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I'm looking for a vibrant group discussion today. I hope you'll contribute your thoughts.
Lately I've been ruminating on and talking to my friends and family about Elder Bednar's message to "sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth." His message is full of excellent guidelines, but putting his words into actions seems to be creating a lot of confusion. I've interviewed some very savvy young people to initiate our discussion.
Let's start with my 22 year old son Ben, a student and Italian 101 teacher at BYU:
"I had to go to a training for my stake's digital mission today. The idea is to improve the church's presence on social media in size and quality. Some of it seems pretty cool, like creating blogs, but other actions seems pointless: liking church stuff and trolling for comments that mention missionaries. I'm still kind of at odds with social media. I'm totally fine with other people using it and I'm actually kind of interested in what some people post, but a lot of the time it seems superficial and fake and even damaging. Think about the way it's changing our definition of social? How is working for "likes" changing the way we express ourselves? I'm still trying to understand how the church is so on board with all this stuff. Being encouraged, at a church meeting, to "live your life openly on social media" (that's a real quote) just seems kind of funny. Live your life on social media? How about live your life in the real world? I'm still processing it all.
Social media can easily be such a waste of time. Just as small and simple things can bring great things to pass, very little and perhaps badness also is brought to pass by small and trivial things. So many people are wasting so much time on social media. I'm guilty of this too.
I don't criticize the church at all for trying to take advantage of new technology, especially as it does have so much power to reach so many people. What I worry about though is that just as much as social media has power to do good it has equal power to do bad. And from where I'm sitting I see a lot of bad."
At my house, we're sorting out living a gospel centered life and while embracing modern media. Thanks to the internet, we've made friends across the globe and had numerous missionary opportunities, but we're also constantly working to protect our time together as a family, our virtue and our ability to hear the spirit.
Recently, my third son was asked to get a Twitter account because of his role in student government. As parents of teenagers know, Twitter has become THE way to disseminate information. He doesn't have a smart phone, so he used both my phone and our family laptop to access the site, posting reminders about football games and other school activities. More than once he expressed disgust at the messages in his feed but one day he called me over to the computer, showed me the page filled with profanity, salacious photos and links to what Miley Cyrus did on stage and said, "Don't ever let me get on twitter again."
My son was only following classmates and apostles. He can let his light so shine, but I think he'll have to do it elsewhere– at least until he's out of high school.
Anna Sam, 23, Editor of the University of Utah Chronicle shared her thoughts,
"Right now I'm at the U studying languages and literature. I've been thinking (and praying) about this a lot lately- as the Editor of the Chrony I'm constantly encouraged to spend more time on social media – both the paper's accounts, and my own. But I noticed that in doing so, I'm less sensitive to the Spirit, and generally feel less happy – you never know what you're going to run across. A week ago, I felt the impression and made a goal to only check social media sites with the express goal of sharing something uplifting, or anxiously seeking something uplifting. Eleanor Porter, author of Pollyanna, pointed out that "people radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts." What if we approached "sharing" this way? If we both honestly share the joy, gratitude and faith in our hearts, when appropriate, and seek things that will gladden our hearts and enrich our spirits? I think we can and should share that, share of ourselves, but only to the degree that it feels authentic to us, because letting OUR light shine is the key here, and if it's forced, I don't think it has the same power. For some, this might mean writing a (very) public, monetized blog, while others will share their light best through personal interaction. However we do it, make sure, first and foremost, that we protect and nurture the goodness within us (and our children, friends, and family.)"
and from David, 23, student at Columbia University:
"1) A lot of the "goodness" that's being shared completely misses the point. The point is that the "goodness" to be shared is YOU – the gospel is about you, so share yourself. "Goodness" is struggling through bad days, seeing silver lining in tough situations, sharing happiness, consoling sadness, being cheered up, and being consoled. Maybe this is an invitation to be more transparent and less presentational? "You don't have to pretend to have it all together: you're good. Share that."
2) I agree that this counsel is for people who are already active (in a healthy, well-rounded way) on social media. If I follow you on Twitter, I want to follow YOU … I can follow any number of official and unofficial church Twitter accounts if I want a never-ending flood of Mormon memes/messages. I feel like a lot of people have reacted to this message by joining social medias and posting exclusively religious material. As far as missionary work goes, I think that leaves a negative impression.
3) I also think that Matthew 6 is relevant: when we are publicly religious (praying on street corners/#SharingGoodness), are we acting "to be seen of men"? Jesus was pretty clear about that being a bad thing, right?
4) Several of my friends have interpreted this message to mean that "delicate" church issues (Ordain Women, gay marriage, etc) should not be discussed in a public settings. I disagree – I believe that the church has nothing to hide or any reason to be apologetic."
Many members are going to post appropriately and genuinely, but the way Pres. Bednar's challenge is being disseminated can be troubling. If people get the message-"It's your gospel prerogative to spend time on social media" they are in real danger of justifying a dangerous waste of time and a loss of the spirit. I'm also searching for the balance myself. Do I have a responsibility to try to reach more people? Can I remain my authentic self when looking for "likes"?
I keep thinking of Christ walking the dusty roads, healing the sick, giving sight to the blind and exhorting his disciples, "tell no man." He never sought the glory of men. Yet, the stories of Christ needed to be recorded, shared and spread throughout the earth. But only a few. As John said, "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books which should be written." John 21:25]]>
Have you clicked over to the Segullah Journal yet? Well, if you're new here or you've missed our finest feature, don't hesitate to link over. The Segullah Journal is what the blog sprung from and what organized this group into a common goal and project over nine years ago. The regularly published journal, once was in print and only a few times a year, but is now online and updated each month.
The journal is where we publish our writing- revised and rewritten-ready for savored reading. Guest and staff submissions work through editorial teams until to refine well beyond the simpler, faster compositions you see here regularly on the blog. Really, the works we feature over there- poetry, prose and pictures (pieces from our featured artist) are worth pause to ponder; it's a pleasure to take in and a pleasure to produce.
Please go check out our latest offerings. Poetry Editor Lara Niedermeyer captures the month in and editorial essay that introduces this coming season of hope, and this month's features, "Kel George's poem 'Valkyrie' describes hope as dessert-eating, alto-singing, thing of beauty. Alizabeth Worley shares her own journey to understanding hope in her essay, 'Step Two is Called Hope'."
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Sue has been a church member all of her life, raised in the truths and traditions of the gospel. She admits that her church activity is largely based on habit, and even supposes that had she not been born into a Mormon family, she likely would not have embraced the gospel. I have many close friends, and even family members, who echo her sentiments. For them, the church is a wonderful framework for a life of ritual devotion, service to others, rich community, and protection from some of the world's pernicious traps. I can't find a thing wrong with this approach. But nor can I understand it.
No, I take that back. Although I am a convert to the LDS Church, I come from a long line of devoted Christians. My great-grandfather, a Methodist minister, christened me as a baby. Two of my cousins are in the clergy. I grew up attending church every Sunday, so I have strong religious habits and traditions myself. But being a Mormon is different from my family traditions. It requires a stronger commitment to religious practice. My participation in the LDS Church is entirely intentional, the result of my spirit's instinctive search for truth. For me, and for most other converts (like Sue's husband) church activity is far less habit and much more choice. We tend to be a little intense about our approach to gospel living because we are largely driven not by tradition, but by our visceral need to know the truth.
Truth be told, I am not actually sure that this distinction (convert or lifer) has anything to do with the differences I note in people's religious motivations. Maybe it is simply a difference in order, or timing. Converts come to the Church because they are seeking truth, and lifelong members seek truth at some point because they are members of the Church.
So maybe the difference isn't in how people come to be members of the Church. Maybe some people are innately truth-seekers, due to their premortal history or their basic spiritual makeup. But not all faithful saints, whether convert or lifelong member, are interested in truth. Some of us are keenly interested in correct doctrine, in understanding how things really are — or should be — and that is a continual, driving pursuit. Others simply can't drum up concern about such things. I know and love many faithful saints who show up, do their duty, serve the best they can, and couldn't care less whether women are supposed to be ordained to the priesthood, or if we can progress to higher heavenly kingdoms after mortality. But some of us care deeply about finding answers to such questions.
I know it's not as simple a dichotomy as "truth-seekers" and "trusting followers". All true saints care about both truth and trust. It makes me think of this favorite bit of scripture from Doctrine and Covenants 46:
11 For all have not every gift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every one is given a gift by the Spirit of God.
12 To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.
13 To some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world.
14 To others it is given to believe on their words, that they also might have eternal life if they continue faithful.
My observation is that those with the gift of knowing Jesus Christ tend to be the questioners, the ones endowed with a burning need to know divine truth. And those with the gift of believing seem to have an enviable, gentle kind of faith, a willing trust in the faithful traditions they've been taught. Sometimes people think that believing is not as cool a gift as knowing, but that's not so. Both are spiritual gifts and I choose to believe that God gives us the gifts that will best bless us and consequently, those we love and serve.
I notice, too, that truth-seekers tend to be future-oriented, always looking ahead to the "improved" version of life, the expansion of knowledge. They seem to need experiential evidence of truth, but when they get it, they cannot be shaken from their knowledge of what is true. Trusters tend to look back to the past with a faith-of-our-fathers sort of approach, looking for models to emulate. They seem to be able to rely on other people's experience as a basis for belief.
What do you think about truth, trust and tradition?. Do you have the gift of knowing or believing? Are you a convert, a lifelong member or a non-church-member? A truth-seeker or a traditionalist? And if, as I presume, you acknowledge a mix of all of these in yourself, how do you balance truth-seeking, trust and tradition? What motivates you to spiritual activity?]]>
Of all the books I read for my book group last year, Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin was my definite favorite. I'm ashamed to say I have not sampled more of her works (The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, etc.), but I love her style and look forward to discovering more of it in the future.
Today is her birthday, and in honor of this event, I'd like to recognize one of her poems. But first, a little context . . . I've been thinking about how the Spirit whispers to me—what language it uses. One woman in my Relief Society commented on Sunday how learning to speak the Spirit's language is just as difficult as becoming fluent in a second language. I would argue that it is even more complicated, since the Spirit's language varies with each individual. Fast-forward to later that day when I was feeling deficient and overwhelmed: my prayers were rote. I didn't study my scriptures enough. I felt like a shadow of a Saint in Zion.
Seeking comfort, I prayed for a confirmation of God's love and was overwhelmed with the response. The first part of Atwood's poem, "Flying Inside Your Own Body," relates how the Spirit responded to my plea:
When you breathe in you'll lift like a balloon
and your heart is light too & huge,
beating with pure joy, pure helium.
I love that weightlessness, that pure joy. Sometimes the heavens seem so remote, but a confirmation like that gives me a sense of divinity and how close God is. Not until I am reminded of that feeling do I realize how empty I am without it. It's confounding how something can be so filling, yet so light at the same time. Atwood captures the sensation perfectly, while accurately contrasting it with its opposite in the latter part (to me, what it feels like when I'm not doing my part to keep close to God). Part inspiring, part gruesome. Wholly thought-provoking.
In case you're curious, here's the full poem:
"Flying Inside Your Own Body"
Your lungs fill & spread themselves,
wings of pink blood, and your bones
empty themselves and become hollow.
When you breathe in you'll lift like a balloon
and your heart is light too & huge,
beating with pure joy, pure helium.
The sun's white winds blow through you,
there's nothing above you,
you see the earth now as an oval jewel,
radiant & seablue with love.
It's only in dreams you can do this.
Waking, your heart is a shaken fist,
a fine dust clogs the air you breathe in;
the sun's a hot copper weight pressing straight
down on the think pink rind of your skull.
It's always the moment just before gunshot.
You try & try to rise but you cannot.
Do you love Margaret Atwood? What about her poems? How does the Spirit speak to you?]]>
Wherever you may be in the world, and whatever your country's name in its official language, it's time to sink your teeth into this week's Peculiar Treasures!
You could chew on the history of the ramen noodle, or be gobsmacked at the zombies floating in Lake Michigan.
Speaking of unusual jobs to perform like a champion, what about a midwife to women with Ebola, or teaching kids to solve fractions using dance?
Of course, we're all more than a job – read this great interview with our very own Artistic Director Leslie Graff, breaking down the myth of only being able to be one thing at a time. Then there's a discussion on being Mom/Mum doesn't mean ONLY being Mom/Mum, and the joy and responsibility in being our real selves, for the good of the women and girls coming up behind us.
Finally, some links brought to you by the number two: how a second language is better brain food than Sudoku, the two best traits of successful relationships, and a cake showing two beloved guests who will be performing at this Christmas' MoTab celebration.
This week's First Draft Poetry has a zombie theme, penned by Lara:
I used to like zombies
And alright, maybe I don't like them more now . . .
I might just be used to them. Date night with the Walking
Dead once a week and all.
I try to keep this new
as my daughter had the living daylights scared out
of her during a flash mob in the Wal-Mart parking lot last Halloween.
I find there is quite the
of undead
these days, but they all smell, they're all rotting from the inside out
and their grip can reach you from as far as the bottom of the ocean
I meet them sometimes—
at the gas station,
running for office, cheating on their spouses. I see them wrench their
two-year-old's arm, as if because they are zombies, they think it shouldn't
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998. Published and reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press.
Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985)
Stars Bright
November 17, 2009 Daily Special darkness, light, stars Melissa Y.
After several hours of driving, I stepped out of the car and felt the breath rush out of me. In my thirty years I could not remember seeing the night sky appear as it did then. It was literally stunning. I felt like I'd been lifted into space, like I could touch the stars or breathe them in. It had been years since I'd been in a wilderness at night.
When we moved to a small rural community, I spent many nights out on our deck star gazing. The scuffle in the city council at the time was over an ordinance that would minimize the wattage allowed for outdoor lighting. How quaint, I thought, that an issue like that is even on the agenda, let alone heated. But evening after evening as I sat and marveled, I came to appreciate the emotion behind the ordinance.
The place we live now has more light pollution and the stars are not as breathtaking. I barely give them a second glance. I didn't spend even one night this summer looking heavenward, and now that it's too cold to do so, I'm feeling the lack. Somehow in the vastness of space, I find it easier rather than more difficult to feel connected to God. Like somehow my very awareness, the fact that I'm feeling my own existence in the face of that dark expanse, connects me to the divinity in my spirit.
I'm not schooled in astronomy. I can't identify any constellations other than the Big Dipper and Orion. The celestial symbols of our faith are mostly a mystery to me. But even with all of my ignorance, I find that I'm able to learn something about light by spending time in the dark.]]>
Sunday morning
During the passing of the sacrament I decided to prep myself for Sunday School by reading the scriptural passage we'd be studying. Isaiah 54. That first verse caught my attention in a visceral way:
"Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord."
I know many women for whom fertility issues are a great source of anxiety and grief. My own three children were hard to come by, but relative to those who want children but can never have them or lose them early I can only imagine the heartbreak. And, given Isaiah's setting where being barren (even though it may have been the guy's problem!) was deemed "shameful", the problem was exacerbated by that unjust layer of societal disrespect.
What a bold claim the Lord makes. And there was more expansive consolation in later verses:
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. Isaiah 54:4-6
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.…[W]ith everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer…. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. Isaiah 54:8, 10-13
After reading these verses I was dizzy with these extraordinary claims. They were promises of an extreme, outrageous lifting of vision to a Life filled with peace, mercy, kindness, beauty and children to women so aggrieved. Somehow – and who could even imagine how? – God would bless them beyond their imagination. While the fulfillment of these promises may not be in expected ways, these verses affirm that God knows them in this life, knows their hearts and has not forgotten them. For anyone who deals with loss and grief (or other areas in which life have not turned out as planned) these are breathtakingly majestic promises.
Once I made it to Sunday School class I was astounded that the verse our excellent instructor began with was Isaiah 54 verse 2 – the familiar one about lengthening the cords and strengthening our stakes. The inevitable conversation continued about the growth of the Church and the need for our preparation for that. A worthy topic. A juicy one to consider.
But I couldn't shake the profound consolation that Isaiah uses to frame that whole conversation. The Old Testament isn't known for being particularly female-friendly so when there's a passage this lavish, let's shine some light on it! I made that point two or three (or more) times in class until even I thought I was piping up too much.
Sunday afternoon & evening
After church and lunch, I packed an overnight bag and drove to Cincinnati, hometown of my German ancestors on my Hoffman side. I planned this little junket to coincide with my husband's being out of town. I had wonderful friends willing to house me for two nights while I tried my best to get those Cincinnati ancestors back across the Atlantic to Germany sometime in the 19th century.
in the Cincinnati Public Library, my efforts at locating passenger records for my people came to naught. I confirmed the information I'd already sussed out on Ancestry.com. For years I've known the names and addresses of my great-grandmother Minnie Seyfried and her parents and siblings in the 1860-1890s. Would this be a fruitless trip?
Then the babies started showing up. The babies who were born and died between census years.
Minnie's brother John married a woman named Kate. The one child of three who survived in the four years of John and Kate's marriage was a year old when John died in 1888.
Minnie's brother William married a woman named Carrie. Their first baby, Bertha, lived for 3 weeks in 1885. Robert lived for 18 days, dying in 1891. Cora lived for 7 months, dying in 1895. Clara died at 9 months in 1901. Only four others of William and Carrie's eight children lived to adulthood.
How much grief, loss and heartache do those statistics represent? "For the Lord hath called [them] as…[women] forsaken and grieved in spirit…. afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted."
Since then
I believe that Kate and Carrie were somehow behind the interpretation I championed in my reading of Isaiah 54. It was as though they were sitting on either side of me on the pew urging me, whispering, "Yes, there's that bit about the growth of the church, but THIS is what you need to pay attention to. Feel our loss. Sense our heartbreak. And thank you, thank you, thank you for helping make God's extravagant promises come true."
There is a passage in my patriarchal blessing that reads:
"There are those beyond the veil in your family who have attained to a great desire to receive the blessings of the gospel. The strength of their favor with the Lord will be such that as you seek out their records there will be avenues opened to you that will testify to you to the purposes of the Lord in this work, and you shall partake of that same rejoicing which is beyond the veil in your own rejoicing upon the earth in the accomplishment of this work."
The passion I feel, the connection I sense, the joy I share with Kate, Carrie and their families (my families, after all!) leave me awed and humbled with this promise fulfilled.
when I kneel at the temple to seal these children to their parents, I will not be surprised if it seems the temple's foundations are laid with sapphires, and its borders with pleasant stones.]]>
Six years ago, I had a routine: get all the kids ready, drop the two oldest off at the elementary school, then head over to the gym, where I'd put the baby and the preschooler in kid care, and I'd go off to spend the next two hours doing whatever I wanted. Usually, I wanted to take a spin class. I was pretty fanatical about my spin classes. I had teachers I loved and teachers I barely tolerated. Some songs were great for spinning (Latin dance music– who knew?), while some songs made the class almost unendurable– and if you asked (and even if you didn't), I'd be happy to expound on which was which. In class, I'd sit in the back, right under the fan, with my water bottle full and my game face on. I was the annoying girl who grunted and sweated and tried to race you. It was awesome. If you had asked me what I was passionate about back in those days, spinning classes surely would have been on my list.
Five and a half years ago, we moved, and I can probably count on one hand the number of spin classes I've taken since. I haven't even been on a bike.
Looking back, it's obvious that spin classes were, for me, just a fad. An enjoyable fad, to be sure. My butt looked amazing, and my abs were much tighter than they've ever been before or since. But when we relocated, there wasn't a gym that had classes at a time that worked, and my kids were old enough that I didn't need my daily interaction with the girls at the gym (as competitive as it may have been on my part) to save my sanity.
As I type this, I'm sitting here with a cup of warm Crio Bru beside me. If you don't know what Crio Bru is, it's ground cocoa beans– so no sugar, no gluten, no dairy, no sodium, no fat, and it's brewed in the same kind of little French press that people use for coffee. Do I prefer Crio Bru over hot chocolate, which is chock full of sugar, dairy, and fat? Not at all, I mean no disrespect to a great cup of hot chocolate, but I've told myself that for the next three months (until I turn forty in January), I'm going to try my best to eat as healthfully as possible (during the week, on the weekends I eat whatever I want). For the moment, that means that I'm avoiding sugar, white flour, white rice, cheese, and basically anything tasty that isn't a fruit, a vegetable, or some kind of meat. For the first two weeks of the experiment, I even gave up Diet Coke, but I decided I needed something to look forward to in my day.
I do this from time to time. After reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals I became a vegetarian for about a month. Anytime I read anything by Michael Pollan, I determine that I will grow my own food, grind my own wheat, and create my own sourdough bread using a start smuggled in my luggage all the way from Oakland. After my fourth child was born, I dropped thirty pounds on Weight Watchers and became a devotee. And this latest attempt to find my abs (because I want to look hot in a swimsuit on my fortieth birthday– never mind that I live in Utah and it will be ten degrees out and my poor starved abs will be under three sweaters) is just as faddish as everything else I've tried. But for some people, food fads actually change the way they eat. My friend Heather has been paleo for half a decade. My neighbor Nicole has implemented the Pollan manifestos and really does grind her own wheat and feels passionate about where the food she feeds her family comes from. While my own family is thrilled that I'm making something besides cheese quesadillas for dinner, I think they'll all be happy when I stop feeding them sweet potatoes four nights a week.
Remember TAMN and her blog Seriously So Blessed? Launched about six years ago, her blog spoofed a certain kind of Mormon woman. This kind of woman was a stay-at-home mom who had a husband in medical or dental training. This kind of woman blogged about the minutiae of her life every day. This kind of woman was training for a half marathon. This kind of woman (minus the outlandish things she named her kids) was me. After we came home from the gym, I'd play with my little ones for a while, then park them in front of the tv while I ran into the office to write my blog post for the day. I know lots of people have defunct mommy blogs. I started mine in January 2006, mostly as a place to write, of all things, poems. Over the years it has been a creative outlet, a pregnancy journal, a weight-loss motivator, a place to brag about running, a diversion while waiting for adoptions to go through, and, most recently, a place to write book reviews. Nearly 2000 posts later, I'd say that the blog is a legitimate passion. It's probably why I'm writing this, right now, as editor-in-chief of Segullah, and certainly what led me to go back to school for my MFA. And yes, just like TAMN, I did start training for my first half marathon with girls in my ward, and that has translated into more than 2,000 miles of running each year for the last seven years (on the ever-elusive hunt for my abs).
As I pour myself a second cup of Crio Bru, I recognize that I sometimes have to resist thinking the fads in my life are silly, because one of the way we find the things that we become lifelong passions is by trying new things, falling for fads, and maybe even sustaining a few of them when they've run their course for everyone around you.
What are the fads you've followed that have turned into passions? Any words to the wise for fads to jump right on or fads to avoid?]]>
This post is part of our quarter theme on passions.
"Fire is not your friend," Dustfinger often cautions in the pages of Inkheart, a young adult novel by Cornelia Funke I've been reading to my ten year old son. Yet, even as fire is not a friend, it is Dustfinger's muse. He's a fire tamer who juggles, breathes, and plays with the flames that do not love him back. Fire is fitful and takes practiced skill to control.
Do you play with fire?
When I think of "passions" I think of fire, flames, and burning. Raging hormones, untamed desire, unchecked interest or angry wrath are all lumpily lodged into the word passion. The heat of the fires they can rage into rolls them into the same hot mess.
Sometimes I feel like one.
As a blessing of having a body to feel it and at the curse of being subject to one, I've known volatile passion of my own. There are times I just get really, really mad.
My husband calls me his firecracker. I can burn hot and fast and furious. Exploding out of my self for release at times is real temptation I work to stomp out. When I'm really frustrated in the confines of my own skin and situation I long for a release valve to let off steam. I've been known to shake my fists, stomp my feet or yelp at the stress. Yet, unlike Dustfinger in Inkheart, I'm not so bold as to create a spectacle of my fire breathing act. I keep that show to myself as much as possible.
But recently as I was burning hot in a fit of passion I paused on the verge of letting it all flame out; I thought of my children who were with me in the car, and closed my mouth to swallow the coal. It was fine for them to know I was not happy, but I didn't want them to hear the text of vitriol I was scripting in my hot head. I realized I wanted resolution not revenge. I wanted acknowledgement, not anguish.
Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love; see that ye refrain from idleness.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Deal with problems- use boldness, but not overbearance- but first check yourself- bridle your passions- don't extinguish them but tame them. Inaction isn't an answer- refrain from idleness.
Soft answers don't seem to satisfy fire, but they do stop its spread.
I'd rather singe my own lips closing them than spark another fire by spewing it.
So instead I channeled my indignation into a sink full of dishes. And when that wasn't enough I emptied the dishwasher. And loaded it. And wiped all the counters. And spot mopped the floor. And then it happened.
I felt my inky anguish in my own heart start to ebb. By choosing not to say grievous words I discovered my own anger was no longer stirred. The flames dwindled without additional fuel.
Are you a fiery personality too? How do you tame your frustration so you can fill with love?]]>
It is dangerous when I write these things hours past dinnertime.
Please raise a toast to the soon to be released, unfictionalized memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder. (Really!) And a beautiful toast to a good woman and a recollection of the legacy she is passing on.
Hungry for a good laugh at the "boy with the bread" in a tasty morsel of musical parody?
Toasted by your daily grind? Burnout no more. And stand out when you have the chance.
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Energizer Holdings Inc. CEO Ward Klein earned $9.5 million in total compensation in fiscal 2012, up 47 percent from 2011, according to a regulatory filing.
His 2012 earnings were comprised of a $1.1 million salary, $4 million in stock awards, $1.7 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, $2.6 million in increased pension value and nonqualifed deferred compensation earnings and $213,426 in other compensation, which includes company matching accruals in savings plans, term life insurance premiums and perquisites such as personal use of company aircraft and personal financial advisory services.
On Nov. 8, Energizer Holdings announced that it planned to reduce its global workforce by more than 10 percent, or approximately 1,500 people, as part of a restructuring it announced in September.
The company, which has 400 employes in the St. Louis area, said Nov. 8 that it had not determined how many of them would be impacted. Spokesman Ken Fields said Monday that as part of the workforce reduction announced in November, "a handful" of Energizer employees in St. Louis were notified last week that their positions were being eliminated on specific dates during the first quarter of 2013.
Energizer said it plans to close battery manufacturing plants in Maryville, Mo., and St. Albans, Vt., and a battery packaging facility in Malaysia as part of a restructuring plan. It expects that the annualized, pre-tax savings of the restructuring will be about $200 million and should be fully realized in fiscal 2015.
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The Pirate Bay and other 219 Web sites have been blocked due to FIFA World Cup piracy.
Sony's television network has gotten a High Court cease-and-desist order that will force Indian ISPs to block several Web sites, including The Pirate Bay and Mega.co.nz.
Fredrik Neij (R) and Peter Sunde (C), two co-founders of the file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, arrive at the Swedish Appeal Court in Stockholm on September 28, 2010.
FIFA and its partners try their best to stop the unauthorized distribution of their content online. TorrentFreak noted FIFA also took action against Twitter avatars.
Multi Screen Pvt. Ltd., an Indian Sony Entertainment Television subsidiary, presented a statement to the High Court in Delhi. The company got a license from FIFA to officially broadcast 2014 FIFA World Cup matches in countries like India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Maldives. But the content is also made available to other countries without permission.
The company said, "various Web sites are indulging in hosting, streaming, providing access to "illegal content." With this, Multi Screen media faces loss of revenue. Also, the company explained the government is losing tax money on TV subscription fees.
Earlier, the company submitted a list of 479 Web sites that included Google Docs, The Pirate Bay, Google Video and others.
"Learned counsel for the plaintiff submits that many of the Web sites [in the list] are anonymous in nature and it is virtually impossible to locate the owners of such websites or contact details of such owners. It is further submitted that many of these Rogue Websites also hide behind domain privacy services offered by various domain name Registrars," Judge V. Kameshwar Rao wrote.
"[Web sites] listed below, or any other Web site identified by the plaintiff are restrained, from in any manner hosting, streaming, broadcasting, rebroadcasting, retransmitting, exhibiting, making available for viewing and downloading, providing access to and / or communicating to the public, displaying, uploading, modifying, publishing, updating and/or sharing (including to its subscribers and users), through the internet, in any manner whatsoever," Rao added.
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Deanston Cooper's client, Scotland's leading civil engineering and groundworks contractor specialising in the commercial and residential sector, has a current requirement for an experienced Remediation Project Manager to be based in their Glasgow office. This is a new business area for the company which will complement their current client offering and represents an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to lead its development and share in its success.
Applicants need to be highly skilled in remedial technologies for both contaminated land and ground water and have a good understanding of applicable legislation. You must have a solid knowledge of site investigation, interpretation, risk assessment and remedial design, together with experience of financial and project monitoring and reporting. You will be required to effectively manage all aspects (technical, personnel and commercial) of a wide range of complex projects and be the primary contact for clients.
Sound communication, excellent technical report writing and presentation skills are a must. You should have a minimum of 4 years experience and hold a relevant qualification at degree level (ideally with a science or environmental background). A full UK driving licence is required as you will be required to travel for meetings, site visits etc.
Deanston Cooper Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.


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Although there is a broad consensus on the need for nations such as the UK to trim their borrowing, some figures in the US administration, such as Barack Obama's economic adviser, Larry Summers, have wondered aloud about the dangers if all the world's major economies deflate at once.
British officials believe the chances of any swift international agreement on the various plans for bank levies now being floated are limited. The full G20 heads of government summit, which David Cameron will attend in Toronto on 26 June, will probably be the forum where the final shape of an global agreement is forged.
The coalition has indicated that, if necessary, Britain will unilaterally impose such a levy if international agreement is taking too long. Yesterday, the business secretary, Vince Cable, repeated the Government's support for "a levy on the banks to reflect the fact that, at least until banks are made safe through structural reform, the taxpayer is providing insurance: protection for which the banks should pay".
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"I don't think we're on the verge of a global consensus on bank levy yet," the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, said in Seoul yesterday. "There is not universal support for that across the G20, at least at this stage. And I don't think that's going to change in Korea."
The IMF is likely to be asked to continue working on its proposals. It proposed two bank taxes in April but the G20 asked it to refine its ideas following opposition from some countries, such as Canada, Brazil and China.
Other structural reforms to the banks, especially on the "too big to fail" issue, are also likely to be discussed, but again progress is glacially slow in the face of international disagreement on how to go about it.
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