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Based on the remarkable true story of Holocaust survivor Lale Solokov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is compelling tale of hope, love and survival.
Heather Morris's debut novel, one of the bestsellers of 2018, is based on years of conversations she had with Lale prior to his death in 2006. A Slovakian Jew, Lale was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 and quickly stood out, earning himself the position of tätowierer – the tattooist of Auschwitz – after the previous one "disappeared". Lale became responsible for permanently marking the thousands of prisoners entering the camp with their identification numbers, and one day his life changed forever when he met Gita Fuhrmannova– in Lale's own words he tattooed a number on her arm and she in turn tattooed her name on his heart. Lale tried to use his position and extra privileges to try and do good, smuggling extra food, medicine and gifts to Gita and their friends. Both survived the hell of Auschwitz and Lale managed to track the love of his life down, proposing on the spot. The pair went on to live a long and happy life together in Australia with their son. Lale kept his past secret for over sixty years for fear of being seen as a Nazi collaborator, and only decided to come forward with his extraordinary story after Gita's death.
Despite The Tattooist of Auschwitz being based on a true story, there are some inconsistencies which have come to light following publication (see here for more details), but that doesn't detract from the heart of the novel – Lale and Gita's romance. The two of them are likeable and it's impossible not to champion them both. There is a lot packed into the book, and it provides an overview of the hell prisoners had to endure and builds suspense – even though Lale and Gita's story was obviously a happy one, they both had to endure some terrible times before they left the concentration camp. The Tattooist of Auschwitz feels very much like a dark fairy tale, packed full of drama with an unexpected happy ending. The book is a compelling and heart-warming read from start to finish, and it's hard to believe that something good could come out of Auschwitz given the atrocities that took place at the death camp.
But while The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a very gripping read, at times it feels as though it glosses over some of the horrors of the concentration camp. Within the story Lale witnesses a number of wicked acts and meets some infamous leaders of Auschwitz, including Josef Mengele (the notorious physician who conducted inhumane experiments on people), and despite being one of the "lucky ones" with more privileges than most, he must have been deeply traumatised by what he witnessed. Having visited Auschwitz-Birkenau myself I'm still unable to forget some of the things I read and saw there about the gruelling conditions prisoners were kept under, yet none of this is never really explored in much detail within the book, which made me feel uncomfortable at times. It doesn't help that the style of writing is very matter of fact, meaning that for the most-part Lale's emotions aren't really examined in detail, particularly when some of his friends within the camp are taken away and murdered.
If it's an endearing love story you're after, a tale of love overcoming despair, The Tattooist of Auschwitz should definitely be on your reading list. It's a remarkable tale, an easy read with likable characters, and of course a happy ending.


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Via Collins commented on a recent crossword conquest: "Can't help think showing a completed cryptic on a blog is vaguely in the 'getting a root and going down the pub and telling your mates about it' category".
He's right; up to a point.
Showing a completed cryptic on a blog, when the grid has been fucked up, completely transcends boorish pub skyting. It's all class.
It's also a matter of record which SHOULD be posted on a blog, and probably linked to by megablogs - Instawhatsit, Huffington Puff, Two Boings and Little Green Crosswords - so the whole world can bask in my aura.
"Ooo, vicar! My aura, indeed."

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The UKCSAPT has found that Governmental institutions failed to provide survivors of sexual abuse with meaningful opportunities for either healing or justice, and that the mental health needs of survivors in the UK are not being met.
It made a series of recommendations including the establishment of a permanent and open forum for victims to share experiences and give evidence, better links between mental health services and police investigations, and training for police and judiciary professionals on the effects of undisclosed sexual abuse.
The main findings of the UKCSAPT report were:
- There are clear links between children rendered vulnerable by institutional failures and predatory abuse on an organised scale, even if these links often remain obscure
- Governmental institutions have failed to provide survivors with meaningful opportunities for either healing or justice
- The vital mental health needs of survivors are not being met and this undermines both their psychological recovery and access to justice
- Police and other authorities often lack the training to understand the complex reasons for the inability of survivors to immediately disclose a history of abuse
- Without far-reaching changes in institutional culture and practices, the sexual abuse of children will continue to be a significant scourge in the United Kingdom.
The report also outlined a series of recommendations for improving reporting and mental health provision, and access to justice for victims were made, including:
- A permanent, government-funded popular tribunal should be established to enable survivors to come forward and tell their stories.
- Survivors giving evidence should be assigned an advocate to assist their access to justice.
- Mental health services should be linked to police investigations to help victims disclose abuse.
- Victims who fear reprisals should be provided with a channel though which to give evidence anonymously.
You can read the full report here


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Robins have been just about anywhere and everywhere I've walked this Xmas.
The warm mild winter seems to have got them rockin their robin songs out with an extra oomph of gusto.
The little robin is a very gusto-ey kind of bird.
An unstoppable ball of breast-red fire.
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Time Series Models: Development Trends of Foodstuffs Consumption in CR Considering Healthy Eating
DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110205
No 2/2019, June
pp. 43-53
Köppelová, J. and Svatošová, L. (2019) "Time Series Models: Development Trends of Foodstuffs Consumption in CR Considering Healthy Eating", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 43-53. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2019.110205.
The agrarian sector can be understood in several ways, according to the integration of the agrarian sector into national economic structures. Understanding the agrarian sector in its complex relation to the sectors that represent the final consumption of already processed agricultural products - food (not agricultural raw materials) represents agribusiness. Among other issues, food consumption is affected by the newest nutrition trends and opinions on healthy eating and food safety. The paper´s aim is an indication of development tendencies in the consumption of some selected food types and subsequent construction of a short-term forecast, considering food quality and healthy eating. Some of the prognostic procedures based on time series extrapolation have been applied in this paper. Time series analysis is therefore the starting basis for assessment of the selected foodstuffs consumption developmental tendencies and a subsequent short-term forecasts construction.The results demonstrate unambiguously that, the time series analysis methods can be applied with success in finding development tendencies of the food consumption indicators studied. Application of the adaptive models in particular, can bring good quality outcomes in this field. Anyway, it is not possible to reach an unambiguous conclusion concerning the assessment whether the consumption of some selected food types is in line with nutritional recommendations. In some cases it is, in some it is not.
Extrapolation, time series models, forecast, agribusiness, food consumption in the CR, healthy eating, nutrition recommendations.
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This is a section from a large painting by Scrimgeour – Her work is so very beautiful and profound. One can easily see how arduous and pain staking it must have been to execute – and it's not copied from a photograph! So I was told,by one of the fortunate Everard Read Gallery owners, David Tripp. […]
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Porto do Sul's gluten-free cheese bread (Pão de Queijo)
Makes 4 dozen mini muffins or 2 dozen standard muffins
Spray vegetable oil
¾ cup canola oil
1 ¾ cups milk
3 eggs
½ tablespoon salt
3 ¾ cups packed tapioca flour
2 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400° F. Spray muffin pans with vegetable oil and set aside.
In an 8-cup blender, pulse oil, milk, eggs and salt.
Add tapioca flour 1 cup at a time, pulsing after each addition to blend.
Add Parmesan and pulse just enough to distribute cheese evenly throughout the batter.
Pour batter into the prepared muffin pans, filling ¾ full. Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden.
Serve immediately while warm; cheesebread deflates as it cools. Repeat the process with remaining batter or save for another day; batter may be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Chimichurri-mayo sauce
1 cup tightly packed parsley leaves
2-3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
¼ red bell pepper, seeded
1 teaspoon oregano
¼ cup white vinegar
¼ cup olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup good-quality mayonnaise
Lettuce, for serving
Finely chop parsley, garlic, bell pepper and oregano in a food processor. Add vinegar and oil in a fine stream. Season to taste with salt. Mix 2 tablespoons chimichurri with mayonnaise.
To assemble picanha sliders:
Split cheesebread and spread a teaspoon of chimichurri mayo on the bread. Add slices of picanha and top with lettuce to serve.
Polenta (Tannin Wine Bar)
1 cup polenta medium grain
2 cups whey – alternative 1 ½ cup water plus ½ milk
2/3 cup white wine
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup cream cheese
· combine white wine, whey and salt in a pot and bring to a boil
· whisk in polenta while liquid is boiling little by little
· make sure there is no lumps in polenta then cover and low simmer until most of the liquid has been cooked off (10-20 minutes)
· add the cream cheese, stir and keep heat on low heat until all the cream cheese has melted into the polenta
Tarragon / Parsley Cream Sauce (Tannin Wine Bar)
2 tablespoons fresh tarragon
½ bunch flat leaf parsley
2 cups cream
1 cup cream cheese
· simmer cream with cream cheese until cream cheese melts, allow to cool slightly
· add all ingredients in blender or food processor and blend thoroughly
· CAUTION: if blender is on high when you turn it on you will make a mess with hot cream
· season to taste
· recommended 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar
White Bean Puree (Tannin Wine Bar)
2 cups white beans
1 parsnip, peeled, rough chop
3 garlic cloves rough chop
½ small onion large dice
3 green onions large cut (only the white end)
1 small leek large dice and washed (only the white end)
1/3 cup coconut milk
white pepper
· soak your white beans in water overnight
· add twice as water because beans will expand over nights
· strain out beans and in a pot and will with water (6-8 cups) then simmer for 45 minutes
· in a sauté pan cook garlic, onion, green onion, leeks, and parsnips in 2 tablespoons of canola or vegetable oil
· cook on low heat and do not brown vegetables 5-10 minutes
· add sautéed vegetables (parsnips will be undercooked) to simmering bean water
· cook items in pot until all items are soft (overcooked) add more water if needed
· strain out beans and vegetable and save 2 cups of liquid
· blend in food processor with liquid that was set aside
· season with salt and pepper to taste
· recommended 2 teaspoons salt 1 pinch of white pepper
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Word to your mother. Aw shucks. This was THE best ice cream to eat growing up in Tucson. I mean, when we weren't at Eegees anyway. It's tart, crisp, citrusy, refreshing. I think it's safe to say Daiquiri Ice from Baskin Robbins has always been one of my top 2 ice creams…ever. This recipe is the spittin' image. I found the recipe online here. So simple. PS, Costco has ice cream machines for TWENTY THREE CLAMS. You are insane if you don't own one by sun-up. Is that word hyphenated? Anyway…please. I beg you. Make this happen. It's about to get really hot up in here. Summer sends her love!
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tsp imitation rum extract
- 1 tsp citric acid powder – it is a necessary ingredient. I found it here
- 1 drop green food coloring
How to make Daiquiri ice Baskin Robbins :
Heat sugar and water just until sugar melts. Remove from heat and add citric acid. Stir until dissolved. Let mixture cool until lukewarm, then add rum extract, lime juice and food coloring. Refrigerate until chilled. Churn in an ice cream machine for 25 minutes. Spoon ice into freezer-safe bowl, and move to the freezer for an hour before serving.


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In a fit of post-PhD arrogance1, I thought I'd write a blog about what I learned.
My academic talents might be a bit limited but there's a couple of things I'm good at: reading and writing. I can churn out words at a phenomenal rate. The whole concept of 'writing up' a PhD was completely foreign to me, because I started writing right out of the gate. Plus, I can read really fast. It's a talent I developed when I did my first degree. It's quite normal in an English Literature setting for assigned seminar reading to be half a dozen chunky Victorian novels which you do need to discuss in detail (plus you might want to find commentaries/articles on these books, if you want to be swotty), so it's not a question of skimming. Read more
This will no doubt dissipate as I go through the detailed corrections. ↩


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The path to the authentic self is the path to heart, the path to soul, the path to That Which Has Always Been Called God. I say "That Which Has Always Been Called God," because "God" presumes "The God of Abraham, Moses and Jesus," and stands before us draped with the theology and doctrines, creeds and dogmas of the Christian religion (with a tip of the hat to Judaism). And we cannot get to That Which Has Always Been Called God, with our idea of God standing in the way.
To find our way to That Which Has Always Been Called God, we have to lay aside theology, doctrine, creeds and dogma, and step into our life as those who would experience our experience, see what we look at, hear what is being said (Including hearing what we are saying as well as what is being sad to us and around us), know what we know, live out of our own authority, and trust ourselves to have what we need to find what we need in order what needs to be done in each situation that arises.
The way to this way of life is the path to the Authentic Self. As we find our way to the self we are born to be, we find our way to That Which Has Always Been Called God, and live from the heart in ways that make wherever we are a good place to be. Walking this path is the work of the spiritual journey, which is the hero's journey, which is the high adventure of being alive.
Alice Miller, in The Drama of the Gifted Child, theorizes that as they get older, children face a choice between being authentic and honest or being loved. If they choose authenticity and wholeness—integrity—they are abandoned by their parents and significant others in their lives; if they choose to be loved, they abandon their true selves.
Reflecting on Miller's observations, Mary Phipher, in Reviving Ophelia, writes:
(Miller's) patient's parents, because of their own childhood experiences, regarded parts of their children's personalities as unacceptable. They taught their children that only a small range of thoughts, emotions and behaviors would be tolerated. The children disowned that which wasn't tolerated. If anger was not tolerated, they acted as if they felt no anger. If sexual feelings were not permitted, they acted as if they had no sexual urges. As children, her patients chose parental approval and experienced a loss of their true selves. They stopped expressing unacceptable feelings and engaging in the unacceptable behaviors, at least in front of adults. They stopped sharing the unsanctioned thoughts. The part of them that was unacceptable went underground and eventually withered from lack of attention. Or that part of them that was unacceptable was projected onto others. Miller believed that as the true self was disowned, the false self was elevated. If others approved, the false self felt validated and the person was temporarily happy. With the false self in charge, all validation came from outside the person. If the false self failed to gain approval, the person was devastated.
The loss of the true self was so traumatic that her patients repressed it. They had only a vague recollection of what was lost, a sense of emptiness and betrayal. They felt vulnerable and directionless—happy when praised and devastated when ignored or criticized. They were like sailboats without centerboards. Their self-worth changed with whatever way the wind blew. Miller contrasted adults with false selves to authentic adults who experienced all feelings, including pain, in an honest way. Authentic adults accepted themselves rather than waiting for others to accept them. This state of psychological health she called vibrancy.
Her weapon against mental illness was "the discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth of each individual." She encouraged her patients to accept what happened to them as young children. Only then could they become authentic people.
Miller wrote about this process as if it were an either-or phenomenon. But in fact, this process of creating false selves in children follows a continuum that ranges from basic socialization to abuse. It is present in all families:
All parents accept and reject some of their children's behaviors and teach children to sacrifice some wholeness to social acceptability. However, even the most authoritarian parents usually don't succeed in totally destroying the true selves of their children.
I think that a process analogous to Miller's occurs for girls in early adolescence. Whereas Miller sees the parents as responsible for the splitting in early childhood, I see the culture as splitting adolescent girls into true and false selves. The culture is what causes girls to abandon their true selves and take up false selves.
Often parents are fighting hard to save their daughter's true selves. Parents encourage their daughters to stay with their childhood interests and argue with them over issues such as early sexual activity, makeup, diets and dating. They encourage athletics and math and science classes. They dislike the media values and resist cultural definitions of their daughters as consumers or sex objects. They do not want their daughters to sell their souls for popularity. They are fighting to preserve wholeness and authenticity. But because of girls' developmental stage, parents have limited influence. As daughters move into the broader culture, they care what their friends, not their parents, think. They model themselves after media stars, not parental ideals.
With puberty, girls face enormous cultural pressure to split into false selves. The pressure comes from schools, magazines, music, television, advertisements and movies. It comes from peers. Girls can be true to themselves and risk abandonment by their peers, or they can reject their true selves and be socially acceptable. Most girls choose to be socially accepted and split into two selves, one that is authentic and one that is culturally scripted. In public, they become who they are supposed to be.
Authenticity is an "owning" of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable. Because self-esteem is based on the acceptance of all thoughts and feelings as one's own, girls lose confidence as they "disown" themselves. They suffer enormous losses when they stop expressing certain thoughts and feelings (pp. 36-38, Ballantine paperback edition, 1995).
Writing in Mountain Light, Galen Rowell said,
Everyone who knows how to see with a camera went through an early stage of learning to recognize and trust his or her own perceptions. (p. 25) At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings, to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality. (p. 26)
Talent and drive are not nearly such good indicators of success as the simple act of doing work that matches and expresses one's own personality. (p. 29)
By personal vision I mean something more than a mere sense of sight. Photography is powered by the passion of the individual photographers. At the most basic level all photographers are trying to do the same thing: make images that preserve their most deeply felt visual experiences. To deviate from this pursuit of personal truth, regardless of how much money or fame may be at stake, is to risk losing that all-important source of power forever. (p. 29)
One of the shocking realizations of adult life is that most of us are not fulfilling the most closely held dreams of our youth. Instead of pursuing dreams that were once integral parts of our personalities, we end up in one way or another fulfilling someone else's ideas about who and what we should be, usually at the expense of our creative urges. The universal yearning to be creative is eloquently expressed in these words by Antoine de Saint-Exupry from Wind, Sand and Stars: "Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning." (p. 29)
I stumbled onto the idea that none of the key figures of the Sierra Club's conservation movement had entered careers through a normal course of study. Their writings and photographs had not come as a result of pursuing a college degree or any other project conceived for an external reward, but rather as expressions of deeply held beliefs. (p. 56)
What I did in the wilderness had no purpose other than sheer enjoyment and personal satisfaction. (p. 56)
If we are to find our way to an authentic self-hood and an authentic spirituality, we are going to have to "grasp ourselves by the shoulder while there is still time" and give ourselves permission to follow our true heart's desire for our lives, regardless of how absurd that might appear to our peers or the culture at large. The path to That Which Has Always Been Called God winds through ourselves; we cannot hope to know That Which Has Always Been Called God, without being true to what is being asked of us, without knowing and being true to that which is deepest and best in us.
The disciples stand, peering up into the heavens as Jesus ascends, growing smaller and smaller in the distance, thinking, "Well, here we are—now what???" Now they are on their own, alone. What next? If they were more like we are, they would have quickly fallen into busying themselves with whatever they could think of until their lives were over. Being busy is one of the best ways, perhaps, the very best way, to not know that we don't have a clue about what is going on and what we need to be doing.
Ask anyone what they need be doing and they will begin an immediate list: "I should be doing this, or that, or that over there." And, in a blink, they start doing it, doing "this," and "that," and "that over there." A case could be made for doing it all, so we do everything, to cover our bases, just to be sure. And, to hide from the anxiety of not-knowing what we actually should be doing.
Instead of becoming busy, the disciples lived with their anxiety. They became quiet. The worst thing for an anxious person to be is quiet! The disciples didn't do anything. They waited. They did nothing because they understood the importance of doing nothing, and waiting while clarification is marinating, and vision is simmering, and purpose and direction are beginning to rise in the darkness, and emerge from the stillness and silence of waiting.
But we can't stand waiting. We hate stillness. We cannot tolerate not-knowing, and cannot bear the legitimate pain of our own experience. We cannot bear our pain. Our world goes to the hell of our own making because we cannot bear the pain of our reality, our existence, our not-knowing—cannot bear the pain of birthing what is trying to be born in us, and through us, into the world of concrete and steel.
We all have desires, and aims, and ambitions, and intentions that may well run counter to the direction our hearts would have us go. There is a tremendous difference between asking our idea of God to bless us and help us along toward the life of our dreams, and asking our idea of God to direct us toward the life of that God's dreams—but that God can only dream our dreams for us, and we are left on our own with ourselves to deliver and guide. But all we have is wanting/desiring to lead us from one disappointing dream to the next. The old prayer of confession is right on: "We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts…" Yet, it is not our "heart of hearts" that we have followed. Too often, we have ignored what our hearts were calling us to do, and invested ourselves in the pursuit of that which "was a delight to the eyes."
The real struggle for the birth of the authentic self—the self we are created and called to be—is an inner struggle; it is a struggle between what is attractive and what is essential, between what is desirable and what is necessary. The question is whether our lives will be directed by the "true self," that is, our "heart of hearts," which is connected to That Which Has Always Been Called God and calls us to service beyond our own desiring, or the "false self," which is the self of our own creation, with which we strive to achieve our agenda, and serve our purposes, and realize our ends. And so, at each point in our lives, we might ask ourselves, "Will our real self please stand up and step forward to guide the way, here and now!"
Who is the "I" that directs our steps; plans our day; makes our choices; decides our goals; lives our lives? Is that "I" invested in the service of our true best interest? Or, is that "I" concerned with the orchestration of a competing version of how our lives should be? How would our lives look if they had been under the control of our "heart of hearts" from the beginning? What great battles must be waged in transforming this life into the life of our true heart's dreams? What must we recognize about the aims and purposes of this life in order to be willing to pay the price of abandoning it in favor of our true heart's dreams?
There is a sense in which salvation is coming to the end of this life's rope and realizing that there is another life waiting for us, the life of our true heart's dreams. Salvation is comprehending, finally, that our true heart's dream for us and the dream of That Which Has Always Been Called God for us is the same dream, it is knowing that what is being asked of us is what our true heart has wanted for us all along. It is nothing short of revelation to grasp the fact that our true heart beats in synch with God's heart, that the aims of our authentic self are the aims of God, that when we find our way to our truest self, we find the path to God, and the difference between our true self and God is too small to be weighed or measured. And we can be forgiven if we understand this is what Jesus understood when said, "The Father and I are one."
We do not get to this place of realization—of being saved, of being restored to our true heart's dream for us, easily. As long as this life seems to be working, to be leading us toward prosperity, success and happiness ever after, we have no interest in the other life. The price of salvation is generally the experience of disillusionment and lostness that comes with realizing the emptiness of the false self's plans and ambitions. This life has to fail us in some deeply significant way before we can be ready to open ourselves to the possibilities of the other life, the life of our true heart's dream.
Every experience with despair, then, has the potential of opening us to the possibilities of the other life. Depression is not only an indication that something is dying inside of us, but, also, that something is struggling to be born. Ordinary "down times," or chance meetings with "the blues," can be quiet places where we can hear "the still small voice" of our heart of hearts, whispering to us from far away, hoping that we will recognize "the time of our visitation and know the things that make for peace," so that we might take up the work of discerning the path with heart, and walking it, for the rest of our lives.
Living well in any age is about finding our heart, knowing our heart, living out of our heart. If we do that, we'll have it made regardless of all the things in our lives that aren't like we want them to be. Success isn't to be measured by the degree to which things go our way, but by the degree to which we go the way of our heart, the way our heart has in mind for us, the way our heart is calling us to take up and live out, even though that may insure that things don't go "our way," and we have to proceed along the path with heart anyway, nevertheless, even so.
Here is the truth as clearly spoken as it has ever been told: We are all being led, how well we follow tells the tale. Listening to our heart and following its lead does not mean that we will make a lot of money, or be famous, or be successful as the word is normally defined. Trying to achieve these things may well cut us off from our heart, and render us incapable of knowing what has heart for us. When we live for prosperity and recognition, for instance, we cannot live for our heart. If we put all our energy into prosperity and recognition, we cannot put it into what has heart for us, and prosperity and recognition will then become barriers separating us from where our heart needs us to be, keeping us from living the life that is truly ours to live.
This is not to say that living from the heart is necessarily at odds with prosperity and recognition. It is just to say that prosperity and recognition are not the aim and intention of a life lived from the heart. If they come, they come as by-products, and are not embraced as being particularly wonderful in themselves. More than likely, however, doing what we love will not lead to fortune and glory, or even to an easy life. We may never get anything more out of it than having done what we loved. But what is prosperity and recognition if those things keep us from doing what we love? How much would we give to be able to do what we love? Our focus and goal has to be doing what we love while doing what we must to pay the bills, letting that be enough. This is the most important thing: finding what we truly love and doing it, while paying the bills.
The trick is to run up the right bills—the bills that enable us to live the life that is our life to live. What are we paying the bills to do? What does paying the bills allow us to do? What are we doing that is life for us?
In order to live successful lives, we have to know what has life for us. We have to know the things about which we can say, "My heart is in that." We have to know the things that we can put our hearts into, the things we can give our hearts to, the things we can do with all our heart, whether we get paid for it or not. We have to know the things we "have to do or else"—the things that resonate with us, draw us, catch our eye, call our name.
These are the things that ultimately "make for peace." No matter how much the culture tout's prosperity and recognition as necessary ingredients in "the good life," we find our satisfaction, our peace, in doing the things we are built to do—in being the person we are built to be—and trusting that to be enough. When we live like this, we live from the heart.
"Heart" has to do with the things we are built to do, the things we were born to do, the things we have to do or die (metaphorically speaking). "Heart" is about the life that is uniquely ours, about what has life for us, about where life is found for us, about what brings us deep joy and gladness.
Finding the paths with heart means listening to ourselves, to our lives, to the things that attract us, draw us, compel us to take them up. We do not think our way to these things. We realize them. They occur to us. Pay attention to what occurs to you! We have to learn to listen like this to know where we must go with our life, what we must do. Finding the paths with heart means doing what we have to do for the sake of our soul, our true self, our heart, no matter what. And it is our life-long task to learn to live from the heart in all that we do.
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples and those praying with them, and they began to communicate from the heart to one another in ways they could understand. The Spirit of a Community of Innocence is at work to connect us to the truth of our hearts by enabling us to say what is true about us to those who care for us. It is the freedom to be honest that creates, and is created by, community. It is the ability to say what is true about us to those who care for us that produces, and flows from, community. And the Spirit of that kind of community is Holy in the deepest sense of the word. A Community of Innocence is innocent in the sense that it is not exploitive or manipulative, and has no agenda beyond being present with one another for the true good of the other—without pretending to know what that good is, but is ready and able to live toward the good by listening and looking for clues and hints as to what might be at work within us and through us to connect us with one another and enable us to stand in the presence of each other's truth—which is the essence of love, and the bedrock of community—and so that each person is helped to find the way for themselves individually and for the group to find it for the group as a whole.
Standing in the presence of each other's truth enables us to explore our experience in the company of those who care—about the truth and about each other, and about the truth of each other. And through that process, we come to see clearly and live well, from the heart, reconnected to the authentic self, and take up the task of becoming the people in the service of That Which Has Always Been Called God in following the path with heart, the path of That Which Has Always Been Called God.
Seeing, hearing, understanding, knowing what we know and what can be known is awareness, and awareness is everything. It all depends upon, and flows from, seeing, from being aware. Being mindfully aware (Watch all of the Jon Kabat-Zinn YouTube videos, the shortest ones first!) of what is, as it is, enables us to respond appropriately to whatever is. Appropriate response depends upon right seeing, right hearing, right understanding, right knowing. We cannot know how to live in the world until we can orient ourselves, and know when and where we are, who we are, how we are, what is being asked of us, and what matters most in each situation as it arises. We have to see clearly in order to live well.
And the secret of seeing is saying—speaking with awareness of what we are saying. We cannot see what we cannot say. There are times when we cannot see what is, or how it is with us, until we can say it, until we can put it into words. We see in the act of saying. When we hear ourselves saying how it is with us, we see it—perhaps, for the first time.
This is what good friends and good therapists do for us. This is what a supportive Community of Innocence does for us. They listen us to the truth of who we are. They enable us (sometimes force us!) to see how things are by having us say it, by asking us questions and encouraging exploration, and sitting with us while we struggle for words to say accurately what is trying to be said. Once we can say exactly what is going on in our lives, and how it is impacting us, what to do about it is practically automatic. Saying leads to seeing, and seeing leads to acting and living with awareness and understanding, in living a life that is better by far than the one that said nothing, saw nothing, knew nothing.
We increase our ability to live from the heart by talking in depth about the things that are true for us, that matter to us—by saying what is on our minds, in our souls, in our hearts. If we are to see clearly and live well, from the heart, we have to learn to speak from the heart, about the things that are important to us, so that we might see them for what they are, and know them for the first time.
Living honestly means knowing how it is with us and being able to say that out loud to those who can be trusted to hear what we have to say without condemnation or ridicule. Living honestly is about experiencing what we are experiencing, experiencing how we are reacting to what we are experiencing, and saying what is true for us to those who are with us and care about us. Living honestly is the key to it all. We can't find what we love if we aren't honest with ourselves about what we love.
We need a community of two or more people who can listen to us and serve as a caring presence in our lives. The freedom to be honest is the foundation of community. Community is where we are free to explore, express, and experience how it is with us in the presence of those who care enough about us to listen to us—without interrupting, changing the subject, or stopping us short; without attempting to fix us by giving us tips, answers, recipes or recommendations; without commandeering the conversation by telling us how much worse they have it than we do. Community is where we are free to explore our experience with those who listen and help us articulate what we are feeling, thinking, perceiving, believing, seeing, etc., and how that impacts us for better or worse. In community, we become who we are—we recognize who we are, know who we are—by saying who we are.
Communities of Innocence provide us with the space to discover our deeper self by providing us with relationships that can take us as we are and love us for who we are. Few of our relationships can withstand the test of realness. In maintaining those relationships, we give up the essential connection with the truth of who we are, and have to protect those relationships at the expense of our deeper self. We have to guard those relationships to such an extent that we are afraid to be real, because we cannot trust those in relationship with us to love us if they know who we are. We need a Community of Innocence that respects us and loves us enough to let us be real in expressing the deep truths, and confronting the deep questions of our souls.
In a Community of Innocence, the happiness and peace of the community does not depend upon our being, or not being, a certain way. This is crucial, because we can't find what we love if we allow our happiness to depend upon someone else's happiness. If we can't be happy until someone else is happy, or until they are happy with us, we won't be happy very often for very long.
Two things flow from this. The first is that we need the right kind of community to let us be who we are without having to make us different, without having to mold us into the community's idea of who we ought to be. And, the key question here is "How different can we be from the ideals, values and purposes of community without destroying the community?" A community cannot accept every possibility of being as though one way of being is "just as good as" another way of being. Community must accept our differentness and enable us to be real; and community must challenge our extremes and confront our lack of conformity to the core values of the community. Finding the balance between acceptance and confrontation is the art of community. It is also the art of living well, of being alive in the deepest, truest, sense of the word. Living our contradictions, integrating our polarities, bearing the pain of opposites, is walking two paths at the same time—which is the spiritual journey, which is the hero's journey, which is the path to life and being, and death and resurrection, which we all walk as best we can, moment-by-moment-by-moment.
The second thing that flows from the fact that our happiness cannot depend upon someone else's happiness is that we have to learn to be happy no matter what others are feeling. Let them be disappointed in us if they want to be. We aren't here to see that someone else is happy with the life that is ours to live. We are here to live the life that is ours to live. If they are happy with that, fine. If they are not happy with that, fine. Trying to make others happy with us by shaping ourselves according to their expectations separates us from our heart and keeps us from doing what we must to find peace with ourselves. We cannot tie our happiness to that of others, or let them tie their happiness to us. But again, this is true, only to a point. We have to listen to what others are saying to us. We cannot just walk away and live any way at all. Finding the balance between living out of our values and living out of the values that are at the heart of community is the art of living in relationship with other people, and the art of being alive.
Usually, however, it is the case that we listen too much to "them" and too little to "us." One of the things that prevents us from listening to our heart and following its lead throughout our lives is that we live cut off from ourselves to varying degrees, and do not know how it is with us much of the time. We have learned not to feel what we are feeling—not to experience what we are experiencing. We are, by and large, not comfortable with discomfort, and have earned early on to save ourselves the grief of feeling our feelings by cutting them off, or by distracting ourselves from the experience of our experience by shifting our attention to food, drugs, alcohol, or any one of the ten thousand addictions and diversions the culture so conveniently provides.
When we shift our attention to something that takes our minds off our discomfort, we cut ourselves off from the experience of how things are with us really in the present moment of our lives. When we are cut off from our experience, we are cut off from ourselves, and do not know the things that make for peace, because the things that make for peace are the things that we love, but, some things that we love conflict with other things that we love! This is the Collision of Loves, the Collision of The Good! Which has to be recognized, experienced, borne, and lived! We have to suffer it through! Cut off from our experience, from our feelings, we do not know what we know, and cannot say what we are here to do, have to do, no matter what.
We can kill the authentic self—the self That Which Has Always Been Called God would have us be, the self we are built, created, to be—by ignoring its voice and listening instead to the voices of others, the voice of the culture, or even our own ideas regarding how our lives ought to be. We can restore our authentic self to life by learning to be honest about how things are with us, and speaking from the heart about our experience with life. In order to reestablish connection with our authentic self, with our hearts—in order to live out of our hearts, and follow our hearts, and find the paths with heart, and do what we deeply love with all our hearts—we have to begin living honestly.
Living honestly means to live knowing what it is like to be who we are. It means to live knowing what it is like to live the life that we are living. Knowing what we are feeling, thinking, seeing, hearing, sensing, fearing, knowing, doing… It means knowing what we know. It means knowing when we are tense and when we are relaxed; when we are easy and when we are disturbed; when we are ashamed and when we are humiliated; when we are energized and enthusiastic, and when we are down with the blues, depressed and dejected, or simply tired. To live from the heart, we have to know how it is with us, and be able to say how it is with us on a regular basis!
It is particularly important that we know when we are hurting. There are some important questions that we have to know how to answer: "What hurts so bad about being you right now?" "What is hard about your life right now?" We must learn to ask these questions. And others as well: "What's killing you?" "What are you suffering from?" "What's eating you?" and "What's the cure?"
These are the questions, the basic questions, the essential questions. They enable us to "name our demon," to say the name of the particular pain that is ours, the peculiar suffering that has come our way. We have to know what is eating us if we want to avoid being devoured. We have to say what it is. We have to articulate our experience, saying what it is like to be us. We have to find the words to describe what we are feeling in every moment during our day and say them, say the words, write the words, bring the actual words to describe our experience into existence because it is the discipline of saying specifically how it is with us that enables us to see how it is with us.
And, in order to speak honestly, from the heart, about the things that truly matter to us, we have to have a community that will listen to us and love the truth of who we are and what we are experiencing here and now into being. We have to have a community where That Which Has Always Been Called God is at work to connect us to the truth of our hearts by enabling us to say what is true about us to those who care for us.
We are always being led. We follow best when we return to the silence on a regular basis, sit still, be quiet, and wait, watching and listening, for what occurs to us, for what emerges from the stillness, for what arises in the silence, for what realizations await recognition—and rise to do what needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, moment-by-moment-by-moment. Knowing that we aren't trying to get anywhere, but to go everywhere seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being, with the wind of the spirit that blows where it will forever in our hair!


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Me: "What's the difference between syntax-parse and syntax-rules anyway?"
Matthias: "syntax-rules is so old and outdated I don't know how to spell it anymore. Use syntax-parse."
Now on to learning about type systems! https://school.racket-lang.org/2019/plan/thu-mor-lecture.html
I think #`'#,er qualifies as "quasiquote vomiting"
So I finally understand the phrase "one advantage of Racket's macro system is that macros can communicate". I never understood wtf that meant until today when going through https://school.racket-lang.org/2019/plan/fri-mor-lecture.html and the section on syntax-local-value.
That's what it means, right there. That's how macros can communicate.
@cwebber I just see a wall of text that is meaningless to me. I /never/ could figure out Scheme's macro system, much less most refinements of it.
I know Rust's macros are in part influenced by Scheme's, and surprise! I have problems understanding them too.
Le sigh.
what i get from this is that scheme has to go to some pretty dramatic lengths to preserve all the freedom to intermingle compilation and interpretation in the way lisp programmers always expect to, while also being safe to use in batch mode, with a rigid wall between compilation and runtime, in the way that everyone is taught that languages must be used nowadays because interactive programming environments are bad or something i dunno 🤷♀
LOL!! I love everything about this explanation!
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Autoantibodies' Links with Clinical Conditions
The autoantibodies found to be clearly linked to SSc all have fairly well-defined links with associated medical conditions. Here is an overview of those links and the type of SSc with which they are typically associated:
Found mainly in diffuse systemic sclerosis
Anti-topoisomerase I (-Scl-70): interstitial lung disease (ILD)
Anti-RNA polymerase III: severe skin involvement, increased risk of renal crisis
Anti-U3RNP: myopathy, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
Found mainly in limited SSc
Anti-centromere: PAH
Anti-Th/To: PAH, ILD
Overlap between diffuse and limited SSc
Anti-U1RNP: myositis, ILD
Anti-PM-Scl: myositis
Anti-Ku: myositis
Anti-U11/U12RNP: ILD
Source: Thomas Medsger, Jr., MD, University of Pittsburgh
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Improved understanding of the role of autoantibodies as "guides" in systemic sclerosis (SSc) could have direct effects on the care of patients in the clinic, an expert said in a session titled, "Serum Autoantibodies in Systemic Sclerosis: Usefulness in Diagnosis, Clinical Subsetting, and Predicting Outcomes," at the 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, held here November 9–14. [Editor's Note: This session was recorded and is available via ACR SessionSelect at www.rheumatology.org.]
Autoantibodies offer insights into whether patients might acquire the disease before they show symptoms and in predicting the kinds of complications that might arise in a patient.
"They're helpful in diagnosis," said Thomas Medsger, Jr., MD, director of the Scleroderma Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh, in his Klemperer Memorial Lecture. "They're helpful in the clinical setting. They're helpful in predicting the natural history of disease and survival. And, they can inform the design of future clinical and laboratory studies and clinical trials."
The University of Pittsburgh has amassed a treasure trove of information about autoantibodies in its Scleroderma Databank and Serumbank, a project supported by the university, the National Institutes of Health, private foundations, and gifts from grateful patients. The project has logged information on 4,100 patients since 1972. Researchers gathered data at first and follow-up visits, collecting clinical, laboratory, and serologic data.
Nine Autoantibodies Associated with SSc
The list of SSc-associated autoantibodies has grown steadily since the 1970s, and there are now nine that are most clearly associated with systemic sclerosis: anti-Ku, anti-U3RNP, anti-U1RNP, anti-Th/To, anti-topoisomerase I (topo I), anti-centromere, anti-U11/U12RNP, anti-RNA polymerase III, and anti-PM-Scl.
"One question is, how specific are they for SSc?" Dr. Medsger said. "There are certainly exceptions." Anti-centromere occurs in some patients with Raynaud's disease, Sjögrens syndrome, and lupus. Anti-Th/To also can be found in patients with Raynaud's. Anti-PM-Scl can be detected in patients with Raynaud's and polymyositis and dermatomyositis (PM/DM). Anti-Ku can be found in some with lupus or PM/DM. And anti-U1RNP is found in many lupus patients and some PM/DM patients. The others are almost 100% specific.
But anti-topo I, which also goes by anti-Scl-70, can be tricky, Dr. Medsger said.
"I think we have to be aware that of all of the autoantibodies which are tested these days by automated methods, Scl-70 is the one that produces the most frequent false positives," he said.
The autoantibodies can sometimes be found together in the same patient—a change from older concepts of how these autoantibodies appear, Dr. Medsger said, mentioning dated literature that suggested anti-centromere and anti-topo I were mutually exclusive.
"There is some coexistence of these antibodies," he said. Anti-Ku, anti-U3RNP, and anti-U1RNP are most commonly found with other antibodies, overlapping 37%, 21%, and 11% of the time, respectively.
"This is certainly in contrast to lupus, for example, where the rule is coexistence, rather than a patient having a single autoantibody," he said. "The meaning of this difference between the two diseases is certainly not clear."
From the point of view of planning clinical trials, one has to be aware that there are differences between SSc autoantibody subsets in the natural history of the disease and its complications.
Detecting Antibodies
SSc-associated antibodies are detected at the University of Pittsburgh using three methods: for anti-centromere, indirect immunofluorescence is used; anti-topo I, anti-U1RNP, and anti-PM-Scl are detected with double immunodiffusion; and the others with immunoprecipitation.
He said that today there is a reliable anti-RNA polymerase III enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). But ELISAs for anti-Th/To and anti-U3RNP that are offered by some laboratories have been disappointing because the results don't compare well with his laboratory's results using immunoprecipitation. He said there are new anti-U3RNP and anti-Th/To ELISAs being introduced.
"I'm hopeful that these will turn out to be good tests because I think these antibodies will be helpful in diagnosis and management of SSc patients," he said.
Multiplex bead methods have recently been shown to be problematic, failing to identify 50% of SSc patients, particularly those with anti-RNA polymerase III and nucleolar indirect immunofluorescence antinuclear antibody testing, he noted.1
"Each of these SSc-associated antibodies has clinical associations," he said, from anti-topo I's link to interstitial lung disease to anti-PM-Scl's link to myositis (see "Autoantibodies' Links with Clinical Conditions,").
The newest antibody his team has described, anti-U11/U12RNP, was found in 33 SSc patients, representing about 3% of all new SSc patients. Its most striking feature is a high frequency of interstitial lung disease, which is often very severe and progresses quickly. Its association to pulmonary fibrosis exceeds that of anti-topo I, which has previously been recognized as posing the greatest risk for pulmonary fibrosis.
There is a fairly wide range in survival rates associated with the different autoantibodies, from a five-year survival of 100% for anti-PM-Scl to 76% for anti-U3RNP. Dr. Medsger drew particular attention to large drop-offs in survival between five and 10 years for certain autoantibodies.
The five-year rate for anti-Ku is 83%, but the 10-year survival falls to 55%; the drop for anti-topo I is from 83% to 65%; and for anti-U3RNP, it is 76% at five years down to 60% at 10 years.
"A number of antibodies show a significant decrement in survival between five and 10 years," he said. "I think we can explain many of them by internal organ involvements, particularly pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension." A research paper has shown a large difference in survival in SSc-linked renal crisis between anti-topo I and anti-RNA polymerase III.2 Work in Dr. Medsger's lab has borne this out, showing that the primary result of renal crisis among SSc patients with anti-topo I was death, while the main outcome for those with anti-RNA polymerase III was no dialysis requirement at all. He said it is likely that SSc-associated comorbidities associated with anti-topo I, such as interstitial lung disease and cardiac involvement, drive the poorer outcomes.
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"There are perhaps explanations for this finding, but they need to be looked into," he said.
There is also a wide range in survival in SSc-linked pulmonary arterial hypertension, with a rate of 33% at 10 years for anti-Th/To and just 13% for anti-centromere.
"Perhaps this difference relates, in part, to the fact that anti-centromere antibody patients are older, and that they have nonscleroderma comorbidities," Dr. Medsger said. "But I think from the point of view of planning clinical trials, one has to be aware that there are differences between SSc autoantibody subsets in the natural history of the disease and its complications."
Thomas Collins is a freelance medical journalist based in Florida.
- Shanmugam VK, Swistowski DR, Saddic N, Wang H, Steen VD. Comparison of indirect immunofluorescence and multiplex antinuclear antibody screening in systemic sclerosis. Clin Rheumatol. 2011;30:1363-1368.
- Codullo V, Cavazzana I, Bonino C, et al. Serologic profile and mortality rates of scleroderma renal crisis in Italy. J Rheumatol. 2009;36:1464-1469.


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Bacoor Strike sa Serbisyo 96 -- Miranda 19, Ramirez 14, Orizu 13, Pangilinan 12, Castro 11, Montuano 8, Acuna 5, Descamento 5, Malabag 5, Aquino 0, Doligon 0, Bugarin 0
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