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Participatory Economics
2003 Life After Capitalism Talks
Monday, February 25, 2008
I don't want an economy which produces people like Bush and Rumsfeld – people with tremendous power who think that if you are Afghan you are expendable, if you are Iraqi you are expendable, if you are Palestinian you are expendable, if you are Korean you are expendable, if you are Venezuelan, or Argentinean, or Brazilian you are expendable, or if you are from the Bronx, or Watts, or in fact if you are from anything other than Bush and Rumseld's ruling class family and constituency class – you are expendable. What is in fact expendable is capitalism. And we are the ones, with millions more, who must remove it from history.
But, if we don't want capitalism – what do we want in its place? If we believe another, better world is possible – what are some of its features?
Instead of some people dining on caviar and owning their own private airplanes and other people dining on garbage and living under bridges, we want equitable distribution of assets and circumstances.
Instead of hierarchies of power with owners able to move huge industries and lay waste to regions and populations, and with managers and intellectuals able to govern when workers can even go to the bathroom and the shape of our lives, and with about 80% of the population -- the working class -- having virtually no say over their economic circumstances, from how much they work, to what they do, to when they do it, to what the product is--we want classlessness and self-managed decision making structures. We want people to have input into decisions in proportion as they are affected by them.
Instead of competitive or authoritarian allocation which expands the profit and power of ruling classes, we want cooperative, self-managed allocation that expands social well being, development, and justice.
Participatory Economics is an economic alternative to capitalism and also to what has in Russia, China, and other countries opportunistically been called socialism.
Participatory Economics rebuts Margaret Thatcher's grotesque assertion that "There Is No Alternative." Thatcher wants us to believe that suffering poverty and indignity is as inevitable as gravity, that it is a fact of life. But that is a lie.
The economic alternative called Participatory Economics, or Parecon for short, is built on four key values, and it uses four defining institutions to fulfill those values.
The first value is Solidarity. Economies affect how people interact. They affect the broad attitudes people have toward one another.
Capitalism is a zero sum system in which to get ahead one must trample others. You must ignore the horrible pain suffered by those left below or you must literally step on them, pushing them farther down. In capitalism, a famous baseball manager of a team called the Yankees, used to say…"nice guys finish last" which is actuallya horrible critique of market exchange. My version of the insight is that in capitalism "garbage rises." Witness, again, our exalted leaders.
Participatory economics, or Parecon, is in contrast intrinsically a Solidarity Economy. Its institutions for production, consumption, and allocation don't destroy or obstruct mutuality and sympathy but instead propel even antisocial people into having to address others well being. To get ahead in a Parecon you have to act on the basis of solidarity.
And this first parecon value is entirely uncontroversial. Only a psychopath would argue that all other things equal, an economy is better if it produces hostility and anti-sociality. Everyone sane will agree that other things equal, an economy is better if it produces solidarity. So we have our first value: Solidarity.
The second value we want a good economy to advance is Diversity. Economies affect the range of options that people have in their work and in consumption.
Capitalist markets homogenize options. They trumpet opportunity but in fact curtail most avenues of satisfaction and development by replacing everything human and caring with only what is most commercial, most profitable, and especially most in accord with the maintenance of domineering power and wealth.
But a Participatory Economy is a Diversity Economy. Parecon's institutions for production, consumption, and allocation not only don't reduce variety, they emphasize finding and respecting diverse channels and solutions to problems. Parecon recognizes that we are finite beings who can benefit from enjoying what others do that we ourselves have no time to do, and also that we are fallible beings who should not vest all our hopes in single channels of advance, instead insuring against damage by trying preserving and exploring diverse avenues and options.
And this value too is entirely uncontroversial. It would require a tremendously perverse individual to argue that all other things equal, an economy is better if it reduces options. Instead, everyone will agree that other things equal, an economy is better if it produces and protects diversity. So we have our second value: Diversity.
The third value we want a good economy to advance is Equity. Economies affect the distribution of output among actors. They determine our budgets or what share of the social product we receive.
Capitalism overwhelmingly rewards property and bargaining power. It says that those who have a deed to productive property by virtue of having that piece of paper and nothing else, deserve profits. And it says that those who have great bargaining power based on anything from monopolizing knowledge or skills, to having better tools or organizational advantages, to being born with special talents, or to being able to command brute force, are entitled to whatever they can take. Capitalism in this respect encapsulates the morality of Al Capone and the Harvard business school -- which are, minuscule matters aside, identical. You get what you can take – the rest get leftovers or nothing at all.
But a Participatory Economy is an Equity Economy in that Parecon's institutions for production, consumption, and allocation not only don't destroy or obstruct equity, they propel it. But now a complication arises. What do we mean by equity. And this is controversial.
Parecon of course rejects rewarding property ownership. And it of course it also rejects rewarding power. But what about output? Should people be remunerated for the volume and value of the things they produce? Should we get back from the social product an amount equal to what we produced as part of the social product? It seems equitable…but is it?
Supposing they do the same work for the same length of time at the same intensity, why should someone who has better tools get more income than someone with worse tools" Why should someone who happens to produce something highly valued be rewarded more than someone who produces something less valued, but still socially desired, again if they work the same number of hours and the same intensity at a comparable job vis-à-vis effects on quality of life? Why should someone who was lucky in the genetic lottery, perhaps getting genes for big size, or great strength, or for fast reflexes, or for musical composition talent …get rewarded more than someone who was less lucky genetically, supposing again that both work in their field at the same intensity and same level of exertion and discomfort?
In a Participatory Economy for those who can work, remuneration is for effort and sacrifice.
If two people go out in the field to harvest some crop and one of them is much stronger, or has better tools, and they both work the same length of time at the same level of exertion under the same sun…then even though the one with better tools has more crop harvested at the end of the day, in a Parecon they get the same pay for their equal effort and sacrifice.
If a great composer produces a masterpiece and a good composer produces only a worthy piece, and they each work for the same duration and under the same conditions, then in a Parecon they get the same pay, even though their outputs are markedly different.
If you work longer, you get more reward. If you work harder, you get more reward. If you work in worse conditions and at more onerous tasks, you get more reward.
But you do not get more reward – higher pay -- for having better tools, or for producing something that happens to be more valued, or even for having innate highly productive talents. And regarding their learned skills, people get rewarded for the work involved in learning them, for the effort and sacrifice expended, but not for the ensuing output.
Rewarding only the effort and sacrifice that people expend in their work is controversial. Some anti-capitalists think that people should be rewarded for output, so that a great athlete should earn fortunes, and a comfortable doctor should earn way more than a hard working farmer or short order cook. Parecon rejects that norm. In fact, in a Parecon, if one person had a nice, comfortable, pleasant, highly productive job, and another person had an onerous, debilitating, and less productive but still socially valuable job, the later person would earn more, not the former.
So, we have our third value, a controversial one. We want a good economy to remunerate effort and sacrifice, and, of course, when people can't work, to provide full income anyway. We don't know that we can do this without harsh and offsetting consequences, but if we can attain this type of Equity, then we certainly should want to.
The fourth and final value on which Parecon is built has to do with decisions and is called self-management. Economics affect how much say each actor has in decisions about production, consumption, and allocation.
In capitalism owners or capitalists have tremendous say. Managers, and high level intellectual workers who monopolize daily decision-making levers like lawyers, engineers, financial officers, and doctors, have very substantial say. And some people have virtually zero say. In fact, people doing rote and obedient labor rarely even know what decisions are being made, much less impact them.
Within capitalist firms there is a hierarchy of power that is greater even than that in dictatorships. Stalin himself never dreamed of demanding that the Russian population should have to ask permission to go to the bathroom…a condition that very often prevails for workers in corporations.
But a Participatory Economy is a democratic economy. People control their own lives to appropriate degrees. Each person has a level of say that doesn't impinge on other people having the same level of say. We impact decision in proportion as we are affected by them. This is called Self Management.
Imagine a worker in a large group. He or she wants to place a picture of a daughter on his or her workstation. Who should make that decision? Should some owner decide? Should a manager decide? Should all the workers decide? Obviously, none of that makes sense. The one worker whose child it is should decide, alone, with full authority. He or she should be literally a dictator in this particular case.
Now suppose instead that the same worker wants to put a radio on his or her desk, and to play it very loud, listening to raucous rock and roll or even heavy metal. Now who should decide? We all intuitively know that the answer is that those who will hear the radio should have a say. And that those who will be more bothered – or more benefited – should have more say.
And at this point, we have already arrived at a value vis-à-vis decision making. We don't need a Phd philosopher. We don't need incomprehensible language. We simply realize that we don't want one person one vote and 50% rules all the time. Nor do we always want one person one vote and some other percentage required for agreement. Nor do we always want one person to decide authoritatively, as a dictator. Nor do we always want consensus. Nor do we always want any other single approach. All these methods of making decisions make sense in some cases, but they are horrible in other cases.
What we hope to accomplish when we choose a mode of decision making as well as associated processes of discussion, agenda setting, and so on, is that each actor should have an influence on decisions in proportion to the degree they are affected by them.
The logic is actually quite simple. If we don't all have a say in decisions in proportion as we are affected by them, then some people will have a say more than they are affected and other people will have a say less than they are affected, but there is no moral basis for such a differential, nor even an argument on grounds of reaching the best decisions. Expertise is certainly essential to arriving at good dccisions – tht is, to generate and provide information bearing on decisions. And yes, expertise also plays a role when we get to actually registering our preferences, because, in fact, we are each the world's foremost expert on our own preferences, so we each be responsible for our expressing them. And so we haves our fourth value…Self Management.
There is another value I want to mention – though it is certainly more general and really almost a truism.
In a Participatory Economy we want to be Efficient.
Does the word induce a bit of nausea in some of you? It does in me. But we need to get over that, because efficiency really means seeking to attain our aims and in doing so not wasting things we value. We should all therefore favor efficiency. The alternative to favoring efficiency is to favor either not attaining our aims, or to favor wasting things that we value.
So why does the word induce some nausea? In capitalism owners preference become the sought after ends, and what owners value is not wasted. So in capitalism efficiency means seeking maximum profits while reproducing the conditions of profit-making without wasting assets that owners can exploit. Capitalists don't mind destroying humans with black lung disease, or exterminating humans with weapons or with hunger, when the people afflicted are expendable as far as profit is concerned. Capitalists don't mind sickening people in the wake of their workplaces' pollution. They don't mind blowing up or destroying assets that they themselves can't exploit, though others will suffer from the loss. Under capitalism being efficient means being vile, because it is a vile system – and this is why we have some antipathy to the word efficiency as it is used all around us.
But in a parecon being efficient means producing, consuming, and allocating to meet needs and to develop potentials consistent with expanding solidarity, diversity, equity, and self-management. And it means not wasting anything that we can enjoy and benefit from. So, a Parecon should be efficient, in this precise sense, of course.
Now that we have some guiding values, we can judge economies and try to describe an economy that we all deem worthy.
Briefly, to judge existing options – private ownership economics, market economics, centrally planned economies, economies with corporate divisions of labor, and economies that reward property or power or even output—all fail to propel the values we now hold dear. These are anti-social economies, authoritarian economies, inequitable economies, un-ecological economies, un-caring economies, and class-divided and class-ruled economies. They are oppressive and unworthy economics. They destroy solidarity, diminish diversity, annihilate equity, and they don't even comprehend self management. Se we reject capitalist ownership, markets, central planning, corporate divisions of labor, and remuneration for output or power.
Participatory Economics is built on a few centrally defining institutional choices other than the ones we reject.
Workers and consumers need a place to express and pursue their preferences. Historically these have been organizations where workers congregate. In workplaces we call them workers councils. Regarding consumption, we call them consumers councils. Councils form whenever people rise up to try to take control of their economic lives…it has occurred virtually every time in history, most recently in Argentina. Councils are organs of direct organization by those working and consuming. Among anti-capitalist, I don't think favoring councils is controversial, though not everyone makes it a priority like Pareconists do..
But in a parecon, within councils, there is an additional commitment to using decision making procedures and modes of communication that apportions to each actor, about each decision, a degree of say proportionate to the degree he or she is affected. Sometimes this is typical democratic voting, sometimes it is consensus, sometimes it is other options. But it is never permanent rule by a few over the many.
So in a Parecon workers and consumers are organized into democratic councils with the norm for decisions being that methods of dispersing information to decision-makers and of arriving at preferences and then tallying them into decisions should convey to each actor about each decision influence over the decision in proportion to the degree the actor will be affected by it.
Councils become the seat of decision-making power and exist at many levels, including individual workers and consumers, subunits such as work groups and work teams, and supra units such as divisions and workplaces and whole industries, as well as neighborhoods, counties, and whole states.
People in councils are the economy's decision-makers. Votes could be majority rule, three quarters, two-thirds, consensus, or other possibilities. They are taken at different levels, with fewer or more participants, and different procedures, depending on the particular implications of the decisions in question. Sometimes a team or individual makes a decision pretty much on its own. Sometimes a whole workplace or even an industry would be the decision body. Different voting and tallying methods would be employed as needed for different decisions. There is no a priori single correct choice. There is, however, a right norm to try to efficiently and sensibly implement: decision-making input should be in proportion as one is affected by decisions.
The next institutional commitment of a parecon is to remunerate for effort and sacrifice, not for property, power, or even output.
We work. This entitles us to a share of the product of work. But this new vision says that we ought to receive for our labors an amount in tune with how hard we have worked, with how long we have worked, and with what sacrifices we have endured at our work. We shouldn't get more income by virtue of being more productive due to having better tools, more skills, or greater inborn talent, much less by virtue of having more power or owning more property. We should be entitled to more consumption only by virtue of expending more of our effort or otherwise enduring more sacrifice. This is morally appropriate and it also provides proper incentives due to rewarding only what we can affect, and not what we can't.
Who decides how hard we have worked? Our workers councils in context of the broad economic setting established by other institutions as well. If you work longer, you are entitled to more of the social product. If you work more intensely, again you are entitled to more income. If you work at more onerous or dangerous or boring tasks, again, you are entitled to more income. But you aren't entitled to more income due to owning productive property because no one owns productive property – it is all socially owned. And you aren't entitled to more income due to working with better tools, or producing something more valued, or even having personal traits that make you more productive, because these don't involve effort or sacrifice, but luck or endowment. Greater output is appreciated, of course…but there is no extra pay for it. Both morally and in terms of incentives parecon does precisely what makes sense. The extra pay we get is for what we deserve to have rewarded – our sacrifice at work. And that extra pay elicits what we can in fact generate more of--our effort.
Alright, but suppose we have workers and consumers councils. Suppose we believe in participation, democracy, and even self management. And also suppose our workplace has a typical corporate division of labor. What will happen?
The roughly 20% of the workforce who monopolize via their positions in this corporate division of labor the daily decision making positions and the knowledge that is essential to knowing what is going on and what options exist and to evaluating them, are going to set agendas. Their pronouncements will be authoritative. Even if other workers have voting rights, it will be to vote on plans and options put forth only by this coordinator class. It will be the will of this class that decides outcomes. In time this elite will also decide that it deserves more pay to nurture its great wisdom. It will separate itself not only in power, but in income and status.
So what is the alternative?
Participatory Economics utilizes balanced job complexes. Instead of combining tasks so that some jobs are highly empowering and other jobs are horribly stultifying, so that some jobs convey knowledge and have authority while other jobs rob mentality and only obey orders – Parecon says let's make each job comparable to all others in its quality of life effects and in its empowerment effects.
Each person has a job. Each job involves many tasks. In a parecon, of course each job is suited to the talents and capacities and energies of the person doing it. But each job is a mix of tasks and responsibilities, such that the overall quality of life and especially the overall empowerment effects of the work are comparable for all.
A Parecon doesn't have someone who does only surgery, but instead has people who do some surgery, and some cleaning of the hospital, and some other tasks – such that the sum of all that they do incorporates a fair mix of tasks. A Parecon doesn't have managers and workers. It doesn't have lawyers and short order cooks. It doesn't have engineers and assembly line workers. A Parecon has people all of whom do a mix of things in their work, such that each person's mix accords with their abilities and also conveys a fair share of rote and tedious and interesting and empowering conditions and responsibilities.
Our work doesn't prepare a few of us to rule and the rest of us to obey. It prepares us all to participate in self-managing workers and consumers councils. It readies all of us to engage sensibly and productively in self managing our lives and institutions.
But what if we have a new economy with workers and consumers councils, with self-managing decision making rules, with remuneration for effort and sacrifice, and with balanced job complexes – but we combined all this with markets or central planning for allocation? Would that work?
It turns out that, no, it wouldn't work.
Markets destroy the remuneration scheme and create a competitive context in which workplaces have to cut costs and seek market share. To do this they virtually have no choice but to insulate some people from the discomfort that cost-cutting imposes, precisely the people who are earmarked to figure out what costs to cut, how to exploit more output at the expense of great fulfillment—and so emerges, again, the coordinator class, located above workers, violating our preferred norms of remuneration, accruing power and smashing the self-management we desire.
Markets for allocation would undo all the wonderful innovations we have sought, imposing, instead, coordinator rule with old-style divisions of labor and hierarchies of income and power.
And the same would hold for central planning. It too would immediately elevate planners, and shortly after that elevate planners' managerial agents in each workplace, and then also all those actors in the economy sharing the same type of credentials. Central planning would also impose a coordinator class division and coordinator rule over workers, who would be made subordinate.
The problem is that markets and central planning each subvert the values and associated structures we have deemed worthy. Markets, even without private ownership of productive property, distort valuations to favor private over public benefits and to competitively channel personalities in anti-social directions. They diminish and even destroy solidarity. They reward primarily output and power and not effort and sacrifice. They divide economic actors into a class that is saddled with rote and obedient labor and a class that enjoys empowering circumstances and determines economic outcomes, while also accruing most income. They isolate buyers and sellers from the larger population and leave them no choice but to competitively ignore the wider implications of their efforts, including effects on the ecology.
Central planning, in contrast, is authoritarian. It too denies self-management and produces the same class division and hierarchy as markets, first around the distinction between planners and those who implement their plans, and then regarding empowered and dis-empowered workers more generally. Both these allocation systems subvert rather than propel the values we hold dear. What is the Participatory Economic alternative to markets and central planning?
Suppose in place of top-down imposition of centrally planned choices and in place of competitive market exchange by atomized buyers and sellers, we opt for cooperative, informed self managed negotiation of allocation by socially entwined actors who each have a say in proportion as choices impact them and who are each able to access needed accurate information and valuations, and who each have appropriate training and confidence to develop and communicate their preferences. That would compatibly further council centered participatory self-management, remuneration for effort and sacrifice, and balanced job complexes, and it would also provide proper valuations of personal, social, and ecological impacts, and promote classlessness.
Participatory planning is a system in which worker and consumer councils propose their work activities and their consumption preferences in light of accurate knowledge of local and global implications and true valuations of the full social benefits and costs of their choices. The system utilizes a back and forth cooperative communication of mutually informed preferences via a variety of simple communicative and organizing principles and vehicles including what are called indicative prices, facilitation boards, rounds of accommodation to new information, and other features—all of which permit actors to express their desires and to mediate and refine them in light of feedback about other's desires, arriving at compatible choices consistent with remuneration for effort and sacrifice, balanced job complexes, and participatory self-management.
Actors indicate their preferences. They learn what others have indicated. They alter their preferences in an effort to move toward a viable plan. At each new step in the cooperative negotiation each actor is seeking well being and development, but each can get ahead only in accord with social advance, not by exploiting others. It is impossible to describe this whole system and all its features, and to show how it is that they are both viable and worthy, in a short talk like this. I'd like to recommend the website www.parecon.org – which has all kinds of material about Parecon, from interviews, to questions and answers, to essays, to whole books, on the one hand – and also give just a brief summary of the situation…
Participatory economics creates a context of classlessness. I can get better work conditions if the average job complex throughout a Parecon improves. I can get higher income if I work harder or longer with my workmates, or if the average income throughout society increases. I, not only advance in solidarity with other economic actors, but influence all economic decisions, including those in my workplace and those throughout the rest of the economy, with an influence proportionate to the impact of those decisions on me.
Parecon not only eliminates inequitable disparities in wealth and income, it attains just distribution. It not only doesn't force actors to compete with and violate one another's lives, it produces solidarity. It not only doesn't homogeniize outcomes, it generates diversity. It not only doesn't give a small ruling class tremendous power while burdening the bulk of the population with near no influence over their own lives, it produces self management in which we all have appropriate influence.
We are presently taught in schools to endure boredom and to take orders – because that's what capitalism needs from most of us. In a Parecon we will learn to become as capable and creative and productive as we can, and to participate as full citizens.
Participatory economics is a solidarity economy, a diversity economy, an equity economy, and a self-managing economy. It is a classless economy.
In a talk like this, these are all merely claims I am making with a little bit of argument and motivation. A short talk can't present a strong case, of course. But I hope this talk has left you feeling that just maybe all these claims are true, that maybe there is a full, well specified, compelling, convincing, and fantastically desirable alternative to capitalism that really does answer the questions, how would you produce, consume, and allocate more effectively and more morally than now.
Parecon is about attaining life after capitalism – which is our task.
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Considering my own stance on the satisfying harmony of science and faith, you might be surprised to find on my shelves nearly everything written by Richard Dawkins (including "The God Delusion") and my late friend Christopher Hitchens (including "God Is Not Great"). One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
Faith, Science and Metaphors
How do metaphors impact the dialogue between faith and science? We might start by asking: what are the framing metaphors at work in the current debates? Even using the word "dialogue" here suggests an implicit metaphor that frames my approach to the relationship between faith and science. Imagine substituting "dialogue" with "war;" that would conjure a completely different metaphorical framework.
Series: Apologetic Issues in the Old Testament (3 entries)
This series, by Old Testament scholar Richard S. Hess, was first published as an appendix to Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers Grove: IVP Academic; Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
Engaging Science in the Life of Your Congregation
With so many issues to discuss, Christians can easily get the feeling that science is always attacking the faith. It is essential to balance such conversations with positive responses to God's creation. After all, the primary response to the natural world in the Bible is to praise the God who made it.
Series: Excerpts from "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution" (6 entries)
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
A Plea to My Shepherds
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
A Scientific Commentary on Genesis 7:11
Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
Psalm for the January Thaw
God shows himself not just in the orderliness of nature, but powerfully, joyously and always surprisingly in its beautiful "non-order" as well.
Frenetic Sequence
We tend to think of creativity in terms of flashes of insight and brilliance, of novelty, and especially of unexpected things bursting upon the scene. But creativity is no less creative and no less remarkable when it proceeds step by step, according to discipline, according to rule.
Willing to be Wrong
The debate is often not about evidence, but about making sure that others do not transgress our interpretive boundaries and insist that we're wrong. We've bitten from the tree of knowledge and we love its taste.
Stumble On
The song is built around the image of a river flowing through a canyon it has sculpted—an image that can easily be played out as a picture of the way that the Lord has been at work preparing a path for us in the material world, complete with signposts to his former and present activity.
Series: Beauty, Science and Theology (3 entries)
It doesn't take a scientist to appreciate the beauty with which God has arrayed his creation. But scientists do have the opportunity (and training) to appreciate different kinds of beauty than do most non-scientists, whether they are ordinarily "hidden" in the extremes of scale, the elegant processes of an experiment, or in the abstraction of mathematics. Indeed the appreciation of various kinds of beauty has always played a critical role in motivating scientists to investigate the world, and in helping them decipher its workings. In the three-part essay, Ruth Bancewicz explores some of the ways beauty, science and theology intertwine.
Gracious Dialogue
Our desire to engage in gracious dialogue with fellow believers who reject biological evolution has been receiving increased attention in both the Christian and secular press. More importantly, we are being joined in this reconciling project by our brothers and sisters in Christ who have often been defined primarily as our "opponents".
Series: Science and the Bible (22 entries)
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
The Heavenly Declaration
The universe that inspired the psalmist three thousand years ago grows grander as each new generation of astronomers adds yet another layer of understanding.


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Science has come a long way since HIV was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some of the most memorable moments in AIDS history.
On June 5, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes the first mention of what later is determined to be HIV. The report mentions five cases of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in young men. The piece prompts reporting from New York, San Francisco and other cities of similar cases.
Six men in New York set up a hot line, receiving 100 calls the first night. The hot line becomes the world's first HIV/AIDS service organization, the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Health workers first begin to use the term "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome," or AIDS, to describe the sudden cases of sarcoma or pneumonia infection in previously healthy people.
Scientists identify the virus that causes AIDS, first named after the T-cells affected by the strain. Its name is later changed to HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus.
The Food and Drug Administration approves the first licensed test for HIV.
Actor Rock Hudson shocks the nation when he appears on TV with Doris Day as a "gaunt, ravaged" version of his former leading-man self. Soon after, the actor announces that he is dying of AIDS. As People magazine said at the time, his fans "could not accept the idea of a clean-cut, virile star being felled by such an insidious disease." Hudson dies on October 2.
Hudson's good friend Elizabeth Taylor helps launch the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Three brothers, Ricky, Robert and Randy Ray, are barred from a public school in Florida because of HIV infection. The Ray brothers are believed to have contracted the virus from tainted blood treatments for their hemophilia. After they win the ensuing court battle, the family's home is burned down in 1987. The events lead to a nationwide push for education about AIDS transmission. President-elect Bill Clinton tells Ricky before his death in 1992 that he will fund the fight against AIDS.
Activist Cleve Jones makes the first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. By 2011, the quilt contains more than 40,000 panels.
The FDA approves AZT, the first antiretroviral drug for treating AIDS.
Activist Larry Kramer creates ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. ACT UP becomes the leader of many nonviolent protests through the 1990s.
The Ad Council partners with amfAR and the National AIDS Network to launch a national AIDS education campaign. It's the first ad campaign in the U.S. to use the word "condom." One of the campaign's taglines: "Using it won't kill you. Not using it might."


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Unemployment drops in metro east in July
CHICAGO (AP) - Unemployment fell in seven of Illinois' 12 metro areas in July. But some of the increases were sharp and driven by manufacturing declines.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday that unemployment dropped in areas that included Champaign-Urbana, Springfield and the Metro East near St. Louis. The last of those three saw a steep drop, from 9.6 percent in July 2012 to 8.6 percent.
But some areas dependent on manufacturing experienced large increases. Unemployment jumped from 8 percent to 9.4 percent in Peoria, where Caterpillar Inc. has its headquarters. The company has cut employees as demand drops. Some of those layoffs have been in Decatur, where unemployment rose to 13.2 percent from 11.3 in 2012.
Illinois had the second-highest July unemployment rate in the country at 9.2 percent.
Missouri employers add jobs; unemployment rate goes up
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's unemployment rate edged up slightly even though businesses added thousands of jobs in June.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development said Tuesday that employer payrolls grew by 12,800 jobs in June, compared with the previous month.
Despite that growth, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also inched up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 percent in June.
The largest job growth occurred in the leisure and hospitality sector, which added 5,400 jobs. An additional 4,700 jobs were added in retail and wholesale trade, and 2,000 jobs were added in durable goods manufacturing.
St. Louis metro unemployment rate drops
Unemployment is trending down in the St. Louis area.
The unemployment rate in the metro area sits at 7% in May--that is down from the level last year. The local unemployment rate is also lower than the national level of 7.3 percent.
The St. Louis workforce now sits just a bit above 1.3 million.
Missouri and Illinois jobless rates move in opposite directions
The jobless rates in Missouri and Illinois are moving in opposite directions.
Despite adding 4,600 jobs in May, Missouri's rate climbed to 6.8 percent from 6.6 percent in April. For the first time in several months, the government sector added jobs.
In Illinois, the unemployment rate fell in May to 9.1 percent. It was the second straight monthly drop after a series of increases earlier this year. State officials says that May's decrease was due in part to gains in construction employment.
Illinois' jobless rate still remains much higher than the 7.6 nationwide unemployment rate for May that was reported earlier this month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Missouri unemployment benefits forced by federal rules
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Legislation awaiting action by Gov. Jay Nixon seeks to comply with federal mandates for Missouri's unemployment benefits system.
The measure also could make it more difficult for workers to receive jobless benefits if they are let go after an unapproved absence or if they knowingly violate a company rule.
The legislation would broaden the definition of what constitutes "misconduct." Jobless benefits can be denied to workers who lose their position because of misbehavior.
The unemployment legislation also includes changes aimed at complying with requirements from the federal government. Failing to comply could cost employers more than $800 million in federal tax credits while state government could lose a couple hundred million dollars for programs.
Lawmakers gave the legislation final approval before adjourning last week.
MO bill would make it harder to get unemployment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - People fired for missing work and not following company rules could have a harder time claiming unemployment benefits under a bill sent to Gov. Jay Nixon.
The House voted 98-57 to pass the measure Wednesday. The Senate passed the same bill in February.
Fired workers who engaged in "misconduct" at the workplace can be denied benefits under current law. But the legislation expands the definition of "misconduct" to include chronic absenteeism and "knowing" violations of an employer's rules. The current standard requires "willful disregard" of an employer's regulations.
Supporters say many workers fired for reasons such as sleeping on the job are allowed to collect benefits under the current system. Opponents say the measure could deny benefits to people fired wrongly.
White House: Recovery 'gaining traction'.
The jobless rate dropped to 7.7 percent last month, the lowest level since President Barack Obama has been in office. Still, White House economist Alan Krueger notes that the new unemployment rate was measured before $85 billion in automatic budget cuts started taking effect.
The administration has warned that the cuts could have a negative impact on employment and economic growth.
Illinois unemployment rate jumps in January
That was up from 8.7 percent in December and back to almost the 9.1 percent rate of January 2012.
Department Director Jay Rowell blamed the uneven recovery the state has experienced since the recession.
The number of unemployed people in the state rose by 4 percent to 594,800. The state added a relatively small 7,100 jobs in January.
The biggest job losses were among companies in the trade, transportation and utilities sector where the state lost a net 5,500 jobs in January. Government agencies also shed a net 1,500 jobs. Educational and health services employers added 5,500 jobs.
The U.S. unemployment rate was 7.9 percent in January. That was slightly higher than December.
Missouri's unemployment rate drops again
January's rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 6.6 percent--which is the lower level in over four years.
A spokesperson for the Department of Economic Development says that Missouri's rate has been below the national average for 41 months. The national rate sits at 7.9 percent now.
Bill before Missouri legislators could punish those who fall asleep on the job
The Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to a measure expanding the definition of "misconduct" in the workplace. The change would make it harder for people to qualify for unemployment insurance after they are fired. Supporters say the bill will protect businesses from liability and give them more freedom to fire employees who misbehave at work. The legislation is sponsored by Republican Sen. Will Kraus, of Lee's Summit. It needs one more affirmative vote in the Senate before moving to the House.
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India Club
Welcome To India ClubTej Ghanshani
India Club
Laguna Woods Village
Welcome to the Laguna Woods India Club.
Our club was organized to provide and assist members in obtaining social, health, academic, and business related information and/or opportunities. To promote peace, non-violence, and support environmental related issues. To promote, organize, and support fairs, exhibits, entertainment, and other programs related to East Indian tradition and heritage for cultural exchange and enhancement. To assist and promote charitable and humanitarian community services in Laguna Woods Village and throughout the nation. To liaison with local and state government agencies in pursuance of the above objectives.
Christmas Celebration 2011
Tej Ghanshani
Christmas Celebration (click link to view flyer)
Diwali 2011
Tej Ghanshani
Diwali 2011 Celebration (click link to view flyer)
Independence day of India celebration 2011
Tej Ghanshani
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011
Independence day celebration Went very well with the help and support of all members and i am sure everyone had a good time. We have received several phone calls and emails from the members and guests that the program was good and people liked the food also very much. We are thankful to the performers and workers who have made this show possible.
We request everyone to renew your membership because the previous membership has expired on august 13th. Everyone is encourage to become a member and lot of members have already renewed their membership. The membership fee is $ 20.00 per year from August 2011 To August 2012. Please try to send the membership as early as possible and send it to Vijay Patel, 775-B, Via Los Altos, Laguna Woods, CA 92637, Telephone # 949-837-7901.
Here are the pictures below for your viewing and enjoy.
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Tej Ghanshani
Independence Day of India Celebration
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Elections For the term 2011 & 2012.
Ayurveda workshop # 2
Ted Ghanshani
Dear friends,
As per the decision of executive committee and the demand of the members, we are going to have another Ayurveda workshop for your health, presented by DR Bharathi on Sunday, july 17th @ 3.00 PM in club house # 1, Art room.
Dr. Bharathi Ravi is going to make a presentation about Ayurveda practices and medication for specific diseases. This will include yoga, pranayam & meditation. This will be more interacting and question/ answers to understand better and how to bring into practice to take care of health. As i mentioned earlier that this will be very informative and beneficial to all. Some members could not attend last time so this will be the best opportunity to take the advantage of this great knowledge. This is very important event which is all about your health related issues, which if you bring into practice, you will be always healthy without any side effects which is your prime duty to be healthy, If you are little sick it disturbs the whole cosmos because we are all one and God is one.
Snacks, tea & coffee will be served. There is no charge for members and the guest will be $ 2.00 but you must call or email to confirm by 10th because we have to make the arrangement of snacks and we need the count so please help us by RSVP before 10th.
We encourage every member to attend and also bring guests and don't miss this great opportunity to take care of your health. The goal of the club is to provide maximum information about health because health is wealth and we have to stay healthy all the time. Hope to see you all to have good time together and you will be glad that you came.
Thank you so much
Best wishes
Tej Ghanshani
Dear friends, 7/17/2011
With the help and support of everyone, the event went very good and we got lot of information to practice in daily life to stay healthy. What ever we learnt and if we bring that in our daily life than it will be beneficial and we make progress. If you have any kind of comments, suggestions & questions i can approach Dr. Bharathi Ravi and get the answers and i also will send you all the information about the event as soon as i get from her.
Snacks fruits & drinks were served. Some members went extra length, Myrtle brought home made samosas, Manjula brought some home made delicious snack & Joan Brought home made delicious cake which everyone enjoyed it. Vijay picked up samosas and Pakoras from Nina groceries and took all the pictures and Dinesh helped in taking the video and many members helped in cleaning. We are grateful and appreciate the members who helped. The kind of support and Cooperation, what we are getting will encourage the next president and he can run the club smoothly can bring more exciting programs with the help of all of us.
Hope to see you all on saturday august 13th for the Independence day of India celebration. All the information about the event will follow soon or you can go to the India club web site & see the flyer.
Thank you very much
Best wishes always
Tej Ghanshani
Mothers Day
Ted Ghanshani
India Club
(Love is God)
Dear friends,
It is a great pleasure to inform you that the executive committee has decided to
celebrate mother's day on Sunday, May 8th in club house # 1, dining room 3 @
4.00 pm. Indian new movie Patiala house will be screened to entertain everyone
after the little program about mother's. If anyone likes to talk about mother's
unconditional love, scarifies and devotion, please let us know by email or phone
call. We need few speakers on that day to celebrate the occasion.
Tea, coffee, ice cream and snacks will be served and there is no charge but you
must call or email so we know the count to make the proper arrangement. Guest
charges are $2.00. If anyone likes to bring some extra snacks to share with
everyone will be act of Love and kindness. The whole idea of these meetings is
to have a good time together.
If any member has any suggestion or ideas to make the event more enjoyable, we
will be delighted to here from you. Hope to see you all. God bless you.
Thank you very much
Best regards
Tej GHanshani
Dear friends,
Mother's day celebration event went fairly good. There was little talk on mothers and the importance of the occasion and their unconditional love, scarify and devotion. Snacks and drinks were provided. Some members also brought some delicious snacks to share with everyone and we appreciate their effort and kindness. May God bless them. We also appreciate the willingness of the members to attend the functions, because it takes lot of effort to put things together to make a show.
To entertain the members, Indian movie Patiala House was screened and everyone enjoyed it and had a good time. We are grateful to the members who helped cleaning in the end. If anyone has any comments or suggestion, it will be nice to hear from you and will help to make programs better.
Thank you very much
Best regards & Best wishes
Tej Ghanshani
Father's Day
Ted Ghanshani
Ayurveda Workshop
Dear friends,
As informed earlier that we are going to celebrate father's day on sunday, june 19th @ 4.00 pm in club house # 1, Dining room 2. Dr Bharathi Ravi will be conducting Ayurveda workshop to bring the awareness about health and happiness as a gift to fathers. You can ask questions if you have any about your health. This will be a interesting event.
The attached flyer has more information and little description about Dr. Bharathi Ravi.
This will be a free event for the members and there will be charge of $ 3.00 for the guest. Tea , coffee, Soda and some snacks will be served and members should also bring some snacks to share with everyone. If you bring home made snacks will be appreciated and it will be act of love and oneness, please do not bring too many sweets.
Please try to respond by june 12th that you are coming or not coming and this will really help to make better arrangement and is good for everyone. Hope to see you all. God bless you.
Please make sure to see the attachment.
Thank you very much
Best Regards
Tej Ghanshani
June 23, 2011
Dear friends,
I think Ayurveda presentation on father's day went very well. There were more than 20 people. It was very informative and really got good tips to use to stay healthy and i hope everyone enjoyed it. Many members told me to repeat this workshop to know more and also for the benefit of the members who missed this opportunity. We may have this again in july for the benefit of rest of the members and also have more questions and answers to have better understanding. I will send you the details of next month's event soon. If anyone has suggestions or comments, please feel free and we will be delighted to hear from you and that will help to do better next time.
Thank you
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Cyber Monday or just some last minute Sinterklaas shopping? If you use the coupon code BLOGSALE in my shop, you'll get a 15% discount on all your purchases till December 5!
As usual my PR is terrible (and late in particular ;)), but tomorrow afternoon I'll be sharing a boot with Ellen Vesters from Urlaub shop at the Le Bazarre market in the centre of Utrecht. The Market is at Neude (the biq square) in the heart of the city, so super close to the Central Station as well. If the weather is not to bad and you're in the area, do pay us a visit!
I'll be bringing lots of new work that I've been making these last few weeks, particularly ceramics, but also new posters, prints and postcards. Since I like round numbers for markets, everything will be sold at reduced prices.
I'll be adding some of these to the shop as well today, but they'll be gone to the market tomorrow and I can't guarantee they'll return home again;).
Hope to meet you tomorrow!
I've added a lot of new art prints and larger (A3 sized) art prints/posters to the shop these last few days. First of all there's the You are so so easy to love print, printed on very beautiful heavy textured fine art paper, that comes both in A3 and A4 size.
Then there's the patches print, available in A4 size in this colorway...
... and another one.
Then there's the Love print, that's also available in both A3 and A4 size.
This print Village under the tree is available in blue...
... and also in pink.
Then there's the Rise and shine print, available in both A3 and A4 size...
And here you can find the new red version of the l'amour toujours print.
Some love, anyone? ;)
One of the main reasons why we wanted to move house a while ago was because we missed having a garden, and because we wanted to be able to go outside more easily. But now that the season is changing and is encouraging us to spend more time indoors, we find that having more room inside the house is pretty comfortable as well ;).
The big works are done, but there's still some work in the details. Ah well, I guess there'll always be work in the details when you focus too much on them!
We keep adding small new things, such as these vintage school chairs that I recently received as a birthday gift.
And while I often have flowers in vases, I now even embarked on the adventurous journey of keeping a few real plants alive, which is something that I already gave up on years ago... If I get the chance and they're still alive, I will show them soon ;).
Like most families, we try to have some routines to help us through the otherwise terribly chaotic days. Well, that is: our days are terribly chaotic until Helmut comes home, and since he likes routines better than I do, the more structured part of the day usually kicks in once he arrives. So then there's dinner, cleaning up the kitchen and when I bring Julie to bed after that, Rosa watches some tv while Helmut tidies up the living room (yeah, 'then they tidy up the living room together' is still a work in progress... ;)).
Because their little shop is one of Rosa and Julie's favorite things to play with, the area around the shop is usually the messiest part of the house. But here Helmut's special qualities come to the rescue. He loves to organize. To collect and categorize. To sort things and to bring structure into the chaos. (Did I ever mention that he was once trained to become a librarian? Which he in the end by the way never became) So at the end of the day, the shop is what it should be: bananas with bananas, strawberries with strawberries, and the croissants in a little box with the other croissants.
But sometimes our routine is changed, for example when we eat early and Julie isn't ready for bed yet. Then it may happen that I tidy up the shop instead. Usually I try to get everything in whatever box is available as quick as possible. Not to Helmut's satisfaction, of course. Hours later I sometimes hear him potter around the shop again, mumbling: 'That banana shouldn't be in the box with the cucumbers.'
But let's not make you think that he's the only one who's a little crazy around here. When I'm really in the mood, I love to organize the shop color coordinated, preferably rainbow-style. Of course Helmut goes even more berserk when he sees this: just one strawberry with the croissants is one thing, but nothing in it's right place? Impossible!
Ah well, the result of both our crazinesses is the same: the next morning the content of the shop will be all over the place again...
Still in the middle of this whole process... The more Autumn starts to surround me, the more colors pop into the designs. I guess I'm not really this kind of person who makes her home 'winter ready' by putting some 'warm neutrals and soft, natural materials' into her home, like you're supposed to do according to all the decorating magazines... ;) Bright colors for winter I say!
Our niece Jasmijn always comes to play with Rosa & Julie on Mondays, and she's totally crazy about shoes. So one of the favorite games that these girls play together is trying on lots of different pairs of shoes, and then walking around on them like real little madams.
Their treasure trove is the little wooden 1950s bench in Rosa's room, that is filled with lots and lots of kids shoes in all sizes from baby up to a few sizes bigger than Rosa currently has.
Seems like little Julie has already been contaminated by the shoe lovers virus as well... of course she wants to be everywhere the big girls are!
Ah well, it's always good to share a few hobbies with your kids, isn't it? ;)
I love this stage that Rosa is currently in, at almost three she's really starting to develop her own fantasy play, both when she's alone and when she's with her friends. Right now 'going on holiday' with a little suitcase is extremely popular, while shouting to me that she's 'never coming back again!'. Still in a friendly way though, so far ;).
Print is scary. It's fun to just keep drawing, doodling and designing forever, to keep altering things and never reach a 'final design' that's ready for print. One of the nice things of making one of a kind ceramics is that each piece is a blank canvas, you can just try an idea and if it works out okay that's nice, and if it doesn't you just start something new. It doesn't have to be as final and perfect that it justifies a large print edition, one person who really likes it and buys it is enough ;).
Well lately I've been in this process of doodling, drawing, designing, cutting, pasting, altering and changing endlessly, and the good part is that I like it a lot and that I have an amazing photo printer here that makes the nicest prints, so that I can just print a few copies of each possible idea and don't have to go down the road of huge print editions yet. But the bad part is that it leaves me terribly indecisive, and that I may stay in this indecisive place for like ever.
Therefore I thought I'd share a few images of what I've been working at. Maybe some of these will be added to the shop soon, but -guess what- I haven't made up my mind yet which ones. Any thoughts that may help me are welcome!
By the way all the older prints that have been out of stock for these last few months are available in the shop again. Including a new red version of the all time favorite l'amour toujours print.
Right now I think it's best if I just keep knitting easy stripe scarves, but that doesn't mean there aren't any other ways to provide Julie with lovely knit clothes. I've already found some very good knitters online, but let's not forget about my mom, who recently made Julie the perfect red wool dungarees!
For the very essential #1 and #2 of this story, read here and here... ;)
So, a big box we had, and I realized that it would be the perfect testcase for a very rudimentary playhouse. You know, cut a door opening and a window in it and then just see if the girls would use their fantasy to make it more than just that big cardboard box. I had a busy work day in front of me, so I quickly grabbed a sharp knife and within five minutes the rudimentary playhouse appeared.
Since my technical craft skills are on a very rudimentary level as well, the cardboard playhouse of course looked terrible. Definitely not like the beautiful playhouse that I had envisioned when I first mentioned it to Helmut. So I quickly grabbed my camera and took the above picture, which I emailed to Helmut: 'Within a little while, you will be begging me for a beautiful playhouse instead!'
But of course even a very rudimentary playhouse needs a little bit of fun, so I added the paper bunting that Rosa and I had been crafting together a few days before...
And then I thought: wouldn't it be fun if they can peek through that front door?
And then I thought: this terribly ugly playhouse would look at least a little bit better with a roof on it...
And with their names written on it, and when drawing and doodling anyway, why not add some more?
But what a playhouse really needs, is curtains...
At this point I started thinking I was a little crazy, putting way too much of my time and energy into a big cardboard box that probably wouldn't last for more than a few days' play. But it was just such a fun thing to do, and I couldn't help but imagine how happy and surprised Rosa would be when she'd come home from daycare and see her little house. And well, okay, I was kind of challenged to win this argument too ;).
Since I like to win my battles based on the right arguments (something I've always been extremely good at ;)), I organized the whole offensive carefully. I prepared our video camera, so that I could immediately start filming once I brought the girls home from daycare. And their reaction to the surprise didn't disappoint at all: I was able to make an amazing little video of Rosa (and to a lesser extent Julie too) going crazy with enthusiasm when she saw her playhouse.
When he arrived home all I had to do was show Helmut the video, and when I saw the look on his face I knew this was a battle won. Well I guess you'd need a heart of stone to resist the joy Rosa expressed ;).
By now the playhouse has been played with for over a week, and it's been a big hit with both Rosa and all of her friends (even with the elder ones!). But with all this enthusiastic and wild play the house is already suffering quite a bit. So when I later casually brought up the subject of a real playhouse again, it was Helmut who said: 'This cardboard house has the perfect size for a playhouse, hasn't it? So we'd need something approximately this size.' And when I started explaining my idea to maybe build something ourselves with plywood sheets, he even nodded with something that could be explained as careful enthusiasm. At least that's what I'd like to think ;).
So to be continued I guess!
For the very essential #1 of this story, read here... ;)
Lucky for us we don't always disagree on interior decorating decisions... True, a lot of my ideas have to marinate a little while, but in the end Helmut quite often agrees (and the ones he strongly disagrees with weren't always my best ideas I must admit). So when we first spotted an Acapulco chair in a shop Helmut wasn't enthusiastic at all ('Not comfortable!'), but when I put the subject to rest for a little while and then brought it up again, mentioning some of it's advantages (I think 'I can sit in it reading while you can watch tv on the sofa' was decisive here), we quickly agreed on the purchase of a red one.
After some trouble ordering (apparently I had ordered the very last red Acapulco chair on earth, and then they told me even that one was gone already, and then they had somehow found one again...) the Acapulco chair finally was delivered, in a huge cardboard box.
After putting the chair in the living room I was left with that giant cardboard box, and I was already getting a bit annoyed by it because it was blocking our whole hallway and I had no idea where to put it. But then it dawned on me... In Dutch we say 'the bold ones have half the world', well I guess the creative ones have the other half of it!
It may sound trivial, and also a bit funny when there's one person involved who cares a lot about interior design (well, me) and one person who hardly cares at all, but sometimes we can have real arguments about things interior-related. The issue usually is a less/more dilemma: I want to add more things to our home, Helmut wants less. Oh, and then of course there's also the beautiful versus functional debate...
You see, lately I've been getting very enthusiastic about the idea of some sort of playhouse for the girls. You know, a place just for them, for all kinds of play. So when we were discussing possible ideas for a birthday gift for Rosa and Julie, I enthusiastically started showing some of the playhouse ideas that I had been collecting lately. The playhouse concept can come in a lot of different ways, from the Waldorf-style 'playstands' to a garden hut or a collapsible tent or tipi. Everything is possible, from a huge house to something that can be hidden away easily...
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... but apparently when I was expressing my idea to Helmut I hadn't made this 'any size/form is possible' idea clear enough, because somehow he immediately envisioned that I wanted a huge playhouse in the middle of his beloved spacious living room. Enter less/more conflict! And then he also assumed that what I wanted was something that looked great, but wasn't necessarily fun or practical. Enter conflict #2, the beauty versus function debate...
So there we were, I thought I had a great idea for the birthday of our girls, something they could have lots of fun with (and well okay, also a fun new decorating project for me) and he thought that I had just found a sneaky way to add another big object to a room that we had agreed on would remain spacious and not overly-filled with stuff and furniture. Apparently I had been expressing too much enthusiasm about the idea of the Waldorf playstands (see second image above), which I must admit are kind of big, because no matter how often I kept repeating that a playhouse could also be a simple tent that can be hidden away easily, Helmut kept coming back to his objection to the idea of our living room becoming like a big Waldorf kindergarten. 'But it can also be a very small tent!' I kept repeating. In vain. Somehow he wasn't enthusiastic about the idea of some sort of playhouse at all, and in order not to ruin our evening we rounded off the subject and started talking about the idea of a bike for Rosa, something that we could both agree on. Exit playhouse, it seemed...
A few years ago I found this beautiful little 1950s cupboard, and I immediately thought that it would be a lovely 'little library' for Rosa's books. In fact the cupboard looks a bit like those 1950s school cabinets, maybe it already once was a little library? Oh, it seemed such a sweet vision: my lovely little girl (in her 1950s dress ;)) who'd carefully pick her favorite book from that beautiful organized little library, and then of course she'd read from it in her cozy reading nook for hours...
But unfortunately in this household open cupboards and young kids aren't such a happy combination, or well, maybe in a way they are: as soon as we put Rosa's books in the little library, it became her habit to take out all of her books every day. In one quick, sweeping movement. Usually about an hour after she'd woken up already all the books were all over the floor, and if we'd put them back in the cabinet during her afternoon nap, an hour later they were already all over the floor again. And with a daily routine like that, we were already happy when the books were back in their cabinet at the end of the day, and couldn't find the motivation to put them back in the little library in a very organized way. So in the best case the little library looked like on the photo below: with the books inside, but not exactly like that beautiful organized little library that I once envisioned (gosh, and she refused to wear those 1950s dresses too! ;)).
And believe me, I love her reading all her books all the time, I really do, but I hate stumbling on books that are all over the floor constantly, and I hate putting those same books back in the same cabinet over and over, and then still having to look at a messy little library! (and please, don't get me started about teaching a toddler how to tidy up... ;))
And with a new crawling toddler ready to attack the poor little library, our equally nosey little Julie, all of a sudden I came up with this luminous idea: just put much less books in the cupboard (and give up on my romantic dream of the little library for a little while)! I took out more than half of the books and put those on an 'out of reach' location, and now I just rotate the books that are available for Rosa and Julie to grab every so often. Not extremely clever or anything, I'm the first to admit (it's in all the books isn't it? 'Rotate toys!' 'Don't put too many things within reach!'), but hey, it works ;).
So now we have a nice temporary solution that isn't too messy and not too impossible to keep organized, and who knows maybe one day the time is ready for that dream of the perfectly organized little library!
There's certain parts of decorating a house that I love and find easy, and there's several parts that I think are utterly difficult. I have no problem at all finding chairs, tables, cupboards and things such as prints, wallpapers and ceramics. I love to add those elements to my interior and I like to experiment with them. On the other hands things such as carpets and curtains... oh drama!
You see I do have a bit of a curtain trauma from our previous home. I chose dark brown ones (which was a compromise, I actually wanted white ones and Helmut wanted dark ones, long story ;)) and the moment we hung them I already knew I had made a mistake. I never liked them and they kept annoying me for years, but hey, they were quite expensive and if I replaced them, who knew my next choice would turn out better? And just like that a terrible lack of curtain-confidence showed up in my life.
Same thing goes for carpets. They're also big and expensive and they can really define a place. You usually can't test them and it's difficult to imagine how they'll look in your home, so it's not hard to make a mistake that can't be undone easily. It's tempting to just choose a simple neutral one, but I usually find neutral things boring, and when I'm about to spend lots of money on something big I just prefer to spend it on something that I've really fallen in love with, and not on something that's neutral and that 'at least won't be a terrible mistake'.
So when I fell in love with vintage Turkish kilims a while ago, I was challenged to come out of my 'curtains-are-scary-and-carpets-even-more' comfort zone. I found gorgeous ones online from a Turkish etsy seller, but this meant not being able to see them in real life and having to base this big and scary decorating decision on a few pictures. I really loved these carpets, but well, they weren't exactly neutral. And what would the colors be like in real life, would they match with the other colors in our living room?
After nights of pondering I had made a shortlist of two favorites: one that I thought would go best with the colors of the living room, and one that I was simply in love with, even though it's colors didn't quite match the rest of the house. And then I just couldn't choose... The safe and relatively neutral option or the foolish love?
At a certain point even Helmut -who thought those kilims were a crazy waste of money in the first place- started to push me to buy one, because he got tired of my long nights of staring with a puzzled look at those two possible kilims at the computer screen, then looking at their possible future spot in the living room, then looking at the two options again, then looking at the living room again... And that for hours at a stretch ;).
But well, lack of curtain-and-carpet-confidence is a condition not to be underestimated... So I hesitated, considered, pondered and doubted till my 'neutral option' sold out.
And then I realized that there was no time to lose: fate forced me to choose foolish love!
So now we own a crazily colorful vintage woolen kilim instead of a neutral cream colored one, and after some first moments of shock and 'what have I done', I'm falling in love with it more and more every day. And my neutral curtains are not too bad either ;).
Oh and if you wonder if the mess on the floor is part of my new Selby-like photo styling... No, this is just what it looks like here on a good day.
Pictures brought to you by me and my little helper... always happy to fiercely pull my hair the moment I'm just about to take a photo!
We've already faced it a long time ago: we're just not handy people. Here we don't love renovating ramshackle houses, we find no challenge or satisfaction in learning all kinds of building skills and we're terrible at finding working solutions for any kind of technical problem. It probably doesn't sound too grown-up, but in fact we need the help of a handyman for about any smaller or larger task in the house...
Lucky for us we've found a good handyman, who probably likes us too because we hire him a lot. And he probably also thinks we're idiots, that too. Each time we present him our list of things we want him to do, I see that look on his face, a mix of wonder and amusement: 'Do they really hire me for this? That's the easiest thing in the world... Well, whatever!'
I must say it's sometimes a bit annoying to be dependant of the visits of the handyman for each lamp that has to be hung on the ceiling and for each nail that has to be put in the wall, but on the other hand it's worth avoiding the stress that comes with every odd job that we try to do and the mess that most of our attempts bring.
With each visit of the handyman, the house turns more into a home, and the good thing of having to wait for him is that it tempers my impulsive decorating quirks a bit. Or well, other people tell me that's a good thing ;).
Hobbies, you'd better start not too many of them... I always hear myself complain about lack of time, yet I keep starting on new things. When I saw this super simple tutorial on printing on children's clothes at Anki's blog I knew I had to try it some time. And since I've always been a friend of buying way too many craft supplies and a huge pile of clothes at once, then getting started immediately without reading the manual properly, and that way destroying the whole bunch and throwing everything in a corner after the first attempt (remember this one?), I thought this would be something for me ;). Not to blame the tutorial for that by the way, which is good and easy, it's just me who does this kind of thing!
And guess what: it's fairly simple and lots of fun, the paint seems to last through laundry even though like always I hadn't read the manual properly (the manual is about thirteen words, saying something like 'use ink on already washed fabric and iron after the ink has dried', but somehow I had managed to miss the 'use on already washed fabric' part and had started printing on brand new stuff ;)) and therefore I haven't already thrown all the supplies in a corner, but in fact I've bought some more and now have a whole pile of clothes waiting to be printed...
And now I quickly must go back to all my neglected knitting projects, I still have a bunch of those to finish too!
I haven't quite chosen any kind of official career path, and when people ask me what I do I never know what to call myself. Periods of satisfaction and happiness about what I do are regularly alternated with periods of doubt, in which I feel that all of this isn't really leading anywhere. Then all the good things that happened so far seem a stroke of luck that I don't know how to continue with.
I often experience such a period of doubt after I've been 'absent' for a while. I felt this way when I started working again after my maternity leave from Rosa, and now after this long period of Julie's maternity leave and the months in which we were busy moving house I feel it again. There's this mix of lots of ideas on the one hand yet on the other hand not knowing if they're good ones and how to get started with them. The feeling that I should improve and renew, invest or take big steps, but not exactly knowing how.
And then in the middle of such a period the most beautiful book arrives on my doorstep: Print & pattern kids, this huge and gorgeous children's print, pattern and illustration bible by Print & Pattern's Bowie Style. With some pages showing my designs inbetween pages featuring the work of illustration, print and design icons such as Alain Gree, Marimekko, Orla Kiely and Cath Kidston, and many other great designers and illustrators. Yikes! Must have done something right somehow ;).
The book is crazily inspiring, so many different styles of print and illustration, you just want to immediately grab your pencils and start drawing. I suppose that's a warning ;).
I love to mix white with bright colors, I love to mix black with bright colors, and both go well. I must like bright colors ;).
... I guess I still hadn't fully realized that nothing in this house is really mine anymore!
Anyway, the scarf was finished a while ago and it's super warm and cozy, and Rosa seems to agree ;).
I'm Nina, ceramics designer, art/ craft/ design lover and mom of Rosa and Julie. This blog is about the things I make (you can find my online shop here) and the things I love (design, art, craft, interior, fashion, photography). You may have noticed a special emphasis on my two beautiful girls and everything children's design related!
There used to be a second blog on children's clothing, Coolkidsclothes, but it's currently sort of asleep and all the images have vanished temporarily, but I hope to revitalize it real soon.
Meanwhile, lovely children's clothing will be an important part of this blog here as well.
Want to get in touch? You can always send me an email through email@example.com.


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Funeral services for Brockport soldier to be held Saturday
Posted at: 12/29/2012 9:20 AM | Updated at: 12/29/2012 2:07 PM
A 26-year-old soldier who was fatally wounded in Afghanistan is being laid to rest in Chili.
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Reid, of Brockport, died Dec. 13 at a hospital in Germany. The Defense Department says he was wounded Dec. 9 by an improvised explosive device.
His funeral is being held Saturday at the Father's House in Chili.
Reid enlisted in the Army in 2006. He served with the 53rd Ordnance Company of the 3rd Ordnance Battalion. This was his second deployment to Afghanistan.
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