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But I'll be up all night until I know you're alright. You set this town on fire, you melted the ice.
I have always been obsessed with conjoined twins both aesthetically and psychologically. This is a photograph I took of myself a few days ago imitating one of my favorite concepts.
It has been nearly a year since I updated this blog.
Perhaps it was simply that I was facing most of my demons by turning them into something beautiful on paper. When I stopped updating this blog I was knee deep in charcoal and imagery.
To this day it has always been easier for me to speak with images than with words.
Where have I been?
Or rather, where should I begin?
In the past year I have-
Had a near death experience, which was very severe and the love of the one who caught me mid seizure helped me escape that strange abyss of stars and subconcious.
Become obsessed with out of body experiences, conjoined twins, cycles of life and death, gypsies, dreams, and healing from the inside out.
Become a blonde (my hair color naturally is a weird dark blonde/light brown so going really blonde didn't look that odd as you can see in the photograph above).
Become much more angular physically, more bones than girl; but at the same time I've become much softer and more understanding internally. Strange how our hearts can either turn cold or grow warm with time (luckily mine became warmer).
Turned 23 on april 8th.
Have had the greatest pleasure in making friends with people who are truly talented and supportive. I have learned a lot from them.
Participated in a group show in Tokyo *two paintings were exhibited*
Gone to school, studied science (anatomy and the female reproductive system, as well as the process of the formation of the fetus in utero in particluar), and then left.
My mother, who I have written about a lot, was in a car accident this summer-in her already frail state she slipped into a coma, woke up, had a tracheostomy which limited her communication further, cannot move, in the hospital.
And despite all of that, she's still the most beautiful person I know.
I learned a lot about what love really is, about pain, and about my own heart and its fragile tendencies.
I went to los angeles, portland, seattle, and new york.
I am in new york.
I make most of my living off of my illustration and tattoo design work.
But I could not do that without the help of those I love.
I will have to start posting on here as much as I can again.
For now I will leave you with something I wrote awhile back, seriously months ago….and I have the answers to the questions that I ask here now…and understand that love goes far deeper than the left ventricle, and that by facing my darkest fears I am no longer afraid. Love forces you to face yourself and grow.
This was written during a time when I was questioning linguistics and the power of words-and how easily words can be twisted and misunderstood.
You see what you want to see.
Which causes one to question, what is truth then? What is really there? Do we see the same thing?
I am very happy to be alive even in these difficult times.
They say parents with baby girls have bad karma….
Over and over I pick at a wound that never seems to heal. It reminds me of my mother's bedsores, always fresh and carrying within the smallest vessel the threat of death, a constant reminder that life is never really fair.
I don't even know what to think anymore. I read once that the left mind is adept at language but unable to determine a situation by sight, while the right mind can capture everything in a visual space but be unable to put it into words…carrying mysteries and a dialogue between the two sides that doesn't always work. Apparently when there is damage to the left side of the brain females are more likely to recover and regain the ability for language more often than males.
The concept of communication is tricky. I've lived in countries where I had a limited ability to verbally communicate, but communicated more honestly visually. Straight and to the point.
I did my best modeling jobs for companies that did not speak any english, save for "move to the right. look at the camera" it was all gestural posing, all hands and eyebrows.
Language is strange, it unfolds in a way where things can get lost between the periods and spaces. One can pick apart and dissect a conversation and never really understand what was said.
The concept of lying is something I will never fully understand. One often lies when they are afraid, or trying to protect something. But then there are lies that are deliberate, cruel, and out of spite. I had never really experienced the latter, although the former was always familiar in some sense.
In the past year the shell of belief that I held cracked. I found that suddenly the foundation I had built for myself was false, a complete delusion. I realized what true loneliness was, in a sense betrayal left me alone more than death could. Perhaps it was a death in its own right, a death of the life I thought I was living.
It's funny how selfish people are, how impossible it is for them to comprehend the effects their actions have on others. For some, the only person who matters is themselves. I wonder if that is the loneliest place to be? Or are they fullfilled in this manner?
A large part of me was cracked open this past year and taken apart. I felt like one of the bodies in the anatomy classes of Versalius, open in the middle of a stadium for all to see. Perhaps it was like that, perhaps I was just some study for the ones who performed the procedure. Here was my heart, watch how thin the layers of the right atrium are when punctured. The human heart thrives on an all-or-nothing law and, if stopped, the entire body will shut down within a matter of minutes.
And then you wonder why I had such difficulty in maintaining function once you had pulled on the aorta and eaten away at the left ventricle? Once my chest had been cracked open for the simple concept of study?
Humans are complex and yet so simple in their departure.
I have spent a long time trying to pull my heart out of the jaws of a coyote ever since that initial dissection.
You you you-could mean so many things;
Death, destruction, lies, cruelty, the blackest parts of winter….
or love.
oh and through my dark dark winters I finally understood the concept of color.
My work, which was mostly charcoal before (which I also loved for its own sense of luminescence.) is now drenched in soft, colorful tones….like light through a prism.I have a lot more.
Some links to check out-
for my stuff (more art, etc)
for some people I admire (just a few for now, I will post more later.)
I will post more soon, no more hiatus.
~ by volatilestructure on April 12, 2010.
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10 Responses to "But I'll be up all night until I know you're alright. You set this town on fire, you melted the ice."
Nice tattoo pic. Can I use it on my blog?
NRichards said this on April 12, 2010 at 7:39 pm | Reply
oh thank you-yes sure just send me the link.
you can credit me by linking here. ^_^
volatilestructure said this on April 12, 2010 at 9:01 pm | Reply
also i designed all my tattoos–that deer is a very special drawing of mine, which in a way might be an interesting side note.
volatilestructure said this on April 12, 2010 at 9:01 pm | Reply
you're amazing. this is really strongly written. I can't wait for the daily writing!!
elijana said this on April 12, 2010 at 11:53 pm | Reply
i love you.
i got your package! ryan was like, wow she's really talented, these are beautiful.
and they are!
sending you something back.
volatilestructure said this on April 15, 2010 at 12:53 pm | Reply
I love you lil one…so wonderful to read your 'depth'…we have experienced the open heart syndrome…no fun for the living…mine had been going on for over 7 yrs., and yes I survived…barely… I 1ove the way you worded the feelings of 'emotionally numb and broken'. Related big time Mika…I am as you…on the mend…life is for living, sick of the 'hollows' who somehow 'enjoy' seeing people squirm.
hugs and so much love,
writeontruth819 said this on April 14, 2010 at 4:19 pm | Reply
afterthought…I was a bit overwhelmed in regards to the news of your Mother's newest struggle. I am Blessed for being alive and I do tell myself daily I am grateful but Mika I do/have/almost certainly still will take my life for granted…hard to explain why, just it is how I tic inside I am my worst enemy. I try to help everyone else but myself,always putting myself last, woke up one day and shit. I'm 52…UGH Bless your Mother…my goodness, how does so much sadness fall upon individuals…one day I hope I can understand this…btw, I've called you a few times with the NY # and never connect.
I love you Mika,
you are a very special human,
writeontruth819 said this on April 14, 2010 at 4:38 pm | Reply
you have been inspiring to me and your support and belief in me has helped me so much these past two years….i think that you definitely live life in such a beautiful way, all of your photographs i've seen, the tender ability you have to find art and beauty everyday, and your empathy and compassion for others–these are rare gifts.
my mother is the core to what keeps me going, even if she does not know it…i have a hard time expressing it to her in words so images, the paintings i've given her are my way of really telling her, she's always surprised by what i produce…but i hope that the pretty paintings and the stars i've made that hang in her window catching light at the hospital give her hope when she wakes up in the morning.
i know i would not be trading comfort for the sake of following my dreams as an artist if i were not dealing with what i've been dealing with, i realized a long time ago that life is too short to wait for things to happen…you have to take risks, even if they scare you.
i've just been so blessed along the way, with so many friends and souls from all over who have helped me.
but what keeps me going even more is when people tell me their own stories.
it just means so much to me.
i think i should write my next blog about that.
anyways, you're beautiful.
i know we will meet one day.
volatilestructure said this on April 15, 2010 at 12:53 pm | Reply
I love you up to the sky!!
writeontruth819 said this on April 16, 2010 at 6:38 am | Reply
hope this year conjoins your broken parts again!
i always loved your art!
Turbulence said this on April 16, 2010 at 1:46 pm | Reply


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SO…I finally made it.
There were a few moments that were touch and go but in the end I got there, which is the only thing that matters, right?
My first and a half draft (because I've been semi editing along the way. I've already been bitten once with The Last True Blood where editing is concerned and no, it had nothing to do with writing about vampires) of Un-Belonging has been completed, just under 80,000 words which I am happy about because all my previous novels have been so much more longer. If nothing else, I now know I can write something short and sweet. Don't snicker 😛
Now the editing phase has begun, du du duhhhhhhh (that is meant to sound horrific and horrendously, spine chillingly terrifying). If I could have only sang it to you in my "melodious" voice, I wouldn't have to explain the emotive reaction you should be having right now.
Once this first bout of editing is done, I'll get some beta readers on the task.
Hope you're all well. I think I'm going to go have a strawberry milkshake as a celebratory drink on my lonesome. Oh the perils of writing, it's so isolated, at least that's what I tell myself when my friends mysteriously remember their last load of washing that needs to go on the line every time I venture going out with them. I like to think it's my cranium's splendid ability to think that sets me apart from the rest. Eh, what can I say, I'm a positive, everything is peachy type of gal.
Now, I can really hear you snickering.

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Jack Pardee had a 40-year football career, as a player and coach, including 15 seasons as one of the N.F.L.'s solid and steady outside linebackers of the 1960s and early '70s. Pardee died on Monday of gallbladder cancer. He was 76. A few thoughts:
Jack Pardee was one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" and part of George Allen's "Over the Hill Gang." After a 15-year playing career, he was a head coach in college and in four professional leagues: the World Football League, the United States Football League, the N.F.L. and the Canadian Football League. Pardee was one of the favorite sons of Texas football.
He was born in Exira, Iowa, the youngest of six children. His family moved to Christoval, Tex., when he was 9. Pardee played six-man football in high school, where he was discovered by a Texas A&M assistant coach, Willie Zapalac.
When Bryant arrived at College Station in 1954, Pardee's sophomore year, he held his first preseason minicamp in the desolate town of Junction, about 100 miles northwest of San Antonio. They went in two buses and returned in one. Accounts vary as to the actual number of players, but after 10 days only about a third of them remained. Pardee was one of the survivors. He would not quit.
Gene Stallings, Pardee's teammate, summarized their experience in the foreword to Jim Dent's "The Junction Boys": "By the time we left, coach Paul Bryant had left an indelible mark on our lives… out of the yellow dust and the broiling heat of Junction, he found a team of champions."
Pardee was a fullback and linebacker for the Aggies for three seasons, including, in his senior year, the undefeated Southwest Conference championship team of 1956. Late that season, before the game against Texas, Bryant addressed the team and said that Pardee was the toughest player he'd ever coached. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
The Los Angeles Rams selected Pardee with the first pick of the second round of the 1957 draft (14th over all). He played for the Rams for 13 seasons, from 1957-1964 and, for George Allen, from 1966-1970. In 1965, while being treated for a melanoma, he joined the staff at Texas A&M, where Stallings was in his first year as coach.
In 1971, on draft day, three weeks after being named as coach of the Redskins, Allen traded linebacker Marlin McKeever and seven draft picks to the Rams for Pardee; two other linebackers, Maxie Baughan and Myron Pottios; guard John Wilbur; defensive tackle Diron Talbert; special-teamer Jeff Jordan; and a fifth round pick, which he soon traded to Green Bay for the rights to wide receiver Boyd Dowler.
Pardee finished his career with two seasons in Washington and retired at age 36, in 1973. He played in 196 regular-season and 6 postseason games. In his final game, the Redskins lost, 14-7, to the undefeated Dolphins in Super Bowl 7. He had 22 interceptions, including three in Week 5 against the Cardinals in 1971, returning five of them for touchdowns. In 1963, Pardee was named first-team All-Pro and was selected to the Western Division Pro Bowl team.
Pardee was primarily a left outside linebacker in the predominant defense of that era, the Pro 4-3. Even today his tape could be used at a coaching clinic to illustrate the proper techniques and fundamentals of the position: striking, shedding, tackling, running and covering.
In those days, because there were fewer players available — (In 1957, Pardee's rookie year, the rosters were expanded from 33 to 35 players. They increased to 36 players in 1959, and to 40 players in 1964) — offenses tended to use the same personnel package on almost every play: two backs, two wide receivers, and a tight end who usually lined up in the attached position, next to one of the tackles. Offensive formations were fairly standard, and defensive players lined up in roughly the same spot, or at least on the same side of the field, from the first day of training camp to the last game of the season. They became accustomed to seeing the blocking patterns develop from familiar angles. That allowed the defenders, especially linebackers like Pardee, to play fast and to remain effective well into their 30s.
As Pardee said, late in his career: "Nothing can make you faster, but experience makes speed less necessary. There isn't a football player in the country who can beat me at 40 yards if I get a five yard head start. Experience takes care of the first five yards in football." (Murray Olderman, "The Defenders," Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1973, p. 78)
With the emphasis on the running game, the main responsibility of the outside linebacker during that time was to maintain his outside leverage, especially when he was lined up over the tight end, to force the runner to cut back inside, into the pursuit.
At 6 feet 2 inches and about 225 pounds, Pardee was big and strong enough to play the run while still being fast enough, most of the time, to play man coverage on the backs out of the backfield or, later in his career, to quickly gain good depth in dropping to his zone, eyes on the quarterback. He used a low stance with his feet staggered and his hands ready to strike. He had very good first-step quickness and he consistently maintained good balance. Even in the open field, Pardee was a sure tackler.
Pardee remained in Washington as an assistant for one season before becoming the coach of the Florida Blazers of the W.F.L. in 1974. A year later, he accepted an offer to coach the Chicago Bears. Even though the Blazers had finished 14-6 and had made it to the championship game, it wasn't difficult for Pardee to leave. He and the players weren't being paid.
Pardee was 20-22 in three years in Chicago, including, in 1977, their first postseason appearance since 1963. When George Allen was fired in 1978, Pardee resigned to return to Washington and coach the Redskins. A month later, Bobby Beathard was hired as the new general manager. The two later clashed over the use of their young players, particularly Art Monk, Beathard's first-round pick in 1980. The owner, Jack Kent Cooke, sided with Beathard, and Pardee was fired after the 1980 season.
In 1984, Pardee became the coach of the expansion Houston Gamblers of the U.S.F.L. He hired Mouse Davis to install the run and shoot, a pass-first offense that featured four wide receivers on every play. The Gamblers did not have a tight end or a fullback on their roster. With Jim Kelly at quarterback, Houston went 23-13 in the regular season and 0-2 in the playoffs over two seasons before the league disbanded in 1986.
Over the following three seasons, Pardee continued to use the run and shoot at the University of Houston. In 1989, the Cougars led the nation in total offense, and their quarterback, Andre Ware, won the Heisman Trophy.
In 1990, Pardee returned to the N.F.L., this time as the coach of the Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans). The Oilers won two division titles, finished tied for a third, and made the playoffs in each of Pardee's first four seasons. Before the 1994 season, their quarterback, Warren Moon, was traded to the Vikings. That November, with the team at 1-9, Pardee was fired. His last season in coaching was with the Birmingham Barracudas of the C.F.L., in 1995.
Pardee was 87-77 in the regular season and 1-5 in the playoffs as an N.F.L. head coach. He was named the Coach of the Year by the Associated Press in 1979 and the N.F.C. Coach of the Year by United Press International in 1976 and 1979.
Jack Pardee was a tough, determined player and a fair, no-nonsense coach. He attributed much of his success to lessons learned under the blazing Texas sun at Junction, all those years before. "I had cancer when I was 28," he told ESPN in 2002. "I had four kids and didn't know if I'd live a year. Coach Bryant taught us to never give up. The things he preached came true… The hard times we endured solidified the friendships… Some strong people came out of Junction, and when we get together, it seems like just yesterday."
Andy Barall writes about pro football history for The Fifth Down.


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Focus On: Listening to Scripture in J. S. Bach's Passions
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Listening to Scripture in J. S. Bach's Passions
Daniel R. Melamed
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
In the long history of musical settings of the passion narrative, the two surviving compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach make the greatest demands in their length and complexity. One useful point of entry, especially for those who do not have much experience with early eighteenth-century music, is the settings' use of the bible. Both by quotation and allusion, Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 and St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 draw heavily on listeners' familiarity with scripture.
To find our way into the works, we need to understand the construction of the texts Bach set to music. The organization of these texts derives from the liturgical function of the musical passion. In Leipzig, where Bach worked from 1723 until his death in 1750 and where he composed all his known passion music, that function was the presentation of a gospel narration of Jesus' crucifixion according to one of the four evangelists. The large-scale musical passion was heard at the vespers service on Good Friday, alternating each year in the city's two most prominent churches with the chanting of the narrative in a much simpler musical form.
The liturgical requirement of literal gospel text was the organizing principle of Bach's settings. A listener to one of Bach's passions hears the familiar words of John or Matthew's narrative (or Mark's, in a work we know Bach composed but that is now lost). A tenor singer presents the words of the Evangelist in a simply-accompanied kind of music that loosely imitates speech. Interlocutors whose first-person words are quoted—Jesus, Peter, Pilate, a young woman, and so on—are sung by others in a similar way. The words of groups (disciples, soldiers, passers-by, and most problematically in the St. John Passion "the Jews") are sung by a chorus. In Bach's performances that ensemble consisted of the four principal singers in the work who combined to form the chorus, sometimes with the reinforcement of four additional singers. The practice of having a large choir distinct from the solo singers is modern, and dates from the early nineteenth century.
The bulk of the narrative was delivered in a relatively neutral way, with an emphasis more on declamation than expressivity. The musical type used for this narrative, accompanied by low string instruments and a keyboard, owed something to liturgical chant but was principally borrowed from contemporary opera. There it was known as recitative and was used to present speeches and dialogue. Both operatic recitative and the settings of scriptural prose in the passions are usually neutral in affect—that is, in characteristic human emotions, and flexible in their metrical organization—more reportorial than evocative. The words of groups are sung in more regular and metered music, usually with the participation of instruments. These settings often present their texts in a somewhat more emotionally expressive way. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 4]
Nonetheless, the relatively neutral tone of the Evangelist's narrative in Bach's passions occasionally gives way to something more emotionally charged. For example, Peter's denial of Jesus that ends Part 1 of the St. John Passion is marked by the evangelist's plaintive description of Peter's crying. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, no. 12] The usual declamation of one note per syllable of text is replaced by a much more florid line, full of conventionally expressive melodic gestures and supported by evocative harmonies. The singer also repeats phrases of the text, in contrast to the straight-through narration in the rest of the setting. These features inflect the narrative with a great deal more emotion than in typical narrative passages. The other emotionally heightened moment comes just after Jesus' death, where an earthquake and the tearing of the Temple veil are described in heightened musical language. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, no. 33] This episode is presented even more strikingly in the St. Matthew Passion, with similar musical gestures that go beyond simple narration. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 63]
These must have been favorite moments in Leipzig. We can be sure of that because neither of these heightened moments in Bach's St. John Passion—Peter's weeping and the cataclysms at Jesus' death—appear in John's gospel. Rather they are borrowings in Bach's setting, the first from Matthew's gospel and the second from Mark's. Bach's anonymous librettist inserted these passages, presumably with the expectation that the composer would give them special treatment. And even the first attempt was apparently not sufficient; in one of the many revisions of the St. John Passion Bach undertook in performing the work over 25 years, he replaced Mark's description of the aftermath of Jesus' death with the even more vivid one from Matthew, and composed new music to fit the new words. (This is the version heard today; the first setting of this passage, according to Mark, is lost.)
Bach's listeners would probably not have been surprised by these turns to another gospel in a setting of John's narrative because Lutherans were familiar with so-called harmonized gospels that drew on language and details from all four tellings. The model for this technique was the so-called summa passionis, a harmonized narration of the passion story. The best-known of these, by Johannes Bugenhagen, dates from the earliest years of the Protestant Reformation and was still in use in Bach's time. The tendency to combine gospels was also a feature of an immensely popular new kind of mid-eighteenth century musical passion in which the narration, drawn from all four Evangelists, was presented in poetic paraphrase rather than in the original gospel prose. Bach never composed a work of this kind, but he owned at least two settings by other composers and is known to have performed one in Leipzig; why this was possible in a context in which gospel text was expected is not clear.
The first-person words of Jesus in the passion story were held in particular esteem, and the reverence for them is reflected in a striking way in the St. Matthew Passion. Whereas the first-person speech of the Evangelist and all the other interlocutors is supported by simple accompaniment by bass instruments and keyboard, the words of Jesus are surrounded by sustained chords played by string instruments. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 9] The modern interpretation of this feature as a "halo" might is probably fanciful, but the technique does make the words of Jesus stand out. Famously, Bach sets Jesus' last words from the cross in Matthew's narration—"Eli, eli, lama asabthani/My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"—without the string instruments that have accompanied his words throughout. Presumably this is to instruct listeners on the significance of Jesus' mortality at this moment, an unusually specific but effective bit of exegesis in music. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 61]
At all Lutheran services in Bach's time, the presentation of scripture went together with its explication. The principal weekly service, for example, centered on the reading of Gospel and Epistle and the delivery of a sermon on them. Good Friday vespers in Leipzig was liturgically simpler, but the presentation of a musical passion setting (effectively a gospel reading) was still closely linked to a sermon. In fact all of Bach's passions, as well as the passion settings by other composers he performed, are in two parts designed to be heard before and after the sermon. That construction highlights the moment in the narrative where the story is divided and where the sermon began: Peter's denial of Jesus and weeping in the St. John Passion, and Jesus' capture and his disciples' flight in the St. Matthew Passion.
In city churches, the weekly reading of gospel and epistle and their explication in a sermon was often enhanced by the performance of a musical work of a kind now called a " cantata." A cantata sometimes presented words of gospel, but principally expanded on scriptural and interpretive themes in newly-written poetry and in hymn stanzas. Something similar was part of a musical passion setting of the kind Bach composed. In the interest of encouraging the reflection on the crucifixion story urged by Martin Luther, an admonition explicitly emphasized in passion season hymns, the gospel text is enhanced with poetry. A librettist added poems to introduce and conclude the narrative and to interrupt it at significant moments for reflection and commentary. These texts and their musical settings guide the listener through the familiar scripture.
The interpolated poetry was of two kinds. The first consisted newly written verse that marked significant moments in the story and encouraged reflection on them. These insertions also accomplished a principal goal of almost all early eighteenth-century music: moving the affections of the listener. The poems did this by invoking various affective states— sadness, remorse, joy, defiance, rage, and so on, and the musical settings followed suit, presenting conventional gestures and styles associated with those affects. The poems are mostly set for solo voices, except for the opening and closing poetic numbers, which call for all the voices and instruments but are otherwise constructed the same way as the solo pieces.
This kind of composition— an affective setting for voice and instruments of a short lyric poem—was called an "aria," precisely the same kind of piece that made up most of contemporary opera. There it serves a parallel function, representing an opportunity for a character to express emotion in a pause in the drama. In the St. Matthew Passion, whose libretto is by Christian Friedrich Henrici (pen name Picander), the new poems often come in pairs. The second is set an aria and the first, in more irregular verse, is set as kind of instrumentally heightened speech known as accompanied recitative. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, nos. 5 and 6]
These poetic moments of reflection and affect are often closely tied to scripture. Of course they are linked to the passages in the gospel narrative to which they respond, but many also refer to other biblical texts. For example the opening choral aria of the first version of the St. John Passion, "Herr, unser Herrscher" (Lord, our ruler) sets the theological tone for the passion by highlighting Jesus' paradoxical glorification in the abasement of the crucifixion. But it is not entirely a free poem; it is a paraphrase of Psalm 8, as biblically literate listeners would have recognized. And they would also have known that Martin Luther interpreted Psalm 8 as a messianic prophesy. The opening poetic movement of the St. John Passion thus invokes a Lutheran reading of a Hebrew Testament text to frame the narration. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, no. 1]
Another example, even more literal, comes at the beginning of Part 2 of the St. Matthew Passion. It opens with an aria, "Ach, nun ist mein Jesus hin" (Ah, now my Jesus is gone), that sets a free poetic text lamenting the capture of Jesus. The poem is placed in dialogue with verses from chapter 6 of the Song of Solomon, beginning with the question "Wo ist denn dein Freund hingegangen?" (Where has your beloved gone?), alternating poetic lines with scriptural verses. This invites reflection on the allegorical Christian understanding of the Song of Solomon and its relationship to the passion story. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 30]
Passion settings include another kind of interpolation as well: individual stanzas of seasonal hymns (chorales) carefully chosen to be relevant to the moment of interpolation. Like the free poetry set as arias, they highlight moments, phrases, and words of the scriptural narrative. For example, in the St. Matthew Passion the disciples ask (in a chorus) "Herr, bin ich's?" (Lord, is it I?) A reply comes in the form of a hymn stanza that begins "Ich bins, ich sollte büssen" (It is I; I should atone). [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, nos. 9 and 10] Moments like this were probably meant to draw the believing listener into the gospel story by means of familiar hymns associated with congregational singing, even though it is likely that Bach's congregation did not sing them in a passion performance.
Scripture appears in other guises as well. For example, Bach's setting of the first stanza of the hymn "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross" (Humankind, bewail your great sin") opens the second version of the St. John Passion and was re-used to close part 1 of the revised St. Matthew Passion. That hymn, in its complete 23-stanza form, narrates the entire passion story—it's a poetic summa passionis that paraphrases scripture. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, no. 29]
A few of the interpolated hymn stanzas serve a second function, signaling the end of each of the actus into which the passion story was traditionally divided (garden, priests, Pilate, cross, and tomb). For example, in the St. John Passion the first actus in the garden is brought to a close by the chorale verse "Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott" (May your will be done, Lord God). Sometimes the functions overlap, as here; this stanza also responds to Jesus' words just before. In both senses this hymn and the others are a guide to the scriptural words that are at the center of Bach's passion settings. [Listening example: J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, nos. 4 and 5]
The special place of scripture in the passion settings is reflected in the calligraphic score Bach made when he revised the St. Matthew Passion in 1736. In this document, the composer entered the gospel words of the Evangelist in red ink. The exact significance of this gesture is debated, but there is no question that it reflects the fundamental role that Matthew's narrative plays in the work.
A contemporary listener to a Bach passion would have drawn on a knowledge of the bible and of Lutheran interpretations of it in experiencing Bach's passion settings. Both the narrative and interpolated commentary took that familiarity as a starting point for a sophisticated presentation not only of the crucifixion story, but also of a theological and affective glossing of it. Modern listeners can make this their starting point as well.
Daniel R. Melamed is professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is the author of two books on Bach for general readers: Hearing Bach's Passions (Oxford University Press, updated paperback edition 2016), and Listening to Bach: The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio (Oxford University Press, April 2018).
Librettos and translations
With Annotations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original sources
- A reprint of the original libretto of the St. Matthew Passion by Christian Friedrich Henrici (poetic material only).
- Bach's 1736 autograph score of the St. Matthew Passion [Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv Mus. ms. autogr. Bach P 25]
- An original score, partly in J. S. Bach's hand, of a revised version of the St. John Passion [Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv Mus. ms. autogr. Bach P 28]
- Particularly recommended are recordings that present Bach's passions with an ensemble the size and disposition of J. S. Bach's, including:
- Dunedin Consort, dir. John Butt. J.S. Bach: John Passion, Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy. Linn Records CKD 419.
- Dunedin Consort, dir. John Butt. J.S. Bach: Matthew Passion (Final performing version, c. 1742) . Linn Records CKD 313.
- John Butt. Robin A. Leaver. "St. John Passion." In Oxford Composer Companions: J.S. Bach, ed. Malcolm Boyd. Oxford, 1999.
- Alfred Dürr. Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion. Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning. Transl. Alfred Clayton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Robin A. Leaver. "St. Matthew Passion." In Oxford Composer Companions: J.S. Bach, ed. Malcolm Boyd. Oxford, 1999.
- Don O. Franklin. " The Role of the 'Actus Structure' in the Libretto of J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion." In Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver, ed. Daniel Zager, 121–139. Lanham: Scarecrow, 2006.
- Michael Marissen. Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: with an annotated literal translation of the libretto. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Michael Marissen. "Blood, People, and Crowds in Matthew, Luther, and Bach." In Bach & God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 158–l88.
- Daniel R. Melamed. Hearing Bach's Passions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.


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For everyone asking about their Cloud content suddenly disappearing because they didn't upgrade from their free service to either 500G/1TB.
If you've had the Cloud service removed from your phone number because you didn't upgrade to 500GB or 1TB and it's been less than 30 days, you must:
Once they do that, if you don't seen the restored content in your mobile app, re-install it (or Clear data if you know what that means) to refresh the local database on the phone.
It's been over a year since I lost my photos on Verizon Cloud. Are they gone forever?
We're sorry to hear your pictures were removed with Verizon Cloud, Edwinolivo. Once the pictures are removed, we would not be able to retrieve them. Did you by chance back up your device any other way?
And if it's been more than 30 days we just don't matter? I received no warning of this and didn't know until trying to access stuff from a older phone. Way to give us the middle finger Verizon.
1000% agree - i am beyond angry with Verizon about this - photos of loved ones and memories are among the most important things in life - you had 30 days to call and jump thru hoops to have them restore it - get this...i called and they restored it FOR THE 30 DAY FREE TRIAL and then deleted them all over again - i didn't look at my cloud until around 40 days later and everything was gone once again - i called and they were like 'so sorry those photos are irretrievable now'
thanks Verizon
I understand how precious photos can be dfkaczan. I would love to help in any way I can. We're sorry to hear your pictures were removed with Verizon Cloud. Did you by chance back up your device any other way? AmberF_VZW
i'm in IT and had the photos on 'your cloud' as well as on my phone - until my phone broke - i got a new phone and that's when i found out the cloud pics were gone. - AGAIN.
there has GOT to be an archive "somewhere" on your cloud servers - even after you deleted all your customers photos - beyond 30 days - this is what frustrates me almost as much as your deleting the pics TWICE. your own support can't properly escalate this to L2 or L3 tech support (server level) in order to pull the deleted data AFTER the 30 days - i'm pretty certain verizon wouldn't permanently delete 10's of thousands or more customers photos even beyond 30 days.
please get me in touch with level 2 or level 3 server support
Hi @dfkaczan ,
For starters, I'm not customer support. I am on the cloud development team. No one likes to learn their precious memories are gone so I can appreciate your frustration and anger with us.
While it seems unimaginable, but if support told you the archive is not availble then the content was physically deleted.
Something doesn't sound quite right with your report. When support restored the free trial service to your mobile number, did they also restore the archived content for you? If not, then that would explain why it seems like it was deleted again. If you send your mobile number to the devloper inbox email@example.com I can try to figure out what happened.
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thanks - i have just sent an. email to the inbox as you directed.


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I can not find the right page to down load my 360 norton netbook that i have bought from pc world
Is this what you are looking for:
Click the download link and run.
When prompted, use the product key that you purchased for your netbook.
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When water is heated it expands, this is called thermal expansion. When heated from cold the volume of water can increase by as much as 3%. For a 180L hot water cylinder (HWC) this could be as much as 5.4 litres. HWCs are designed to relieve expanded hot water through an open vent pipe on the roof or by way of a relief valve and pipe to an outside wall or drain. There have been a number of cases where these vent/relief pipes have been blocked off by owners trying to stop the dripping. In some cases, where a secondary safety vacuum break was not fitted, the water cylinder has exploded with devastating consequences. Walls and roofs have been blown off and houses moved on their foundations. These days' cold water relief valves are installed to the inlet side of the HWC to save hot water.
To test whether the dripping relief pipe is normal expansion or a faulty valve:
– turn off the power supply to the tank for 5 minutes.
– if the dripping stops then this is normal thermal expansion.
– if it continues then the valves are probably faulty.
No. Hot water must be stored over 60 degrees Celsius to prevent the growth of legionella bacteria in the hot water tank. A tempering valve is fitted to the hot water outlet to lower the temperature to 55 degrees C.
The Building Code requires that the temperature of hot water delivered to sanitary fixtures used for personal hygiene purposes such as showers, baths and basins shall not exceed 45 degrees C for old people's homes, schools and early childhood centers and 55 degrees C for all other buildings.
it was – shouldn't he have tried harder to locate the brand?
I do sympathise with your plumber. There are so many different brands on the market these days, that unless the customer knows from whom the tap was purchased or what the brand is, it may be very difficult to locate parts. So many unmarked brands are coming from Asia and Europe by the crate load and dumped on the market that spare parts really do become and issue. So I would suggest that if you purchase any tapware, buy from a credible source, keep all receipts and documents especially if the tap does not have the manufacturers stamp on it.
comparison to local tapware – will these taps last the distance and are they safe?
Unfortunately some cheap imported tapware is very basic with a high lead content. When you purchase a tap feel the weight of it compared to domestic taps. If it feels heavy it may have a very high lead content which can leach into the water supply when the tap is off. This is not good for your family's health and the tap may not last the distance. If the tap is not stamped with the manufacturers name then make sure you buy parts from the supplier for future maintenance. Note the name of manufacturer and the reseller so that the plumber can source parts when repairing the tap in the future.
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Locked down under freedom's internment
Never convicted or even charged with a crime
In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland the concept of punishment, justice and logic constantly change. The Irish Lewis Carroll disguises his own childhood experience of independent thought, in his time of Victorian Britain in defiance of authority, with the evolution of Alice.
Alice introduces herself with much concern about doing things right and proper resulting in considerable distress. Alice is tough on herself constantly at the beginning of Alice in Wonderland and also reprimands her cats in her adventure "Through the Looking Glass."
"Sometimes she scolded herself so severely, as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself, in a game of croquet." Alice struggles to obey rules, constantly changing, trying to follow the ones she believes acceptable, while rejecting in principle, those she disagrees with. She sometimes feels overwhelmed, keeping up with ever-morphing justice, in British Occupied Ireland...ahem.. Wonderland.
Alice attempts to logically analyze all of the preposterous and wacky events, that go on around her and tries to behave accordingly mirroring Lewis Carroll's own experiences in British Occupied Ireland as a child, where he refused to take British lessons, as they were commonly accepted but defied logical understanding of them, when his views breached their injustice system
His headmaster James Tate, said he was ingenious in replacing ordinary inflexions of nouns and verbs in English grammar by more exact forms of his own creation, even when he read aloud from Virgil, with a more precise term of whatever appeared to him vague.
Lewis Carroll's childhood character, of seeking logical solutions in obscure concepts, develops in Alice. In the last two chapters in Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds herself in a courtroom, where she does not understand the British logic and justice system, that the judge and jury employ to prosecute. Alice in political conscience, refuses to adhere to the British rules she finds unjust, despite being the only one who is in opposition. Lewis Carroll, also ignored the authoritarian form the English language, in favor of his own conclusions. Alice's experiences considerable adversity with illogical superiors, as is the case today with Marian Price, being interned without trial, by the Vice royal of British Occupied Ireland Theresa Villiers..
The individuals asserting power in British society, Lewis Carroll suggested, decide what things will mean. Their whims, and rule changes, prompted and enforced by irrational fury against people who want freedom, dictating responsibilities, duties, guilts, sins, and punishment such as political internment without trial. Lewis Carroll being victimized, corresponded to the Alices's view of grown-up farcical authority and with Marian Price's interned political conscience today.
Lewis Carroll, valued highly independent thought and those with the ability to rise above the imprisoned, unjust rules of would be British superiors. Alice in Wonderland is the evolving physical metaphor of Alice, asserting her beliefs, like the tortured Marian Price of today in British Occupied Ireland.
Unlike Alice who defied the queen and loudly said "Stuff and nonsense!' saying, "'Who cares for you?' as she had grown to her full size. 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'' By being forthright and courageous with her own logic, against the queen, Alice grew in size, a metaphor of her character growth and courage.Fortunately for Alice, unlike Marian Price the queen of that time did not intern her without trial and throw away the key.
Lewis Carroll unlike today's teachers, was a teacher that fostered independent thought with one of his pupils writing, "by his own real wish to know what I was thinking Mr. Dodgson compelled me to that independence of thought I had never before tried to exercise...I felt myself able in some measure to judge for myself, to select and if need be to reject." .
Meanwhile Marian Price is still interned in British Occupied Ireland for almost 18 months, during which time neither her lawyers, or Marian have been allowed to see any of Britain's 'alleged' evidence.
• She has been kept in solitary confinement in a 'male' high security prison
• She is effectively interned without a trial, sentence, or release date.
• She has not been given any timescale for any investigation.
• She has not been allowed to see the evidence that the state claims to have
• Her release has been ordered on two occasions by judges. However, on both occasions the secretary of state has overruled those decisions.
• The secretary of state claims he has 'revoked Marian's license'. This is despite Marian never being released on license. She was given a Royal Pardon.
• Marian's Royal Pardon has 'gone missing' from the home office (the only time in history). The secretary of state has taken the view that unless a paper copy can be located – it must be assumed that she does not have one.
• Despite no 'license' existing for her release from prison in 1980, it is the non-existent license that is being used to keep her in prison.
• She can only be released by Theresa Villiers the current Secretary of State responsible.
The second last time Marian appeared in court the charges against her were thrown out of court for lack of evidence by a Judge. Now the very same charges have been re-instated against Marian again by the very same Judge!
In secret courts, being introduced secretly, by the back door, through the House of Lords, by the British secret service, secret trials will take place, with secret evidence by secret witnesses, that not even her lawyers are allowed to know or see. The length of sentence is secret and it is all kept secret with the threat of a penalty of a long jail sentence, under the official Secret's Act. Not even Lewis Carroll could dream that one up.
Despite protests of defense lawyers, the secret courts will operate with virtually no rules of evidence, no discovery rules, no rules of decision and no rules regarding precedent. Not only will traditional law be in short supply, so too, will any sense, as to what interpretive practices would be followed by the 'judges' or what precedent values will exist. Thus the invocation of Lewis Carroll above, as well Kafka to the whole political/judicial system in British Occupied Ireland, demonstrating the absurd basis, of the unchecked British Vice royal regime in Ireland.
In the constant existential crises, of the nonsensical British scum state, established on the basis of a British mentored sectarian headcount, with rules and ongoing lawlessness of farcical law, that commands no respect from the informed Irish citizens, as opposed to Her majesty's bigoted or sectarian commoners, that corresponds to the topsy turvy universe of Alice in Wonderland,
British insistence on their internal logic, may amuse readers of the absurd, even as the rules they constantly re-create are illogically disjointed, in the context of the tests of history, experience and common sense. Alice's world is a wonderland only because, like Marian Price it is at odds with her, reader's, conventions of civility and expectations of basic humanity. Lewis Carroll's texts demonstrate, how an elaborate, unjust, constantly changing set of rules, that mirror the lunatic reality of a reconstituted normalcy, makes any of its keepers rationalizing it, look foolish by any standards of commonsense.
On the other hand, it definitively has a Kafkaesque basis, with its indefinite detention, where no one is formally charged, where
one may not seek counsel, where an individual cannot have his or her day in court, where, all along one is being secretly judged, by observers with a vested interest to infer guilt, based on the reasons above an its bigoted, prejudiced, sectarian, racist, perceptions.
The dehumanization of internees such as Marian Price, through the infliction of pain and torture, not only damages her body and mind, it is as Elaine Scarry wrote, world-destroying, "It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe. Intense pain is also language destroying; as the content of one's world disintegrates, so the content of one's language disintegrates; as the self disintegrates, so that which would express and project the self is robbed of its source and its subject. Thus, physical erasure also eliminates the intelligible voice, reducing human speech to the primordial expression of pain, a state anterior to language."
In addition to these erasures of the body, mind and self, British torture achieves a third form of physical erasure, by the very fact
of the political prisoners' torture, requiring concealment. The retreat of torture from respectability by international standards, means that the British must perform it in hiding, primarily with censorship. However they also conceal their involvement in rendition, as they hide their activity in subcontracted assassination, with more curtains over their already, shrouded victim's bodies.
While their prolonged stress positions, as well as other conduct constituting cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment may not always rise to the level of torture, they nevertheless were found guilty of such, by the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg regarding their activity in Ireland. The physical erasure of British torture is self-evident, and therefore needs only brief comment.
In secret courts, with identity blacked out on their transcripts, judges will not countenance torture complaints, they will have none of this conduct, deeming it unacceptable and defendants will receive a final warning, oblivious to international law. In such courts they do not want to hear the words, such international law again. The British are not concerned about international law, they will insist on it, by having someone like Marian Price removed from the hearings, so that their secret services and military can consider classified evidence against her in secret.
If we accept the integrity of human rights law and its independence from any state sovereign, then it follows that there can never be
lawlessness such as there is in British Occupied Ireland, only gross violations of human rights law.British habeas-corpus-stripping provisions, are a core breach of human rights law, besides the many liberty concerns with regard to the Geneva Conventions. British attempts at unilateral re-interpretation of sections international law, have no constitutional rights whatsoever
British Occupied Ireland with the treatment of political internees such as Marian Price, Martin Corey and many others, has become a human-rights-free zone.The quarantine of many Irish political prisoners is a familiar concealment. When placed in a human rights context. British Occupied Ireland is often described in terms of the British government's denial of rights to political prisoners but equally important the denial of their Irish humanity.
British Occupied Ireland has been a laboratory, of their dehumanization, while they use their media, such as the BBC world srvice, to refer to prisoners of conscience, as terrorists, to ostracize them from what it means to be human and allow the British the physical and mental treatment of Irish political prisoners, abhorrent to human beings.Thus they accomplish through cultural erasure, through the creation of the terrorist narrative; legal erasure and physical erasure through torture.
While the dimensions of dehumanization are distinct, they are interrelated. All are connected by law and specifically by human rights.The British have created the preconditions for state power activity, so brutal, as to deprive Irish political prisoners of the ability to be human or have any human rights.They stand exposed to the violence of the British state, unmediated, unprotected by any human rights, reducing political internees to a state of bare life without humanity. What is evolving is the Irish have no right, to have rights, a vacuum enabling extreme British state violence, placing the internment of Marian Price, at the center of a struggle not just for rights, but for humanity that includes you and me.
Like Alice aspiring to overturn prevailing power relations, the value is its means, as much as its end. Through resistance, political space will open but the mere resistance, the assertion of self against state violence, is self and life-affirming. Resistance is a way of staying human. This, then, is the work that rights do, when pushed to the brink of annihilation, they provide us with a rudimentary and perhaps inadequate tool to maintain our humanity. Thus by paying particular attention to the value of human rights and arguing the importance of rights, it becomes a mode of resistance, to state violence.
Irish political prisoners themselves, have a long track record of participating in direct forms of resistance in many forms, including dirt strikes and hunger strikes, as a form of prisoner resistance, with lawyer rights-based litigation and the hunger strikes, sharing an understanding of the relationship between rights, violence, and humanity. While sometimes the resistance of lawyers and of prisoners may not be enough to win the prisoners' freedom, it is still essential when British state violence is so extreme, as to attempt to extinguish our humanity.
Before the sickening images can take a political toll
The right-wing spin machine plays damage control


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It's Sound Unseen time again! Film & music festival's full 2018 lineup announced.
Wanna spend five days watching as many movies about music and musicians as you can?
Well, if those five days happen to be November 14-18, you're in luck, because that's when the 19th annual installment of Sound Unseen will take place. (The 19th! That's a lot of Sound Unseens. Almost 20.)
This year's theme, apparently, is "sonic." The festival is offering up the Midwest premiere of Boom! A Film About the Sonics, Jordan Albertsen's documentary about the storied Northwest garage-rockers, as well as a program called "Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation." (30! That's even more than 19.)
Filmmaker Lance Bangs and Minneapolis' own Lori Barbero will be on hand for the Sonic Youth event, which will include two newly restored "archival pieces" from 1989, along with excerpts from Bangs' film of the band's 2007 Glasgow performance of the classic album, and some other video curios.
Other regional premieres include Jonathan Sequeira's Descent Into the Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story, a survey of the tempestuous career of the Australian rockers; Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me, Olivia Lichtenstein's look at the life of the Philly R&B great; and Waiting: The Van Duren Story, in which Greg Carey and Wade Jackson try to discover what happened to the titular '70s Memphis up-and-comer.
You can check out the full lineup here.


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If we're being honest, art is nigh impossible to extricate from politics, from notions of what kind of society we are and want to be, from the roles we wish to assign ourselves or the ones that have been thrust upon us. Even Disney plastic cheese and lobotomy TV represent a world view, despite their saccharine denial.
Although many of us will baulk at this, seeking refuge in the cosy confines of entertainment or the ivory towers of abstraction, some of us will never be able to sift out where the creative ends and the social conscience begins. Or how art and identity differ. Without presuming to be inside his head, it is probably fair to say that Stephen Page is one such person.
As the head of Australia's only truly national indigenous arts organisation, Bangarra Dance Theatre's talisman not only makes work that wows audiences and critics but has also been working tirelessly across his entire 29 years with the company to preserve a people's heritage, re-examine a nation's history and get to grips with his own identity.
Indeed, he admits that he has always been "obsessed with identity". One of 12 children, he grew up in a household where his language was forbidden and his ancestral culture largely unexplored. "I was the pale skinned one," he says. "I got my English grandfather's skin, but I was the blackest inside because I was always curious."
Now, in his 52nd year, Page finds himself lauded and applauded by black and white alike. His latest accolade, the Australia Council 2017 Award for Dance, is yet another gong. "I always feel quite humbled when I get recognised for what I do," he reveals. "I'm just really fortunate that I have a job where it's not just about having a job or art for art's sake; it's a job where we get to carry our cultural heritage stories from the past and bring them to the present and filter it through the wonderful form of dance theatre."
After a lifetime of dance-making, Page is now preparing to revisit one of the most pivotal stories in the post-1788 pantheon — namely, the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, the Eora man who shared a quarter century dialogue with the first European colonists. Kidnapped in November 1789 at the age of 25, Bennelong learned English, dressed in Western clothing, travelled to the UK and became an author and alcoholic before dying at 49. As Page declares, "He's the guinea pig, the experiment; and it's his legacy that is politically the one that's challenged by all indigenous people today."
Central to the Bennelong contention is, of course, the existential reality of living black in a white world and of how the conflicts and crossovers of these two realms are negotiated. "If you can't respond within the Western infrastructure and system, you can't really survive and do your work," Page bluntly argues. "So really Bangarra has a foot in each world and is challenged in each world. I suppose we intend to be the consciousness for the mainstream non-indigenous community, but, at the same time, we have a responsibility for what we've inherited."
For both the company and the man, the dual role of dance maker/flag bearer is riven with difficult choices. Recalling the now famous and visionary "Redfern Speech" in December 1992 by former PM Paul Keating, where Bangarra performed in support, Page pauses to reflect. "I often wonder what has changed about us and how we respond to the Western system and how we've evolved. You know, what is the stereotype? What is the resistance? We used to say you're either a Bennelong or a Pemulwuy. You either resist the system and you're a black activist, or you play within it and try to feed the white world a sense of who you are, almost like behaving to the system. So, I don't know, am I a Bennelong?"
It is perhaps no small irony that the initial trigger for the work Bennelong came to Page at the Sydney Opera House. On this site, now called Bennelong Point, the man himself famously asked the colonial governor Arthur Phillip to build him a hut. "So now I get to create a work about him, to celebrate that spirit that still floats around in our social conscience, and through dance theatre we get to explore that conversation he started back in 1789," Page says.
For all of Bangarra's notable success and Page's reputation as one of this country's foremost contemporary choreographers, however, the niceties of dance theatre and the lustre of awards remains a vexed reality. As he wryly observes, "Yes, I'm thankful, but at the end of the day I think, 'Oh my God, we can't even constitute our First Nations people.' In a way, I'm a little bit embarrassed by taking an award. What right do I have? You know, our people before us, it's their knowledge and spirit that's still brewing under all this conflict and guilt."
In this way, Bennelong will never simply be a dance spectacle, and Bangarra will never be just a company. "It's not so much about what the product is on stage, about getting four or five stars and getting some Western critic on it; it's the fact that you've attempted to reclaim a story and be empowered to tell it from your perspective," Page states. "And look, that's the 21st century; opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one."
For more information on Bangarra Dance Theatre's Bennelong, which premieres at the Sydney Opera House this June, and to book tickets, visit www.bangarra.com.au/whatson/productions/bennelong-2017.
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa.


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Valuable Nourishment Tips That Aid You Stay Healthy.
Developing good nutritional habits is a continuous process. Every day we face a multitude of choices about what to eat. Nutrition is the execise of developing knowledge about food and making informed decisions. It is not only about what to eat, but also timing meals in a way that they affect your body in positive ways. The more you know, the better and more satisfying your strategy will be. Read on for some practical advice.
Rice is part of numerous dishes that people prepare every day. Substituting brown rice for white rice an excellent way to make any rice dish diet-friendly. While white rice is a source of empty carbohydrates, brown rice has fewer calories and is much more filling. Multi-grain rice is also a great option.
One way of maintaining good health is to visit the doctor on a regular basis. By doing this the individual will be aware of any health issues that he may have and therefore removing the risk of being ill or sick. It is advisable to go to the doctor at least twice a year.
Think sesame seeds are only good for garnishing hamburger buns? Think again! Sesame is full of essential nutrients like calcium, iron, and vitamins E and B1. It also contains antioxidants. Hummus is a delicious way to consume sesame, while also getting protein from the chickpeas in it. Spread it on some pita and enjoy a tasty and healthy snack.
A great nutritional tip is to eat healthier sandwiches. Stick to whole wheat bread and go with lean meats such as tuna, chicken, or turkey. Also try to use light or fat-free condiments. Avoid meats that are high in fat such as pastrami and stay away from unhealthy condiments.
Good nutrition starts at home. If you teach young children how to eat properly and introduce them to healthy foods early, they will be more likely to grow up enjoying a higher variety of healthy foods. Proper nutrition also leads to better food choices in the long run and less risk of obesity.
Vitamin K is an advantageous nutrient that you can add to your body on a daily basis. This vitamin is very beneficial in reducing bruises and any imperfections that you may have on the skin. If you suffer from severe acne, vitamin K can help to reduce the redness from your bumps.
Good nutrition starts at home. If you teach young children how to eat properly and introduce them to healthy foods early, they will be more likely to grow up enjoying a higher variety of healthy foods. Proper nutrition also leads to better food choices in the long run and less risk of obesity.
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Olive oil provides healthy fats essential to skin health. It seals the moisture on your skin. If you don't get good nutrition, you'll eventually pay a price for it. Just apply a thin layer a couple times a day.
Eat a healthy mix of different foods in your diet. If you are trying to bulk up or lose weight, you might be focusing on certain foods to complement your workout routine, but don't forget to eat in a healthy way that incorporates foods from all food groups. This will help keep your body full of the nutrients you need to function.
While you do need to have a good amount of protein in your diet, it is not a good idea to eat too much meat, so you should try eating other protein-rich foods and eliminating meat sometimes. Good choices are peas, beans, tofu, and meat substitutes like seitan.
When making a smoothie for a meal, it is important to only add ingredients that are healthy. Don't just load a smoothie with fruit and ice cream. That will load it with calories, and turn it into an unhealthy treat. Use yogurt, berries, frozen bananas and a small amount of honey.
To increase the effectiveness of vitamin supplements, include plenty of manganese in your diet. Manganese has been shown to help your body absorb a variety of vitamins and minerals. Foods rich in manganese include pineapple, soybeans, and brown rice. Consuming these foods about an hour before you take any vitamins w,ill help your body take full advantage of them.
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It is important to eat both lean protein and complex carbohydrates at every meal. The carbohydrates help to fuel the body so that you do not feel tired and lethargic a few hours later. The protein will help your body to build and retain muscle. Eating too many carbohydrates can make you feel heavy and tired so it is important to eat them in moderation.
Good nutrition is the basis for good physical and mental health. You simply can not feel your best if you live on a diet of sugar, fat and salt. Begin thinking of food as fuel and building blocks for your body, as well as material for healthy mental function. If you think like that, you'll see little room for junk food in the picture. Save high-fat, high-sugar and salty splurges for special occasions.
Walk through your nutrition goals one step at a time. Unless your diet plan is optimized for nutritional value, you are far more likely to have problems sticking with your plan. If you gradually implement changes, you will be more likely to stick with your diet. First replace sugary soda with a zero calorie drink like tea. Put away the chips and eat an apple instead. After you adjust to the dietary changes you've made, add some more. You will see results from these small steps towards better nutrition quite soon.
As you can see, what you put into your body has a huge impact on how you feel and look! By following the above suggestions you will be healthier you. Remember, proper nutrition is essential! After all, "You are what you eat!"
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Strawberry Scrub(75g)
Scrubbing keeps the skin healthy by cleansing it from deep within. It removes dead skin cells, blackheads, whiteheads, etc.
Inatur's Strawberry scrub gently removes flaky skin without clogging and improves the skin's overall texture thereby revealing glowing skin, giving you a fresh and luxurious feel.
It is filled with the goodness of Strawberry- removes accumulation of dead skin and helps rejuvenate the skin by locking moisture within, Almond- helps to eliminate toxins and gives mild exfoliation, Calendula- helps to soothe and tone the skin, Amla- helps in reviving the skin texture, flushes out toxins, avoids occurrence of acne & pimples and brings glow to the skin, Orange Peel- reduces oiliness, helps reduce suntan, Manjishtha- pacifies the reactivity of toxins in the body and exfoliates dead skin.
It can be used 2 times a week.
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Dry to Normal skin.
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Apply in a small quantity over wet face in circular motion and rinse off well. Tone and moisturize.
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The 2015 OXFORD WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM AT THE MARGARET THATCHER CENTRE IN SOMERVILLE COLLEGE IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY
The Oxford Women's Leadership Symposium is pleased to invite you and your institution to participate in the Oxford Women's Leadership Symposium 16, 17 & 18 March, 2015, at Margaret Thatcher Centre, Somerville College in Oxford University, U.K.
You are invited to present a paper on an aspect of Women's Studies, or you may wish to attend as an observer or panel member.
Papers presented at the meeting will be subsequently peer reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium Books or in sponsored academic journals.
The Symposium is interdisciplinary in nature and seeks to cover a broad reach of women's leadership issues in both the public and private sectors. The expectation is that much of the discourse will be concerned with cultural, religious, social, and economic conditions of women and the initiatives that may be most effective in the remediation of the various forms of gender discrimination. See our website for suggestions on topics.
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"Be remembered for what you do next." ~ Today I Will____:
Today I will…. be remembered as someone who is compassionate with the sacrifice and joy, and great responsibility that come with motherhood. I will share to all that I have more lessons to learn with being a better parent through my children. I will open up to the importance of these softer choices, and being different, and not living by today's influences. I will highlight the wonders of peace and assurance that come from reliance on God through the visual representations of mother and child.
Today I will…. share as many principles that my blessed mother taught me that worked miracles in my life. The heart choices that seem like a sacrifice by our modern times are the true riches calling our family together, and our deepest connection with God.
Today I will….remember to live them graciously.
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This Poem is shared with The Mag - 160.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Green No More
This Poem is shared with The Mag - 160.
44 comments:
nice blend of myth in this up front and then perhaps a portent of our reality toward the end there as well with all the greed in the world...ack...ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope there is no greed !!!Delete
poignant, I could see the images through your words :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Kulasa :-)Delete
What a very powerful last stanza here. "Green no more, red streams flow." You have really conveyed deeper meaning through your words, broadened the reader's view of the picture.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Mary :-)Delete
Fabulous, red stream made me shudder.ReplyDeleteReplies
It made me shudder too :-)Delete
Wow that was a very powerful closing with some vivid imagery.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Keith :-)Delete
Interesting, the picture that pops up after 'Green no more, red streams flow' is thrilling.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Vaishali :-)Delete
The picture and your words made me shudder....poignant tale of some lost world...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Sadia :-)Delete
...globe shudders with greed... or 'at' greed, perhaps?ReplyDeleteReplies
'At' would be appropriate I guess ... I have made the change :-)Delete
Powerful, poignant, quite moving...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Berowne :-)Delete
n thats why i wanted to be a vet :( n im nt kidding,when will people get the msgReplyDeleteReplies
Perhaps there's still time and we should start thinking about our surrounding rather than only about us !!!Delete
ah, isn't that sad...? Poignant post, speck. Being an animal lover, I could feel the emotions....ReplyDelete
Thanks Panchali Di :-)Delete
Love the beginning, with "deep rooted fables"ReplyDelete
Would humbly offer two small corrections, last word in second stanza should be "allies" (plural of ally) as Bird and horse are more than one. Also spelling correction on name "Faun."
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Thanks so much Ginny ... I made the corrections :-)Delete
Very interesting poem. Yes.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Leovi :-)Delete
"Thorns played with the doom"ReplyDelete
I love your imagery.
A fantastic and riveting take on Picasso's work of art, and I enjoyed the imagery in the final stanza. Nicely written!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Write Girl :-)Delete
I love this poem! I love the vibrancy and play on words!ReplyDelete
Very clever :D
from utopia to reality, nice verse, esp the last stanza, it is simply beautifully worded...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Reshma :-)Delete
... and above it all, they look back, grieve, and rail at the horror of it all ... love it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Susan :-)Delete
When will we ever learn...excellent write Green...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Tess :-)Delete
Bravo , Speck, PansmLabyrinth eat your heart out!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much :-)Delete
Nice one. Reflects what's really going on when Picasso painted this - the beginning of the Spanish Civil War!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Gerry :-)Delete
You were perfectly attuned to this photo. Wonderful myth of truth.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank You Sara :-)Delete


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I love finding new recipes that are delicious, easy, and healthy. This is one of those recipes that I plan to make again and again. I have seen many recipes that use spaghetti squash, but have always been too intimidated to actually try making one of them. After going to the Eastern Market and seeing spaghetti squash for sale, I convinced myself to bite the bullet and buy it. And I'm so happy that I did!
This dish, which I created based on a GreenLiteBites
recipe, turned out way better than I expected. Since this was the first
time I had ever cooked with a spaghetti squash, there was a slight
learning curve on how prepare the spaghetti squash. But after doing it
once, I saw that it really wasn't all that hard (and I included detailed
instructions for all of you newbies).
Spaghetti squash is typically a fall/winter squash, so I tried to incorporate summer flavors by adding sliced fresh tomatoes. You could consider this a transitional dish, great for making in the late summer months and enjoying the last of the locally grown fresh tomatoes. While this dish is filling enough to eat as a light dinner, it would also pair well with any grilled meats. This dish is flavorful and fresh, and also satisfyingly decadent with just enough melted cheese to make you cheese lovers happy.
Spaghetti Squash and Tomato Casserole
(Serves 4 entrees or 8 sides)
1 medium spaghetti squash
4 medium fresh tomatoes, cut into slices
6 ounces reduced fat Mexican blend shredded cheese
seasonings to taste (I used Paula Dean's Seasoning Salt, black pepper, garlic powder, oregano, ground cayenne pepper, and ground mustard)
To prepare spaghetti squash:
Pierce spaghetti squash four or five times. Place on a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 4 minutes. Turn spaghetti squash, so that the bottom is on the top. Microwave for another 4 minutes. The spaghetti squash should start to feel tender. Let the squash sit for a few minutes until it has cooled off enough for you to handle safely. Cut the spaghetti squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds. Place half of the spaghetti squash back on the microwave safe dish, add about 1/4 cup water to the bottom of the dish, and microwave another four minutes. Pull squash out of the microwave and let sit for a few minutes to cool. Repeat for other half of spaghetti squash. Take a fork and shred the spaghetti squash. One medium spaghetti squash should yield about 4 cups of shredded squash.
To prepare casserole:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 11x9 inch baking pan with cooking spray. Layer about 1 1/2 cups of spaghetti squash on the bottom of the baking pan. Top with half of the slices tomatoes. Sprinkle with seasonings. Top with 2 ounces of cheese. Repeat layers. After you add the second layer of cheese, top with remaining spaghetti squash. Sprinkle with remaining 2 ounces of cheese and top with seasonings. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
Print this recipe!
Nutritional Info
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 93.8
Total Fat: 4.9 g
Cholesterol: 15 mg
Sodium: 192 mg
Total Carbs: 7.9 g
Fiber: 1.7 g
Protein: 6.3 g
-Easy to make
-Pretty presentation
-Great served as a light dinner or as a side dish
-A bit laborious for first time spaghetti squash cookers, but you'll get the hang of it after trying it once
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5
Spaghetti Squash and Tomato Casserole
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Beverly Schaeffer, MSN, RNProfessor of Nursing
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Programs: Nursing
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Beverly has been teaching fulltime at OCCC since 2002, after working as an adjunct clinical instructor for several semesters. She currently teaches in Nursing Process II in the traditional pathway. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1977 and her master's degree from the University of Phoenix in 2004. Beverly's clinical focus has been maternal-newborn nursing and she teaches maternal-newborn and med-surg nursing.
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Episode Profile
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-G
Episode Synopsis: Bertie spends much time putting the old Wooster brain to use in devising schemes to arrange the meeting of two tycoons. However, A more immediate concern is Stilton Cheesewright and Lady Florence Craye, both of whom hold vastly differing yet equally unpleasant opinions of Bertie - the former takes offense at his drinking and time spent with the later, while Florence thinks that he has possibilities. The final scene involving Abraham Lincoln climbing up the spire of the Empire State Building, amongst other things.
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Sometimes I can spend a whole day reorganising my wardrobe (I find it so therapeutic). It's a great way to remove unwanted clothes, that are cluttering my wardrobe. And on the other hand, I love to get more creative with my favourite pieces and come up with new ways to wear them. So one way to get more creative with your existing wardrobe is to wear items differently. For example, if you have a lot of dresses (unworn that you aren't ready to part with), another way to wear them is over your jeans. And wearing a Dress Over Jeans isn't as complicated as it sounds.
The dress that I am wearing below is one of my picks from https://modestyle.com/. I choose to style this dress because I loved its details and fabric; this style is so easy and comfortable to wear. And it flows beautifully when worn. But you can also choose to wear a more structured dress over you jeans in a similar way. One of the most important things to consider when wearing a Dress Over Jeans, is to understand proportions.
For styling this look, I wore distressed skinny jeans because I think they create a unique contrast against the style of the dress. And I added a belt to the waist, to help create a more flattering silhouette. Usually I would wear dresses that have a shorter hem and are above my knee because this proportion works best for my height. But because this dress was a wraparound, it looked great with jeans. Also for my height, I find that when I am wearing a longer dress, I need to wear heels because this helps the outfit look more proportionate. But if I am wearing a shorter dress, then I can wear skinny or cropped jeans with flats, and this is a more casual way to wear a Dress Over Jeans.
Hope this inspires you to wear more dresses with your jeans, if you have any questions you can always email me.
And if you love this dress, you can purchase it via this link https://modestyle.com/modestyle-icon/sarah-atiq/ and make sure to use the code "sarahatiq12" to get a discount.
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Delicious for breakfast, or appetizers
Have your pizza, with extra fiber
Yummy keto version to first your macros
Enjoy your "bread", even on keto
Yummy with fresh veggies for dipping
Seared Pork Chops with Caper Sauce is brimming with delicious flavors and juicy, tender meat.
Great protein start to your day, or perfect for any easy meal time.
Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas
Delicious, fresh, makes enough for several days or share with a group!
From Garden Grazer
Hawaiian-inspired poke, from Chew Out Loud.
Indonesian inspired chicken dish, from Menu Musings of a Modern American Mom
from eatthismuch.com
Delicious as a dip or spread! Not entirely "skinny", but better for you than the pre-packaged stuff! Chock full of veggies, fiber, protein and healthy fats. With nearly half your RDA of Vitamin A, and 10g protein per serving, this is hearty, filling, and delicious.
Great for a make-ahead meal, or when you need leftovers
Delicious, satisfying, just the right amount of sweetness with no syrup necessary!
Procured this recipe from PaleoPlan.com, cannot claim credit for an original idea. But it's tasty, hearty, and a great way to fuel your day!
Delicious side dish in the summer, or perfect on a crisp fall day. Great accompaniment to steak, kabobs, chicken or fish dishes.
This is a basic recipe for spaghetti marinara. Add your own veggies and/or meat for a more complete meal. Calorie count is only for the sauce ingredients and noodles.
Delicious salad, full of fresh flavors of the Mediterannean! Also great served in the winter for a taste of summer!
Country Italian dish, the sauce can be made as thick or as thin as you like. Delicious, more veggies can be added if you wish. This is a great crockpot dish to serve for dinner and leftovers; dinner parties; large gatherings. Can also be made ahead of time and reheated, or frozen.
Great fresh Baja taste without empty calories
Brimming with flavor, you can add all the veggies you want. The sweetness in the apples balances the tartness of the sauerkraut, and by simmering both you mellow their flavors.
A great way to get more beta carotene into your kids, and to add some color to your plate. Serve for breakfast, brunch, or a side to compliment a lunch or dinner entree. Can also be served for special occasions.
Delicious meatloaf, can substitute ground turkey and egg beaters for the meat and egg. If you do sub out the sausage, add extra calorie-free seasonings.
Tastes more sinful than it is!
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News:Creating a Friendly Funtoo Culture
Creating a Friendly Funtoo Culture
This news item details some recent steps that have been taken to help ensure that Funtoo is a friendly and welcoming place for our users.By Drobbins / February 2, 2015
Hi everyone,
I want to ensure that everyone who participates in the Funtoo Linux community is welcomed and treated with respect. Often times, this is challenging. Why? Let's face it. Many geeks are not known for their social skills, and are known to argue a lot and treat people like crap. That's just the culture that is out there in geek land, and we are impacted by it and have to deal with it pretty often.
For Funtoo Linux, treating people badly is not something I'm okay with. There were recent 'bad behavior' issues in the #funtoo IRC channel. In response, a number of changes were made:
- I have opped a number of community-oriented and friendly Funtoo Linux users and staff. They have been encouraged to deal appropriately with people who are being assholes.
- We now have a user <-> staff liaison to help to keep me and others abreast of violations of community standards.
- I'm putting myself out there as the final source of arbitration if you are treated badly, even by one of our ops. If you are, email me directly at email@example.com.
The #funtoo channel topic has been updated appropriately:
Funtoo Linux! http://www.funtoo.org - This is a laid-back channel. Rules: Treat people with respect. Ops are here to keep things friendly. Treated badly? email the BDFL: firstname.lastname@example.com..
I want everyone to know that this is an issue that is very important to me, and is essential to keeping Funtoo 'fun' and welcoming. You can and should expect our user community and staff to be respectful and polite to you, and if they are not, then I want to hear about it.
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I did a monthly update for jakson up to 1 year but haven't done one since then! So here are some things that our crazy little booger is up to at 14 months...
He weighs around 23 lbs.
He is always running around like a crazy man looking for
something to get in to a new adventure :)
Yup, he loves getting into the diaper bag and my wallet
His vocabulary consists of hey, "bah bah"~bye-bye, ma ma, da da, mimi, "pah"~pop, "bay bay"~baby, "dah"~dog(his favorite), "hah"~hot, no. --i might be missing some but i think i got it all.
He has 6 teeth.
He has started touching my belly and saying "bay bay". of course he really has no clue what he is doing but still...it is so cute and melts my heart everytime :)
He is such a creeper, haha. he stares at everyone he sees. some people love it but some people get awkward...it is very funny.
He loves to put on daddy's hats and run around the house.
He loves to pull all of the toilet paper off of the roll and go through every trashcan that he can get his little hands on.
He LOVES the dogs. he
hits pets them and says "dah"(dog) all of the time.
He LOVES phones. if he sees a phone, he just has to have it! He will pitch a fit until he gets his way. josh got me an otter box for my iphone so it is more protected now!
He still likes the car and his carseat, thank goodness. we drive way too much so we would both be miserable if he didn't like it!
He is a biter...unfortuately. We are trying to break him of this but it is just him right now. operation vinegar has begun, we will see if it works since popping his mouth doesn't seem to do a thing :/
He likes to test us. when we say "no", he has to try it just one more time. oh how i love that little stinker. then he make this face when he knows you are serious...
He loves his play group. We have started a play group with some women from my bible study and their kids. it is so nice to chat with other mommies who share similar interests and let jakson run and around and get some energy out! We both get a lot out of that time.
He likes to
eat crayons color.
He loves to be held. gives me quite the arm workout during the day.
He loves the vacuum cleaner. He chases it and loves it when i chase him with it!
His eating is changing a little bit. He has started to hate broccoli and mac and cheese?! crazy kid! He also isn't quite the eater he used to be. Sometimes he will eat a lot and sometimes he just wants a couple of bites.
Eating out is almost impossible these days. All he wants to do is eat a few bites and then get down to run around. makes for very short restaurant visits.
He will be getting his first haircut this week. the rat tail has got to go :)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Little Jakson man at 14 months!
I did a monthly update for jakson up to 1 year but haven't done one since then! So here are some things that our crazy little booger is up to at 14 months...
Posted by The Burfitt's at 9:29 AM
3 comments:
- Laina said...
o my goodness buff that pic of him crying, so precious! can't believe your gonna have two running around in a few months!
- January 25, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- A-town said...
cutest kid I know. Can you please take a video of him using on your phone
- January 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Jordan said...
I'm glad im not the only one who is still dressing their kid in halloween pjs!
- January 26, 2011 at 2:03 PM