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by Erin Austin
Setting: a bare stage
Time: present
Character: THE ACTOR, female, age 25-30
(A solo spotlight hits the Actor.)
I have a fantasy. I've played it over and over in my mind for weeks now. It's so detailed. Sordid, really, in its attention to color, place, time, smell. It's to the point where if this scenario doesn't play out or happen, then, frankly, when I die, I will likely reemerge as a phantasmal apparition, wishwabbing over the city of New York saying, Why? Why? Why? Why did I not make this scene in my mind a concrete real occurrence?
Ready? Here's what I got going on up here. Place: Subway. The N,R,W train. The only train you ride. Winter. Late afternoon. It's dark already, as depressing New York winters tend to be. It's 6:15 PM.
Players: Me. Dressed casually, but sophisticated. Hair down. No, pulled back into a loose, chic bun. Makeup minimal, except of bright red lipstick. Why the hell not? Red lipstick is only a problem in plays when people are kissing. This fantasy includes no kissing. Player Two: Christopher.
Action: I shove Christopher in the subway. Not into an oncoming N,R,W train. Jesus Christ. Christopher doesn't deserve that. And if he does, it wouldn't be my place. Murder is intimate. It should stem from long drawn out complicated spider web types of relationships. My relationship with Christopher is much more short-lived. Anyway. This shove happens on the train. Indulge me while I explain.
Scene: I'm looking fabulous. Sophisticated. Red on the mouth, we've established. It's a crowded subway. Friday night. Everyone's getting off work and they are cranky nine-to-fivers. Ready to get on with their night. I'm going to see a final dress rehearsal of the new play I wrote that is opening off-Broadway. The buzz has been phenomenal. And the marquee is already up. With my name on it. (She thinks about the logistics.) It's an off-Broadway house with a marquee. That is also off the N,R,W line… screw it. It's my Broadway show I'm going to go watch. In midtown. Off the N,R,W line.
So I get on this crowded subway train and who'd of thunk it, but I immediately spot Christopher. He's holding onto the subway pole in the middle of the train. And he's doing that horribly irritating thing where he's not just gripping the pole for support, but he's leaning, lounging on the entire pole, like a paraplegic stripper—too lazy to stand up on his own. He's reading She's Come Undone. No. Addendum. He's reading Eat Love Pray. And he's really into it. Like mouthing the words as he reads. God, what an- (She cuts herself off.) And I speak. I say, offhandedly, "Christopher." He looks up. His face goes white. Even paler than the freckled Irish mug I'm used to seeing. "[Actor's Name], hey," he says. He's trying to compose himself. A million thoughts flicker across his translucent complexion. Is he sheepish? Ambivalent? Nonchalant?
Before he can decide how to handle the situation. I handle it for him. Typical. Did I mention it's rush hour on this train? It's rush hour and no one is talking. It's all solo riders just trying to wait out their horribly long commute home. "Christopher," I say again. As I meander my way towards him on the subway. It's a packed train, but people part the waves for me. They're bored on the way home and eager to listen in on something. Even a banal exchange between two former… (She cuts herself off.)
Before Christopher can muster out a pathetic excuse for conversation—I shove him. Not hard. But also not that light. And, after leaning on that pole for twenty blocks, his balance is off. And I shove him right above the sternum. His right side, just in front of his heart, to keep it poetic and such. And he stumbles backwards. Into a mother and her small child. Now, I'm not an advocate for involving children in my fantasies, I assure you there is no serious damage to the child done. The mother glares at Christopher, protects her toddler. "Why didn't you call me back?" I ask him. I use just the appropriate combination of cavalier humor and pissed off Athena warrior goddess. He stammers.
The fellow passengers on the train tilt their heads, turn down their iPods to listen, judge him with their eyes. "This confident collected cosmopolitan woman was dissed by this little nitwit? " They think, "Oh my."
"I, I, I," he responds—his scarf is tangled around both his feet and his neck. A tall man with a briefcase is standing on the frayed end of its Banana Republic blandness. "You're an asshole," I declare as I watch him struggle to regain his balance.
Side note: This section of the fantasy changes. I'm still debating whether it's a line that's actually delivered in the scene or not. On one hand, it brings me down to his level. Name-calling. And in front of small, recently pushed child. On the other hand, calling him an asshole is gonna let him know. I want him to know. And I want everyone on the train to know. You hurt me. And I know you aren't hurting at all. Hence you are an asshole. So, for now, the line remains in the script.
And then it's my stop. Christopher is still gaping like a trout. I say, "This is my stop." Because I've always wanted to say that. It's somehow so 1980's action movie meets 1950's film noir. And I get off the train. I leave Christopher on the N,R,W with only the memory of my shove and the cold judging hard stares of the nine-to-five commuters. The mother with her toddler. The other guys our age that look at him like he's the biggest jerk-off to walk the streets of the city. And that's kind of where the whole thing ends.
You see, in my fantasy, Christopher, I leave you. Not the other way around. I get to be the one who walks away. Without seeing if you're all right. Or checking to make sure things are going to be okay after my departure. And that would make me feel so vindicated. The play is written. The scenario is all set.
So now, I guess I have two choices. Stalk the N,R,W line. Wearing red lipstick, a sophisticated bun, and a spritz of vengeance. Or I can start writing that play I want to see on Broadway. So when I do eventually run into you, I don't care. The answer is obvious, I know. Get writing. Get on with your life. Stop obsessing over a light shove onto a real asshole. And I will. Eventually.
But every time I ride the N,R,W, I keep my eyes open for you, and your overpriced rich kid scarves, and your poor taste in books, and your…
(A pause. She collects herself.) Scene.
copyright © 2010 Erin Austin. All rights reserved.
Erin Austin is a New York based playwright, actor, and director. Her work has been staged in a variety of NYC settings and uses city life as a living, breathing backdrop—if not an additional character. Erin has a BFA from the University of Miami, is a proud co-founder of the Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company and a member of Actors Equity Association.


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Merlin as The Hermit in Major Arcana
by Sandra Marie
I have had The Rider Tarot Deck major arcana images of the The Fool, The Magician, and The Hermit on my mantel for quite a while. To me they show the growth of an enthusiastic youthful Fool into the solid metaphysical, spiritual Magician, who ultimately grows into the mature and wise end of life that is The Hermit. One could only hope for such a path.
The Hermit usually is depicted as a robed and hooded older person with a lantern (translation: illuminating the path of others by his/her own earned light). The Hermit's tarot card is number 9, the number of being one with life, according to Steven Scott Pither, author of The Complete Book of Numbers: The Power of Number Symbols to Shape Reality. Some of the many attributes that belong to this number, according to Pither, include the giving of unconditional love, humanitarianism, universality, humility, compassion, selflessness, idealism, spiritual growth, pure knowingness, living spiritually, divine love, and transcendence. Surely, these are goals to which we might aspire in our journey.
The major arcana tarot card following the Hermit is number 10. Even more interesting, card number 10 is The Wheel of Fortune, the card of the wheel of life upon which we spiral upward in our cyclic journey. When you separate 10 into 1 + 0, or the Magician and the Fool, the cycle begins again, once more ending with the Hermit.
Pither's number attributions for 0, the number of The Fool in the Rider deck, equates to "Nothingness," "Nonexistence," "Formlessness," and "The unmanifest." It is also the "Realm of Spirit" and "The potential of infinite possibility." Altogether, it is a grand traditional description of The Fool.
Pither associates the number 1, that of the Magician, with the "will to be," and "starting anew, creativity, leadership (with others or oneself)," among other very magician-like qualities. These qualities also work well with the 10 of the Wheel of Fortune (1+0 = 1), the card that turns us again to the beginning of the path.
I have always loved the figure of Merlin. The archetypal image of the legendary magician has always represented magic, mystery and the power of knowingness in action. I have several figures of him around my residence.
Then, one day, suddenly, I saw Merlin as the culmination of the growth process of my three favorite cards in the tarot — as the end point — The Hermit. I began to think about their similarities. Merlin often is robed similarly to the Hermit. Although he has his own varied stories to tell throughout the many fables about him, his end point is the same: knowledge that is arcane, magical, and spiritually useful in an earthly mundane world — knowledge that shines in the remote places of his final resting place.
Nikolai Tolstoy has written in his book "The Quest for Merlin," that "As prophet and avatar of the High God, Merlin was a link between the divine and the human, and ultimately a Guide on the road to the Otherworld." This is the Hermit as well, suspended as he is between heaven and earth on his mountain peak.
The Hermit most often is pictured on a rocky summit overlooking a chasm, not unlike the fool, but whereas the fool in youthful exuberance looks upward idealistically, ignorant of or ignoring the drop before him, the Hermit wisely surveys the terrain ahead, illuminating it before acting. The magician, in contrast to both, looks calmly straight ahead, aware of his choices and pulling divine inspiration for life's journey. The magician is the fully realized man or woman and the Roman numeral I above could be seen easily as the word "I," the ego-realized individual.
Then I began to research this concept, and found that like so many "discoveries" we make in life, we are not the first to have found them. It was wonderfully affirming to find that others had made the Hermit/Merlin connection in one way or another.
In The Arthurian Tarot: A Hallowquest Handbook, authors Caitlin and John Matthews see the higher realms of the spirit as tied to the myths of the land in which they are found — in this case, Britain. "…the characters of the Arthurian cycle are really archetypes of the highest order, having a reality far and above that of ordinary literary creations." And as it turned out, their representation of the Magician is in fact, Merlin. They note that, "Merlin was born of an earthly mother and an Otherworldly father, thus establishing him as a prime mover and mediator between the two realities of this world and the Otherworld." This echoes Tolstoy's comments.
How perfect is Merlin therefore, to represent the culminated wisdom of the earthly carefree fool, we humans who set out to seek our fortunes and lead our lives, as well as the magical (read "spiritual") side of The Magician, hopefully arriving at the state of wisdom and readiness exemplified by the Hermit.
The Matthews' sees the "mythic function" of such entities as performing "archetypal actions" for humanity, which makes them "suitable for esoteric work" because their archetypal forces are "codified and aligned with natural and inner world paths." What this means to the ordinary seeker is that such images as found in the tarot lift us out of our mundane world and allow us to begin traveling in other realms. Here we begin to perceive things that we can connect back to our ordinary lives in order to enhance them or to understand our difficulties better.
Moyra Caldecott says in her book Crystal Legends that, "The very ambiguity of myth is its strength. Myth is a kind of mirror — we see what we are capable of seeing, what we want to see and what we need to see (italics mine). We see ourselves, but in greater depth than we would in an ordinary mirror."
You may ask how these connections are helpful to us living in the real world — as interesting as they may be theoretically. I'd like to invoke some words from the author R.J. Stewart to help draw together the threads that bring us to the Hermit as Merlin (or vice versa),
Stewart has spent a fair amount of time researching the historical and mythological roots of Merlin, and is the author of several books dealing with the entire Merlin mythology, including The Merlin Tarot: Images, insight and wisdom from the age of Merlin. In his book, Merlin: The Prophetic Vision and The Mystic Life," he notes that Merlin is "what is often referred to as an 'archetype'; he typifies wisdom from a source that is not personal or human, yet applied to humanity both individually and at large. This was his role in the guidance and original creation of Arthur, and this is his role in the stimulation of our imaginations and the creation of our hopes to survive or even prevent our own Atlantean style of holocaust."
Interestingly, although he sees Merlin as associated with the aged Hermit, and as the youthful Fool and developing soul of the Magician, he inserts yet two more layers as part of the Merlin/Hermit growth process — The Guardian (The Devil) and The Hanged Man (a three-fold death) — that we will deal with in a future column.
In his Merlin Tarot, Stewart makes a distinction between "the Old Man" image (or what he calls a "superficial stereotype of the Wise Elder") and the Merlin of archetype, who is so much more. Stewart notes that in an ancient Merlin text titled the Vita Merlini," the magician withdraws eventually into spiritual contemplation, refusing to lead or advise any more. So does the Hermit, says Stewart. "Eventually, the way of the Hermit is to dissolve personality utterly, and then withdraw consciousness itself into the unknown."
In Sallie Nichols' book, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, the Hermit is also likened to Merlin. Although she uses the Marseilles Tarot for her discussion, the basic imagery is the same. She says it is "obvious that his lamp penetrates spiritual rather than temporal darkness, for the sky above him is light and cloudless. His insight pierces through our arbitrary divisions of space and time to reveal the meaningful pattern of the ever present now. He sees so deeply into the present that he clarifies all time, past and future and their interrelationships. That this wise man, like Merlin, possesses the seer's magic power to master the riddle of time is further evidenced by the fact that in some of the older decks he holds an hourglass and is called Time."
And interestingly, it's once again numbers that lead us to a conclusion of how the Hermit/Merlin works (in the Rider deck) to bring us to the realization of our "selfs."
Nichols says that the number 9 has "mysterious qualities," noting that it always returns to itself. If you add each number, up to and including 9 (1+2+3 etc.), you get 45, the sum of which is 9 (4+5). Also 9+9 = 18, which in turn is 9 (1+8), and "9 multiplied by each digit from 1 through 9 produces a result that reduces to 9."
Her conclusion is one that resonates well with the entire concept of a Hermit/Merlin. "It is easy to understand why nine is the number of initiation, because it symbolizes the initiate's own journey into self-realization. In whatever circumstances the initiate begins his journey, and whatever experiences he may encounter along the way, he also must, in the end, return to himself."
And that, I think, is a major lesson of The Hermit/Merlin.
Further Reading
The Arthurian Tarot: A Halloquest Handbook, by Caitlin and John Matthews; published by Thorsons, London and Calif., 1995 (earlier published by The Aquarian Press, 1990); ISBN 0-85030-755-4.
Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, by Sallie Nichols; published by Samuel Weiser, NY, 1980; ISBN 0-87728-480-6 (hardcover) and 0-87728-515-2 (paperback).
Merlin: The Prophetic Vision and The Mystic Life (two vols in one book), by R.J. Stewart; published by Arkana Penguin Books, 1986; ISBN 0-14-019372-3.
The Complete Book of Numbers: The Power of Number Symbols to Shape Reality, by Steven Scott Pither; published by Llewellyn Publications, Minn., 2002; ISBN 0-7387-0218-8.
The Merlin Tarot: Images, insight and wisdom from the age of Merlin, by R.J. Stewart; published by The Aquarian Press, England, 1988; ISBN 0-85030-630-2.
Crystal Legends, by Moyra Caldecott; published by The Aquarian Press, England, 1990; ISBN0-85030-872-0.
© Sandra Marie
Sandra Marie Matuschka has been involved with the tarot since the late 1970s, first as a student of the late Rusty Carnarius, a dedicated tarot teacher, and later as a collector and continuing learner. She is a writer, editor, and photographer currently living and working in Rhode Island.
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The reason why an MFA program is so helpful is once I'm able to figure out what's not quite right with someone else's work, I start to see it in my own. It's been a while since I've done anything akin to critiquing someone else's work, so when a poet friend of mine asked to read my manuscript (Swallow Tongue) not only did I take him up on it, I asked to read his as well.
This weekend amid lesson planning, Memphis Madness, a wedding, and a great local production of Young Frankenstein, I went through it for the first round and made organizational suggestions. They were suggestions I needed to hear myself, and I need to go back through it again to look more at it poem by poem.
For my own manuscript, I'm feeling resistant to plowing through it right now. I came up with plenty else I could do this weekend instead of working on it, and then last night I got an e-mail back from an independent press I had queried and then asked for my full:, "Your submission made it to our final round of reading, but unfortunately we have limited resources & cannot accept everything we enjoy. There was a lot to admire about your work, but not enough within this particular iteration of the manuscript hit us just right to warrant publication at this time."
Of course, that's never good news to get, but as Traci Brimhall says in her essay, "Notes from the Slush Pile: Advice on Book Contests and Some Confessions," sometimes we send a book out before it's ready. Though ST got a semifinalist nod from Crab Orchard Series First Book Poetry Award and now this "close, but not quite" e-mail from an independent press, it's obviously got potential, but it does need some work.
What is good about this news is that I can start editing (any day now) and feel no hesitation about sending my manuscript out to a couple of the contests with upcoming deadlines.
This morning, instead of revising, I looked up general information about revising and re-ordering and found a couple of helpful essays:
April Ossman's "Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript"
Jeffrey Levine's "On Making the Poetry Manuscript"
I remember reading plenty of posts from Sandy Longhorn about her reading her own manuscript with an editor's eye, really taking a step back and pulling out and putting in poems. Her hard work paid off and her second book is now in print.
I'm having some trouble letting go enough to be the editor for my manuscript, so I'm actually hopeful that my po friend who I exchanged manuscripts with can help me out. I know if I really want to push this manuscript, I'm going to do what everyone suggests: read each poem, assess its strengths and weaknesses, think more about themes and ordering. Right now, I'm just in the whining/struggling phase. Give me a day or so and hopefully I'll snap out of it.
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As he walked home he grabbed his shirt and a nice pair of pants. He slipped into his orange polo and tucked his shirt into his pants. Going for his dressed up-style just like she likes.
Put his white Nike hat on and went up stairs. She sat in his sweater and in her tight jeans it was a cool autumn day out but he didn't care. He grabbed her by the arm and took her down to the garage and told her to get into the car. They drove off. She asked…What's the occasion&hellip.He just drove ahead. She looked confused but she didn't need to think about what his hand was doing in her lap as they took the highway. Playing with her inner thigh and messing with her already.
She was hoping to take advantage of him when he got home. She didn't really get that chance. But this feels good she thought. The drive felt like it took forever. Her center wet as ever and just throbbing for him she didn't want dinner. She just wanted him. He leaned over after parking in the lot outside the restaurant and started making out with her.
Softly and gently pressing her lips against his. He pulled back and went around the car and opened her door for her and walked inside her favorite restaurant. He held her hand and they walked inside but he held her close and made her sit with him.
They got their food and she sat right beside him. He put his arm around her petite erika lui and lexington steeles insane pussy fuck kissed her.
As they finished up he drove her to the movie theater. A nice romantic movie was playing there and they took their seats as the opening previews appeared across the screen and they sat there just cuddling the entire time.
Each time the main characters kissed he would lean over and kiss her every time the actors would say, I love you.
he said it to her. Then at the final love scene he leaned over and started kissing her neck. The drive home was short they talked about the movie and she was giggling the entire way. They pulled up to his house and he picked her up and walked her through the door way and down the stairs to the bedroom were he put her down and closed the door behind him. My sweet, sweet Jessica…he said…I cannot look at you and not say I feel something for you, I cannot look at you and say your unattractive your not funny you amazing your sweet kind and all around a fun person to be with.
A perfect date a perfect woman a wonderful woman. I hold you close and I hold you tight jus to make sure you don't leave. I hold tight cause I know that if I ever let you go its done its over.
I close my eyes at times and see only those eyes and your smile. I cant help it I feel the urge its like you're a siren and tonight sweetheart I'm all yours and tonight is all about you…he stared deep into her eyes. In the Darkness of hell her eyes pierced through the night&hellip. They cut like knives and cut through the heart of their victims body to nothing but desire and lust. Scorching the earth with her bodies heat she stands with all her glory in her faded jeans and his sweater.
Her aura surrounds the area. Sending shock waves of lust to her victim. Making him want her. Her voice of a sirens drawing him in. Her looks peer into him and draw him near. He wraps his arms around her body, undoing her pants and sending old woman 65 age ebony women sweater off her.
She stands there in a bra and her undone pants. She leaves not much to imagine with her lingerie bra and her thong is still not visible. He slides his hand down there to feel a silky underwear. With soft skin to match the underwear. Her lips red and soft and light to the touch. She kisses his neck as he pulls her close, she moans out. "Jethro" as he gently grabs her ass and pulls her in to kiss her neck.
He nibbles on the nape of her neck and she leans back and she moans out as his other hand slides her tight jeans down to the ground. He backs her into a corner shoving his hand against her and thrust his palms into her shoulder. Forcing her into submission. His hands expertly guide down one dick can satisfy two hot girls body touching her and sending chills as he slides past her sensitive spots, dropping the rest of her clothing to the ground below.
His touch sends her body into a passionate frenzy. Sliding up and down her thighs passing her lips and sending out a vibe as his tongue licks her clit and she shudders against her lover, as he does his one job pleasure.
His tongue slides up her body as his hand and tongue reach her breasts grasping them, caressing them both. Her body rages into a sexual frenzy as the hormones with sensations flutter into an adrenaline fused cyclone.
Her body says take him rape him make him want to take you. Her back arches as he nibbles her nipples and caress her breasts. She pulsates into her man, she tries to press against him but her gently pushes her stomach back to the wall. His k-9 teeth dig a soft empty threat of punishment if she doesn't relax. Don't move Jessica he whispers… His mouth nibbles up to her ears. Your mine to night Jessica he whispers. Her animal instincts roar out and her fiery sexual tension surrounds them as she holds back and the room lights a blaze with her eyes as she can't contain her calm.
Her aura erupts into the night. She feels her arm being pulled down hard and fast towards the bed. He stands over her. His arms guide down her silky skin and across her hips and to her thighs and she looks up curious and wanting, Jethro, she begs…please, no more games… she whimpers she cant hold it in much longer. He runs his hands to her inner thigh kissing right behind his hand. He creeps upward right before he reaches her sweet wet center.
He runs along her hips hot spots on her and passes over her lips kissing them ever so lightly. Her animal purrs and rages inside her patiently pacing in her mind. Wanting out wanting to do something other than this teasing. She grabs the sheets as he kisses back. Five kisses towards her lips she wants it, she purrs out moans, just wanting to grab him, four kisses, force him to do it, three kisses, she grips tighter not wanting to let go she's waited for this, one kiss left, she's been teased all day; the rubbing, his touching, his kisses, He is almost there she feels his hot breathe as he reaches down, one last kiss, and he is finally going to eat her out.
She reaches off the sheets he moves against her pushing his woman against the bed and the metal clinking of handcuffs slapped on the steel of the bed frame. She cant move she struggles against the trap. Wriggling to move wanting to be let free she urges and pleads as his lips kiss her wet lips inside her thighs.
She lets out a moan as he finally touches her. The final kiss she couldn't wait for. Her eyes roll back as his tongue glides in deep, tasting her sweet nectar. His tongue horny attractive girlfriend is ready to begin sex around inside her flickering on her lips and tasting everything she has wanted.
Her eyes roll back as moans roll off her tongue and her mans name rolls off her tongue… Jethro oh god you tease…she purrs out… oh my goooooddddd baby…she shifts and jives against his tongue to pulse with the song. He pulls back…don't… she stops and he go's back to work pulsing against her clit with his tongue. The hands search her breast massaging them and caressing them and wanting them and making them want more attention…Jethro baby please baby I want him… she begs and purrs wanting his thickness inside her.
As his tongue handles her clit and pulses with the beat of the music in his head he hears her moans start to increase and pound with each flicker. She begs for sex even though her body rages on and wants the tongue. Her orgasm forming, the moans the back arching her cuffs pulling tight against the bar holding her in place and making her suffer.
He puts a finger deep inside and slowly slides it in and out. The room ignites in a blue flame of fire and heat as her moans reverberate through out the room.
Her moans loud her screams louder. She shudders and trembles as her body raunchy interracial threesome with a slutty blonde shakes as her core tightens against his finger and she purrs as loud as ever as she cums and her juices flow out as he drops to her lips as his finger rubs her clit and his tongue licks up her juices.
She feels a rush of ecstasy and a rush of lust. She pulls one last time and her cuffs cut the pole as she screams out…OH GOD Jethro!!!!!!!! OH FUK!!…&hellip.she shivers as he licks her sensitive clit. She finally comes down as he pulls out and kisses her clit on last time. He grabs the cuffs off her and she attacks. She grabs him and throws the cuff on to his wrists chaining him to the pole. Bending down she begins taking his head and in her mouth twirling around his tip and flickering on the top.
Gently sucking on his thick head and shaft. She kneels and pumps his shaft as she works him head…Oh god Jessica… he moans out. As she continues to suck his hot and hard shaft.
He lays there in pleasure as the overwhelming sense of it runs through out his body. She knows his spots and exploits them till she feels the want for his juices.
She sucks the tip of his head and starts rubbing his shaft. Playing with the tip and using her tongue to tease him as she begs for his cum… mmm baby… she would start…give me that hot cum&hellip. She begs. His shaft heated up as he whispered out…Jessica, baby here it comes… he said as she licked his tip until she felt it first come out. She pushed her chest into his cock and let all of his load splash all over her beautiful full chest.
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Pennsylvania courts, which entered the initial custody order, continue to have jurisdiction under 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 5422(a)(1) of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act ("UCCJEA"), even where mother and child have lived primarily in another state for the past 6 years, since Pennsylvania continues to have a "significant connection" with the child or one parent or person acting as a parent.
Under the plain meaning of section 5422(a)(1), a court that makes an initial custody determination retains exclusive, continuing jurisdiction until neither the child nor the child and one parent or a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with Pennsylvania and substantial evidence concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships is no longer available here. The use of the term "and" requires that exclusive jurisdiction continues in Pennsylvania until both a significant connection to Pennsylvania and the requisite substantial evidence are lacking. In other words, Pennsylvania will retain jurisdiction as long as a significant connection with Pennsylvania exists or substantial evidence is present.
Based upon the evidence, Child and Father have a significant connection to Pennsylvania, which thus retains jurisdiction over the case. As indicated in clear language in the statute, a "significant connection" will be found where one parent resides and exercises parenting time in the state and maintains a meaningful relationship with the child. The statute does not specify that courts must determine that the parent with primary custody of a child has a significant connection with the state to retain jurisdiction. Here, as noted above, the evidence established that Father lives in the Philadelphia area and he and Child have a significant connection to Pennsylvania.


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by The Rev. Rich Heinz
"What do you want to do when you graduate?" "What career would you like to pursue?" Questions like these are asked of teens and college students all the time. In fact, some start early, and sometimes we even ask children before they enter pre-school! But how do you respond?
Sometimes we attempt to get deep and "spiritual" about it, offering a very pious-sounding answer like, "I just want to do whatever God wills." However, does that really fit in with what we know of God's will? Does He have only one vocation that is truly for you? If you chose a different career than the one you once thought God was leading you toward, are you sinning?
Dear friends in Christ, the will of God does not work that way. God's will can be done whether you end up a nurse or teacher, a homemaker, and mother or a "Geek Squad" manager, a pastor, or mechanic. As long as you are working an honest job for the good of others, and working out of the faith He has given you, God's will is being done!
How is God's will done?
God's will is done when he breaks and hinders every evil plan and purpose of the devil, the world, and our sinful nature, which do not want us to hallow God's name or let His kingdom come; and when He strengthens and keeps us firm in His Word and faith until we die. This is His good and gracious will.
[Small Catechism: Lord's Prayer; Third Petition]
God's will is simply that "[He] desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth," (1 Timothy 2:4 ESV). The joy that you and I have is this: no matter what career or vocational choices we make in life, we can be His tools in reflecting His love in Christ to those we serve. In this way, through us, He will draw many to Himself "to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
So is it wrong to change vocational choices? Absolutely not! The Lord has given you many talents. Find something you love, do your best as you reflect His love, and you already are doing His will. Will you mess up? Of course – daily! Yet God still wants to use you to touch the lives of others. And so His will is continually to deliver forgiveness to you in His Divine Service, and to renew you to go back out into the world in your vocation, all over again.
For those of you on your third or fourth or even seventh declared major in college, this is especially good news. While your parents and faculty advisors may grow weary of the changes, our loving Master and Teacher know that you can serve Him in any number of ways. You have freedom in Him to choose any of them to live "in faith toward [Him] and in fervent love toward one another."
"I just want to do whatever God wills," is an extremely broad statement, for anyone. So remember, dear Christian friends, the choices are many, and all honest vocations can be God-pleasing, abiding in His will. Do not worry about changes in plan, or having one choice that appears to "do His will" more than another. Don't be fearful and intimidated by choices for your vocation, saying, "I just want to do whatever God wills." His will is done "when He strengthens and keeps us firm in His Word and faith until we die." He will do that no matter what you decide or where you go, so you don't have to be locked into one vocation in order to be doing God's will. The Lord will use you wherever you end up in life, to be His tool and His child in that place!


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Facebook, Farmville Now Wasting a Third of Your Web Time
Perhaps you think you're doing something useful when you boot up your PC and head online. Odds are, there's a one-in-three chance you're spending your time on Facebook. Or playing with virtual sheep.
So says Nielsen in a new report about what American do online. Title: "What Americans Do Online."
The key takeaway here is that social networks and online games take up about a third of our Web time. That's up from last year, when the two categories combined to take up about 25 percent of our time.
And that's good news for Facebook and Farmville-maker Zynga, which dominate the two categories. It's neutral news for Google (GOOG), since search's share has stayed consistent at about 3.5 percent, and it's bad news for Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL (AOL), since portal time has decreased by 19 percent.
Here's your data in chart form (click to enlarge):
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Interesting side note is that usage patterns change if you're talking about Internet use on your phone. There, Nielsen says, you're much more likely to spend time tapping out email:
What accounts for the difference? Nielsen doesn't hazard a guess, so I'll make a couple:
- Even on sophisticated handsets like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Google's Android, it's easier to check email than just about any other online experience. And if you're talking about cruder feature phones with very limited Web access–the kinds that average Americans still use in great numbers–that difference is even more pronounced.
- The mobile content people keep telling us that that phone users are interested in "snacking" on content. Can't get more snackable than an email, right?
One other data point to consider when considering the different data points: The data comes from different places.
Nielsen's PC-based Web stats come from both self-reported surveys and panel data, where a small group of users allow Nielsen to track their behavior. The mobile data only comes from self-reported surveys. So it may be that people would like us to think that they're less likely to screw around on their phones than they really are. So be truthful–how much does your Web usage differ when you get on your phone?


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God bless to friends–old friends and new friends! 😀
Sometimes, the challenges of time gets away. Days become weeks. Weeks becomes months. Have no worries, my friend, just know, you are loved and covered in prayer!
🎶Thank you for being a friend
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Yet another wedding gift mirror has been completed for Sydney. It is made from black and clear baroque glass for the border with pink white wispy rose petals and is a wedding gift gfor my neice and new hubby. The mirror is approximately 550mm x 450mm witha simple black and speckled gold frame.
Apologies are in order for the quality of the photo as the mirror looks far better in the flesh and hung on the wall as it is much brighter, the border darker and the leaves greener than appears in this photo. Also note that the table and books are a reflection and while several techniques have been trialled to remove reflections, doing so takes away the fact it is a mirror making it look like plain glass without character.


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As family, friends and fans of the incomparable and elegant fashion designer Kate Spade mourn her death, it leaves us all asking ourselves questions.
Why? Why would she do this? What was going on in her life? Did she have a mental illness? Did she seek help before committing suicide?
Authorities have concluded that Kate committed suicide by hanging herself. She was 55 years old. Reports indicate that Kate left her daughter a note saying that this suicide wasn't Kate's daughter's fault.
Conflicting reports in the reputable media as well as in the tabloid-style media mention that Kate and her husband might have been splitting up and that her return to the fashion business (after taking time off to raise her child) was fraught with problems.
All reports say she possibly had depression issues or was possibly bipolar. But the reports conflict one another as to whether she sought help for her emotional challenges.
Anyone who knows anything about the fashion industry through the decades knows that Kate played a pivotal role in the fashion world in the 1990s. She a sense of elegance yet accessibility that resonated in her designs, from purses and bags to clothes.
She will be missed by many.
So … about those questions. Here's the deal: The details are a private matter. And hopefully, Kate's loved ones – especially her daughter – will be showered with love and support as they try to cope in their time of loss and sorrow. And, as they get the answers they need;
For the rest of us, Kate Spade's death has brought the issue of suicide, depression, and mental illness into the light again. During the same week she committed suicide, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report stating that nearly 45,000 people committed suicide in 2016. That's more than the amount of people killed in car crashes or opioid overdoses.
The report also states that more than half of the nation has seen a spike of more than 30 percent in suicide rates between 1999 and 2016. Of the statistics keep on women, those in the age group of 45-64 had the highest rate.
"Any life stressors that are weighing on someone who has a history of or is currently struggling with their mental health — that's a person who you have to be worried about," psychiatrist Catherine Birndorf told CBS News June 7.
There isn't one single cause or factor experts can point to as to why a person commits suicide.
It sounds hopeless. But it's not. There's something we all can do for our family, friends, and coworkers concerning this issue, according to Birndorf.
"I hope people pay attention to those around them," Birndorf said. "That if they see someone who is suffering or acting unlike themselves or despairing, hopeless, withdrawing from social activities that they check in on them. They make sure that they are getting the help that they need."
In many cases, that help – especially from a trained professional – can make a difference. It may even save a life.
Anyone in crisis can call the toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for immediate and confidential assistance. The number can be called 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Share this number with a friend or loved one in need. And, please … don't be ashamed to use it yourself if necessary.
Whatever is troubling you, don't give up. There's a way out and there's help. I just wish Kate Spade knew that. R.I.P. Kate …


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Last year, for the first time, I did something totally different with my December. I decided to join the hundreds of women all over the world who wear dresses for the whole month of December to advocate for the millions of women and children who are sold all over the world for their bodies.
The whole point of wearing dresses is to get people talking. They will notice that all you're wearing during one of the coldest months of the year is dresses, and it will spark a conversation. Then you will be able to educate them on human trafficking and maybe they will feel moved to donate.
600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, 80% of which are female and half are children. Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry. It generates a profit of $32 billion every year.
Participating in Dressember last year was so great! Not only was it rewarding, but I was able to raise money for a cause that I care about while participating in a challenge that stretched my style to new limits.
I was able to raise a good amount last year, but I wanted to raise more! Ada from Elegance and Mommyhood has agreed to work alongside me {thanks, Ada!}. Today, I am asking you, yes you, to join us. Join us in advocating for those who have no voice. I know that if we, as a team, work together I know that we can raise SO MUCH! We can change so many lives for the good!
The team that I have put together right now is called Truly Free and consists of myself and Ada. We would be glad for you to join as well!
How can you help? You can do three things:
1. You can take the challenge! All you must do is wear dresses for the whole month of December. And talk about it. Also, pants are okay if they are required by your job, you're working out, or you're cleaning or sleeping. Wear a dress when you get to choose what to wear. Wearing pants under dresses is acceptable as well, and super cute! Those that live in very cold climates have the greatest impact, so if you do live in a place with a frigid winter climate, don't count yourself out. It's super easy to layer!
2. Spread the word! Talk to everyone you know and educate them. Also, when speaking to them, share this page so that they will have a place to donate to.
3. You can donate! All I ask is that you prayerfully consider how much to donate and if you feel led to give, go here. And thank you!
If you would like to join or have any questions please feel free to email me here: mybowsandclothes{at}gmail{dot}com.
Also, it is my two year blogiversary today!! Thank you so much for sticking by me through all of it! You guys are the best!
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Grace Anna Sings
By Angela Rae Rodgers
Often in life we feel beat down. Life has lost its joy and we want to give up. Then there is a light – a light from someone unexpected. A story so inspiring, we begin to wake up and dream again.
Before Grace Anna was born, Angela Rodgers experienced heartbreaking loss that left her seeking God's guidance and healing to make it through each day. After Grace Anna's birth, Angela went from teaching science to being an advocate for her daughter. The Rodgers have gone through incredible highs and heartbreaking lows. But through it all, God has been their refuge and has blessed them with amazing, joyful lives.
Grace Anna's inspirational journey has touched millions across the world and is proof that life is what you make it. Open your heart to God's love and be uplifted through the courage, strength, and resilience of one of God's tiniest warriors.
Genre: Made for TV movie / Reality / Docudrama
Themes: Courage, faith, health crises, loss, love, familial bonds, resilience
Location: Dunville, KY
Grace Anna Rodgers: a playful, uplifting little girl, afflicted with Conradi-Hunemann syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by skeletal malformations, skin abnormalities and cataracts, daughter of Angela and Jeff R0dgers,
Angela Ray Rodgers: mother to Grace Anna, advocate for Grace Anna and all children with disabilities
Jeff Rodgers: father to Grace Anna, married to Angela
Isaiah Rodgers: brother of Grace Anna, son of Angela
Angela Ray Rodgers advocates for all children with disabilities and is involved in charities for our veterans. She and Isaiah also developed the Graciebug Bundles of Love program that creates gift baskets for children, and their families, with long hospital stays.


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V-Parser is a novel chart parsing algorithm I've been developing recently. The first open source implementation is at GitHub. You can test it at online grammar development environment. This is the pseudocode:
For a sake of simplicity, we present the algorithm that operates on classical context free grammar (CFG) where each rule is represented in the following form:
where X is a rule name, and A B C ... is a sequence of rules named: A, B, C, and so on. A, B, or C may be terminal constants, as well. Alternations are noted by having the same rule name on the left side over multiple rule definitions in a grammar.
V-Parser is a chart parser that groups parsing items into columns that correspond to offset from the beginning of input string. Columns are incrementally processed, never looking back into previous columns in the chart. V-Parser stores its items in chart as pairs of a sequence and an index of the sequence element. This way it is always possible to know what is an ahead element of the current item (we just increment index property). The main function Parse serves as a loop over columns, items and their alternations. It repeatedly calls MergeItem procedure to populate the chart onwards.
MergeItem procedure creates a new item in the current column determined by offset only if the item doesn't already exist. Properties Inheritable and Inheritors are used as pointers to parents and items that inherit these pointers, respectively. Parents in Inheritable property are accumulated over children, meaning that each child has pointers to all of its direct or indirect parents.
Lines 20-25 make sure that Inheritable is properly set up in a case of pointing to non-last index of the symbol seuence. BringOver property is used to remember parent ahead symbols, and is used when we get to the point when we reach the last sequence symbols in parsing.
Lines 27-34 loop over each inheritable, and further reach to each inheritor. If inheritor is a successfully parsed terminal, and if inheritable is an item with non-last index, algorithm populates ahead item in corresponding chart column. The whole loop basically makes sure that newly realized ahead symbols are properly distributed over the chart, at positions determined by relevant past parse terminals, including the current one.
The algorithm stops when it runs out of new items in further columns.
Building compact parse forest (CPF) by V-Parser is trivial, because we just have to assign parsed extents to terminals. Reporting errors should also be relatively easy by analysing the last column in the chart.
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27 Budget Date Ideas For Broke Couples On Valentine's Day
You don't have to go broke to celebrate your love.
Valentine's Day is here, and if you find yourself short on funds, you might be starting to panic right about now.
But fear not: there are plenty of ways to have a romantic time with little, or even no, cash on hand.
And take note, those who are single this V-Day: many of these can be done with or without a partner. So whether you're in love, or you're your own Valentine, you can have a fun and sweet celebration that will be easy on your bank account.
Here are 18 ways to celebrate love's big day…
1. Make dinner together.
Who needs a fancy prix fixe dinner out? Cooking together at home is much more fun. Plus, then you can eat by candlelight, wearing whatever you want – or nothing at all.
2. Have a themed movie night.
Go all out and plan snacks to go with your rom-com, action movie, or tearjerker of choice, then cuddle up under a blanket and get cozy – with or without a partner!
3. Call on your inner artist.
Your mom was right: a handmade card is always more heartfelt than a storebought one. Bust out the colored pencils, tissue paper, and glue and have a card-making date, then swap masterpieces at the end.
4. Take a ferry ride.
If you live near a body of water, chances are there's a free or low-cost ferry or boat ride you and your sweetie can take advantage of. Pack a picnic, and it's a date!
5. Get crafty.
Sign up for a pottery-making workshop, a life-drawing class, or a knitting lesson: whatever the two of you are interested in. Learning is sexy – and often budget-friendly.
6. Game on.
Break out the board games and match wits at Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, or another favorite. Winner gets to celebrate in the position of their choice.
7. Have a heart.
Volunteer at your local soup kitchen, animal shelter, or other charitable organization. Being generous doesn't cost a thing – and it's good for your soul, your relationship, and the world.
8. Dance it out.
An at-home dance party has a few advantages: no cover charge, cheap drinks, you can make your own playlist, and you can get as dirty as you want to on the dance floor.
9. Soak up some culture.
Many museums have suggested donations, rather than steep admission fees. Take advantage and go see some art while being easy on your wallet.
10. Go open-house hopping.
Look up real estate sales in your area, or in your dream neighborhood, and visit some open houses. Wander the rooms and dream about the future – and if there are snacks at the open house, even better.
11. Ask each other the big questions.
What better opportunity than Valentine's Day to ask each other those 36 questions that lead to love? Carve out a couple of hours and take your intimacy to the next level.
12. Have a spa night at home.
A hot bath, DIY-facials, soft music, fluffy towels, massages – take turns pampering each other, or doing it for yourself if you're on your own!
13. Karaoke night!
Head to your local karaoke bar and sing your favorite sappy love songs to each other.
14. Pop some tags.
You know, like Macklemore. Going thrift-shopping together can unearth some fun and unexpected treasures.
15. Hit the books.
Browsing a bookstore is the perfect date for bookworms. Compare favorite titles, read poetry to each other, and surprise each other with something at the register.
16. Go on tour.
Lots of places offer tours: breweries, chocolate factories, smoked fish warehouses, you name it. Investigate the options near you!
17. Strike out.
The best thing about bowling is the ridiculous shoes – but the next best might be the affordable price tag. Find a low-rent bowling alley and get your Big Lebowski on.
18. Act out your fantasies.
Share your dirtiest fantasies with each other – and then make them happen. Pick up some supplies: sex toys, costumes, whatever you need to role-play your particular (totally healthy!) perversion.
19. Sweat it out.
The couple that works out together, stays together. Or at least, they get in shape together. A long run or a good sweaty gym session will get your hearts pumping, which might put you in the mood for more pulse-raising activities…
20. Hang at your local dive bar.
A dark, seedy, slightly sketchy place you've never ventured into before might be the perfect V-Day adventure. Grab a couple cheap beers and do some people-watching.
21. Puzzle it out.
Nerd out and tackle a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. All you need are some snacks and tunes to make it a fun night in.
22. Light a fire.
Literally. If you've got a fireplace at home, great. If you don't, seek out a restaurant or bar where you can sit and watch the flames reflected in your lover's eyes.
23. Consult a psychic.
Get your palms read at one of those hole-in-the-wall places you always pass by and never actually duck into. Are you meant to be together? What does the future hold? It's sure to be good for a laugh, anyway.
24. Score a hole-in-one.
Get your mind out of the gutter: we don't mean like that. Mini-golf is usually a bargain, and lots of fun, as well. And afterward, the two of you can score another way.
25. Take each other on tour.
Show your sweetie your neighborhood or city through your eyes with a tour of your old haunts: the place you were when he called you for the first time, the corner where you first kissed, the house where you grew up.
26. Plan a surprise.
Whatever you do, keep it top-secret and make it a surprise. Your partner won't have to plan anything – and that's a gift in itself.
27. Gaze at the moon.
Looking at the sky is free, and quite a show. Lay a blanket out and stargaze together – or alone. Who needs a date, anyway? Valentine's Day is about love, and no one can love you better than you can.
Image via shutterstock.com.
Comment: What's you favorite cheap date idea?


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Moroccan Orange Cake
You can deny it all you want my friend, you know you do.
I want cake too, all the time. No really, all the time, especially this Moroccan Orange Cake. But who doesn't? I think the population of cake haters is far less than that of us cake enthusiasts. Side note: is it just me or every time I hear the word 'cake' I start singing Rihanna's song in my head.
"Cake cake cake cake…" Oh just me? Moroccan Orange Cake cake cake…. Okay, sorry! This cake will soon be your go-to cake for when you want really good cake but you realllly don't want to make cake. Fillings, frosting, slicing, decorating… yadda yadda yadda! That's just too many steps between you and a hunk of cake. Fah-get about it! Okay sure, anyone can make the stuff that comes in a box but did you really make that? Can adding eggs, water, and oil to a content of a box suffice as homemade cake? See this… this is the real deal and this is alllll you, my friend. So you're sold on making the cake, but you're intimidated by some of the ingredients? Fear not, my cake-loving comrade. Let me break it down for you. Orange blossom water, rose water and saffron are all ingredients that you can easily find at a Pakistani/Indian/Middle Eastern supermarket. I've seen all three at my local Trader Joes as well. And if both of those aren't an option, Amazon to the rescue! Although saffron is optional for this recipe, I do encourage you to drop a few strands in the batter. It brings a unique and luxurious flavor experience to the cake. You can smear on some chocolate frosting or give it a light dusting of powdered sugar if you wish, I usually can't wait that long after it comes out of the oven for all of that. This Moroccan Orange Cake is fit for royalty. And royalty you are.
Moroccan Orange Cake
A brand new meaning to the word 'cake'. This isn't just your ordinary yellow cake. It brings the flavors of Morocco with just a touch of middle eastern influence. Sprinkle with a bit or powdered sugar or smear of chocolate frosting if you wish!
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- zest from 1 orange
- 1 and ½ cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon orange blossom water
- 2 teaspoon rose water
- 1 pinch orange food coloring (or a few drops if using liquid)
- 4-6 strands saffron (optional)
- Put a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside for later use.
2. In a medium bowl sift the flour, baking powder and salt together and set aside for later use.
3. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the orange zest with the sugar. Using your fingers or the back of the spoon rub the zest into the sugar to release the oils from the orange zest.
4. Add the eggs into the bowl and beat the sugar mixture with eggs until thick. Gradually beat in the butter. Stop the mixer and scrape down the bowl if necessary. Add dry ingredients all at once. Then add the orange juice, vanilla extract, orange blossom water, rose water, orange food coloring, and saffron. Beat until smooth.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for approximately 35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out with just a few crumbs. Rotate once during the baking process.
6. Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack.
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February 11, 2015
Awwww, what a glorious moment. Soldiers coming home and being reunited with their beloved pets! You would think that would be a beautiful thing, huh? Do you even KNOW a cat's behavior? No? Boy, are YOU in for a treat!
Check out the evidence:
...and to think I had high hopes of spending $1200 just to be ignored for the next 12+ years.
Anybody have a cat and can testify to the behavior in the video? Speak up now. Help out a reader before they go and do something drastic because they want an animal to love them. (lol)
Admit it...you laughed, too!
Until next time...
~Hospitality Shero
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״Music is the great storyteller of humanity. It holds every culture and language, every religion and mythology, every human dream, revolution and war. Music,though, can also take us beyond all stories, personal or collective. Through the power of sound, the power of vibration and transformation, it takes us into an experience of body and feeling, presence and fulfilment, connection and understanding beyond all words.״
Sound is a force of nature, it is vibration and movement. In a world made of vibrations sound is a force initiating transformation in everything it touches. The speed in which sounds effect our consciousness, thoughts, feelings and body, is immense and is easy to perceive. When the sounds are produced from inside our body, through the voice, the experience becomes even stronger, opening new possibilities for transformation, growth and healing.
An explorative journey in the mysteries of sound and voice leading to the music within us
A song playing on the radio carrying childhood memories and scents, a sharp screech sound shivering our body, a low thumping bass on a dance-club floor moving our body and the sound of birds inviting us to breath and relax - in one way or another we all know and experience the great force of sound and music.
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