficulty of trying to build a life at the same time that stress triggers anxiety and depression. As well as the frustration and pain that comes when a bad episode gets written off as angst, to say nothing of being accused of attention whoring while getting slapped around by self-hatred.
Whatever I do with my life, no matter where I go or what company I keep, this disorder hangs around. If I've got an episode going then all of my measurements for situations between people are completely distorted. Clear thoughts are almost impossible, and even when I think I've got one, I rarely actually do.
After decades of measuring myself and whatever I create, all I can say is… I dunno. Am I good at anything? I dunno. Am I smart? I dunno. Am I talented? I dunno. Is what I made any good? I don't know. I can only go by what other people say because when I rely on my native judgment, folks and I regularly part ways.
Can there be more frustrating conditions for trying to make a go at creating art for a living?
But like I said, that's all a part of my life. I make art because I have to. I'm to the theatre like the ocean is to water. And I've found voice acting spurs everything I like bringing into the world. It's stressful making these happen as my body of work. And of course all the rest of life – sharing living space and getting dinner on the table and finding the time to be alone and paying bills and dodging debt and just trying to keep even more things from breaking… All of it piles on the stress until something finally breaks my last resolve to push on and all I can do is choke and gulp and wipe my face before anyone notices I've been crying.
I'm not sure what the hell else I'm supposed to say for myself when these are the circumstances through which I view the world. But… I think… I think, I'm a pretty good actor. Maybe.
Title was taken from one of the poems in Birthday Letters, written by Ted Hughes, better known as Mr Sylvia Plath (to whom the poem was addressed).
"Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give."
Rough to read, but you know who really doesn't want that "strange glitter?" The person who's too fucking depressed to swim to shore.
13 Wednesday Jun 2012
The terrible things we do to animals, the terrible things we do to ourselves and each other. ROADKILL CONFIDENTIAL is the second play at Son of Semele Ensemble with a central theme of dead animals that I've worked on. Of course, years before I heard of SOSE, they put on the mother of all animal metaphors – ANIMAL FARM.
Unlike in Sheila Callaghan's ROADKILL where animals are (at least at first) killed on accident, in SLAUGHTER CITY (by Naomi Wallace) the animal would be put to death intentionally. But each time humans are the agents of death. Where in ROADKILL the destruction flows out of the need to go faster, reach greater glory, in SLAUGHTER CITY death was the last stop of exploitation and degradation that flowed down from management to senior workers to junior employees to the animals.
But each time animals suffer because we need to get from point A to point B. Whether it's moving in a fast, heavy vehicle which could cause an even bigger mess if a poorly calculated swerve was taken at the wrong moment, or because our common and most socially accepted diet calls for steady consumption of meat. I suppose our society immediately tries to find the ethics of it – is it necessary, that is, what is reasonable when it comes to the consideration of other creatures while pursuing our own interests? But it doesn't matter – animals still receive the end of our agency, whether it is dismemberment or mercy.
The way that things are, though, is what these plays see. In a rural area, especially where the roads are dark and windy, we tend to assume there's little to be done but accept that people will have to run down small critters as they go into town. Just like we tend to assume there is little we can do about the poor people in disaster areas and war zones who must live chaotic and short lives. And we figure our hamburgers and hot dogs have to come from somewhere but we've been told not to look too closely into it because the process is really pretty gnarly. Just like we avoid looking into the realities of factory working conditions and present day labor exploitation.
We may ask ourselves how much we should really invest in caring about our fellow man – after all if getting broken up by women mass raped in the Congo doesn't help them one bit is there a real point to empathy? Quitting eating meat won't slow the thousands of animals that are slaughtered every year and it definitely won't engender safer and better paying working conditions for slaughterhouse employees; realistically, it'll just weird out everyone around you.
It's the divide over the extent of our agency. We can drive slowly enough so Thumper can make it across the road safely. And we can find sources of iron and protein elsewhere. But we can't make such a direct impact to people suffering due to the institutionalized methods of preserving the status quo. Conflicts in foreign lands will develop to protect financial interests of those who live much closer to us, and power plays will develop in the workplace that push people in every direction (physical, sexual, financial). The pursuit of one goal will have all of these unintended consequences. But solving the consequences (while trying to avoid creating more negative fallout) requires a huge battery of tasks by an enormous number of people armed with such comprehensive knowledge that can't practically exist.
It almost makes a person want to dedicate herself to never leaving the house and switching to an all grass diet. But then how will the earthworms hide from the birds?! And we go around again.
04 Friday May 2012
The only thing more annoying and insulting than being lied to is watching someone believe in their own false witness. It's hurtful when it's a personal matter and induces cynicism when it's done in a broader arena such as the political or artistic fields.
It's a subject that's been kicking around in my head for a couple months, ironically spurred by watching Mike Daisey talk about the Stop Kony project on the MSNBC show Up With Chris – less than a week before he was outed for his own project's dishonest shortcomings. (I had actually never heard of Daisey before, having somehow missed the now-infamous This American Life episode.) Both "Stop Kony" and Daisey's "Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" have been shown to play fast and loose with the facts, and in "Jobs" many facts were manufactured wholesale. But my issue is with emotional honesty (and manipulation) over hard facts.
It's a little hard to articulate how we know when an artist is lying to him/herself. But we do know it, even if we can't point to hard facts the deceiver is denying. There is something of the matter of gut feeling – knowing deep inside when someone is being dishonest and vice versa when someone is sincere. We listen for emotional honesty as much as factual accuracy, but the acuity for detecting former cannot be accessed through a rational process. It's the difference between being honest and telling the truth. One can be dishonest and still not perjure oneself.
When dishonesty is in straightforward speech we can sort of hear it as negative honesty – the inversion of truth. We hear it because of what isn't said, what was danced around. Sometimes we notice the scaffolding of an ad hoc narrative that's being constructed to support this version of events. Maybe we take note of certain points in the testimony that appear to make the speaker uncomfortable and discern that the discomfort stems from avoiding the truth of the matter. But again, how do we know? Uh… we just know. Practice maybe? Cultivating skepticism? Being burned before?
Like with learning to tell when someone is misrepresenting facts, figuring out when it's happening requires being versed in the subject at hand, having been around the block once or twice and, perhaps, having a grasp on what it means to pass along falsehoods. Maybe we know when kids are lying because we remember being 8 and desperate to get out of trouble. Maybe we know when a politician is skirting an issue because taking sides on tendentious subjects is not a move that wins more votes than it costs. Maybe we dismiss artistic endeavors as precious or maudlin because deep inside we know when an artist is pulling his punches.
Jason Russell, creator of the Kony2012 video, isn't exactly an artist but an activist employing art to cultivate support for his cause. But Mike Daisey is an artist whose last project had a bit of an activist agenda to it. There is nothing wrong with either, so long as due respect is paid to the audience and we aren't insulted with exaggerations and fabrications.
It's important to note this matter of truth in the realm of artistry, because even we who create and invent as a matter of expression have to do so honestly. Otherwise we are no better than the boy who cried wolf. Not only will we fail to get attention when we get our message right, we will have insulted our potential audience thoroughly. And frankly, at base, we will have failed to do right by our chosen art.
Daisey could have had a powerful presentation simply based on the true facts. Likewise, Russell could have plucked many a heartstring without inducing indigestion had he not conflated certain circumstances and obfuscated others.
The point of doing right by our art, creative integrity, is as profound as it is intangible. No one but the artist is really going to know where she dodged a difficult moment by softening the blow of her own expression. On the inverse, when an artist creates narrative shortcuts because the "real" story is complicated and telling it would be a belabored process the audience may understand the necessary affect is still in place, however they are likely to feel alienated and unwilling to trust their own emotions.
I think it's why sometimes genre art, especially in literature, gets a blanket bad rap. All the trappings of genre are supposed to expose further insight to the human condition, give or take, but they can also trap and occlude it with dressing and tropes that prioritize unreality. Rayguns and spaceships can turn a perfectly decent study of isolation and paranoia into a chest thumping, tall man fantasy. Lace bodices and antiquated property laws both open the chance for a story about the difficulty of trusting love in an era of conflicting interests or it can become an overwrought tale where the cad gives up his roguish ways for the virtuous maid. The second versions tend to yield more gut pleasure but anyone looking for the truth knows – in that same "gut" place – that it's just not so.
In activist art as with genre stories, the emotional truth of a piece can get lost when human complexity is ignored. This is not to say the audience won't feel anything. Even emotional falsehoods can be told with great affect, driving immense interest on the part of the audience. But, as with the story of the Boy who Cried Wolf, altogether too soon the audience will learn not to trust their emotions when they know a deeper story is afoot and that there is an agent purposefully keeping it from them. And altogether too often distrust of one episode breeds distrust of any ensuing efforts both by the same artist and other artists working in the same genre.
Some other time I'll have to write an entry on Art and Untruth. Because it's not like it doesn't sell.


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Yoga Journal July/Aug 1986
pg 23
Some of us are what we become, but
how many of us can become what we see? What happens when the perceiver
fuses with the perceived? Witness Sanjay, whom the French call "Le
Nijinski du Mime." "Sanjay...has the agility and timing of
a gymnast as he hangs suspended from the damnedest position positions.
He also boasts the boneless qualities of a ballet dancer as he simulates
the weightlessness of an astronaut and the lung crushing desperation
of an underwater diver." (Los Angeles Daily News, August 7, 1981)
Visualization and pranayama techniques drawn from Tibetan Buddhism have
been instrumental in catapulting Coleman to the top of his profession.
"Marcel Marceau says that mime is like Buddhism: first you see
the mountain, then you go to it with your head, then your chest, then
your pelvis. Then you rise up rise up to your toes and become that mountain,"
Sanjay explains. "After that you come back and take on the mountain's
stability and solidity. You become one with nature. "Mime yoga
is like that," he continues. "I become a scorpion, or a cat,
or a cobra, or a peacock; I take on its essence and go into an altered
state. It gives me a glimpse of something greater than myself. I can
look at something and understand it. I can look at a bird and fly, and
take on the essence of freedom."
As "The Astronaut", Sanjay seems to defy gravity, levitating above the earth. "I imitate inanimate objects by becoming them and animate objects by taking on their essences," Sanjay says. How does he accomplish this transference of consciousness? "Through breathing," Sanjay claims, "breathing deeply and rhythmically." Of the four types of respiration, mimes use abdominal breathing to effect the stillness of a mannequin. "In order to keep your body so motionless that it doesn't even twitch, you have to be able to control your mind," Sanjay says. He tells of one mime who describes abdominal breathing as circular breathing, in which he not only breathes subtly into the abdomen but also takes in small amounts of air and rebreathes the old air." Another type of respiration is chest breathing, which mimes use to express emotions emanating from the heart, such as a lover's sigh. The weakest, shallowest form of breathing is clavicular breathing, in which the shoulders move up and down. Mimes use it to express laughing and crying. In Charlie Chaplin's "Dead Wife" routine, Chaplin is laughing as he mixes a drink, hears bad news as he turns away from the audience, and is crying as he turns to face the audience again — yet his shoulder movement remains exactly the same. The fourth type of respiration, complete breathing, combines the other three. Marcel Marceau developed what he calls the "poetic gesture" to bring about a transition from one idea to another. Specifically, the poetic gesture is a lyrical arm movement done in conjunction with the breath. An example would be to inhale and raise the arm in front of the body, then exhale and lower it. This give the impression of wiping an imaginary screen. According to Sanjay, anyone who uses the poetic gesture is using Marceau's style of mime.
Sanjay believes that mime, like t'ai chi chuan, is meditation in motion. A mime's basic tools are head, hands and chest. Corporal mime uses mainly the body and head, pantomime primarily the hands and face. "When you place your hands on any one of the chakras, you emphasize its qualities, "Sanjay says. Melodramatic theater, especially in the 1920s, used lots of hand gestures on the seven chakras as well as movements of those chakras without the use of the hands. "'Macho men tuck their thumbs into their pockets, hands dangling suggestively near their crotches. The liberated woman puts her hands on her hips, cock her hips, and claims, "I can type 100 word a minute, but I don't do coffee!" Superman bunches his fists at his solar plexus, which indicates strength. Hands placed flat on the small of the back suggest fatigue. Squeezing the sides of the waist with the inner part of the forearm expresses certain forms of intuitive thought and is often used by women to say, "Don't go. It doesn't feel right for you to go. I don't feel safe." A chest pushed out indicates courage. A rib cage lifted suggests a warrior ready for combat or an athlete ready for action. A chest pushed back indicated cowardice. A dropped chest shows sadness, fear, or ill health. Passing the hands over the heart chakra expresses feeling of love. For example, mimes breathe deeply and exhale, hands on heart, to represent a lover's sigh. The heart area pushed out indicates love and good health; rounded shoulders protecting the heart indicate someone who is crushed, fearful, or sad and is not letting anyone in. Girls cover their throats with their hands when they feel embarrassed or shy. Loosening a tie or a collar indicates freedom or relief. Grabbing the throat and holding the breath indicates surprise. The third eye, or pineal center, is the locus of creative thought. A finger pointing up, eyes lifted, shows an "aha," an idea, and inspiration. Looking down, as in Rodin's "The Thinker", indicates analytical thought; scratching the head indicated perplexity; and looking all the way up, as in prayer, illustrates the crown chakra, the center of God-realization.
As a child, Sanjay thought he would become a priest. In college he studied economics while living in a Berkeley, California, religious co-op called Unitas, whose purpose was to disseminate information about what it means to be human in contemporary America.
One of Unitas's requirements was that Sanjay give a lecture on suffering in the United States. "Our mental and physical suffering are different from those of the people of africa, Beirut, or Vietnam," Sanjay says, "I couldn't express it in words, so I did a skit called 'The Loser', about a baseball pitcher who loses the World Series by dropping a fly ball in the bottom of the ninth inning. It displayed the agony of losing a very, very important event." The skit won him accolades, and a mime was born. Sanjay went on to study with the Japanese mime Mamako at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater Group in Berkeley before leaving for Paris in the early 1970's to study with Marcel Marceau and Marceau's teacher, Etienne Decroux.
While strolling along the Seine, Sanjay prayed to have three wishes granted: to find the fountain of youth, to discover the secret of life, and to excel in his art. He found the fountain of youth in Paris when an Indian dancer and yoga teacher introduced him to Hatha Yoga, which taught him the correct ways to exercise, eat, breathe, and think. He uncovered the secret of life through meditation. And he began to excel in his art when his motivation changed. {Doing acts out of love and not from hope for reward opened new doors for me," he says. "I remember walking down the street and thinking, 'I'm going to try to see Christ in everybody, even that jerk over there!".
The death of his girlfriend was the pivotal event that motivated Sanjay to change his thinking habits. "A moment of crisis forces one to reevaluate one's life, he says. "I began to read spiritual books, particularly the Unitas publication The Atom Smashing Power of Mind by Charles Fillmore. Basically, it states that by changing your thoughts you change the events in your life. The right way of thinking is to see Christ in every human being. This may sound born-again," he laughs, "but it isn't! Born-again Christianity emphasizes the personality of Jesus; what I call Christian yoga sees Christ as a consciousness."
The New Testament, the Bhagavad Gita, and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines by W. Y. Evans-Wentz form the foundation for Sanjay's approach. "I've recently begun to blend Eastern and Western religious philosophies into my life and, consequently, into my act," he says. "The New Testament guides me in social intercourse, and the Bhagavad Gita and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines help me in the actual practice of mind control. I combine Eastern pranayama and sitting meditation with visualizations of Christian images."
In addition to giving solo performances, Sanjay has toured the world with Diana Ross, has appeared on FR3 (French television), and, most recently, has appeared in a Burger King commerical on American television.
How does it feel to be the first black mime? "I didn't think my skin color would matter", Sanjay say, "but it has hindered my career here in the States. I see my students get job offers that are closed to me. The Burger King commercial was a fluke. "Marceau popularized the white-face style of mime," Sanjay continues, "which is what most people identify as mime. It's frustrating for me, because no matter how much I try, I'm never going to look like Marceau! I use whit, black, and gold face — and no face, which is currently in vogue." Sanjay doesn't have the color problem outside the United States, or in Oregon, where his brother is an English professor at the University of Oregon. "He gets me jobs", Sanjay says with a laugh.
Partly to break through the color barrier, Sanjay decided to created a specialty, a field of mastery that would remove him from Marceau's shadow. "Being an Aries has its positive side," he explains. "I wanted to do something unique, and mime yoga was perfect. Yoga helps me get away from the egocentricity, the self-centeredness, that comes with being an Aries." Sanjay does one and one-half to two hours of Hatha Yoga each day, including mime yoga. Three times a week he does other physical activities, like jazz dancing, far at least an hour, and every other day he does two hours of acrobatic training. In all he averages three hours of physical training each day.
Since his return to the States several years ago, Sanjay has been working closely with Sol Cohen, the only living vaudeville comedy-acrobatic teacher, and he has formed the Sanjay-Stuart Vaudeville Comedy Acrobatic Act in an effort to reach a larger audience and to make a living from his art. "I don't regret the choice to become an artist rather than an economist," he says. "I want to give my life to an art form that I can perhaps raise to the level of religious art. But I would also like to make a living at it."
Sanjay often leads mime yoga workshops
at the Sivananda International Yoga Institute in Los Angeles, including
one entitled "The Healing Breath," in which he retrains participants
to breathe correctly. In addition, he give individual therapeutic mime
yoga sessions to people of all ages.
"There's no age limit in mime
yoga,"Sanjay says. "I can do it my entire life. Marceau is
in his late fifties. Had he been into yoga, he would be even greater
than he is today. He would have been able to keep his body in good condition
and his mind more humble, like a fruit tree that bends in humility from
the weight of its fruit. That's my goal — to be like the fruit tree."
A former on-air production coordinator
for a Los Angeles television station, Susan Woldenberg is now a freelance
writer based in southern California.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Sermon - James 1:13-21
An audio podcast of this sermon is available here.
|James the Apostle by Peter Paul Rubens.
Today's gospel reading is James 1:17-21, but to give it some context, I'm going to start at James 1:13:
No one undergoing a trial should say, "I am being tempted by God." For God is not tempted by evil and He Himself doesn't tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death. Don't be deceived [or 'led astray'], my dearly loved brothers. Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning. By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the first fruits of His creatures. My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man's anger does not accomplish God's righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
The major concern of James' letter of wisdom is encouraging Christians to persevere with integrity as they 'experience various trials' (James 1:2). Current events remind us that even today being Christian can mean facing literal trial and persecution. Remember Dr Meriam Ibrahim, condemned to hang by a court in
this week after she refused to renounce her faith in Jesus. Remember the school
girls abducted by 'Boko Haram' in Sudan . A video from their captors
shows about a hundred girls dressed in hijabs, chanting
verses from the Koran. The terrorist leader says: 'These girls have become Muslims.' Nigeria
Such events naturally raise questions in our minds about God and evil, and it's good to wrestle with such questions. However, James isn't a book of philosophy. It's a pastoral letter to Christians under pressure. James isn't addressing the question: 'How can God allow hardship?' He is addressing the question: 'What attitude should Christians adopt towards the hardship in their lives?'
Although the word for 'trials' and 'temptations' is the same word in the Greek, it seems clear that verse 13 signals a shift in James' topic, from the outward trials of persecution to the inner trials of temptation, from our holy trials to our unholy trials as it were. Douglas Moo comments:
'God, James has said, promises a blessing to those who endure trials. Every trial, every external difficulty, carries with it a temptation, an inner enticement to sin. God may bring, or allow, trials; he is not, James insists, the author of temptation.'
God doesn't entice us to do wrong. But doesn't Genesis 22:1 say 'God tempted Abraham'? Well, no, not in the majority of translations it doesn't. Genesis 22:1 says God 'tested' Abraham. When God tests someone, He is providing them with an opportunity to rise to the occasion and He isn't willing or desiring them to fail the test. Whether or not our trials are intended by God as part of his perfect will, or merely allowed by God as part of his permissive will, God isn't deliberately trying to trip us up.
In verses 14 and 15 James lays out our problem with temptation and sin: 'each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.' In verse 17 James begins to lay out the solution: 'Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.' There are two main points here. The first point isn't that God and only God is the source of all and only good things. The word translated here as 'every' has a range of means, including 'all manner of'. The point is simply that God is a generous giver of all sorts of good gifts, including the physical cosmos. The second point is that, by contrast with the unreliable, varying light given to us by the sun and moon, God's gift-giving is characterised by a reliable consistency. The word translated here as variation is used in Greek for the setting of the teeth in a saw or for the alternation of seasons. James is saying that God's desire for our salvation doesn't wax and wane like the seasons or the phases of the moon. God doesn't act against his own purposes as if he were double-minded.
Several commentators note that the phrase 'the Father of lights' echoes the Jewish morning prayer, which moves from acknowledging God as creator to God as redeemer, so it comes as no surprise when verse 18 re-introduces God's gift of salvation for those who 'look into the perfect law of freedom and continue in it' (James 1:25). The gospel is part of God's perfect will – The NRSV translates the start of verse 18 'He, in fulfillment of his purpose' - and God won't give with one hand whilst taking away with the other.
God's clear intention is that we be the figurative 'first fruits' of the earthly creation. In 1 Corinthians 15:20 the Old Testament image of the 'first fruits' of the harvest, which were dedicated to God in remembrance of his faithfulness, is applied to Christ. Here in James the image is applied to those who are 'in' Christ. Again, the emphasis is upon God's faithful provision for his people.
In the light of God's character and provision, it makes no sense for us to say 'I am being tempted by God'. Of course, we can say 'God is allowing me to be tempted'; but we can't absolve ourselves of moral responsibility by noting that God has permitted us moral responsibility! Nor should we dissolve the foundation of our best hope and motivation in the face of temptation by falsely portraying God as actively opposing his own gospel intent.
When we face temptation it is of course true to say 'you win some, you lose some'. In 2 Corinthians 3:18 Paul celebrates how 'We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.' On the other hand, Paul laments in Romans 7:21: 'I want to do good, but in practice I do evil.' (J.B. Phillips)
Sometimes we endure temptation by not giving in to it. At other times we don't endure, and our evil desires give birth to sin. The important thing to grasp is this: if you feel guilty because you failed to endure temptation, then your sin isn't yet 'fully grown'. Rather, your guilt, that pained sense of failure, is itself a new trial, a new temptation trying to draw you away from the forgiveness and transforming power of God. The new temptation is to give up the good fight, to stop enduring and persevering in the process of humbly receiving the implanted word. It's the temptation to say 'Surely God won't forgive me again'. It's the temptation to feel, 'God can't fix me, so why bother trying? It's the temptation to say 'I am being tempted by God.' So let us not be led astray, my brothers and sisters, but let us 'humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save' us. Amen.
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The title of this post is in part a reference to Elizabeth Gilbert's talk on TED (which I have mentioned before)and relates to the fact that sometimes creativity just isn't happening. According to EG (whom of course you know is the author of Eat Pray Love, a book I read despite not wanting to for a long while then did and glad I did), whether or not one is feeling inspired, it's important to turn up for work and just get down to it.
And that is what I am doing these days ... turning up, keeping busy, doing simple tasks, writing lists, starting new projects, getting distracted, wandering out for a bit more distraction, moving the studio around ... und so weiter. I am becoming a tad worried because there are markets looming and it's all very slow and not so productive.
I think it's very curious how there is a natural tendency to be distracted from things when things are difficult or challenging, though it's not just about running away. Distraction, according to my dictionary, is defined as an obstacle to concentration and concentration is defined as to come to a single purpose or aim. So when I am distracted there is something getting in the way of my aims and I want to know what it is!!!
Here I am getting thoroughly distracted looking up the meaning of words but I have to say that when all else fails, exploring things, pulling things appart, analysing, deviating, etc blah (as maman would say) is exactly what helps me get back to focusing on the main event. Kind of like a kind person tapping on my shoulder and saying "it's okay, go off and explore, see what you find, come back when you are ready".
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Police describe the suspect as a dark-skinned male, possibly Asian-Indian. He is about 30-years old, 5'6" tall. He's said to have a chubby build, short wavy black hair and a rounded nose.


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