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Roy Sievers Single Signed Ball With Lengthy Inscription. A wonderful single signed example from the great slugger and 1949 AL Rookie of the Year. At a time when achieving 300 home runs was still a rarity, Sievers became only the 18th ballplayer to reach the plateau. He also holds the dubious distinction of being the first member to hit 300 home runs and not make the Baseball Hall of Fame. Roy signed this OAL (Selig) ball and added his nickname "Squirrel". He also added "1949 A.L. ROY, STL Browns 5X All Star. Sievers was good friends with Cool Papa Bell, and when asked to write about Cool Papa on the ball, he adds "Cool Papa was a great ballplayer". Pre-Certified by PSA/DNA.

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Looks at the ways in which sharks and other fish have adapted to their surroundings, and covers such topics as habitat, feeding, camouflage, defenses, and reproduction.

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"Sharks are among the most ferocious predators in the oceans, but how have they, and other fish, adapted to become so successful? The series explores how some of our favorite animals are uniquely adapted to their environment. Each book looks at the various ways in which different species have adapted to their surroundings and covers habitat, defenses, camouflage, and the way animals find food."

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The Creation of Big Tex

Anyone who regularly attends the State Fair of Texas thinks it’s a religious experience — they just couldn’t prove it. But now new photos lend credence to that religious theory. Big Tex, in his latest incarnation, actually talks and waves and uses a spittoon. His vocabulary is limited but like most Texans, he compensates for that with a loud delivery. But what were his humble beginnings? Was he crudely conceived as a gigantic Charlie McCarthy-ish hick, a slim-hipped Santa, or a barrel-chested, hook-nosed Jesus?

To answer that question, you have only to look at the fiberglass statue itself. Big Tex actually underwent a nose job and an eye-retooling back in the 1960s which would lend credence to the Jesus theory. Others purportedly saw the huge statue with a white beard and red hat but since this only occurred in East Texas, those sightings have been discounted. The most interesting theory is Adam’s Big Bang which shows Big Tex reaching out to some Higher Power for the spark of life.

You be the judge.

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Cast & Creatives

Ugly - David Duketis
Ida - Emily Svarnias
Drake - Dean Gild
Beaky - Darcy Smith
Fluff - Hannah Simos-Garner
Billy - Caleb Acott
Downy - Chloe Vigilante
Maureen/Bullfrog - Charlotte Barker
Cat - Joseph Baldwin
Greylag/Turkey - Tristan Sicari
Dot/Grace - Emily Palmer
Barnacles - Daniel Hooper
Father Swan - Garrett Harrington
Mother Swan - Alexis Kananghinis
Penny - Tegan Vincent
Bewick - Travis Vieth
Jay Bird - Jami Declerck
The Farmer - Anthony Pontonio
Henrietta - Ashley McGowan
Girls Voice - Mia Horozidis
Boys Voice - Nicholas Krizmanic

Caleb Acott, Elena Atanasovski, Declan den Hartog, Jasmine Dixon,
Maria-Clara Ferreira, Kayne Fowler, Sophia Gravier, Mia Horizidis,
Sachi Jadhav, Tahlia Mills, Hannah Ogawa,
Ruby Prattico, Hannah Simos-Garner, Joshua Simos-Garner,
Darcy Smith, Hana Strucket, Ella Sullivan, Alyssa Thiang,
Zoe Thiang, Chloe Vigilante, Ollie Walker

Jamie Currow, Jami Declerck, Garrett Harrington, Daniel Hooper,
Alexis Karanghinis, Nicholas Krizmanic, Andrew McArthur,
Ashley McGowan, Simone Mottupally, Isabella Northrop, Ella Paull,
Toni Pinto, Anthony Pontonio, Travis Vieth

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“They are a joy to watch and a pleasure to listen to…it is a real crowd pleaser”
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"Emily Svarnias as Ida, the mother duck, was outstanding...She was the most glamorous-looking duck I’ve ever seen"
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"With the vivacity of youth and the exuberance of dance the musical “HONK” was performed by a large, energetic group who were obviously enjoying every minute as we the audience were. All ages were engaged in the funny farmyard storyline. the fine singing performances and the most amazingly quick and well timed change of costumes. A great family show with laughs and excitement. In a word, fabulous!"  Aad and Joan Stegink

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Presented by the YABC, HONK! Jr. is a one hour version of the full musical specially designed for young performers, and a young audience.

(Broadway Junior Version)

Adapted for young performers, with a score by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (Mary Poppins), Honk! Jr. is a heartwarming celebration of being different. Based on the story The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, the full musical HONK won the Olivier Award for Best Musical in 2000.

Audiences of all ages will delight in this musical full of sparkling wit, unique charm and laughter.

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All shows $16.  Special group schools price available through the YEP program for $9.

Tuesday, 14 March at 6.00pm
Wednesday, 15 March 1.30pm & 6.00pm
Thursday, 16 March at 6.00pm
Friday, 17 March at 1.30pm & 6.00pm

Saturday, 18 March at 1.30pm

18 - 28 January, 2017

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 7.30pm -  Preview $23.50

Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 4.30pm - $27.50
Friday, 20 January 2017 at 10.30am - $27.50
Friday, 20 January 2017 at 1.30pm - $27.50

All remaining shows $31.50
Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 4.30pm
Saturday, 21 January 2017 at 7.30pm
Monday, 23 January 2017 at 6.00pm
Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 4.30pm
Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 7.30pm
Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 1.30pm
Friday, 27 January 2017 at 4.30pm
Friday, 27 January 2017 at 7.30pm
Saturday, 28 January 2017 at 4.30pm
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A $10,000 Stanford Degree

Several months ago Republican presidential contender Rick Perry made a startling suggestion to state administrators: “I’m challenging our institutions of higher education to develop bachelor’s degrees that cost no more than $10,000.” At Stanford we pay about that much for housing in a year, but before we hastily dismiss the idea, let’s examine the possibilities.

The benefits of a seemingly mythical $10,000 education are obvious. Currently American unemployment numbers are around 9.2% – 14 million people are young enough to work but don’t have jobs, often because they are educated in a field that no longer needs workers. College attendance is also embarrassingly low – 68% of high school students matriculated in 2008. Imagine then, what a cheap college degree would allow us to do; structurally unemployed workers could spend a few years at relatively low cost reeducating themselves. High school students of all socioeconomic backgrounds would be able to attend college.

Monetary considerations are a significant factor for most students at Stanford- roughly 75 percent of you are on financial aid of some sort. Most students in this country aren’t as lucky as we are with aid. If they get accepted to college, they pay up and attend, or they stay at home. Our most precious national resources are the talented students rising through our education system, and we are forgoing the leaders, scientists, and entrepreneurs that they could transform into.

Usually this line of reasoning leads to a very popular argument about why financial aid should be more generous at all schools. After all, the price of college has risen much faster than inflation. But the central issue isn’t how much the student is paying, but rather why college costs so much in the first place.

I’ll put it this way: a Stanford University education should not cost $216,000. That isn’t how much I’m paying, but it is how much Stanford believes my degree is worth, regardless of the aid I’m receiving.
There have been several studies suggesting precisely why education has become unreasonably expensive. Perhaps the third parties who actually pay most of the tuition prevent consumers from being conscious of cost, or perhaps the value of a degree isn’t tied enough to tuition. But I suspect that many Stanford students would defend the price of attendance. They would say that the quality of education, the beautiful architecture, the proximity to Silicon Valley, is all worth the price tag.
My answer is this: maybe for you. But Stanford’s price tag is not worth it for the vast majority of students in the USA. When someone spends a quarter of a million dollars for a degree that makes few guarantees about career opportunities, it’s a horrible financial choice. Stanford and similar universities who are educational leaders have become symbols for waste – bundling top-notch education with luxury living.

What people need is a way to get educated without the excess – excellent education with extremely low costs. With the swelling internet revolution, low costs seem like the easy part; already organizations like the Khan Academy are making waves in addition to the many existing online colleges. The problem is that these institutions cannot make many guarantees about the quality of the learning they provide.

Stanford has the opportunity to be a leader in education once again. It is time that we step outside of the bubble and look at the millions of people who would consider themselves lucky to have one-tenth the education that we do. Andrew Ng and others in the Stanford CS Department have demonstrated that education can be scaled to vast audiences at low overhead, by providing online courses free for everyone.

But since the courses are free, they are currently a financial drain on the university. Given the astonishing enrollment numbers of the Stanford AI class (last count at 100,000), professors should come together and make full curriculums with online coursework. Because educational goals can be pushed online, costs can be correspondingly lower – professors like Sebastian Thrun raise the question of whether a CS master’s degree online might be earned for $2000.

A possible future now becomes clear. Anyone and everyone would have the ability to become as knowledgeable as a Stanford student in a strictly academic sense. Of course, many people will apply to attend the university in person – for networking, jobs, startups, weather – but those who attend will no longer have a monopoly on the educational opportunities that the rest of the country deserves.
A $10,000 bachelor’s degree? Not so crazy after all. And we need Stanford to lead the way.

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Timna is a national park in the Negev desert just a few miles north of  Elat. It is remarkable for the natural formations carved out of the sandstone rock that form its walls.

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Buttercups And Daisies

Posted: 25.04.07 in Blogging

Why would anyone want to drive to work?

The best part about getting the bus is looking out of the window and seeing the things that most drivers would not get the opportunity to appreciate. People forget that it is spring outside.

To be fair, not many drivers could miss the dawn of spring here in Cramlington: the vast beds of daffodils that waved people off to work in the morning and cheered them back were unmissable. Unfortunately, that spectacle subsided as the next waves of nature’s plumage break through. Newcastle, particularly along the Town Moor and around the Civic Centre, is awash with bright primroses, tall opulent tulips and hyacinths and bluebells. The Four Mile Road near the A1 is lined with dandelions, making what appears to be a sea of yellow along the road. Lambs dance about and chase each other in the fields along the A19, oblivious to all those cars that tear by.

Why would anyone want to drive to work?

  1. Weiran says:

    Because I don’t want to sit with the filth of the great unwashed, stand in the pouring rain waiting for a bus or have to endure it’s longer journey time as it makes stops and goes a roundabout way to your destination.

    That’s why I would drive to work.

  2. helen says:

    Buses that don’t turn up, buses that smell, and buses that don’t run at 4 am are a few more reasons.

  3. XShellX says:

    Driving it far more convinent.

    I havent passed my test yet but when i do i can’t bluddy wait.

    I travel about 25 miles to work each day. Some days i have to come home by bus and train, which is a right pain in the arse. Having to wait around in all weathers. Takes me nearly 2 hours 2 get home some days.

    Whereas if i was driving to and from work, it would only take me about 30 minutes to get from work.

    Bus are shit and unreliable most of the time.

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NSRI Hermanus locate body of man missing in boat tragedy

NSRI Hermanus located and recovered the body believed to be of one of two missing men after a boat capsized yesterday, 23 September, off-shore of Kleinmond

 Four men hanging onto the capsized boat, Aralda III , were found by the NSRI yesterday offshore of Kleinmond . The skipper reported two of his crew were still missing.

 The NSRI found the body while responding to a police request following reports from fishermen of a body  floating 2.5 nautical miles off-shore between Kleinmond and Hawston.

 NSRI Hermanus volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched their sea rescue craft Le Jenmar II and recovered the body soon after 10.30 am today, and brought it to Kleinmond harbour where it was handed over to the police and forensic pathology services.

 A positive identification of the recovered body is being arranged with family members by police.  An inquest docket has been opened by police.

 A Police dive unit is continuing to search for the remaining crew man missing since yesterday. Local fishermen have been requested to keep a lookout for the man, who it is feared, may have drowned.

 Recounting the events of yesterday, NSRI Hermanus station commander, Henk Henn, said the NSRI was activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority following eye-witness reports of red distress flares sighted deep-sea off-shore of Kleinmond, between Hermanus and Gordons Bay.

 NSRI conducted a search and at 5 pm a boat trailer and vehicle were found at the Hangklip slip way and details on the boat trailer referred rescuers to the fishing boat Aralda III. However, all attempts to reach the crew of the boat by cellphone failed. It was suspected this vessel may be related to the red distress flares.

 Friends of Aralda III confirmed to NSRI where the fishing grounds were. With dusk approaching the WC Government Health EMS activated the Red Cross AMS Skymed helicopter to join in the search in order to make best use of the remaining daylight.

 At 6.42 pm the deep sea rescue craft and NSRI coast watchers posted along the Kleinmond and Hangklip shoreline spotted a hand held red distress flare 3 nautical miles off-shore of Kleinmond. The sea rescue craft South Star went to the scene and found four men clinging to the upturned hull of the capsized boat .

The men were rescued and brought to shore at Kleinmond slip-way where they were treated for exhaustion and hypothermia.  The skipper related yesterday that two of his crew were still missing at sea.

The rescued men, skipper Phillip Schoeman, 53, his son Phillip, 27, Alwyn du Plooy, 41, from the Strand, and Joe Williams, 61, from Brackenfell, reported they launched at Hangklip. While fishing they had capsized at 10 am .

 They then set off 10 red distress flares. Their cellphones and radio communications were lost in the sea when the boat overturned. As night fell they set off their last hand held red distress flare that was fortunately seen by rescuers.

 According to the skipper earlier in the day one of his crewmen, a 55 year old male, from Strand, had left the capsized boat to try to swim ashore 3 nautical miles away. Later on one of his crew man,  54 years old from the Strand, had drifted away from the boat.

 He appeared to the others to be deceased at the time. It is suspected that he may have succumbed to hypothermia..

 The names of the deceased man and the still missing man are not being released until family members have been informed.

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Two elderly St Francis ladies set upon by intruders

Three male suspects aged 24, 28, 29 were arrested this week  (30 January)  at about 5 pm after a house robbery in St Francis Bay.

According to a SAP media statement, it is alleged that the three  suspects entered a house in Aldabara Run and threw open a back door while two elderly women were sitting in the lounge.

It’s believed that one of the suspects tried to strangle one of the ladies and allegedly robbed the ladies of jewellery, cash and a cell phone. The suspects were arrested after the incident by St Francis Bay Police members.

The suspects will appear in Humansdorp Magistrate’s Court on a charge of house robbery and theft on Monday, 3 February 2014.

According to Calibre Security’s Lynn Edwards one of the ladies was allegedly robbed of her jewellery that she had on her.  The screams from her friend alerted a neighbour who phoned Calibre and the police.

It is alleged that one of the sustpects arested later had the jewellery on him. The ladies are fine but are traumatised.

Police investigations are continuing.

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Friday, July 21, 2017.  WOW that was a tough day’s work writing my 500-word responses to the four storytelling conference questions on their application (I mentioned in my previous post).  I decided that at best, I am truly a scrappy writer!  Oh well!  I did the best I could do, even though I am guessing I entirely missed the point of what this conference is all about!

I am posting these little essays here just in case someone wants to read them!

*Tell us a little about yourself (500 words maximum):

My parents (born mid-1920s) were proper, strict and obsessively private.  At the same time Mother’s severe mental illness (undiagnosed) overwhelmed our family. Most destructive to me, she suffered a permanent psychotic break during her life-death fight to birth breech-me.

I believe terrorism used to control Mother from reporting abuse when she was young included her perpetrator threatening her into silence with, “If you ever tell anyone what I am doing to you the Devil will get you.”  During her difficult labor with me her broken mind told her I was not human.  The Devil had sent me to kill her while I was being born.  Hence the terrible abuse I suffered for the next 18 years began with my first breath.

In 1957 Mother motivated Father to seek a civil engineering job in the Alaska Territory.  While I believe she primarily needed to get me away from her mother’s ability to interfere with her abuse of me, Mother articulated her hatred of “houses made of ticky tacky,” suburban sprawl and the “keep up with the Joneses” mentality of the lower 48 as her reasons for our move to The Last Frontier.

We arrived in Alaska a month before my sixth birthday, and I loved everything about that land from my first step upon it.  Before I turned seven my parents staked claim to our 160-acre homestead near timber line up a mountainside.  We became members of the last wave of “free land grabbers” under the Homesteading Act created to “settle” the vast frontiers of America.

I spent the rest of my childhood both in an inescapable nightmare of hellacious abuse AND in cherishing an incomparable beauty that enabled me to fall in love with a nonhuman wilderness world.  While we had no electricity or running water or secure road or telephone or neighbors — and lived in a small dark portable Army surplus canvas Jamesway hut — our family dared to live, according to Mother, The Great American Dream.  Never mind the struggles.  Mother had found her Shangri-La!

Yes, we went to school, and moved up and down that mountain over the years more times than I can count.  Yet it was the spirit of the wilderness that saved me.  I shared its land, sky, wind, water, plants, animals and seasons as this world resonated with my own invisible essential being – the one that Mother could not touch.

Just after my 18th birthday, suddenly and without warning my parents “decided to put” me in the Navy.  A week later, having no preparation for life in the outside world, I flew five thousand miles away from home to boot camp.  Within a year I was introduced to drugs and became an unwed pregnant teen ejected from the Navy.

Then, as happened with so many of my generation, I made my way forward in life – alone – in the company of peers.  I’ve been doing the same ever since.  Like the mountains, we endure.

*Tell us about a social or political issue you are particularly interested in seeing change today and how you are involved. (500 words maximum):

When I was in second grade, before Father figured out how to drag the pieces of the Jamesway hut up to our homestead, we rented an apartment in Anchorage.  I was able, for the only time in my childhood, to attend Sunday school.

We heard Old Testament stories in the fall. In winter we celebrated Jesus’ birth in a manger.  Then we learned about His life until Easter.

I knew in the spring our family planned to leave town for the mountain, so in the innocent way of childhood I told my Sunday School teacher that while I LOVED everything we had learned that year, we would be leaving in April so I couldn’t come back.  I eagerly asked her what book they would read next!  I’ve never forgotten the look on her face as she assured me there IS only one book.

I was so puzzled that these people had been reading this same book for 2000 years!  I KNEW there HAD TO BE more books!

My life took many twists and turns over the next 12 years before I found that those other books DO exist.  My psychedelic drug use ended as I realized no personal “high” matters.  We must work together to elevate the well-being of the entire human race.  We must serve humanity to make that happen.

This discovery changed the trajectory of my life.  I am one of only five million Baha’is (followers of the light) around the world at this time, 200 years after the birth of its founder, Bahá’u’lláh, whose Name, translated from Persian means, “The Glory of God,”  “The Lord of Hosts.”  Bahá itself means LIGHT, and with this light comes truth I hoped was accessible to those who searched for love long enough to find it.

Bahá’u’lláh’s Teachings for the age we are living in tell us that all world religions have been progressively revealed over time as humanity matured by divine Educators sent to us by the One unknowable Creator God; humanity is one race, one family; the independent investigation of truth is obligatory to all (clergy is no longer necessary); religion and science are in essential harmony; men and women are equal as two wings of a bird; prejudices of all kinds must be eliminated; universal education is compulsory; the solution to all economic problems is spiritual; we need to choose one universal auxiliary language so we can communicate clearly with one another everywhere; we will be creating universal peace upheld by a world federation.

My task for the rest of my life is to encourage all kinds of people to talk to one another about what needs to improve for humanity as we build a better world for all!  Our practical solutions will be as organic as life here is.  Everyone has their own unique talents and capacities, all needed as we learn as a unified yet diverse species how to work together to build an advanced, just global civilization.  This IS our destiny.

*Tell us how you identify with the term “counterculture.” (500 words maximum):

I cried all the way through Forrest Gump as if my heart’s life-vein had been sliced and my tears were flooding out.  If I pair all the suffering I felt portrayed in this movie with my own during the 60s and 70s, I am left knowing that what matters to me is the potential for and the actuality of healing the terrible legacy of accumulated traumas that so heavily came to weigh upon the Baby Boomer generation.

Shortly after I married my second husband in 1974 I checked a book out of our small rural town’s library that so impacted me that I took the book out to read four or five times over the months that followed.  I remember nothing of title or author, but I do know that his statements about young people being so wounded by a lack of love in their childhood that they especially used LSD in a desperate search to discover what love might be felt profoundly true to me.

Oh, that was me, all right!  And while the circle of counterculture people I have met and known in my life is probably small, I never knew one of these people — sex, drugs, good intentions and all – who had not suffered heavily in their early years exactly from the absence of love.

While I wore a long simple hand-sewn cotton peasant dress and walked barefoot except when going to my prenatal doctor appointments when I was that unwed pregnant teen, I still really have NO idea WHY!  I was too young, too naïve, too innocent, too traumatized, too troubled and too lost to be honestly transparent with myself.  But I have worked hard to make progress in growing up.

I have known and still meet counterculture people who seemed to have been paralyzed somewhere along the line of their younger life so that now NOTHING new can enter the sphere of their existence.  They are like a needle stuck in a record’s scratch, unable to detect how pitiful their lives might be.

One can only paddle so far along a river’s narrowing tributary, refusing to turn back to meet some part of the mainstream, before becoming lost.  And yet I was raised in an obscure tributary myself, imprisoned and isolated in lengthy solitary confinements, prevented from ever having relationships with my siblings or any friends for 18 long years.  I was brainwashed into believing about myself what Mother believed about me.  What could I know about others or the world?

From the outside I would ask, were “those people” joining up with one another in a kind of anti-violence gang pattern that allowed them to be defined as much by what they were NOT as by what they WERE?  Yet the era when many believed if enough acid was dumped into the public water supply all would change and be fine is long, long gone.

So who are we now?  Are we who we started out to be?

* Tell us what connects you to New Mexico, your community and what compels you to live here. (500 words maximum):

New Mexico is the land of my soul’s returning.  For all the times in my life of challenges to DO, coming to live in New Mexico feels like a transformation into a clear state of BE-ing — just being me.  For every return here something has changed at my core.

My first episode here happened just after my 12th birthday.  Mother left Alaska with her five children to “rest” in the southwest.  Evidently she INTENDED to go to Tucson, but as she told the story she had given the road atlas to my younger sister with instructions for her to read the required turns to Mother.

My sister “made a mistake” somewhere, somehow, which Mother evidently didn’t notice until we entered Santa Fe.  So we checked into a room at the Silver Saddle Motel and stayed four months.  I entered 7th grade and was happier than I had ever been or would be again in the 18 years of my trauma-filled childhood.

For the first time in my life classmates LIKED me!  I belonged!  Of course, coming from Alaska made me an entertaining novelty.  The warmth of their welcoming friendship was a new experience for me, adding something precious and vital to my life that I desperately needed so I could continue to endure the rest of my childhood.

Fresh desert air, brilliant pure blue skies, resonating warm earth tone buildings, temporary freedom from the worst of Mother’s abuse set my soul free so that, for the first time in my life, I could stand up straight, hold my head high, smile and stretch the palms of my hands as far into the air as I could reach – and higher.

And then – we were gone.

My return to New Mexico found me enrolled in the Art Therapy Masters’ program at UNM Albuquerque.  I did not WORK through that program, I THRIVED through it.  I even attended a week-long Storytellers’ International conference with workshops!  And then – again — I was gone.

My next return was to Taos where I heard area stories over coffee of counterculture history too rich to forget.  I lived in an old adobe complex of a sheep rancher’s family.  My landlady Theresa graciously taught me how to build adobe, so I constructed an addition to her house I was renting as a gift to her, and then – yet again – I was gone.

I am blessed to have returned to New Mexico now!  I have resumed my spinning and weaving, and offer a free fun art clinic to adults weekly in my home.  I am hoping to offer my humble studio to families and children, as well.

I walk the streets of this inspiring town and visit about my time capsule ideas.  My car is being repaired so I can greet the wilderness.  I do not want to leave New Mexico – ever – again – but I do not know what my destiny holds.  Meanwhile, I intend to do what I do best here:  JUST BE ME!

Here is my first book out in ebook format as it provides an outline of the conditions of my malevolent childhood.  Click here to view or purchase–

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This strategic insight covers the adoption and outlook of MirrorLink and its tethered solution competitors in the North American and European automotive infotainment market. The success of the connected car will be essential for OEMs, and making a driver's experience as seamless as possible will be assisted by tethered solutions. While maintaining a strict focus on driver distraction, software giants are beginning to enter the vehicle and allow drivers to conveniently connect their smartphone to their vehicle. Frost & Sullivan analyzes the top tethered participants and how the various OEM partnerships will play out over the next 5 to 10 years.

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After a great day out dog sledding with my husband and daughter, I almost forgot what the theme for this week was. Thankfully we got back home in time for me to think what I might shoot for this week. I finally settled on this abstract of one of our flower basket brackets against the early evening sky. I had hoped for some pink streaks in the sky, but it was not to be tonight.

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  1. Interesting abstract.

  2. Actually, I like the blue–it looks like the sun rising out of the water.

  3. Thank you both!

  4. judiclark

    This is very appealing! The lines are strong and the way that you’ve captured just a part of the image makes it for me. And Bobbi is right about the blue in the photo looking like water. Great last minute save!

  5. How very creative to use the sun in the night/dusk theme! Love everything about this photo, the curves, the shadows, the colors!

  6. Love the idea of the sky through the bracket. Original and attractive!

  7. Tammy

    Love that close up…the soft curves are very appealing! Awesome way of being creative!

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Holiness in the Millennial Kingdom

When God judges the world at the end of the seven year tribulation period, He will also rid the world of all idols and false prophets and unclean spirits. And no human left on the earth will have a proud and haughty heart; for because of all the tribulation they will endure, their hearts will be humble. And God will give them a new heart and a new spirit, and thus a new desire to serve Him and be holy as He is (Ezek. 36:26-27).

This will be especially true of the Jews who have returned to Israel. They will be a shining example of a pure and holy people.  Zephaniah 3:11-13 describes them well.

Zephaniah 3:11-13
“In that day you will feel no shame
Because of all your deeds
By which you have rebelled against Me;
For then I will remove from your midst
Your proud, exulting ones,
And you will never again be haughty
On My holy mountain.
12 “But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.
13 “The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
And tell no lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they shall feed and lie down
With no one to make them tremble.”

There is also an apt description of believing Jews, and all believers living in Jerusalem (Jews and Gentiles) in Zechariah 13:1-3. Notice how strict they will be to any of their own children who are found to have a false or unclean spirit.

Zechariah 13:1-4

“In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

2 “And it will come about in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 “And it will come about that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

But I can’t help think how privileged all believers in Israel will be in that day, and how God will aid them in living a pure life; for they will be always in the presence of holiness, being always close to Christ and having the temple to worship in; for every detail of the temple will provide them with constant reminders of His holiness and to be holy. And there will be continual teaching of truth from the temple—by Christ and His followers.  Isaiah 2:3 says,

And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Oh what a time that will be! A time to be holy like Him.  And especially in Israel among the Jews, everything in their lives—every activity and every item—will be set apart for His service and declared holy (Zech. 14:20-21). (References used: Isa. 1:26-27; 2:3; 4:3-4; 29:18-23; 31:6-7; 35:8-9; 52:1; 60:21; Ezek. 36:24-31; 37:23-24; 43:7-12; Zeph. 3:11-13; Zech. 13:2; 14:20-21.)

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Two Purposes for Hell

The purpose of hell, primarily, is to punish all who sin and rebel against God. Hell was originally made for Satan and his demons who were the first to rebelled against God, but because all unredeemed people are rebellious and unbelieving like Satan and because they are in fact sons and daughters of Satan, hell will be their destination as well (Rev. 20:15).

This punishment is absolutely necessary because of the holiness and justice of God; for His holiness demands that sin must be punished; and the punishment must be rendered to each one according to his misdeeds (Rom. 2:5-6).

A second purpose of hell is to provide an eternal place for those who reject God apart from those how love God. As I see it from scripture, those who are in hell will continue to do wrong forever and those who are in heaven will continue to be holy and practice righteousness forever (Rev. 22:11). And so a special place for hell, separate from heaven, is necessary.

Moreover, since those unredeemed will have no desire to be righteous, but will continue to love their sin and the darkness, hell will be a place of outer darkness, a place where they will be able to sin as much as they want. However, since they will continue to sin against God forever, He, because of His holiness and justice, must continue to punish them forever, according to their misdeeds (Rev. 21:8, 27, 22:15).

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  1. Sober truths, to be sure, but you are quite right, Stephen, because you have spoken the Biblical truth on this topic. Unforgiven sin cannot enter Heaven, of course, so it must be dealt with (i.e., punished) — that’s the clear reality we see in Romans 6:23 & John 3:16. Interestingly, the word “perish” in John 3:16 is (in the Greek) a “middle voice” verb, meaning that the destruction of the unbeliever is self-inflicted — self-destruction. And, as you aptly point out, the unbelievers really don’t want the Lord Jesus Christ as their Kinsman-Redeemer because redemption is only attractive to those who embrace God’s truth. Ironically, the damned don’t want to be with God and would not enjoy being in His Heaven — they would hate all the holiness and truth there. But for those of us who treasure the forgiveness we have in Christ, we can joyfully sing forever (Luke 10:20), with thanksgiving and worship, unto our Creator-God, for the gracious and secure salvation that we have His Son, our Redeemer!,

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This smoothie is full of superfoods, mainly containing Maca, coconut oil and cocoa nibs. It is quick to make, full of nutrients and will give you lots of energy.

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Preparation time: 2 minutes

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  • 1 tablespoon Maca powder
  • Half a tablespoon cocao nibs
  • Half a tablespoon coconut oil
  • Water
  • Frozen banana
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  • Pinch of cinnamon

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    execute "bundle exec rake db:migrate" do
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      block do"Migrations were run, removing role[pvpnet_run_migrations]")

  restart_proc {
    bluepill_service 'pvpnet-unicorn' do
      action :restart

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  should_migrate true(node[:pvpnet][:should_migrate] ? true : false)
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  action :deploy

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I have moved.

Published August 30, 2013 by gofullthrottle

I realized that some of you may not know that my blog has moved so thought I would update this one so you can find me. i am blogging over on Horse Junkies United. You can read all of my updates there.

I am also partnered with Phelps Media at PS Dressage so you can find me there.

I recently launched Dressage Hub so you can follow me on Facebook or watch my videos on YouTube.

I am giving back to the dressage community by creating online educational platforms! So come check out the resources I have created!

Training and more training

Published October 1, 2012 by gofullthrottle

Its hard to believe that September has come and gone. With only a few months left to season I have kicked up in to high gear, my hip is doing well and is slowly getting better as I training longer and harder.

I currently train twice a day and I wanted to share some of the cross training that I am doing. In reality I will compete against people riding several horses a day so I am doing everything I can to be competitive. I ride Welmingh 6 days a week.  Monday and Tuesday are typical training days, Wednesday is a lighter day, Thursday and Friday are challenging again and then Saturday is a hack where we train the extended walk, and its getting much better. I feel like the hack is a big mental piece for me as well in learning to trust my horse again in strange scenarios.

Now for the fun part, I train again in the evening and with access to a 24 hour gym there is no excuses. I run 5 or 6 days a week. I try for 6 but it doesnt always work out if my hip is sore. I am currently running 8 km or 5 miles each day and training to run the Disney Princess half marathon in February with my coach. I figure if Disney gives me a princess medal its official. I train upper body 2 times a week to balance out my lower body. I do abs 30 minutes 3 times a week and top that off with yoga once a week.  When I run I often add in squat jumps and a tonne of walking lunges, my goal is to walk and lunge across the draw bridge, I can almost make it half way now. I have lost 5lbs and my goal is 20 before season so I am well on my way!

I guess thats probably the reason September has flown by. I am already feeling a difference in my riding and I am having some of the best rides of my life as my horse and I both get stronger together. Its amazing how refined our partnership and communication has become through our efforts. I am looking forward to the approach of the season!

Hurricanes, Hips and Horses

Published August 27, 2012 by gofullthrottle

Well, I think technically its a tropical storm, maybe it has become a Hurricane but all in all I am still getting used to all the excitement around Hurricane Isaac. A good friend of mine checked in this morning to see if I was getting “Isaaced” I am pretty sure in any other context that term would be followed up with a “giddy up” or a “giggidy giggidy”. In this case its followed with, yes I am getting Isaaced and no I dont like it. So far everything is just very wet. Which I guess is to be expected. Kim is making sure Welmingh doesnt float away and I am hunkered down at home.  Watching the storm from my window. We are on the very edge of the mess and I am hoping that by tomorrow we might see the sun again. Its funny that in the winter up north being hunkered down at home for 3 days is not a big deal but in Florida it seems very foreign.

My hip is getting better. I have been doing my physio daily. Basically over the past 6 months my life has been very unsettled and I have not been in the gym as much, with the residual imbalance from my broken foot my hips are now not equally as strong. So getting them back to being even is my main focus right now. Lots of stretching and strengthening.

As for Welmingh he is getting stronger every day, he has finally started sweating more and we have been out hacking to develop a bigger and stronger walk. We are working on the zig zag for the Intermediare currently, that placement is a bit trickier than I expected it to be but he is a super star and very patience with me. Now we just need the rain to go away so I can get back in the saddle!

Training and the evironment

Published July 20, 2012 by gofullthrottle

I started my ride today with my daily hack around the field, looking and the blue sky with a few fluffy clouds in it, as I took a deep breath to enjoy the smell of the tropical plants around me I cant help but believe that the perfect training environment can be created.

The weather in Florida has its challenges but so does everywhere else. No its not always perfect yet I never hear anybody complain. Now I would love to make this a post about the weather but I can assure you it is not. I have boarded a just a few barns throughout my riding career Always trying to find the perfect balance between coaching, horse care and other horse owners.

Today, I am happy and thankful to have found an environment that is almost a perfect balance. Often the politics of a barn can make even pony paradise miserable. I have never boarded with a group of people who are so genuinely happy for the success of others. In a positive learning environment, other coaches and riders has been positive in telling me when something looks awesome. They have also been supportive in helping me fix mistakes that I am making. Today I had a breakthrough in the self carriage of a half pass. In that moment as I checked out the mirror to see how awesome it looked, the other trainer at the stable to a brief second out of the lesson she was teaching to mention what a big change Welmingh had just made in his self carriage in that moment.

As any rider knows you can have moments of delightful feel but it is always nice to have it validated. Even more so by someone that you are not funding their pocket book.

Welmingh has made another big improvement over the past couple of weeks and a lot of people are noticing. I dont need my ego fed, but again the positive reinforcement is always nice when you are feeling like things are headed in the right direction.

Everybody gets along so well, and opinions are respected. Nothing catty or bad is ever said about anybody including other trainers or stables. My horse is happier and more vocal than he has ever been, Kim monitors his feeding program carefully and makes recommendations as she see’s fit. The grooms are great and never miss a thing. Especially when it comes to a white horse that I am pretty sure is cleaner than my white riding breeches. (How awkward if I had to show that horse!)

Everyone at our stable comes from the north “somewhere” and in having discussions about training environment it sounds like what I come from in Alberta is common across the board. I am happy to have landed in a place where the environment is right for learning and I can focus on doing my best with a support team of friends and riders who are all on my team!

Finding the Feel

Published June 22, 2012 by gofullthrottle

Feel is often a mystical conception among dressage riders. Everybody has a different interpretation and preference. Since my feeling has come a very long way over the past 6 months I decided it was time to write about it.

I remember watching Anky’s half pas on Krack C and it almost appeared as though she didnt have any leg on her horse at all as he gallantly reached across stretching both legs to the max. Well I can say that I get it now.

When Welmingh arrived back from training he was so heavy in the hand that I could not even ride him in the snaffle. today I ride with mere ounces of contact in my reins. In order to do that, I have had to make Welmingh more accountable to my legs. He now responds to the leg with mere ounces of pressure as well. I am really enjoying the lightness of this ride. It enables me to carry my hands lower and for my aids to be completely effective and unnoticeable. The second he starts to get heavy again my hands rise up in order to balance the contact so its an indication that something is going on behind.

He is quieter in his mouth than he has ever been. I would imagine with limited pressure on the reins he is far more comfortable in his contact. The most amazing part of all of it is that he is carrying himself in true self carriage he is lifting from the shoulder when I apply a bit of leg, instead of burrowing into the contact. It is very much like night and day to ride. And quite exciting as he starts to develop a true extended trot for the first time.

I know that when I learned to ride dressage I was often told that I needed a heavier contact and the rule of thumb was 3 to 5 lbs. Today I am throwing out the rule book and riding my horse with lightness, feel and connection. And I LOVE it!

Going the distance

Published June 13, 2012 by gofullthrottle

I posted a video of my ride last week. Sadly I still feel like I have so far to go to get where I want to be. It is funny however, how the universe tells you what you need to hear. My friend Maureen who was by my side through my concussion, and my journey in getting back on my horse. A true friend as far as I am concerned because I am fully aware that even my cat deemed me a bad person on a few days where the pain was intolerable. She watched the video and said he looks nice and relaxed. And the comment stuck with me, I thought, “Why would she say that?  He is always relaxed. So random. Can’t she see how awesome his canter is? ” Well, the joke is on me.

Maureen is right. She is one of the few people that saw how he was going before he left. He was hot, tense and spooky. The tension was ruining the quality of the gaits and creating problems throughout the higher level movements. Before I left for Florida I had not yet ridden him on a long rein even in the arena when warming up and cooling him out.
So as I warmed up today in our 20 minute wander around the field on a long rein and a palm frong (palm tree branch) fell to the ground and I shortened my reins in anticipation of something bad happening, Welmingh continued to saunter along like this was no big deal. He has also become accustomed to large flocks of birds flying at head height.  And other random animals.

So she was right. He is very relaxed. And sometimes I need to look back to appreciate how far we have come instead of obsessing about how far I have to go.

Two steps forward and one back

Published May 25, 2012 by gofullthrottle

I havent posted a long post in a while so thought this would be a good time. For the first time in our partnership Welimingh is actually going better in the trot than the canter, thats progress I guess. The quality of the canter struggles with his balance and me expecting him to lift more through his shoulders in true self carriage. That will come with time. My biggest struggle this week has been that Susan asked me to lengthen my stirrups one hole. That means a quick adaptation is needed on my part in order to stay balanced. At first my lower left leg would not sit still. It drove me absolutely crazy to be so disconnected from my body.

A great friend of mine told me to close my eyes and ride it intuitively. So I sat in my bed and rode it. I feel like my balance is slightly more on my right seat bone than my left., when I addressed this with Susan today she suggested I am blocking through my hips somewhere. So the quick fix was to drop the weight in my left stirrup and open up and relax my pelvis and allow it to move with my horse. Today was better.

Susan says it takes 28 days to break a habit. I know that using sports psychology and visualization is as effective as riding itself. I am giving myself a week to be rid of this problem and back on track. I will keep you posted on who is right.

Changing to the new stable was a very good decision, they are very attentive with the care and have helped me with a lot of adaptation issues that have come up. Although the temperature has not gotten much hotter the humidity has certainly picked up. The other bonus to moving is having both Susan and Kim around as GP riders to bounce questions off of.

Its the first time in a long time that I have trained under a coach that is willing to help out or give advice when she is not under the clock. Such a novel and selfless concept. I was struggling with some canter pirouette exercises earlier this week and Susan was more than happy to offer a bit of advice, then we school it in the lesson. She is also willing to throw out a “that looks good” every once in a while as words of encouragement. I am very fortunate and happy to have found such a positive learning environment.

I am off to a “very special olympics party”  this weekend with some very big names in the horse world. I am told there will be ridiculous games like the egg and spoon race (no horses) for all of us to play. With this crew it is bound to be the most competitive egg and spoon race the world has ever seen so I will try to get some video.

Now I just need to decide what kind of cake to make!


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We need YOU!

Sustainable Renton is in a really great position at the moment, with a lot of momentum behind several projects

We have a successful monthly series of film screenings called Meaningful Movies-these are movies that challenge, educate, and enrich us.

Our community farm in NE Renton is really coming to life-seeds are being planted, pathways are being laid, a kid’s sandbox is in place. It is exciting to think of all the possibilities that lay ahead for this project.

And we now have a group working to develop a Renton Food Co-Op. This group sees the need for a local business that would be a focal community point highlighting local, organic, sustainable  food and products.

All of these projects require a lot of hard work from many people. Until now, a core group of individuals has been working diligently to get things rolling. But we are the point now where we need some further assistance in specific areas if we want to see the projects grow and thrive.

If you have experience in any of the following roles (or want to learn with us!), please contact us at sustainablerenton@gmail.com to find out more. Thank you for your support and encouragement. Together, we can achieve great things!

Volunteer coordinator. This role would entail recruiting volunteers to help for either the community farm or food co-op projects. Experience with volunteer recruitment with non-profits is preferred, but not required.

Grant-writing coordinator. This role would involve researching possible grants for both the community farm and the food co-op, and then writing grant proposals to be reviewed by the Sustainable Renton board. Experience with grant-writing is highly beneficial, but not required.

Fundraising coordinator. This role would involve working with the Sustainable Renton board to develop fundraising sources to support our projects-these sources could include events, private donors, matching donation programs. Experience with fundraising is preferred, but not required.

May Events @ Sustainable Renton

May is shaping up to be another busy month for Sustainable Renton. Please read below to find out more about the different meetings and activities happening throughout the month. Unless otherwise specified, all meetings happen at our offices at 970 Harrington Ave NE in Renton. There are so many great things happening-we’d love to make a space for you to come and get involved.

May 4 – Sustainable Renton Community Farm: Work Party;  10am-4pm. Location: 11840 148th Ave. S.E., Renton, Washington 98059. You can RSVP at the Facebook event page.

how_to_startMay 9 – Renton Food Co-op: Visioning Meeting; 7pm. You can RSVP at the Facebook event page.

May 16 – Sustainable Renton Board Meeting; 7pm.

May 31 – Meaningful Movies: Manufactured Landscapes; 7pm. You can RSVP at the Facebook event page.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.

This is a FREE event with a suggested donation of $5. Refreshments provided.


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Is there a doctor in the house?

Well, after my last post things have, in fact, been more quiet. I have shut up (at least a little bit).

Sweetie and I are blissfully, wonderfully, unscheduled and on a staycation/holiday break/hey-who-is-crispy-and-needs-some-down-time-yeah-its-me-cation. We are huddled up on the sofa, sleeping late, thrift store dwelling, and reading, reading, and reading. I have been visiting my favorite blogs, lurking mostly as usual, getting ready for Blog Comment Day which is tomorrow.

I am reading The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle, Take this Bread by Sara Miles and just finished Salvation on the Small Screen by the beautiful and fabulous Nadia Bolz-Weber. Wow, quite the smart lady line up. Totally not intentional, but really enjoy reading and connecting with the female voices that are swirling about in my brain. Each of these books I should, hope to and want to write a longer blog post about. If I don't – they are for sure on my you really should pick up a copy or ask to borrow mine reading list. All amazing. (And I am off to see them in Memphis, tomorrow.)

I feel like I am in the midst of something, and I am not sure what. Its like a sizemic shift of sorts, with a lot less drama and no discernable event to pin it on. I feel like the direction I am moving in is good, but am having a hard time letting go, forgiving myself (and others) of the past. I long to be a fresh slate, but at 37 that feels hardly possible, and besides there is some stuff that I really like about who I am. So, here are some of the symptoms that are presenting themselves, is there a doctor in the house?

  • The cold weather is rolling in and it seems all of the sudden I have permission to sit still, read and look a bit inward. I love it, and am feeling plagued by it.
  • I have been really good about getting on the elliptical at least every 3 days. Thats HUGE. And well, so am I, and I am over it.
  • Some days when reading over facebook, I literally have to beat the notion out of my head that I am the last kid standing on the playground, still left not being picked. I know that this is NOT true, and I tell myself this endlessly.
  • I love my new little church. I know I know, I have said it before. But remember, this is coming from the girl who has been engaged to be married – count em – 5 times before it finally stuck. But this church community *ugh* I am smitten. I have a crush. They are kind and sweet and adorable, and best of all they think I am too. (You like me? You really like me?)
  • Been seeing Doc Susan, who moves my Qi. She is brilliant and my body is beginning to respond to whatever was stuck. And something is/was stuck.
  • Heading into the season of over-packed schedules and frantic life, I am calm. At least I am right now. I think I can maintain this. I think it will take work and some hard conversations and more work to keep it this way, but I feel confident that this is the best thing for now.
  • I have thoughts, almost every day, about how much I wish I were different: I wish I were cooler, I wish I was not so flakey. I wish I had more money, I wish I could take care of the people I love better. I wish I were about 50 pounds lighter, I wish I could do something, anything, and stick to it. And then each day – I tell that asshole in my head – I can.

So tell me doctor – what is the diagnosis and is there a cure?

Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn't matter

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times,

Come, yet again, come, come.

    Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Sufi master)

12 thoughts on “Is there a doctor in the house?

  1. Different? Why in the world? You are who I love. Everything that you are is what makes up you and what makes me more and more smitten each and every day. I would not change a thing about you.
    Except for the miles between us.

  2. Rachel, you wonderfully and specifically describe our shared human condition. If humans could be honest, they would find themselves in your reflection… This, sadly, may be why you may often feel like the kid left alone on the playground. Most would rather be left alone to keep playing the game. The kids who want to think about the process of the games we play can find themselves on the outside looking in….no matter how weird, I’d rather be with those who are curious about the human process. I’m standing next to you, watching the games. Let’s hold hands 🙂

  3. Oooh, I’ve read two of those books (smart women, indeed) and loved them. Haven’t read The Great Emergence.
    But glad to know I am not the only one who feels, at times, like that kid on the playground. Thanks for the great post.

  4. This doctor says turn those wish statements around from what you don’t want to what you do want.
    Broken record broken record broken record la la la la la.
    I still have to work on it every day, but my science experiment with the law of attraction and a mindset of “I CAN have what I want!” is what brought you in to my life, so I’m sold!
    And I love you just as you are more than you know, so … ask the doctor all you want but listen to your heart–and mine : )

  5. Rachel… I’ve been reading evening prayer for Advent, and here are the words to the opening psalm each night:
    I call upon you, O Lord; come quickly to me;
    give ear to my voice when I call to you.
    Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
    and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
    Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord;
    keep watch over the door of my lips.
    This reminds me of your previous post… and it sounds as if it’s a prayer already answered…
    Peace to you!

  6. Oh what a wonderful post. The doctor says: you would not be the lovely glorious slate you are if you were a fresh one.
    And your comment about Facebook made me laugh – as you know I recently joined and every time I’ve contacted someone to say “be my friend” I’ve been plagued by thoughts that they won’t want to.
    Human condition indeed!
    And I hadn’t heard that particular piece of Rumi. I absolutely adore it – may have to borrow it…

  7. *sigh* Rae, how I adore you.
    But re: being picked…you’re standing there, wondering why there aren’t many people in front of you to “pick” you, nervously chewing a nail, shifting your weight from foot to foot.
    Look behind you, love. Your team is already assembled.

  8. i love the honesty in this blog post, rachel. but remember not to be so hard on yourself. we are all carrying around crosses, it’s just that some of us are better at hiding it. 🙂

  9. I have thoughts, almost every day, about how much I wish I were different:
    If you were different, you wouldn’t be YOU, and we love YOU.
    I wish I were cooler..uh, you live in Minnesota..if you were any cooler, you’d be in the Artic!
    I wish I was not so flakey.
    Flakey isn’t a bad thing. It show you have discriminating tastes..and tastes change! *lol*
    I wish I had more money
    What would you do with the money? Buy things? They are just THINGS. Buy things for other people? They are still just THINGS. Money is just a THING.
    I wish I could take care of the people I love better.
    Define “better”? And then tell me why you CAN’T do that? Seems it’s not a wish, but a mission statement in the making.
    I wish I were about 50 pounds lighter
    And then there would be less of you to love…and we love ALL of you, even that 50 lbs!
    I wish I could do something,f anything, and stick to it.
    See mission statement comment above.
    Love you dearie!

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Movie Trailer Monday: Divergent

I was wrong about The Host. I was wrong about Pacific Rim. I was excited for both and predicted that they would do big box office numbers. And I wasn’t just wrong. I was wrong on a level of epic proportions. The wrongest of wrongs. The Host bombed and had such awful reviews that I chose not to watch it and let it ruin the book for me. Pacific Rim was awesome and has produced decent enough numbers that there will most likely be a sequel. But it didn’t even touch Iron Man 3 and it’s success.

Which leads me to today’s new trailer, Divergent. I have mentioned the book before as one of my favorites, right behind The Hunger Games. The movie will be released in March 2014. It is set in the future where society is divided into five factions: Amity (peaceful), Erudite (scholarly), Abnegation (selfless), Candor (honest), and Dauntless (fearless). When our heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) takes the test to find out what faction she is best suited for, the results show that she is Divergent. This translates to her not fitting into just one faction, which is rare. She must keep this a secret for her safety and chooses Dauntless. She becomes a part of a group of teens that may or may not take fit into an evil plan.

The preview premiered last night during the MTV Video Music Awards. There are high expectations for this film and it’s eventual sequels. I’m hoping against hope that it will be the “next” Hunger Games and not the “next” Twilight. I’m afraid to make a prediction about the film’s quality and success so let’s just say I will have my fingers crossed.

Blu-ray or theater: I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I am a young adult book junkie. I will most likely be there opening weekend, sporting a t-shirt proclaiming my faction (Candor).

Have a great week!

Making a mad dash for the happy. Stay hydrated my friends.

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