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The company states that they feel there are no real common complaints against their company because they do not guarantee their services; they simply provide options for clients. In one situation a client was not satisfied with the product due to buyers remorse. To resolve this issue, CEP stated that they refunded the clients money which caused them to be satisfied with the solution.
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Local Tango in Parque Kennedy, Lima
Hola! We´ve just torn ourselves away from the ChocoMuseo in Cusco. I wanted to sign up to the chocolate making workshop, but Olie reminded me that we´ve already attempted it in Ecuador. It all looked and smelled so good! I now want to open a ´Casa de Chocolate´ as well as a cake shop and handicrafts shop! Anyway, better do this update on Peru. We´ve had an amazing few days, despite a lot of early mornings, chilly temperatures in Cusco (I´m talking two tops, two fleeces, a coat, gloves and scarf!), blistered feet and aching legs!
04/09/11 - Arrived at our stop-over destination of Lima about 1am and made our way to the One Hostel in Barranco, a beach side neighbourhood in Lima. Hostel was gorgeous and as the owner had been out the night before, her dad greeted us at breakfast and gave us some local hints and tips. Made our way up to Miraflores; an upmarket tourist area with numerous cafes, restaurants and shops. Our market purchasing is getting out of hand - we need a more restrained person with us! Ended up purchasing a small oil painting on the Artist Parade at Parque Kennedy, despite telling each
Barranco, Lima - at night
other that morning that we shouldn´t buy anything else. Things aren´t going well for the 15kg baggage allowance on our Argentiian flights! We then enjoyed a snack lunch whilst watching local couples dance (tango...i think!) on the park´s dance floor. We hadn´t heard great things about Lima, but the more affluent suburbs that we visited that day were lovely. Sea front apartments with balconys were in abundance and selling for approximately 50k GBP. We could see how a lot of Americans have set up home here. That evening we enjoyed Ceviche - a Peruvian dish of raw fish cooked slightly by marrinading in lime juice and chillies, served with plantain and sweet potato - it was delicious! Peru is meant to be the top place for South American cuisine (not much of a contest so far!)
05/09/11 - 5.30am rise for flight to Cusco (bus is 22 hours...we couldn´t face it, so splashed out on a flight). Someone had told us that because it´s always overcast in Lima, but very rarely rains, people don´t bother finishing their houses with a roof in the poorer neighbourhoods...they literally stop at the side walls. On our way to the airport we saw
Cusco Skyline
these houses. Bizarre! They were hanging their washing out to dry on the second floor...almost like a rooftop garden. The flight was delyaed (grrr), but we arrived in Cusco by mid-day and dumped our backpacks at El Tuco hostel which is just outside the centre (pretty much on a motorway slip road, with 5 roads converging at a perilous crossing!) Cusco sits at 3,300m (altitude sickness is common) and was the former capital of the Incas before the Spanish took control in the 1530s. It is also another UNESCO World Heritage Site (they seem to dish out this title to anywhere with a colonial church or a cobbled street!) Having said that Cusco is very beautiful. Red roofs dominate the skyline and the Andes form a very pituresque backdrop. We sat on one of the many wooden balconys in the main square for lunch, full of colds and not feeling particularly up for the ´alternative´ Inca trail we were about to embark on. After another disasterous visit to a market (gloves, football shirt, jumper), we went back to the hostel and sat in bed reading trying to warm up (reminds me of our old house Mum!) That eve we had
Local Cusconian Trader
a wander around and after a hostel cooked pasta dinner, we shared a delicious chocolate torte - Peru really does have much better food.
06/09/11 - A lie in! :-) Ate lunch at a veggie joint and then wandered up steep, narrow streets into the San Blas district. Breathetaking - literally! We met our Inca group at 3pm in a hostel with fabulous views over the city. Learnt that we´d be spending the next 4 days with 2 couples; one Argentinian and the other Scottish. We had signed up to an alternative Jungle, Hiking and Biking Inca trail with PIE Peru, which consists of an 80km downhill mountain bike ride on day 1, two full days trekking in the Andes across recently discovered Inca paths and the final day at Machu Picchu. When we met the group, we thought the Scots might struggle...read on to see if they did! :-) That evening we went to the Two Nations restaurant and shared an alpaca steak and a beef wellington, with home brewed beer.
07/09/11 - Picked up from our hostel at about 7.30am and drove to Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley. Pretty place with Inca ruins (that we didn´t
Day 1: Mountain Biking
get to see!) Carried on up to 4,300m, to Abra Malaga, the highest point of the mountain road and starting point for our 2nd mountain bike attempt (uh oh!) This time we kitted out in a ridiculous outfit...helmet, goggles, knee and elbow pads and bike gloves...fully prepared for a fall. After the previous -4C start point, we also took every warm piece of clothing we currently own. Not appropriate for a balmy 15C but at least we tried! Set off on our hydraulic suspension bikes (phew!) and actually really enjoyed the 50km downhill on smooth roads. What a difference a decent bike, warm weather and beautiful Andean surroundings make. Depite all this, of the 6 of us that started, not all of us made it down unscathed (and it wasn´t me that messed up!) Corner one witnessed the demise of the Scottish girl (sighting a skid and bus as her reasons for getting back in the van) and on km #49 the Argentinian girl flew straight over the handle bars after squeezing the forbidden front brake! As we´d already made it to the rest point (including her over competitive boyfriend who´d sped off to the front), we had no idea
Day 2: Trekking from Santa Maria
what had happened, but heard hysterical screams and tears as the minibus pulled up. A gash on her chin and cheek as well as a massive black eye looked pretty bad and I paniced for her. Whilst I was insisting we should try and get her to hospital, our guide (Luiz) disappeared, returning a couple of minutes later with.....an egg! What was he playing at?! Fortunately he knew what he was doing. By applying a technique apparently taught to him by his grandfather, he ´stitched´up her cuts (butterfly stitch style) using the inner membrane of the egg shell! To be fair to him it worked quite well and looked pretty neat (she still has it on today...you have to wait c.8 days for it to fall off naturally). Since she was in a lot of pain, we all decided to call it a day and after mounting the bikes onto the van we headed on to Santa Maria...a tiny Andean village with very little going for it (apart from cheap beer...1.1 litres for about 1GBP!) That evening we all went out for dinner to the only restaurant in town...suprisingly, really nice food!
A quick pause in our day to
The start of Olie´s cocaine empire...
day goings on, to give you a bit of info about the various Inca Trails (geeks).... As I´ve mentioned before, we were on an ´alternative Inca Trail´ which only about 50-100 people do per day. Olie chose it because ´he didn´t want to do 4 days of trekking´, which I read as ´it´s cheaper´. We learnt from our guide that the government heavily endorses the ´classic Inca Trail´ and spends a lot of money marketing it as the ónly Inca Trail´ (obviously because it makes even more money from the permits!). In reality, there are hundreds of genuine trails that the Incas built and used throughout the Andes as a means of connecting their expanding empire. Luiz told us that there is an equally beautiful ruined Inca city called Choquequirao, close to the Salkantay mountain range, which lacks the government endorsment and therefore only attracts about 100 people per day, compared to the 2,500 that are allowed to visit Machu Picchu! Crazy.
08/09/11 - Given the previous days drama, our group of 6 became 4 (as the Argentinian couple decided to rest and recover). The 4 of us therefore set off for our cloud forest Inca trek; ignorant to
The crate crossing!
what lay ahead! We began in the Santa Maria valley and immediately started to climb for 5km, 500m up to a height of 2,300m (if it it doesn´t sounds high, it was!) to a lookout point over the river valley and mountain range. Along the way we endured numerous precarious cliff paths with sheer drops (Mum = hands and knees moment!), visited a traditional Peruvian kitchen with about 30 guinea pigs (a Peruvian delicacy) running around on the floor, saw some baby Picuro (beaver like Andean mammal), passed coca plantations and coffee farms and took a well earned sleep in a hammock before lunch! (wow...long sentence!) Luiz kept his promise from the previous day and made us all try coca leaf, the traditional way. You chew dried leaves into a ball at the side of your mouth and then introduce a bit of plantain ash paste into the mix. It numbs your cheek (used to be used as an anaesthetic by Incas) and creates more saliva so that you don´t need to drink so much water climbing these Andean slopes. It was pretty gross and as soon as Luiz walked away we spat it out. The final leg involved walking
Day 3: Llactapata climb
over a very rickety wooden bridge (with some snapped planks!) and getting pulled across a ferocious river in a wooden crate (see photos). Finally, 8 hrs later, we reached the natural hot springs of Santa Teresa for a well deserved muscle soak. Here we learnt that the paths we´d walked were used by Inca postman to communicate messages from city to city (they used to run these paths in 2 hrs!) Hard work, but amazing views and some great info from our guide.
09/09/11 - 6 became 2! After breakfast (jam and bread...again!) the Scots pulled out after mulling over the news from dinner the previous evening that yesterday had merely been a warm up for today. England 1 - Scotland and Argentina 0 :-). The hot springs had worked, as apart from the blisters our limbs were feeling suprisingly up for the challenge. The 3 of us set off (walking sticks in hand...Olie had found a random wooden stick, so Luiz donated me a proper walking pole :-)) at a decent pace. For a solid 3.5hrs we climbed up over 1000m to the summit of Llactapata mountain - the leg burn and sweating was intense! A packet of
One of the rickety bridge crossings
Ritz crackers later and we began the descent down the other side, with the promise of our first view of Machu Picchu. After a brief lunch stop, we visited the hidden ruins of Llactapata. Although not much of a spectacle at the moment, if the vegetation was burnt away as it was at MP, it would reveal a smaller scale but similar settlement. The trek down was crazy. Soooo painful! We both had blisters on our feet, but Olie particularly suffered (claiming he had no skin remaining on any of his toes...although at the time he was far less eloquent with his phrasing!) We hobbled for another 3km to Hydroelectric (literally a working power station), to meet the scivers and catch the train to Aguas Calientes (base camp for MP). Luiz wasn´t joking...it was a tough day with some lows, but overall a great sense of achievment. Aguas Calientes was a nicer than expected mountain town, with the train track acting as the main street (doesn´t aid sleeping, despite 2 days of trekking!) We enjoyed our first Pisco Sours at dinnertime and headed to bed early for our 5am start the following morning.
10/09/11 - Prepare yourselves, this is
Reunited at Macchu Pichu
the day we went to Machu Picchu....it´s going to be looooooong! Reunited, our entire group took the first bus up to MP...the lost city of the Inca´s, which sits at around 2,500m. It was rediscovered (according to Luiz) in 1902 by a local Cusconian archeologist, who found 2 families living within the ruins. In 1911, American archeologist, Bingham, stumbled upon the complex and claimed it as his own find, scrubbing out the marking left by the Cusconian, in favour of his own (bloody Americans!) Anyway, after a pause for some picture perfect views, Luiz took us round the main sites within the city; a 3 hour tour which gives an indication as to the size of the complex. There are 2 main sections - the agricultural terraces (with store buildings kept cool by the winds) and the urban citadel. We began at the Guard House, a great viewpoint to guard the city from potential invaders and wild animals. We then climbed down the terraces (via some resident llamas), through the Main Gate and on to the stone quarry. Here we learnt how the stones were carved and shaped (using other stones) and it was also the first evidence that MP
Plaza Principal, MP
was never finished, as many half carved stones remain in the quarry. Rocks were carved differently depending on their use...in special places (i.e. places of worship, royal residencies etc.), the stones were shaped into more brick like slabs, which were constructed as dry stone walls, with straight, flush lines and a polished finish. This looks odd in contrast to the ´worker´ buildings which consist of more rugged stones fixed together with mud - it appears almost as if the royal structures were constructed by machine in a later era. No-one really knows why the two different architectural methods were used - just a lot of speculation.
We then visited the Temple of the Sun; the Inca House (royal Inca room with ensuite (?!) and a priests abode next door); 3 of the 16 fountains which irrigate the city from rainfall in the mountains. The Condor Temple was next up - the condor was important as a link to the Gods, carrying the sacrifices seemingly up to heavan. The temple is an example of how the Inca´s worked with the land. Within the temple two natural rocks remain untouched which form the Condors wings (building around existing stone work was common
View from Wayna Pichu
practice and represented the great respect they had for Mama Pacha - Mother Earth). Temples and important worker houses contained royal mummies (in feotal position), as they believed that these people still lived (in a better world) and therefore continued to rule them (dreams and hallucinations most likely!) A bit trippy and weird, but still widely believed and interesting in any case. Some mummies have been discovered in the snow capped mountains in northern Argentina and were so well preserved by the freezing climate and methods used, that apparantly they look like they only died yesterday!) We´ll check this out in Salta! Anyway, back to our tale...at this point we inherited a brash American tourist who had lost his own guide. He didn´t listen to anything, yet asked questions on what had just been said (you know the type!) Finally, we visited the ´Sector of the temples´, which clearly remains unfinished and confirms the likelihood that MP was abandoned after the Spanish invaded Peru. From here we could look over the Plaza Principal and ceremonial rocks, although our minds were distracted by our final exhersion, up the looming beast that is Wayna Pichu (steep peak that forms the backdrop in
Resting at the top of Wayna Pichu
most photos of MP). History lesson over.
After what felt like a million steps up, down and back up again we made it to the summit of Wayna Pichu and admired the alternative view of MP and the surrounding cloudy peaks. I was desperate for the loo, so we legged it down in record time (over taking Germans, Japanese, Americans and Australians by the dozen) and then took the bus back to Aguas Calientes. After a pretty boring wait (we reckon Luiz had forgotten to book the train tickets in time as we were on the 9:30 departure) we swapped our train for a bus at Ollantaytambo and eventually made it back to our hostal at 1am - exhausted!
11/09/11 - (Olies in to finish things off in style!) After a great free breakfast and a hug and a kiss from our extremely friendly hostal owner (only Emma got the kiss) we trapsed back to junction whatever to pick up our big backpacks and have a soak in El Tucos boiling hot showers! Emmas feeding me bits of choclate as I write this - its working out quite well for me!! Basically we´re done with Cusco now (its been great) and are heading to Lake Titicaca (probably straight to the Bolivian side but we´ll let you know). Hope everything is good for you all at home - I´ve discovered a new favourite fruit called granadilla, where you peel off the skin and then suck out the juicy inards. Apparently its very popular with Peruvian children which is probably why I like it so much...(not in a perverted way). Right I´m done - adios amigos! Love and hugs Olie and Emma
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Part of the appeal of this gig I call digital publishing is that I get to work in my pajamas, if I so choose. And my dog doesn't have to go to doggy daycare anymore. But the other part is being able to partner and work with some incredibly smart, innovative, unconventional entrepreneurs. Good thing they are so smart and unconventional because they don't let geography get in the way of collaboration.
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Fantastic, erotic and awesome! You impressed me!!!
This is absolutely impressive! O_o
0_0 woahh the amount of detail is stunning!! How long does it usually take you to draw these stuff??
0.0 woahhhhhhhh........ (stares in amazement... for 10 minutes straight)
This almost reminds me of the fight with Jin Kazama in Tekken 6's Arcade Mode.
Great work. Love the perspective of this piece. The cityscape in the background adds a good feel to the scene, too. Keep it up^^
It left me speechless
Utterly amazing
Utterly amazing
i think of halo when i see this......
I don't know if I'm supose to have a boner or listen to the most epic song I know when looking at that picture... Both?
That's really cool. I love the setting. She's beautiful and relaxed, but it's not a mythical forest or castle setting. I'm not dissing those, but you see pics like that all the time, so it's nice to see something a little different. Congrats on the DD, you deserve it. =^_^=<3
I wish I had an armchair like that.
Seriously though, I love the brush work at the bottom. The wings are fracking amazing. Reminds me of a volcano/lava. Very good idea.
Seriously though, I love the brush work at the bottom. The wings are fracking amazing. Reminds me of a volcano/lava. Very good idea.
That's...just...cool... *nom nom* ^.^
Unmitigated awesomeness
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Awesome concept! The city landscaped is incredibly detailed! Very impressive!
The light coming off the tall building slightly distracted me. Perhaps for me it is because it doesn't narrow out enough as it increases in length. I am thinking it needs to be a tad bit more subtle. It is a very minor thing anyway.
The picture is still badass! C:
Everything looks amazing! The only concern is the anatomy of her neck and trapezius muscles. If you could find a way to fix that, it would look much better. Don't take my suggestion too critically though! It's still eye candy to me. ^-^
ah thankyou, my anatomy was still imperfect when i did that piece ^^ but it should be much better now
aye, my anatomy should be much better now than compared to when i did this ^^, thank you
She looks like a TRON angel. Nicely done!
One word: EPIC!
She's like a angel robot, very beautiful and I love the neon feel from the colors!
Nice, it's some sort of cybernetic angel. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell, with a hint of Black Rock Shooter
Awesome! Great work!
wow like nachtara pokemon
This girl is definetely my type! And I see there's an extra spot on the throne there...
its tron on fire
Reminds me of the movie Tron that came out a couple years back
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Awesome! The background has amazing detail, and the foreground has an amazing focal point
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I remember having these when I was little for our hamsters and they loved running around the house in these. The only problem was that they managed to get out of them a few times. When I bought my guinea pig years later I was so excited to get him a large exercise ball. Rodney, however, was not really into exercise and would just sit in the ball. I eventually realized that although he didn't want to exercise in the ball, he actually liked being in it so I put it in his cage with some shavings and he slept in it! So although he didn't use it to exercise, it got more use than anything I ever bought for him. :)
Pros: easy to clean
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We put our gerbils in them but they could never really figure out how to make them go and didn't seem to like it. Maybe our gerbils were just strange.
Pros: I hear lots of gerbils and hamsters love them
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This is a great exercise for all small pets. Thay in joy rolling around and haveing fun i know my pet does.
Pros: Nice,and good quality.
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Our hamster loves his hamster ball. He runs all over the house in it and really seems to enjoy it. We have fun watching him, the cats and dogs have gotten used to it so they barely notice when he zooms by them!
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Neil Best of NEWSDAY and Richard Deitsch of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED have confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC's "Football Night In America" broadcasts this season. Best reported:
NBC has confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not be on its "Football Night in America" show this season.
The move was initiated not by NBC Sports but by NBC News, which wanted Olbermann to focus exclusively on his job as host of his own show on MSNBC.
Deitsch added today on Twitter:
NBC Sports has officially (and finally) confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not be on Football Night in America this season.
On August 5 I reported Olbermann was out at 'FNIA' due to concerns about his MSNBC duties being affected by his NBC football broadcast appearances.
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penguins... you'll never know all about them. But one thing you know exactly, pengiuns rock. Hehe
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really likes the ice he's standing on
jump to visit.
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really likes the ice he's standing on
jump to visit.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo the penguins! How could you? This was just a slap in my face wasn't it
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Yeah sure....or just give us your filthy Linux propaganda!
linux? how was talking about linux? It's a penguin no more no less
Propaganda aint necessarilly overt my friend. It can be underlying. "oh look a penguin, kinda looks like the linux one. Wow it does, and he made it Linux too! I'm gonna buy one so I can be good too!".....You fiend
Yes, penguins rock... Great work...
OhmyGosh I love penguins. And this one is no exception!
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Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalities
This paper studies whether the allocation of municipal expenditure in Italy is influenced by female representation in Municipal Councils. Despite the existence of gender-specific preferences in society, we find no clear evidence that the amount of resources distributed among different spending categories is significantly affected by politicians� gender. The results are robust to a large variety of specifications and estimation techniques, where we also take into account the existence of an endogeneity problem. This is addressed using an instrumental variable approach, based on a temporary change in Italian law that reserved a gender quota in party lists for municipal elections, thus causing an exogenous increase in the number of women elected in Municipal Councils. The substantial absence of a gender bias is consistent with the median voter theorem, suggesting that politicians� preferences and personal characteristics do not matter in public choices. Alternatively, it may be that gender is not one of the determinants of politicians� voting behaviour, implying that the preferences of the women involved in political activities are close to those of their male colleagues.
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In small Quebec town, Potvin more than content in his post-NHL life
Updated: November 25, 2008, 12:52 PM ETBy Pierre LeBrun | ESPN.com
MAGOG, Quebec -- Felix Potvin jumped on the ice for a mid-morning practice, but noticeably absent were the goalie skates.
"They're long gone," he said.
Four and a half years after Potvin made his last NHL start and slipped away without any fanfare, we found him on the ice at the Arena de Magog, a classic, throwback rink that, with its wooden seats, could have easily been a stand-in for a "Slap Shot" remake.
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Often in this business, prospective subjects assume your journalistic integrity is for sale. In my case, it is. Last year, for instance, a reader who works in the Kentucky legislature mailed me an unsolicited commission as a Kentucky colonel. I've never had much use for Kentucky, other than consuming copious amounts of its fried chicken. Now, however, if you or any of your good-for-nothing friends slander the bluegrass state, you will do so over the dead body of Colonel Matt Labash.
The best little Christmas-in-July freebie I've received in some time came the other day from a British firm calling itself the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation. It was a simple videocassette, featuring the rapidly-fading-from-memory mug of Baghdad Bob, the former Iraqi information minister who looks like F. Murray Abraham, but who wasn't nearly as good an actor. From the video box--decked in titillating typeset warning "Uncensored!" and "Watching this video may cause SHOCK AND AWE"--you might think you were in for the Iraqi equivalent of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, with Baghdad Bob doing Jell-O shots out of some Mukhabarat officer's navel.
In actuality, it featured a reflective treatment of "the very best of the Iraqi Information Minister." For Baghdad Bob, aka Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, gave us something more valuable than sex or mature language. He delivered that scarcest of commodities during times of war: He gave us the gift of laughter. Some call him the Rodney Dangerfield of Saddam's regime. He was unfairly omitted from the Iraqi "Most Wanted" deck of cards (unable even to ride the pine as a joker). But Baghdad Bob--or just plain "Bob" to his friends--was far and away the war's breakout comic talent.
Sure, he might not have had the manic energy of King of Diamonds Aziz Salih Numan, or the clockwork timing of Queen of Clubs Kamal Mustafa Abdullah. But Bob picked a persona and, as we theater people say, he committed. The mark of a gifted propagandist is one who tells enough small truths to sell the big lie. But with only 21 days from the start of the war to the fall of Baghdad, Bob had no time for protocol.
Consequently his offerings ranged from the implausible ("Our initial assessment is that they will all die") to the scatalogical ("Their rear is blocked"). He forwent the Churchillian in favor of the vaudevillian: "They are not only wrong, they are criminals and stupid. This is a fact, you can check it." So entertaining was Baghdad Bob, that even George W. Bush admitted interrupting meetings to catch his routine, saying, "He's my man, he was great." Bob, for his part, called Bush an "insane little dwarf."
In both the video and the scores of Baghdad Bob fan sites that are advertised on it, we mainline the wisdom of the guy historians will likely come to regard as a one-man Bartlett's. Only Bob could say, without giggling, "I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad." Or "They are nowhere near the airport. . . . they cannot read a compass . . . they are retarded." Or "We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more information." Or "The burden is on the people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are." Sorry--that last one came from Ari Fleischer. Sometimes I get my propagandists confused.
In the weeks after the war, when Bob disappeared, all sorts of disinformation made the rounds about the information minister. The worst was that Bob had hanged himself, which came as a surprise. Sure, you could see him squirting the tears of a clown. But we fans knew Bob, and he was no suicide. Recently, he resurfaced, giving an interview to an Arabic television network. Still unable to get respect, he had some trouble getting arrested (Americans released him almost immediately after taking him into custody). Life on the lam, it turns out, is no simple task. It's difficult to come by money, friends, and especially Just For Men hair rinse, as evidenced by Bob's overnight transformation from shoe-polish black to silvery ash.
But it's easy to forget that the other side has war heroes too. And Bob is the Iraqis'. By the time American tanks rolled into Baghdad, Saddam had already fled for a new life, presumably selling discount rugs in Dearborn, and Uday had packed away his disco balls and dark-light posters. But Bob stayed at his post and lied like a man. As a Kentucky colonel, I know what kind of courage that entails. And as one military man to another, I salute a guy with enough grace under fire to utter, "We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."
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A.J.'s family rented a beach house for the summer, and you'll never guess in a million hundred years who rented the house next door. Well, you have to read the book to find out. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you!*
*Okay, okay, it's Andrea and her family. And she has a monster crush on Mr. Sunny, the hunky (but weird) lifeguard. Ooooh! When are they gonna get married?
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Let's pretend you have a kid who's sick. He's got a variety of things that make his health a daily battle, several of which could be terminal.
You have two choices.
You can treat each battle as something to mourn and never stop pushing forward. It's for the kid's survival. What kind of parent or you. You can dwell on the kids who are losing their battles, and never let your kid forget he could die any day.
Or you can celebrate the good days and let the kid enjoy his life despite the battles. You don't treat them any less seriously, and you don't stop taking care of his health, but you take a deep breath once in a while and go to the park. You keep the kids who have lost their battles in your heart, and you educate yourself on advancements in care.
This is how I feel we can handle the Supreme Court decision about Marriage Equality. We can celebrate it as what it is. A step in the right direction. Not the last step or the most important step, but a step. We're allowed to celebrate small victories without forgetting the other issues or those who are still battling. Why? Because the kid is still a human being, that's why. Just because this decision doesn't fix all the problems for all the people does not give us the right to invalidate the people the decision does help in any way.
I've been told at least half a dozen time today that I' not allowed to have an opinion on the matter as anything but a bystander. Because I'm already married. Because I'm bi and chose to legally marry a man. Because I'm white. Because I'm cisgendered. Because…because…because. I have never understood this kid of isolation as anything but what we're fighting against, and I do not understand it now. As a community of humans fighting together we need to also recognize the importance of being a community of humans exalting together. The two are not mutually exclusive, but they are both vitally important to the survival of the spirit and humanity of the community.
No, the journey is not even mostly over. No, the war has not been one. No, celebrating this victory does not erase from our memories the journey behind us or the long road yet before us.
Go now. Be together.
In a recent post I mentioned briefly the adjustments I've been making in my relationships to conquer the distance inherently put between me and my partners by my job. I've always held a strong position against long distance relationships. I rely heavily upon touch and face to face interaction to ground me in a relationship and give me a sense of stability and connection, and I havent never seen that possible in a situation where I don't see a partner more than once a month, but with the commute I make for my job I'm finding more and more that even my marriage has similarities to a long distance relationship.
At first I fought it. Adjusting to the commute and unusual schedule was hard enough without taking into account what might be happening at home. In turn, Hubby sought solace in his tangible life and partners he could reach out to and began to suppress fears that I was on the slow road to leaving him, and our life together far behind. The next step in the downward spiral was a deep depression caused by feelings that I was gradually being erased from my own family. I considered leaving. Unable to voice this feeling properly, I only validated Hubby's suspicions, and the unraveling began, leaving us both feeling alienated and alone.
The solutions seemed bleak. We either had to accept that this was our life now or end it, and neither of us was willing to accept either option. Hubby's approach was to demand things. My time. Phone calls. All my plans and commitments at home would have to be cancelled to spend time with him. I felt exhausted, smothered, and stretched too thin, and I lashed out, suddenly understanding why trained tigers might eventually eat their owners. I felt helpless.
Then something happened. I started texting him every day. I didn't have the hour or five a day he would have liked to have phone calls, and there was nothing I could do about the frequency with which I had to end such conversations abruptly because of my schedule, but he started to realize just now much I think of him when I'm not around.
A transformation began. He became easier to talk to. We exhumed inside jokes that had lost their sheen in the midst of our fighting and developed new ones. Suddenly I felt like there wouldn't be an exhausting battle every time we spoke, so I started putting him on speaker phone while I readied myself for work. In short, I got my best friend back.
Other relationships were not so lucky. After months of not knowing how to fix it, Ralph and I decided we could only survive in each other's lives as friends. Other tentative relationships came to similar fates, while the ones that were able to find a way to reconnect in new way thrived. This. This is where I began to see where the strength was in myself and in my partners.
Since this experience, each new relationship has been a valuable learning experience in communication and bonding. Things that are important to me have had to be compromised while new needs have emerged in order to gain the stability I need to be a happy, sane, openly loving wife, partner, and even friend in some cases. It hasn't been easy, and at times I feel like these new endeavours are an emotional game of chutes and ladders, but it's forced me to take second look and only spend that energy on someone I feel deserves that kind of time and energy.
I'm still not sure what my stance is on long distance relationships. The impulse is to have more partners to cover the lonely times, but even people I don't see regularly take the same amount of resources, and I know all too well the effects of polysaturation. Instead, I'm learning to find what works with each partner, and to give myself some of that energy as well. We'll explore that concept a little bit more later.
Go now, reconnect.
I took on an extremely ambitious piece of writing this year for NaNoWriMo. After having to stop just short of my goal the first year due to a broken arm Thanksgiving Weekend and finishing with a product coherent enough to be in the editing process now, this year I took on an extremely heavy task. Half fiction, half non-fiction, the piece chronicled the rocky path of a crumbling marriage in a woman's mind during her final moments. For those of you who don't know, my marriage has been a little stressed recently as Hubby and I inventory our issues like LEGOs in attempt to put them back together in a way that works for us both, so taking on this project wa extremely personal and a bit harshly timed. I made it to almost 12,000 words before the emotional weight made it impossible to keep going, but I don't consider this experiment a complete loss.
For one thing, what I have so far is an amazing piece. I have been adding to it here and there when I can, and when I have the time and energy to put the entire puzzle back together, I believe it will be a beautiful mosaic of words and emotions. I believe in this project, or I wouldn't have taken it on the way I did.
Next, it was amazing therapy in some ways and an amazing awakening in others. It allowed me to get words out that I felt lost trying to express before, which meant I was able to keep a logical calm tone when dealing with Hubby in emotionally charged situations. It allowed me somewhere to put the often irrational feelings and insecurities that are mine to deal with, things that often cloud our ability to fix the shared problems. It allowed me a story board to map out my experience throughout this marriage and showed me where my own behaviour and thinking may have been the problem without a tone of blame or guilt to get in the way of resolution.
Finally, it reminded me of what I have to fight for, everything we have already fought through, and the strength we have when we fight together for something not against each other. Killing a marriage that didn't exist helped me see the ways to save the one that does.
So, no, I don't get the fancy winner badge, which is a shame, because I loved the graphics NaNoWriMo used this year. However, I don't consider this a loss. Sometimes you need to both something to be able to think outside the box a little. Sometimes you need to fall to change your perspective.
Thank you , NaNoWriMo. I'll see you next year!
Eighteen years ago tomorrow I melted into the couch trying to disappear while I processed the fact that my mother was dead. I didn't want everyone gathered around me. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to react in front of anyone. I just wanted to soak into the beige cushions and have my moment, but at 12 years old everyone expected something different, something extravagant and wild that required taming and tending. I didn't. I absorbed the information and took a shower, because it was the only place I could go and not be followed. I spent the next several days trying to gauge what was expected of me. I helped plan a funeral for the first time. I went with my best friend and her mom to buy something nice to wear with no idea what acceptable mourning attire for someone in my position could possibly be. I settled on a navy blue skirt with flowers on it. My goth stage wouldn't flood my life with black until a year or so later.
Eighteen years ago today, however, was a very different experience. One of life.
You always remember the last time you heard someone's voice before they leave your world. I remember her laughter and her words. I remember mine. I have since had to uproot my guilt over not going to visit as I had promised and how nonchalantly I threw in that last "love you, bye" as only adolescence can cast. She was coming home the next day. I was excited, but I didn't feel any particular need to drag it out over the phone. This would change how I handle phone calls, I-love-yous, and anticipation for the rest of my life, because the next day she simply didn't come home.
Yesterday I took a walk around the cemetery to clear my head. Eighteen years after the last time I hugged her my mom is still the best friend I go to for guidance, as I've developed a habit of laying on the grass under the tree she's buried near and telling her all the things I can't articulate anywhere else. It's the only place I can reach the voice inside me that has answers, because the part of her that lives within me is something I wasn't capable of recognizing as a preteen.
One of the things I inherited from my mother was her capacity to see the good in people. Whatever she called it, that woman embraced the spirit of Aloha in the very air she breathed. No one was ever turned away from her heart, and to those she gave pieces of it too she gave everything. For a long time I tried to run from that part of myself. I tried to cage it up, wall it in, and silence it for good. I hated it. I hated myself for it. I struggled for years with the very thing that makes me who I am, because I had let it shine only to have it ripped out, held in front of me, and tortured before my very eyes. I had watched something beautiful be eviscerated in the name of love, and I couldn't fathom anything worth experiencing that again. The lesson from my mother's last day had not yet sunk in.
So let's go back to that week.
My mother's funeral was the first I had ever planned. The first at which I had ever spoken. The first I had ever attended. The first time I had personally shaken Death's hand had taken from me the most important person in my life, and the seeds of this lesson were planted. Since then I have been to more funerals than I can count, spoken at many of them, and helped plan seven. Family, friends, children. Old, young, unborn. Sick, sudden, at their own hands. Loss. Loss is something you never get used to and something you can never truly plan for no matter how hard you try. Loss is where the seeds Death planted the day my mother said, "if you're not coming today, don't bother, because I'm going home tomorrow" and I chose to stay home instead begin to sprout. Loss is where those sprouts blossom into regret and sadness every time one of those last conversations is replayed in the back of my mind. Loss is where I gained the strength and courage to let the part of me which my mother tried so hard to cultivate within me finally be free, because the only thing that can grow taller than Death's crops in my soul is love.
There are times when I doubt. There are times when I'm told that opening myself up to love this way makes me weak and vulnerable. There are times when I'm told it's ignorant and ugly to let my heart be naked this way. Not everyone appreciates it. I'm called crazy, overwhelming, and naive every time I put my heart at risk, but to me this risk is far more acceptable that the one that someone I love never knew it. In this lesson my mother's voice lives on. In this way her heart continues to love. In this way I am showing her every day how much I loved her and how important she was to me, not just as my mother but as the fire that burns within me.
I've written about it before, the reasons I love the way I do. What it all boils down to is that love is something you can't do halfway or there's no point in doing it at all. It can hurt. It can burn. It can tear you apart when you least expect it, but so can regret, fear, and doubt. At least my way I also run the risk of being happy and loved in return, and that's the secret my mom knew.
"What would you say," a friend posed to me as I sat at his table, "to a friend who had just told you what you just told me?" We had been discussing certain decisions coming up in my life and what I should consider when making them. He was right. If I took the sentiment and nostalgia out of the situation the answer I was looking for was right in front of my face. I just didn't want to accept it. I tried to take what he had said to heart, and in the following days I gained such a powerful sense of clarity that I felt foolish for not having seen it before. I knew what I had to do, but I also knew that this meant fortifying my relationship with myself.
Then there came this night. A night when all the love and support in the world was gone, and everything was quiet. A night when loneliness took over, and my only option was to learn to stand up in the darkness by myself. You know what? In that moment I learned what it was like to become my own best friend, to really trust myself to be available for me when I needed a little extra strength and love, and to actually do so.
Don't get me wrong, my outer support circle is fantastic, but they can't be with me all the time. I cannot allow myself to become dependent. I also cannot allow myself to become self-destructive when left to my own devices. I must learn to thrive and enjoy being alone, and this is a very fresh lesson. I must learn to do this myself or it will overpower me. The darkness, the silence, the solitude. It all comes from within, so it is from within that it must be overcome.
What would I say to a friend? Nothing. She already knows the answers. She already has the seeds of change within her. She just needs a friend. It's up to me to be that friend.
It was the day I saw the internet meme that read expressed to me that love could always save the day, and anything else was giving up. This friends, is a very pretty thought, but untrue. Yes, there are a lot of people who give up on love too soon. There are relationships that end merely because people don't want to put the effort in to keep it alive. There are also situations where the love exists but the relationship is unhealthy, and there is only so much compromise one can do. This is where serious change needs to occur.
My biggest hurdle in the past week has been the doubt instilled in me by this very concept. For years I have fought. For years I have worked. For years I have sacrificed and compromised. All for love. All with a smile on my face. All knowing my heart was strong and my love was true. That love hasn't changed. It hasn't diminished. It hasn't quieted. I don't even feel like it's less mutual. It's the only reason I am hurt by the idea that maybe even the strongest love in the world can't fix everything. And maybe worse, that it shouldn't.
What if this love is what's holding me in a place that's unhealthy for the rest of me? What if this love is detrimental? What if it's taken the place of the love I should have for myself? These are very real things. This is not an abuse situation, friends, but it is unhealthy. If we can't find a way to change the foundation of what's wrong in our life together, no amount of love in the world can change that. I can't let myself feel like I'm giving up or failing, because that's what has always made me stick around in the past regardless of my mental or emotional health.
Love can conquer many things. Fear, insecurity, doubt. Love cannot conquer all things, because a relationship needs air to breathe and sun to grow. It needs a good balance of calm and passion. It needs the right environment, and if that environment no longer exists between two people, it doesn't mean we've or love has failed. It merely means our landscape has evolved. It's time to decide if that landscape can still sustain this relationship.
Go now…..rationalize.
We are the artists, the healers, and the teachers. We are those who feel, and sometimes we don't know why until we have learned to acknowledge and process them. We are the empaths, and our journey is unique. It's not always easy, but it can be highly rewarding and fulfilling.
As an empath I am generally at least aware of my environment on a very intimate level. I can get a feel for people pretty quickly in ways they might not even be in touch with themselves. I can tell when people are hurting, sick, or frustrated, but I can also see their capacity for love and joy when they might not be able to. It makes me a caretaker by nature. I am generally that friend answering her phone at some odd hour of the night because I've never turned down a request for help I was available to give.
The flip side of all this is that it makes me a lover, which in and of itself is not a negative thing. I've expressed before that being vulnerable doesn't make me weak. It makes me stronger every time it backfires, but when it doesn't I am reminded why I live and love as openly as I do. It also makes me stubborn and persistent. I can see past all the verbal armor people use on a daily basis, excuses that we think protect us from our own fears and insecurities. I promise you, they protect you from nothing. If anything you become a victim of yourself, and eventually those things become who you are instead of the things inside that actually define you. These are the things I see as an empath.
This also means I can tell when I'm being lied to or set aside. I can tell when a relationship has become about sentimental nostalgia instead of new refreshed emotion. I don't like it, and at times I've tried to fight it, but I can always feel it. It's at these times where I have a choice, just as I have a choice whether or not to speak up when I see these things affecting others. Do I speak up? Do I keep trying to fool myself with the same sentimentality? Do I force a change or do I wait for the inevitable?
Being an empath has taught me to throw everything I have to the surface, to give all of myself to those I feel won't abuse it, and to see doors most people would generally walk past. It's also taught me to identify other empaths, because they are generally the people I can communicate with on an unspoken level. There's an amazing bond between two people who can feel everything happening in each other. My world is full of them. We laugh together, we hurt together, and we experience love together, and it's extremely painful when someone starts to distance.
This. This is what I fear. This is my biggest concern coming true. Distance from someone who once knew me so well. So what do I do? This, friends, is where my soul is.
Go now, get in touch with yourself.
Just this last week my home state of Pennsylvania legalized marriage equality, and now that both of the states I call home have done so, I feel the push to chime in with an experience I've had in both cases. As someone who identifies as pansexual, and as someone who happens to already be in a legal, heterosexual, open marriage, I have come under a lot of fire for supporting the cause as anything but an ally. Let's break that down…
Pansexual: Yes, I have love and attraction to anyone, anyone, who catches that attention, no matter how they identify. Why is it that because a cis male is included in that I am devoid of caring about the opportunity to marry any of the other possible pairings? We must stop the labeling, the arguing about labeling, and the snobbery and isolation that arise from that labeling.
Married: Ok, so it's true. I'm already legally married, and I don't plan on that changing in my life. Does that mean I couldn't have wanted to marry someone who didn't legally apply? I love cookies and cream ice cream, but does that mean I wouldn't like the opportunity to choose Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, which I also happen to love? Why does the fact that my ultimate legal choice was an acceptable one negate this as a victory for my heart?
Poly: This is something I've struggled with within the LGBTQ community for years. In the opinion of some people, aligning with the poly community means a step back for all the work the LGBTQ community has done to convince the world that they can be just as committed to each other as heterosexual relationships can. While I understand this very conservative opinion, I have to ask why heterosexual marriages don't have to prove the same? Why aren't accepted social norms put to the same litmus tests as alternative lifestyles? Oh right, because it's more acceptable to cheat on a heterosexual spouse than to be honest and open. I also realize that poly families have a long way to go in that regard, and that our struggle for acceptance over prejudice and mockery is in a very young stage.
The truth is, it shouldn't matter if this step forward benefits me in any way or not. It shouldn't even matter that I know people personally who it benefits. The only thing that should matter is that this is the right thing for people. Period. This entire post has been an excuse to say this: Congratulations, people! This is how life should be, and we need to stop worrying about who does and doesn't have the right to celebrate life.
Go now. Celebrate equality and love!
Way back when I did my Poly-tics series I wrote about The Deep End. Well, it all came back to haunt me recently when I became involved with someone who had just opened a long-time monogamous marriage. The result was a lot of exactly what I cautioned in the second installation of the series. Had I known at the time how deep this deep end really was I might not have ventured into it, but there I was, surrounded by dark waters of insecurity, doubt, mistrust, and miscommunication. I did what I could to be helpful. I offered the same advice I would offer friends or people seeking counsel. I tried to help both parties through what I know can be an extremely tumultuous storm. In the end I was left adrift in a Deep End that was not my own with an overload of red flags and I-told-you-sos.
It was during this time that I began to hear the term Testing the Waters in reference to poly. What struck me immediately was the fact that once you've involved another human being and a relationship begins to form you can no longer be "testing" anything. It's unfair to both members of the new relationship, and it's a detrimental attitude to the entire situation. Polyamory requires complete commitment and dedication. If you can't give that to yourself, your partner, and any new partners you bring into your life, you're better off sunbathing on the shoreline until you can really brave the deep end.
Take it from me.
I briefly mentioned being fluid bound in my Responsible Sex post, but I wanted to talk about it more in-depth and talk about what it means to me. In monogamous relationships a couple reached a point where they stop using condoms because they've decided they're in a monogamous relationship and that there is no risk of one of them bringing something contractible into the equation. The risk of pregnancy is still there, as no birth control is 100% accurate, and a couple either accepts this risk or doesn't. In any case, it's a turning point of sorts. It's each member of that couple saying "I trust this other person not to put me at risk by being dishonest".
In a poly situation the sentiment behind fluid bonding is very similar, at least to me. I have been fluid bound with very few partners besides my husband. It's one of the most intimate parts of a sexual relationship, and one I never just trudge into without serious thought and discussion. It requires trust on all sides of the die.
Let's talk about that trust. When I am fluid bound with someone I have to trust him (I'll stick to him for this scenario) indelibly. I had a nurse at a clinic once tell me I should use condoms with Hubby because of our lifestyle because "how do you know you can trust him?". My immediate answer was, "because he wouldn't be my husband if I couldn't".
Being fluid bound means putting the health and safety of my entire family in the hands of my partner. That's some pretty serious power. In turn he's telling me that he trusts me and the rest of my family. Any partners fluid bound with me put their health and safety in Hubby's hands and those of any partners with whom he is bound. Because of this web of trust it's a conversation that happens within my partnership, then my marriage, then our family, so that everyone is heard and everyone feels comfortable. Then we all get tested and proceed from there.
Fluid bound also means trusting my partner to stand by me through anything. I know plenty of women who can tell you what form of birth control they were on when their children were conceived. It happens, and before I will even put that percentage of a risk in someone's life I make sure he knows where I stand on the matter. This family is strong and resilient, but anyone unable or unwilling to accept the minute chance of being that deeply a part of it has to accept that it's a risk I just won't take.
Remember friends, condoms are cheaper than bad decisions. Don't be pressured. Don't be rushed. Being fluid bound with someone is beautiful. The proximity you feel with your partner is unmatched. See this profound experience for what it is, save it for those who really deserve it and cherish it, and use it to bring you closer as a couple. If you view it as something sacred you will protect it. If you view it as something valuable it will take your sexual experiences to new places. Sometimes we use poly to dilute these natural stages of a relationship and their unique blessings. Becoming fluid bound has always been one of those blessings for me. Take your time, and embrace each one in its time and speed. Believe me, it's worth it.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Sunday, January 11, 2015
Youth Wheelchair Basketball
at Chelsea Recreation Center, Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
NYC Parks' Chelsea Recreation Center is starting a new sports program for children with physical disabilities ages 6-21. Come out and learn to play wheelchair basketball with the New York Rollin' Fury!
Category: Accessible, Fitness, Games, Kids, Sports
North Manhattan Parks Super Hike
at Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Hikers will see the old rock shelters used by Lenape Natives at Inwood Hill Park, observe the Cloisters building in Fort Tryon Park, and finish at the legendary Little Red Lighthouse.
Category: Nature, Fitness, History
Fitness Hike (vigorous)
at Parking Area (in High Rock Park), Staten Island
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Our Urban Park Ranger hiking guides will introduce you to the hidden gems of New York City. On our hikes, you may explore nature, discover our city's urban forests, or just…
Category: Nature, Fitness
Meditation at Wave Hill
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Let nature inspire you to find your center and reconnect with your true self using guided mindfulness and other meditation practices. Each session includes instruction in simple…
Category: Fitness
Central Park Tour: Northern Forts
at Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (in Central Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
History buffs will love this tour of key sites in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
Category: Education, History, Tours, Seniors
Riding the Waves Exhibit
at Conference House Park Visitor Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
The new Lenape Gallery at Conference House Park Visitor Center will open Riding the Waves, a new exhibit of the Museum of Maritime Navigation and Communication. The premiere…
Category: Education, History, Talks, Waterfront
Who's Awake? Family Walk
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
After the Family Art Project, continue exploring the theme on a family-friendly walk through the gardens or woodlands. Many insects and other animals struggle to survive during…
Category: Nature, Kids, Tours
Recycled & Repurposed Children's Crafts
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
After dropping off items at the E-Waste Event, join us in the Education Building where we'll be making children's crafts out of recycled and repurposed items.
Category: Arts & Crafts, Kids
Build a Birdfeeder
at Marine Park at E. 36th Street (in Marine Park), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
This winter, join the Urban Park Rangers for the Nature's Workshop series. Each program in this series explores its topic in depth and allows you to develop a…
Category: Nature, Art, Kids
Concert: Parker Quartet
at Wave Hill, Bronx
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Lauded by The Boston Globe for its "…pinpoint precision and spectacular sense of urgency," the Parker Quartet enjoys a full touring schedule and a residency at…
Category: Concerts
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Watercolours, oil pastels and markers on paper
Another beautiful work.. Congrats...
I've actually wanted to paint something like this myself. Looks great; What did you do with the markers?
Thanks! I did with the markers all the houses and the city parts. (:
This is really pretty...and colorful!
A lonely city far far away from everything but still soaked in many colors of unique beauty~
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I absolutely love this!
This is so beautiful... intense. I love it, the colors just pop
i swear- how do you're pictures get even prettier than the last one!? great work!
You've got something different here, with the coloured effect on the border and the details in the centre. The title describes the picture very well. I like your work you're always trying out new things
A good concept and you have portrayed it very well. Nice work.
Lovely painting, Kelli!
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