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Kaleidoscope of Colour for Celebration at Cherished Hall; as the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the City's Brangwyn Hall, We Speak to Composers, Musicians and Conductors with Links to the Building and Find out about an Illuminating Project
STANDING in the middle of Swansea city centre, Brangwyn Hall has staged concerts by world renowned musicians for the past 75 years.
Named after the eminent mural artist, Sir Frank Brangwyn, the venue houses what are considered by many, including the artist himself, to be among his finest works.
The 18-panel series on the history of the British Empire, which took seven years to complete, were originally commissioned by the House of Lords to commemorate the dead of World War I in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster.
However, the resultant profusion of vegetation, animal life and people brought to life in sumptuous colour, representing the extent of the Empire which the fallen had sought to protect, proved too exuberant a memorial for the Lords and they were rejected in 1930. Offers came from all over the world for these magnificent panels but they were eventually installed throughout Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.
This week, to mark the hall's milestone birthday, arts project Locws International commissioned artists Robert Bermingham and Richard Robinson to create a temporary installation as part of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts.
Using the famous panels as their inspiration, the artists transformed the entrance windows to Brangwyn Hall into a giant kaleidoscope of light and colour which will be visible both inside and out, day and night.
Each of the three windows corresponds to one of the panels and, by using the same vibrant colour palette as the originals, Bermingham and Robinson have created a bold design of coloured vinyl pasted directly onto the windows.
Meanwhile, a concert on October 10, taking place at the hall, will also celebrate the 75th anniversary.
It will feature the world premiere of the final work of the late composer Alun Hoddinott who, fittingly, was inspired to write music after seeing his first live concert performance there.
"The Brangwyn Hall was the scene of one of my very first solo performances when I was still an undergraduate at university. I remember standing on the stage looking out into a seemingly endless space and launching into Non piu Andrai from The Marriage of Figaro and immediately being struck by how warm and flattering the acoustic was. Subsequently I have performed and recorded there on many occasions, most notably Jenufa with Sir Charles Mackerras and Trial By Jury with Richard Hickox and it is always a great pleasure to perform there." - International bass baritone Neal Davies.
"I always look forward to playing in the Brangwyn Hall. We have such an enthusiastic and loyal audience there and the hall itself provides a wonderful setting and sound for all our programmes. Last season's Swansea highlight for me was probably Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. This coming season has lots for audiences to look forward to, including Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique with our principal conductor, Thierry Fischer, and a night of Tchaikovsky with Walter Weller. …


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Kevin Delaney is a science presenter at Arkansas' Museum of Discovery in Little Rock. At the museum he performs Awesome Science demonstrations for visitors of all ages and helped to develop the Science After Dark program for adults.
Kevin's talent for science communication landed him a recurring spot on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as the resident science presenter, performing demonstrations with Jimmy and celebrity guests as lab assistants. The results have always delivered large scale eruptions, explosions, and more.
Prior to joining the museum staff, Delaney worked as a playwright, performer, and educator. Developing and presenting educational programs at a zoo, and working with the staff and animals there, sparked a professional interest in combining his storytelling skills with his scientific curiosity.
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Last on the Colbert Agenda was an author, I missed his name, but he mentioned Joseph Priestley. He made the claim that Priestley and others were very influential in the beginnings of the American nation, despite the fact its not exactly a household name.
In Rothbards Do you Hate the State? he credits Priestley among others of being radical in a true sense of the word.
Perhaps the word that best defines our distinction is "radical." Radical in the sense of being in total, root-and-branch opposition to the existing political system and to the State itself. Radical in the sense of having integrated intellectual opposition to the State with a gut hatred of its pervasive and organized system of crime and injustice. Radical in the sense of a deep commitment to the spirit of liberty and anti-statism that integrates reason and emotion, heart and soul.
Furthermore, in contrast to what seems to be true nowadays, you don't have to be an anarchist to be radical in our sense, just as you can be an anarchist while missing the radical spark. I can think of hardly a single limited governmentalist of the present day who is radical – a truly amazing phenomenon, when we think of our classical liberal forbears who were genuinely radical, who hated statism and the States of their day with a beautifully integrated passion: the Levellers, Patrick Henry, Tom Paine, Joseph Priestley, the Jacksonians, Richard Cobden, and on and on, a veritable roll call of the greats of the past. Tom Paine's radical hatred of the State and statism was and is far more important to the cause of liberty than the fact that he never crossed the divide between laissez-faire and anarchism.
This in turn recalled a book I read last year: The Betrayal of the American Right. In Chapter 2 Rothbard mentions Priestley, among others. He says:
The conventional historical wisdom asserts that while the radical movements in America were indeed laissez-faire individualist before the Civil War, that afterwards, the laissez-fairists became conservatives, and the radical mantle then fell to groups more familiar to the modern Left: the Socialists and Populists. But this is a distortion of the truth. For it was elderly New England Brahmins, laissez-faire merchants and industrialists like Edward Atkinson, who had financed John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, who were the ones to leap in and oppose the U.S. imperialism of the Spanish-American War with all their might. No opposition to that war was more thoroughgoing than that of the laissez-faire economist and sociologist William Graham Sumner or than that of Atkinson who, as head of the Anti-Imperialist League, mailed antiwar pamphlets to American troops then engaged in conquering the Philippines. Atkinson's pamphlets urged our troops to mutiny, and were consequently seized by the US postal authorities.
In taking this stand, Atkinson, Sumner and their colleagues were not being "sports"; they were following an antiwar, anti-imperialist tradition as old as classical liberalism itself. This was the tradition of Price, Priestley, and the late eighteenth-century British radicals that earned them repeated imprisonment by the British war machine; and of Richard Cobden, John Bright, and the laissez-faire Manchester School of the mid-nineteenth century. Cobden, in particular, had fearlessly denounced every war and every imperial maneuver of the British regime. We are now so used to thinking of opposition to imperialism as Marxian that this kind of movement seems almost inconceivable to us today.1
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If you're going to be a college freshman... let me give you some advice. To be honest, my first semester of college was completely insane. I learned a lot and I grew, but if I could go back, there are definitely some things I would have changed! I've put together three tips that I think every college freshman should know before they even step on campus.
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I know, I know, I know. You've probably heard it a million times from fifty different people... but let me tell you... they are the most horrible thing you could ever accept! At the time, you think, "Oh perfect. I can live off of my loans and not have to work while I'm in school." But babe... let me tell you. This is only going to cause you financial strain in the future when you have to begin to pay off those thousands of dollars in student loan debt. My advice? Save. Work and pay out of pocket for your tuition. This may mean only going to school part-time and living off campus - but that's okay - you will be grateful you chose to do that in the future. You may even get some amazing financial aid, grants, or scholarships - which is the dream! - and if you do, then you can attend full-time with a part-time job to pay for the other expenses. Plan for your future - it's the smart thing to do!
2. Studying over Netflix binging
Netflix hadn't been around for maybe six months when I first started college. Can you imagine? Oh, how I longed to just binge watch my favorite shows and movies instead of study late at night. I've had a few F's in my college career and each one resulted from putting something else above studying. When you're in college, besides attending class, studying should be your number one priority. I'm not saying don't have any fun but put your studying first and then go hang out with your gal pals / boyfriend. There are so many great studying methods out there too! I suggest looking some up on Pinterest - or if you want to know mine, I am happy to share them with you!
3. Get out of your dorm room and meet people
I know I just told you to not put other things before studying... but you can still have fun afterwards! One of my biggest regrets of my freshman year was that I didn't get out much! I wish I would have joined a club or went to more social gatherings in my free time. I'm a pretty shy person - well, I was at that time in my life - and I have a hard time putting myself out there. I know, I'm basically writing my every thought and feeling on the internet... you got me... but it's different! So when you want to just hermit away in your dorm room, remember that there are so many opportunities just beyond that door - so many friends and connections you could be making that may change your future forever! You can do it!
I know these aren't the greatest of tips... BUT I have to say these would be the top three I would have wanted someone to tell me before I made that leap into college life. You live and you learn... so you're still going to make mistakes... and that's okay! But you will grow from them and may be someday you'll be telling college freshman your tips. ;)
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A great team; and great of you to congratulate Flurry. It is so hard for us to be perfect partners to help our horses to succeed sometimes!
What happens when a horsemad Ould Wagon moves from Cork to Provence with 2 horses, 2 dogs and a Long Suffering Husband? Why, she gets a third dog, discovers Natural Horsemanship à la Française, starts writing short stories and then discovers a long-buried talent for art, of course…
Our competition didn't start until Saturday, so we had Friday free. We did a little work with the horses in the morning and then, at MC's suggestion, we took Quieto and Flurry over for a look at the Parc Fédéral – the horse park. In my head, we were doing this for Quieto's sake, as he can be very out of sorts away from home. Flurry was just going along for the ride, as far as I was concerned.
Well my safe, sensible little cob who has seen and done so much was completely overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of the world's biggest equestrian competition! We found a quiet sand arena and tried to do a little work with both horses. Flurry was like a demon, trying to tank off towards Quieto, bucking and even lashing out in my general direction, although he was too far away to connect. Quieto settled much quicker than Flurry but after a while we decided that they were calm enough to go deeper into the melee and have a look at the manège where our competition would take place. There were pedestrians, cars, horses and bikes everywhere, zipping back and forth in a crazy scrum, with loads of riders and horses dressed up for the dressage fancy dress competition (no, that's not its proper name. I don't remember what it's called).
Flurry was just about keeping it together until we were passing a jumping arena. The French take their role as fans very seriously, and every competitor had an army of supporters on the rails, cheering for every fence. Someone finished a clear round just as we passed and the crowd went wild, to the accompaniment of celebratory music. It was too much for our poor horses and they danced and jigged around us, nerves completely frazzled. Forget your equitation ethologique, we just hung on as best we could!
Eventually, after about two hours, we went back home with two reasonably calm horses. I was damn thankful MC had suggested this trial run!
Next day was competition day…
Alexandrine was first up in the Elite class with Max. Max is an OTTB, but he's the calmest TB I've ever met. On this day, he was maybe too calm. He wasn't really tuned into Alex and they fluffed up a couple of things, leaving her well down in the placings and quite disappointed.
While they were competing, we were getting the ponies ready, with the help of one of our loyal Gaec de Pimayon supporters, Fabfan. (We had three supporters there that day, Fabfan who had driven all the way from Provence and Mr & Mrs Paris, who had driven all the way down from Paris. Pretty good for a teeny club from the wilds of Provence, in its first year of existence!)
Girl was at the Championnats last year and came last. This year, her goal was "not last." She is a wonderful handler to watch, but Neros can be quite spooky and difficult at times. Anything could happen…
Boy, on the other hand, was sure he was going to win. I thought he was in with a very good chance, myself. A year ago, Spirit used to have some really naughty moments, but this year it's clear that they have a very special relationship.
They both put in good performances on the first day.
At the end of the day, they were well placed – boy was joint 5th and Girl was joint 4th out of 17. Boy was still sure he was going to win. Girl was happy with where she was.
Afternoon came and it was time for the club section. With 62 competitors, this was the biggest equifeel class of the day. MC and Quieto went first, while I waited at a discreet distance with Flurry, who was marginally more settled than the day before. MC made the mistake of attempting the very first test, the slalom, at liberty. Quieto normally does this with his eyes shut at home, but he was too distracted, and paid no attention to MC. Zero scored. Then they got a -2 at the next test, the jump, but things improved for them after that, although he did try to eat the flag in the embuches!
And then it was my turn. Flurry had been quite inattentive in the warm-up but it was difficult trying to get his attention with 6 other horses and handlers milling around. Funnily enough, I wasn't the least bit nervous. Maybe things would have gone better if I had been…
First the slalom.
It went surprisingly well until the 3rd last cone, which he knocked over. I had to fix it and then redirect him back into place to tackle it again. Not easy, but somehow we managed it with a -2 for the knocked cone.
After the slalom was the jump on a circle. Flurry is good at this. We were going for the 15 point option – over the jump, turn and over the same jump again, than halt, outside of my 'zone de contrôle', facing me. No problem. Very relaxed Martine…
Unfortunately, a very relaxed Martine is not always a good thing. Flurry jumped, turned, jumped, halted on request. Turned and faced me, halted. Done, I thought, and BANG one big, hairy front foot stepped forward into my zone de contrôle. Fifteen points to zero points in an instant.
Oh well. The Embuches were next. That should be ok too, for the fifteen point option, I thought. The only obstacle I was worried about was the displaced trotting poles, so I decided to leave that until last.
First the slalom of barrels. Pas de problème…
But wait! Problème! We missed a barrel! And I don't know what possessed me, but for some reason, I thought I could pass behind the barrel with Flurry i.e. basically lead him around it. Non non non, said the judge, you have to go back and do it all again… so we did, faultlessly this time. But I'd forgotten that there was a time limit…
…and we went past the displaced poles to do the bridge……and then went past the displaced poles again to do the flag…
…and finally went around to do the displaced poles. Perfectly. First time. Yay!
But the judge shook her head sadly and said she was sorry but we were just over the time limit. Zero score. AAARGH! So that was a total of 30 points I'd thrown away!
Next was the essui-glace, windscreen wiper. Basically the same as the jump we had done earlier, jump, turn and jump again. I was going for the safe 10 point option, with a lead rope attached to the halter, rather than via an elastic band.
Done. Easy. And he stayed out of my zone this time! In hindsight, I'm sure he'd have done it at liberty for 20 points if I had tried.
Finally, we had the bache, or tarpaulin. I opted for fifteen points. Again, maybe I should have gone for twenty. He walked onto the tarp, halted when asked, stood still while the judge counted five seconds and walked off again into the 'stop' zone. And instead of asking him to stop, I let him keep on walking. I really have no idea what I was thinking, in fact, I think my brain had completely stopped functioning. The judge yelled at me told me to halt in the zone, I turned Flurry and parked him back in the zone. The judge was staring at me, shocked that I hadn't stopped. And I have to confess, I played the Dumb Foreigner card and said I hadn't understood. I'm sure I will never get away with that one again…
"Je n'ai pas comprise," I said.
She was clearly wondering what to do. I was expecting a zero and I turned away and gave Flurry a kiss on the nose because he'd done a great job, all the mistakes were mine and mine alone.
And I think that action endeared me to the judge. She gave me a 2 point penalty instead of a zero, saying "You had one foot out of the zone."(Um yeah, I know it was two or three more feet than that, but thanks very much!) I just smiled and said "Merci" and left. Thirteen points instead of fifteen, but it could so easily have been a zero. Phew.
I was very cross with myself, but not disappointed with my Flurry's performance. We'd have been placed ninth at that stage if I hadn't screwed up so spectacularly and we'd have had it all to play for the next day. But as it was, all I could do was take comfort in the fact that me and Flurry are actually well up to the level required. We've upped our game since the regional championships and we did loads of things for 15 points, and I know we're capable of doing some things for 20 points as well. Next year will be our year!
Sunday brought some surprises… next instalment as soon as I can. I'm in Ireland for Granny's 80th birthday party and may not have much blogging time.
A bientôt!
A great team; and great of you to congratulate Flurry. It is so hard for us to be perfect partners to help our horses to succeed sometimes!
Sounds like a great show. I think you and Flurry make a great team.
WOW! For someone who knows nothing about performing horses I am very impressed that you participated. To me you and Flurry make a terrific pair. Keep up the good work. Next year you & flurry will out shine everyone.
Best regards to Granny.s
Well done – you two are a lovely pair. Especially like your "matching outifts" 😀
Flurry is SO beautiful!
Poor Flurry – I'd have been nervous at the world's biggest horse park too! 😉
Kick yourself all you want, but I think it's incredible that you and Flurry are competing at the national championships in the biggest horse competition in the world, only 6 months or so after beginning in this discipline! Well done!!! (And fingers crossed for even better scores next year.)


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Don biography update
Whoa! It's been a long time since I've updated this blog! Sorry for that, but things have been quite complicated here with health, life, the universe and everything. But anyway….
A lot of people ask what is happening to Don's biography and the answer is: it's well on its way! It's taken a lot longer to do than first expected as it has been very hard to get the different interviews within the original time-frame. But now things should ease up a bit. While you're waiting here's a list of the people who have contributed to Don's bio so far:
- Don's sister Carol
- Johnny Howells and Mick Marson (former 'N Betweens members)
- Carole Williams (The 'N Betweens very first fan club secretary)
- Vicky Pearson (her cousin who also acted as The 'N Betweens' hair dresser)
- Tim Ramage and Robin Lavender (present Slade crew)
And then some guys (and gal) who shouldn't need any further introduction:
- Keith Altham
- Andrew Birkin
- Craig Fenney
- Dave Hill
- Jim Lea
- Jona Lewis
- Suzi Quatro
- Francis Rossi
- Andy Scott
- Graham "Swinn" Swinnerton
- Len Tuckey
- Henry Weck
- Bob Young
The book WILL be finished this year, but for now I don't know exactly WHEN it will be published. I'll keep you posted! Until then I'll try to keep in touch when my health, life, the universe and everything allow it!


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A posting for those that fell in Virginia
Overall, I didn't enjoy high school. My senior year, I had enough credits that I only needed to attend school a half day. Afternoons, I spent at the University where my Dad taught, playing on their computers. I didn't attend my own graduation. I don't own any yearbooks, and I've never attended any reunions. The few friends I did have, in my geeky circles, I've pretty much kept in touch with via email and chat.
Junior high was even worse. It was an undending, day-to-day nightmare of teasing, harassment, and full-on bullying and beatings. There were a few bright spots, a few good friends. But all in all, I'd just as soon wipe all my memories from 7th through 9th grade, and most of them up through my senior year.
It wasn't until my early college days that I started to not care what people thought of me. Or maybe it was just that I finally found a crowd that didn't care who I was, so they could let me fit in without me having to change much. Whatever the case, in the early '80's, life started making more sense to me.
One of the things I've learned, over the years, is that even those that were "mistreating" me in those years were struggling themselves. Most people that I've met and talked to went through difficult times in jr. high and high school. It's just the way things are. Par for the course, and all that.
I've also learned that, as I looked back, I wasn't always nice to other people, either.
And yet, somehow, as I went through life back then, trying to cope, and as I've tried to deal with my baggage in the years that followed, the thought of bringing a gun to school and shooting people never occurred to me as an option.
So, now, in the new century, when I read and hear about misfits and outcasts who take their frustration and their vengeance out on what they perceive as a cruel and unfeeling system, I've got mixed feelings.
On the one hand, I feel a certain bond, a kinship. I was where they were. I was mistreated, beaten, and mocked. I was trapped in a social system that treated me as the problem, not the victim (and frankly, both labels are counterproductive).
On the other hand, I never killed anyone. My life choices, such as they were, never ended up with anyone violently hurt or dead. I chose other ways of dealing with it.
So, a few years back, after the news of a school rampage finally got to me, I remember I sat up very late one night and wrote a song about it. As I did, I remember sitting on my living room floor and bawling my eyes out, after years and years of pent-up anger and frustration finally left me. I felt for those that got shot. I felt for their families. I felt for the boys that did the shooting. I felt for their families. And I was finally able to feel for me.
Anyway, here's the song that came out of it:
The Sun Shone Through the Windows
Words and music by Mark Hansen, 3/5/01
The Sun Shone Through the Windows
The bell must've rang that morning
Drowned out by the noises
Of the clanging of locker doors
And a thousand busy voices
They were sorted into classrooms
Like a shepherd divides his herd
One was thinking louder
Today my voice will be heard
And the sun shone through the windows
Bouncing through the quiet hall and
The sun shone through the windows
Warming the early cool of fall
As the sun shone through the windows
How could anyone have known
Though the sun was out
There was a dark cloud in the air
He'd said he was going to do it
He even showed the gun
He warned her not to go to school that day
Said she'd miss out on all the fun
She'd let out a nervous laugh
Not quite sure what to say
That laugh was ringing in her ears
When the shots rang out that day
Now they talk about security
Detectors at the doors
Sentries stationed at the bathrooms
And cameras at every floor
They send the staff off to trainings
And the drills will never end
Would anyone be crying now
If he had just had a friend
Final Chorus
And the sun shines through the windows
Bouncing through the quiet hall and
The sun shines through the windows
Where the innocent have fallen
The sun shines through the windows
And the screams have all gone home
The sun is out
But there's a dark cloud in the air
Mark Hansen


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If you look at director Don Siegel's "The Killers" (1964), starring Lee Marvin, Ronald Reagan, John Cassavetes, Norman Fell, Clu Gulager, and Angie Dickinson, and compare it to Quentin Tarantino "Pulp Fiction" of thirty years earlier, you will see a lot of similarities. Tarantino's film made him a household name, while this one is forgotten. That's life in the city of dreams. Here, we have two wisecracking hit men arguing over who is going to finish their steak while dressed in tailored suits, a gangster's moll flirting with a hood, the heavy emphasis on cars, the funky hep-cat music - sure, these are conventions of the genre, but I had not seen this film in decades and when I recently did, the similarities just leaped off the screen.
Anyway, regardless of any connection, it is that kind of film. Two squabbling hit men are hired to make a hit and then decide go to into business for themselves. The film is mostly told in flashbacks as the hit men, acting as investigators, slowly piece together the reasons underlying their initial hit, or more accurately, why their target didn't try to avoid being killed.
|Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager.
"The Killers" is a terrific, iconic film with one of the best casts of its time. Some may think the cheesy sets resemble old "Dragnet" reruns in places, but that actually is part of its charm. Having minimalist sets forces you to focus on the acting, and there is some terrific acting going on.
|John Cassavetes and Ronald Reagan have a meeting.
Clu Gulager just dazzles as the wired side-kick. Gulager never made it big, and was a favorite guest star on TV series in the '70s invariably playing the heavy, but here he is vibrant and edgy as Lee Marvin's controlled but half-psycho sidekick. Marvin is the perfect hit-man, never wasting a word, thinking ahead and planning his moves like an army general. Angie Dickinson, well, I think this is her best role, appearing fresh-faced and dewy as Ronald Reagan's gangster moll. John Cassavetes as the fulcrum on which the plot turns manages to play a "patsy," a very meaningful word in that era, and plays it well. And Reagan, well, he plays a terrific, menacing heavy, who, with a quick look at the end toward some cash in his hand, gives a little moral lesson that shows some real depth in his character.
|Ronald Reagan in his final film role.
This is full of classic Hollywood tricks that just work. Lee Marvin staggers out of his car at the end after having been shot - and blood drips on his shoes. The last five minutes of the film, in fact, are just spooky they are so good in a totally understated way. The violence throughout is breathtaking. Angie Dickinson gets slugged in the face not once, but twice. People get shot and we only hear, don't see, them fall. Director Don Siegel does more with less at every turn. Not a scene goes on too long, people hit their marks and get the job done without wasting any time. As one of the first, if not the actual first, TV movies (released theatrically instead), it set a standard that few successors have met.
Make no mistake, though. The real star is Lee Marvin. Some would say that the later "Cat Ballou" was his breakthrough role. This film, though, has him at his iconic best.
|Lee Marvin gets the last word.
This is a very violent film with a tiny budget, but it becomes an exercise in competent film-making by a crew of real professionals. Highly recommended if you want to see a bunch of icons of the '60s, '70s and '80s give an acting clinic before they really made it big.


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are all on the horizon
the importance of taking risks
You're such an inspiration! Love you!ReplyDelete
awe- thank you, love! love you with all my heart. xoDelete
such beautiful words :) and such an encouragement as well!! it's so cool that life doesn't work out how we imagined... but it works out better! :) if we only knew that then!ReplyDelete
thank you so much! so glad and so true… it often does! if only… <3Delete
Wow (and amen!). I am completely blown away by the beauty in your writing and the wisdom and truths written throughout this entire letter/post. So many great things to remember about life and about faith and relationships. So many things I need to remind myself of, too! :)
Thanks for linking up!
awe- thank you so much, Kiki, you inspired me to write this and i am so glad i was able to... i appreciate it. love the circle. your comment means a lot to me! :) hope you had a great week ♥Delete
I absolutely love this. Especially the "you don't always know best." I swear in my younger years I thought I was the end all be all of "what was right for me." Turns out, I was wrong on more than one occasion. Thanks for linking up, girlfriend!ReplyDelete
thank you so much, joey! this means a lot ... and boy is this true. teenagers know best. :) you are so welcome and your comment means a lot to me. have a great weekend ♥Delete
This is absolutely beautiful. Your heart and words are so skillfully crafted... breath-taking!
Thanks for sharing and for linking up to the #SHINEbloghop.
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
awe- thank you so much! this is so sweet and i really appreciate it. thank you so much for hosting! have a great weekend, too! xoDelete
This letter was so beautifully written and I enjoyed reading it SO much! You have a way with words and I love how to the point you are. So many things I can relate to you in your letter and just thank you for sharing :)
awe- thank you so very much! i really appreciate it. it was hard to write but also felt really good. you are so welcome and thank YOU for stopping in … this means a lot to me. xoDelete
Thank you so much for linking up on the Saturday Spotlight! This is absolutely beautiful :) it's amazing how much we can see in hindsight eh? I love reflecting on my life like this... You've inspired me to write something similar in my journal! XoxoReplyDelete
:) thank you so much! and yes, so amazing. if only we could read these letters in advance- but then the growth and moments of self discovery wouldn't be there. i love the saturday spotlight <3Delete
This is beautiful and written by a soul blessed with love. Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop! Watch for your feature on Monday xoReplyDelete
awe- THANK YOU SO MUCH! i really appreciate this … it means a lot to me. you are so sweet. your comment really, really means a lot. thank you again! xoDelete
Nelle I just love your posts (and your blog...and the sweet comments you leave on my blog - thank you!) And thank you so much for sharing this on the Ladies Collective Linkup. Pinning this to our board! Hope to see you again Wednesday at www.bestofbabylady.com :)ReplyDelete
awe- you are so sweet! thank you so, so much. it means a lot to me! i also LOVE your blog so much- you are an inspiration to me. have a great week and i plan to link-up often… xoDelete
Oh wow, I loved your letter! I especially related to the part where you told yourself to trust in God. Looking back I can see all the wonderful blessings his given me and definitely guided my where I needed to go, but at the time sometimes I forget to be trusting and grateful. Beautiful!ReplyDelete


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I'm at a loss for words. Beautiful,
rhyming, ugly or otherwise. What
secrets can I tell or even hum when
not one will come?
Maybe I can cry or moan from being
all alone, because I lost the language
you understand that shows my heart
is broken and it's plain, I'm in pain.
Be they eloquently spoken or mumbled
eclipsed from my parched lips, the words
I want to use to say, "A curse on me is
reversed, because I'm in love with you
and I just can't help myself," will never
come, so the sun will never shine, nor
will I ever have divine bread and wine in
my lackluster wordless world without you.
I wave my hands in soundless words, but
you can't read my intent and I might as well
be dead when you blink and think I'm simply
shooing flies away.
I give you a picture book with printed words that
can't be mistook. The varying text tells what
waving my hands while I stand in a certain way
have to say.
So baby, if there's been a mistake made, there's
got to be some changes made. If you don't want
me around, then I'll be on my way overland if you
can tell me to go with a wave of your fair hand.


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This is interesting -- the Washington Wizards NBA team are looking to build their own training and practice facility somewhere in the metro area, and they're in talks with Howard University to build it on their campus. Howard is trying to build more commercial and residential properties around their campus to help their finances.
The discussions are early, but one of their ideas is a mixed-use development that would include a training center for the Wiz. According to the Post:
[University President Wayne A.I.] Frederick said that although the discussions were in the early stages, he was interested in using the school's real estate to help revitalize Georgia Avenue, bring the school revenue and add amenities that would benefit both students and the surrounding communities, such as a health and wellness center, a grocery store or new housing.
"We've been talking to lots of people about different types of things," Frederick said. "One of my goals at the university is to diversify our revenue streams and looking at real estate assets is a part of that."One idea with the development would be to include a health and wellness center with studios, classes and gym space for the campus and possibly new sports facilities, like a new arena for basketball. Their current arena is small and not in the best shape (in my opinion.)
The Wizards are looking to increase their practice space, as the Verizon Center only has one extra court. Other NBA teams are building their own practice and workout facilities, much like the Keller Capitals Iceplex in Virginia, which serves as practice space for the Washington Capitals but also a community hockey rink.
The Wizards training center would be publically financed, perhaps by taxes on any revenue created from it (though I'm not sure what kind of revenue a practice facility would generate.)
To me, this sounds like a great deal for Howard and the Wiz if the financing can be worked out -- Howard would get new facilities, like an arena and health and wellness center for students, the Wiz would get a new practice facility, and presumably the community would get to attend practices for the team.
The facility would be between 8th and Georgia north of W Street, shown in gray below. That area is mostly empty or unused Howard University buildings across from the Howard U. Hospital.


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I think that this is a genuine issue that many former Communist governments will have to deal with. The old Soviet bloc countries and client states are at a point in time when many people are looking back at Communism with nostalgia. They forget the crippling shortages, government corruption, and police state brutality.
Yes, I think that communism will spread back through eastern Europe to replace current socialist parties, because people are looking for what went wrong with the current financial crisis. Governments tend to go in cycles, from democracy to socialist and then to communism. It is only a matter of when it happens.
People have a short memory, for sure, but people don't have such a short term memory that they can quickly forget the horrors of communism in the world. China is the sole example of a successful communist state, but communism there led to the deaths of 25-30 million, and they only advanced after allowing free market enterprises.
No, I do not think that the communist party will spread back through Europe, because the United States will not let it. The United States has spend a lot of time and money and troops to stop the spread of communism in different parts of the world, such as Vietnam.
Given the world's recent models for Communism I doubt it will spread back through eastern Europe to replace current Socialist parties. The more we learn about this different social systems the more we learn and I believe from experience we are finding that no one system really works on its own.


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I looked at several different kinds, but the symbolism and history of that deck really appealed to me. I wanted something classic, something with years and years of meaning and practice behind it... something I could Google the meaning of with concrete descriptions of what things mean. Tuns out my deck came with a handy little book and a mat for spreading cards on. Dynamite.
Now, I've frequented a website that does free three card readings with a single click. Check it out if you'd like: CLICK HERE. It has been spookily helpful. Granted, with a three card spread, you only get past, present, and future (or setup, now, and goal), but honestly, sometimes less is more. This deck, however, explains the classic ten card spread, what each spot in the spread should mean or how it can be read, and what order they get filled.
I'm sure the internet is laughing at my lack of knowledge already. But hey, I was raised in a religious household, and Tarot cards were EEEEVILLL. I still believe the things I was taught as a child about God and his son and Heaven and all that, but over the years my belief structure has changed enough to allow for intellect and doubt. So I don't believe there's anything inherently EEEEVILLL about Tarot cards. Ouija boards? YES. Those things are spooky as fuck and open doors to places we can't close ourselves and invite things into our homes that we can't get rid of and don't want to stay. But Tarot cards are more of a counseling mechanism, something to help you think through a situation and arrive at a conclusion that makes sense, given all angles of something.
Anywho. Enough about my beliefs.
I know the common belief is that you can't self-read, but who the hell is gonna do it if I don't? So, I read. Ten cards. Laid out like a cross. You know the drill. Here's a photo:
The cat is my full-time help. Clearly. Now, I'm not gonna go into what this spread meant, because it's WAY personal and, as you might be able to discern, has to do with marriage and secrets and sacrifice and whatnot...not to mention it would take DAYS to explain the backstory and what it all means to me (which is the beauty of the Tarot), but suffice it to say that it wasn't a great reading. It was pretty right on, honestly, but not quite what I wanted or expected to hear.
Anywho...then I did a reading, just three cards, past present future, like that little website, and I focused on the deck, what it meant for me, and what it might bring in the future. The past card had to do with a breach of faith (my fear at buying a deck because...EEEVILLL!) and shame and all that. The present card showed a bond being formed, a positive relationship forming (perhaps my own deck), and the future card showed that the time was right, that now was good, and that I shouldn't be ashamed.
I wish I hadn't put them away before I committed what cards they were to memory. Oh well. Transience, passing fancy, and all that. But it was an exceedingly GOOD reading. And revealed some monetary gain, perhaps, in that relationship.
I feel like an infant in the Tarot world, but I'd love to have some more experience with this in the future. And for the naysayers, meh. Do what you like. I'll do what I like. We'll live and let live. Leave it for God to sort out in the end.
At the end of this, I drew a single card for this blog post. The Lovers: symbolizing attraction, love, beauty, and trials overcome.
And that's a great place to stop.


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Presented below is a translation that I completed this weekend from a section of the Discourse on Arousing Confidence in the Great Vehicle (a.k.a. The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana; Skt. Mahayana-Sraddhotpada Shastra; Ch. 大乘起信論 Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lun). I'm using the Chinese translation by Paramartha (C.E. 498-569) from the Sanskrit found in Taisho Tripitaka Vol. 32, No. 1666. It was also translated by Siskananda in Taisho Tripitaka Vol. 32, No. 1667. The Sanskrit text is no longer extant.
Without going into the details, I will say that I do not accept the tendency of modern academic views to claim that Paramartha actually wrote it in Sanskrit, attributed it to Asvagosha (As'vagos.a), and then passed it off as something he was translating. This is just a defamation of Paramartha. D.T. Suzuki says, "While [Asvaghosa] may not have been the author of this most important treatise of Mahayana philosophy, there was surely a great Buddhist mind, who, inspired by the same spirit which pervades the Lanka, the Avatamsaka, the Parinirvana, etc., poured out his thoughts in The Awakening." (From the Introduction to The Lankavatara Sutra, by D.T. Suzuki, p. xxxix.) While it is quite possible that the attribution to Ashvagosha was legendary as it came down in the version that Paramartha was translating, I do not accept that Paramartha would have invented it on his own and foisted it off as another's. Indeed, Paramartha, along with Kumarajiva and Bodhidharma, has been named one of the three monk-scholars from
who "stand indisputably highest in Chinese estimation." (Buddhist
Monks and Monastaries of India, by Sukumar Dutt, p. 303.) Whether or not
Asvaghosa authored the Discourse, since Paramartha did publish other
works that he had written under his own name, there is no good reason to
believe he would not also publish this work under his own name if he had
written it. India
I also agree with D.T. Suzuki's view that the Discourse should not be confused as a Yogacara text and instead is essentially an outline or systematic presentation of the teaching of the Lankavatara Sutra. (Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra, D.T. Suzuki, p. 182.) As Suzuki notes, the teachings of the Lankavatara and the "Awakening of Faith" are in line with the perspective of the One Vehicle (Ekayana) school that Bodhidharma brought from Southern India and are also associated with the Avtamsaka (Flower Garland, Huayen) and Mahayana Parinirvana Sutras.
This translated section highlights the foundational teaching of "no-thought" which has been a crucial teaching of Zen since the Sixth Ancestor Huineng and thus shows the Zen manner of discourse to be well rooted in the sutras and treatises.
This section addresses the difficult, yet critical, issue of how our original-enlightenment (本覺. a.k.a. root-enlightenment) shared by all beings must be activated by an originating-enlightenment (始覺) of our own realization. Zen students will immediately recognize this as the fundamental koan question at the root of Zen master Dogen's personal quest that took him to
. China
The analysis begins with the first distinction between enlightenment and non-enlightenment. Each of us has the original-enlightenment of the Tathagata (Buddha) in our own mind, but because of our non-enlightened ways of thinking using polarized and dualistic conceptualizations (such as "self and other", "me and not me") our original-enlightenment is obscured by our own mind. The Discourse outlines the return of our non-enlightened thinking to its enlightened root by the next distinction between our latent original-enlightenment and its actualization called originating-enlightenment (始覺). Though we all have original enlightenment, we still must initiate or originate that enlightenment to make if actively manifest in our actual life. The next distinction is made by identifying three stages in the activation of originating-enlightenment: (1) resemblance-enlightenment (相似覺), (2) approximate-enlightenment (隨分覺), and (3) ultimate-enlightenment (究竟覺). This is useful, because it helps explain a continuing point of confusion to Western students of Zen and Buddha Dharma, this is, how there are different degrees of enlightenment and that the first openings of enlightenment, while genuine, should not be confused with the final or ultimate enlightenment.
The section concludes by showing that no-thought is the essence of ultimate-enlightenment, and with no-thought we can know for ourselves how the characteristics perceived as the world's birth, abiding, transforming, and extinction are not other than enlightenment.
Following the practice of other translators, headings are inserted to assist the reader in identifying the sections. The wording of the bracketed headings is taken from the text with as little editing as needed.
[The Gate of the Mind's Birth and Extinction]
That which is the mind's birth and extinction depends on the Inner Tathagata (tathagatagarbha), and for that reason there is the mind of birth and extinction that is designated as the unborn and the unextinguished, together with the unified harmony of birth and extinction, neither one nor different, and is called the activity of the Storehouse Consciousness (alayavijnana).
[Birth and Extinction as the Activity of the Storehouse Consciousness]
This consciousness has two kinds of meaning: the capability of containing all things (i.e., the aspect of alaya) and giving birth to all things (i.e., the aspect of garbha). What are said for the two?
That which is first is the meaning of enlightenment.
That which is second is the meaning of non-enlightenment.
[A. Wherein is Declared the Meaning of Enlightenment]
[1. The Original-Enlightenment of the Dharmakaya]
That which is actually declared the meaning of enlightenment designates the essence of mind free from thought. That which is the characteristic of "free from thought" is equal to the realm of space, and there is nowhere that it is not everywhere. The oneness of the Dharma-realm is exactly the Tathagata's universal Dharma-body. On this basis, the Dharma-body is articulated and called "original-enlightenment."
Because why?
[2. Original-enlightenment in activation]
[(a) The Meaning of Original-Enlightenment Depends on Originating-Enlightenment]
That which is the meaning of original-enlightenment is paired with the articulation of the meaning of originating-enlightenment, and by this means, that which is originating-enlightenment is exactly the same as original-enlightenment.
[(b) The Meaning of Originating-Enlightenment Depends on Original Enlightenment]
That which is the meaning of originating-enlightenment is because it depends on original-enlightenment, and then (yet/nevertheless) there is non-enlightenment. Because it depends on non-enlightenment to be articulated, there is originating-enlightenment.
Again, by means of enlightenment, the fountainhead of mind is therefore called ultimate-enlightenment, and by non-enlightenment, the fountainhead of mind therefore isn't ultimate enlightenment.
Why is this meaning stated? Because by such enlightenment, the common people know their prior thinking aroused evil and they are able to stop subsequent thinking by directing that these [evil thoughts] do not arise. Because even though it is repeatedly called enlightenment, actually it is non-enlightenment.
Like the two vehicles' wisdom from contemplation (i.e., vipassanya) and the idea that first blossoms into the ranks of the bodhisattvas (i.e., bodhicitta), the enlightenment with the characteristics of the difference of thoughts and the non-difference of thoughts, because it uses renouncing the crude parts of attachment to the discrimination of characteristics, is called the resemblance-enlightenment.
Like the ranks of the Dharmakaya bodhisattvas, the enlightenment with the characteristics of the abiding of thought and the non-abiding of thought, because it uses being free from the discriminations of the characteristics of coarse thinking, is called the approximate-enlightenment.
Like the Bodhisattva stage corresponding to the fulfillment of expedient means in a single thought, the enlightenment with the characteristics of the beginning mind arousing the beginningless mind, because it uses being far removed from the subtlest of thoughts and is able to perceive the nature of mind, the mind that is exactly always abiding, is called ultimate-enlightenment.
For this reason, the sutra articulates, "Because, in the multitude of beings, if there are those who are able to contemplate no-thought, accordingly they become turned toward Buddha-wisdom."
Furthermore, as to that which arises in mind, there does not exist a beginning characteristic that can be known, and yet that which is declared 'knowing the beginning characteristic' exactly designates no-thought. For this reason, all the multitude of beings are not called being enlightened, because by following the continuity of thought after thought coming from the root, they have never been free from thought and articulate beginningless ignorance.
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If those who gain no-thought consequently know the mind's characteristics of birth, abiding, transforming, and extinction, because they use the rank of no-thought, then truly there is no existence of difference from originating-enlightenment. Since the four characteristics [of birth, abiding, transforming, and extinction] are simultaneous, then there is in each and every case no standing on their own, and because they equally and universally come from the root, they are one and the same with enlightenment.
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If those who gain no-thought consequently know the mind's characteristics of birth, abiding, transforming, and extinction, because they use the rank of no-thought, then truly there is no existence of difference from originating-enlightenment. Since the four characteristics [of birth, abiding, transforming, and extinction] are simultaneous, then there is in each and every case no standing on their own, and because they equally and universally come from the root, they are one and the same with enlightenment.