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Stories of miraculous healing are associated with the Spanish colonial church El Santuario de Chimayo, located in the foothills 28 miles north of Santa Fe.

And it’s all in the dirt.

Or so legend goes.

Actually there are numerous variations of legends associated with this National Historic Landmark. All point to the elusive, miraculous properties of the local soil. Pilgrims take away 25-30 tons each year, to rub on their bodies and even injest in a quest for healing. Each year over 300,000 people will make a pilgrimage to this small adobe church.

But my travels this day were not in search of a miracle, but in search of photographs.

Chimayo scenes

Scenes from Chimayo and environs

I’ve been in and out of Chimayo since I first house sat in Truchas in the mid 1990’s for Alvaro Cardona Hines and his wife Barbara McCauley. But today’s quest was strictly photographic. My previous forays had resulted in a photos, but I wasn’t satisfied with them. Time for some instruction.

David Hoptman who runs Santa Fe Photo Creative Workshops led this foray into Chimayo. David is an artist. Over the last 30 years he has worked with publications such as Architectural Digest and created thousands of pieces of photographic, print, bronze and visual art. This day, David was my guide to help me expand my photographic perspectives.

Click Here To Visit The Chimayo Photo Gallery

As an artist, he talked in detail about shape and composition in a way that I only intuited. We trampsed through the high desert, through town and along the roadside, in a quest to learn and to see with an artist’s eye. And there is more to Chimayo than initially meets the eye.

El Santuario de Chimayo

The main entrance to El Santuario de Chimayo

El Santuario de Chimayo is the heart and soul of the village, the epicenter of the annual pilgrimage. The initial construction of the church dates back to 1813. But dating back to the 12th century, the Pueblo people inhabited the area.

The village has carried a healing mystique for hundreds of years. The Tewa Indians believed that land was shared with spirits and their healing powers were revealed via nearby hot springs, which later dried up. They called the area “Tsi-Mayoh,” after one of the nearby hills.

The Spanish also became part of the healing legacy of Chimayo.  After the Pueblo revolt of 1680, the Spanish returned under Diego de Vargas. It is here that the various legends surrounding this pilgrimage site take root. One has Don Bernardo Abeyta seeing a beam of light coming out of the nearby hills. Following the light, he dug in the ground, unearthing a crucifix.

He gave the crucifix to the priest who in turn brought it back to his church in Santa Cruz. But the following morning, the crucifix had mysteriously disappeared and reappeared in Chimayo. This happened again. And again.

And so the legend of El Sanctuario de Chimayo took root.

The church is made of adobe and wood, with two bell towers, each topped off with a metal cross, criss-crossed with tiny white lights. A walled garden provides a place to linger.

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Adobe and wood are used for the belfries and main body of the church

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The courtyard outside the church.

Inside is a mix of Spanish and Indian folk art decor. One wall is covered in images of gratitude for healing: discarded canes, wheel chairs and braces point to the site’s deep and rich healing legacy.

The church was purchased by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society in Santa Fe (you can visit this museum on Museum Hill) in 1929. The Society then donated the property to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

Traditional Chimayo Weavings

There is more to the legacy of this town than the healing history of El Santuario de Chimayo.

In addition to the religious significance of the village, Chimayo is also known for its tradition of weavings. One family run business, Ortega Weavings, sits on a corner at the edge of town. Here nine generations of weavers provide customized rugs, blankets and clothing.

Rugs and clothing are still woven on traditional looms in Chimayo.

Ortega’s dates back to the early 1700’s when Chimayo was part of New Spain. It started as a means of survival: people needed clothes, blankets and even mattresses. Over time with the introduction of the railroad in the mid 1800’s, trade emerged as the isolated Spanish and Native American cultures started to interact with the Americans.

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Other local families and artisans also offer a rich tradition of weaving: Trujillo’s just around the corner has beautiful hand loomed articles and an equally rich history in the woven arts. And up the road towards Truchas, Centinella Traditional Arts offers an array of clothing, rugs and other woven items from local artisans. I found a stunning orange woven, over-the-head-shawl (for lack of a better description) at this shop, in a back room among the looms and yarn.

Each shop is special and they’re all worth a visit, for the history and the creativity of woven art.

Weaving in Chimayo

A loom at Centinella Traditonal Arts

Chimayo Chile

A story about New Mexico wouldn’t be a story without a tale of chile.

A bit of everything and something for everyone lurks in Medina’s Gallery and Cafe in Chimayo

Chimayo, naturally, has it’s own chile cultivar. The Chimayo Heirloom Chile has been passed down through the generations of farmers in the area. Because the pods are small, they are more difficult to process and thus more expensive. The unique, rich and earthy flavor of this Chile is highly prized and available in numerous places including the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market.

El Potrero Trading Post in Chimayo

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El Potrero Trading Post, located near the church, offers a variety of items, ranging from artwork to religious artifacts. On the chile front, the store offers Chimayo Heirloom, Sandia, Big Jim and Lumbre varieties. Chile may be processed in the oven or sun-dried. The sun dried chile is the most prized. This time intensive process produces a chile orange in tone, and rich in flavor. But try them all…you won’t be disappointed!

Rancho De Chimayo

Every good adventure requires sustenance, and Rancho De Chimayo just outside of the village is the perfect place to stop for lunch.

Home made tamales with red and green Chile at Rancho De Chimayo

Rancho de Chimayo was awarded the James Beard Foundation America’s Classics Award in 2016 for their attention to the history and rich culture of New Mexican food. The food is local, simple and delicious. The story behind the restaurant is one of family heritage, hard work and perseverance. Should you find yourself in Chimayo, this is well worth a culinary visit.

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The traditions of Rancho De Chimayo have been captured in a book by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison:

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Situated just 30 miles north of Santa Fe off the High Road to Taos, the highly acclaimed Rancho de Chimayo Restaurant has been serving traditional New Mexican cuisine in a beautiful setting for half a century. The atmosphere at this traditional Spanish hacienda, surrounded by mountains, is rivaled only by the fine, native cooking served in the grand early tradition by generations of the Jaramillo family. In 1991 the restaurant published a modest paperback cookbook for their silver anniversary. Twenty-five years and 50,000 copies later comes this beautiful new edition, just in time for the 50th anniversary celebrations. All recipes are completely revised and updated, with more than twenty delectable new dishes added. As an extra bonus, the book also features charming archival images as well as stunning full-color food and location photography, making this a beautiful keepsake of a special place as well as a mealtime companion to turn to again and again.

Getting There

Take the time to take a tour of the back roads of northern New Mexico. Starting at Santa Fe, head up to Chimayo and stop for lunch. From there continue up to Taos, taking the High Road. Stop, linger and absorb the incredible scenery. En route, Truchas is stunning and filled with small art galleries. And Taos offers an array of artistic, outdoor and historic things to do ranging from hiking to Indian Pueblo dances, depending on the time of the year. And don’t forget Taos ski valley or the hot springs and mineral waters of Ojo Caliente after a long day on the slopes.

Whatever you decide to do, whatever the season,  it’s a great road trip, worthy of a bit of adventure and exploration.

The High Road To Taos, Chimayo

The High Road to Taos

“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The High Road To Taos, Chimayo

The High Road to Taos, as it passes through Truchas

Click Here To Visit The Chimayo Photo Gallery

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The Dangerous Search for Truth

Jeremy Renner in the Focus Features release "Kill the Messenger" (2014)

Jeremy Renner in the Focus Features release “Kill the Messenger” (2014)

This weekend I went to the Cape Cinema in Dennis to watch Kill the Messenger, a movie that was only playing in that one movie theater, (a fact that was appealing since lately it seems only the same three or four movies play in rotation at each of the Cape’s art house cinemas). I knew almost nothing about the film, but I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Let me rephrase that; actually I did not really “enjoy” the movie so much as I was enraged by the story it told.

Kill the Messenger, based on the book Dark Alliance and directed by Michael Cuesta, tells the story of San Jose Mercury News journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner), who broke the story of CIA involvement in trafficking cocaine in order to fund the rebels in Nicaragua, and subsequent complicity in the development of a crack epidemic in African-American communities in the United States, including South Central Los Angeles. The story takes place in the late 1990s, a time in which the impact of these illegal and immoral tactics had been deeply felt in inner cities across the country for some time. It’s also a climate of “tough on crime” drug law enforcement that goes beyond the pale with high rates of imprisonment, draconian forfeiture laws, and little focus on rehabilitation or prevention. Webb’s story, which relied on government documents as well as interviews with criminals who were apparently working with the CIA, clearly enraged people in the black community and put the CIA on the defensive, but where this story gets most fascinating is in its portrayal of how others in the media reacted to Webb’s reporting.

The film offers a strong critique of the media and its uneasy alliances with Washington at the upper echelons, and the lack of journalistic integrity at the San Jose Mercury News when Webb worked there and was completely abandoned by them, to tragic results.

Webb’s story is about searching for the truth, but more so, it is about what happens when you find the truth. The larger story of the CIA’s involvement in peddling crack embodies this theme, but the film’s discussion of truth extends to a whole range of subplots, characters, and circumstances, from the CIA agent who feels the need to unburden his conscience with a late-night, off-the-record confession to Webb to Webb’s own tragic past indiscretions, which he confesses to his son (played marvelously by Lucas Hedges) in one of the most heartbreaking scenes in this difficult story.

Renner’s portrayal of the embattled journalist is a game-changer in terms of his career. He gives us a man torn between deeply held values and rage, love for his family and ambition, honor and pride. His Webb is rough around the edges, and as the drama unfolds, he becomes increasingly unhinged, but always in a way that feels real and justifiable.

Kill the Messenger shook me to the bone, and I stayed in the theater longer than usual at the end of the screening, trying to sort out the injustices it conveyed. I was also trying to keep from pulling my hair out and either screaming in rage or crying in despair.

The truths we seek and the ones we hide from say something about who we are. This is as true for individuals as it is for communities, and by extension, governments and countries. Much of Webb’s original story has since been vindicated, but as the film tells us in its postscript, that fact was never fully acknowledged because it was revealed in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But also, perhaps, it was never given the editorial space it deserved for the same reasons editors at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times focused their attention back in 1996 on discrediting the reporter who scooped them rather than on investigating the earth shattering revelations in his reporting.


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Video Interface with LVDS Input for Toyota Camry of 2018– MY with Fujitsuten Head Unit

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Short Review. This device allows to connect additional video sources, such as a rear view camera, to the OEM car monitor. Equipped with parking guidelines function (PAS).

Car video interface is used to connect additional video devices, for example, navigation boxes, front view cameras or rear view cameras, smartphone mirroring adapter to the OEM monitor. This device is compatible with Toyota Camry of 2018 and the following model years, equipped with Fujitsuten multimedia system with 7" monitor.

Video interface offers simple and convenient switching between connected sources using OEM buttons.

The most frequently asked questions about video interfaces.

  • Built-in parking assistance function (PAS)
  • High image quality thanks to LVDS input
  • Simple and convenient switching between connected sources using OEM buttons
  • Automatic display of the image from the rear view or front view camera (depends on the gear)
  • Compact size and easy installation

Technical Specifications

  • Inputs
    • Analog RGB (for navigation boxes) × 1
    • LVDS (for navigation and additional video sources) × 1
    • CVBS (for rear view camera) × 1
    • CVBS (for front view camera) × 1
  • Outputs
    • LCD (for LCD screen) × 1
  • Mode switching
    • OEM button through CAN bus
    • possible to switch between AV sources with DIP S/W
  • General
    • Input voltage 8-24 V DC
    • Consumed power 12 W
    • Dimensions: 159 × 83 × 22 mm

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The photo is provided for reference only. Appearance of the control panel and monitor may slightly differ depending on the car model.

Package Contents

  • Main video interface box
  • Sub-board
  • LVDS sub-board
  • Mounting elements
  • OSD keyboard
  • Connection cables

If you have questions concerning this product or want to share your experience of its installation or application, visit our forum.

*Product package content and appearance may differ from those presented on the website and depend on video interface version. Please, ask sales manager before purchase.

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Resolutions 2016: Bernie

Hi there, friends! Well, as they say, all good things must come to an end, yeah? Sadly, that is the case today as far as guest posts for my Resolutions series are concerned. But we’re ending on a pretty excellent note with the return of a good friend of mine, Miss Brittney! Now the name may not ring a bell, but for those of you who have been with me for a long while, this might: waaaayyyy back in 2013 when I first started my NOOOOvember series, a lady who called herself HoneyB wrote about how disappointed she was by Get Him to the Greek. Well, surprise! HoneyB was totally Brittney. She doesn’t have a blog that I can promote, but I will say that I’ve known her for years, she’s been a longtime movie buddy, and she’s a pretty rockin’ chick. So heed her opinion because she totally knows what she’s talking about. Anyway, let’s see what Brittney thought of her resolution!

I admit that I was hesitant about watching this film, not because of the actors or the story, but simply because people kept telling me to watch it. Now this isn’t to say that I don’t love a good suggestion, but the past few times people had hyped something up for me, I have found myself to be very disappointed from a mixture of inflated expectations and the fact that some of the people I know tend to have questionable taste from time to time, haha. However, I kept finding Bernie make its way to the front of my “Top Picks for Brittney” tab on Netflix, so I gave in and said what the hell? I had a couple hours to spare, so why not. Just a forewarning, there are spoilers ahead, sooooo if you’re the kind of person who can’t watch a movie after being told major details, then I suggest you get thee to a Netflix account, red box, antiquated video store, etc and watch this and then come back and read because there’s just no way to discuss this film without some major plot points being revealed :). Let’s get to it, y’all.

My trusty IMDb synopsis: In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp.

What I Loved:

  • JACK FUCKING BLACK. I pretty much always love Jack Black in anything he does, but this film was a really interesting new color on him. He played Bernie Tiede with a lovely balance of innocence, quirk, sweetness, with just a hint of trouble. Now, if you happened to be well-read on the subject of the film, the murder of 80-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in 1996, then you’d know that Bernie is supposed to be the one you root against. I mean, he murdered an old lady. But what I love about Black is that he made Bernie so much more than that. He actually gets you, or at least he got me, to kind of root for him a little bit. He gives Bernie this quality that makes you empathize with him and even though you know how the story has to turn out, you kind of hope no one finds out it was him (especially after some points I discuss later).
  • The story and its execution. What I mean by this is that Linklater took a real murder story and trial and not only turned its already bizarre happenings into something that flowed nicely, but he also did this really cool concept where he spliced the events of the film with interview vignettes from both actors and real people who knew Bernie that really gave it this more personal feel. He didn’t do this in a way that would normally annoy me either and honestly, most of the vignettes are pretty freaking hilarious.
  • The fact that you wind up kinda loving Bernie. I love that you wind up, or at least in my case, siding with Bernie. Pretty much if you don’t know the basis of this story, Bernie is this mild mannered mortician at a funeral home that is super friendly and extremely present in the community. He volunteers, he does community theatre productions, he’s a worship leader at his church, he’s pretty much everyone’s favorite person. So when he starts hanging around the curmudgeon older Marjorie Nugent, who is pretty much the epitome of bitch, people think that it’s really nice of him and being around him seems to soften her rather rough edges. However, you see that softness start to fade as she begins to slowly break down Bernie’s spirit. She constantly abuses him both verbally and emotionally and taking into account that he was abused as a child, this proves to be too much after awhile and he snaps, having a dissociative episode as he shoots Marjorie, killing her. And see, that’s not something you’re supposed to side with, but I found that between Shirley MacLaine’s surly and amazing performance as Nugent and Jack Black’s organic and heartfelt performance, that it was almost too hard to not hate her and to love him and I love that this film could do that.
  • Matthew McConaughey being a pain in the ass. This might seem like a weird reason to love a film, but I found that I loved seeing McConaughey in this role because he wasn’t playing a bullshit character, but he was playing one that is on the right side of the law that you still manage to kinda dislike. He portrays district attorney Danny Buck Davidson who tries the case against Bernie for the prosecution. He basically spearheads a lot of the discoveries of Bernie murdering Nugent, attempting to cover it up, and basically is suspicious of Bernie the whole time and throughout the film, I found that I was constantly hoping he would just mind his own business and leave well enough alone, which we know he can’t do. I mean, damn, the man is just doing his job and yet, you’re still kind of rooting against the guy even though he’s right. Also, Davidson is the main crusader in charging Bernie with first degree murder because he felt like intent was premeditated, a point of contention throughout the trial (which was later overturned because of the evidence presented that he had indeed been abused as a child and had a mental break during the murder). McConaughey brought something refreshing to this role that I really loved for him as an actor. It had a sense of humor to it, even though his character is constantly serious, which is what makes it so funny because he’s not hitting us with shtick like his earlier roles used to do.
  • I’m still deciding how I feel. I love films that constantly make you think, even after it’s over. One of the biggest arguments of the case is that Bernie killed her for her money because she lavishly spent on him and for trips they would go on. A lot of people thought that even though she had done this, that he didn’t really care that much about the money; more so, he had very little freedom from Nugent as she became increasingly clingy, possessive, and downright nasty, and he felt like he had started to suffocate, which caused his snap. Now, I tend to side more with the latter, but the beauty of this film is that both are presented to you so you can decide for yourself.

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What I Didn’t Like:

  • The outcome. What’s nice about this is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the film. The lines between right and wrong get so blurred in this film that it makes you question the legal system and the true meaning of justice.

This literally never happens with me, but I honestly don’t have any critiques on this film. The directing, acting, cinematography, and script are so on point that I have very little that I did not enjoy about this film. It kept me so engaged the whole time, it was a perfect length, and had everything I look for in a film, so I am grateful once again for Netflix’s genius in constantly suggesting it until I finally gave in and boy, am I glad I did.

What I give this film: a solid A :).

Many thanks to you, Brittney! I love bringing people I know in real life to my blog. It’s like worlds colliding in a really awesome way. And thanks to ALL of you who participated in Resolutions! I’m going to be giving you a proper thank you when this series ends, but there are a couple posts of my own I want to get out before I call it a wrap–which won’t be this week, actually. I had every intention to finish this week, but…well, life. Haha. But expect another resolution from me on Friday and one more next week. See ya then! 🙂

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  1. Very cool to have someone from your “real life” contribute to your blog. And she picked a fine movie to discuss. Bernie is wonderfully quirky and indeed does all the things Brittney says it does. Great post.

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St Fagans

The Ely Trail to St Fagans

Whilst we are not exactly overflowing with safe cycle routes here in Cardiff, one that we do have is the Ely Trail.

From the Cardiff side of the Pont-y-Werin Bridge it is possible to get to the Museum of Welsh Life without dealing with too much traffic. However, it’s not exactly well signposted, unless you have the eyesight of an eagle.

The Route

The trail starts off quite well, leading you through Grangemoor Park, across Penarth Road and onto a path sandwiched between the A4232 and the Ely river.

However, once you pass under the A4232 a second time things start to get a little more confusing. Entering Sanitorium Park the trail splits off in a number of directions, however it isn’t signposted so it is wise to keep heading generally left-ish!

Hopefully you will end up at the far end of Sanitorium Road and onto Paper Mill Road. Here you’ll need to dismount and carry your bike over the railway bridge and onto Lansdowne Road.

Unfortunately, this is where it is easy to get lost. From the crossing on Lansdowne Road, the eagle-eyed among you may notice a tiny blue sticker on a lamp-post across the road and a little way down Mayfield Avenue. This is where you need to go.

Take a left onto Windway Avenue followed by a right onto Windway Road. Then, turn left onto Ely Road followed by an almost immediate right onto Lloyd Avenue. Ignore the dead-end sign, it doesn’t apply to us. At the end of the street, take the path down to the A48 junction where you can use the crossings (or re-join the road) and head along Waungron Road.

As you pass under the railway, take a left onto St Fagans Road followed by the 2nd right onto Norbury Road leading to Finchley Road and Bwlch Road. At the end of Bwlch Road, head straight onto Landwade Close where you’ll spot a path leading off to the right.

This last section is a metalled track that gets a bit rough in places, but we’ve done it on 28mm tyres on a cyclocross bike, so not too much to worry about. Eventually you’ll find yourself on a main road, where you need to turn left followed by right onto the Museum of Welsh Life site.

Helpfully, Nick Russill has produced a video of the route compressed into a handy three minutes:

There’s parking for 10 bikes at the time of writing, but there are refurbishment works going on and there’s a temporary entrance, so parking provision may change with time.

Some thoughts

The Ely Trail is a bit of a mess. It’s not well signposted; it’s confusing in places and much of it takes you through areas we really wouldn’t want to visit alone at night. On a lazy Sunday afternoon it is ok, but that’s about it. The surfaces are generally poor, with roughly half of it metalled path and the other half normal road, so if it is wet, expect to get a bit mucky if you don’t have mudguards.

If you don’t mind dealing with traffic, taking Pencisely Road and St Fagans Road all the way is much more direct and far better lit at night.

The question of whether the route is suitable for a road bike often seems to come up. However, whilst road bikes are capable of dealing with far more variable terrain than we give them credit for and can easily deal with the gravel on the Ely Trail, we’d be more inclined to stick to St Fagans Road. It’s more direct and the asphalt is in pretty good condition.

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  1. I agree with your write-up on this route that forms part of one of my commute routes. Took me a couple of tries to find it without any wrong turns, and most of the route is less than enjoyable busy roads, potholed backstreets and minimal actual enjoyment of the River Ely that makes brief appearances along the way.

    Occasional interest is added thanks to rabid dogs (and owners), kids with airguns and broken bottles at the end of Bwlch Road.

    The trail could be improved by (1) missing out Sanatorium Road and building a new route that follows the river, under Ely Bridge – not that crazy since there is a huge building project going on there now (2) improving the almost non-existent signage (3) educating dog owners that unless there is nobody within 10 miles of them, they should keep their beasts on a lead.

    1. As a dog owner and a cyclist we need to remember it’s a shared space, so many tourist get lost in Bwlch Road just now a foreign couple were looking for a spar shop on this route and insisted on going under the rail way line to go along the river tried to explain the route ….. We’ve not been to St Fagans for a while do the have a route map near the back racks ?

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Undoing Depression

Undoing Depression

What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You

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Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O'Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O'Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. Relying on these methods to make it through each day, we deprive ourselves of true recovery, of deep joy and healthy emotion.

UNDOING DEPRESSION teaches us how to replace depressive patterns with a new and more effective set of skills. We already know how to "do" depression-and we can learn how to undo it. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, O'Connor offers new hope-and new life-for sufferers of depression.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN: 9780316043410
Characteristics: 374 p. ;,21 cm.

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Aug 07, 2013

This is the first book I've read on depression and yes, agree totally with other users comment: it is very refreshing and liberating.
I have made many notes and there will be a few post-it notes dotted around the house & in my diary. A very useful read for sufferers and those who have loved ones suffering from depression. Explains a lot of things you might be experiencing / observing and also helps with ways to tackle things.

Dec 29, 2010

I thought this was an excellent book. It doesn't provide a "step by step" guide but just by putting so well into words the way depression feels is quite refreshing and liberating

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The Journey Begins

My life changed on October 22, 1997.  That was the day I was thrown into the role of full time caregiver and it felt like my life was turned upside down.  Just two weeks prior to that day, I had undergone outpatient surgery and was just starting to feel recovered myself.  It was a beautiful October day.  My two sons,  had finished their homework and went outside to play ball.  I decided to take a quick nap before starting dinner.  That’s when I heard Clara yelling for help.  She fell and broke her arm which left her almost immobile.  As if a broken bone wasn’t bad enough, she broke her arm right about where it meets the shoulder.  A cast was not possible so a sling was put on and it was stressed that she had to keep that arm completely immobile.  It was her right arm and she was right handed.

As we got back home that night from the emergency room, Clara was filled with fear, mainly that she would move her arm without meaning too.  Clara’s eyesight had already put certain limitations on what she felt she could do, and now she sat paralyzed with fear to even move.  I was embarrassed when Clara asked me to undress her and put her pajamas on, but my compassion for her outweighed my embarrassment.  I was ever so careful as I slipped off her clothes, put her pj’s on, then helped her into bed.  The next morning, I was over early to help her back out of bed and to her sofa.  I tested her sugar level as I had been doing regularly and then got her syringe of insulin out of the refrigerator.  Clara said she needed both hands to give herself the injection; one hand to grab a fleshy part of her belly, and the other hand the give the injection.  Since she only had use of one hand, Clara said I would have to give the injection.  I have to admit, the thought of it made me very nervous and I’m not normally a nervous person.  Flashbacks of the session with the nurse during the injection lessons came to mind and I visualized the nurse standing over me like she had with Clara insisting that I give the injection.  I also remembered that my injection hurt, and my biggest fear was hurting Clara.  I was still having a hard time each morning poking her finger tip to get a drop of blood for the monitor to test her sugar level; I would apologize profusely each time.  Now I had to add an injection to my guilt.  I took a deep breath, gently grabbed a fatty piece of her belly and gave the injection.  When finished I sighed with relief and announced, “It’s done.”  Ever so sweetly, Clara said, “You have a gentle touch, I didn’t even feel it.”  I wasn’t sure if she was being truthful or not, but it gave me the confidence I needed for the evening shot and took a bit of the guilt away as to whether I was hurting her.  That morning is when I realized my life took a drastic turn.  Clara felt comfortable holding her cup of coffee and sipping it, but was afraid to feed herself.  Again, it was a bit awkward to feed my mother-in-law like a toddler, but compassion was a good motivator to get me beyond myself.  After feeding her and cleaning up the dishes, I went back to my portion of the house, but left the door open so I could easily hear Clara if she needed to yell for me.

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The Caregiver ‘Club’

Most of us have observed either in real life or on television two older men meeting for the first time with a bit of awkwardness.  Once it is discovered that they both are veterans, an instant rapport appears.  No matter how different their lives are or their backgrounds, there is a commonality between them.  Someone that may stumble across these two men minutes after their initial meeting could easily assume they have been friends for years by the ease of their conversation.  These men that just met could share stories and experiences that they may have not even shared with their own family members.  I have never served in the military or have fought a war, but I have experienced a similar phenomenon because of my role as a caregiver.

When I would meet a fellow caregiver, an instant rapport appears.  As a result, I could candidly speak of the range of emotions that I’ve experienced as a caregiver without fear of being judged.  To try to have that same conversation with someone that never had to step into that role, there are too many things you have to try to explain.  If you talk about your frustrations, it is interpreted as whining.  Often a conversation with a non-caregiver about the rigors of being a caregiver, results in the non caregiver offering sympathies to you for a role they wonder if they are capable of fulfilling.  That same conversation with a fellow caregiver, often results in laughter as you swap your ‘war stories.’

Through my own experience, I learned things about myself that at times made me feel proud and other times ashamed.  I used to think that anyone could be a caregiver, it was just a matter of stepping up to the plate when needed, but I’m not so sure anymore.  You do not have to be a superwoman to be a caregiver, but you do have to be willing to put portions of your own life on hold.  At times I could do that cheerfully, other times with resentment.  The funny thing is, I never liked the scary rides at the amusement park, and the most dreaded to me was the rollercoaster.  Those few times I was coaxed into getting onto the rollercoaster, I would have to keep telling myself it would be over in a couple of minutes.  Yet, here I was in the role of a full time caregiver, daily riding a rollercoaster of emotions with no way of knowing how long it would last.  Some days I felt braver than others.

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My caregiver story

 PART TWO of MY STORY (Continued from Part One of My Story. )

Back to my story…so my mom was in the rehab hospital working on various kinds of therapy.  She had had a massive stroke on the left side of her brain, which left her right-side paralyzed along with 100% loss of her speech. I went to the hospital everyday, to spend time with her, sit in on her therapy sessions, and meet with various doctors and therapists about her progress.  Meanwhile, I was also running around crazy, trying to get legal documents in place, social security disability, her work pension, fighting her insurance to get the best care, and just about a million other things that needed to be taken care of.  While there was a war going on in Iraq; I felt like I was in my own war- at home.

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Hello Caregivers!

Phew- I don’t even know where to start.  ok, so my name is Sara.  I am a 32 year old caregiver to my mom. I am starting this blog because I myself have had a really hard time finding any great online support out there for caregivers.  I would search and search and find forums that were so scarce – it looked like an online ghosttown!  What is going on?  I know there are soooooo many of you out there.  So with that said I hope you will find me.  I have been through it so I want to help any caregivers out there that I can AND I know I will learn from you guys as well.

So, onto my story…. My mom had a massive stroke almost a year ago.  I was living out west in Arizona, working, dating- living and loving my life, then….I got the phone call.  Yeah, you know the one.  Like me, I am SURE you still remember exactly where you were, what you were doing, and how in seconds- literally- your entire world fell apart.  I swear, I can still feel that feeling through my whole body when I think about it.  So, there I was, in a state of complete and total lunacy- getting on a plane with one suitcase- home to Connecticut.  Guess what?  I never went back. (more…)

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Wednesday is Intl Walk to School Day (but you can walk/ride all month)

Walk to School, KidsWe’re kicking off Walk to School Month on Wednesday at our kids elementary school with some hot beverages and tasty snacks on the playground.

If you’re so inclined, and with a few modifications to the 7 day plan,  you too can pull off a last-minute event. All you need is some enthusiasm, a few signs, some warm bodies and maybe some food and drink. Continue reading


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Chiyogami, Katazome, Urushi, Tsumugi, Satogami – all these are names for Japanese papers, summarized as „washi“ in Japanese. The Japanese classify many things like life style, food or paper in two main categories: those originating in Japan (wa) and those from the Western hemisphere (yo). Thus, washi basically means all papers made in Japan, regardless of being hand-made or machine-made.

We have been selling white Japanese papers for a long time which have since been expanded. There are machine-made sheets like Genshi, which is suitable for all kinds of printing. We sell paper rolls such as Kozu and Unryo, which are mainly used for manufacturing the typical Shoji walls. And we stock very fine, hand-made and air-dried, acid free papers like Kizuki or Nishino, consisting of 100% domestic Kozu, satisfying the highest standards for restoration and Fine Arts.

The silkscreen-printed Chiyogami papers exist in an overwhelming variety of patterns and colour combinations in Japan. Right from the beginning we made a special selection from this exuberance, nevertheless, showing all aspects of that brilliant paper. There are minimalistic-geometrical patterns, playful-tiny motifs or gorgeous ornamental designs. We regularly enlarge our range searching for new Chiyogami which are as yet unknown in Europe. Moreover, we stock a wide range of original Chiyogami sample booklets, from which we can do extra orders.

Similar patterns can be found in Katazome papers. These are printed in Kyoto where all the Chiyogami studios are located too. However, Katazome has a different appearance. Its base paper is a hand-made Kozu which can easily be recognized by the deckle-edges. The printing process of Katazome is very intricate due to a mixture of stencil and silk screen print. Within our range we also carry some custom-made papers which are printed exclusively for CARTA PURA. Katazome can be used for the same purpose as Chiyogami: as cover material, Origami, decoration and – for very special gifts – also as wrapping paper.

Some years ago our hand-printed assortment was added to with another high quality silk-screen print: a lacquer paper called Urushi. Typically, it is a red lacquer pattern which is fixed on the black surface print. CARTA PURA additionally produces sheets with black lacquer patterns, resulting in a sophisticated black-on-black design. In Japan Urushi is popular as cover material not only for boxes, but also for trays and tins, books and albums.

Concerning the machine-made section of single-coloured Japanese papers we distribute two different materials. First, the so-called Satogami with a weight of 80 g/qm, a solid yet smooth paper with a small percentage of bamboo. The colours have a slightly cloudy appearance and the surface offers a mat, velvet touch. We use this paper as cover for note books, cases and boxes. Our bookbinder customers also value this multi-purpose paper available in 24 interesting shades.

The second paper is called Tsumugi, it also has 24 tones which are stronger and brighter. The surface has an embossing similar to Japanese silk fabric, giving the paper a textile appearance. With its 140 g/qm it is suitable for all coating purposes. It is frequently applied as background for photo arrangements. We use this sturdy paper as cover for the CARTA PURA diaries.

Besides the full size sheets we sell most of the afore mentioned papers also as Origami-Set: Satogami and two different compilations of both Chiyogami and Katazome. Usually, Origami-sets are made out of inferior rest cuts, assorted according colour. CARTA PURA, however, cuts the complete large sheet down to 15 x 15 cm, arranging the papers subject to paper families and fixing the cuts with a stripe of white Kozu. Mostly, these small paper collections are used for Origami, but they are also suitable for collage and scrap books.


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Reading: WPA Slave Narratives Collection

Okay, so one of the things about The Antares Project is that, as it’s an alternate universe, there are some key changes to the world’s social and economic structures that I’m having to take some time to think through, research, and plan out. One of those is that, with the American South coming back under control of the British Empire in 1815 (as the Dominion of American States), slavery then ends with the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, the same that ended slavery in the West Indies, South Africa, and Canada.

But what does that do? What does it mean for the shape of that nation? Emancipation thirty years earlier than we had it affects a lot — what are the job prospects for the ex-slaves? (Especially since I’m introducing things like automatons as a new technology taking over a lot of manual labor). Do they stay in their home counties or move elsewhere? Do any re-patriate to Africa? (By the 1860s, almost all slaves had been born in America, possibly for a couple of generations — but in 1833, with the trans-Atlantic trade having shut down only 25 years earlier, some native to Africa might well still be alive and want to return home — but then how would they be able to get there? Would the abolitionist movement have provided for them in that respect?). And then of course my story takes place in the 1870s, so we’re then two generations on from emancipation — so some ex-slaves are still alive and around, but many black Americans had no personal experience of the institution. What are they doing? What place do they occupy, economically and socially? How is it similar to or different from the way the lives of black Americans and the way race relations evolved in our own history?

To try and get a feel for it (with an awareness that, as a white girl, this is ground where I need to tread carefully and educate myself as thoroughly as possible), I’ve been reading through the WPA Slave Narratives Collection — all freely available on gutenberg. It’s fascinating stuff — narratives taken in the late 1930s from some of the last people alive who were born into Southern American slavery, and thus some of the only records of that we have from ex-slaves in their own voices. Now, as a historian, I know to still be careful — the accounts were, after all, recorded by white folks, so we cannot assume a total absence of bias, and of course these are all things being remembered 70 years later, by people who are well advanced in years (I think the youngest I’ve read was 78, the oldest something like 105) — but it’s still fascinating. For one thing, they recorded phonetically, which some linguists have recently been looking into as a source for studying the evolution of black regional dialects. It’s helping me get a feel for the grammatical cadence, which is obviously important for writing the voices of some of the characters I’ll be creating.

The narratives show a wide variety of experiences, from the truly horrific to the what-the-people-in-question-chose-to-remember-as-benign-or-even-positive. I qualify that because, while no ex-slave’s seeming-positive remembrance of slavery should be interpreted as supportive of the institution of slavery, you obviously also don’t want to erase how these people experienced their own lives — and I think it’s very human that, in any terrible situation, many people will take the psychologically defensive measures of choosing to remember kindness over atrocity (especially 70 years later) and of finding things to take pride in and even to defend. It’s a survival measure, in many ways (akin to Stockholm Syndrome, I would guess, particularly with regards to interpreting a lack of abuse as a kindness, or meager gestures as great gifts), and I think looking at it in that light illuminates quite a bit.

There are also some truly hilarious stories from their post-slavery lives. I think my favorite is the old lady who said she didn’t mind taking out a fifteen-year loan on her house, ’cause she figured she’d be dead by then, so when she went and lived past 100 and the bank tried to collect, she wrote a letter to President Roosevelt to complain about it. And he, personally, made things right for her. Reading between the lines, it seems she may have been one of the very first beneficiaries of the social insurance programs that would become Social Security. But their post-slavery experiences are also really sad in a lot of ways, because so many of the ex-slaves had trouble getting on their feet afterwards and ended up dying in poverty. Many of them talk about how their children and grandchildren essentially abandoned them. You can also see a lot of how religion influences them. Many talk about when they were finally allowed to attend church, or when they got baptized, and almost all of the narratives end with a statement about how they’re pretty sure they’ll be headed to Heaven any day now.

Anyway, my point here is that historical research is fascinating and I wish we got more of this sort of thing in school. I think my next step will be to try and do some more looking into those places where slavery did end without a civil war, and how that affected the landscape for everyone involved. The best thing about writing historical AUs is that it makes me ask so many questions, and hunting down the answers broadens my perspective as well as helping to guide my writing. Yesterday I was working on Mr. Henry Thomas, who works at the customs house on Belle Isle in Richmond, whose son Antoine wants to move to Mississippi in search of more lucrative work — but Mr. Thomas is making him learn something about machines first, so he can be in control of them rather than at their mercy. And I’m working on Anne-Marie Thackery, an elderly ex-slave from Natchez, and the one grand-daughter who has stood by her, the very practical Maya Gibbs. Inspiration and education together make, I hope, for good writing.


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Dear Friends,

How do you move from resentment to acceptance and graciousness?  Have you ever been in a situation where you know exactly what stage you need to be in next, but just can’t seem to get there by will alone?

I find that I really resent the extra time it takes to deal with my chronic challenges:  because I don’t sleep well, I often need to be resting 11-13 hours a day just to get 8 hours of sleep, which is barely enough for my needs.  Add to that the 20 minutes here, the half day there, and the “only 10 minutes” everywhere, I end up living in the struggle between what I have to be doing and what I want to be doing.

I have been overwhelmed with the backlog of daily chores, emails, and “stuff”  that have accumulated while I was away at Dr. Estes’ training, and while I was in Calgary for an extended family get-together.  Also, in hope and excitement, I signed up for a 10-week online course that includes more painting and writing. (You know how it is:  it was a REALLY good idea at the time!)  Then “there’s always the unexpected” nature of life, the unexpecteds which usually need more time and attention rather than eliminating a chore or commitment.  In this category are the two summer online courses that Liberty has taken in the past 3 weeks (two more days to go. . . ) which promised to occupy him and free me up, but have turned out to completely stress him out yet draw me in as chief organizer, calmer downer, and cheerleader.

Yes, there are only 24 hours in a day, and life continually intrudes on our best laid plans.  I seem to live in this fantasy that if I only didn’t have my chronic health conditions and their pain and fatigue, that I would have enough time to “get it all done” — whatever that means!  But of course the problem isn’t the arthritis, etc., (well, they really are problems, but. . . ), the problem here is higher aspirations than human limitations can fulfil.  I guess one could also call that greed — always wanting more than you have, but I’m sticking with “wanting to do more than is possible in this situation.”

There are always stories about individuals who do the “impossible,” who overcome huge obstacles to achieve a goal.  I respect those people, but the stories also contain the undertones of what they had to give up, or what sacrifices their families made to help them accomplish what they did.  Those heroic stories are ones of single-mindedness and focus.  I don’t have a life where I can or want to be single-minded — I have many goals, not one overarching all others.

In my earlier life I lived the Hero’s (Shero’s?) story.  We’re often led to believe that that’s the only or best story that there is to live. I’m feeling that now, though, I need to live with another story or two.  I know what will and grit will accomplish, but life isn’t asking that these days.  Sheer will power isn’t going to accomplish acceptance.  That’s like trying really, really hard to relax more.  (Been there, done that!)

The painting and art journaling are really helping.  There’s been a transformation happening in my last three major paintings that I’ll talk about when I post my next painting and poem.  While “the pen is mightier than the sword” is pithier than what I want to say, I’ll still tell you that the paintbrush is more human than sheer willpower.

Thanks for joining me in thinking about these things,


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20th April 2006 - AG Delta Pte Ltd and Catena Technologies Pte Ltd announced that they will work together to deliver Basel II and Active Risk Management Solutions. Catena Technologies will combine its enterprise integration and business process management (BPM) delivery capabilities with AG Delta's Trading and Enterprise Risk management consulting expertise to deploy solutions that both address Basel II compliance standards and actively control economic capital allocation based on risk adjusted returns at the transaction level.

"The benefits financial institutions' will gain from their investment in Basel II compliance will be limited unless they use economic capital analysis to determine risk adjusted return. Combined with other risk analytics, analyzing economic capital allocation at the transaction level enables financial institutions to actively manage their risk." said Lawrence Grinceri, Principal Consultant for Enterprise Risk of AG Delta. "By providing integration architecture design and business process management expertise, Catena will enhance our ability to connect enterprise risk management engines with front office trading solutions. This end-to-end connectivity will enhance decision support workflows driven by profitability measurement approaches such as rate of return on capital, also referred to as RAROC."

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Prisoner in the Death House: Father Emil Kapaun

It was Thanksgiving, so he knew where to find them. The postman made for the local Catholic Church. Fearing the worst, he handed the telegram to the parish priest. After Mass concluded, its contents were read out privately to those to whom it was addressed:

The Secretary of State of the Army has asked me to express his deep regret that your son Captain Emil J. Kapaun has been missing in action in Korea since Nov. 2nd ’50…

The parents of the man now missing listened in stunned disbelief. Thereafter, there was only silence in the room.

While this news was being delivered, Fr. Emil Kapaun was many miles away with many others on what came to be known as a ‘death march’, having been taken prisoner in the aftermath of the battle of Unsan.

On 1 November 1950, All Saints Day, Fr. Kapaun had celebrated Holy Mass for the soldiers of the battalion he served in. At this point, the Korean War looked to be all but over with the North Korean Communist forces routed by America and her allies. The soldiers had started to think of home. Then, in the early hours of the following morning, All Souls Day, something changed. By dawn the battalion was overrun, decimated, with many killed and many more taken prisoner. The speed and numbers of those attacking that night surprised everyone. What had been picked up by outlying radio operators, but too late to warn the camp, was summed up in one word that had been repeated frantically over and over again through the crackling static: ‘Chinese.’

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Fr. Emil Kapaun celebrates Mass

The Americans had fought bravely. They had no choice: 3,000 men faced an invasion of 20,000. As the other battalions tried to flee south, Fr. Kapaun’s men were left to fight a rear-guard action against the Chinese. Aerial support for the beleaguered battalion followed quickly; but as USAF jets screeched overhead in ever more desperate bombing raids, they only added to the noise and confusion as the illuminated night sky revealed beneath it a relentless enemy force intent on breaking through American lines.

That night Fr. Kapaun was as active as any of his comrades. Running from foxhole to foxhole, he dragged the wounded out, gave the Last Rites to the dying, and was even observed hearing Confessions amid the gunfire.  He was urged to escape, to save himself; he refused; he was captured well beyond the American lines trying to drag an injured man back to safety. Somehow, in the confusion he escaped. It was to be a short reprieve; when the battle finally ceased, he was prisoner once more.

The Chinese entry into the Korean War was to prove decisive, ending any advances the Allies had made. Now they faced a formidable opponent, not just in weaponry and numbers but also in ideological zeal. With the debris of battle strewn all around, Kapaun and the other Prisoners of War were marched away. They were luckier than most as the Chinese started to torture and kill any wounded POWs that remained.

The trek that would become known as the ‘death march’ was largely made at night and without food. Any prisoner failing to keep up, through illness or fatigue, was shot. Seeing a fellow POW struggling, Fr. Kapaun picked him up and started to carry him on his back. As he did so, he urged the able-bodied POWs to do likewise. The man told the priest to put him down…’you can’t keep this up’.

‘We’ll keep going,’ was Kapaun’s only reply as shots were once more heard from the rear of the march.

After several days, and seventy miles, the survivors arrived at a prison camp. They were starving, and soon after found themselves being starved. Immediately, Fr. Kapuan organised raids on the camp’s food supplies – as he explained to the men: steal or starve to death. Quickly in other ways he rallied his fellow inmates, and, in so doing, just as quickly earned the suspicion of the armed guards that watched the captured Americans at all times. What incensed the guards most, however, was how the chaplain assembled the men for nightly prayers: atheist and believer, black and white, enlisted and officer all came together to join in the Rosary.

That Christmas a number of POWs escaped. As a consequence, those prisoners left behind were marched through the freezing snows to a camp further away: one deemed ‘escape proof’. That winter as the snows fell ceaselessly, temperatures dropped to 40 degrees below zero. But the prisoners continued to be starved; pneumonia swept through the camp and so too did despair. By February, as unburied frozen bodies of prisoners were stacked all around the camp, some started to give up; no longer simply a prison camp, instead, this had become a Death Camp.

Nevertheless, amongst the prisoners, there was one, even though his voice was just as weak as the others, who repeatedly told them to stay true to their faith and those back home who cared for them. God was with them, he said, they must not give up. When Kapaun had finished speaking: bearded, dirty, and standing in lice infested tattered clothing, just like all the rest, he did something many remembered for a long time afterwards. He raised his now skeletal hand high and, over all the prisoners gathered there, made the Sign of the Cross. One prisoner, a Protestant, many years later still recalled that blessing, identifying it as the moment when he was given strength to go on.

Inevitably, time in the Death Camp brought matters into sharp relief for all held captive there. One of the POWs asked Kapuan to baptise him, the priest did as he was asked; the man died shortly afterwards. The corpse lay for days. It was a ploy by prisoners not to report such deaths so that the dead man’s rations would come to them.

Day by day, Kapaun knew exactly what the real enemy was. When the enlisted men refused to carry out tasks, he would do them. When POWs argued with each other, he mediated; when gloominess was in the air, he cracked jokes; but, more importantly, he was praying constantly for these men.

One of the prisoners, intrigued by the priest, asked how he had come to be in this living hell. The chaplain replied: ‘I volunteered’. Born in 1916, he grew up on a farm in Kansas before becoming a military chaplain, serving in Asia during the Second World War. Returning to civilian parish life, he found that ‘it didn’t work out’ for him. When another war was declared, with the permission of his bishop, he left his homeland to serve once more, feeling there should be a priest with those who faced death on a foreign battlefield.

One of the features of the camp was the Marxist indoctrination that all were forced to undergo, including Fr. Kapaun. He was having none of it though. When asked how Marx had influenced him, he replied about as much as any comedian. This infuriated the Communist guards, especially when they heard the other prisoner’s laughter. They became even more enraged when in the middle of their ideological droning the priest would turn to the men cowed before the guards and tell them ‘not to believe a word of this crap’.

The guards began to hate Kapaun. He knew that, and still preached openly to the men about forgiving one’s enemies. Public prayers were soon banned. Nevertheless, he continued to pray with his fellow prisoners. When caught doing so it meant time in the punishment hole, or stripped naked, made to stand for hours on an ice block.

‘Where is your God now?’ his captors would taunt the priest.

‘Right here’, was the reply.

The POWs grew to love their chaplain.

On Easter Sunday, 1951, as the sun rose over the melting snows of the infernal Death Camp, a curious spectacle was observed within it. There stood a man wearing the purple stole of a priest, holding a Roman Missal.

Somehow Kapaun had asked for and received permission for an Easter service. That morning the incredulous prisoners started to gather around him. He told them he did not have the means to say Mass but, to the surprise of those assembled, he opened the missal and began to recite the words of the Good Friday service. Next, he read out a meditation on the Stations of the Cross. As he did so some of those stood listening started to weep. When he had finished reading, he held a Rosary aloft, and invited those present to join him in its saying. At its conclusion, and as the guards looked on suspiciously, defiantly one of the POWs started to sing the Lord’s Prayer, and as he did so the whole body of men joined in. Many years later, a Jewish POW could still recall how much that morning meant to all those caged behind barbed wire, starved, shivering and sick with the ever-present guns trained on them.

Eventually, like so many others in the camp, Kapaun’s health broke. The starvation and deprivations at last took their toll. There was a place where the sick were taken. The Communists claimed it was a ‘hospital’, but, instead, it was known and feared as the ‘Death House’. Prisoners were ill treated there or just left to die. When the guards came to remove the ill chaplain to the ‘hospital’, POWs had to be held back at gunpoint as they tried to prevent it. As he was taken away, one of the POWs started to sob, Kapaun turned to him and said: ‘I’m going where I always wanted to go…’

As the priest was stretchered away, in his hand, held more tightly than ever, was his purple stole…

Without food and water, he lasted two days. The final words of Fr. Kapaun before he entered the Death House, and heard by the POWs who had carried him there, were: ‘Father forgive them, for they know not…’

Just before he had been led away, the priest had given his Missal to another POW and urged him to continue to hold prayer services. On 23 May 1951, as news of the chaplain’s death spread through the camp, and in defiance of their gaolers, that night the 23rd Psalm was read aloud in one hut, in another the Rosary was said…

Eventually, the news was broken to the Kapauns. His mother said nothing. For many nights after, with silent tears, she would play over and over a gramophone recording of her son preaching to soldiers en route to Korea. Months later, when asked by reporters about his loss, Mr. Kapaun’s only comment was that since the news had come through he felt ‘just no good’.

In the months that followed, the couple received a letter from an American officer who had been a POW with their son, but had managed to make it back to American lines, and it was from there not knowing of Kapaun’s fate, that he wrote.

6 Oct 1951

We were taken prisoner by the Chinese Communist Army on the same day…we were together in a prison camp in the interior of North Korea…

May I say your son is one of the bravest men I have ever met. He showed great courage and devotion to his country and faith under the most hazardous of conditions. I have seen him stand unflinchingly in the face of fire in order to bring comfort and aid to some of the soldiers that had been wounded or to deliver last rites in some instances. He kept up the morale of those that had been taken prisoner by his kindness and words of hope and faith.

I sincerely wish… and hope that you receive even more glad and important news than I can give.

To this day he lies in an unmarked grave in Korea.

But just as in life, Fr. Kapaun could not be confined in death as his reputation for sanctity grows with each passing year. What the Communist Death House had tried to extinguish in killing one man and all that he represented, paradoxically, only seemed to have the opposite effect. His witness sustained many through the war, and, subsequently, as his story was told, many more besides.

The snows fall each winter through the dark valleys and across the frozen mountain ranges of a land that still does not know freedom. It falls, too, upon that makeshift communal grave. Falling softly where the final reveille is awaited, when, at last, in the bright light of a new morning, a train of emaciated men shall come forth into the freedom of the Children of God with at their head, Fr. Emil J. Kapaun.

Editor’s note: The Miracle of Father Kapaun: Priest, Soldier, and Korean War Hero is available from Ignatius Press and Amazon

K. V. Turley

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Assessment of melatonin, cortisol and rest–activity rhythms in critically ill patients weaning from mechanical ventilation

Acute illness adversely affects a patient's circadian rhythms. Minimising the delayed restoration of these rhythms may have patient benefits. The aims of this study were to investigate the acute effects of exogenous melatonin on the rest–activity rhythms of patients recovering from critical illness, and furthermore to analyse the rhythms and relationship between plasma melatonin and cortisol levels.

A randomised controlled trial in 24 critically ill patients weaning from mechanical ventilation. Ethics committee approval was granted and all patients provided written consent. Twelve patients in each group received placebo or 10 mg exogenous melatonin at 21:00 hours for four nights. Twelve plasma samples were taken periodically from the first 18 of these patients over a 24-hour period. Actigraphy was used to monitor patient activity. Rhythm analysis of plasma levels and activity data used single cosinor analysis and nonparametric parameters, respectively.

Both groups were well matched. There were no significant differences between the groups in any of the rest–activity measures, which were abnormal and comparable with those previously reported [1]. There was a weak inverse correlation between plasma melatonin and cortisol levels (r = -0.22, P = 0.015). Seven of 18 patients had a circadian rhythm of plasma cortisol levels, while only two patients had a normal acrophase. Four of the nine placebo patients had a circadian rhythm of melatonin, but only one of these had a normal amplitude and acrophase. The plasma melatonin 24-hour area under the curve was significantly reduced compared with healthy elderly people (128.4 (112.6; 217.0) versus 464.5 (372.5; 594.0), P < 0.001). A moderate inverse relationship existed between the percentage plasma cortisol rhythm and patient intradaily variability (r = -0.70, P < 0.002).

Acute administration of exogenous melatonin did not result in significant differences in rest–activity rhythms between the groups. Most patients lacked circadian rhythms of plasma melatonin and cortisol levels, which were no longer phase locked. The amplitude of plasma melatonin levels are significantly suppressed.

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Talk of the Town by award-winning writer Fred Khumalo comprises short stories he wrote over many years. In this vibrant collection Khumalo explores identity and belonging through tales about African foreign nationals in South Africa, xenophobia, South Africans abroad, exiled comrades during apartheid, and past and current township life. At times hilarious and at times gut-wrenching, this is a collection that will move you.

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alk of the Town, his collection of 10 short stories, confirms Khumalo’s mastery and brilliance (words often mindlessly used in cut-and-paste fashion in some art reviews and critique) with interplay between language and narrative, nationhood and geopolitics and tensions between history and cultural specificities and generalities. The stories have a fully formed and resilient backbone, are self-aware without being navel-gazing diatribe and exude an almost floral sense of multidimensional consciousness. The prose is blowtorch assured, the pace bullet-fast without being sloppy and the emotional range shifts from cruel to charming, meditative to shocking, laugh-out-loud hilarity to knotted-throat anger and pain. At full throttle, the individual and collective texture of the writing displays great skill and craftsmanship, as well as the emotional and intellectual maturity to tackle a diverse range of themes: such that the cumulative force of the examination of the human species at home and abroad propel the reader from one feeling to the next with a power akin to jet engine thrust: commanding, assured, gravity defying. The difficulty, and perhaps exhilaration, of writing and reviewing short stories is the fact that they are, in some oblique but not total way, compressed worlds of novels in that the narratives need to take off from very short and sometimes precarious runways. The brilliance and mastery alluded to earlier is much earned, for there is ample and compelling evidence that the collection is highly distilled from the perspective of complex theme-framing and presentation. A bird’s-eye view of the narrative and thematic pillars of the stories recalls a symphony (the writing is that melodious) of images and counter-reflections from xenophobia, Afro-pessimism, African Renaissance sentiments in Beds are Burning. There are cultural systems colliding with blatant criminality in The Invisibles, conundrums and comedies of lust, eroticism and gender sensitivity classes in Learning to Love and the slippery nature of criminal mindedness in TP Phiri, Esquire. But what exactly constitutes the literary distillation, brilliance and mastery, the ample and compelling evidence that define the Talk of the Town collection? First is elegant and contextually rooted humour, then the dialogue as transmitter of ideas and the conveyor belt of narrative (including pitch perfect Nigerian and Malawian accents) and third, the calibration of big themes (gender relations, male sexuality and misogyny, the aspirational and actual in the relationship between South Africa and the wider African continent, and views and identity politics between Africa and Africans in the diaspora, particularly the United States in This Bus Is Not Full), to fit into and achieve interpretative luminance within the limiting and confined parameters of the short story. Further exhibits concern understated cerebral tapestry and charge embedded in the stories, for we often forget that writers are and must first be thinkers, preferably of the intelligent and curious sort. - Nthikeng Mohlele, Mail & Guardian

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For the first time since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in July 2014, prosecutors have announced charges against suspects in the case.

Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with bringing a missile into the area in eastern Ukraine and with murdering 298 passengers and crew.

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In October 2015, the Dutch Safety Board concluded the plane had been hit by a Buk missile, causing it to break apart in mid-air.

The JIT – which includes officials from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine – concluded in May 2018 that the missile system belonged to the 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile brigade, based in the western Russian city of Kursk. It produced evidence that it said proved how the missile system reached eastern Ukraine.

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Australia and the Netherlands have both officially held Russia responsible for the crash.

A total of 283 passengers, including 80 children, and 15 crew members were killed on the flight.

Delays and difficulties in the recovery of victims’ remains in the aftermath of the crash prompted widespread international criticism.


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