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If you ask the Yankeees about the extent of Mark Teixeira's wrist injury, they will tell you that he's expected to miss 8-10 weeks while waiting for it to heal. If you ask Teixeira himself, well, he seems to think it might be a bit longer than that. Teixeira told reporters at spring training that his injury is not a wrist strain, but that it's actually partially torn tendon sheath. If that's the case, the first baseman might need season-ending surgery to repair the damage. "This is one of those things I can't come back too early," he said. "We saw last season when I tried to play too early [with a calf injury] what happened. If I try to play too early from this we could miss the whole season, and we don't want that." Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spoke with the team's doctor about the injury, and was able to clarify the diagnosis as only a partially torn sheath, but the actual tendon in Teixeira's wrist is stable. "If [Teixeira] had a fully torn sheath, it's automatic surgery, and if he had a partially torn sheath with an unstable tendon, it's automatic surgery," Cashman said. "This is a best-case scenario injury, the only one that can heal without surgery." The Yankees have been dealing with plenty of injuries this offseason, from Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez to Curtis Granderson and Teixeira. If their first baseman's injury does turn out to be worse than initially expected, the Bronx Bombers could find themselves in even more trouble as the season goes on.
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The SPDR Gold Trust Vs. The Sprott Physical Gold Trust [View article]Nov 26, 2013. 09:30 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Gold Trust ETF Falling As Expected [View article]Nov 6, 2013. 09:34 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Gold Trust ETF Falling As Expected [View article]
If you believe in the tooth fairy, then you will believe that the developed world's central banks will be able to fund both the new debt and the refinancing of the existing debt at low interest rates. In that case you must also believe that taxation is no longer needed as the governments only need to fund themselves through their central banks at low interest rates. I would like to think that you would find the latter statement to be absurd.
Plan A, of course is to approach the debt problem by trying to inflate it away. Unfortunately, this is not working anywhere in spite of Herculean efforts to do so; in fact the growth of debt has outpaced the rate of inflation since the last crisis, so we are actually going backward in out attempt to inflate debt away.
Plan B, unfortunately, is not discussed (other than behind closed doors among the central banks because that plan used deflation to extinguish debt and does so with bankruptcy (both corporate and sovereign).
Unless you have a Plan C, those are the only two choices and both cases are deleterious to your financial health. In a deflation, not all debt will default, but all debt (corporate and sovereign) will become suspect and fall in value. In an inflation, debt will lose value in real terms and in nominal terms with rising interest rates; and in both cases equity values will suffer because neither environment is friendly. In a deflation, prices will fall and in inflation costs will rise, potting profits at risk in both cases.
Both cases, however, are beneficial to gold. Gold has always been a good hedge in inflationary times and in deflationary times it will offer a safe haven because it is not someone else's liability.Nov 5, 2013. 02:00 PM | 6 Likes |Link to Comment
Gold Is A Slam Dunk Sell [View article]
There are umpteen approaches to analyze gold as an investment and none of them make sense. There are only two conditions under which gold will be a good investment and that is runaway inflation (such as we had in the early 1980's and in deflation in which falling prices cause massive debt defaults. Neither of these phenomena are subject to traditional analysis, value or otherwise. Those who think we are in the midst of a temporary hiccup and that things will return to normal should not invest in gold. Those are circumstances under which gold will fall in value and that is well demonstrated in the history of money. Those who think that all is not well and that deflation or runaway inflation is a risk should invest in gold in amounts that reflect how concerned they are about that risk.
It's as simple as that.Oct 10, 2013. 08:26 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Which Side Of Goldman Sachs Is Right About Gold? [View article]Oct 10, 2013. 08:23 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
It would be nice if we could do away with gold, but until politicians are no longer able to debase their currencies for political and other policy ends, we will need to find something that introduces discipline into the system if currency is to be a store of value, one of the important attributes of money.
If you look at the history of money from the beginning of time you will see endless schemes to debase it and all have failed. One of the most interesting occurred just prior to the French Revolution, when the perennially broke French State decided to confiscate all church lands and use them to back a new currency, the Assignat. Since the church lands were finite, this, it was thought, would restore confidence in the currency, and indeed it did - until it was discovered that even this new wealth was insufficient to satisfy the state's needs and untold new Assignats (also backed by the same confiscated lands) were printed. It wasn't long before this was discovered and the Assignats soon became worthless. The next chapter was the Revolution.
During all of these periods of currency debasement, ownership of gold served to protect one's wealth.
One can argue as to whether another such economic crisis is at hand or not, but you cannot argue that if it, is one should not buy gold.Aug 26, 2013. 10:21 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
All these comments demonstrate why we have vigorous and healthy markets; sellers can't sell without buyers and buyers can't buy without sellers. I think that sometimes people for get that there are two sides to every transaction.
That being said, there have been times when it has been profitable to hold gold and times when it has not. Unlike equities which depend on earnings (and sentiment) and bonds which depend on interest rates, gold depends on the perceived soundness of money (and debt - which is what money is).
Those who think that we have sound money now should eschew gold and those who think otherwise should embrace it.Aug 24, 2013. 09:06 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
You can't talk about quantity and ignore price; there is always a price at which a commodity can be obtained. If we wished to return to the 1980's (when gold made up approximately 50% of central bank reserves) you could do so by raising the price of gold to approximately $11,000 per ounce. In fact, that is roughly the price that would be needed to return to a gold standard.
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The point is that the Great Depression was all about excessive debt levels. The Gold Standard was not responsible for the high debt levels and the best way to reduce them was to devalue the dollar against gold. Usually, excessive debt levels are reduced through inflation, but sometimes that doesn't work and you get deflation instead. The results are the same, but deflation is far more painful and harder to reverse.
As a separate point, there is no such thing as a balance of payments deficit (that's why it is called a balance). I think that you are referring to a trade deficit which is offset by money flows to achieve a balance. So long as the money flows remain available, the trade deficit doesn't have an impact.Aug 19, 2013. 09:35 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
I think that a more correct answer would be that under a gold standard, some countries tie their currency to gold (offering to buy it or sell it at a fixed rate). Other countries will need to periodically devalue (or revalue, which is pretty much unheard of) to maintain their competitiveness.
If the quantities of currency were fixed (like the quantity of gold) or did not increase by more than marginal amounts (like gold), floating exchange rates would be fine.
The real problem lies with the central banks. They have been increasing their asset bases at rates that boggle the mind. Recall that their assets (International Monetary Reserves or IMRs) can consist only of foreign currencies, gold and Special Drawing Rights; gold and SDR's have remained constant so all of the increase has been in holdings of foreign currencies.
From 1968 to 1980 IMRs increased at an average annual rate of 22.7%; from 2000 to date, IMRs have been increasing at an average rate of 13.7%. Obviously, these rates of growth considerably exceed growth in world GDP and that is a real problem because the bulk of the IMRs are (unlike gold) debt and thus someone else's liability (which probably cannot be paid).
In my view, the only way out is to reduce these debts by devaluing all currencies against gold.Aug 19, 2013. 09:24 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
You make two statements that we can agree on:"Ron Paul isn't an expert in economics" and "I'm not an expert in gold".
The rest of the article strikes me as very muddled. For instance, you state "If rates are going higher, it will be due to natural market forces attempting to reach a market equilibrium. Those natural forces would be a stronger growing economy and an increase in demand for capital." Is that how you would analyze the record high rates in the early 1980s? I think not.
Or, "...strict adherence to the gold standard both during the 19th century and Great Depression was most likely a major contributing factor to the depth, length and severity of those depressions." I am not sure how you reached that conclusion, but I would note that one of the important steps that FDR took to address the depression was to devalue the dollar against gold (i.e. raise the price of gold). I would add that that worked pretty well until Nixon took the US off the gold standard in 1971. That left everyone to create currency at will (and at an accelerating rate). I would argue that this will end badly. Right now the US (along with the rest of the developed world) is creating debt faster than they are creating GDP and that ALWAYS ends badly.
Or,"Ron Paul believes that the Federal Reserve is responsible for destroying 98% of the value of the US Dollar." We can argue as to whether or not the Fed was responsible for the destruction of the value of the dollar or not, but it cannot be said that the cumulative inflation since 1913 (the year the Fed was created) was not 2,260% or that it would take $23.60 dollars to equal $1 in 2013 (based on CPI). Unfortunately, one of the attributes of sound money is its ability to serve as a store of value and the dollar hasn't done so well in that regard and, I would add, far, far less well than gold. In 1971, gold was worth $35 an ounce; 42 years later it is worth $1377, a 3,834% increase. I doubt that you have been so fortunate in your investment results.Aug 17, 2013. 05:08 PM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
What Do Declining COMEX Inventories Signify? [View article]Aug 8, 2013. 03:34 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
What Do Declining COMEX Inventories Signify? [View article]
The big problem with a cash settlement is the determination of the cash amount to be paid, a calculation that does not necessarily (actually is not likely to) provide enough cash to purchase the gold in the spot market. Indeed, were that the case, the exchange would always be able to simply use the cash settlement (that they would have paid to settle the contract) to buy gold in the spot market. The fact that they are unwilling to do so tells us that they are concerned that the cash settlement amount might not be sufficient to purchase as much bullion as the investor "owned" in the futures market. To the extent that the investor, like Kyle Bass, is not indifferent between a cash settlement and a physical settlement, this will push up the spot price of the metal.
This is why declining quantities of registered gold is significant.Aug 8, 2013. 03:29 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Gold/GWP: Why Gold May Still Have Further To Fall [View article]
Bottom line gold has been widely (and for centuries) recognized as money. It is not a particularly good means of exchange relative to currency - whether in the form of paper notes or bank deposits - but it has always flourished as a store of value when currencies have been debased. Indeed, it is one of the principal methods of measuring the extent of the debasement.
It is also true that currencies are not being continually debased even though that might seem to be the case currently. During periods of stability (sound money) gold has languished because it has had no role to play, but in periods if instability that has not been the case.
Most people worry about currencies being debased by inflation, because that is generally how most debasement occurs. Until 1971 there had always been at least one currency exchangeable for gold at a fixed price and those currencies that could be exchanged for gold were always than those that were not. In addition, the central banks of those nations that did not offer to exchange their currencies for gold held significant amounts of gold. Indeed, until the early 1980s the central banks of the developed world held more than 50% of their assets in gold. Others, like Iran/Persia held valuable jewels in their central bank in addition to gold as backing for their currency.
Both jewels and gold have three additional and important attributes: they are limited in supply, cannot be created by man and do not represent anyone else's liability. All other financial assets, including cash, represent someone else's (unsecured) liability. For this reason gold is also a hedge in deflation as other people's (and governments') liabilities become suspect.
If you look across the ocean to Europe, or to Japan, this is what is happening now; the ability of governments to repay what they owe is becoming suspect. The analysis is exceedingly simple: if your borrowings are growing faster than your revenues (GDP in the case of a country) a debt default is an unavoidable consequence. Although small, Cyprus provides the perfect example of how this happens and I can guarantee you that were you a Cypriot you would be happy to have owned gold in one form or another, because the Euros that have not been lost (confiscated) in the failure of your bank cannot be spent (with small exceptions) outside of Cyprus. In fact they are Euros in name only because real Euros can be carried or transferred and spent anywhere.
We may think that can't happen here, but if it can happen in the European Union, it can happen anywhere. That's why gold - some, at least - makes sense. And if that is true, gold is going much higher.Jul 14, 2013. 06:01 PM | 3 Likes |Link to Comment
Gold Likely Entering A Deflationary Spiral [View article]Jul 1, 2013. 08:09 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment


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5.0 out of 5 stars A poetic meditation on the ever-changing human condition
Kim Thuy is a writer based in Montreal. Ru, her first novel, won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French.
Ru is an autobiographical novel that recounts the author's flight as a refugee from Vietnam to Quebec as a young girl, and the culture shocks she experiences as she adjusts to her new homeland.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A poetic meditation on the ever-changing human condition,
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Kim Thuy is a writer based in Montreal. Ru, her first novel, won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French.
Ru is an autobiographical novel that recounts the author's flight as a refugee from Vietnam to Quebec as a young girl, and the culture shocks she experiences as she adjusts to her new homeland.
It is somewhat misleading to label this book a novel, because it is really halfway between a novel - a sustained linear narrative - and poetry - a collection of insightful, finely-crafted and evocative images.
This beautiful book - the hardcover edition is as attractive physically as is the writing - opens with the explanation that "In French, ru means a small stream and, figuratively, a flow, a discharge - of tears, of blood, of money. In Vietnamese, ru means a lullaby, to lull."
And this double-meaning is in fact very appropriate for this book which flows between cultures, between times, between emotions.
The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus observed that "you cannot step in the same river twice" - in other words, there is no being, only becoming - a sentiment conveyed perfectly in this volume.
Thuy recounts the flow from a family life of privilege in Saigon to misery as refugees, the harbinger of impending change sensed by her mother:
"My mother waged her first battles later, without sorrow. She went to work for the first time at the age of thirty-four, first as a cleaning lady, then at jobs in plants, factories, restaurants. Before, in the life that she had lost, she was the eldest daughter of her prefect father. All she did was settle arguments between the French-food chef and the Vietnamese-food chef in the family courtyard (...)
However, far from us blood still flowed and bombs still fell, so she taught my brothers and me to get down on our knees like the servants. Every day, she made me wash four tiles on the floor and clean twenty sprouted beans by removing their roots one by one. She was preparing us for the collapse. She was right to do so, because very soon we no longer had a floor beneath our feet."
Ru is a beautiful, poetic meditation on the ever-changing human condition.
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The book was coherent and telling the story of the protagonist in a poetic style and at the same time letting me have an insight into the life of a family coming to Canada from Vietnam.
There is nothing in the book I disliked and I especially liked her style of writing, which flowed and was poetic.
I would recommend it to readers of any age, who enjoy lyrical writing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "We must never regret what we left behind...",
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Kim Thuy's slim volume, RU, is as much a novel as a fictionalized memoir and a reflection on the heroine's childhood in Vietnam, her escape as a ten-year-old with the boat people... and, via refugee camps in Malaysia, eventually, finding something like a home in Quebec... Like her heroine, she was born in Saigon during the Tet Offensive when circumstances for her family changed forever - from wealthy and respected Saigon family to people on the run without anything. She returned many years later to visit Vietnam where local people didn't recognize her anymore as Vietnamese: she "no longer had their frailty, their uncertainty, their fears."
Towards the end of the book, looking back on her earlier life, the narrator muses "...after only thirty years I already recognize our old selves only through fragments, through scars, through glimmers of light." It is these fragments, the scars and the glimmers of light that Kim Thuy has made the central theme of her book. Unusual in structure and beautifully, often lyrically written, the author's loosely connected vignettes paint an impressionistic, yet intimate portrait of the heroine, her family, her country and what it means to feel connected and uprooted at the same time. Evocative in her depiction of people and places, recalling memories and bringing out associations across time and space, the heroine recounts events and circumstances, essential or negligible, sometimes stories within stories. Like the workings of memory in our brains, nothing is told chronologically; much is only hinted at and, on superficial reading, not developed in depth. Connections between vignettes often hinge on one thought, one colour, one expression... Yet, taken together and letting the short fragments hold our attention for more than a moment or two, the reader is taken on a deeply moving voyage not only into the past of the heroine and her family, but also into the inner struggles of an individual displaced and disconnected from her roots, into her anxieties and fears to accept new ties that can bind... She travels with nothing much but her books, not wanting to weigh herself down with possessions, having learned that "we must never regret what we've left behind." Following another Vietnamese proverb - "Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat" - she balances sad memories with cheerful ones, accounts of brutality and despair with beauty and hope.
For RU Kim Thuy received, among other awards, the Canadian Governor General's Award for French language fiction and was shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the English version, exquisitely translated by award winning translator Sheila Fischman. [Friederike Knabe]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Ru,
Louise Jolly "Bookaholic" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book but felt it was somehow `unfinished'. I really would have preferred to of had more detail in each section. I felt it lacked in detail and would have enhanced the story greatly if the author had of delved into the lives and experiences more deeply.
I can only imagine though the difficulties and challenges one would encounter being a refugee coming from Vietnam to Quebec. Talk about a culture shock!
Trying to raise an autistic child in a completely new world would be difficult at best and would present a myriad of challenges all on their own, challenges we probably couldn't even begin to fathom, but the author handled it with grace.
Overall, Ru was a most enjoyable experience.
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5.0 out of 5 stars WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD!,
Janet B (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ru (Paperback)
Kim Thuy's Ru won The Governor General's Award for Fiction and was Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Ru was exquisitely translated by the award-winning Sheila Fischman.
In Vietnamese Ru means lullaby. In French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow of tears, blood and money. This book is an autobiographical novel.
The young girl is the narrator of this story. Her name is Nguyen An Tinh with a dot under the i. The name means "peaceful Interior" in Vietnamese. Her mother has the same name but without the dot and her name means "peaceful environment". The History of Vietnam flung the accents of their names into the water, when it took her and her family across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago. The young girl was born during the Tet Offensive in 1968, as the child of an upper class family in Saigon. When she was ten years old, she and her family emigrated out of Vietnam via Malaysian refugee camps, then boarding a boat to Canada. They arrived at Mirabel Airport in Quebec. She spoke very little. She is mute. On the boat, she and her family learned how to travel very light. One gentleman had no luggage, not even a small bag with warm clothes. He had on everything he owned. He had diamonds embedded in his molars, gold on his teeth and American dollars stuffed in his anus. Women had American dollars stuffed in their sanitary napkins. She had an acrylic bracelet, pink like the gums of the dental plate it had been made from, filled with diamonds. Her parents had also put diamonds in the collars of her brothers' shirts.
It is in Quebec, at the Sainte-Famille elementary school that a teacher named Jeanne embraced her nine Vietnamese students. The young girl called the teacher "our good fairy". Jeanne wore a T-shirt and pink tights and a flower in her hair. She liberated the young girl's voice without using words. Jeanne spoke to them with music, with her fingers and her shoulders. She showed them how to occupy the space around them by freeing their arms, by raising their chins and by breathing deeply. Her neck stretched out to form a continuous line with her shoulder, her arm and all the way to her fingertips. Her legs made great circular movements as if to sweep the walls and to stir the air. It was thanks to Jeanne that the young girl learned how to free her voice from the folds of her body so it could reach her lips.
As an adult, the waters again become rough. Now she is married and has two sons, Pascal and Henri. The younger boy is autistic.
What is characteristic of this book are the memories at different stages of her life. They are presented in non-chronological order. The book moves seamlessly from past to present. She now thinks back to her upper middle class childhood in Saigon and her life there, to the sufferings under the Communists, to her life in the refugee camps in Malaysia and how she was welcomed to Canada. She and her family had to adapt to a new culture while holding on to their tradition. Later in life, she returns to Vietnam as an Americanized Vietnamese woman.
After reading this book, I can see why Kim Thuy's Ru has won The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. This book is a GEM.
Although it is a sad topic, the author managed not to dwell on the sadness. Kim Thuy writes with delicacy and openness about a childhood marked with brutality and finally, the pleasures of ordinary peace - from violence to survival.
I loved this book. I also loved the poetic and delicate writing. I highly recommend this novel.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A winner,
P. Anastasiades "P. Anastasiades" (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ru (Paperback)
This book opens one"s eyes and hearts to the plight of our Vietnamese immigrants. It would be a perfect gift to those who moan about their supposed hardships. Here are a people who lost all and suffered terrible hardships, who came to our beautiful country with nothing, They had to learn a new language and they prospered.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and haunting,
Rodge (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ru (Hardcover)
Ru is as good as it's title's promise, a beautiful meditation that never loses its haunting effect, even as it travels from sorrow to triumph to despair. This is a fine, original styled work that, coming in under 200 pages, is nowhere near overlong, and is far from self-indulgent. Thuy lets her work do the talking and the effect is a panorama of experience of those who escaped Vietnam and those who did not.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true gem!,
This review is from: Ru (Hardcover)
This book is truly a gem. As one reads the pages, one can visualize the scenery, feel the emotions and understand the characters. It flows easily between past, present and future while maintaining the reader's engagement. The book also left me with a clearer understanding of the plight of the refugee and a keen pride as to the response of Canadians to the Vietnamese refugees during this time period.
4.0 out of 5 stars Lyrical and beautifully written,
This review is from: Ru (Paperback)
Ru is a memoir about of a Vietnamese refugee who has escaped the war torn Vietnam with her family. Although this is a fictional autobiography, the events described in the book feel so real, so personal. You can't help but feel that many of these accounts are based on Kim Thúy's personal experiences. Each page in the book is a vignette, a memory that takes us from the young girl's extravagant life in Saigon, to a decrepit refugee camp in Malaysia and finally to a new unfamiliar world in Granby, Quebec. We also get a glimpse into her adult life where she has a family of her own raising two children, one of whom we are lead to believe is autistic bringing forward the challenges of motherhood and the realization of what love really is.
Ru is beautifully written, almost lyrical. It puts the hardships of Vietnamese immigrants front and centre. We also get a sense of how communities in Canada, specifically Quebec, banded together to sponsor and support them as they transitioned into this new world.
4.0 out of 5 stars More Bookish Thoughts...,
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This review is from: Ru (Paperback)
In French, it means a small stream or flow; in Vietnamese, it means lullaby. Kim Thuy's "Ru" combines the meanings of this one syllable to produce a series of vignettes, which trace the narrator's immigrant experience.
These non-linear memories tell of a childhood in Vietnam and of a family's escape to a Malaysian refugee camp in 1978. Ultimately, the narrator lands in Montreal, comes of age there and raises a child who has autism. Intersecting common elements such as a skin tone, a bowl of soup or a scar, Thuy tells a fresh but classic multi-generational story entwining the themes of communication, memory, and motherhood.
Both Thuy and translator Sheila Fischman produce fluid and poetic text here and take meticulous care with language. Thuy's personification of the American Dream at times reads masterfully but the motif eventually grows tired and seems indiscriminate in a Canadian context. But overall, "Ru" displays impeccable craftsmanship and gives the reader a rich sense of time and place.
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And now to the expressions that invoke Towanda:
What workout quotes tick your wick? Let's get a good list going in the comments below. And pin this baby, will 'ya?
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I find this "so called" inspirational quote so maddening and wrong. Wrong, I tell you! Stick and stones may break our bones, but words will always affect us!
Last weekend Alexandra and I attended the LA Fitness Expo, an event we suspected attracted few baby boomers, though lots of hard body youngsters. We love youngsters. Between us we have spawned three. Yet, we recognized that "Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore" as we looked at the words and messages plastered throughout. (We were at the Expo performing posture assessments on behalf of the attentive, service-oriented, and fun Sherpa company. Like us, they value midlifers).
As Alexandra and I cruised the trade show aisles, we noticed a trend in the key words on booths, marketing materials, t-shirts, and tattoos. (Yes, I read tattoos as there was a lot of bared skin at the expo). The text was so overpowering and thematic, I started a list of words that stood out:
punishment – beast – raw – fight – pound (as a verb, not noun) – brutal – challenge – ultimate – barbed wire (?!)
The overwhelming message was that exercise is painful, should hurt, is hard core, and meaningful only if attacked with full force. Not really sure how the barbed wire fits into the equipment bag, but then I am still getting used to seeing large tires being flipped over as the way to fitness. No wonder our nation is leery of exercise. This journey into "land of the Ueberfit" appears daunting and so negative. "Be All in Or Get Out!" How enticing is that for the new or occasional exerciser who most needs support and motivation??!
I see the same sort of "admonition motivation" all over instagram and Facebook as well. Repeated postings warn us that:
Am I showing a baby boomer undies gap? None of these messages encouraged me to work out. All of them are negative with an aspect of alienation. They made me want to ice my knee joint, take a nap, and hide my menopot under layered workout wear with a lot of give. Or run away, but without the running.
If I felt excluded and overwhelmed — with a lifetime of being active as a former aerobics competition winner, athlete, and fitness professional with 33 years in gyms and clubs — how do most midlife women feel when bombarded with such messages? Exercise is not just for lean and fit hard bodies. It's for every body. Especially the soft bodies.
As fitness professionals, my sister, many of our colleagues, fellow healthy living bloggers, and I hope to motivate you to move. Often. Consistently. With joy when possible. Age actively for all the positive reasons. Don't "whip yourself into shape." Instead acknowledge your progress. Celebrate your movement minutes. Find what you enjoy and do that. If we want to stay active for a lifetime, we have to enjoy the process. I am positive about that, you ultimate raw beasts!
Readers: What do you think of the perennial classic "No Pain, No Gain"? Do you have a favorite exercise quote?


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I posted some pictures of my senior apartment. I don't have a wide angle camera so couldn't get a full picture in the bedrooms. I keep telling myself that "less is more" but having a hard time convincing myself at times. Will post the after pictures as soon as I get fully moved. It could be awhile. I am making all the curtains and want to put things up on the walls before the furniture is moved in.
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I made this wall hanging a few years ago, but it is appropriate for today, I think. Wishing you all an fun and safe 4th. We're in the hot zone and no fires or fireworks are allowed ... let's hope people are smart and abide by that.
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My b.d. was a month ago but was looking at my cards before I put them away. Two of them were especially funny!
First one on front was photo from the 50's of 2 elderly ladies standing in front of the car with caption: "You and me...We're gonna be friends until we're old and senile!"
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