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I have been reflecting alot on 'connections'. This past week in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we saw people putting aside political differences before the upcoming elections and connecting in heart and spirit. It didn't matter if one formerly lived back East, went to school there or even had family and friends there; one could connect with the deep suffering of others and feel compelled to take action whether through prayer, energy work, phone calls, donations or other acts of kindness. We initially connected through the visuals of what we saw of the devastation, what we heard, what we felt in our inner seats of compassion, and what we believed about our shared humanity. I would encourage those who are trained in at least Level 2 to continue sending Reiki (divine light, love and comfort) to others. It will help to decrease anxiety, fear, frustration and fatigue and to cultivate more hope and healing.
Prior to this recent event I attended numerous family weddings since this past June. I brought mindfulness into those gatherings and observed with compassion for self and others (releasing judgment and expectations for particular outcomes). I noticed that as I have continued to connect with my own growth and humanity through my Reiki and meditation practices, that I could 'connect' in a more gentle manner. I noticed that it was delicious to connect with a new 6 month old grand-niece whom I had never met before and to sense the sweetness of this new beginning and budding love. I noticed how I was planting seeds of connection with new brides or grooms in the family. I was able to observe evolving family relationships; some were closer, some more distant, and some were filled with delightful surprises. I brought with me to these gatherings a sense of curiosity and greater acceptance. I also noticed my own sadness when connecting with the matriarchs in the family while sensing more of the sunset in their lives. I could observe my feelings and not be at the affect of them while residing in the sacredness of the present.
The Monday after the last family wedding in Santa Cruz, California, a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. These giants of nature were truly magnificent! I breathed in their beauty and the grace of the moment and opportunity. I held my hands up to feel their remarkable energy and felt connected with awe and gratitude. I felt the Redwoods' 'connection' with the earth while simultaneously connecting with the sunlight and the divine! May you too this month be mindful about your 'special' connections.
Feel free to share some of your reflections about 'connections' in our next Reiki share.


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A Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station has been installed at Melliodora. The data is now automatically uploaded via the Davis server and available from the Holmgren Design Services website (would have been good to check out during the recent wind and rain storms!).
The weather icon (left) on the home page banner links to a clear graphic display of current temperature, wind direction and speed, humidity, daily rain and pressure as well as high and lows for the day. A further link provides full weather data in table format including inside temperature and humidity that show the thermal performance of the passive solar mudbrick house.
For locals in the Hepburn shire, our nearest Bureau of Meteorology weather station is Ballarat, 45km to the west. That information is updated hourly and is not as comprehensive as our data which is updated at 3 minute intervals.
With increased concern about precise local weather conditions during the fire season, the Melliodora data complements another recently installed Davis Vantage Pro2 at Daylesford CFA fire station that can be accessed via the Davis Weatherlink webserver. www.weatherlink.com (note that the location of the icon on the map for the Daylesford CFA is misplaced at Yandoit).
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Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce goes perfectly on anything! Made with a few simple ingredients like greek yogurt + spices, it's gluten free, keto and delicious!
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This Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce is perfect for dipping veggies, wings, or used as a salad dressing! Slightly tangy, perfectly smooth – this sauce goes well on basically anything.
Made with only yogurt, lime juice/zest, cilantro, olive oil, salt + pepper – it has minimal ingredients and only takes minutes to make!
This healthy cilantro lime sauce was born after I made these Healthy Ancho Chili Chicken Meatballs. I was taking the photos and just thinking not only did they look a little blah, but they were SPICY and needed something to cool them down.
Tyler recommended making a yogurt sauce.. and I had an abundance of cilantro so I decided to combine the two.
We dipped the spicy meatballs in it, but then quickly moved on to dipping veggies in it, using it on our tacos + even as a dressing! It totally transformed my meals!
What can you put this Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce on?
You can put this sauce on pretty much anything, but here are some of my favorite ways to use it:
- Tacos
- Whole30 Chicken Fajitas
- As a dip with chopped carrots and celery.
- As a dressing – I use it on taco salads all the time.
- Anything spicy! The combo of cilantro, lime + yogurt is great for cooling down spicy food.
- Being that it's made from great yogurt, it has a good amount of protein so it's perfect for snacking on our using as a condiment for basically any recipe you could think of!
I love simple sauces like this, because it's just proof that you don't need super fatty/high calorie foods for dipping. Lighter greek yogurt + fresh herbs are all you need for a yummy, healthy sauce!
Things you need to make this Healthy Cilantro Lime Sauce:
Substitutions for this Healthy Cilantro Lime Recipe:
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- 1/2 cup nonfat greek yogurt
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- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- In a food processor or blender, puree all ingredients until smooth
- Herbs: If you don't like cilantro, you can sub in basil or parsley
- Dairy Free: To make dairy free, you can use a dairy free yogurt
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Complex chemical KDS-1 is designed for the application in sandstone reservoirs at the well completion after drilling as clay and polymer destructor in mud fluids and as base for perforation fluid preventing reservoir clay fraction swelling.
Complex chemical of KDS-1 breaks the cake formed at drilling with polymer-clay mud fluids, destruct polymers and clay contained in the mud fluids.
Complex chemical of KDS-1 is a dry powder blend containing surfactants and efficient clay and polymer destructor.
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FARMINGDALE, NY (01-10-11): EtQ is pleased to announce its first-ever Aviation Safety Management System (SMS) Summit to be held on February 1, 2011 at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, AZ.
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Singapore: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its earnings forecasts and price targets for three of India's state-run lenders, after the biggest banking fraud to hit the nation.
Analysts including Rahul Jain lowered this year's earnings estimate for State Bank of India by 1%, Bank of Baroda by 12% and Punjab National Bank by 30%, even after taking account the first tranche of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's $33 billion recapitalization plan in their forecasts. Estimates for 2019 and 2020 were also reduced by similar amounts.
Potential risk aversion and a greater focus on operational controls after the fraud may hamper growth in the near term, the analysts wrote in a note to clients Wednesday.
"We lower our EPS estimates for SBI/BOB largely on the back of share dilution," they said. "On PNB we see a larger EPS decline as we lower growth after baking in the full impact of the fraud-related liability."
A $2 billion fraud at the bank that surfaced days after India's largest lender posted a surprise loss has led to sharp declines in the National Stock Exchange's gauge of state-run bank stocks. The index is down about 14% already this month and is on track to erase the sharp rally spurred by the government's rescue plan announced in October.
In all, Indian banks could take a hit of more than $3 billion from loans and corporate guarantees provided to diamond companies allegedly involved in the fraud at PNB, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing the tax department.
Still, despite the cuts, Goldman still sees upside for state-bank shareholders. Its new price targets offer upside of between 12 and 29%, according to the note.
Private lenders seem to be the major beneficiaries of the state-banks' woes. Continued strong economic growth is leading to ongoing demand for funding and the private sector is seeking to accelerate its market share gains.
Signs of this are already appearing in the tightening trade-finance market for Asia's third biggest economy. Banks have put in restrictions on issuing non-funded instruments within the state-owned lenders, which should benefit private banks in the short term, Jefferies LLC analyst Nilanjan Karfa wrote in note on Tuesday.
Privately-held HDFC Bank Ltd alone was valued at $74 billion at Wednesday's close, versus the combined market value of $61 billion for the 12 banks on the NSE's gauge. livemint


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I take recommendations very, very seriously. One of my biggest goals as a blogger is to hopefully introduce people to new shows and experiences that they may enjoy. I've done a lot of recommendations in places such as Anime-Suki's recommendation board (the only board I even use there) the Anime-Planet recommendation database, and to hundreds of people on forums, through AIM, through request, etc. And in return, I've also asked for many recommendations and learned about countless shows through recommendations – which is part of the reason I know so many shows. I think that with every recommendation given comes a little bit of weight, and it's up to the recommendee to carry that weight.
I pride myself with my skill in recommending decisively – I don't give bullshit recs that I don't know that the recipient will be interested in. If you give me a list of shows that you like or that match a criteria, I'm going to compile the most common elements between those shows and rec a show that matches the most of those commonalities. If you are a new fan, I will quiz you on things like your favorite movies, your interests, etc, and give you a recommendation based on them. If you're super-experienced, I'll find you a completely unknown but totally amazing show that you will love. If you need anything to watch ever, fucking come to me, and I WILL find some fucking shit for you to watch.
Of course I want you to watch the shows that I enjoy or that I want you to enjoy or expect you to enjoy, because there's something in it for me. If it's a show that I love, I gain a comrade, maybe someone to talk about the show with, maybe someone who will provide me with new insights into that show. If it's a show I know you will enjoy, maybe I'll be hoping for your reactions to that show to see if I may have helped you find something in life you enjoyed. I can't tell you how happy it makes me when people on A-suki send me messages or raise my rep points with comments about how they loved my suggestions.
But as gratifying as it is when someone responds to a recommendation, the sad truth is that most of the recs I'm likely to give are going to get completely ignored. It's to be expected in a lot of cases, especially on something like A-suki where someone could start a thread and then mysteriously disappear, or find themselves with so many recs from so may people that it becomes hard to decide what is actually worth checking out. But let me tell you, there are a number of people who have genuinely and truly fucking pissed me off in this regard, and most were people I met in 'the meat.'
At my school, there were always a ton of people calling themselves 'anime fans' who we knew as 'narutards'. These were the first people I tried – I gave them short, written lists of shows I knew they would love, and in every case, regardless of how excited they acted about the lists, months or years would pass with no one watching. Then there were the kids who actually hung out with me, some of which knew a lot more shows than the narutards. They would occasionally check something out, but still ignore most of my recs . I actually had people who I loaned fucking DVD boxes who never fucking watched the goddamn shit. One case I will never forget was of a girl who had never seen any anime but who had friends who liked it. I got her into the idea of trying, and talked about her for an hour about the things she liked to come up with the perfect recommendation – just 2 shows, 2 shows I thought she might like, and I wrote out a detailed explanation of how to find them streamed and explained this all to her and her enthusiasm. She never got back to me at all.
I can't help but feel insulted when this happens – why would you get my fucking hopes up? Why would you fucking convince me that you were interested if you weren't? After years I had given up on almost everyone but people like that bitch convinced me so much that they were into the idea just to do what I felt like was a betrayal.
I don't even care if you don't like the show. Fuck, I don't care if you go on wikipedia or read about he show and tell me it doesn't look like your thing – that's a good fucking excuse, I myself wouldn't watch shit that wasn't my thing, but what the fuck is it when you say nothing? I'd like to think that I know most of the people I talk to's taste quite well and if I don't, I find out. There are some people I know not to share recommendations with – Patz is one of my good friends in the blogosphere and there are some shows we agree on, but for the most part we know better than to rec to one another because he's a sci-fi nut and I'm waging some kind of war against plot. But if there's someone who I do know I can rec to, and they want a rec, and I tell them a rec, it's because I fucking know they will like it.
When I give you a recommendation, I am giving you a weight to carry. It's the weight of my wanting to hear your thoughts – a weight of my emotions, because I wouldn't have told you about something if I didn't want you to see it or try it or just research it for one.
What prompted me to write this is really something only lightly related. For those who don't know, I have two younger brothers (16 and 12) and my family is very close. Any time I spend away from my computer, I'm playing with my youngest brother or bugging my lil bro. However, I have a hard time spending time with my family because they are interested in different things than I am. In the past and even sometimes in the present, people are always telling me that they 'never see me' because I am always in my room. The truth is, though, that no one ever does anything to interest me around here – my parents watch a lot of TV, my brother plays a lot of video games – there's not much for me to do but play with the young-un who has become as big an anime fan as I am.
But here's the thing – it's not like I don't want to do shit with them, it's that they don't want to do shit with me. My lil bro loves anime, and he's ultra-responsive to shows – he will like pretty much anything he sees. However, when I want to watch something with him – something I REALLY want him to see because I know he will love it, he never wants to sit through it. And he has the nerve to say that he needs to see more. But far more painful is my parents – there are a number of shows I KNOW they would enjoy, but they just won't ever watch it. They'll find every way out of it – 'not today, some other time, I don't feel like it, not anime' – I've been trying to get them to watch something, ANYTHING, for YEARS, and they won't even glance at it.
It's a fucking recommendation. It's like me extending an invitation into my own life. 'Here, see a side of me. See something I appreciate, and see if you might appreciate it, too. See if we can find a commonality.' When I get someone to watch something that I want them to see, I feel more connected to the world – I fell like more people are sharing my interests, my experiences, my life. It's like a validation of my existence. Anime recs, music recs, movie recs – knowing that something that effected me effected others is like a validation of the emotions that I felt – it's like telling me that those emotions matter, because I am not alone. So don't ever ask me for a recommendation if you won't check it out. Don't act excited if you have no intention of checking it out. Don't pretend that you want to be a part of my life if you aren't willing to connect with me in the way that matters most to me.
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Three killed in bear attack in Odisha
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Chandahandi, Jun 14:
At least three persons including two women were killed and two others were grievously hurt in a bear attack in Chandahandi block in Odisha's Nabarangpur district.
The two injured have been admitted to the government hospital here. Their condition is stated to be critical.
Villagers of Phatki village who had gone to the nearby forest to collect greens were attacked by a supposedly rogue bear.
According to reports the bear first attacked the two women and later attacked a man who was trying to rescue the women. The three were killed by the bear.
Later, two more persons who had gone to the forest to collect the bodies of the dead were attacked by the bear resulting in them sustaining critical injuries, the reports added.
Reports said local Forest department officials have been contacted and efforts are on to capture the rogue bear.


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1 pkg (250g) light or regular cream cheese, softened
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75 mL (1/3 cup) Realemon® Lemon Juice
5 mL (1 tsp) vanilla extract
23 cm (9 inch) graham wafer crumb crust
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Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in EAGLE BRAND® until well combined. Stir in Realemon and vanilla. Pour into prepared crust. Chill 3 hours or until set. Top with desired amount of pie filling. Cover leftovers; refrigerate.
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Some of the best things in life are the wonder of a nourishing meal, a deep breath of clear mountain air, bathing in clean, wholesome water… and deep sleep. There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of waking up rested and refreshed, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well.
Unfortunately, this simple necessity eludes between 50-70 million people in the US alone.1 Populations especially at risk include health care professionals, those who work more than 40 hours per week, and night shift workers – particularly those working in warehouses and transportation.2
Emotional reasons for sleeplessness may be more specific, such as the grieving process after the death of a loved one, or a relationship separation.
Specific reasons for sleeplessness may include:3
- Stress
- An unpredictable work schedule (as implied in the occupations above)
- Poor sleep habits, like eating a big meal before bedtime or napping during the day
More serious sleep issues may be due to:4
- Mental health issues such as anxiety disorder, depression, or PTSD
- Medications, both pharmaceutical and over the counter
- Medical conditions that involve chronic pain, or diseases like cancer, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's Disease, thyroid issues, or Alzheimer's
- Caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol
- Other sleep related disorders, such as sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, or narcolepsy
In addition to the reason or the season in life that may bring about the discomfort of sleeplessness, there are serious consequences related to safety and health that can result from not sleeping. According to theInstitute of Medicine (US) Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research:
"The public health consequences of sleep loss and sleep-related disorders are far from benign. The most visible consequences are errors in judgment contributing to disastrous events such as the space shuttleChallenger.Less visible consequences of sleep conditions are far more prevalent, and they take a toll on nearly every key indicator of public health: mortality, morbidity, performance, accidents and injuries, functioning and quality of life, family well-being, and health care utilization. Some of these consequences, such as automobile crashes, occur acutely within hours (or minutes) of the sleep disorder, and thus are relatively easy to link to sleep problems. Others—for example, obesity and hypertension—develop more insidiously over months and years of chronic sleep problems. After decades of research, the case can be confidently made that sleep loss and sleep disorders have profound and widespread effects on human health."5
This blog series is intended to give a general overview of sleep disorders and their consequences to health, what traditional and alternative treatment methods are currently available as well as studies to their efficacy, and finally, an introduction to what Life Force Energy can offer in the way of relief for those suffering the extreme fatigue of being too exhausted to function, and too awake to let down and rest.
Types of Sleep Disorders
There are currently four key sleep disorders recognized by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). They are:6
- Insomnia
- Sleep apnea
- Restless leg syndrome
- Narcolepsy
According to the CDC, "insomnia is characterized by an inability to initiate or maintain sleep. It may also take the form of early morning awakening in which the individual awakens several hours early and is unable to resume sleeping. Difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep may often manifest itself as excessive daytime sleepiness, which characteristically results in functional impairment throughout the day."7
The ramifications of insomnia, both individually and on society as a whole are enormous. According to the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine:
"By definition, patients with chronic insomnia have daytime impairment of cognition, mood, or performance that impacts on the patient and potentially on family, friends, coworkers and caretakers. Chronic insomnia patients are more likely to use health care resources, visit physicians, be absent or late for work, make errors or have accidents at work, and have more serious road accidents. Increased risk for suicide, substance use relapse, and possible immune dysfunction have been reported. Co-morbid conditions, particularly depression, anxiety, and substance use, are common. There is a bidirectional increased risk between insomnia and depression. Other medical conditions, unhealthy lifestyles, smoking, alcoholism, and caffeine dependence are also risks for insomnia. Self medication with alcohol, over-the-counter medications, prescription medications, and melatonin account for millions of dollars annually."8
In 2015, a study was done on the prevalence of insomnia. The results at that time demonstrated that a full 33% of the study population suffered from insomnia – but more striking still, 27% didn't recognize the condition.9
Neil Epstein is a man who definitely recognizes his condition. He writes poignantly about his experience of insomnia in The Guardian, stating, "…I can't believe anyone sleeps as badly as me. On a good night I get three hours of restless catnapping, waking every 15 minutes and then dropping off again. I regularly go for two or three nights with no sleep at all." He goes on to relate that even as a child he was unable to fall asleep, resulting in exhaustion, short-temperedness and tantrums at school, and an ongoing, deep frustration. Over time, he learned to wrap his life around his sleeplessness, working night shifts and eventually creating his own art-based business so he could work his own hours.10
"It's still such a mystery to me, the act of falling asleep," he states. "People say, let your mind go blank, but how? Thoughts whirr round in my head. I don't have that ability to switch off. …Sleep deprivation is a form of torture and, before I met my wife, I could easily have contemplated suicide."
Neil Epstein is not alone. According to Current Psychiatric Reports, the evidence linking insomnia and suicideis profound. In fact, since 2010 there have been over 20 studies performed that confirm this connection.11
Treating Insomnia
Treatments for insomnia typically include seeing a sleep specialist for assessment, and referral to a psychotherapist who can rule out depression, anxiety disorders, or major life adjustments. Beyond that, various cognitive and behavioral therapies and techniques may be tried, such as relaxation training, sleep restriction and/or stimulus control, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):12
- Relaxation training, or progressive muscle relaxation is a technique whereby one slowly, intentionally relaxes each muscle throughout the body. Other relaxation techniques include learning to meditate, various breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, and guided imagery.
- Stimulus control seeks to break unhealthy associations between the bedroom itself and the struggle to sleep by restricting activity in the bedroom to only regimented sleep times. If sleep doesn't come after 20 minutes, the person gets up and leaves the room. The theory is that over time, sleeping becomes the dominant association with the bedroom.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps the insomniac person to maintain strict sleeping schedules, and works to try and cognitively reveal hidden fears and beliefs about sleep, and to replace negative beliefs with positive, rational thinking.
Beyond these techniques, there are medications which can be used to treat insomnia as well. The primary pharmaceutical interventions include:13
- Benzodiazepine receptor agonists: Triazolam, Estazolam, Temazepam, Quazepam, Flurazepam, and Ambien – to name a few.
- Melatonin agonist Ramelteon: Rozerem and Takeda.
- Sedating antidepressants or other sedating drugs.
Interestingly, it was difficult to find treatment outcome statistics on insomnia alone. Typically, studies have been done that relate insomnia with depression, insomnia with fibromyalgia, insomnia with MS – but not much in the way of numbers for insomnia by itself. Sleep Medicine Reviewsstates that despite progress in studying insomnia, "there are still no standard assessment methods to document outcome and no accepted criteria to define what should be a successful outcome in the treatment of insomnia,"14Furthermore, the American Journal of Medicine states that though benzodiazepinesare effective for insomnia, the actual clinical benefit is small enough as to be on a level with exercising, and that "chronic benzodiazepine therapy for sleep is associated with several negative side effects, including cognitive impairment and an increased risk of motor vehicle accidents, falls, and fractures."15
Alternative Treatments for Insomnia
There are a number of alternative practices and techniques that people use to relax and bring sleep, including acupuncture, massage, yoga, meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, and aromatherapy. In this first article on sleep disorders, the two most prevalent supplements for aiding the inducement of sleep will be covered: Valerian and Melatonin.
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is an herb that grows naturally in North America, Europe, and Asia. For thousands of years, valerian has been used to induce sleep due the volatile oils in the plant's root that have natural sedative effects. The most prominent of these essential oils are:
- Valerenic acid, known to increase GABA (a neurotransmitter that reduces brain cell activity and has anti-inflammatory effects).16Also, the amount of GABA found in many valerian extracts has been found to be sufficient in quantity to have a sedative effect.17
- Iridoids, which also have sedative effects.18
- Isovaleric acid (Valtrate), which acts as an antispasmodic and "and appear to be nature's answer to modern benzodiazepine tranquillizers."19
- Hesperidan and Linarin, antioxidant flavonoids that enhance drowsiness and sleep.20
The results of clinical studies on the use of valerian root show varied results. In a number of studies, it was found that the use of valerian helped those suffering insomnia to fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and enjoy a higher quality and satisfaction in their sleep.21, 22, 23However, there are also studies that claim no noticeable, or only limited effects.24, 25, 26
Valerian is currently Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) when taken for short periods (4-8 weeks) and in recommended doses,27
and is predominantly reported as having no side effects. However, in clinical trials, side effects have been reported, which include dizziness, headache, itching, nausea and upset stomach, dry mouth, thinking problems, strange dreams, heart palpitations, overly excited or anxious (at high doses), liver toxicity (also high doses over a long period), and possible addiction with withdrawal effects if suddenly stopped.28
There is another, more hidden side effect of taking valerian (or any herbal supplement): lead and other heavy metal contamination. ConsumerLab.comcompared clinical analysis of several commercial brands of valerian, and found that not only did some contain amounts ofvalerenic acids that were too low to be clinically effective, they also contained unacceptable amounts of lead29
Melatonin is a hormone produced in the pineal gland of the brain, which helps regulate our sleep/waking cycles (called circadian rhythms). The pineal gland produces more melatonin as light diminishes at the end of a day, and decreases the amount of melatonin as the light gets brighter in the morning.
During winter, when the days are shorter, the body may produce more melatonin (and earlier in the day) which can result in fatigue or mood changes. However, light alone isn't the only influencer of melatonin production. Foods such as walnuts, cherries, strawberries, barley, olives, tomatoes, and cow's milk also naturally contain melatonin, and when we eat them, they can make us begin to feel drowsy or relaxed.30
Regarding effectiveness, once again, there isn't sufficient evidence to claim that melatonin is clinically effective to relieve insomnia. There is one study that claims improvement in delayed sleep phase syndrome, i.e., it helped people to fall asleep faster.31
But this was only over a short term period, from one to two months. After that, effectiveness was not maintained. Other studies cite that there is simply no conclusive evidence that melatonin is clinically effective,32,33though Americans were projected to spend upwards of $437 million dollars on melatonin supplements in 2017 alone.34
There is some evidence that melatonin is more helpful for disruptions in circadian rhythms, such as jet lag, than actually affecting long standing insomnia, and statements have been made that it simply works for some people but not others and one just needs to try it out.35
Melatonin is generally regarded as safe when taken short term in small doses, however concern is on the rise. According to one source:
"While short-term use (a few months or less) of melatonin is thought to be safe in healthy adults, it can boost blood sugar, so it is not recommended for people with diabetes. Taking too much can also lead to bad dreams and grogginess the next day, and it can make many drugs less effective, including high blood pressure medications, seizure medications, and birth control pills.
Because dietary supplements are not regulated as much as prescription drugs, quality can vary wildly from bottle to bottle. One recent study found that 71% of melatonin supplements surveyed did not contain exactly what they said on the label. Some had more than four times as much melatonin as indicated, and 26% contained the powerful neurotransmitter serotonin, a chemical found in many antidepressant medications.
When it comes to children's use, concerns abound.
The American Association of Poison Control Centers reports that calls about melatonin have skyrocketed 114% nationwide since 2012, with 79%of the 24,000 calls in 2016 involving children. Parents often call poison control after their children have taken it unintentionally or taken too much. That can lead to nausea, diarrhea, headaches, changes in mood, lasting sleepiness the next day, and bedwetting."36
Valerian and melatonin are just two of the many supplements and sleep aids people consume to try and get some satisfying rest. Given how many people suffer from sleeplessness (and are purchasing these products), and how many more people may be undiagnosed but suffering just the same begins to shine a light on the massive scope of this issue.
Life Force and Insomnia
Life Force is the subtle, universal energy that infuses all of nature and all of life with vitality and aliveness. It is the living spirit beyond what we see with our two eyes, and flows to us and through us from a higher Source (by whatever name or spiritual tradition), which connects us to our own true, inner blueprint for our life's journey.
When this connection is lessened, or covered over through emotional trauma or poor conditioning, we begin to suffer – sometimes dramatically. However, the good news is that this deep connection to our Source, and our own deepest inner-beingness, can be restored. We can be uplifted and healed through this Divine reconnection. And often, one of the first things to happen… is restful sleep.
Right about now, you may be asking, how? How does this work and how can I fall into a deep and satisfying sleep?
It begins with a man named Guruji Mahendra Trivedi. The Divine truly blessed this world in 1963 when Guruji was born in a small village in India. Gifted as a child, he went on to be successful in business, though he felt unfulfilled. In 1995, he experienced a deep superconscious awareness in which he was told it was now time to share his gifts with the world.
Guruji has been gifted to not only harness Divine Life Force Energy, he can also transmit it to others. People began to feel better and to heal from all manner of illnesses and emotional pain as a result of receiving his Blessings. Their very consciousness began to rise, giving new perception, recognition and optimization of gifts and talents, more energy and revitalized health, and an overall deeper happiness and gratitude to the God of their own Understanding. This miraculous phenomenon came to be known as The Trivedi Effect®.
The Trivedi Effect® Energy has been studied, measured, and documented in numerous scientific experiments in the areas of human health and wellness (including cancer), agriculture, materials science, plant genetics, biotechnology, microbiology and microbial genetics, livestock, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals. Over 4000 experiments in all have been conducted so far, with more on the way. And the results of these experiments are astounding scientists all over the world. In one study related to cancer, it was discovered that not only did The Trivedi Effect® kill the cancerous cells, it simultaneously supported the healthy cells.37This experiment proved beyond doubt that this Divine Energy is independently Intelligent, and knows exactly what to support and what not to support.
Many people to date who have received Life Force Energy Transmissions have fallen into bed at night, exhausted – but instead of tossing and turning and getting more and more upset, they drift into a deep and dreamless sleep, then awaken the next morning refreshed and truly rested.
There are no negative side effects, and no restrictions on how much of this Life Force Energy one can receive. Becoming more deeply connected to the God of one's own internal Understanding can bring a rich and deep peace, calmness, clarity, and joyfulness in life again. If there is any side effect, it is a positive one called The Ripple Effect. This is where the Life Force Energythat one receives overflows and spills out into one's environment, positively affecting those in one's home and work space.
If you suffer from insomnia, know there is a new solution available today that can help you sleep better tonight.
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- Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research; Colten HR, Altevogt BM, editors. Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2006. 3, Extent and Health Consequences of Chronic Sleep Loss and Sleep Disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19961/
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health, Sleep and Sleep Disorders: Key Sleep Disorders, December 10,2014.https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/key_disorders.html
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- Schutte-Rodin, S., Broch, L., Buysse, D., Dorsey, C., & Sateia, M. (2008). Clinical Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Insomnia in Adults. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine?: JCSM?: Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine,4(5), 487–504.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576317/
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- Trivedi MK, Patil S, Shettigar H, Mondal SC, Jana S (2015) The Potential Impact of Biofield Treatment on Human Brain Tumor Cells: A Time- Lapse Video Microscopy. J Integr Oncol 4: 141. doi:10.4172/2329-6771.1000141.


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This week, we are delighted to welcome Helen Keaney to our stage and let you experience her fearless style of comedy bits, hilarious stories, and off-the-cuff improvisation. She can banter with an audience, making each show unique and individualized. She talks about life, work, and motherhood in real terms, saying out loud what we're all actually thinking. Her hilarious looks at everyday life will make you glad you came and begging for more.
You may recognize this week's headliner from her many TV and movie appearances. With multiple sitcoms, commercials, and stand-up TV shows under her belt, Helen has earned her marks as a veteran actress and comedian. Her career began in New York City, honing her comedic skills at The Boston Comedy Club and The Comic Strip. She was quickly noticed by TV executives and began her TV co-hosting Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central. A fateful vacation to Los Angeles resulted in her position as co-host on The Big Day, based on the British sitcom, The Big Breakfast. Soon after, she landed a deal with Disney and had guests spots on NBC's The John Larroquette Show, HBO's Not Necessarily the News with Dennis Miller, and USA's Lost On Earth. Helen's resume also includes voice overs, multiple commercials, television hosting gigs and even a few movie credits such as Tooth Fairy 2 with Larry the Cable Guy. She's currently a host on prime time HSN.
But Helen truly showcases her talent on stage as a stand up comedian. Appearances include A&E's An Evening At The Improv, Lifetime's Girl's Night Out, VH-1's Stand-up Spotlight, NBC's Friday Night, Comedy Central's Make Me Laugh, and Nick at Night's Mom's Night Out.Come out this week, May 22-26, to catch Helen Keaney and her hilarious comedic genius, only at McCurdy's!


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The moon rocket makers
Rocketry champs honor the Apollo mission with model of the Saturn V
If you're going to send people to the moon, send 'em in style.
Fifty years ago, NASA used the Saturn V rocket, a three-stage, liquid-propelled behemoth, some 36 stories tall, to break free of Earth's gravity and bring astronauts to the moon. Its towering presence, in its black-and-white livery, became an icon of mankind's great leap. It was inspiring then and now.
Three college students are building replicas of the Saturn V rocket, with support from Raytheon. Pending approval, one of their 1/70th scale moon rockets will launch at the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals Fly Off, May 18 in The Plains, Virginia.
"I saw a video of a new model rocket that uses 'thrust vectoring' like real rockets, and immediately became very interested," said Andrew Heath, 21, a senior at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and captain of the team that won the International Rocketry Challenge at the Paris Air Show in 2015. "It got me thinking that since the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is in July, that it would cool to do a replica. I reached out to the Aerospace Industries Association about it, and they loved the idea, and it kind of just snowballed from there."
The challenge is run by the AIA and the National Association of Rocketry, and sponsored by Raytheon. For the past 14 years, Raytheon has sent the winners of the U.S. nationals to the International Rocketry Challenge, which alternates each year between the air shows in Farnborough, U.K., and Paris. Those biannual events are held in alternating years. This year, the winners go to Paris.
Heath enlisted the help of two former TARC alumni – Brayden Dodge, a 19-year-old sophomore at Auburn University and captain of last year's national and international rocketry challenge winning teams, and Grace Basler, an 18-year-old freshman at Missouri University of Science and Technology who was a member of the 2017 national and international rocketry winning teams.
"It's been a lot of hard work, and we have a lot more to do," Dodge said. "But it's an amazing opportunity. I can't wait to launch this thing and get to see it fly."
Heath describes the trio's model rocket as "museum quality." It stands at over 62 inches tall and 5.6 inches in diameter.
"Most model rockets have fins and launch quickly; real space launch vehicles don't," Heath said. "With thrust vectoring, our rocket will slowly ascend and build speed, instead of leaving your sight in seconds. Real space-orbiting rockets use thrust vectoring."
Thrust vectoring uses an on-board computer to control the direction of a rocket's engines during flight, stabilizing the vehicle and allowing it to change trajectory. The replica also has Bluetooth to connect the on-board computer to a smartphone app, which can help the rocketeers configure thrust vector control sensitivity, parachute deployment altitudes, the abort system, ground testing and rocket tuning, among other functions.
The model's control system is even protected against cyberattacks, a consideration that was not a factor in 1969. With the prevalence of connected devices and bad actors in today's world, though, the TARC alumni got some help hardening the system.
As luck would have it, Heath is an intern for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
"We've gotten some very helpful advice on how to conduct a risk assessment and how to harden the rocket," Heath said. "After we've completed that, they're going to see if we've done our due diligence."
The alumni are awaiting approval from National Association of Rocketry to launch their replica at the TARC Nationals, May 18. On May 17, they will accompany the 70 competing teams, composed of middle school and high school students, to a Washington, D.C., event called Rockets on the Hill, where they will get to meet senators and representatives.
At this year's nationals, students must design, build and fly a rocket carrying three raw eggs in a capsule to an altitude of 856 feet, then return it to ground with the eggs intact, all within a range of 43-46 seconds. A broken egg means automatic disqualification. Raytheon will send the best-performing team to the Paris Air Show in June to represent the U.S. at the International Rocketry Challenge, where it will compete against teams from France, Japan and the United Kingdom.
The alumni hope their Saturn V launch will help inspire more students to get into rocketry. Joining a rocketry team in middle school and high school can help develop skills and an interest in a science, technology, engineering and math.
"I'm really excited about this project," Basler said. "It's never been done before, never been seen before, it's a first. It will become cool. I think it will motivate a lot of kids to get into rocketry."
Heath has mentored one or more high school teams for the past four years, sending at least one team to nationals each year.
"One of my teams got a sneak peek at the Saturn V, and it turned their world upside down," Heath said. "It really made sense to them, and it clicked."
Note: Raytheon congratulates Madison West from Wisconsin, winners of the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals Fly Off! Nearly 5,000 students from across the country compete in the challenge every year. The Madison West rocket soared to victory, safely carrying three eggs into flight and delivering them safely to the Earth – honoring the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, theme of this year's contest. Next: The winning team will travel to the Paris Air Show to represent the U.S. in the International Rocketry Challenge, June 20-21, 2019.


text: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. launched its first training vessel, the Spirit of MOL, at the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Company in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. Executives on hand for the launching and christening ceremonies included MOL Deputy President and Director-General of Safety Operations Headquarters Hidehiro Harada. The company will start practical training aboard the vessel in mid-July. The vessel has a training bridge on floor above the actual bridge. MOL also has about 10 full-time instructors, who will provide education and practical training to 180 trainees per session. MOL cadets of the same level of training from different nations (the Philippines, India, Russia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, etc.), will train onboard together. The company believes that intensive training in a cross-cultural atmosphere will not only help those master maritime skills, but also develop a stronger sense of pride and teamwork. The training vessel will sail out to Manila, where one of the company's main base of human resource in a few days. Filipino and Russian cadets will train onboard as the first cadets of this new training program. Their training voyage, from the Philippines to India, begins on July 16. The first onboard training will last four to six months, and is mainly for the cadets who do not have practical vessel experience.


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hanks for the reply! It's less than a year, I know, but I'll have to research the exact date I bought it. I was getting some water when I heard it crack, and took the spigot out to be sure...yep, it was a crack. Now my wife and I are having withdrawals from the great water we're used to.


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Gamos – behind the scenes
Gamos was written for my wife, Heidi, in recognition of our upcoming "half life" anniversary – i.e., the anniversary where we had been married for half of our lives. We were both 44 years old, and were celebrating our 22nd anniversary.
Two main points about Gamos, before a line by line annotation.
First – the shortest possible summary: From newly wed to present day, there has been change and growth through persistence at the ordinary in pursuit of eternal goals together. From present day to eternity, glory arises out of the ordinary through transformation in Christ together – some of that transformation will be a shock, at an instant. Some of it has fermented for a long time.
Second – a note about the general layout of the poem: Because it was about "half-life" and radiation – or at least that was the original genesis of the idea, I wanted to show how radioactive decay transformed one material/element into another. Then, I wanted to talk about alchemical transformation of lead to gold. But this all tied together into several transformations I tried to pull into the poem, because marriage leads to both short-term and longest-term transformations. Those transformations are represented in the poem as movements from:
1) Greek to Latin;
2) Saturn to Solar (the hermetic tradition of "internal alchemy") or mortality to immortality;
3) (1 Corinthian 15's) Corruption to Incorruption and terrestrial to celestial glory;
4) Radioactive elements to Lead and Lead to Gold; and
5) Yeats' "These two things" to "the world ends" to a "single light."
Line by line annotation, with line 1 as the title, written as if providing the annotation to my wife (i.e., "we" is Heidi and I, "you" is Heidi):
- Gamos = Greek for marriage. It will later (line 14) be transformed to matrimonium, Latin for marriage. And all will be transformed when "the world ends" (line 28) in perfect union ("a single light" in line 24) and eternal life. This is important, because the word Gamos is also Greek for the Wedding supper of the Lamb in the New Testament. At the end of the poem (line 27) we will be "called from the highway" (Matthew 22:8-10) to join the wedding feast (Revelations 19:7-9). So the Gamos of this poem is not only our unique marriage, but the Wedding feast of the Lamb we hope to join in together through our fidelity to one another.
- "Half-life" = the radioactivity and transformation theme. Where one element literally becomes another. For us, "half-life" is marriage for 22 of our 44 years of age – this is our "half-life" anniversary (these numbers show up in line 14).
- "Perhaps the bride bed brings despair, for each an imagined image brings" – These lines are from a poem by Yeats, entitled "Solomon and the Witch," that I first learned of in an essay by Wendell Berry called "The Body and The Earth." The essay was very influential to me early in our marriage when I first was introduced to Berry's writings. Gamos therefore begins by asking (line 3) if this was my newly wedded (line 5) experience: "Despair? Imagined?" Later in the poem and on our marriage journey, we'll find that "the world ends" (line 28) when all of the "imaginations" and presuppositions are refined away and we stand together truly "on common ground" (line 28).
- "Hardly bestead and hungry" is a phrase from Isaiah 8:21. It is in the poem as another part of the question that Gamos starts with: Despair? Imagined? Hardly bestead? Hungry? Is that what our new marriage was? Is that what marriage is? But this is also important: Isaiah 8 from which this phrase comes talks about walking in darkness before Isaiah 9 when "the people that walked in darkness" and the "shadow of death" "have seen a great light" (Isaiah 9:2). So this was totally appropriate in the gradual transformation in the poem from mundane and corruption to eternal life and incorruption. This phrase "hardly bestead and hungry" precedes the coming of Christ sequentially in the book of Isaiah in these verses in Isaiah 8 and 9.
- "Two things" is from Yeats again. "Wedded" has the physicality of bringing two people and elements together (thus "Uranium" starts on this line on the left side of the poem). The wedding brings about the radioactive process of this poem, the transformation of the elements here wedded.
As a note – this list of elements actually doesn't include all of the isotopes between uranium and lead. But that's a technicality. The idea is there, and each of the elements listed here is in the decay of uranium 238 to lead 206.
- "Temple stretched" and "new cloth" – I liked the idea that the part of the loom that holds the fabric at the correct width is called the temple. It seemed like that was appropriate to the covenants we had made in the temple where our marriage began. But this was also a personal nod to your past love of weaving. The word "taut" had great physicality to it; the physicality of new marriage, as well as all stretching of marriage: emotionally, physically, spiritually. But also, with the "temple" of the loom, that union properly bounded by our promises made to each other and to God in the temple. "New cloth" can simply remind of our new marriage woven together of our separate threads as carried in the word "new," but can also echo the wedding garment/"linens" of the wedding feast/Gamos (Matthew 22:11) (line 1 and line 27).
- "Oil and wick" – from Yeats again: "when oil and wick are burned in one." Our union: from the physical union of marriage (and the sometimes lumbering physicality of new marriage to the more knowing physicality of later marriage), to the eventual perfected physicality in "the glory of the sun" (line 19) after experiencing being measured (line 16 and 17) and our eventual kingdom finished (which I am interpreting as "prepared") (Daniel 5:25-26) (see the explanation in line 16).
- "Shedding time" reminds of radioactive decay in the "half-life" (line 2) – shedding atomic mass. Time and mortality (corruption) are referenced here – but also time/chronos and the echo of the word Cronus, the Greek God the Romans associated with Saturn. So "shedding time" is actually "shedding Saturn" – which is supposed to remind also of the internal alchemy underway in marriage in the hermetic (line 20) tradition, moving from Saturn (line 8) and corruption/flesh/mortality to Solar (1 Corinthinans 15:41) (line 19) and incorruption.
- I liked that "Pluto" sounded like "plutonium," which was very much in line with the transformation theme of the poem and the radioactive decay process here. But "Pluto" is also Latin for "wealth," based on the Greek "Plouton." So the word "Pluto" directly covers the transition from Greek to Latin in itself. Also, the transformation of being a planet and then not being a planet – so transformation theme in this phrase in many ways.
- There is the clocking (line 12) of time in the rhythm of these D-words: "Decades. Dinner. Diapers. Duck-dogs" – each two syllables, hard sounds, sounds like a clock. I liked that "decade" sounds like "decayed" – which fit the half-life (line 2) theme and elemental transformation. Also, "decade" shows time going by – shedding time (line 8). "Duck-dogs" – because of Dr. Seuss's "ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book" – and all the bed-time and other stories read to the kids.
- "Trousers rolled" – T.S. Elliot!! Both of us love "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" – I really wanted to get this image of the "trousers rolled" in the poem. As used here, it reminds that "I grow old." As we transformed in our marriage, we aged. As the D-word clock of line 10 ticked, and the "kitchen counter" of line 12 tocked, we grew old, and our "trousers rolled." (Echoing "Prufrock," we'll see another, glorious beach later in line 18).
- I liked that "Kitchen counter" was wonderfully mundane and daily, but also could serve as a Geiger counter in the radioactive, elemental transformation described here. "Clocked" also shows the passage of time (line 8). But the regularity of daily life, the altar of daily life and "dinners" (line 10) and dishes where it all happens – the crucible in which all these reactions take place.
- So "Lead" is here on this line – it turns out, all these radioactive elements decay down to lead and stop there, because lead is the first stable isotope. Here, "'til the isotope was stable" – lead is reached. Lead is the finishing point in that radioactive decay process, but it is the start in the alchemical process of transforming (line 15, etc) into gold (line 26). Lead is the end and the beginning, so to speak (hint of Alpha and Omega – the Christ of "chrysopoeia" in line 15 that will turn our ordinary strivings to gold – line 26 – and glory – lines 19, 24, and 28). The regular, the mundane, the ordinary of the first half of the poem and of the marriage journey producing the building blocks (lead/matrimonium) from which glory like the sun (line 19) and gold (line 26) will derive. But that change (the great work of chrysopoeia – line 15) requires panacea in line 16 and agape – the Greek word meaning unconditional love (if "agape" is alternatively pronounced in line 18), used here as the atonement, as the answer to "how?" as asked in line 17.
- "Matrimonium" is Latin for gamos (line 1), representing transformation, here as transformation of Greek to Latin. The isotope, matrimonium 264, represents the length of our marriage at our half-life (line 2), 22 years x 12 months = 264. The finishing product at the end of radioactive decay should be lighter than the "uranium" we started with (on line 5), but I wanted the 264 number for the months.
- "Chrysopoeia" is the great work, the transmutation of lead to gold. This section of the poem is about being surprised by glory, as lead becomes gold. "What comes after physics?" – the answer to that is "meta-physics," your preferred form of poetry. But also, this kind of transformation, the spiritual and physical transformation of sanctification and resurrection, is outside of physics. The everyday processes in the first half of the poem are now transformed through the great miracle to glory. Somehow, after a mortal journey and the daily grind, we will in the end be "called from the highway" (line 27) to stand "on common ground" at the end of time and end of the world (line 28).
- "Panacea" is the elixir of life – derived from the philosopher's stone, also used to transmute lead to gold. Here, in line 16, the atonement of Christ is applied as "panacea" at resurrection morning, and we awake "stunned" (line 18) to discover extraordinary "glory" (line 19) upon us "in a moment" (1 Corinthians 15:52). The first word is "mene," from Daniel 5:25: "Mene. Mene. Tekel. Upharsin." The word here in the poem is spoken from voice of God, announcing the completion of a work. The word means "dose" in Hebrew, and so I liked that this word echoed the radioactivity referenced in the first half of the poem. As described in Daniel, "mene" means, essentially, measured: "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it." I used it to mean that all the work of our marriage and daily life as described in the first half of the poem was found (at that future day) to meet the measure, and that "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it," with the word "finished" meaning perfected, polished, completed – the telos of perfection. And at the pronunciation of "Mene," we wake stunned (line 18), glorious (line 19), radiant (line 24), and exclaim in grateful, overwhelmed shock: "What?"!!! Also – when these words were written on the wall of the temple in Daniel 5– that night Babylon/the world was overthrown – as in an instant. That same shock of the world ending and glory entering is appropriate here.
- And then the voice of God pronounces again: "Mene" – and again, the "stunned" (line 18) shock of glory (line 19) and completed redemption: "How?" The answer, as alluded to in the annotation of line 16, is Christ's unconditional love, which in line 18, is called (the Greek): agape.
- Agape – as read aloud here, is "a – gape", meaning stunned (line 18), shocked, overwhelmed (because we are moving past the Greek – but not entirely!). So as an answer to line 17, the reader should also think of "a-gah-pay," Greek for unconditional love as described in the annotation for line 16 and 17. The atonement underlies this miraculous transformation from corruption to incorruption and saturnal to solar.
"Seaborg" – in 1980, Seaborg was part of a team at Lawrence Berkeley that successfully transmuted one element to another with particle accelerators, and actually got a tiny bit of resultant "gold" (line 26).
"Baikal" – similarly, the Russians were said to have done some experiments with nuclear reactors near Lake Baikal, and found that the lead shielding (line 20) had partly turned to gold (line 26).
This all is to show the transformation, one element actually becoming another – the shock of the mundane and physical and corruptible finding itself glorious, immortal, eternal, and incorruptible as an inexplicable and unaccountable gift – "linen lends" (line 27).
Also, with this glorious transformation, the poem transforms and begins to rhyme from here to the end.
- This is 1 Corinthians 15:29. Waking on resurrection morning, amazed at the completion of the great work (line 15), in gratitude, and realizing that the judgement had come ("mene" – line 16), that our ordinary lives had been measured, and that "our kingdom" was finished by Christ – "called from the highway" to the feast/gamos(line 27 and line 1).
And, I'll note it here: As said above – this is a stunning (line 18) change. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 says: "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" I really wanted to include lots of 1 Corinthians 15 in this poem, even if in the original Greek – instead, it is largely represented by this line. So think when reading this line of how much "glory" (line 19) will happen in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye – and the sting of death removed, and "the glory of the sun in" us (line 19) – all thanks be to God and his Christ.
- With transformation, I needed to have a change in meter and even a visual change. So this line bumps out physically in the middle of a series of couplets (in lines 18-28) (or quadlets 🙂 coming in lines 23-26) – and chops the sentence length before each rhyme in half for just this line.
"A change in the shield" refers to the researchers at Lake Baikal (line 18) who purportedly found that the "lead" (line 13) shield on their reactor had partly turned to "gold" (line 26).
"Hermetically sealed" refers to the sealing of the "temple" (line 6) but also to the hermetic tradition of internal alchemy and the quest for eternal life. That hermetic tradition is one of the overarching transformations in the poem from the saturnian (line 8 with its time/chonos/Cronus/Saturn) to the solar (line 19) and the glorified (line 26).
- Here is Arnold's Dover Beach, one of my truly all-time favorite poems. I have loved and been moved by this poem since first reading it in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, where the poem has a similar effect on the protagonist. In that poem – the phrase "ah, love, let us be true to one another!" rivets the reader because Arnold places it as a "shield" (line 20) against the implications of the bleak contemplation of a world seemingly without hope. "Let us be true to one another" – and in our marriage find "certitude" and "help for pain" (both phrases from Arnold here).
An additional important note is that Arnold's Dover Beach references "Sophocles long ago" – which puts the "Greek" behind us in the ancient past – part of the transformation in this poem from Greek to Latin.
- This line references a personal note – when we were engaged and holding hands while walking, I would say "Bread and Butter" when we had to stop holding hands to walk on either side of an object – like I had seen ants doing in a cartoon when I was a little kid. Then, when we were separated for a month during our engagement while you returned with your family and then to school, you sent me an engagement ring with the phrase "Bread and Butter" inscribed within. Now, in glorified union in this poem, never to be separated in the eternities, we have "buttered bread" – a permanent fusion (also appropriate to the nuclear and elemental transformations described here). "Holy grain" references Christ, the Bread of Life (John 6:35). The "grain" also begins to reference the "kefir" of the following line (line 23).
- "Kefir" – the preserving process of fermentation, tied to the "grain" in line 22 and the preservation of sealing and shielding in line 20. I also wanted this line to show that while we wake up "stunned" (line 18) and glorious (line 19) per 1 Corinthians 15 and the grace of Christ, I also wanted to remind that it stemmed from a long work – "long ferment." There have been many "prayers" for each other, and for our family, lots of work, daily family prayer and scripture study, regular routine, service and sacrifice, all with an eye "single" (line 24) and with hope in what was believed but not seen, though true (Alma 32:21). That long process bears fruit (Alma 32) in an instant (1 Corinthians 15), when on that beautiful resurrection morning we rise on the "beach" together (line 18) and enter the garden at world's end (line 28).
- "Single light" is from Yeats. It represents our perfect union – and reminds of the eye single – and whole body full of light (Matthew 6:22). "Radiant" – this beautiful word ties to the radioactivity in the half-life (line 2) of the beginning of the poem, and the extraordinary, resultant "glory" that comes in a shocking moment per 1 Corinthians 15 and lines 18 and 19.
- "Betas and gammas" are what the radioactive elements emit in their elemental transformation. At last when time is done and "the world ends" (line 28), we are "finally in our element" (that's the next line)
- "Gold" is here – the alchemic end product of "chyrosopeia" (line 15) and of all the ordinary and extraordinary of life and the atonement, of marriage, of our "time" (line 8) and dedication to each other and to our family and to God. "Finally in our element." The result of the transformation described in Gamos is that we end "in our element," together where we finally and truly belong: in that garden together – on "common ground" (line 28).
- "Called from the highway" references Matthew 22:8-10 when we are called (in our deepest hope of hopes) to join the wedding feast (Revelations 19:7-9). In this passage in Matthew, those who were originally invited did not attend, so the king sends out into the highways to bring in those who might least be expected to attend. They are provided wedding garments, and they join the Wedding fest of the Lamb. In our hope of hopes, this is where we hope to be together as we keep our promises to each other and to God. And that is the latter half of line 27: "Linen lends" was originally going to be "linens lent" – meaning the linens are given to us, the wedding garment given to us from Matthew 22, tied back to the temple cloth of line 6. But I ended up going with what I liked better: "linen lends" – meaning linen endows or linen imbues. It's still connected to the wedding garment of Matthew 22, the temple cloth of line 6, and ultimately to Gamos/the Wedding feast of the Lamb. It is emblematic of the covenant of marriage – like all covenants, God sets the terms, we agree to the terms, and if we abide the terms, he provides promised blessings. Through covenants, he endows with power and clothes us in the wedding garment so that we can abide together until, as, and through "the world ends" (line 28). This is the power of eternal marriage. The power of gamos.
- The garden. A phrase you frequently cite is about how "only hand in hand can we re-enter the Garden": as equals and full partners. On the same note, explicitly referenced here in this line, Wendell Berry talks about us finding true "common ground" in marriage. "On common ground the world ends." The world is time, and it ends. The world is separation – the world ends. The world is division, the world is corruption, the world is struggle and seeming hopelessness, and everything that ends. "The world ends" in perfect gamos (line 1)– perfect, glorified union: "a single light" (line 24).


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