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Women Work and Health: Have we made progress? Dame Carol Black Expert Adviser on Health and Work Department of Health, England Consultant Adviser on Health Department of Work and Pensions, UK
Social Determinants of Health The social gradient Stress Early life Social exclusion Work/Unemployment Social support Addiction Food Transport Education
Work: its value Work is a social determinant of health Work is generally good for health – the two are inextricably linked Enabling people to be in productive work is a health issue Work provides income: material well-being and participation in today's society Work meets important psychosocial needs in societies where employment is the norm Employment and socio-economic status are the main drivers of social gradients in health Work needs to be 'good work' Galen (129-200) "Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness."
A more feminised workforce UK Workforce participation rates 1971 to 2008 Is this work 'good work?' From R.Donkin, The Future of Work, 2010
A more feminised workforce USA Workforce participation rates 1948 to 2005
The needs of a worker, male or female To be healthy enough to work Safe healthy workplaces - physically safe - emotionally healthy good work: job security work varied and interesting workers have some autonomy, control and task discretion fair rewards (not just financial) for effort supportive social relationships worker engagement. The various countries of the world are at different stages in providing the above. The nature of work is changing in many countries.
Women and work in the European Union Women: More likely than men to be unemployed or in low-paid jobs Still dominate employment in sectors such as health care and social services, education, public administration and retailing Severely under-represented in economic decision-making : Only 11% of board members in Europe's biggest listed companies are female Only 3% of such companies have a woman in charge (Norway is the exception – the result of a quota by law) Men: Work as technicians, engineers, finance professionals and managers Remain about twice as likely as women to be managers, and three times as likely to be senior managers
Dehumanisation of work Anna Sam: 'The Tribulations of a Check-out Girl' Sam often heard mothers admonish their children as they approached her till: "If you don't work hard at school you will end up like that lady at the counter." You do not often see men working on supermarket checkouts except for students in part-time jobs. Work can make you sick. It took a book for businesses to wake up and realise that here was not a human machine but a living, breathing and thinking human being. Example taken from R.Donkin, The Future of Work, 2010
Dehumanisation of work Polly Toynbee: 'Hard Work' In the book she explored the disadvantages for those in low-paid work by undertaking, aged 55 at the time, a series of poorly-paid, poorly-regarded jobs. Often she worked as a casual agency employee at or near the minimum wage. Not only was her experience an indictment of policies that have broadened the gap between rich and poor in the UK......it also highlighted the working realities for thousands of women. Some 80% of the ten lowest-paid occupations are undertaken by women.
Low-income US women and employment Findings from a US study of employment experiences and opportunities of low-income women in racially-segregated communities: 52% are currently working in low-wage service-sector jobs, and prefer jobs in healthcare and childcare Women typically have held several jobs for relatively short periods, with work histories punctuated by periods of non-work and welfare receipt They often stop working because of layoffs, childcare and transportation problems, pregnancy, illness or disability Most are single mothers, and they evaluate the costs and benefits of working in terms of their overall family responsibilities. From Scottish Government and Health Action Partnership International, 2012
Long-term unemployment Can lead to: Poorer physical health Poorer mental health Greater usage of medical services Poorer social integration Loss of worth and self-confidence Less monetary resources Trans-generational effects Re-employment can reverse these changes
What prevents us from working The two most common reasons given are: Common mental health problems Musculo-skeletal problems High prevalence across population Little or no objective disease or impairment Most episodes settle rapidly, though symptoms often persist or recur Essentially whole people, with what should be manageable health conditions Psychosocial factors important – especially in chronic disability. Plus other factors: Chronic diseases – mental and physical Obesity-related diseases Domestic violence, addiction Lack of education and/or skills Deprivation, poverty, lack of jobs. Relative importance of these factors will vary with gender, type of work, and country.
Women: poverty, mental ill-health and work in the EU Women form the majority of the EU's economically inactive, more likely than men to be poor. Some 35% of single parents, mainly women, live in poverty. Adults in the poorest fifth of the income distribution are more at risk of developing a mental illness than those on average income – and they are less likely to be employed. Therefore, poorer women have worse levels of mental health and coping capacity to deal with life circumstances. One in six adults in the UK suffer from a common mental health disorder such as depression, anxiety, phobias and panic attacks. About 12.8 million working days (40% of total in UK) are lost due to stress, anxiety and depression each year. From Scottish Government and Health Action Partnership International, 2012
Domestic Violence Globally, at least one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused by an intimate partner, in the course of her lifetime. Some of the reasons DV still persists: Women's economic dependence on men Expectations of roles within relationships Limited access to employment in formal and informal sectors Limited access to education and training for women Lesser legal status of women in some countries by written law and/or practice (though with some ongoing improvement). Domestic violence has damaging consequences to health and to the economy. In India, each incident of domestic violence translates on average into women losing seven working days [United Nations report]. This is a difficult topic for employers, but there are some exemplary companies
Co-ordinated community response in the UK Government, law enforcement, courts, the voluntary sector and private sector have all worked together in partnership. Legislative framework and National Delivery Plans helped to set out the aims. Some of the outcomes include: 64% fall in the number of domestic violence incidents between 1995 and 2007/8. Successful prosecution rate increased from 47% to 64% in 2007/08, and then 72.5% in 2009, and in some areas up to 90%. Significant decrease in fatalities reported by the Metropolitan Police, from 49 deaths a year in 2003 related to domestic violence to 5 in 2010. Greater coordination of services has meant better value for money, and more effective response.
EDV Global Foundation - Catalyst for change The Eliminate Domestic Violence global foundation is a non-profit organisation with the aim to eliminate domestic violence on a global scale. Working in partnership with countries, international and national agencies, and based on credible international standards, the Global Foundation sets out to provide the expertise needed to achieve this. The EDV Foundation can help by: Identifying if there is baseline data available initially. Providing suggested data sets. Providing training and advice. Providing on-going support. Founder: Baroness Scotland QC www.gfedv.org
International obesity statistics In an increasingly competitive global economy, only the healthiest businesses will prosper. Companies that invest to support employees' health will be fitter to survive. Australia France Germany NewZealandSweden UK USA Estimated Overweight & Obesity(BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²) Prevalence, Males, Aged 15+, 2010 75.74867.273.95767.880.5 Estimated Overweight & Obesity(BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²) Prevalence, Females, Aged 15+, 2010 66.536.9184.108.40.2063.876.7
Obesity and consequent disease in the UK It is likely that by 2025 40% of adults will be obese, and the number of people living and working with chronic conditions will rise steadily, affecting morale, competitiveness, and profitability. Predicted rates per 100,000200620302050 Arthritis603649695 Breast cancer792827823 Colorectal cancer275349375 Diabetes286949087072 Coronary heart disease194424713139 Hypertension551068517877 Stroke7928871050
Rheumatoid Arthritis and work RA is more common in women Half UK adults with RA are of working age 75% are diagnosed when of working age One in three people with RA will have stopped working within 2 years. Earlier diagnosis and appropriate treatment mean better retention in work. Increasing from 10% to 20% the number of people treated within 3 months of symptoms would increase NHS costs in England by £11 million over 5 years BUT could result in £31 million gain for the economy due to reduced sick leave and work- related disability. National Audit Office Report 2009 Public Accounts Select Committee 2010
Rheumatoid Arthritis and work Report identified lack of coherence in links between the National Health Service and organisations commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions to get people back into work. Only 56% of hospitals were aware of DWP schemes, and 33% of these did not give RA patients appropriate information. Only 12% of family doctors gave information about continuing in employment to those newly diagnosed with RA. Only 20% of patients with RA considered that they received sufficient information about employment issues. National Audit Office Report 2009
Cancer and work Cancer is becoming a long term condition 109,000 working-age people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK each year 775,000 people of working age in the UK have had a cancer diagnosis Long term cancer survivors are 1.4 times more likely to be unemployed yet… … research shows that cancer patients want to work One in four long term cancer survivors say their cancer is preventing them working in their preferred occupation The average fall in household income for a family of working age with cancer is 50%...... and 17% lose their home MacMillan Cancer Support
National Cancer Survivorship Initiative Emerging findings – September 2010 Joint project: Macmillan Cancer Support, Department of Health and NHSI testing ways of providing Vocational Rehabilitation for people with cancer. Seven pilot sites across England to test a model of VR which includes providing information, face to face support, and access to learning programmes and a case manager. Emerging themes: Patients want attention to work issues early, and revisits during treatment and follow-up Health professionals inadvertently give mixed messages about work Line managers are key but may not have the knowledge and skill to manage a patient's return to work Patients need more information about rights and responsibilities with regard to employment Specialist vocational rehabilitation services can proactively anticipate patient problems
Cancer and shift work Extensive animal evidence suggests that disruption of circadian rhythms can increase the risk of cancer, by a variety of mechanisms. Epidemiological studies provide supporting, but not conclusive, evidence of increased risk of breast cancer in shift workers HSE has commissioned the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in Oxford University to investigate, using two large cohort studies (The Million Women Study and EPIUC-Oxford), focussing on shift-working in relation to cancer and other chronic conditions Cross-sectional studies show that shift-working women are in general less affluent, with different reproductive histories and increased prevalence of obesity and smoking – thus probably with increased risk of cancer etc. Analysis of these complex risk factors, once sufficient data are collected, will help this investigation of the relationship between night work and chronic disease
Changes and their consequences The contraceptive revolution that from around 1965 gave women reliable independent control of their fertility The changing nature of work, e.g. expansion of white-collar jobs, home working, job sharing Expansion of work for secondary earners who may want to retain other interests beyond paid work Equal opportunities and sex discrimination legislation Increase in significance of attitudes, values, personal preferences in modern liberal societies The new negatives: lifestyle, obesity, alcohol, lack of physical exercise, chronic disease
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Yay for another recipe involving blueberries and dark chocolate!
Obviously, I don't like to branch out too much :)
But this time the recipe is my own, and I have to say, they are pretty scrumptious.
The great thing about these cookies is that they can function as a healthful dessert option, but also in place of a breakfast muffin or a mid-day snack--very versatile.
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1/4 cup coconut oil*
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THE WASHOUT: The person who just can't deal with the real world and acts helpless AND defeated. Usually this person uses insecurity and self pity as an excuse for directly taking responsibility of their own life and changing it. Washouts absolutely depend on others for guidance which can lead to gullibility, underachievement, and a dangerously excessive reliance on others in relationships.(Picture courtesy of Jessie Mach)
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Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said work would start 'as soon as possible' and would be completed by 2011 or 2012.
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Derbyshire win by 6 runs
THERE were several hundred cricket matches played in England over the weekend, mostly in which the only sighting of a helmet was when the opening bowler arrived on his moped, players who nicked the ball to the wicketkeeper took off voluntarily to the pavilion rather than be persuaded by a volley of abuse from the opposition, and the only hint of meal-time acrimony revolved around who had pinched the last cucumber sandwich.
However, there are matches such as these, played at places like Pudsey and Peatling Parva, where rotund bank managers share the same changing-room as spotty schoolboys, and involve neither trophies nor money, and matches such as the Benson and Hedges Cup final, which, rattling good game though it turned out to be, provided further evidence that professional cricket and the village green have as much in common as the Gulf War with a game of marbles.
Far from a mutual invitation to pass the sandwiches during the luncheon interval at Lord's on Saturday, the respective protagonists glared silently at each other across the dining-room table after Derbyshire's Chris Adams and Lancashire's Wasim Akram had become involved in an argument that only just avoided an exchange of short-pitched tea cups, and fast inswinging saucers.
Adams, sporting a complexion almost as purple as the bruise on his shoulder after being hit by a Wasim beamer, plainly took the view that it had not been an accident, doubtless because of his own involvement in an earlier match between these sides which left a residue of bad blood even before the first ball was bowled at Lord's.
The Derbyshire batsman was the first member of his team to question the legality of the ball with which Wasim suddenly began swinging violently in last month's Championship game at Derby, which subsequently resulted in the home team sending it off to Lord's for forensic examination.
Wasim was decreed to have been merely sharp of pace, rather than practice or fingernail, but suspicions that the Pakistani had responded to Derbyshire's parcel post with an air-mail delivery of his own resulted in the lunchtime fracas.
Wasim has no history of malice and he also apologised both at the time of the incident and after the match, but there is no doubt that modern professional cricket is nowadays conducted in an atmosphere not dissimilar to one of Lord Ted's Calcutta smog readings.
The International Cricket Council's first fully paid chief executive has just moved into an office that runs the risk of being converted into a padded cell before he is too much older, charged with sorting out the ever increasing problems of poor behaviour that disfigured last summer's series against Pakistan, and resulted in
Australia being warned by the match referee in the last Test at Trent Bridge.
At Lord's on Saturday, the third umpire in the pavilion was called upon to adjudicate on a close run-out appeal in the final over and while the increased pressures of the game makes it more important to get this sort of borderline decision correct, let there be no doubt about why this system is now in place, and why an international panel of umpires is once again high on the International Cricket Council priority list.
It is entirely because the professional cricketer has, at best, adopted the St Trinian's school of discipline, and, at worst, decided that all their opponents cheat, and that umpires are either biased, incompetent, or both.
Fortunately for the crowd at the final, the two essential ingredients for a showpiece one-day match - a finish in one day, and a nail-bitingly close one - were both there. The rain that threatened a spill over into yesterday relented just in time, and Derbyshire went on to win in the sort of photo-finish that, at nigh on half past eight, almost required a flashgun on the camera.
In mid-morning, with Derbyshire 66 for 4 after being put in to bat, it hardly seemed likely that the match would progress much beyond tea-time, but it was then turned into a compelling contest by Dominic Cork's unbeaten 92, an innings that was a combination of dynamic brilliance and unflappable temperament. Lancashire will probably demand that his bat be sent to Lord's for immediate analysis.
Cork found two crucial allies in Tim O'Gorman and Karl Krikken, firstly in the business of repairing the damage, and secondly in rattling up the runs (77 from the final 11 overs) that required Lancashire to make a higher total than had ever been achieved to win this final in its 22-year history.
That they failed to do so, by six runs, was no fault of their captain, who made a typically rousing 87 not out. Neil Fairbrother is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to have a suspect technique for Test cricket, but in a one-day match, it is the equivalent of locking Billy Bunter in a tuck shop.
It was Fairbrother's misfortune to watch too many partners leave for the pavilion at crucial times, with the asking rate climbing too high, although Lancashire really lost this match in the field. Wasim's 11 overs went for 65, and to describe their fielding as appalling would be unwarranted flattery.
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Definition of keep (something) to oneself
: to keep (something) secret He knew what the facts were but kept them to himself.
Word by Word Definitions
: to take notice of by appropriate conduct : fulfill: such as
: to be faithful to
: to act fittingly in relation to
: custody, charge
: maintenance
: one that keeps or protects: such as
: some indeterminate or unspecified thing
: a person or thing of consequence
: one having more or less the character, qualities, or nature of something different
: in some degree : somewhat
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Traveling Between the Worlds
Conversations with Contemporary Shamans
By Hillary S. Webb
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.Copyright © 2004 Hillary S. Webb
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Conversations with Contemporary Shamans: The Interviews
Oscar Miro-Quesada
The farthest we'll ever have to travel is from our heads to our hearts. If people start down this path using just their head, it can take a lifetime. Two lifetimes. Three lifetimes. Four lifetimes. But if people wake up to this path with their heart, they don't need to study with any teacher. They are already there.
—Oscar Miro-Quesada
Some people are born to have their own unique vision of the world; others are born to use other people's vision as a jumping-off place from which to delve far deeper into new concepts and creations. Without a doubt, Oscar Miro-Quesada has done both.
As a child, this Peruvian-born psychotherapist and medical anthropologist suffered from severe asthma. At age ten, he underwent an attack during which he died, and experienced himself leaving the physical plane.
"Three very wizened old beings called me back and told me a lot of things about where I came from and where I was heading to," MiroQuesada recalls. "After that I was healed and never had asthma again."
As he grew older, the experience was forgotten, lost to the mundane interests of the teenage years—including one in the preparation of the hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus. At age eighteen, Oscar and a group of friends traveled to the northern coast of Peru, looking for don Celso Rojas, a curandero (healer) who was reputed to be the best San Pedro maker in the world. When they arrived at his home, don Celso dismissed Oscar's friends immediately, and made him stay. Later, during a San Pedro ceremony, the same three wizened old men rose out of don Celso's mesa (the shaman's altar).
"They reminded me of everything they had told me before regarding what my future was about—the marriage I was going to have, the schools that I was going to go to, the children I was going to have," Miro-Quesada says. "I was hooked, and started an apprenticeship with don Celso."
Drawing from both the spiritual teachings of don Celso and those of his own diverse educational background (which includes degrees in everything from humanistic clinical psychology to microbiology), today Oscar MiroQuesada facilitates experiential workshops on the integration of indigenous shamanic practices into the contemporary world through the Heart of the Healer Foundation. His visionary work and unique self-transformational journey programs to sacred sites around Peru, Bolivia, England, and Egypt have caught the attention of a number of television stations, including CNN, A&E, and the Discovery Channel. His teachings are heavily featured in the book Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa by Matthew Magee.
Hillary S. Webb: What do you mean when you say, "Part of shamanic mastery is learning to swim in this liquid universe"?
Oscar Miro-Quesada: Anyone who has done any work in shamanism knows that the universe is not a static state. It is more like an ocean—very liquid, very fluid. When doing magical flight or shamanic journeying, the soul or consciousness is actually separating from the physical vehicle and entering into that ocean of possibility. The shaman needs to learn to disengage his or her consciousness from the body and float freely in that ocean. The trick is in embracing the great mystery and in trusting that the universal world is a safe place to float. In a true shamanic journey, you need to put your personal will aside and allow Divine will to take over.
HSW: Which is probably one of the hardest parts of this work. The death of one's attachment to being in charge.
OMQ: A true practitioner of shamanism learns to trust that there is a larger source that is guiding you and directing your journey. Otherwise, you are constantly fighting it. The currents then become very threatening, and you feel like you are drowning. When you realize that there is no reason to hang on, because you realize that you are already dead, then you can just surrender and become the liquid universe itself.
HSW: Hold on a second. What do you mean we're "already dead"?
OMQ: Didn't you know that?
HSW: I guess I wasn't aware of that. Does this mean I don't have to go to work tomorrow? Seriously, though, what is all this about being dead?
OMQ: There is no difference between death and life. When you die and cross over, you are going to come to a place where you think that you are still alive. The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about various Bardos—intermediate states in which you exist before you incarnate again. Let's say you have a car accident. You've hit a tree and you are on the floor. You look at yourself and there's not one scratch on you. You get up and you say, "Jeez, I'm fine. I guess I'll go home."
In reality, you are physically dead, but you are back in the same reality that you were before you died. Then, little by little, life starts shape-shifting around you and synchronicities start to abound. Your waking dream, your daydream, and your sleeping dream all become one and the same. You think about someone and immediately they call you up on the phone or perhaps show up at your door. Then, you start thinking about people who have already passed over, and they show up, too. At that point you start to say, "Oops, something's different here." Then, little by little, with very much gentleness, the Elders of the various Bardos start introducing you to the fact that you have passed over. At first you panic and life becomes unbearable, because the minute you experience fear, love becomes constricted and you attract lower astral forms. That's what Hell is. But when you learn to just surrender and accept it, it becomes a very luminous experience. Some people take a long time to wake up when they are on the other side, and some people are very quick at it. Get my drift?
HSW: I'm not sure I do. If there is no difference between life and death, then why do we make a distinction between the two?
OMQ: The difference is the mind. During my most tortuous period of initiation, I had a severe auto accident that resulted in a near-death experience. When I returned to my body I was given a choice to continue and transcend, or to return to physical form. Once I came back, the synchronicities and acausal coincidences were so rampant that I was convinced I had not returned at all; that I was in some other realm. Encounters were being provided that were beyond bizarre. For two years I did not know if I was dead or alive. I almost went mad trying to figure it out, until one day I realized, shit, whether I'm dead or alive, I still have to get up and go to work in the morning. I still had to live in whatever reality was being presented to me. So why freak out over understanding who's in charge, right? At the point that that "aha" came to me, I no longer had to struggle with the need to understand. I let go of the need to know and just embraced the great mystery. That was a major rite of passage.
HSW: And, I would imagine, a major lesson in detachment.
OMQ: Right. And it helps to understand that even the striving for enlightenment is attachment.
HSW: So when a shaman goes on a journey, is he or she experiencing a kind of death?
OMQ: Yes and no. The aspect of consciousness that goes on a shamanic journey is the same one that leaves the physical body at the moment of death. The shaman understands that he or she can travel through the same realms that are presented at the moment of one's physical death without having to physically die. In that sense, in having that experience, one realizes that there's no separation between life and death, spirit and matter. All duality is dissolved.
HSW: So the answer, then, is not to look for an answer?
OMQ: Well, the answers will come when the time is right. When the person is ready to apply them in a concrete way to help our planet, there will be many, many answers. They've always been there and they always will be.
HSW: During our conversation, Toltec shaman Ken Eagle Feather said to me, "You have to know that you don't know anything and be comfortable with that."
OMQ: That's exactly right. Unfortunately, I wasn't that clear in my earlier years. I really tried to explain God and Creator through academic means. Finally, I realized that a donkey with a load of books is still a donkey.
HSW: That makes me feel silly putting this book together. This whole project has been, in many ways, my quest for answers.
OMQ: Well, what I see you doing, regardless of what you personally want, is documenting certain people who are committed to a path of service and who can speak about where we are as a planet of people right now. And that is very important in waking people up.
HSW: Do you think that the current resurgence of interest in indigenous spirituality is part of our waking up? Are we experiencing a true shamanic renaissance, or is this just a fad that will die out within a few years?
OMQ: The way I view the current emergence of a shamanic global culture taking place on our beloved Pachamama is simply the result of people having lost their connection to the sacred dimensions in life. Most of our psycho-spiritual traditions and religions have focused more on transcending the physical world and welcoming the afterlife than actually living the spirituality here and now in the kay pacha, the Middle World. Because of this, they have disconnected from our planet, from our beloved mother. Hence, the devastating conditions that we now witness on our planet.
I see the indigenous wisdom teachings, especially those of South America, as being very relevant for all humanity for a return to an intimate, reverent relationship with Pachamama. This is mainly because they focus on becoming as sensitive as one can to the touch, taste, and sounds of everything that is born from the Earth. You've probably heard this thousands of times from the people that you have interviewed, but in these traditions there is a very clear understanding that human beings are not separate. We are but luminous strands in the great web of life.
I find in my teaching that most of the people that come to these trainings are looking for a change. They realize that everything that they have accumulated and felt a sense of ownership of is no longer cutting the mustard. So, initially, they come for self-gain and selfhealing. Little by little, however, they realize that they are an inextricable part of the greater whole and start working more for the Earth than for themselves, moving out of a narcissistic self-identity to more of a global consciousness. That's what I find is the relevance of these native traditions to the modern world. That is, helping us wake up to our sense of being a global family, rather than isolated individuals.
HSW: So is there a definite shift happening? This isn't just a fad?
OMQ: I find it is both. And I think that there is value in it being both a fad and an inevitable option for our people. Even those people who are transforming the indigenous ways into a commercial enterprise are still touching the hearts of many. And out of those many, maybe one may truly wake up and feel that they can do something at a grassroots level. Being a fad, it becomes mainstream, and being mainstream, we begin to see what we are seeing now throughout America. For example, everyone is talking about having altars in their home. So a fad is good in that sense. The more altars in the home, the more of a personal connection to the sacred is established, and the more one will venture out and feel like doing service for others. The more people that hold a common vision, especially a sacred vision, the greater the impact on the planet.
And this trend is having global implications. I just got back from Tibet and Nepal. Despite all the oppression and the attempted destruction of their traditions by the Chinese, the Chinese are now rebuilding all the monasteries and temples that they had once destroyed. A similar thing is happening in Peru, where there has been a resurgence of a respect for the Indian, who before was considered a lesser being. There are some major structural social political changes occurring as a result of people, especially from developed nations, honoring the teachings of our ancestors. To me, that is an indication that it is more than just a fad.
HSW: It is ironic that once upon a time the white Europeans wiped out so much indigenous spirituality and now we're paying these same people thousands of dollars to teach us their beliefs.
OMQ: Well, yes, it's all cycles, right? We are currently moving out of what the Hindus call the kaliyuga, the Age of Crisis, and moving into what's known as a Satya. This is an elaborate system of eras that is shared by various metaphysical traditions around the world. In the Andes we have a similar notion. According to Andean cosmology, we are currently living in Hell.
HSW: How so?
OMQ: The conquest by the Spanish five hundred plus years ago marked the beginning of the uhu pachacuti, the turning of the Lower World, in which all of the repressed shadow of humanity began to come to the surface. That's what we have been living in since then, and that's why people are grasping to find meaning by having things and then feeling horrible even if they have money and property and material ownership. There is an imbalance, and that imbalance is reaching a critical point. A turning is going to have to happen, and that turning is going to create a major cataclysm. Not so much a geophysical cataclysm, but an inner cataclysm. Uhu itself means "inner space." The earthquakes that are going to occur are going to be within the hearts of human beings more than on the planet. Individually, people are going to feel really off-balance, uncentered, and bewildered. On a global scale, it is going to mean a lot of crisis and chaos until we hit bottom. At that point, it is going to be a lot like a Twelve Step recovery program, where you realize that you can't do it on your own, and that anything is better than what you are experiencing now. Even those people who don't believe in God begin to call upon a higher power. In the same way, our consumer society is reaching that critical bottom. Through that internal pain, they are going to develop a relationship with the hanaq pacha, the upper realm, the more divine and spiritual dimension.
We're getting there. Regardless of all the shitty news that we see out there, there is an inherent transformation occurring in the hearts of people—in our political leaders, in our techno-industrial monopolies, in our multinational companies. There is a change occurring. As people who have woken up to the power that can be harnessed by tapping into these unseen forces and energies, our role is to avert many of the negative prophesies that were put out by Nostradamus, as well as the more recent prophets like Elizabeth Claire Prophet or Gordon Michael Scallion types.
HSW: So there is a little bit of free will versus determination at work here?
OMQ: Oh, most definitely. God works with us, not for us. It's our time to do it. We need to leave this planet a better place than how we found it for our children's children. That's the focus.
HSW: You sound optimistic.
OMQ: I'm very optimistic. Not optimistic in a Pollyanna sense, but optimistic in the sense that we can make it rain, or we can make it stop raining. We can master fire or not, simply by disciplining our imagination and our vision of what we want for the planet.
HSW: In terms of truly mastering this work, how far can someone not raised in an indigenous culture go with shamanism? Unlike those people who are raised with these beliefs, we in the West have to go back and erase all the paradigms that we were brought up with that, for example, reject the idea of a spirit world.
OMQ: As far as they want to go. Really, the furthest we'll ever have to travel is from our heads to our hearts. If people start down this path using just their head, it can take a lifetime. Two lifetimes. Three lifetimes. Four lifetimes. But if people wake up to this path with their heart, they don't need to study with any teacher. They are already there. I always encourage the people who come to my trainings to develop their own medicine way and to trust in their own intuitive self-directed call. I am here to provide them the tools, and yet ultimately, they have their hands and their heart with which to do healing. That's it. That's all that is needed. Sure, shamanism involves other things, but ultimately, prayer is just as powerful. So if there is heart in a person's calling and path, it makes no difference where they were born. They are already there.
HSW: Where? At the level of shamanic mastery?
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the most potent symbol of the American stock market's virility, has set a new all-time high, reaching levels not seen since the peak of the technology boom more than six years ago.
The index closed at 11,727.34 last night, just over four points above the previous record set on 14 January, 2000.
The move into virgin territory - after almost a week of flirting with the record - puts the strength of equities back in the public spotlight after several years where investor faith was shaken by corporate scandal, terrorism and the long post-dotcom bear market. And experts say it could prompt the return in numbers of the domestic private investor, after years when many have put their cash in emerging markets funds and commodities.
Yesterday's 57-point surge by the Dow - which is dominated by old-economy industrial stocks - was fuelled by developments in the commodities markets, where crude oil's recent sell-off accelerated. That lowers the energy bills for business, and will help lower the price of petrol, whose recent peak threatened to choke off consumer spending.
Oil tumbled more than two dollars yesterday to below $59 a barrel, its lowest level since February, because of ample fuel stockpiles in the US and the absence of disruption during the hurricane season. Although Opec's president, Edmund Daukoru, called for the cartel to cut output, there is little evidence that most members will join Nigeria and Venezuela in reducing production.
Stock market traders believe that prospects are set fair for the third-quarter earnings season, when companies will report their latest results, and for corporate profits in the rest of the year.
John Thain, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, said the Dow's record was a bullish sign. "It says the economy is healthy, earnings are going to be good, and it speaks to investor confidence," he said.
The relative cooling of the US economy this year has also eased inflation fears and raised the hope of a cut in interest rates next year.
The Dow sank 38 per cent from its peak to its trough in October 2002, as the US economy was in the grip of a recession. The terror attacks of 11 September, 2001, and the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies sapped investor confidence, as did the build-up to the war in Iraq. However, the US economy's return to robust growth has been reflected in improved corporate profits and a boom in mergers and acquisitions. US deal activity reached $951.7bn (£504.5bn) in the first nine months of 2006, up 13 per cent on 2005 and closing in on the record $1.21 trillion in the same period during 2000, according to Dealogic.
Tobias Levkovich, chief US equity strategist at Citigroup, was among those yesterday warning that broader measures of the US stock market have yet to return to their peaks. While the Dow contains just 30 members, the S&P 500 remains 12 per cent below its record and the Nasdaq is still only half what it was at the peak of the dotcom bubble.
Microsoft and Intel are among the worst performers in the Dow over the past six-and-a-half years, down 51 per cent and 60 per cent respectively. The cigarette maker Altria is the best performer over the period, up 218 per cent.
"The Dow is just one statistic among many, and you have to remember that the S&P 500 is a far broader measure, but the Dow is most often referred to for describing the health of the stock market and the health of the economy," Mr Levkovich said. "Where I think it will be helpful will be overseas, and foreigners may turn their heads... It may make them rethink their asset allocation."Reuse content


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PEMBROKE — Pembroke dedicated is quaint downtown park next to The University of North Carolina at Pembroke on Wednesday in honor of the late Milton R. Hunt, ensuring that the man who "gave his heart and soul for the town" is never forgotten.
"He was very special. I don't know what it was. I can't put my finger on it," said Gary Locklear, a retired Superior Court Judge and Pembroke's current attorney. "He was not your average person. He had a Ph.D in people. He knew more about most people than they knew about themselves."
Hunt, who died April 15, 2015, at the age of 71, was the town's mayor for 32 years. He served as a chairman of the Robeson County Democratic Party, a trustee for UNCP, and elected the first chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He is also credited with being "someone everyone in town, the county and state knew."
During the more than one-hour dedication of the Milton R. Hunt Memorial Park attended by Hunt's wife Polly and his two children, Anthony Hunt and Kim Hunt Mertz, close friends and those who worked with Hunt to guide the town's growth stepped forward to give their thoughts and remembrances about the man who referred to everyone as "neighbor."
"To me he was not only a good friend, he was a good mayor," said Pembroke Councilman Larry McNeill, who began his council career in 1991 when Hunt was mayor. "He taught me a lot about his town. It was the town that he really cared for."
McDuffie Cummings, a close friend of Hunt's and former longtime Pembroke town manager, said that a park dedicated to Hunt is a great addition to the community.
"It show appreciation for his services to the community," Cummings said. "It will be a reminder of his legacy.
"He was one of a kind. He allowed me to do my job. He would offer his advice, but in the end it was always, 'Mr. Manager, is this what you want?'"
Former state Rep. Ronnie Sutton, a close friend of Hunt's and the ceremony's featured speaker, told the crowd of about 100 that he knew of no other individual who has done so much for the town of Pembroke and its people.
"It's a great idea for this park to be dedicated in his honor because it is a focal point in the town," Sutton said. "He did so much for the people in this town. He is a man who gave his heart and soul for his community."
Darlene Jacobs, who served as the administrator for the Lumbee Tribe during Hunt's time as tribal chairman, spoke of his love for the Lumbee people.
"He was a leader, an inspirer, and a motivator. He loved the Lumbee people," she said. "… He was intense, passionate and had a deep wonderful laugh."
Larry Brooks, who served with Hunt on Pembroke's governing board, spoke about Hunt's ability to get along with all people.
"He was uniquely people-oriented," Brooks said. "He was in the Town Hall so much that I used to tell him we would need to cut him a check … . One thing is for sure. The next mayor is going to have a hard act to follow."
Glenn Maynor, a former Robeson County sheriff, Lumberton councilman, and close friend of Hunt's, said that Hunt would say what was on his mind and was the ultimate politician.
"Politics was fun when Milton and I were in it. It was fun and effective." Maynor said. "It's not that way today. Today politics is vicious."
Pembroke has not yet replaced Hunt. Greg Cummings, a former councilman, had a lead after the March 15 election, which was a do-over from the November General Election, but the results have been contested and have not been certified.
Entertainment during the ceremony was provided by Mahlea Hunt and Calista and Kaitlyn Deal. Immediately after the program the stone memorial designating the park as the "Milton R. Hunt Memorial Park" was unveiled.
Tonight the newly named park will host its first event, the Summer Jam. The jam will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is free.


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The Israeli tear-gas grenades were falling like Chinese fireworks when my mobile phone rang. There had been a bomb in Jerusalem. One of the Palestinian policemen watching the stone-throwers was listening to my call. "How many dead?" he asked. "Two," I said. The man looked disappointed. "Is that all?" There's not much compassion in Gaza for the enemy that used to be Yasser Arafat's "partner in peace".
The Israeli tear-gas grenades were falling like Chinese fireworks when my mobile phone rang. There had been a bomb in Jerusalem. One of the Palestinian policemen watching the stone-throwers was listening to my call. "How many dead?" he asked. "Two," I said. The man looked disappointed. "Is that all?" There's not much compassion in Gaza for the enemy that used to be Yasser Arafat's "partner in peace".
Indeed, only hours after Messrs Arafat and Barak had promised to call a ceasefire, the Palestinian gendarmerie had lost all interest in restraining the young men who were marching through Karni with their plastic shopping bags full of stones and their glass bottles of petrol. A young girl in a scarf with staring eyes was walking steadily towards the Israeli guns, announcing quietly that she wanted to be a "martyr". All day she said she had been thinking of this.
The Israelis had pulled three of their tanks back from the Karni crossroads in the morning but a few boys had set fire to tyres on the main settlers' road, and within minutes the usual crowd was gathering, the usual ambulances herded in the rear for their dismal cargoes. The first young men to fall seem to collapse of their own accord. We heard no shots. Were the Israelis using silencers? Then a rubber-coated steel bullet cracked on to the roof of the ambulance I was standing beside and the whole crowd ducked in a great animal movement, as if a giant gust of wind had suddenly blown over them.
There were a lot of Palestinian police. And Palestinian soldiers. And Palestinian plain-clothes cops from several of Mr Arafat's 13 intelligence agencies. Just once they drove a truck down to the Israeli gate - a border fence that marked the actual frontier of Israel - and scooped up a few of the boys and drove them back to the petrol station at the top of the hill. Otherwise, they just cradled their rifles, sat on the dunes of earth and rubbish, and watched the tear-gas canisters careen out of the sky.
An hour later, I ran into one of Mr Arafat's Beirut veterans, a man I saw on the perimeter of the besieged Lebanese capital 18 years ago, watching now the very same army which - almost two decades before - he had fought as a young man. "The Israelis must be made to understand that they will have to pay the price for their occupation," he said. "I hear Palestinians say, 'We'll give them another martyr'. But I say to them 'Why not make the Israelis pay for our martyrs?"'
Behind the scrubby olive trees, three Israeli Merkava tanks lay hull down in the soft earth, their barrels traversed, a jeep-load of Israeli troops firing off grenades from the bushes to the west. Palestinian youths darted through the trees, sling-shots in hand, creeping forward and then running for their lives at the pop-pop-pop of gunfire. Palestinian television was still showing the video of Mr Arafat warmly greeting Shimon Peres in Gaza. But the same television station was urging the people on to the streets.
Mr Arafat in control? Is that really the issue? Watching the crowds streaming towards the mist of tear-gas, it was clear yesterday that it is the street that controls events in Gaza. Mr Arafat's role - his only role - is to follow those events and guide them when he can, into what for him are politically useful directions. "He knows that there will be a further escalation," my old Beirut acquaintance said. "He also knows we will have to suffer a lot more before the Arabs can be forced to threaten an oil-price rise."
Talking to the crowds at Karni, there was a common and dreadful theme in their narrative of events: that the Israelis would - if they continued to overreact grotesquely to the Palestinian insurrection - commit a massacre.
"A week ago, they fired a Laaw (a light anti-armour weapon) at a bus," one of the khaki-uniformed men claimed. "It happened at the Nizarim junction. The missile just touched the back of the bus, but a few millimetres further and it would have exploded inside, and there were 40 children on board."
At Karni, an elderly Palestinian from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the almost bankrupt institution set up in 1948 to protect the original Palestinian refugees, approached the would-be girl "martyr" with the scarf and the staring eyes. Repeatedly, he pleaded with her not to approach closer to the Israelis, not to invite them to shoot her. "You will die for nothing - you have something better to give to live," he said with emotion. And the girl suddenly stopped, and turned, and climbed silently into the UN man's car to be taken home.Reuse content


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Town Square will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Black Friday
…Several stores and restaurants open on Thanksgiving and many open at midnight for Black Friday shopping
Following are stores and restaurants open on Thanksgiving:
AMC 18 Town Square
10 a.m. to midnight
Bath & Body Works
6 p.m. to midnight
Blue Martini
8 p.m.
Claim Jumper
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
6 p.m. through 10 p.m. on Black Friday
11 a.m. to midnight
10 am to 10 p.m.
Old Navy
4 p.m. on Thanksgiving through midnight on Black Friday
Panda Express
11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Town Square Black Friday store hours
Pot Liquor
11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Stoney's Rockin' Country
7 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Texas de Brazil
11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Whole Foods Market
7 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Following is a list of stores opening early on Black Friday:
abercrombie kids
Abercrombie & Fitch
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5TH
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
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On May 21, voters
will decide on the purchase of five new 71-passenger school buses at a total
cost not to exceed $573,670. The state would reimburse the district over a
five-year period for about 73 percent of the cost. Local
property taxes would pay for the remainder of the cost, which would be $152,596
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The district's
long-term bus replacement plan calls for seven buses to be replaced in 2013-14;
however, due to the fiscal climate, F-M is proposing to replace five,
decreasing costs by $229,468. The district plans to trade in seven buses, with
expected trade-in values between $7,000 and $9,000 each.
Due to fewer bus
routes and sports trips, the bus fleet was reduced in 2012-13 from 64 to 63
vehicles. That trend is continuing, and the transportation department is
proposing to reduce the fleet to 61 buses for 2013-14.
The bus purchase is
part of an ongoing plan to keep the district's fleet up to date. Each year, all
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normally occurs after 10 years when it is no longer cost effective to make the
repairs necessary to meet those standards.
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Meet some Sisters
Why did you come to religious life?I am 84 years old. I was 18 when I left home to enter religious life as a Sister of St. Joseph. Why? Wish I could say God tapped me on the shoulder or that a voice whispered God's plan for my life. Nothing so dramatic! I only knew in my heart from the time I was a 7th grader that "I was going to be a sister." And through high school, the desire never left me. Looking back, I find that God was speaking to my heart, not directly, but through those who influenced my young life, especially, my faith-filled parents, teachers and my pastor who believed in my desire. Most especially, it was the inspiration and influence of the favorite saint of my youth, St. Therese of Lisieux, whose "Story of a Soul" I read several times. Her love for God was TOTAL. That became and remains my evergrowing desire-to be in love with the God of my life and to reflect God's love as a Sister of St. Joseph, whose mission of loving union I embrace.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?
What have been your greatest joys as a sister?
What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?
Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:Experience of God's love and desire for my life as expressed in one of my favorite antiphons: "I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have loved you and you are mine."And my life's response: FIATAngelina Cavallaro, CSJ, Wheeling, W.Va.Current Ministry: Sacristan at Mount St. Joseph
Meet Sister Jackie Schmitz
Why did you come to religious life?I was taught by the CSJ's in elementary school and high school and was so impressed with their dedication and energy that I wanted to be a part of them. I had some excellent teachers, played some mean volleyball, ice-skated and roller skated with some of the best. They loved life and I wanted some of that too!
What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?
At times, it has been difficult to be excited about community when it felt as if we were "drifting." But now, with the new congregation, there is energy and excitement once again.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?The CSJ's have always been ready and willing to respond to the needs of the times. They are not afraid to step up and do what is needed. I love that nothing gets in our way. We are, also, a highly creative and fun-loving group of women who know how to enjoy life.What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I have spent my entire professional career in secondary education, doing a variety of things. I love being around young folks...they keep me young...and I hope I am influencing them with our CSJ values.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:Religious life allows me to respond to the critical needs of our times by embracing the vision of Jesus. Ours is certainly a counter-cultural life style but one that is greatly needed in these times.Jackie Schmitz, CSJ, LaGrange Park, Ill.Current Ministry: Administrator at Nazareth Academy
Meet Sister Janine Beniger
Why did you come to religious life?In some ways, it's a mystery. I entered thinking I wouldn't stay, that I'd be back home in about a month. I can think of several small reasons, but nothing outstanding comes to mind. And I remember my novice mistress saying "it isn't why you come, it's why you stay", and that is mostly what I have held on to through the years.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?While it is a wonderful thing, especially in times of loss and need, community is, for me, perhaps the greatest challenge. I say this mostly because quality community is so much a matter of communication-a skill to be deliberately cultivated, and of diligence to individual and communal prayer, as well as sharing of the state of the heart and house. What makes it challenging is that we don't all come to that awareness at the same time, in the same way, and to the same degree.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?Being part of another or others' growth; walking with rather than leading the way in gaining skill, increasing awareness, growing in self-esteem and confidence. I love the ministry of adult faith formation and ministry training, and am always moved by the faith Iencounter, particularly as folks live through the difficulties and challenges of their lives. I rather enjoy discerning gifts and being cheerleader, encouraging those gifts and watching folks learn to "pastor" themselves and their communities. It just delights my heart!What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?Overall, I have been involved in some form of education and faith formation. My first experiences in ministry were in a grade school setting. Much of my professional career, however, has been with adults-adult faith formation and ministry training, adult basic education and GED prep--in a corrections institution and community education center. I am now back in the classroom after 25+ years, teaching religion to sophs, juniors and seniors at De La Salle High School in New Orleans. I'm also a trained spiritual director and have had some experience in that field.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:"Behold, I make all things new." Living in our world today, such as it is; waiting and wading through the loss and recovery of lives, property, and my great city, New Orleans; appreciating the potential of the new CSJ congregation; and feeling the power of God's transforming presence in my own life…well, I know it is the Holy One that makes all that possible, the Holy One that renews the face of the earth and makes all things new.Janine Beniger, CSJ, New Orleans, La. Current Ministry: Educator, Religion Dept., De La Salle High School, New Orleans, La.
Meet Sister Marty McEntee
Why did you come to religious life?I became acquainted with the Sisters of St. Joseph while a youngster in St. Patrick School, Kokomo, IN. I greatly admired their spirit, their sense of joy, and their relationship with one another. I experienced the "school-girl" sense of being called to their lifestyle. While in public high school, that "call" was somewhat "muted" by involvement in many and varied activities and dating fairly seriously. However, after graduation, I again felt the desire so strongly, and as my mother said to me: "This is something you have to try, isn't it?" It was, it is, and I thank God for being patient with me all these years!What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?The greatest challenge for me has always been in finding the balance between ministry and the longing for a deeper prayer life. I have always felt that my work WAS prayer, and that those I was privileged to serve were Christ to me. My heart tells me that I can be Christ to them only if I am grounded in relationship with my God. My mind too often tells me "just finish this one project, THEN spend more time with God."What have been your greatest joys as a sister?Surely the 2007 Chapter, which initiated our new congregation, ranks very high among those joys! What a marvelous experience…what an opportunity to share life with so many who share our enthusiasm for the future! Another great joy/satisfaction has been the opportunity to use the gifts God has given me through various ministries…and to feel the support and encouragement of my Sisters!What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I recently "retired" from service as the President of our Tipton founding congregation. Prior to those nine years, I served for twenty- eight years as the President/CEO of St. Joseph Hospital in Kokomo, Ind. Prior to the educational experience which prepared me for health administration, I taught junior high for eight years.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:The greatest gift is to love and be loved…and religious life has provided so many opportunities to experience this love!Marty McEntee, CSJ, Kokomo, Ind.Current Ministry: Sabbatical
Meet Sister Juli CaronWhy did you come to religious life?The only reason a woman comes to religious life is because of a call and that she has fallen in love with God. God is already in love with her. I have felt called to religious life since I was a child, with my first memory being my mother teaching me how to pray. So, at 19 years old, I entered the Benedictine Monastery. I learned so very much about prayer, discipline of prayer and rituals and, of course, community life. After 17 years, I received another call and that was to leave the Monastery. I lived as a single woman, never leaving the life of prayer and discernment, however. I continued to "feel" a nudge from God, a call, if you will. This call was at least to ask myself the question about entering the CSJ's. I was an associate, but felt like I was enjoying all the benefits of religious life and not making a commitment, and I did not think that was fair to the congregation or to myself. I also learned that living a single life, I could do as I pleased and was not accountable to anyone. Being accountable to someone about my life was very important to me. I had fallen deeper and deeper in love with Jesus. So, after 18 years of living a single life, owning my own condo, driving a nice car, having a great job, I was still empty, missing something. Then, with the help of my spiritual director, I began to search the question, and entered the CSJ's.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?The questions asked of me as to why such an attractive woman would "waste" my life in the convent.Balancing prayer, community, ministry, and family.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?My greatest joy as a sister is the fact that my life totally belongs to Jesus, and I know that He has given His life for me and is crazy about me. I know Jesus is faithful and always will be. There is no where I can go, that He is not there. Living in the freedom of my vows is joyful for me. Of course belonging to a large congregation of women, who love and support me and who I support is wonderful, too!
What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I am a nurse and have been for many years. I am also a trained chaplain and currently minister as one. I work mostly with the dying and love every minute of it. I am also the chaplain in our Cancer Center, Children's Hospital, our Palliative Care Unit, and several other units in the hospital. I was born to do this ministry.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:"May those who come behind me find me faithful." Being totally espoused to Jesus, is for me, the most meaningful way to live.
Juli M. Caron, CSJ, Fargo, N.Da.Current Ministry: Spiritual care
Meet Sister Joan Kreyenbuhl
Why did you come to religious life?I attended a workshop on Catholic Action when I was a teenager and felt I was called to do something more in the Church. I really entered the Sisters of St. Joseph to prove that I didn't have a call to religious life, even though I loved and respected the Sisters. I had seen them as real people, although my expectations of them remain high. I'm disappointed when we don't live up to being the perfect Christians I want us to be. I discovered that I was called and when I've questioned that vocation as I've lived religious life, I still have come to that same conclusion. I just pray for perseverance more than I used to.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?The greatest challenge has been in balancing the needs and expectations of others with my own needs and the needs of community. I'm not very good at saying "No." I want to do it all. Further, it was a challenge to be in community leadership and to be working in a hospital that as a community we were selling. I had to participate in the decision. Then I was there to experience the pain of the people as the decision unfolded. Maintaining my own integrity in the midst those decisions is challenging but what I will not compromise.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?My greatest joy has been the teamwork I've experienced in ministry. We can accomplish anything and everything when people are working together. I've had good people with whom to work. I've enjoyed doing Spiritual Direction, working with RCIA and Christ Renews His Parish as well as formation of newly professed. I enjoy seeing God at work in people's lives. It reminds me that He is at work in my life too.What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I have been involved in education, healthcare, parish, formation and leadership. It's really all about education. I moved from schools to parish as a Director of Religious Education, and then to healthcare as Vice President of Mission. Each of these ministries includes education.I have learned to be flexible and find that there are many ways of accomplishing things. I've had the opportunity to travel which gives one a world view and an understanding of cultural differences. This perspective gives me an appreciation of the Gospel call "that all may be one."Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:"More, always a little more, for the glory of God and the good of the 'dear neighbor'."?-paraphrase of Father Marius Nepper, SJ?Scholar of Father Jean Pierre Medaille, SJ,?Founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Le Puy, FranceJoan Kreyenbuhl, CSJ, MA, Parkersburg, W.Va.Current Ministry: Member of Congregational Leadership Team
Meet Sister Kathy Brazda
Why did you come to religious life?I came to religious life because I felt at home with the community. I felt that being a religious would be the best way for me to grow into who God created me to be…a women truly alive and filled with God's great love.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?A challenge for me is keeping my life balanced…honoring all of the relationships that are part it…my relationship with God, myself, community, ministry, family and friends. Another challenge is to be a hopeful presence in the institutional church which at times is not inclusive.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?One of my greatest joys has been deepening my relationship with the Holy One, making personal and communal prayer a priority. I have also been blessed and privileged to minister with and to so many wonderful people.What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I had been an educator for 17 years, as a junior high and high school teacher, and pastoral associate for 11 years in a diverse Chicago parish. Currently, I am director of Taller de José (Joseph's Workshop) a resource center in an inner city, Latino neighborhood. In addition, I have been in formation ministry for the congregation for the past seven years.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:"The day will come when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love and then for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire." Teihard de ChardinAs a Sister of St. Joseph, I am inspired by this quote and pray for the grace to be faithful to "harnessing the energies of Love," so that all may be one.Kathy Brazda, CSJ, Chicago, Ill.Current Ministry: Director of Taller de José (Joseph's Workshop)
Meet Sister Betsy Meagher
Why did you come to religious life?I was interested in becoming a teacher and was attracted to the Sisters of St. Joseph, since they were my teachers in elementary school through high school. I entered religious life in 1964 and went to Nazareth College.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?Some of the greatest challenges have been to find my way in life, to nurture and accept my personal gifts, to understand how my spiritual life is my daily life and the various expressions this takes as I move among people I meet everyday. Learning to live among other women in religious life who have similar intentions and desires is a challenge as well as very rewarding.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?Some of my greatest joys have been being involved with liturgical music and liturgical ministry in various ways. Presently, I find my work in Transformations Spirituality Center so rewarding as we walk with others or create space in which others can make their own way on their spiritual journey. The consistent support I receive by being a community member and our various gatherings, both large and small, is so moving. It is really heartwarming to connect on a much deeper level as we journey together and have fun doing it.What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?I have been a music director for various parishes; Associate Director of the Worship Office for the Diocese of Gaylord, Mich. Currently, I am the Coordinator of Worship for the Nazareth Congregation of St. Joseph and minister in outreach and programs at Transformations Spirituality Center in Nazareth.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:"By your fruits you will know them." What fruits do I bear where I speak, where I walk, where I am present? This is the spirit by which I am deeply guided each day.Betsy Meagher, CSJ, Nazareth, Mich.Current Ministry: Outreach and program coordinator for Transformations Spirituality Center
Meet Sister Janice Grochowsky
Why did you come to religious life?I truly believed that becoming a religious sister was God's will for me. This belief was confirmed by a very special "presence of Jesus experience" over the course of several months.What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?When I first entered, the greatest challenge was the transition from living alone to living in community with six others. Several years later, due to a change in ministry and location, the challenge was the transition from living in community with others to living alone.What have been your greatest joys as a sister?The many celebrations have been my greatest joys. First among these are the personal celebrations throughout initial formation: entrance into novitiate, first vows and final vows. Each of these moments provide the opportunity to reflect on what God has been doing in my life as well as what more God might be calling me to–true causes for joy! Secondly, the annual celebrations of jubilee are times of great rejoicing of God's presence in the lives of our great women of faith.What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?My previous ministry was that of a parish pastoral minister: a year-and-a-half in my home parish and six years in another parish. My areas of responsibility included religious education (DRE), liturgy and RCIA. Currently, I am involved in diocesan ministry (Diocese of Dodge City) as Director of the Marriage Tribunal, Chancellor and canonical advisor to the bishop.Please offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:Although I don't often consciously think about my life as a sister being counter-cultural, the life of a consecrated religious certainly is. This life is needed as a witness to others of the importance of a personal relationship with God, the need for simplicity and solidarity with the poor, the value of single-hearted chaste living, and the openness to hearing the voice of God through others.
Janice Grochowsky, CSJ, Dodge City, Kan.Current Ministry: Director of the Marriage Tribunal and Chancellor
Meet Sister Janet Kurtz
Why did you come to religious life?As a teen, while enjoying the social life of high school, I found myself attracted to religious life, but at the same time, questioned whether I'd ever be able to have the discipline that I thought was required. The Sisters I had in school (another community) were very strict, so I never considered exploring the possibility of joining them. At the same time, they did instill in us a desire to serve others, and this was at the root of seeking my destiny. I had a second cousin who was a CSJ in London, Ontario, who was fun to visit because she and the others were very friendly and welcoming. During a retreat in my junior year, I read "And Nora Said Yes" and discovered that there were St. Joseph Sisters in Michigan. Shortly after, I went to St. Francis Home for Boys (a sodality project) to tutor, and there I met Sr. Marlene Lammers and other Sisters. Again, I saw the same friendliness as in the Canadian Sisters. After a year or more of conversations that included LOTS of questions, I applied for entrance. Still with some doubts in my head, two nights before entering I told the fellow I had been dating that I probably wouldn't last more than three weeks! That was over forty-seven years ago!!!What have been your greatest challenges as a sister?
What kind of ministries have you been/are you involved in?1964-1977: Education at the elementary and junior high levels1977-1979: Peace and justice ministry at Groundwork for a Just World, Lansing, Mich.1979-1983: Social services ministry at Cristo Rey Community Center in Lansing, Mich.1984-1987: Parish ministry in Marcona, Peru1988-2004: Prison ministry in Lima, Peru2005-2006: Peace and justice ministry at Michigan Peace Team, Lansing, Mich.2007- .......: Support services at Nazareth CenterPlease offer a quote that makes a statement about the value of this life for you:We are blessed to able to live in this time of new beginnings that calls us not only to become one as a new congregation, but to bring into union the human family through our fidelity to the Gospel, our charism and our Generous Promises.Jan Kurtz, CSJ, Nazareth, Mich.Current Ministry: Support services at Nazareth Center


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