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We have one last thing to do before we head off on the Nakasendo Walk.
We have arranged to spend the day with Johnny Hillwalker, aka Hajimi Hirooka.
Johnny Hillwalker is going to guide us around the inner city of Kyoto so that we can learn more about the culture, the history and the artisans for which this town is famous.
In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai for the purposes of producing and selling hand-crafted Hanafuda cards painted on mulberry tree bark. Though it took a while to catch on, soon the Yakuza began using Hanafuda cards in their gambling parlors, and card games became popular in Japan again.
Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle.
The name Nintendo means Leave luck to Heaven .
Johnny's walk begins at the Higashi Honganji Temple, that other LARGE BUILDING that I made reference to last walk. This temple has only recently re-opened after the entire tile roof was replaced. The previous 59,387 tiles were too heavy for the roof structure to support and the roof had become a safety issue.
we've taken for granted
upon reflection,
wonderfully perfect.
Johnny's walk took us to a bead making store, a fan maker, a shinto shrine and cemetery, the old geisha tea house area and all along the way my camera found beautiful flowers to capture.
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Marriage is a walk in the park… Jurassic Park! "I made you four pieces of toast with avocado on them to take into the car" (a non bruised avocado, you know the perfect fleshed ones, plus salt and pepper on healthy Soy and Linseed brown bread) "Do you not want them?" I held the plate up to him as we drove down the road willing him to consume. "NO" he snarled "I'm too angry!" (he was angry because he took ages to pack the car, I said he should have done it the night before). So I said "sweet" I opened the window of the car and dramatically threw with great force, each piece out the window. I wanted to biff the whole plate, but I thought FUCK IT, I'm so uncoordinated at throwing, I'll probably dent the car or smash a window. I also wanted to do the fingers at him furiously whilst yelling F and C words. Obscenities any tourettesy person would be proud of… then punch him in the temple.
BUT… I'd made my point. I kept the punch in the face, curse words and the finger in my imagination. I didn't talk for three hours in the car. That's a mission in itself for me. Marriage is like a walk in the park…Jurassic Park.
Some days I think I couldn't live without him. Then others times especially at night when he snores I feel the jury of wives would understand why I'd finally cracked, why I lost my shit and suffocated him, sleep deprivation does that to a person. I can see the jury of woman now… NOT GUILTY, nodding their heads looking sympathetic.
Don't get me wrong, I do love my husband Kiwi, but it can be frustrating living and working together so closely. He is an internaliser, so when he's stressed or worried he doesn't communicate. He nuts it out himself, I'm the opposite.
I'm dramatic he's not
I'm loud he's quiet
I'm a talker he's not
I like center of attention he likes behind the scenes
He's sensible I'm not
He's a planner I'm not… spreadsheets are his friend!
Its amazing how the universe and our subconscious puts us with the opposite of ourselves. Our counselor said: I'm a wave, he's an island. I like to think of myself as more of a Tsunami. He stands alone, I need someone else for reassurance and keep reaching out. I wash over the island. Due to our different upbringings. He is my rock, drives me nuts at times, but I always feel safe and loved. He cooks better than me and tries hard to be calming and reassuring when my brain is full and chaotic. He's not afraid of hard work and puts others need before his own.So I couldn't imagine my life without him, a caring soul who's a very loyal friend and loving attentive father. He likes the simple things like rugby, auctions, fishing and a roast or seafood. He's not materialistic, happy in jandals having a quiet beer. I can't change him and don't want to. I just will encourage him to talk more. So ladies although we get driven demented by our husbands at times, do appreciate the things they try to do for us. Tell them, most show their love by doing things for us. Acts of service (read the love language book).
Say thank you for being a good provider. You and I need to remember to thank them eg for cooking or tell them the lawns look great. Or for taking the kids out so you get a break. Encourage a boys weekend away for comradery. Kiwi's off fishing in Ngawi tomorrow. Guess its fish and chips for dinner, for me and the kids. Communication, compromise, appreciation is the key I believe. Keep it real and be able to laugh. I will still make him avocado on toast, but I probably won't say anything but "bon appetite" when I hand it over.
Go kiss your husbands girls. Not too long though, he'll think you want a shag.
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I've been reading the reports about Gothamist and DNAinfo employees and the owner of those two digital media sites, Joe Ricketts. If you haven't been following the stories, the employees voted to unionize and following the vote, Ricketts shut the sites down which left the employees without jobs. The stories reminded me about the movie or tv shows of Dragnet and Joe Friday and about some of the labor-management committees we've seen.
The reporters writing the stories about Gothamist and DNAinfo came to the conclusion the sites were shut down because of what Joe Ricketts wrote in his blog on September 12th about unions. That could be but we don't know if that is actually the reason. We don't know why employees wanted representation from the Writers' Guild. We don't know what the relationship was like between Ricketts and the employees before the organizing drive and we don't know about the Writers' Guild and how they conducted themselves through all of this. There's just a lot we don't know. Instead of gathering what Joe Friday said, "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts," the stories only assume why Ricketts shut down the outlets. The same happens in labor-management committees. They'll look at issues based on what they assume they know which may or may not be right. That, unfortunately, is sometimes how workplace issues are resolved.
That's not the best way to resolve problems because we may be assuming something is a problem when it may not be or we may be assuming the wrong things associated with the problem. For example, in one labor-management meeting one of the managers was absolutely sure there was an overtime issue occurring in a particular area of the organization. In another example, an employee was sure holiday scheduling was not being followed according to the contract. Each time we asked if they were sure those problems were occurring, and, if so, did they have supporting facts. Each time they said no so we told everybody to go back to their work areas and find out what was happening and bring the information back to the next meeting. More often than not, they would come back saying the problem didn't happen. Had we started to try and solve either of those issues, we would have wasted valuable committee time addressing issues that didn't exist and it might have prompted other problems.
In addition to the assumptions being made, there are other behaviors such as accusations and positions being taken in the Gothamist and DNAinfo story that also don't help. Accusations were made of Ricketts for shutting down the sites because the employees wanted to unionize and Ricketts, in his blog, accuses unions of causing division within a workplace. This, too, can happen in committees. Position taking restricts the opportunity of coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing things. Positions are when people draw a line such as, "I must have it this way," or "I won't do it if you don't do this." Ricketts takes the position of saying, "I am against unions in businesses that I create." The other day it was reported the Writers Guild and former employees staged a rally against Ricketts with other journalists and politicians. These types of behaviors don't allow for real problem solving to take place, especially in the labor-management setting. It erodes trust and breaks down relationships which can take a long time to repair.
When labor and management work together, though, we have opportunity to learn more about what concerns people have or what's driving the accusations and positions. After gathering information and identifying issues associated with a particular issue, we can next address their concerns. We learn what the motivation is behind the concern instead of making accusations and taking positions. Maybe the concerns are job security or it costs too much but once we learn those we have a much better chance of coming up with some solutions to meet those concerns. The final steps would be to determine some objective criteria to help decide which solutions are best and then coming to consensus on a final solution which may be made up of many solutions. By using criteria instead of individual choice we've eliminated the possibility of conflict, resolved the problem together and preserved the relationship. That's the interest-based problem solving process and it's why we at CALMC advocate for it.
It's difficult to say if the interest-based problem solving process would help in the Gothamist and DNAinfo situation. They may have tried it or talked about some of the issues and concern and it didn't work. We don't know but it doesn't mean everything stops. It just means the parties keep trying.
Ricketts says in his blog he wants everybody in the workplace to work together to serve the customers and help the business succeed. He probably could use the experience of the employees to help him with digital media sites especially if his experience is limited and that's exactly what the interest-based process can do. It can address his concerns and the employees' concerns so they can resolve the issues together. It could be the employees and the Writers' Guild didn't want to work together. That has happened before and we've blogged about it. It's unfortunate when that happens because it takes away the opportunity for workers or union members to be involved in workplace decisions.
It takes BOTH sides to be committed to the process or it won't work. It can't be just lip service. It means walking the talk. It's sad when people are stuck in the same thought patterns or bad behaviors because it eliminates the chance to learn about each other and it also eliminates the satisfaction of resolving an issue and doing it together. It's doubtful anything will happen at Gothamist and DNAinfo but if it does, it will take both sides to realize they'll need some help if they want to work together.
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- Amber and Jameka were last ones awake. They went to bed around 5:30AM BB time.
- Amber and Jameka discussed who Amber should nominate should she win HoH. I believe they were eluding to a Jessica/Eric nomination with a preferred Jessica eviction
- There was A LOT of general chit- chat
- Jessica was first awake at 7:15AM BB time.
- Everyone slowly arose with nothing going on
- Eric and Jessica had a little conversation. Eric said if either of them win HoH they should nominate Zach/Amber with Jameka as the potential replacement.
- They had an extremely long lockdown for no apparant reason
Thats about it. Feeds have been blocked since 2PM BB Time. Watch for a full recap of the live show following it, here on the east coast. Come join us in the chat room during the live show for updates such as evictee, HoH winner etc!


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"Tim & his team did a superb job on our landscaping, as the photos show. We have a well thought out garden that is functional and looks great. We love it and continually get compliments on how great it looks. I would not hesitate to recommend Tim & and crew. Tim cares about his clients and will often check in after the job is done to ensure his clients are completely satisfied."
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Safe travels | Insurance Business
How completely do employers appreciate the terrorism risk to which their travelling employees are exposed in today's world?
Wayne Anstiss, chief underwriting officer for Accident & Health International (AHI), tells Insurance Business employers are becoming more cognisant of their evolving duty of care to employees with respect to terrorism and safety and security.
"In the past, there was an assumption that these risks only occurred in high-risk countries, like Iraq and Syria. Often it was only people travelling to high-risk areas who sought terrorism cover, such as missionaries or charity workers," Anstiss says. "However, as the 2014 Lindt siege and last year's Nice and Berlin attacks showed, these incidents can happen anywhere and any time. Organisations need to ensure they have appropriate cover for their people.
"Many would be shocked to know there were 100 terror events around the world in the last month alone."
So precisely what types of employers should have terrorism included in their corporate travel coverage?
"These days, every organisation should have terrorism included in their corporate travel policy," Anstiss says.
Increasingly, he adds, brokers are seeking AHI's view on client travel risk situations.
"We work closely with our assistance provider, Dynamiq, to provide up-to-date advice and information to brokers and their clients. This is not about stopping the business trip, it is about weighing up the risks and putting mitigation strategies in place to maximise the safety and security of the travellers."
An evolving risk
Dynamiq's founder and director of strategy, Anthony Moorhouse, discusses the evolution of terrorism risk since the beginning of the 21st century. He refers to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA, carried out by a coordinated group of terrorists using hijacked commercial passenger jets as weapons.
"Then, in Mumbai, Bali and Paris, terrorists struck again but with more conventional weapons. The tools used were simple yet deadly explosives and small arms, but the planning was still complex and mass casualties and panic caused."
Moorhouse notes the increased frequency of attacks that has come with the rise of ISIS.
"But ISIS has also given rise to another form of attack – the lone wolf assault," he explains.
"This attack is characterised by the use of unsophisticated weapons … without a highly coordinated team carrying out the attack. The introduction of such attacks, marked with allegiance to various terror groups, has made the jobs of law enforcement, security and risk managers that much harder.
"In many situations, these attacks may not be able to be foreseen or prevented, so a wellexercised emergency response plan is vital."
Moorhouse mentions last June's nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.
"It was simply undertaken by a lone wolf who used his attack for notoriety, pledging allegiance to ISIS in the midst of carrying out his violence. He used military-style weapons and masses of ammunition in a traditional hostage or mass shooting situation."
Moorhouse describes the 2016 attacks in Nice and Berlin – carried out by lone wolf actors using trucks – as both particularly shocking and representative of another evolution in terrorists' tactics.
"In many ways, the blunt-force trauma caused by a speeding truck was worse than a large, sophisticated explosive device," he says.
"This has required organisations, insurers and assistance providers to review their travel risk policies and procedures, and adapt them to this new threat environment."
Check the cover
Anstiss emphasises the need for brokers and their clients to check their cover to ensure its adequacy.
"It's no good just having cover that pays a specific benefit amount for a terrorism event, because this doesn't help the traveller when they are in the middle of a terror incident," Anstiss says.
"The policy must include effective security and medical emergency response. In an emergency, an organisation must be able to immediately identify who is involved and be given updates on their safety and security in the quickest possible time."
Looking beyond coverage, Moorhouse talks about the ways in which employers – and the brokers advising them – can work to ensure an organisation's employees are best protected against terrorism risk.
"As an employer, you can't protect your people every minute of the day. However, it's part of your duty of care to have a plan in place for when the unthinkable happens to your people, whether they were specifically targeted or just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says.
"This includes assessing the specific risks at the location in which the employee is travelling, as well as assessing the particular risks of the traveller. Once you have assessed the risks, you turn your attention to mitigating those risks."
One way a company can do so, Moorhouse says, is by warning its people of potential incidents that could affect them.
"Intelligence alerts or push notifications are a great way to inform your people about threats and potential impacts to their safety," he says.
He adds that it's important to make a travelling workforce aware of the risks that exist in the country in which they'll be travelling and to arm them with appropriate training to mitigate those risks.
"We are working with Amazon Web Services, for example, to roll out hostile environment awareness training to their travelling staff, which looks at both country-specific and personal risks," Moorhouse says.
"It's also important for organisations to take a step back and look at their broader resilience strategy. Most businesses have looked at crisis management through a business continuity lens, but they're only looking inside the fence. They will look at what would happen if a terror incident directly affects their head office or people, but won't look at the wider ramifications if a larger scale terror event was to occur outside the wire. Consideration needs to be given to everything from supply chains and partners to suppliers and contractors."
Terrorism risk aside
Asked to cite other essential inclusions in a corporate travel policy, Anstiss talks about the importance of a security assistance component.
"This is necessary for when an employee experiences a direct personal threat," he says.
"For example, we had a traveller who was in the Philippines on a work trip. He was touring an area with a local resort owner and was riding on the back of his motorbike. The resort owner collided with a police bike, killing both drivers. The police and the resort owner's family were soon threatening the traveller. Through Dynamiq, we were able to arrange for a security team to go in and get the traveller to safety before the situation deteriorated to violence."
Anstiss refers to another case that illustrates the importance of a security component in a corporate travel policy.
"One of our travellers had some personal images of himself and his partner in Indonesia. During the trip, he broke up with his partner and was subsequently blackmailed by the ex-partner, who threatened to go to the local authorities with the photos.
"We sent in a security team to get the traveller out of the country and to safety."
It's also essential, Anstiss says, for medical expenses to be covered under the policy.
"There are many countries in which a hospital stay can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Interestingly, he notes that the USA is probably no longer the most expensive location in the world when it comes to medical expenses.
"Major Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, Hong Kong and others like Singapore quite often exceed the USA in medical costs," Anstiss says.
"Being covered for financial collapse is another one to watch out for. You only need to cast your mind back to the collapse of Ansett or Strategic Airlines to understand that airlines, travel agents and hotels do go bust and it's best to be covered."
"Being covered for financial collapse is another one to watch out for. You only need to cast your mind back to the collapse of Ansett or Strategic Airlines to understand that airlines, travel agents and hotels do go bust and it's best to be covered."


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Philips Medical Systems
Development of a concept for a storage area within a Philips production site
Description of the company
Philips Medical Systems develops and produces advanced X-ray systems for digital imaging in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel and employs around 1,100 people.
Initial situation
The New-Production-Introduction (NPI) phase of our x-ray products includes a comprehensive quality check for every manufactured system. During this quality check, the subsystems of our x-ray products are assembled and the test of the assembled system. The subsytems and further order-related material is stored in an area in front of the quality test stations. After a successful test the system is disassembled and moved to the shipping area.
The storage area in its current state leads to problems like:
- Incorrect allocation of material to orders
- Searching effort
- Logistical effort
- DEFOA (defect on arrival) cases because of missing material at the customers site
Aims of the project
Development of a concept for a storage area and an action plan for the reduction of logistical effort and mistakes (DEFOA).
- As-Is Analysis (incl. weaknesses of current layout and the requirements of the production)
- Development of a to-be concept
- Derivation of an action plan (incl. cost-benefit analysis)
Target group (students)
This project is particularly suitable for students of Production Management, Supply Chain & Logistics, Medical Technology and Industrial Engineering. But other disciplines are also very welcome. Experience with Lean Management concepts and with the 7 MUDA's is advantageous. The most important thing is to enjoy initiative and communication.
Please reserve these dates:
- 17 October: Information event with te companies, from 10am to 12pm, mainbuilding A; LuK
- 24 October: Kick-off event, from 2pm to 6pm (obligatory attendance)
- 27 October and 3 November: Project management course, full day (obligatory attendance)
- Order clarification meeting: Mo 29-10-18, 16:00 - 18:00 Uhr, Philips, Röntgenstr. 24, 22335 Hamburg


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On August 2nd 2017, a Motion for Authorization to Institute a Class Action was filed with the Superior Court of Quebec in the present case. The plaintiff alleges notably that for more than a decade, Desjardins imposed a loan insurance to proposed class members. This loan insurance was automatically added to the terms of reimbursement of student loans of students who had not entered into an agreement with Desjardins within a period of six months following the end of their studies.
This class action is led by Belleau Lapointe, LLP.
You are part of the proposed class in the context of the present case if you correspond to the following:
« Any person who has subscribed with a Caisse Desjardins a student loan guaranteed by the Government of Quebec, who has not communicated with the Quebec Desjardins Group Student Advisory Centre to establish reimbursement terms and whose reimbursement terms include the payment of a health and disability insurance premium (The product is also refered to "Assurance collective sur la vie, santé et perte d'emploi associée à un prêt") issued by Desjardins Financial Security as the insurer and distributed by the Fédération des Caisses Desjardins du Québec. »
If you are part of this class, we invite you to register as one of its members. This way, we will communicate with you whenever there are important developments in this file.
Filing of the Motion for Authorization to Institute a Class Action.


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Once, during a college class discussion, I was asked to choose from four handicaps: blindness, deafness, being confined to a wheelchair or obesity. I was asked to tell which I would rather live with and why, which would I never want to live with and why.
Without hesitation, I chose being confined to a wheelchair over not seeing or hearing. Communication is vital to me and I'd rather see in order to read and hear in order to speak than be able to get around. And, I said that obesity would be the worst handicap of all, one I would never want to live with.
I remember someone getting defensive about this answer and asking me, "Why?!" I explained that people perceive the three other handicaps differently than obesity, especially in our culture. People have something that resembles grace for you if you are blind or deaf or in a wheel chair, but if you are fat, people automatically assume that it's your fault, that you are lazy or a glutton and they usually detest you for it.
This video is proof of what I said so long ago. A "fitness professional," buff and bronzed, speaking in the spirit of an evil Hans or Franz, expresses criticism of Obama's choice for surgeon general. His objections about her aren't academic, he just thinks she shouldn't have gotten the job because she is overweight. This man's boldness on national TV is evidence to me that as a culture, we generally don't respect fat people. Otherwise, this man wouldn't have the nerve to speak with so much arrogance in such a public forum about a woman's weight.
I imagine Obama's choice for surgeon general was just too busy getting her medical degree to worry about counting calories. She wouldn't be the first. Maybe this guy would have more respect for her if she had tighter abs and more of those fitness certifications or body building awards he has. (I'm am only assuming he isn't educated based on superficial evidence like his artificial looking tan and how much he points at the camera. I admit that I could be very wrong about this point. It seems like there are highly educated yet ignorant people nearly everywhere these days, especially on television.)


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Well I have lost everything.
House fire...
Chapter 1
My house is burnt
Last weekend my mums car caught fire and it spread to the house. The front windows exploded and upstairs windows all cracked and broke. It was horrendous, thank god my family are all safe. But basically everything in the house is lost and ruined. So the fire was only downstairs but the black soot coats everything, upstairs downstairs all of the furniture and all of our things.
My mum was practically left homeless by the council and I'm with my dad. It was heartbreaking to stand and watch, hopeless, my house covered in flames. Downstairs the floors covered in broken glass, and everythings soaked by the water. Upstairs you cannot touch anything as you get covered in soot. My familys in bits at the minute and I cannot say how horrible it was. I never saw my mum swear, yell and sob like she did. I have a 5 year old brother and he was hysterical. Also my 2 year old sister. They are both safe, thank god.
I'd also like to say that because the firemen where on strike it took them half an hour to arrive from a different town, if they had been in our town then the house would have been fine. Somebody could have been seriously injured due to the amount of time we were waiting but thankfully no-one was. We do have a fire station 2 mintues away but of course they were on strike. This has made me very angry, if they don't like the pay why don't they just get another job? Our house would not be ruined if they hadn't been on strike.
Thanks for reading.


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Tales Of Dark Albums
About Tales Of Dark: TALES OF DARK is a doom/death metal band from Novi Sad (Serbia) which has been active for eight years already. The band changed its name to Tales of Dark... in January 2009. The demo CD bears the title <U KORI TAME> and was recorded in early 2003 in Novi Sad and it is the first studio recording of the band. It was well received by the audience and the webzines and fanzines, as well as some radio stations which have been promoting it. The CD contains 4 songs (3 in English and 1 in Serbian) and it represents the first period of the band's creative efforts.


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Lately, I've been thinking about how my life would be different without this website. Besides the amazing people I've met through it, or the writing jobs I've gotten because of it, I wonder what - if anything - would be different if aubreysabala.com never existed. And, while on this train of thought, I've talked to a few of my friends and asked them this question:
Do you think my life would be easier if I didn't have my website?
One response: Sometimes I think you cause yourself more pain than joy with your website.
Then, of course, I had to discuss and explain, which I'll attempt to do here.
My friends - these are some of the closest, dearest people to me. They know me in & out, have lived with me over the years, even when I sincerely thought that buying a sweater in size XL at J. Crew was in fashion. They've lived through a ton of laughter, a ton of tears, and even a few amaretto sours before math class. And their sentiments are real, are kind, I honestly know without a doubt that they want the best for me, so when I see them questioning a part of my life, or my behaviour, I listen up. As I have been doing.
Their stance - that they don't understand how, or why, I choose to be this honest, at least in a public forum. To them it would make more sense if I wrote these thoughts in a journal - online or otherwise - for only my eyes to see it. While I get where they're coming from, I don't agree...and that's why I'm trying to figure out why I don't.
I started this site in 2001 as a work project, something to do in some downtime. The style was much different, but the content has, for the most part, remained about the same. This was right around when blogs were getting big; I, being only on the cusp of techno-nerd-coolness, didn't realize that my meager little site may one day fall under that moniker. To me, it was a place where I could highlight my writing as I was still struggling to get published...I needed a place to have a portfolio and a place to exercise my writing. So aubreysabala.com was created, and four years later, is what it is (whatever that is) today.
Through the years, it's gotten a lot more personal. The articles - as I still call them - aren't nearly as stand-alone as they once were; years back, I was able to submit many of them and publish them in various publications & magazines without much editing. They were about universal thoughts - guys and girls and observations about life, love, etc. As I still think they often are. However, as more people came to the site and the readership increased, it became more of its own entity, more of the "Aubrey has a website." And, well, I suppose I do.
So, through the course of time, it logically also became something that people I was close to, including people I dated, knew about and even visited. And this, similar only to my parents in nature, is where it gets a little harried.
My friends think it's a bit too personal at times, especially if they put themselves in the place of a date or a boyfriend or even an ex-boyfriend. And I understand - it might just be. But to me, it's part of who I am, take it or leave it. As with most things about me, there's rarely a gray area...it's all or nothing. And yes, I know I could probably write this all with some password protection, guarding my inner-most feelings a little more closely, but that's not who I am, not how I've chosen to do this.
There's some catharsis that comes along with shedding all inhibitions, knowing that if anything, anywhere, in my life, I'm telling the truth here. And even though I know (in some cases) or assume (in others) that there are people reading this that I may not want to, or are here remaining in my life in a virtual sense after they've exited it in a physical sense (something that I'm still coming to terms with - it just doesn't seem fair somehow that they can leave but still be here), I think it's more important for me to continue on. I'm making that choice knowingly, willingly, understanding what I'm risking. It's because part of what makes it real, for me, as a writer, is the very expression of it, painful or not, to the world, which I suppose includes those from days and months and years gone by who I'd otherwise wish farewell to but - given this forum - have no say on their presence on the site.
Also, I think the very process of learning discretionary writing is somehow important. Instead of blatantly saying "John Doe, you broke my heart, you know that, don't you?", I somehow, in some form, am coming to terms with it myself over the next weeks & months, and that sentence will end up somehow making sense in a very different wording. As with most things, expressing such public feelings and coming to terms with them take time, and by having to learn this discretion publically, in my writing, it's like I'm easing into the acceptance of it all myself on my OWN time frame.
It's a question of authenticity and free will. For instance, when I'm going through a hard time, I have a choice presented in front of me: I can either write about it now, albeit not naming names or specific situations, knowing that people involved may just wander over here to see how I'm handling it all, or otherwise choose to write something safe, something innocuous, somthing that has NOTHING to do with what's really going on in my head. And the choice is different each time - sometimes I take the leap, put my heart on my sleeve as I've done so many times in the past, write authentically what I'm feeling; other times it's still too soon, too close to me, and though it's almost harder to keep it refrained, I choose the safe route, and in doing so feel myself heading down the path of blithe drabble that is as disposable as anything I've jotted down on a napkin.
Sometimes I wish I was a singer instead of a writer, at least to remove the immediacy. Their personal feelings get written one day but sung about days or months or years later when the pain has dulled and the very thing that made them cry is being spun on radio stations all over the country as a catchy refrain. And yes, I have the choice to write this now and display it later - I've done that many times. But it doesn't feel the same to me, again I feel a sense of unauthenticity. So, for now, this is the method that I know to work. Tomorrow? It may change. But today? It's what gets me through.
To quote Anna Nalick:
2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer
inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to.
Use these words however you want to - that's what there here for.


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The 2nd meet a Harrier is with a new runner to our club Lisa Hessey she has not been running with the club long but has embraced the Harriers spirit.
Lisa can be found most weekends scouring the local running community for a race and signing up, at the last count her running diary was booked up to 2020
How long have you been running with the club?
Since August 2018.
What made you start running ?
My friend asked me to run the Race for Life 10k in July and she's a good runner so I knew I had to train. I started to go out for 30 minutes twice a week but couldn't even run more the 15 minutes at a time.
Biggest running achievement so far?
Vale of York Half Marathon because I literally turned up on the morning of the race and signed up. I ran the whole thing and really surprised myself. It was the furthest I'd ever run.
Favourite race?
Yorkshire 10 miles because the atmosphere was amazing and my family were at the finish line! It was also the first race I'd run on my own!
Any running tips which have helped you ?
Eat porridge 2 hours before a long race and relax your arms when you run! Only little things but they've really helped!
Finally best thing about being part of Crossgates Harriers?
The support. Everyone wants everyone to do their best and no matter the distance or time all Harriers want to celebrate it with you! I have made some fantastic friends through the club.