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The Buddha's Practical Theology
A while back, I wrote a literature review about "Buddhist Practical Theology?" with the question mark in the title. This paper summarized and critiqued the very scant number of articles and books on the topic, only two explicitly so and a few other tangentially related. I followed it up here with a discussion of Buddhist theology, which is a tricky enough topic on its own. I've continued to muse on the idea of Buddhist practical theology and come to the conclusion that such a theology is inherent to Buddhism, we simply know it by another name: The Four Noble Truths. Let me explain.
When the Buddha first uttered the Four Noble Truths in the deer park at Varanasi, he laid down an eminently practical theology. Of course, he did not call it that, least of all because Shakyamuni Buddha did not speak English. As Buddhists attempting to remain true to his teachings twenty-five hundred years later, we may find the term 'practical theology,' a very odd fit. Adoption of this term is not terribly important, but it does offer methods for analytical reflection to align our thoughts, words, and deeds more fully with the Dharma.
So what is 'practical' about Buddhist theology? Within Christianity, practical theology is a recognized as "a general way of doing theology concerned with the embodiment of religious belief in the day-to-day lives of individuals and communities," according to Bonnie Miller-McLemore. As an academic subject and theological method, it can easily be applied to Buddhism (for it is already within Buddhism). Much of the existing Christian scholarship can be adapted, especially as most of the methods employed are drawn from secular social sciences.
Practical Buddhist theology can be tentatively defined (from my earlier paper) as a theological discipline within Buddhism that uses empirical description and normative construction in a dialogical relationship with lived experience to study, understand, and beneficially transform human activity. In other words, when we study the Dharma, it changes how we live our everyday lives. And the way we live our everyday lives changes our understanding of the Dharma. Practical Buddhist theology is concerned with this relationship.
The simplest possible practical theological framework is that of action-reflection-action. One does something, observes and reflects upon the outcomes, and adjusts one's actions accordingly. In the Sona Sutta (AN6.55) the Buddha likens practice to the strings of a musical instrument, a vina, asking if the instrument was playable if the strings were too tight or too loose. Just as a musician tunes his instrument by tightening a string, listening for the sound, then loosening it again, we employ action-reflection-action to bring ourselves more in tune with the Dharma. In the case of certain forms of meditation, this framework may be slightly reversed and described as reflection-action-reflection, but the basic formula remains and can be applied on a moment-to-moment daily basis.
A more formal method for practical theology is described best by Richard Osmer in his book Practical Theology: An Introduction. This method has been widely adopted by practical theologians because of its very pragmatism. Osmer admits he did not 'invent' the method, but he does an outstanding job of explaining and applying it. Osmer's four-part method, or the Four Noble Truths method, if we wish to claim it for ourselves, can be employed for more deliberate reflection. Osmer describes his method thus:
Over the course of this book we explore four questions that can guide our interpretation and response to situations [within our religious communities]:
What is going on?
Why is this going on?
What ought to be going on?
How might we respond?
Answering each of these questions is the focus of one of the four core tasks of practical theological interpretation:
- The descriptive-empirical task. Gathering information that helps us discern patterns and dynamics in particular episodes, situations, or contexts.
- The interpretive task. Drawing on theories of the arts and sciences [or Buddhist psychology or philosophy] to better understand and explain why these patterns and dynamics are occurring.
- The normative task. Using theological concepts to interpret particular episodes, situations, or contexts, constructing ethical norms to guide our responses, and learning from "good practice."
- The pragmatic task. Determining strategies of action that will influence situations in ways that are desirable and entering into a reflective conversation with the "talk back" emerging when they are enacted.
Osmer's book is well worth a read in its entirety by any Buddhist teacher or clergy involved in caring for a sangha or counseling fellow Buddhists. It is relatively short and easily accessible, even for those relatively unfamiliar with its Christian applications.
An example of practical Buddhist theology in action is provided by Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae, an American Buddhist nun and doctoral candidate at Claremont School of Theology in California.
A Buddhist meditation teacher is teaching her students how to generate a meditative state of altruistic compassion. She conducts a guided meditation session on the topic according to typical traditional theological guidelines. After the session, she reviews the session using Osmer's [practical theology] framework:
Descriptive: from student feedback, she learns that many students found the meditation difficult to follow;
Interpretative: the meditation guidance was perhaps too long for the students to digest fully in one sitting;
Normative: more time should be given for students to learn and understand the meditation procedure;
Pragmatic: next class, she will read through an explanation of the meditation with students before conducting the guided meditation
Bhikshuni demonstrates the application of Osmer's four-part method for practical theology in a Buddhist context. Osmer is a Christian theologian and, until now, practical theology has largely been a Christian discipline. However, this framework also happens to exactly parallel the Buddha's Four Noble Truths. This is not coincidental, but rather further evidence of with wisdom of the Buddha in providing a universal path.
According to Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae, Buddhism needs a practical theology "…because Buddhist congregations, clergy, religion teachers, etc., have the right to benefit from critical, normative, and pragmatic reflection on praxis." Thus far, English-language academic literature on Buddhism has largely lacked such a dialogue due to the dominance of Buddhist studies over Buddhist theology in the academy. In her papers, Bhikshuni applies methods developed by several Christian theologians, who do not suffer such a lack, in various Buddhist contexts and concludes that practical theological methods are entirely suitable to Buddhism. In fact, Osmer's framework is precisely the same framework provided by the Buddha in the first turning of the wheel of Dharma.
We need only return to the Four Noble Truths to find that the Buddha himself was an eminently practical theologian (in the broad sense). The First Noble Truth is that of suffering. It describes our everyday experience. The Second Noble Truth is the cause of suffering. It interprets experience to get at the heart of the problem. The Third Noble Truth is the cessation of suffering. This is a normative judgment about the best possible outcome. The Fourth Noble Truth is the way out of suffering. It is a pragmatic prescription for what we can do to realize the outcome we seek, liberation from suffering. The Four Noble Truths and the meditation example above follow the same pattern as Richard Osmer's methodological framework for doing practical theology, described below. This reflection-action framework can and should be explicitly adopted by Buddhist teachers and leaders who seek to apply the Dharma in ever-changing modern contexts.
[NOTE: This post is adapted from a forthcoming chapter on Buddhist practical theology in a book edited by Nathan Michon and Danny Fisher. For more about how to apply Buddhist practical theology in various contexts, please look forward to the upcoming volume. I will post an update when it is released.]
New Year's Gratitudes
I've written before about how I don't do resolutions based on the arbitrary mathematics of the calendar year. My four standard resolutions continue. Sometimes I fail (okay, most of the time) and sometimes I succeed. The tactics change a little. I've been listening to audio books about psychology, will power, and habit formation lately. I've had a modicum of success as a result.
However, since the New Year has just come and gone and as I haven't been blogging much lately, I thought I'd return to my lately forlorn habit with one of my favorite exercises: gratitude. Here's what I'm grateful for during 2014.
I am grateful to my teachers, particularly my professors at Claremont School of Theology. This historically Christian seminary didn't bat an eye at enrolling a Buddhist Chaplain in their Practical Theology program. My advisor, Dr. Duane Bidwell, has been a real resource. Not only do I feel welcomed in my classrooms, but valued as a source of new knowledge into a different religious tradition. Sometimes, this can be daunting. "So, Monica, what do all Buddhists everywhere think about this issue?" Okay, they don't say that, but I occasionally feel that's what I'm representing and I go out of my way to name the particular Buddhist viewpoint from which I'm speaking and discuss how other Buddhist traditions may handle things differently. Nor do they expect me to learn all things Christian by default just for being enrolled. They're helping me learn about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and certainly my beloved Buddhism and giving me the space and support to study what is truly important to me.
I am grateful to my coworkers at University of the West where in June I became the full-time Institutional Effectiveness and Planning Officer. I feel like my work is valued. I'm able to contribute to projects I enjoy and frequently given the opportunity to learn new things and try what I've never done before (also daunting). I enjoy the challenge and the community feeling I have working here. The university has come a long way since I showed up on it's doorstep in 2010 and I am proud of what we accomplished, but by no means fooled about the work we have yet to do. They also let me teach, which I enjoy immensely.
I am grateful that I was able to spend time with my family this year, first when they came out to California in May and then when I went home to help my parents move into a new house in August. I have always been close to my family and living so far away has been challenging. I am grateful that we are all in good health, of sound mind (mostly) and body (also mostly), financially secure, and able to travel and see each other regularly.
I am grateful for my new family here in California, particularly my partner, Colin. He put up with a particularly hectic schedule on my part this fall and supported me through some stressful work, conferences, and final papers. I am particularly grateful that he is always willing to hang in there for the difficult conversations when I feel like a lot of other people would either check out or freak out. He and his family have done everything to welcome and integrate me into their extended California clan and include me in their many celebrations and travels. Together, Colin, Archer (dog), Isis (cat), and I make a fun little DINK nuclear family that enriches my life.
Thank you. Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!
Winter Break
I just completed the busiest semester I've had for several years, perhaps ever. Thus, the dearth of blogging.
In June, I achieved my first full-time job in ten years. In a way, it felt anticlimactic. After all, I have always worked, except for the nine months just after I moved to California. Even then, I rebuilt a student government to keep myself busy. My full-time position is simply an upgrade of the 30-hour per week position I already held, so the transition was seamless. But it was now a stronger draw on my time.
The university where I work is growing and the single undergraduate class I teach needed two sections this fall instead of one. In compensation for the larger work and teaching load, I only enrolled in two classes instead of three, but that's still two doctorate-level classes, with all the work that entails.
Finally, in addition, my clinical pastoral education unit started meeting in October. Functionally, this is a third class, including homework in the form of periodic clinical case presentations and reading assignments.
Essentially, I was working full time, attending school full time, and teaching two classes on the side. Something had to give. Mostly that was blogging, exercise, and, to my partner's patient dismay, time together as a couple, particularly in the evenings. I would frequently be away from home for 11 hours a day or longer during the week.
Next semester will be easier, but not by much. I am taking one less class and teaching one less class. My partner and I will get our weekly date night back. I will restart my morning routine of yoga and meditation. And, hopefully, there will be one or two posts per month here on the blog.
In the meantime, everyone is looking forward to the holidays, winter break, and some vacation travel. We will with my partner's family for a few days, then home a few days while the university is closed, then flying off to Florida to spend ten days at Walt Disney World.
My partner and his mother, for whom this is a regular family trip, are looking forward to visiting one of their favorite places. I am a bit more reluctant. Theme parks were sometimes (not always) fun when I was a child, but as an adult, I find them somewhat overwhelming. Nevertheless, things will be fine overall. I'm sure a lot of it will be fun, and when I do get overwhelmed, I have been promised a lovely hotel room with a jacuzzi tub to retreat to whenever I like. The food will be good and company outstanding.
I hope all of you have a similarly lovely holiday. For those who do not, I wish you the compassion and equanimity of the Buddha. Take care of each other, stay safe and warm. Cheers!
Two and a half years later. A friend said so today. Is it really? Two and a half years since I shared a joke with you? Two and a half years since you made me think? Two and a half years since the text message came that told me you were gone? Yes. It is two and a half years later.
Your friend died. We memorialized him today. Forty years your elder and yet he outlived you. We remembered you and thought what you might have said or done. I was sad. I knew him less than you, but I was sad because I know you would have wept. And joked. I was sad because I missed you.
Your picture is in my office, on a shelf. You're smiling. You're in other offices, too, all over this place. I would say "like a guardian angel," but no one who knew you would call you that. Maybe you're our guardian devil, or our trickster at least.
I hope you would be proud of me. Proud of all of us. I'm still working on the questions you made me ask myself when I met you, four and a half years ago.
It seems like a gyp when I think about it now. I only got to know you two years. How unfair. How wonderful. Because I got to know you at all.
Even Shakyamuni Had 'First World Problems'
We use the phrase 'first world problems' to denote inconvenient things that happen to relatively affluent and comfortable people. There's even a meme for that. We use it as a joke when something trivial makes us sad. On the one hand, it's telling us to get over ourselves.
On the other, it's reinforcing that our sense of relative security. After all, not everyone is lucky enough to have 'first world problems.' Just think of those Tibetan monks and nuns who, though being tortured for years, never lost compassion for their jailers. Now those are real problems. Think of how strong that made their practice. How in the world are we supposed to cultivate a practice like that?
But even Shakyamuni had 'first world problems.' He was a prince, remember. His life was as affluent and comfortable as it was possible to be for his time. Yet he was not immune to suffering.
In fact, it was precisely because of his affluence that the problem of suffering bothered him so deeply. He had been given everything a person of his society might want, yet he was not free from the dukkha of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Many of us now living in relatively wealthy, safe countries have almost anything a person of our society might want. We live like royalty of previous ages, yet we want more. And we are not free from the dukkha of becoming and unbecoming.
I often wondered if my comfortable life was a hindrance to my practice. The suttas say the gods do not seek liberation because they do not have enough suffering to motivate them. Even with all my small struggles, I wondered, am I living in a small heave-realm on earth? Are we all?
No. Affluence is not the problem. Ego is. Wondering if we're 'too comfortable' keeps our mind fixated on our 'selves' and reinforces ego. Attachment, aversion, and, most insidious of all, delusion is the problem. Although we have so much, we are still beset by tanha, craving. This is the problem.
Shakyamuni had a radical solution. He walked away from it all. He cut off his hair, gave up his fine robes, left his palace, and became a wandering aesthetic. He almost starved himself to death before he saw that was not the eay either.
We should not envy those who have cultivated their practices through the adversities of torture, poverty, or illness. We should respect them and pay homage to them, but recognize that the Buddha would never have prescribed that as a method of practice.
Nor should we regret that we were born into more fortunate circumstances. That is just craving of another kind. We should use those circumstances to support our practice and to help others as much as we can (those are the same thing, to my mind). Even though we have much, we can still crave for little.
Finally, we can recognize that even we silly people with our 'first world problems' are capable of enlightenment. Perhaps even more able than people in starving, war-torn countries who have never heard the Dharma. We can be grateful for our good fortune. We, of all people, can help others the most, if stop worrying about ourselves and practice!


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Ag is Cool Program to return to Ohio State Fair
Ohio Farm Bureau sponsors program giving fourth grade students, teachers free admission to the fair to learn about agriculture.
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Ohio Farm Bureau sponsors program giving fourth grade students, teachers free admission to the fair to learn about agriculture.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) extended the deadline to submit comments regarding its proposals to block LightSquared from pursuing its wireless broadband network to March 16.
Choice Hotels is running a special promotion for Ohio Farm Bureau members. Book your reservations at ChoiceHotels.com or 800.258.2847 and after your second separate stay with arrival between March 8 and May 8, youll receive enough Choice Privileges points to redeem for a free night.
After being fully briefed on the latest issues, and having heard from a number of Ohio's Congressional delegation, it was Ohio's county Farm Bureau presidents' turn to talk on Wednesday, as they met face-to-face in the offices of their lawmakers.
Ohio Farm Bureau believes in providing youth opportunities to grow. OFBF is accepting applications through March 17 for youth interested in serving as OFBF's ambassador to the board.The Ohio State Fair Junior Fair Board is made up of who represent youth from organizations across Ohio.


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Excerpt from Amazing Faith by Wilfredo De Jesús
Compassion is good, right, and noble. We have to realize, though, that caring for people always has a price tag. Stopping to mend broken hearts and shattered lives requires an investment of time and other re- sources. Many individuals and churches don't want to pour themselves into people who are "unclean" and take so long to see substantial progress, even when they respond to the gospel. People today want instant success, and ministries of compassion rarely meet this standard.
There's another risk when we step into the lives of the down-and- out: potential damage to our reputations. I've been criticized by leaders of some churches who believed we'd "lost our calling" by giving so much attention to prostitutes, addicts, single moms, and other disenfranchised people.
The Christian faith isn't about getting; it's about giving. Far too many Christians don't understand this basic principle of spiritual life, so they have empty, impoverished hearts. Jesus told His disciples (including us),
"Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" (Matthew 16:24-26)
We gain by giving, we rise by bowing to serve, and we're filled by pouring ourselves out to God and others. This isn't a new concept. The paradox has been central to the faith since time began, and we have a supreme example. Saint Augustine captured the paradoxical wonder of Christ when he wrote:
"Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on his journey; that the Truth might be accused of false witness, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die."
Christians talk about "becoming like Christ." Augustine captured what the phrase really means. True transformation happens when powerful people become humble and timid people become bold.
It's not enough to have a hit-and-run message of grace to people who are deeply hurt and have lost hope. We need staying power. We have to hang in there with a prodigal child, a friend who is an addict, someone who is chronically sick, or anyone else who requires extra grace.
Wilfredo De Jesús is one of the 2014 Faculty for The Global Leadership Summit. He is the Senior Pastor of New Life Covenant Church in Chicago, Illinois and was recognized as TIME's 100 Most Influential People in 2013. Learn more about Wilfredo HERE.


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Dr. Matthew J. Bettendorf graduated from the Creighton University School of Medicine in 2002. He works in Duluth, MN and 1 other location and specializes in Surgery and Bariatrics. Dr. Bettendorf is affiliated with Essentia Health Saint Marys Medical Center.
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Just another offering from the archive. This one was written on my one year anniversary as a non-smoker. February 26, 2015 will be year three smoke free and I must tell you I still crave a cigarette, however the cravings are less intense and more time passes between each cigarette thought.
One thing I have learned about addictions, be it cigarettes, booze, drugs, food, or perhaps a shopping compulsion, there is no grand victory in the abstinence. I suppose because I understand the responsibility for the dangerous behavior is mine alone, so stopping what I should never have started, leaves a shallow mental victory.
I think If I understood this when I began the struggle to stop the smoking addiction, the "relentless grind" of maintaining self-denial would have made my continued success much easier.
February 26, 2013
"When a Lovely Flame Dies"
I have crossed over the one year mark as a smoke-free citizen! I want to say "celebrating" my one year anniversary as a non-smoker, but I feel too guilty to have ever been a smoker to call it a "celebration."
I quit cold turkey as they say. No pills, no patches just pure will. One minute I was a smoker the next minute I was not. Period. However, I did not dare call it official until I hit my one year mark.
One year, three days, four hours, twenty three minutes and ten seconds, but who's counting?
I did not quit because of a health quest, nor was it because of the quiet urgings of loved ones. It was nothing so valiant.
It was a total financial motivation.
I documented my struggle and as I skimmed my journals of the first few weeks of not smoking, I found the entries amusing, but at the same time sad.
Perhaps a synopsis of a quitter's journey might interest or help someone.
Journal entry day three: "48 hours smoke free! Not pleasant. I love that I have not smoked but the only thing I can think about is SMOKING!…."
It goes on to describe my non-smoking anguish. As 48 hours turn into 72 hours my entries become more frantic.
Journal entry day five: "I don't really want a cigarette, well, I guess I do, no I don't! Yes I do! What I want more than anything is to stop focusing, thinking and dreaming of cigarettes!…This is so stupid! …"
The anguish is hysterical and endless. I go on to beat myself up for days on the pages of my journal.
My distress does not become manageable and level out until about three months into the effort, but really, once you've been a serious smoker, I suppose the urge will never go away.
I can tell you that when you've made smoking part of your routine, changes have to be made in order to be successful at quitting. For instance, instead of using my break time at work to smoke, I took a little walk. Unfortunately, at home, my smoking routine was replaced with snacks.
Not good. So now I must replace my replacement or just keep lots of carrots and celery available. (I've heard that addicts of all persuasions replace one addiction with another and I can tell you this is a true statement.)
What I did not realize until I read my journal is that smoking was that little reward I would give myself. The damage done to my smoker's psyche is that these little rewards were the moments in my life that I would look forward to.
Can't have a cigarette, now what?
When I quit, I was very sad and depressed. I missed my little rewards. (This is one of the reasons the habit takes you and keeps you!) My reward was a cigarette. In reality, I was rewarding myself with a sure and painful death and who's to say that still may be my "reward."
The moment you realize how warped this way of thinking is, (and this is very important if you are trying to quit) is the moment you realize an entire life style and a set of priorities must be changed in order to achieve success.
My retrospect:
Significant reason to quit: Over time, smoking will make your world smaller. It is a gradual shrinkage and you may not even notice that you are limiting your opportunities until you realize one day that you didn't attend that luncheon, or you didn't attend that meeting because smoking would have been difficult at these functions. (Smokers, I know you don't want to admit it, but you know this is a truth.)
If I was going to a family function I was the anal retentive smoker. I would pack my hand sanitizer, gum, mints, tin foil and hand wipes.
To slip outside for a smoke was quite a process. I would first pop a mint into my mouth, smoke the cigarette, crush the cigarette butt in a piece of tin foil, wrap that in another piece of tin foil to dispose of, pop in a piece of gum, lather up with hand sanitizer and finish my clean up job with a hand wipe and only then was I confident that all indications that I had just smoked a cigarette were gone.
HA! Do you think I fooled anyone?
I remember one Christmas Eve party at my sister's house. I was outside smoking. My nephew, who was about 10 or 12 years old at the time, joined me outside to keep me company. He said something very sweet to me that evening and I will never forget it… "You know, Auntie, if you would quit smoking you could spend more time inside the house with us."
I wanted to give him a great big Auntie hug, but I didn't want to get smelly cigarette smoke on him so I didn't. Another limitation of life as a smoker is the hesitation to get close or affectionate. I would never want to offend someone with a smoky hug so I kept my distance and I'm sure this translated into aloofness to people who did not know me well.
One thing I do miss is my alone time when I smoked at home. I would never smoke inside my house, but I would go onto my porch, light a candle and a cigarette and enjoy the stars and moon and the quiet of the night. I had my best ideas as I did my best thinking and meditation (praying) on these occasions.
Some would say I can still do that without the cigarette and perhaps in time I will, but for now, as soon as I sit down on the lanai furniture, my first instinct and craving is to light up.
What I don't miss?
I don't miss the expense.
(By the way, not smoking affords me enough for a car payment each month. Think about THAT, smokers! A car payment!)
I don't miss the smell. I don't miss the extreme measures taken to practice the habit. And most of all, I surely don't miss the absolute strangers who would never think of being rude under any other circumstances but are totally comfortable approaching smokers and breaking into their conversation to scold and admonish with rude comments.
(Ask any smoker and they will tell you of similar experiences.)
Keep in mind, most every public location and work place campuses have all been deemed a smoke free environment and if there are any wretched smokers left, we are relegated to the furthest most outreaches of the surroundings to a place known as the Leper Colony because it is a place where normal citizens dare not tread.
However the urge to rebuke a smoker is so intense in some folks that they will seek us out. They will make a determined march over to the Colony as they furiously wave their hands back and forth in front of their noses as they bark "Oh yuck! Your cigarette smoke is so disgusting!"
Remember, ye of a healthy, self-righteous superiority, this behavior would be akin to someone chasing after you in a parking lot to throttle you with, "Oh yuck! That perfume/aftershave you are wearing is so strong and disgusting I think it just burned all my nose hairs!
Rude is rude even if you are dispensing it to a disgusting, degenerate smoker who may also be a forthright, productive citizen and beloved Auntie.
Anyway. That's that. One year. Done.
Well, one year, three days, five hours twenty three minutes and ten seconds, 11 seconds, 12 seconds, 13 seconds……..


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Show Some Big Love (NYC)
Fifty brides flee to a manor in Italy to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. Pace Performing Arts closes out their season with Big Love on May 7–11 at the Schimmel Theatre.
Seven more PPA shows before the 2013-2014 season comes to an end. And it's going to be a Big one.
On May 7–11, Performing Arts students take on Charles L. Mee's Big Love, an adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Woman, about a runaway bride (one of 50 sisters), who sails away from Greece to Italy. But the jilted grooms (and 50 brothers) show up in helicopters to take their brides back.
Performances will be held at the Schimmel Theatre on:
Wednesday, May 7–Friday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
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Tickets are $6 for Pace students and seniors and $12 general admission, and can be purchased through OvationTix.
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A Magical Christmas Eve on Candy Cane Lane this Friday and Saturday.
[Three shows - Friday, December 12th at 7 p.m. and Saturday, December 13th at 2:30 or 7 p.m.
Tickets are available at the door for $12 or advanced tickets may be purchased for $10 at FX Hair Design & Color Studio, 1052 East Church St. or call 706-253-5188.]
The story of Christmas family traditions will be told through song and dance this Friday and Saturday at the PHS Performing Arts Center as North Georgia Acting Company puts on an absolutely beautiful show for our holiday entertainment.
There's nothing like a Christmas musical to get us ready for the holidays so grab your kids and grandkids, friends and neighbors and make plans to see A Magical Christmas Eve on Candy Cane Lane Friday and Saturday. The show is guaranteed to uplift your heart and boost your holiday spirit.
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Atlanta, December 9, 2014 – In a 5-to-2 ruling, the Supreme Court of Georgia has denied a stay of execution for Robert Wayne Holsey, who is scheduled to be put to death tonight by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, GA.
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The dashboard camera footage shows the green light and speed which is beside the P at the top. It shows the officer had slowed prior to the light but was speeding up after going through the intersection.
Captain Frank Reynolds noted the car beside the deputy may have partially obscured the pedestrian from the deputy.
Reynolds said the footage shows it was just an accident, with the pedestrian crossing out of any crosswalk on the dark road.
Reynolds confirmed that the deputy was off duty and driving home at the time of the accident.
The Pickens sheriff's department released some still shots this afternoon from the dashboard camera of a deputy's car that hit a pedestrian in Ellijay December 2. (see original story)
Pictured from left are General Manager Jamie Mundth, Owner Greg Shottenkirk with Jim Jones Sr. and Jim Jones Jr.
Shottenkirk Auto Group, an Iowa based multi-franchised company, purchased Vernie Jones Ford Co. Inc. and will rename the Ford franchise Shottenkirk Ford.
Vernie Jones Ford was founded by Vernie Jones in 1969 and officially became a franchised Ford dealer in March of 1970. Jim Jones Sr. took over as Dealer Principal and General Manager in 1985 accompanied by his sister, Mary Bryant, as Office Manager. He was later joined by his son, Jim Jones, Jr., as New and Used Car Sales Manager.
Jim Sr. would like to thank the community and their loyal customers throughout the years and hope they will continue to support Shottenkirk Ford and the familiar faces at the Jasper location.
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Press Release from Pickens Sheriff's office
On December 2, 2014 at approximately 7:00 pm, a Pickens County deputy sheriff was involved in a motor vehicle accident with a pedestrian in Gilmer County.
The incident occurred on Highway 515 and Maddox Drive in East Ellijay. The deputy was traveling northbound in his assigned patrol car when a pedestrian attempted to run across the roadway in front of oncoming traffic.
A preliminary review of the patrol car's onboard video indicates the deputy was traveling under the posted speed limit and had the right of way at the time of the accident.
The pedestrian was airlifted to Kennestone Hospital where he is reported to be in stable condition. The deputy was not injured.
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating the accident.


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By the fifth week of the semester, things are getting wild. Here is a glimpse of just a few of these activities: The current cohort of Chuck Green Fellows met with Chuck Green, alum Jake Levy-Pollans '09, and Professor Julie Dolan last week at Wellstone Action; Eman Mohammed, a Palestinian photojournalist documenting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, spoke on Thursday; American Studies Conference on "Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture" was held on Thursday and Friday; The Loch hosted a Talent Show on Friday night; International Kidsfest was held in Kagin Commons on Saturday; Macalester held its second annual Hackathon—a business idea startup competition—over 24 hours last weekend; Macalester men played hockey on Saturday night; His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet visited Macalester on Sunday.
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Romantic Traditions: Displaying Keepsakes Like Chopsticks!
We love sharing little household traditions with you guys. There are just so many cheap and easy ways to commemorate special dates and display unique items in your home that can make it feel more personal and meaningful. For example, we whipped up these vacation jars a while back…
… and also explained that we love sending a postcard to ourselves to help remember all the details of every vacation that we spend together (they look great tossed in a large glass vase):
We also shared how we framed old keys to commemorate all the places we lived before moving into this "forever home" of ours (as seen to the left of the postcards in a vase above).
And how I snagged a vintage map on ebay, mounted it on cork, and framed it for a simple pinboard that helps us chart all the places we've traveled together (we've since added a bunch of pins thanks to our big Texas road trip):
And how we love to pose for some cheap-o photostrips on big days like anniversaries and other momentous occasions (like the day we found out I had a bun in the oven):
But enough looking back, let's get back to 2010 shall we? Speaking of the brandspankingnew year, John and I actually have a strange little New Year's Eve tradition: a nice romantic sushi dinner. It actually became a tradition after we were together a few years and realized that we had subconsciously gone out to a sushi dinner on Dec 31st ever since we began dating. So after accidentally enjoying a nice little Japanese feast together in 2005 and 2006, of course when the end of '07, '08, and '09 rolled around we kept the tradition alive. And somewhere along the line John suggested that we save a pair of chopsticks from each restaurant (unused ones of course) and label them with the date, the occasion, and the place where we dined. It's such a cheap (well, free actually) way to keep tabs on our year-ending whereabouts- and it's fun when they're displayed en masse atop a lacquered box, stashed in a cup on my desk, or even stuck in this Ikea vase:
We love that we can glance at them and remember evenings spent celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of another- and it's great to see that we actually kept the tradition alive no matter where we were traveling at the time (from Georgia to Delaware and of course on the home front in Richmond, VA).
Oh and not to worry guys, this year it was only cooked fish and veggie sushi for me since the bean is "on board." But it was still just as delicious and memorable. So that's our odd little sushi inspired tradition. What about you? Do you have any "momentos" that you collect or even label to help you remember special events or milestones? Matchbooks? Bottle caps? Sea shells? Wine corks? Snow globes? Menus? Shot glasses? Tattoos? Do tell.
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(We tried to save our champagne cork from New Year's this year, but the puppy stole it yesterday and chewed it to pieces!)
We collect fun Christmas ornaments from our travels. We have a beautiful hand-crafted porcelain one from Vermont (featuring a snowly mountainside), silly plastic ones from Seattle, the Smoky Mountains, and Boston (salmon, a bear, and Paul Revere, respectively), hand-painted pottery ones from St. Thomas, St. Martin, and Mexico.
It's really fun to look for them (especially the hand-crafted ones from local artists) while traveling and they're a wonderful reminder of our time together when we decorate the Christmas tree.
I noticed you have a pin on Des Moines, IA – that's where I live :) Glad to know you've made a stop here!!
My husband and I DIY an ornament every year – our first was an oversized ball ornament that we drew on and decorated with stickers (2004). The year we got married we saved tickets and printed tiny pictures and decopaged it all onto a cut out shaped like Italy. It's fun to find an interesting way to document our year and usually comes together as we wander around Micheal's, we never have a plan!
After nine years together I wish I would have thought to save more, I love all of your ideas!!
We have a Memory Box full of ticket stubs, cards, corks with coins stuck in them, etc.
Since we love to travel, we get a Christmas ornament from every country we go to. It is almost always something indicative of the country. It's cool to revisit the memories.
We couldn't find one in Belgium and our London ornament broke. Anyone have a spare ornament from those two countries lying about? ;)
Mick and I bought special champagne flutes for our wedding and every year on our anniversary we take them out and do a toast.
We aso met on New Year's Eve, so ever since then, *every* time we toast (which is every day actually), no matter what time of year, we say "Happy New Year."
Those jars are awesome ideas! I love it!
I collect old records (hunt down the used music stores and buy one or two or three classic records), frame the covers with a little card visible that states the place and store I found it. I have about thirty, in addition to ones my own parents gave me. Can't wait to give them to my son when he's old enough to appreciate them…hopefully it will still be cool to like what your parents liked by then lol.
I also collect sanddollars, let them bleach in the sun, write the place and date in a fine tip sharpie on the edge and hang them as ornaments. Some years I hang them on my kitchen window so I can appreciate them year round.
A friend used to collect a leaf per year and dry and press them into a frame to document her sons life in a fun way..it ended up being a very special memory when he passed away from cancer at a young age. Sad but a wonderful way to remember him.
I remember this thing called "mementos". But then I had my boys and they broke them all. Which is okay, because now they're replaced with piles and piles of kid drawings that make my heart happy every time I see them, which is often because they're taped up all over my house.
Confession: my husband and I steal soup spoons! Never more than one and never twice from the same restaurant, but we've amassed a pretty cool collection that we actually use for meals. We've even got friends who've taken up our "criminal tradition" and bring us soup spoons from places they travel. :)
I love the writing postcards to yourself idea. So good.
We started keeping champagne and wine bottles from special occasions (or just the cork, in the case of champagne from our wedding).
Also, we live in Richmond too and LOVE Sushi-O. One of the best sushi places in RVA for sure.
I don't have a special collection of anything, but I love some of your ideas! However, my mom has an amazing collection of heart shaped rocks that she collects from places she's been. She's very outdoorsy and loves to camp and hike so she finds them all over. Also, whenever my sisters or I travel somewhere far away, we try to find one for her as well. She writes the date and location on the backs of them (if they are large enough.)
We keep wine corks for vase filler and such, but our special ones–we visited wine country for out honeymoon, so that kicked off a tradition of buying a special bottle of wine on each anniversary to save for the next one–live in a wine glass from one of the vineyards we visited on our honeymoon. We love glancing at them and remembering the honeymoon and anniversaries. I can't wait until we've been married long enough to have more corks than we know what to do with!
Hubby and I got in the habit of collecting a magnet and mug from every vacation we take. It's easy to do since these are things you can find in a souvenir shop in any destination. But it makes me worry what I'm going to do with all of those mugs and magnets after we've been married 10 or 20+ years! I guess my children will inherit a very interesting china collection someday!
I love your idea of postcards to each other, that is something I'd really like to start doing. Writing notes on actual paper, rather than a computer, is so romantic but is becoming a lost art!
The one thing we do right now is that we commemorate our vacations in photobooks that I make on Snapfish/Shutterfly and those types of sites. I used to be into scrapbooking, but it is so much easier and more organized to make photo books online. What I like about them is that you can add text along with all of the pictures. This way I can tell our vacation as a "story" and write down all of the little things we may forget later on.
I collect rocks. Always have. I've done a bit of traveling around the world and every place I go I find an interesting rock on the ground, write the place and date on it with a Sharpie, and bring it back for my niece. I am trying to cut down on my own clutter and collections, so I just passed this one to her!
I love the vintage map idea – I work with old maps as part of my job and my husband and I love to travel so it would be perfect for our house!
We don't have too many keepsakes – we kept the bottle of wine we drank the night of our engagement and the cork to the champagne we toasted with at our wedding – otherwise we mostly have pictures for the memories!
This is JUST the inspiration I need today! I keep everything and so much more is captured in photographs. Playbills and ticket stubs. Matchbooks. Wine corks. Maps. I love looking through treasures from our travels – trips my husband and I take, girl trips or family time.
I remember as a kid, my grandmother having these distinctive glass ornaments from overseas when she lived there. It's something I have always wanted, but never got. So for our own tradtion, my husband and I go to a local glass blower and buy 5 new, different ornaments each year. Oddly, one of the ornaments is a Norwegian Star because my grandmother only really acknowledged our Norwegian heriatge at Christmas (weird, huh?).
Love your ideas, I would love to incorporate some purposeful items in decorating!
We have a handful of "ball" jars at home, which we most recently used to stash our holiday candy. However, I got some inspiration from a photo where someone sprayed them all white. It looked super chic and fresh, and the Ball logo stood out even more!
I want to do the same thing with the paint, but I'm still trying to figure out what to stash in them since they won't be see through. Hmmm.
Anyway, love the chopsticks idea! So cute.
We've collected wine corks for years. We artfully arranged a bunch of them in shadow boxes (we glued them to heavy cardstock), added a few items from wine tastings we've attended together, and hung the boxes in our kitchen.
We've saved what we considered to be momentous fortunes from Chinese fortune cookies, like the one I got several weeks before Alex was born that said, "You will soon witness a miracle."
We borrowed your key idea, since I had saved the key from our first house. We paired it with a key from our current houses and added several vintage keys.
We've saved a ton of things from our childrens' babyhood, although we haven't organized it or displayed it in any fancy way yet. Guess we should get busy…
What great, creative ideas. I love the chopsticks.
Hey – an off subject question. We just re-did our shower – took tub out and put in a tiled shower with great euro doors. How do you suggest I match the floor rugs – to the wall color, tile color, or floor color. I'm working with platinum tiles, BM Quiet Moments walls – white cabinetry.
Thanks for the hint.
A friend of mine took all her ticket stubs etc. from things she has done with her husband and made them into a collage and framed them. I have always thought it was a great way to do something with all those stubs filling a shoe box.
Love your little traditions! My boyfriend and I started a new tradition of buying a Christmas ornament for our tree every time we travel someplace. It's a fun living memory book when we trim the tree and think back to our vacations fondly.
We also save corks in a giant glass jar (more of a decanter or pitcher really). We try to be good about writing the dates on the corks, but more often than not we skip that step.
I'm love the map idea…and I must ask…what brought you to Iowa? Nobody ever comes here!! When I saw two pins there I had to wonder :)?
You guys have some great ideas!!! I love these!!!
I'm so glad that you re-posted the vacation jars idea! I started reading your blog about a year ago and have slowly been making my way through your older posts so I hadn't read that one yet. Such a great idea! I have a giant box of keepsakes and wanted a way to display them in a non-tacky way.
::runs swiftly to michaels and buys eight billion jars::
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Daphne's winter plight
Hi, Sorry, another question about Daphnes. How do they do over the winter?? I am thinking this winter they lost their leaves, based on what I saw at the garden centers.
In general are they evergreen? A lot of places they are listed as evergreen, but others say the foliage lasts part winter. Do they look okay when they start growing again (the ones I saw looked kind of weird as the leaves were coming in but I may have just been tired and grumpy....or the Daphne was)
Thanks a lot
My Daphne 'Carol Mackie' is not evergreen; it loses its leaves each fall. New leaves emerge the following spring when temperatures begin to warm up. It's beginning to bloom now where I am.
Daphne may be evergreen in warmer climates but not in Z6a.
I purchased my shrub from Bluestone Perennials in 2010 and planted it in part sun on a slope north side of my house based on planting recommendations from the nursery. My soil leans toward acid.


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In a pre-dawn strike similar to the recent one in Jehanabad in Bihar, a group of over 200 armed Naxalites, including women, today attacked a sub-jail in R Udayagiri town of Gajapati district in Orissa, freed the prisoners, killed three policemen, and took a police officer and the jailor hostage, sources said.
There were 40 prisoners, including some Naxalites, in the jail, and barring one, all of them escaped, sources said. The ultras ''pulled down'' the jail gates to help them escape. The ultras also attacked the police station, an Orissa Special Armed Police (OSAP) Camp, the treasury, the tehsildar's office and a telecom tower, spreading terror. They shot dead three policemen and injured two others, district collector Binod Bihari Mohanty, who escaped by taking refuge inside a house, said over telephone. The three cops killed were identified as Havildar Prasanta Patnaik, sepoy Tuna Dehury, and sepoy Rajesh Ekka. Police claimed that three Naxalites, including a woman, were killed when police returned fire. The exchange lasted around two hours.
The two who were captured by ultras were the officer in charge of the police station Ranjan Kumar Mallick and the jailor of the sub-jail, Rabinarayan Sethi, officials said. Mohanty added that the ultras looted arms from the
police station. The Naxalites approached the town from two directions and retreated after the attack via Saralapadar into the deep jungles, carrying the bodies of their dead comrades. The Naxalites had disconnected telephone lines to most of the offices and disrupted power supply in the town.
Police started combing operations along the direction of retreat of the ultras. Superintendent of police, Gajapati, A N Sinha was on his way to the town with reinforcements, said the district collector. However, the entry points to town would have to be cleared as the Naxalites have blocked them by felling trees and pushing boulders on to the road. Reports also said the Naxals could have planted landmines on the road to R Udayagiri town.
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At the young age of eight, I began to suffer with depression. I often felt helpless, hopeless and extremely sad. No one truly understood just how overwhelmed and very alone I was feeling. To make matters worse, I was subjected to both physical and mental bullying by my classmates throughout my school years.
In the spring of 2007, I got a call from an old friend who had just taken a job as the editor of a new quarterly magazine about depression. I can't recall precisely how the conversation went from there but it ended up with my offering to write a personal "viewpoint" column about my own experience with depression.
I was recently interviewed for an excellent Wall Street Journal article about dysthymia (mild, chronic depression). In the online version of the article, I talk about how my anger at minor irritations and hypersensitivity to criticism threatened my marriage.
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Amy Winehouse, 27-year-old singer of the 2008 hit, "Rehab," was found dead Saturday, July 23rd. Initial autopsy reports were inconclusive, but many have begun to speculate that her heavy drug and alcohol abuse, alleged self-medication for untreated bipolar disorder, played a role.
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Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels
Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels
1 16 oz bag of pretzel twists
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Preheat over to 300 degrees.
Pour pretzels in a large bowl. Pour vegetable oil on and toss. Mix the sugar and cinnamom together and sprinkle on top and toss again. Bake for 30 minutes, removing twice to stir..
I made these yesterday for Thanksgiving and everyone loved them. I actually used 2 9" X 13" pans to make it easier to stir.
Here is another recipe using pretzels that everyone loves...
Pecan Pie....(Faux)
4 Eggs
1-1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
Deep Dish Pie Shell, unbaked
1-1/2 cups crushed pretzels
3 T butter, melted
2 T sugar
Preheat oven to 350.
For Filling:Place first five ingredients in large mixing bowl and mix with wire whisk until well combined.
Pour into pie shell.
Combine all topping ingredients in medium bowl and stir well with a spoon to coat pretzels.
Sprinkle topping evenly over pie.
Bake in 350 oven for 1 hour, covering with foil after 30 minutes to prevent over browning.
Allow to cool completely before serving. Can be made a day or two ahead of time and stored in refrigerator.
Until I told them no one knew the difference and a couple even asked how I got that occasional little salty touch...Ha Ha its a special trick that I can't divulge...
Susie, the person who posted it said she just used 1/2 bag of pretzels. I looked at the bag and thought it didn't look that big to me. Suppose I could freeze some for later?
Yes Ruthie, your recipe sounds delicious. A lot less $$ than using pecans, too. Where we live they're $8.99 a pound. Yikes!!
I don't know about freezing pretzels. Maybe someone here has done it. Anyone? If you keep them in an airtight container they will keep for quite a while. I used a whole 1 pound bag.
I just finished making the pretzels to take up to the grandsons tomorrow. I used the square waffle shapes, and it sure seemed like it was way too much oil and sugar. I still have not tasted them, but if I make them again, I will halve the oil and sugar.


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