Dedication by Olive Custance, read for LibreVox.org by Eva Davis. Dedication. Je croy pour que le jour où je ne serai plus. On sache comme l'air et le plaisir monte plus. Et comme mon livre porte à la foule future. Comme jamais la vie est le rose nature. Attention au travers des champs et des maisons. J'ai marqué chaque jeu la forme de ses ans. Parce que l'eau, la terre et la montante flamment. En nôles, un droit se sent si belle comme mon homme. J'ai dit ce que j'ai voué et ce que j'ai senti. D'un corps pour qui le vrai ne fait pas trop hardy. Et j'ai eu cet ordre par l'amour entier. Pour être après l'amour parfois encore âmé. Et que je nomme à l'eau lisant ce que je crie. S'entends pour moi son cœur et mou tu blés ce prix. Et en tout, tu oublies des épouses réelles. Mais accueil dans son homme et mes préfères à telle. Contestes-moi-tier de Noy. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The End of Dreams by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima. Sweet laughter, sweet delight. My heart is like a lighted inn that waits your swift approach. And at the open gates white beauty stands and listens like a flower. She has been dreaming of you in the night.  Hear your fleet horses, this is beauty's hour. Even is when a golden flame up curled quivers and flickers out in a dark place. So is it with a flame of beauty's face that torch, that rose, that wonder of the world. And love shall weep to see when he rides by years hence, the time shall seem as a bird's flight, a lonely inn beneath a winter sky.  Sweet laughter, sweet delight. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Kingdom of Heaven by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima. O world that holds me by the wings, how shall my soul escape your snares? So dear are your delightful things, so difficult your toils and cares. That every way my soul is held by bonds of love and bonds of hate, with all its heavenly ardour squeled, and all its angels desolate. But in the heart of every child, God in the world are reconciled. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. A Dream by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima. A dream we walked together, you and I, along a white and lonely road, that went I know not where, and we were well content. Our laughter was untroubled as the sky, and all our talk was delicate and shy. Though in that cage of words wild thoughts were pent, like prison birds, that some sweet accident might yet release to sing again and fly.  End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Autumn Day by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima.  Her feet, a flash of silver on the sea, chase silver sails that fly untiringly towards the enchanted islands of the west, beautiful islands, gardens of delight that flower at dawn with roses red and white, and flame at sunset golden amethyst. How delicately steps the Autumn Day, an azure cloak and gown of ashen grey, over the level country that I love, and how my heart, that all sweet things beguile, goes laughing with her for a little while, and then turns homework like a weary dove. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Angels by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima. When life is difficult, I dream of how the angels dance in heaven, of how the angels dance and sing in gardens of eternal spring, because their sins have been forgiven, and nevermore for them shall be the terrors of mortality, when life is difficult, I dream of how the angels dance in heaven. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Changeling by Olive Custance. Read for LibreVox.org by Nima. My father was a golden king, my mother was a shining queen. I heard the magic bluebird sing, they rapped me in a mantel green. They led their winged white horses out, we rode and rode till dawn was gray. We rode with many a song and shout over the hills and far away. They stole a crying human child and left me laughing by the fire, and that is why my heart is wild and all my life a long desire. The old enchantments hold me still, and sometimes an waking trance I seek again the fairy hill, the midnight feast, the glittering dance. The wizard harpers play for me, I wear a crown upon my head, a princess, an eternity, I dance and revel with the dead. Vain lies, I hear the people cry, I listen to their weary truth, then turn again to fantasy and the untroubled land of youth. I hear the laughter of the kings, I see their jeweled flagons gleam, a wine of life, immortal things, move in the splendor of my dream. My spirit is a homing dove, I drain a crystal cup and fall softly into the arms of love, and then the darkness covers all. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain, A Song Against Care, by Olive Custons, read for LibriVox.org by Nima.  He lays aside his wisdom for thy sake, and beauty hides her loveliness in thee. And after, when men know the agony of thy great weight of splendor, Anne would shake thee swiftly from their shoulders, cast aside the burden of thy jeweled bands that break their very hearts. Often it is too late. They fear the world will mock them and deride when they are stripped of all their golden state. But some are brave, but some among us dare cry out against thy torment and be free.  O care, and a poem, this recording, is in the public domain, Que coups à une enfance Très douce d'eux m'auries, by Olive Custons, read for LibriVox.org by Nima. Alas, I do not know on what sad day my childhood went away. It may have left me softly in the night when I was sleeping, dreaming, who can tell? Perhaps it whispered, wings were made for flight. I only know it never said farewell. And so I cannot tell when youth will go, although I love it so, but like a little amorous girl that clings to some fair boy, my spirit all afraid, while yet she holds youth back by the bright wings, knows he must leave her for some other maid. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain, Candlelight by Olive Custons, read for LibriVox.org by Nima. Frail golden flowers that perish at a breath, flickering points of honey-colored flame, from sunset gardens of the moon you came, pale flowers of passion, delicate flowers of death, blossoms of opal fire that raised on high upon a hundred silver stems are seen, above the brilliant dance are set between the brimming wine cups, flowers of revelry, roses with amber petals that arise out of the purple darkness of the night, to deck the darkened house of love, to light, the laughing lips, the beautiful glad eyes, lilies with violet-colored hearts that break and shining clusters around the silent dead, a diadem of stars at feet and head, the glory dazzles, but they do not wake. O golden flowers the moon goes gathering in magic gardens of her fairyland, while splendid angels of the sunset stand, watching and flaming circles wing to wing. Frail golden flowers that perish at a breath, that wither in the hands of light and die, when bright dawn awakens in a silver sky, pale flowers of passion, delicate flowers of death, end of poem, this recording is in the public domain, In the South by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. I was pale and sad in the south like the olive trees that drooped their silver heads by the dusty roads, and our grave in cold and gray in spite of the sun, and the veils of rose and blue that the bright dawn spun, day wrapped around me in vain. Long for the lovers and friends I had left behind, I longed for the north again. I was deaf to song, in even to beauty blind, blind to the magic wolf that summer weaves, while roses beat their pearl and ruby leaves against my windowpane, and orange flowers so passionately white, so richly perfumed, pined for my delight, only my faint heart sighed and pity when the glory waned and died for all that lovely life unsatisfied. I was pale and sad in the south like the olive trees that drooped their silver heads by the dusty roads. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain, Spring in the South by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. Beautiful is some rich embroidery, the valley lies in verdant amplitude, great mountains like old merchants or a brood, and as a lovely woman languidly, trailing her long blue robes, so comes the sea to touch it softly in a wistful mood. The sky forgets her starry multitude, seeing how fair mere earthly flowers can be. Glad country, where the wayward feet of spring, moving in mystic dances, bring desire, new miracles of beauty every day, where love and sweet delight fly wing to wing, forgetful as in dreams the bright is fire, so burn the hours of joy as swift away. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain, I am weary, let me sleep by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. I am weary, let me sleep in some great embroidered bed with soft pillows for my head. I am weary, let me sleep. Petals of sweet roses shed all around of perfumed heap, white as pearls in ruby red. Curtains closely drawn to keep wings of darkness or me spread. I am weary, let me sleep in some great embroidered bed. Let me dream that I am dead, never more to wake and weep in the future that I dread, for the ways of life are steep. I am weary, let me sleep. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain. Grief by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. I, that was once so eager for the light, the vehement pomp and passion of the day, and tired at last and glad to steal away across the dusky borders of the night. The purple darkness now is my delight, and with great stars my lonely sorrows play, as still some proud and tragic princess may, with diamonds make her desolation bright. Night has become a temple for my tears. The moon, a silver shroud for my despair, and all the golden forests of the spheres have showered their splendors on me leaf by leaf, till men that meet me in the sunlight stare to see the shining garment of my grief. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain. Daffodil Dawn by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. While I slept and dreamed of you, morning like a princess came, all in robe of palest blue, stooped and gathered in that hour from the east of golden flower, great and shining flower of flame. Then she hastened on her way, singing over plain in hill. While I slept and dreamed of you, dreams that never can come true, morning at the gates of day gathered Dawn the Daffodil. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain. Beauty by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo.  No face of beauty, O white Dawn enshrined, and sunrise veils of splendid hair, O star, shine on those weary men who sadly wise, but guess thy glory faintly from afar, missing the marvel of thy smile and blind to the imperial passion in thine eyes. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain. The Vision by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. I come from lonely downs in silent woods with winter in my heart, a withered world, a heavy weight of dark and sorrowful things, and all my dreams spread out their rainbow wings and turn again to those bright solitudes where beauty met me in a thousand moods, and all her shining banners were unfurled. And where I snatched from the sweet hands of spring a crystal cup and drank a mystic wine, and walked alone a secret perfumed way, and saw the glittering angels at their play, and heard the golden birds of heaven sing, and woke to find white lilies clustering, and all the emerald wood an empty shrine, fragrant with myrrh and frankincense and spice, and echoing yet the flutes of paradise. End of poem, this recording is in the public domain. The Dance by Olive Custons, red for Librevox.org by Nemo. Do you remember that day I danced in the woods under the dancing leaves? Do you remember the delicate blue of the sky, and the gold dust in the air, and the tawny harvest fields, and the heavy sheaves? Summer was surely in one of her bravest moods, and oh the rare swift joy that lifted life to an ecstasy, that shining day I danced for you, dear in the woods. The purple twilight came, and the amber moon, and the fairies danced with me, and the shy fawns crept from the tangled thicket near, and the startled dryettes bent, white and starry eyed, each from her secret tree, to watch that mystical dance to share that heavenly swoon, that mad bright banishment. For we were free in the perfect country, dear, when purple twilight came, and the amber moon. Someday I shall dance again that mystical dance. I know not when or where, but the angels shall dance with me, and I shall not be afraid. I shall look in their deep eyes, and feel their arms about me, and their kisses in my hair, and know that time is over, and the desperate ways of chance. I shall be very wise, and glad at last, and the walls of the world shall fade, the day when I dance again that mystical dance. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Prisoner of God by Olive Custons. Read for LibriVox.org by Nima. Once long and long ago I knew delight. God gave my spirit wings and a glad voice. I was a bird that sang at dawn and noon, that sang at starry evening time and night, sang at the sun's great golden doors, and furl'd brave wings in the white gardens of the moon, that sang and soared beyond the dusty world. Once long and long ago I did rejoice, but now I am a stone that falls in falls, a prisoner cursing the blank prison walls, helpless and dumb, with desperate eyes that see the terrible beauty of those simple things, my soul disdained when she was proud and free. And I can only pray, God pity me.   End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Storm by Olive Custons. Read for LibriVox.org by Nima. What do they hunt tonight, the hounds of the wind? I think it is joy they hunt, for joy has fled from my heart. I only remember the hours when I sorrowed or sinned. I only remember the hours when I stood apart, lonely and tired, in difficult dreams and tranced. And I forget the days when I loved and laughed and danced. Gray hounds of the wind, I hear your wistful cry, the cry of unsatisfied hearts hungry for happiness. The house is full of whispering ghosts as you hurry by, and my soul is heavy and dark with a great distress. For heaven is far away, and hope is dead, and the night is a tomb of tears and despair and dread. Oh, hunt no more wild hounds of the wind and rain, for my soul is afraid of the sound of your hurrying feet. And surely, under the stars a beautiful joy is slain. Fly, black wings of sorrow, wet wings of the night that beat at the shuttered wind to swiftly fly away before God stoops to gather the golden flower of day. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Saint Anthony by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. The Engraving by Durer. Durer has drawn him resting by the way. Has he returned from some far pilgrimage, or just come out into the light of day from a dark hermit cell we cannot know? With stooping shoulders and with head bent low over his book and pointed hood drawn down, his eager eyes devour the printed page, regardless of the little lovely town rising behind him with its clustered towers.  Look up and see the world, for God is there. Old, dreaming saint, how many are like you, intent upon the dusty book of fate. Slow to discern the false things from the true, yet weary of world clamor and world hate, and hungering for eternal certainties, not knowing how close about them heaven lies. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Black Butterflies by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Oh, words of all my songs, Black Butterflies, wild words of all the wayward songs I sing, called from the tomb of some enchanted past by that strange sphinx my soul, they slowly rise and settle on white pages wing to wing. White pages, like flower petals fluttering, held spellbound there till some blind hour shall bring the perfect voice that, delicate and wise, shall set them free in fairyland at last. That garden of all dreams and ecstasies where my soul sings through an eternal spring, watching alone with enigmatic eyes, dark wings and pale flower petals quivering. Oh, words of all my songs, Black Butterflies. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. In Praise of Youth by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Oh, delicate youth, thy praises shall be sung while yet my heart is young. While life and I, in search of lovely things, go out with dancing feet and dreaming eyes and find wild folly with a rainbow wings, sweeter than all the wisdom of the wise. Oh, delicate youth, thy praises shall be sung while yet my heart is young. Thy whiteness and thy brightness and the sweet flushed softness of thy little restless feet, the tossed and sunny tangle of thy hair, thy swiftness, slimness, shyness, simpleness that set the old folk sighing for the rare red rows of joy thy careless staves possess. And when at last with sad and different face I walk in narrow pathways patiently, forgetful of thy beauty and thy truth, thy ringing laughter, thy rebellious grace, when fair love turns his face away for me, then let me die, oh, delicate, sweet youth. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Opal Song by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Shy and wild, shy and wild, to my lovers I have been, frank and wayward as a child, strange and secret as a queen, feign of love and love beguiled, yet afraid of love I wean. False and true, false and true, is the woman's heart in me, fair lost faces that I rue, golden friends I laugh to see, changing I come back to you, never doubt my loyalty. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Gifts by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Come near, you are my friend and I will wear, gems for your sake and flowers in my hair, garments of silver gauze and cloth of gold, and I will give you power to have and hold and passion and the light and ecstasy. What will you give to me? And I will give you, if you will but stay, the magic mirror of the dawn, where day waking beholds the wonder of her face, if you will keep me yet in your embrace, and let me dream of love's eternity. What will you give to me? Yes, I will give you the gold veils of light and the dark spangled curtains of the night, and I will give you, as a flower unfurled, the proud and marvelous beauty of the world and all the wild white horses of the sea. What will you give to me? End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Primrose Hill by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Wild heart in me that frets and grieves, imprisoned here against your will. Sad heart that dreams of rainbow wings, see I have found some golden things. The poplar trees on Primrose Hill, with all their shining play of leaves, and London like a silver bride that will not put her veil aside. Proud London, like a painted queen whose crown is heavy on her head, city of sorrow and desire under a sky of opal fire, amber and amethyst in red. And how divine the day has been for every dawn God builds again this world of beauty and of pain. Wild heart that hungers for delight, imprisoned here against your will. Sad heart, so eager to be gay, loving earth's lovely things, the play of wind and leaves on Primrose Hill. Or London, dreaming of the night, adventurous heart and beauty bent, that only heaven could quite content. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain. A Morning Song by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. You saw my window open wide and woke me early, Sister Day. You came in all your lovely pride with laughing looks that I adore, with the wings of blue and gray, with sunshine skirts that swept the floor, with songs to drive night's dreams away you called me out to play. And so I took you by the hand and found the way to Fairyland. With such impatient feet I climbed the ladders of delight, for while I know that ruthless time turns morning moods to tears and night. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain. The Wings of Fortune by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. Fair fortune you are wild and coy, fickle, mysterious and shy. And so we lost you, love and I. And now at last, because we find your golden footprints, love the boy, dreams you are near, but love is blind. Yet surely sorrow's arms unwind from this tired heart and dark distress fade softly, softly from the world. And in hope's silver sky unfurled I see the banners of delight and the gray heaven of life grows bright with a red dawn of happiness. As with a laughing look, love flings his heavy crown of thorns away. Fair fortune you are wild and coy, and I fear you will not stay. But love has caught you by the wings and radiant as your riddicy. By her brave poet songs set free I rush into the arms of joy. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain. Shadow Nets by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. When I was wandering on the Downs today, I saw the pine woods sleeping in the sun. For they were tired of weaving shadow nets. Weaving all day in vain, in vain, in vain. Pale phantom nets to snare the golden sun. And then I thought of how the poets weave with shadowy words their cunning nets of song, hoping to catch at last a shining dream. And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain. Peacocks, a Mood by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima. And gorgeous plumage, azure, golden green.  Proud birds of beauty, splendid and serene. Spreading their brilliant fans, screen after screen of burnished sapphire. Gemmed with mimic suns, strange magic eyes that, so the legend runs, will bring misfortune to this fair domain.   And a poem, this recording, is in the public domain. High as Synthes by Olive Custons. Red for LibriVox.org by Nima.  Of such a dawn my wistful heart has dreamed. Surely, I too have lived in Arcady, when spring, lap full of roses, ran to meet, white Aphrodite risen from the sea. For chance I saw thee, then, so glad in fleet, hastened to greet Apollo, stooped to bind, the gold-and-jeweled sandals on his feet. While he so radiant, so divinely kind, lured thee with honeyed words to be his friend, all heedless of thy fate, for love is blind. For love is blind and cruel, and the end of every joy is sorrow and distress, and when immortal creatures lightly bend, to kiss the lips of simple loveliness. Swords are unsheathed in silence, and clouds rise, some goddess jealous of the mute caress. But who shall mourn thy death? Ah, not the wise, better to perish on thy happiest hour, to close in sight of beauty thy dark eyes, and, dying so, be changed into a flower. Then that, the stealthy and relentless years, should steal the grace which was thy only dour, and bring thee in return dull cares and tears, and difficult days and sickness and despair. O, not for thee the griefs and sordid fears, that, like a burden, trembling age must bear, slain in thy youth by the sweet hands of love, thou shalt remain forever young and fair. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Highlass by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. Dark boy, how radiantly you went to meet your mystic doom, what colors in the sky. As though that cup of beauty the gods hold, brimmed over on a world in ecstasy. What silver flutes charmed all the forest ways. How the green shimmered, jeweled thick with flowers, and how the sun was like a globe of gold. Yet you but thought to chase the perfect flowers. Down that white road of wonder and delight, the highway of your dreams and heedlessly, you crushed the violets with your slim brown feet, and whistled low and sang a careless song.  O youth and dawn, you dreamed not of the night, o life and laughter, but the night is long. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Blue Flowers by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. I go to gather in the woods for you the wild flowers that are blue. Pedals to match the color of your eyes. None but blue blossoms will I take, yet see how sweetly tempting me the fruit trees swing their scented treasuries, and how the butter-cups and daisies dance to meet my dazzled glance. A gold and silver, sweet, are not to you. And so let others rob God's gardens, shake the stars down for your sake. I bring you but the wild flowers that are blue. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Magical by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. Rare garden where my heart goes gathering many a lovely and delightful thing, pale roses of your body and the fair, unrivaled yellow blossoms of your hair.  O come, fair love, before the flowers fade and bless this garden that the gods have made. Rare garden where my heart goes gathering many a lovely and delightful thing. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Endimian by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema.  The moonlight, amorous of your golden hair, toyed with it softly as a woman might with some bright treasure, delicate and rare. O young Endimian, risen from the dead, born once again to beauty, O bright head, the moon stoops low to kiss you as of old, stoops graciously from a great throne of pearl, with outstretched arms mysterious and cold, but you have left her for a mortal girl. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Dance on by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. O hide your passion from the moon. When young and slender she appears and shining gown in silver shewn and all her path with stars and pearl, she dances round the darkened world. O hide your sorrows from the sun, the sun should never see your tears. Weep, if you will, when day is done, a laugh and singing clap your hands while yet the sun in heaven stands. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. A Memory by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. O how I loved you when we met at one moment of the day. Yes, loved you desperately and yet could scarcely find a word to say. No wonder that you looked and smiled as though upon some timid child. You never guessed, how could you guess that I adored your loveliness? You never saw the prison soul behind the windows of my eyes frantic to break from fate's control and charm you with her flatteries and show you your cold heart to move the shining treasure of her love and worship in a long embrace the reckless beauty of your face. You never knew and the dream died a broken rose beneath your feet. You went to your way, the world is wide and not for youth is sweet. Yet when at night I lie awake my heart is sad for a dream's sake and I remember and regret how I loved you when we met. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Photograph by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema.  Where is the wildflower grace that love is wont to kiss? Where is the bird that brings to your untroubled eyes the blue of fairy skies the flash of fairy wings? A wild bird of delight that no white hand may hold or fair as cage of gold for who would stay its flight? The songbird of your voice whose magic song love hears trembling behind your tears trilling when you rejoice. Oh beauty, what is this, the shadow of a rose a little ghost that goes oblivious of love's kiss? Only a shadow, yet it may in some dark hour recall the living flower. If happily, love forget. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Saint Sebastian by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. So beautiful in all thine agony so radiant in thine infinite despair.  Oh, lovely body lashed the rough tree. What brutal fools were those that gave to thee red roses of thine outraged blood to wear? Laughed at thy bitter pain and loathe the fair bruised flower of thy victorious purity. Marvelous beauty, target of the world how all loves arrow seek thy joy. Oh, sweet and wound the white perfection of thy youth. How all the poisoned spears of hater hurl against thy sorrow when thou dares to meet with martyrdom men's mockery of the truth. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Magic Mirrors by Olive Custins. Read for LibriVox.org by Neema. Dedicated to Helen proof listener extraordinaire. In the dim mirrors of imagination I watch the silent dancing of my soul. I watch her as she dances with my dreams. See how she takes innumerable disguises and hides her beauty behind many masks and how sometimes she seems to laugh and sing and weep and call upon the unknown gods. But not one mirror has betrayed her voice or shown to me the secret of her face. Oh, silent dance of sorrow and delight my heart growing tired with watching turns away to make perhaps a little passionate song out of the shadows of the mortal things. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. End of The Inn of Dreams by Olive Custins.


And then at the end also we have now aligned the events navigation button bar now everything looks like the same in events in single events and, and then in tracker. So if I click in in a particular program event program. Opening an event. So, now everything here is also more genius with with tracker, especially this one that was missing the details of the of a particular event. Okay.


So today, people, I bring you another Halo Infinite Video Guide, and today I bring you the complete area of collectibles with an appellate and down area, and there's 18 here in total, so you won't want to miss this. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ, and if you do enjoy the video, leaving a like really helps out, and if you like what you see and want to see more Halo, be sure to subscribe. Also guys, I'm still running a weekly game giveaway, so to win any game of your choice on any platform you want, simply drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, make sure you are subject to have those notifications turned on. I will pick a winner and announce them at the end of the week, so good luck everybody. Okay, so Pelican Dan is quite a big area. You come here not too far into the campaign, it's a multi-stage mission where you have to eliminate three banished gun batteries to escape the island. What I did was here, to collect these, I'm not sure as soon as you eliminate the third gun, whether their mission automatically continues, so I destroyed two and left the third one until I collected all the 18 collectibles on this little island, because I didn't want to come back later if you know what I mean, I wanted to get them while I was here. So I suggest you do the same unless someone can confirm that it doesn't matter if you do destroy all three of these big old dirty guns, it doesn't make no difference, you don't leave until you're notified too, so you can actually explore this and collect the collectibles. Okay, so we're going to start off here on the right-hand side of the island and work our way around the top and around the left-hand side and back to the middle. So you can see where I am at right here guys, on the map, and we're going to first off start with a juicy audio lug, so where I am here guys, you can see where that gun battery is, the building right behind me, the small little bunker, you can see there is one right in here, so that's the first one, the first of many today. Okay, so next up we're going to get a Spartan car, so from that audio lug, follow who I take on screen now and underneath the big old dirty gun, ignore that, I mean you will have to take out enemies here, I mean don't think I've got it easier to cut all the enemies before I record this, so you will have to take out the enemies if you haven't already, but you can see it's right there, so there you go for your Spartan car, get upgrading people. Next up guys, we have another audio lug, which is actually located in a crash spaceship right on top of this rock where this Spartan car was, so this one's pretty easy to get, you can probably hear it when you're in the cave, to be honest, so you jump up here, walk around, you're getting through the back and grab that audio lug guys, it is that simple, okay so from here we're going to actually destroy a proper gander tower, now just follow these here and you'll want to destroy all four of them because you get that valet XP which you know helps you level up and unlock those FOB fob, unlock, so yes why not, so this one right here is right next to that last audio lug, we just picked up, so there we go guys, so from here we are making our way to that giant red lift you can see in the background there, that's where we've got to go guys for another audio lug, is it an audio lug? I believe it is, yes it is an audio lug, so yes we need to get across here, there will be enemies here as well, do as for me I usually do take them all out, nothing too difficult whatsoever with this disgustingly overpowered weapon, if you haven't got this, it'll probably take you a little longer, but when you do take it out you'll see it located in this little room right behind them, so yes follow where I go and grab this audio lug, okay so next up guys we're gonna grab another Spartan core, this one not too far away but you do have to scale up a bit, I mean it's not difficult if you go around the back of the building and scale up this way, I mean there's a couple of enemies up here, not on your way, there's quite a few at the top you will have to take out if you want to get this peacefully, but you need to scale up these rocks, these metal structures whatever these are, I'm not even sure to be honest, and then just make your way, keep making your way up and you'll eventually get, at the top if you ain't a noob like me you can do this a lot lot quicker, you know I'm a noob guys, forgive me, forgive me, so once you get up here you can see the giant gun there and the way it's facing and I just want to jump over here, jump over these rocks and like I said there will be enemies here so you will have to take them out if you want to jump across here and it's in this building right here again there will be ads here too, see the way that guns face into the left, that way it's in this building right here, dead ahead, okay so from here we've got to do a little bit of climbing again for another Spartan core, this is that there, well I'd say halfway up these rocks, you can see right in front of us we need to scale up this the side this broken ship, I can actually just run up here it's not hard at all, but once you get up here once you get to the top of this sorry, you'll have to keep going and keep going people and keep going, it's a little bit further up, again there will be ads here trying to take you out but you can't these ain't too bad, you can't ignore these if you want to just run past them and you should be good, one last scale up people, one last scale up and it's right next to there, to your right you can see it by that little vehicle and there we have it guys another Spartan core you can see the vehicle, you can see where the first gun totes I took out, the one we just come from and there we have it guys, there we have it guys, okay so next up we have another propaganda tower and this is located right next to this Spartan core, you can see it right here, now these are normally occupied by a few enemies so you will have to take them out, about a couple of shots with your gun and this tower should be down, but there we have it guys, you can see the ads around it, so let's take them out to it to make life a lot easier on yourself, okay so from here we're going to grab another audio log but it does require you to scale upwards again, you need to get to the top, the very top of these rocks now I take the noobs route, safe and easy you know, there we go, I have actually upgraded my grapple hook because I need that cooldown on because I fall so much I need that quick escape to grapple on to something, we have to just keep climbing up, listen out for the beeping that this thing does, the beeping it's so annoying, I apologize people not trying to be annoying but you know, and there we go, see it like I told you I'm a noob, well it's right up here next to a beautiful locking sniper which you just had to pick up, the flex fire sniper S7, sounds cool, and there we have the audio log so it's right next to it, so you're good to grab that one, okay so from here we're gonna go and destroy another propaganda tower and it means we do have to run along the edge of this hilltop or mountaintop and you'll see on the map right here, we have to go across to about, well we run towards this patch here but it's about halfway across so it's just easier to run across here, you stay from ads until you get to the tower that is, and it's quite easy, it's nothing too difficult and that's why I've made my way from the right around the top to the left gun and then we go back to the middle because it's just easier, otherwise you're going around your ass to get to your elbow and no one likes to do that, no one likes to do that, you can see the tower right there just down to my left, so, kick you up your ass little boy you better run man and there we have it people, there it is, and there it is, destroyed and done okay so from here we're gonna go and grab a armor locker for that multiplayer and beautiful cosmetics that are hidden throughout this world, I've got quite a few of these so far to be honest I haven't actually been back on water to see what they look like, I'm not gonna lie but I just want to make your way towards that giant gun and it's probably best to scale up the way I do, hook onto this swing around, just get up way quicker, just like that, now I have taken out most of the adds up here, fryer, so I shouldn't have a problem but if you just run this way you will have to take out the adds otherwise you will get your ass handed to you, like you see the locker is right there people, it's right there, so you want to grab that and be done here, so from here guys we're gonna go and grab another audio lug so you're just basically turn back around on yourself, you can see this building right here again it will be occupied by enemies if you wanted to take them out, actually go through the back door because you actually attract way less enemies so go through the back door and the audio lug as you can see I've already picked it up is right here on this table, you can see this is even more right here so I still have to take them out but you know the audio lug is on the table so grab it guys when you've taken out the enemies you're good to carry on from here, okay so from here guys you're gonna go and grab another armor core so you want to come out of that room, you want to come out the main door and we actually you can see on the map we have to actually jump off here so yes you will have to come out because this is actually the gun I left just in case the mission went ahead and that's stuck with no collectibles so that's the one I actually left, you just have to jump right off here and you'll see this big red door behind you or lift even and you can see the actual armor core is right there guys now there will be enemies here again so you will have to take them out, we should be good guys but that is the armor core right there people, okay so from here we are running back to basically the center point of this entire area the Pelican Dan area which is basically right there so we're gonna have to run from here all the way to here, don't worry about any of the adds guys I mean take them out if you have to but other than that just keep running, keep running I catch you when I get there guys just so you can follow the route I take just in case you get lost but you can see it's 400 meters away but it's not too hard as all people so once you get here people which is where we marked this broken ship right in front of you beholds an audio lug so just jump up on here and grab that thing guys and you are good with this one okay so from here guys we're gonna grab another Spartan core which is literally right above us so you can't hear this from down here but you know they actually end at the end of the ladder the audio lugs so yeah you can see as I land I start to hear it but it's there so grab that guys and level yourself up man level that self up okay so from here guys we're gonna go and grab another audio log and it's within another broken ship now I should have confused myself here because it isn't to the right it's to the left that there is things to the right though we'll grab them in a second but you can see that broken ship right there that is where it is actually remember recording this being a complete noob trying to show off my my grapple hook skills but it don't work I mean I shouldn't I don't know why don't Mantle there I try again no third time lucky and there we go and this audio lug is within the crack in this wall or the scap in this wall so grab that people and we are good with this one okay so from here guys gonna go and grab another audio rock so we want to go back on ourselves doesn't really matter which door but we want to head to the broken well is that a ship where we're just coming from the original direction the right we're gonna go I just thought we're gonna first one up because that should have to go back right anyway because there's another propaganda tower around here so yes keep coming this way Mantle over all this dust and dirt you can see it's within this wall right here my people you can send them up exactly where I am so grab that and be good guys and lastly people we do have the final propaganda tower this is the 18th collectible within this area so you want to come from that audio lug just turn right or go right climb up these rocks or this rock so I do whatever the hell it is and just follow this route Mantle over these ships and your seats in the distance is not far away it's probably about 250 meters tuts from that audio lug so we should be good people watch I almost fall off there this is occupied by enemies which you destroy they come around the corner you see I'm right there but you're good people you're good and that is it for the 18 collectibles guys within the Pelican Dan area so guys I hope you enjoyed the video a long one for sure but if you appreciate that leaving a like really helps me out and I appreciate you being here but yes I hope to see you on the next Halo video guys have a good night


Hey guys, what's up? It's Kinsey and welcome back to my channel. For today's video I'm going to be filming a summer haul. This is kind of collective I have stuff from Urban Outfitters, some sunglasses, some stuff from Fashion Nova. Just some random stuff Honestly, this is a pretty random haul. Hope you guys enjoyed. If you guys liked seeing hauls Let me know in the comments down below. Also give it a thumbs up. Subscribe if you guys are new here Okay, let's get started. So I'm gonna start with Fashion Nova because it's the closest to me right now I love Fashion Nova pretty much all my cool sets are from Fashion Nova. I haul them all the time I wear a lot of stuff from them. I feel like people don't know there's just like so many things you can get from them I'm a big fan. So I have this jumpsuit. That's just black Really cool. This zipper like it can look very very flattering. I saw it online and I was like this is this is definitely the move So I really like this. I'll probably wear this like a nice summer night out. Honestly I went to catch last night I would have worn it had I known that it was in my mailbox this entire time. So awesome I also have this like black almost like Henley body suit So this is just super easy to wear especially just like with denim on like a summer night out These are really soft really comfortable and a good basic Then I got these easier a little bit crazier But I really want biker shorts in every single color because I want to wear biker shorts with like t-shirts like this This shirt is from misguided by the way um and Like short socks with Air Force ones pretty much all summer. I want that to be my everyday summer look So I got these they're blue. They're a little bit crazy, but I thought that they're fun I have no shirts like anywhere with them right now But I need to find some because they're super comfortable and they're really fine I mean like biker shorts are the move have another body suit This one is very like pretty and silky and not really things that I wear typically, but I thought it would be cool So it's just like blouse that is kind of like a blush color and it crosses So you can kind of have it as open as you want it buttons up, but it crosses down below So it's not just like a boring blouse like there's something else to it, you know, this could be better. It could not be okay The next thing I have is this like jacket top blouse thing Also thought this was really cool very fun Different I actually have things kind of like this, but I just thought this won't be cool So I don't have this one so I can't speak so you know when you know you guys don't know because not all You make YouTube videos sometimes I film a video like that's awesome Sometimes I film a video and I'm like am I speaking English that this is one of them. Okay. I got this like a matching body set This is what I mean. Um, but it's just biker shorts with a like Sports bra basically it's nude and I can also wear these just on their own or this just on their own So it kind of just depends on what my vibe is for that day, but yeah, I really like this I also just got this because I was gonna get normal nude biker shorts But I got this night. It was the same thing and I can get this too. So be smart guys. I have another jumpsuit This one is silky. I'm not sure how this is gonna fix. They're small So we will see but this is kind of just like a green blackish Silky body suit. I thought it was super fun. Oh, no rookie mistake I might wear this to my commencement ceremony not really sure but I think it's cute But the thing about this is that I like these for like when I have like a really bad summer Or I'm not like self-tanned or something for the summer because it like covers your whole body, but it's not super hot So that's that's why I love this moving on to urban outfitters Wow, this is something if you respond to anything you've seen these a billion times, but I got some Tim's I already had the black ones with the velvet laces But I got these as well and I didn't know that I was gonna get this much wear out of them But they're so cool. I want to like light gray ones too. I feel like if I got the light gray ones I would wear them every single day, but I love these. They're just yeah I know they've been around forever Everyone is so mad in the comments below that I'm not from New York and I wear them I am so sorry to offend everyone, but yeah, that's what I got Okay, I have random like techie stuff that I'll just go through really quickly So oh also I got my urban outfitter stuff on dope, which you guys don't know I love dope I went to Aspen and Coachella with them Amazing it's like the best shopping app ever If you guys download it and use code Kenzie you guys get $5 towards it, but I got all this stuff on dope You can also follow my profile Kenzie Piper, but yeah, just thought I'll let you guys know I got another Polaroid this is a Fuji film in stock So they're not Polaroids, but whatever this one is obviously bigger than my insects many I'm gonna use these and put them up in my office I think I don't know what I'm gonna do with them because my room right now is full of Disposables and the insect mini pics so I feel like if I do more it's just gonna be like a mess But maybe I will anyways, this is so fun This is cool to have around your house the insects many is easy to bring places But this one is just like so cool like the bigger photos are so much better But it's just a pain to carry this everywhere So I probably would have said this at home, but love that if any of you guys are coming to our tour if you guys don't know I've mentioned this in every single video But we are coming to New York, Chicago and LA Venice Beach So if any of you guys are coming and you have Polaroids bring one so we can take those because that is awesome I got two like photo printers. So this is the instax share sp2 Haven't used this one yet, but I'm going to probably my week in my life vlog So stay tuned for that then I also have this Polaroid. What is this one? It's the unzipped one I'm gonna have everything down below, but this one is cool My friends set it up to his phone. So I haven't printed off myself But they're really cute like little photos that you can instantly print and just hang on your wall put on your phone case Like if you look at clear phone case, it's good to put back here, but super cute. So I'm really excited about those Also, this is literally the most perfect thing is I'm gonna be traveling so much this summer with tour It's like random stuff, but this is a USB powered aromatherapy fan diffuser I don't have essential oiler right now I normally have so much but I just used it all and my other diffusers But this is one that I can like travel with like I can just throw this in my bag and it's awesome It changes colors seven for colors. Yeah, I'm really excited about this It'll be so fun. I got two pairs of jeans one pair. I'm wearing right now. These are really comfortable It's super easy. These are definitely my favorite ones that I'm wearing right now and then I have these jeans So these are ribs They kind of fit a little bit weird around like my stomach like they're almost like too big on my stomach But they fit my legs, so I don't really know BDG is my favorite like line of denim as of probably the past six months Actually, maybe a year now. We've been going steady for a while, but yeah, I love urban jeans. They're awesome Love these I like how these aren't like super skinny at the end Like they are skinny, but they're more like straight leg and there's like they're longer I don't know they're cool then I got these adidas pants, which I haven't even worn yet But there's cool big baggy straight leg I see a lot of people having these and I thought they're cool I love lingerie as we know I did my laundry the other day in literally I think I hung up like 15 pairs of sweats so I need to stop I used to not have any of that and now that's all I have It's a problem, but these are like more socially acceptable like I think I can wear these out in public I definitely can but you know other ones you like can't wear in public these I Definitely can okay. I'm done. I also got this Tommy Hilfiger Jeans Like a little what would this be? I have this top. I don't even know what to call it This is kind of honestly very unlike me I've been adding color into my wardrobe like red and blue is not really something that I have a lot of but this is fun Really comfortable. I really like the Tommy stuff at urban. Well, I think I know I don't know the other stuff I have from there is really comfortable, so I'm a fan So I got two new pairs of sunglasses from Monarch Tokyo. These are very fun very different Honestly when I wear them I feel like I'm wearing like little goggles. It's like you don't wear them like this, but These are fun, and I like the red ones because when you look through them. It looks crazy And then I got the exact same glasses and black Very cute. These are fun. I feel very like cool, you know, okay So that is it for my haul for today. It was a bunch of random stuff to be honest with you I don't really know what's going on I just have a bunch of stuff that I needed to haul and share with you guys If you guys liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up and let me know if you guys are coming to our tour stops again If you live in New York, Chicago LA, let us know. Okay. Love you guys so much Hope you enjoyed this video, and I will see you soon


Okay, let me introduce myself first. I'll be the facilitator for the session and my name is Professor Deborah Davis. I'm the clinical chair here in Canberra, Australia. And it does give me enormous pleasure to facilitate this session. And it feels like we've come full circle because I was part of the organizing committee for the first ever victim and continued for the next 10 years and was around Sarah when she was dreaming up this idea. I don't have no idea how she dreamed it up, but we'll hear from Sarah in a moment to find out about that. I want to, I was customary in Australia to acknowledge the first people of this place and Australia is a country that has many First Nations countries within it. And on the land that I sit today and Sarah as well, the first people of this place are the Nanawol people and I pay my respects to them and their elders past and present. And I am always really in awe of their culture. They've had more than 60,000 years of continuous culture on this place and I cannot help but think about the women's business is what they call childbirth knowledge that has led them to be so successful. All the women that have birthed on this place, all the knowledge and skills that they have, which are largely lost to us now, to our great shame. So respects to the Nanawol people. So as I said, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Sarah to you. Sarah started this 15 years ago to celebrate the International Day of the Midwife on her kitchen table, which I remember well in Deletion, New Zealand. The first year she pretty much spent talking to herself. There weren't a lot of, actually, I think I remember having five people in one of our first sessions and who would have guessed, she says all these years later, that a global pandemic would also make the virtual conference such an everyday occurrence. We're all very familiar with it, but 15 years ago it was really a groundbreaking initiative. So in this presentation, Sarah will be reflecting on the lessons she's learned over the years. As she's been facilitating the victim, she'll talk about leadership collaboration and innovation. I'm lucky enough to work. I'm in a similar department now with Sarah. We've both moved from New Zealand and she's very much a valued colleague and friend. So welcome, Sarah, and thank you for your initiative. And I'm looking forward to hearing about it today. Thank you so much, Deb. I'm just absolutely thrilled to be here. Yes, gosh, you can believe it, that 15 years ago we were in Dunneeden, working in New Zealand, working on this as an idea. And here we are now, 15 years later, and the Virtual International Day of the Midwife is still going strong. And in your introduction, you said you were first committee. I think committee is a little bit of an exaggeration. I think it's just you and me, wasn't it just mulling things over glass and wine every now and again. So thank you and thank you, everybody. I am now, I am missing my pointy arrow thingy to move my slides a lot, unless I can't see for looking. Lorraine, are you able to help me with that? I probably haven't made you present us, Sarah, I'm sorry. Okay. While Deb does that, I love this photo. That's my daughter, actually, Ellen, who is now a nurse. And who knows, maybe one day she'll be a midwife. I'm looking very energetic there. So I was asked by the Organising Committee to sort of reflect on the last 15 years of my experience with the Virtual International Day of the Midwife. And but as I just want to repeat what Deb said, and that is to acknowledge that we're on the land of the Ngunnawal people and the Nambri people. And I'm just so very, very grateful and blessed and privileged to be on that land. And I too would like to pay my respects to their elders past and present and emerging and pay my respect to all Indigenous peoples, particularly midwives across the whole world. Thank you. And I'm not quite sure what's happened to this slide and we've missed one of the photos, but anyway, this is just a couple of photos from the Canberra area where I am so lucky to be living. So that's me and that is Blackie the Cat. And we started the Virtual International Day midwife 15 years ago. Sorry, we've already said that, haven't we? And it was very much came out as a really a thinking about, I might put the slide back in, that I was at the bottom of the world, seemed to me at the time. And I just felt so isolated, I guess, maybe one word, it sounds a bit dramatic. But so then back, so that was 2008, 2009. And we started to think about so how can we connect with people around the world? And today, in today's session, I want to just talk about three things that there's lots of things we've learned over the years, but three elements, three things that I've learned being involved with the Virtual International Day, the midwife, that hopefully we can not only take forward with it in our midwifery, not only take forward, not only as the Virtual International Day, midwife grows and continues, hopefully for years to come, but that we can take into our lives as practising midwives. And those three things that I'm just identified for today is recognising opportunities, is leadership. And part of that is recognising opportunities, having passion and being resolute. So the day came about because everybody went off and left me. I was left, I think it was about 2008, I think something like that. And there was a big ICM conference in South Africa. And as you can see there, that's our notice board. And all the lectures put when we were back, if we're in and if we're out, and you'll see by net binding that I was only one in and everybody else had gone over to South Africa for the ICM, the International Confederation of Midwives. And I was left by myself and I thought, gosh, this was, I really feel like I'm missing out here. And I couldn't afford to go, I couldn't afford to take the time off, I couldn't work and obviously we couldn't all leave the office. We had to, some of us had to stay behind.  And then I thought, well, gosh, if I'm feeling like this and I'm in a very privileged position, what are midwives feeling who are in resource poor countries? So I started to think back then, but so how can we connect with people? How can we share information, research, just even have conversations with people when we can't meet in the face-to-face context? Now I have to say, I feel a little bit sort of out of date, really talking about this now because of course, since the pandemic, I mean, all this is ho-hum, but in 2008, 2009, it was a very real question. So in terms of leadership, one of the absolute key things I think we need to think about is how do we recognize and lean into opportunities? So setting up the Virtual International Day of the Midwife was definitely an opportunity for me. There was an opportunity that I led into. I was not afraid to take the lead and people who know me know that I'm very quick to put myself out there. And that can be very difficult for some people who feel maybe a little shy, a little bit timid. And you can be forgiven for being scared about, well, what happens if it goes wrong or what if people laugh at me? But try and put those feelings aside and make them move and okay, so if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And there's always lessons to be learned there. And look how successful the VIDM has been ever since. I'm so glad that we made the move to take this opportunity. The next thing about being a leader and is having a passion and not being afraid to share that passion. I was passionate and still am. Passionate about using ways to bring midwives together, to provide opportunities for networking, to break down traditional opportunities for networking, break down, sorry, traditional barriers to professional development, to model lifelong learning practices, especially in the informal context, to model open communication and collaborative practices. And back then in 2008 or thereabouts, we were learning and getting involved in open access practices, whereby information became openly accessible and weren't put behind firewalls. And I think those issues now are just as relevant today as they were back then. And back then, of course, we were also very passionate about increasing digital literacy and capability. Again, not so much a problem now because COVID has done us a huge favor. And I think I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. So those things I've just listed, but my passions, they were the aims of the virtual international dead midwife, what we wanted to achieve. When you're passionate about something, your passion will ignite the people around you.  So have passion and don't be afraid to share it. Now, just looking at that picture, my golly, gosh, I live in an untidy house. Gosh, Deb, can you remember I live in an untidy, my house was used to be, I hope it's a little bit tidy now, I'm a gracious. Obviously wasn't passionate about my housework, that's for sure. So another thing about being a leader, we've talked about having a vision, being passionate, the other thing is being resolute. We had lots of ups and downs with the VIDM over the years. Lots of things that were issues, not least issues around technology, around how we market the VIDM, how we get people involved. And there was always something that would crop up that would be a big issue. But we were resolute that whatever happened, we were going to go ahead, we were going to put on the VIDM, we were going to problem solve, even if it was a big technical pool, blow up right at last minute, we would get together and collaboratively as a team, work out a solution. That picture there, the one that's on my left, cause still more pictures of the very untidy kitchen. The one on the right is me actually sitting, I think it was 2012, yes it was. I was actually in the UK. And so I was facilitating the VIDM from the UK. So dragged my computer over with me, we were, I was on holiday with family, we were in, we went on a trip, we had to find our, I don't know, would it be an Airbnb or something like that. I had to set up, I had no idea if the internet was going to work. I had no, actually we got caught up in traffic, so I was even at one point really stressing that I'd even get there in time. But we overcame it and we were absolutely resolute that we were going to do what we said we were going to do. People do try and put you off, people are naturally, I think people are naturally negative and it isn't necessarily because they mean to be, but because I think they're just afraid of failure.  That's certainly been a very big lesson for me in the last 15 years and actually in life generally. And bring people together with you when they are worrying about things and problem solve problems together. And then you'll find even when you're not expecting to be or you're not meaning to be, but you can be then an inspiration to people without even realizing that that's what you are. One of the things that I was just absolutely so proud of is that after a couple of years of putting on the VIDM, some colleagues around the world who were occupational therapists did then, they were so inspired by what we were doing for midwives that they did exactly the same thing for occupational therapists and their initiative, which was a similar approach, took place over quite some years. I'm very proud of the fact that we inspired others. The second element of the learnings that I've taken on board is about innovation. And there's three elements of innovation that I would like to pass on to you. Gosh, we could talk for days on end about leadership, we could talk for days on end about innovation, but these are just three tips that I would pass on the first one and again, apologies for this, I'm not quite sure what's happened to the slides, but the first element of innovation is keep things simple and focused. It's very easy to have big, wide, wild ideas, but you've got to keep things simple, especially if you're trying stuff new for the first time. And we, for the Virtual International Day, the midwife, especially in the early days, we chose technologies that were freely available, that didn't cost us any money, and that, well, I was going to say that weren't time consuming in their use. The backend work that we had to do, especially in the, you're seeing the slide as fine, I'm seeing that the slide isn't. So I think what I'm seeing is different from what you're seeing, Lorraine, so it's good that hopefully everybody can see the full slide. What was I saying? I'm distracted there. We used technologies such as Wikis, the technologies for our actual presentations have changed over the years, but we've been very lucky to have friends who've allowed us to access various technologies. We use blogs, we, and even just talking to people and connecting with people, especially in the early days, when we didn't know anyone out there who could help us, even using social media like Facebook and Twitter. I was saying that the time behind putting all these things together, it was time consuming in the early days because this was a new idea. We had to figure out what worked in terms of, say, for example, instructions and every year was a learning opportunity. And I suspect that it's the same and continues to be even after all these years, even after a pandemic when this technology is so more ubiquitous, I suspect that we learn things every year and try out new things every year. And I'm really glad to see Isha saying that she's working to kickstart things in Nigeria and that's just absolutely wonderful. So please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you need support, we'll do that. And yes, Linda is saying you're still learning curve every year, absolutely. So it's even more important for reason for keeping things simple. Actually, photo icons is me in bed. I used to do a lot of my presentations in bed. So keep it simple and focus. The second element of innovation is resilience. It's hard work being an innovator. It's hard work bringing new ideas into place. Sometimes things work and go really well. Other times it doesn't and you have to go back to the drawing board. That there here is a picture of me being dragged up a very, very steep hill. I don't know if you can see clearly enough, I'm looking exhausted and I'll tell you, I was swearing a little bit at my husband who was dragging me up the hill. But I'll tell you what, at the top of the hill, this is in Queensland, at the top of the hill, we could look at the ocean and this was during whale watching season of the whales are swimming down the coast of Australia. We were able to sit at the top of the hill though, watching the whales swim by and that was the most incredible day for me. And working in this project had exactly the same feelings. It can be tiring, it can be exhausting and that sometimes you feel like you go forward five steps and then get knocked back. But it's worth persevering and it's also worth celebrating your successes when things do work out. So very worth persevering because the reward is worth it. The third element of innovation that I would like to, that I think is important to think about as part of being an innovator, is not being afraid to take risks. Now, you may say, well, that's a bit weird. Why would you want to take risks? Well, when I say take risks, I do put a caveat around that.  Definitely don't do that. And when you are thinking about taking risks, you also need to think about how you manage that. So you put things in place that help you manage that risk. The pictures I've put here is for some people getting on what a ferris wheel might be considered to be a very risky thing to do.  And for sure, getting on top of that ferris wheel, a lot of people might not like it, especially if you've got a fear of heights. But when you get to the top of that ferris wheel, the view down is just absolutely superb. I think I took this photo a few years ago. You see, literally, can see for far distance, you can see throughout the whole of Floriad, is you can see all these beautiful flowers. And you actually, this picture here is, as you can see, is the world. And that's a beautiful metaphor. When you're taking risks, you do make mistakes. And you've got to take that. That's part of the learning process. You are going to make mistakes. And you learn by it. And you support each other when you do make those mistakes. And as I said, you put into place frameworks that hopefully those mistakes onto how to devastating and impact on what you're trying to innovate for. So learn by your mistakes. Try new things out until you find the right approach or the right model, the right fit for what you're trying to achieve. And as I said before, when things work out, you can achieve great success. Success may not be what you're thinking that you were looking for. And it might lead you in a completely different direction to where you thought you were going. And so another element around that is being agile. Don't be afraid to follow the path that you find yourself going down, even if it's a different path than what you're expecting. The second element that I've learned about through the last 15 years is the importance of collaboration. And I think that's probably one of the big lessons and the big joys and the big benefit that I found through VIDM. As Deb said, we started off in 2008, 2009, just basically the two of us. And then over the years, we met people who were interested in our work a lot through our e-learning connections. And a number of people have come to help us and are still on the committee now, like Lorraine, actually aren't midwives. And they've joined us and support us because of their love of learning. And that particularly warms my heart. So thank you, Lorraine, and thank you, Chris, who worked with us for so many years because of the love of learning and because of their love of supporting the midwifery community. So in terms of collaboration, again, we could talk about collaboration all day, but there's three things that have particularly struck me over the years about collaboration. And the first one is teamwork. Many hands make like work. I mean, that's an old cliche. And I've already said, I've been absolutely blown away by the generosity of the people who work with us. It is very time consuming and there is a lot of work that goes on behind us. But many hands make like work and working together, sharing ideas will make you a lot more productive and a lot more effective in the long run. The slide I've put up there, you'll see is just an example of the collaboration. You'll see two logos. And that first logo on the left was the initial logo that we started off with. And you know, this came about by I was blogging at the time and I just put up on my blog, look, we need a logo for Virtual International Day, the midwife, I've got no ideas, I'm hopeless at creative ideas like this and I'm hopeless at design. And I just put up a pose, can anyone help me? Can you not only come up with an idea but can you actually design it? I've got no money and I just put it out there. And you know, I'm embarrassed to admit I can see the lady's face, I can't remember her name. But a lovely lady, not even a midwife, an educator in New Zealand came up with this idea, did the graphic design for me. And this was all through online communication. Now I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the logo on the right is our latest logo and I'm not quite sure how everybody got to that but it's absolutely beautiful. And I love this example of how things have changed over the years. So thank you whoever came up with them, with the ideas around that it hasn't changed in an awful lot but it's definitely beautiful and it is wonderful teamwork. So things do change. And I don't know how to put this, sometimes when you particularly are the innovator and you start off with an idea and it grows and it changes and you yourself move, I finished up and I moved on from the committee, I don't know but I think three, four, five years ago and it was very hard because this was my baby. And I felt very, on the one hand it's really weird that I actually felt, I don't want to hand over my baby. But I couldn't be present unless I learned was not to be precious about the work. It's not all about me, it's about the community. And so it was a bit of a hard lesson for me to learn when I moved on about handing over my baby. And that's life and you move on, you do other things and that's a good thing and other people take on your projects, other people take on your innovation, move it in other directions and that's healthy and that's what should happen. The other vital element of all this is evaluation. It's absolutely critical. You've got to evaluate what you're doing because if you don't, you won't know what works, what doesn't work and how to make changes and how to improve things. The second element of teamwork is about being, working together in a respectful way. Be humble, trust the people you work with and respect them. I've always believed in a very equal approach to teamwork. I think it's very difficult being, having a team in a very strict hierarchy. And again, another cliche, there is no I in team and I think that's so absolutely true. So how you work in a team is critical to its success. If you're authoritative, if you are not, if you do not engage respectfully with people, your team won't work effectively. And the third thing about teamwork is that collaboration doesn't, I'm sorry about collaboration, is that it doesn't just get the work done. It's a two-way process. You learn from each other and in our case, we became more of a community of practice I would say and it was an organic thing that's evolved over the years and because of that, I think it's been a lot more effective and a lot stronger in the way that we've worked together. These are just a few photos of the people I've met along the way who we've met virtually and then we were lucky enough to meet up face-to-face at the end Lauren, Lauren, sorry, who we've worked with now for a golly 15-odd years and what we've never actually met but it's so amazing that we still work so effectively together. So where to from here? We just pausing there to reflect. We've been through some very hard years the last three years. Excuse me, I've just dropped my notes. COVID has taught us a lot about virtual communication, collaboration and learning. And it's certainly done us a big favor. I was reflecting the other day, I was talking to someone the other day on a project that Professor Davis Debra and I worked on along the same time as we were starting up the Virtual International Day at the Midwife and it was a virtual birthing center in Second Life which was a virtual world. The project was really innovative and hugely exciting and had the potential to be incredibly successful but we were 15 I think and dead may or may not agree with me. We were 15 years ahead of our time and this goes back to being resilient again. Now if we had started that project now, I think it would fly, I think it would absolutely fly. So then that is what COVID has done for us over the last three years. It's not been easy working virtually and I have to say I think it's really good that we're getting back into face-to-face network because nothing does beat that face-to-face being together is there, there's no doubt about it. And of course acknowledge the ICM, the International Congress of Midwives, Confederation of Midwives, sorry. It has their face-to-face conference in Bali in a couple of months. So I hope that some of you will be able to get together to meet up then. And it's fascinating for me now when I think about the last 15 years that Zoom has become a verb now where it's called Zoom is an actual technology. So for the VIDM team and for educators and midwives, generally COVID has done us a huge favor. But when we look more broadly at what's going on in midwifery and the maternity world, we see a lot of problems. Certainly we're seeing it in Australia and I suspect across the world. We're seeing burnout. We're seeing people leaving both midwifery and healthcare professions. We're having difficulty in getting people coming into the professions and on it goes. We're seeing detrimental impacts on birthing because of the practices that went on through COVID and we're seeing that detrimental impact on the mental health of both midwives and the women, people and families having their babies. We're seeing the impact of medicalization of birth accelerating to such an extent that in many places 50% Caesarean section rate is normal and physiological vaginal birth is the exception rather than norm. And indeed the actual support and application of normal birth in some areas is being demonized even you may say I'm exaggeration but that's my perception of what's going on and even being shut down in some cases. So moving forward as midwives not just as midwives who want to work and be involved in the VIDM but as midwives generally across the profession we need everyone to be strong leaders who can collaborate and drive innovation. And the principles of the VIDM when we started it are just as important relevant now if not more so. And I think it's really, I mean there's lots of things that we can say that we need to move the professions forward but I think that the three critical things there's for us to think about and that is research, education and influence. It is critical for us to do research not just about women and people-centered care but we've got to think about how we disseminate it far and wide and as quickly as possible. And the VIDM does such a wonderful job in that space of helping us to disseminate information and research. We've got to think about how we turn the knowledge that we gain from research into education and again make it open access and available to everyone and I'm not just talking about midwives here that we're talking about the people, the women, pregnant women, people and families who are to space it. There are users, they're the reason why we're here in the first place. And I think one of the elements that miss so much in midwifery and healthcare generally is the influencing. We need to be able to think about who we influence and how we do it. And I think this is where we really need to grow our focus and where we need to grow our skills and awareness. We need to be able to influence what goes on at the ward level and what goes on in our everyday daily practice. We need to be able to influence policy and strategy at our organizational level and we need to influence how policy is made at national and global level. And this is where the IDM can make such a such an important part in bringing midwives together. We can give us the opportunity to network, to learn, to work together, to collaborate because the more we work together the stronger we will be to influence and change policy and ensure that we are providing women and people-centered care. It gives us opportunities for innovation to meeting people and innovate. It supports us. We can support each other through the IDM and events like this. We can support each other when times get tough and we can help each other to be resilient when we find that things are going, things are hard. We can support each other to take risks and learn and support each other to evaluate and review and to regroup if we need to. We, to be successful with our research and our education, our influence we have to work with each other in a culture of trust, respect and humbleness. And when we do these things we will see success not only in our own growth and development but also across the profession and ultimately providing effective and women-people-centered care that we provide to the women and people and families that we work with. I hope that you have a very successful and enjoyable the IDM this year and that you're able to get to all these sessions that you hope to get to and I know that we record the session so that you can get back. But I really hope that you'll think about how you can be leaders, how you can collaborate together and how you can be innovative to make sure to bring about real truths, women and people-centered care which is absolutely the key to everything we do as midwives. So thank you very much. And I'd love to have a chat with you. I think we've got probably five minutes or so. Is there any comments or questions that people would like to ask? Looks like we've got five minutes so I'll just wrap up while you're thinking of your questions, pop them in the public chat. But thank you, Sarah, for really a super drawing out of the lessons of VITM. We learned that VITM was the result of Sarah's FOMO and look where that took us 15 years on. I don't know if anybody's noticed but VITM involves no money. There's no money comes in and no money goes out. There's no sponsorship. They are absolutely committed to it being free and accessible to everybody and recognizing too that people in less well-resourced countries don't always have access to this kind of connection and sharing of information that VITM makes available. So it's fueled on generosity and goodwill and I think that's what makes it very special to me anyway. Yeah, thanks, Sarah. I love the pictures of your messy kitchen because it just highlights to me that's women's work. We're amongst it all. The messy kitchen table, the washing basket. You just make space for it, don't you, and get the work done? Just seeing if we've got any questions coming there. I love the point that you made about the wins from the hard work, you know, really stopping to celebrate those wins, walking to the top of that hill or whatever it is. And I do remember the highs after we'd run a successful VITM conference after a lot of work that the high really carried you forward into the next conference. Have you got a reflection? Just if we don't get any more questions here. On what has contributed to the longevity, Sarah, you probably, we never imagined 15 years on, we'd still be going. Look, I think it absolutely is the passion of the people involved and I think it's that, you know, and what has really, and I said that earlier about that passion, I think what has really fired that passion is the desire to provide something that is free, something that completely accessible to everybody. Acknowledging, of course, there are midwives in areas that can't access it because they don't have internet access or they don't have the technologies. And I mean, that's always been one of the problems we've had with VITM. I think COVID has certainly made technology more ubiquitous, but you can't get to everybody all the time. And that's just something that you have to accept. But I think it's the passion, the generosity of the people, not just on the organizing committee, but of the people that come to the event every year. And yeah, that just, it's such a passion to be committed to open access and free stuff and networking. Yeah, thank you. I wanted, you made a good point as well, Sarah, about stepping away and the difficulty of stepping away. And I know our own beautiful Chris Woodhouse is probably grappling with this as we speak. And, but I think there's, there has been a commitment on the committee to bring in new blood. And my reflection is that that's probably been something that's very important to the longevity of VITM. It's, as you showed, the logo is different.  So it has embraced change. And I, my reflection is that's been important as well. I think the chat, there are some challenges facing VITM and I'm conscious of the time that made this quick. You know, are we all zoomed out now? And so I think the challenge for VITM now is how to harness people's knowledge of virtual engagement and what have you. But now get us re-energized, get midwives and re-energize after the last three years of being so exhausting and move us from that mindset of golly, I can hardly get to work every day. Let alone do anything outside and move us back into being enthused and motivated to share and network and do research. I think that's the big challenge. But I think that's a challenge, not just for VITM. I think that's a challenge across the professions. Linda had a question about attracting more delegates. How do we do that, Sarah? I know that's a question we often had on the committee, wasn't it? Yeah, look, it's interesting. And I'm looking at 31 users today, which is absolutely fabulous to have that number of people here, I mean, it absolutely is, but there obviously is far more people we can attract. Oh, gosh, I mean, social media, absolutely spreading your, using social media effectively is one of the keys. I don't know, I mean, I think it's really tricky, because I think, especially at MUM, because I think everybody is so tired. And I think that's a problem across the board, whatever you put on for people. They're really tired. And we've got to think about how we re-energize people, we motivate people. I don't have an answer for that one. That's a really tricky question. Yeah, it is a tricky one, but I'm sure that if the committee keep delivering such great quality sessions and such a good conference every year, it will grow as it has enormously. All right, it is time to wrap up, Sarah. So I want to thank you for your boldness and your innovations that, you know, we've really enjoyed. I hope you feel really proud of what Bidham has become and the contribution. And thank you for one of the things I didn't do very well was acknowledge your support. And I couldn't have done any of this without your tremendous support. So I'm extremely grateful to you as well, Deb. So thank you. Oh, that's super. Thank you. It's like Batman and Robin, I'll be your wingman any day, Sarah. All right, everyone, thank you. I'll let you move on to the next session. Thanks so much. It's been great. Thank you.