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Sid Lezak: A Portland Life in the Law
On August 2, 2005, Marilyn Yoelin, a volunteer for the Oregon Jewish Museum (OJM), interviewed Sid Lezak at his home in Portland. Lezak, who died on April 24, 2006 at the age of 81, was the longest serving US Attorney in American history. When he retired in 1982, he had served 19 years, but that period was only one—the middle—segment of his three careers in the law in Oregon. He had previously been in private practice and later led in the development of mediation as an alternative to lawsuits. His pioneering work helped make Oregon a national leader in this form of dispute resolution, both in the private sphere and public policy.
The reflections presented here are a small part of the wide-ranging interview that Marilyn Yoelin conducted with Lezak (there are also eight hours of untranscibed oral history by Lezak at the Oregon Historical Society) last century. The interview was transcribed by Anne LeVant Prahl, Curator of Collections at OJM on September 12, 2006.
The excerpt begins with Lezak reminiscing about how he and his wife, Muriel, came to settle in Portland.
—the Editor
Sid Lezak: We just needed to be on our own, independent. One of the things I did was to go to the University of Washington. I had been to California, I had an aunt in California and I had spent a summer in Los Angeles and I will say this: I was smart enough and sensitive enough to recognize that if I had gone to Los Angeles I would have become "one of them." I would have been caught up in that life. This would have been in the late '40s. I actually had talked to people down there when I was there. I had done a tour of the west, knowing that I didn't want to go south or east. I will never forget the florid-faced… lawyer in the first Beverly Hills law office I went to with a waterfall saying, "You like women? You like sun? You like the beaches? You like money? This is the place for you." It was a complete turn-off and I recognized that my own weaknesses were such that I would not have been able to resist being a part of that sort of thing.
But I needed a fairly large city and I had gone to the University of Washington summer school. The minute I hit Seattle I knew the northwest was it for me. I hate hot summers and I love the relatively cooler summer (it was cooler then than we are getting these days in Portland). There was a kind of feeling that this was an area where we could be free and build our own lives. And through a peculiar set of circumstances, many people are not aware that I accepted a job with Reuben Lenske…. We didn't fit and I left after a couple of years….
He was very liberal, politically, much farther to the left than I was. Part of the dividing line in 1948 was whether or not you were a Wallace supporter in the Progressive Party or whether you were a liberal Democrat. I had had a defining experience in my life: the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939…. I had been with the American Student Union the Left-Liberal young people's group and, without being too knowledgeable (I don't want to indicate that I was particularly sophisticated) I knew that that was the side that I was on.
And I learned, at the time of that split and in later conversations that in fact the leaders of our group were in fact people who were part of the Young Communist League and part of the Communist apparatus. I later learned that there was no question in my mind that the brains and energy behind the Wallace movement was to a much larger extent aligned with the Communist Party. But the thing was that those who were Communists were defending the Nazi-Soviet Pact and that was a wake up call for me. From that point on I was suspicious. And I had other circumstances later in life, like with the American Veterans' Committee and even with the ACLU, that always kept me aloof and suspicious of folks who not sufficiently aware of the downside of Stalinism and the Communists, who were always too eager to defend it.
One of the things I am rather proud of, notwithstanding my feelings about the Party and the people who were in some cases cheating it out of its dues if not actual members; I was one of four lawyers who were willing to represent people whose rights I thought were being prejudiced by the McCarthy hysteria in 1949. And there were still many people who wondered how somebody [could defend them without being a sympathizer]…. Fortunately something happened that let the government, the FBI in particular which had infiltrated our local [Portland] Communist Party to a very great extent (as a matter of fact the joke later was that… the main financial supporter of this pitifully weak and small Communist Party in Oregon may have been J. Edgar Hoover, because he was paying off informants and so on).
In any event, it started with some immigration cases, the Filipinos who were being kicked out of the Party even though they were largely illiterate. They were working in fish plants in Goose Bay. The union had been organized by people who were Communist to some extent and they didn't know a Communist from a manicurist, and there may have been something that they did… fortunately we were able to establish in a kind of technical way (a lawyer in Seattle had done it but I was going to represent these folks before Judge Gus Solomon, who ruled against them). [Gus Solomon was a distinguished US District Court judge in Portland from 1949 to 1971, otherwise known as a strong civil libertarian. –ed.] It was something that I have never quite forgiven him for because he knew these people. He and Irvin Goodman and Leo Levinson had been partners and they had represented some of these folks. I was not sore at him for ruling against me in that case. I was sore at him because I didn't feel that he had given adequate consideration to the arguments that we were making and ultimately he was reversed by the Court of Appeals and the Filipinos were permitted to stay here – I won't go into the technicalities)
Marilyn Yoelin: Just for a moment to clarify – this was a deportation case?
SL: Yes, these people were being deported.
MY: And when was this?
SL: This would have been in 1953 or '54.
MY: So, J. Edgar Hoover…
SL: No, he was not the head of the Immigration Department. But a lot of this case was based upon investigation that was done by the FBI, the Immigration Department and by the most active and enthusiastic "Red Squad" as they called it in the United States under a guy named Bill Brown who later became the head of the American Legion's so-called Patriotic Sub-set. Very enthusiastic supporter of "red-baiting."
MY: So, you were an attorney [in private practice] at this time.
SL: Yes, I was an attorney. I came out here and passed the Bar in 1949. But I was no longer with Reuben. I was working, oddly enough, first on my own and the in partnership with Paul Bailey and started representing lumber and sawmill workers and other unions.
In any event, one of the things that I did during the same era was that I became a member of the legal redress committee of the NAACP and something else that I am proud of is that in David Robinson's basement, (… he was the head of the Portland Rose Society, the first head of the Anti-Defamation league here and his son later became one of my assistants as a US Attorney and has had a very distinguished career as a law professor at George Washington University) in his basement, a group of us met to draft Oregon's first Public Accommodations Law which ultimately passed the Legislature.
Now, there is a little preface to that that people do not understand. In 1950, I believe, a vote was taken on an initiative about whether or not Portland should have (and this was only Portland) a fair employment practices act. At least I'm pretty sure it was that act. It was one of the major acts providing for penalties for discriminating. The people of Portland voted that down. People forget how reactionary this town was. When I came here all of the elected officials in statewide government were Republicans. The city was quite corrupt. It was only as a result of a City Club report on the extent of the corruption in the city, and particularly in the Police Department and tolerance toward gambling and prostitution, that a woman mayor, Dorothy McCullough Lee (called "Good-Deed Dottie") was elected and tried to clean it up. Four years later she was thrown out. The old bunch was put back in. Portland was not ready for reform. Then a few years later, partly as a result of congressional hearings on the attempted takeover of vice by Teamsters and internal battles between those who wanted to fight the McClellan Committee hearings [on labor racketeering. –ed.] to push Bobby Kennedy up and gave him a good deal of publicity and credibility and enabled him to be appointed as Attorney General. That's another whole story.
We gave a $3.00 box of Tillamook cheese to some of our best clients for Christmas. That was the extent of our corruption.
In any event, people simply do not understand how this town has grown. When I came here in 1949, the lawyers were 4 to 1 Republican to Democrat. Now at least 5 to 1 Democrat to Republican…. But back in the 40s it was completely dominated both by very conservative business elements and very corrupt elements in (some, not all of) the unions. The Teamsters and Boilermakers [had] enormous amounts of money left over from shipyard days in the War. Then I was representing unions that were completely—I have to say this—clean. The FBI was very surprised when they went over my records with a fine-tooth comb in order for me to be US Attorney. They found out that there was nothing there. We gave a $3.00 box of Tillamook cheese to some of our best clients for Christmas. That was the extent of our corruption. In one of the immigration cases, the parties refused my advice, which I thought would result in the charges being dismissed. But because these were people who had come over at a very young age, in one case six months and in the other case two years, one from Finland and one from Canada (the accusation was that they had been members of the Party). The Party wanted to make them martyrs and they did.
MY: So they sabotaged…
SL: They did not take my advice and I said, "I can only work for you and be your lawyer. I cannot be a lawyer for the interests that you may have other than those that I see as your best interest as your lawyer. If you have other reasons for wanting to take different advice that is your privilege." Ultimately, they both were deported. That's the McKay and Mackie cases. [Hamish MacKay and William Mackie were immigrants living in Portland who were eventually deported owing to their membership in subversive organizations, after years of litigation. Mackie's case reached the Supreme Court. —ed.]
It was made a cause celebre people on the very far left. And there were some other things that kind of indicated that I wasn't quite as close to being the Communist supporter and sympathizer that some people thought I was because of others that I represented. I also handled some loyalty security cases of people who were being thrown out of the Federal government (or attempting to be thrown out) because of suspected disloyalty. One of the things that taught me is how frightening these cases are because you got nothing in those days from the government. I see the victory that the Mayfield people have in getting the government to disgorge. [Brandon Mayfield was the Aloha lawyer wrongly accused of complicity in the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings. –ed.]
We were absolutely unable to do that back in the 50s during that era. In one of the cases in particular I am very proud of being successful and the person has gone on to lead a particularly distinguished career and I have not gotten her full permission to disclose just who she was. People would be startled to hear who that was. Her whole group of people working with her came to her defense and enabled us to mount an effective defense proving that the problem was not hers but one of guilt by association.
MY: We were talking about some of your first few cases that were revolving around immigration and deportation issues.
SL: Yes …. The important thing is that it was another illustration of the fact that (perhaps foolishly because of the identification that people made between the kinds of cases that you handled and your own predilections) there were people who were startled that a "Communist" like me somehow got appointed as US Attorney. But, as I said, there were reasons why it was clearly known….
There was an interesting battle about whether there should be an ACLU chapter here. The group that wanted to organize the ACLU chapter were the people who had been active in the Wallace camp. The ACLU at this time was going through some of the problems in dealing with some of the same issues that I had dealt with at the University of Chicago and the American Veterans' Committee, there is no question that there was a tactic on the part of the Communist adherents, if they could not take over, they would make life miserable for the organization. There were a group of us, Alan Hart, a very distinguished lawyer… [Hart, a former chief counsel of the Bonneville Power Administration and co-founder of the Portland firm Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler.—ed.] was one of us, Jack Biddy, Herb Schwab [Schwab helped establish and was Chief Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, 1969-198. —ed.] and others—this would have been about 1955 or so—we felt that the moving force behind the effort to organize the ACLU was one that would embarrass the ACLU itself and the community. We resisted it until we could get our forces organized, which we did and had what we considered to be a – I don't know how to phrase this comfortably because I wasn't in that much disagreement with the ultimate goals that many of these people had – that was not the issue. It was an issue of style and process.
I mentioned Adlai Stevenson [the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 1952 and 1956. –ed.], a person who had progressive ideas but who was not willing to do those things to move them that would set people's teeth on edge. And these people just seemed to glory in combativeness and wanted to demonize the people on the other side. The beauty of much of what was Oregon in the old days was the ability of people – and I was the poster boy in a way in serving under six presidents with the assent and approval of both Democrats and Republicans all those years (and I want to say that one of the things I am most proud of is that there was never an accusation during the 20 years that I was US Attorney that that office was run with any consideration of any consequence being given to partisan. I had retained five of the six assistants that my predecessor had left and a couple of them stayed with me for the rest of their professional lives. And my hiring was not based upon consideration of party.
I was the poster boy in a way in serving under six presidents with the assent and approval of both Democrats and Republicans all those years
As a matter of fact something that just came up and is on my desk right now: Don Sullivan was the chief of the District Court and when I heard him I thought that he was a Republican and he had changed his registration so that he could vote for Kennedy in the primaries (he was a good Irishman) but again I thought that he was not being hired because of his registration. In his biography, which is in the Oregon District Court Historical Society, he is kind enough to say that the years he served as assistant US Attorney were among the happiest in his life.
That is my legacy – the people who worked there during the years that I was there and the freedom that I had from the kind of political pressures that so many had in other places so that I could hire the best people that I could find with some attention being paid to reaching out to hire minorities and women. The rule that I had was that there was certainly not a quota—no minority or woman would be hired who I did not think was perfectly capable of doing the job—but I would have to say that minorities and women were not in every case, the very best qualified in terms of normal meritocracy standards. In other words I did make an effort to diversify the office because I thought that was valuable at the time. Those were some of the issues.
But let's talk about one issue before I forget it and then we will drift to something else, and that is, what is the most important decision that I ever made in my life? That is an easy one. Marrying my wife.
MY: When did you get married?
SL: 1949. We got our degrees on June 17. She got her Master's Degree in Community and Human Development at Chicago. I got my law degree June 17, June 16th we got married. And that day we piled everything we could fit into a Ford convertible and drove out to Oregon to settle. I already had a job lined up because I had been out the previous summer. I think she said to me, "Portland, is that the one on Puget Sound?" She was sort of "whither thou goest" and I remember sending her grandmother back a picture of us on the 4th of July when we went up to Timberline and there was snow up there. Her grandmother said, "What has this man done to my lovely granddaughter?" A few years later, after our first child was born, she recognized that just belonging to women's clubs and doing the housework was not enough of an outlet for her energy and she went back to get her PhD…. That was about 1954, and she was going very much part-time. The only place that she could get a PhD. was at the University of Portland. In 1960 she became a doctor and has had a very remarkable career. She is now a full-professor of neurology, psychology, and neurosurgery at the medical school. She published the first book to try and put the field together and found the best publisher, which was Oxford, and it has just come out in its fourth edition. It is universally accepted as the bible in its field (which means I don't win many arguments at home). I had to tell her, "Muriel, that book ways 6.2 pounds. If you throw that goddamn thing at me and kill me it will be a lethal weapon and you will be charged with murder."
MY: You did mention at one point that you served under six presidents. Did you start with Kennedy?
SL: Yes, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan
MY: I'm sure there were a lot of challenges with each administration, with each attorney General that you had to deal with.
SL: We had some battles. People say, "What are you proudest of?" One of the things near the top is the battles that our office fought, along with the wonderful lawyer that I brought over from the Interior Department, George Dysart (who has since died). For many years he tried to persuade the Justice Department to come down on the side of the tribes with respect to their treaty rights to fish for salmon. The state officials were arresting the Indians for doing that which Dysart and the tribes felt that were not in violation of their treaty rights.
There was a case that started by an Indian named David Sohappy, Sr. against the State of Oregon because he tried to enjoin arrest for fishing at their usual, accustomed places and the government, through Dysart's urging and with my assent finally agreed to join in on the side of the tribes. It took 17 victories in a row over the states of Oregon and Washington (because the political heat was so great on the part of the fisherman in opposition to the Indians). The first case that we won was known as the "Bologna Case" (that is for Judge Bologna, not the lunch meat). It was the first decision that said that Indians had special rights to fish under their treaty that had to be taken into account by the states. Because the states of Oregon and Washington would not accept that decision, the case was taken before Judge Boldt in Washington who ruled that in the absence of any other method of determination, the Indians had the right to take one half of the fish. That sent up an enormous uproar from the sports and commercial fishermen….
Under Federal Law, major crimes on the Warm Springs Reservation were prosecuted as Federal crimes by our office and we maintained a wonderful relationship with the tribal people and law enforcement folks. I am pleased that I continue to have the confidence of those people.
MY: Is it your sense of history that gives you the sensitivity for the disenfranchised from the majority population?
SL: Yes, I think so. It is one of the reasons throughout history that Jews have been in the forefront on Civil Rights movements and movements to protect the rights of disadvantaged in every respect. I am comfortable relating some of that to the extra sensitivity created because of the history that I was raised with.
MY: You have been the initiator or part of the creation of many things that seem to have come to the US Attorney's office….. I wrote "non-partisanship, public defender's office project, affirmative action, bringing law clerks, special assistants…"
SL: I was certainly more interested in promoting and in doing things which lead to results which were favorable to those ends than were most US Attorneys. I was seen as being on the left wing of US Attorneys and it was almost a miracle that I was retained. We used to joke about it. I made no bones about my having a liberal agenda….
You are retained or appointed at the pleasure of the United States Senators. What we had was a peculiar situation in which both the Republican Senators, at the time that they decided to keep me (I had been ordered to submit my resignation when Nixon came in and I did) had a meeting and had some information about the way our office was operating… And also I think (being politically pragmatic and looking at it from their standpoint) that they were seeing the composition of Oregon politics changing. They were all moderates, Wendell Wyatt [District 1. –ed.] and John Dellenbach [District 4. –ed.] were the two representatives. Packwood and Hatfield, the two Republicans….
I think that maybe one of the reasons was that they may well have felt that this was a show of their openness by retaining a US Attorney who had proven not to be partisan. It would be nice to say that the only reason was that I was so outstandingly competent in the job, but there were a lot of competent people and there were only a few of us who were retained from administration to administration. Their perception of wanting to reach out to Democrats who had been voting for these folks in large numbers (Hatfield was elected by a large number of Democrats, as was Packwood. Packwood was the first person to get up on the floor of the Senate and talk about doing away with the criminalization of abortion. The women's groups all supported him).
[The single most difficult problem] … I had during the 21 years that I was US Attorney … was during the years 1965 to 1973 having to deal with Viet Nam draft evaders and trying to make appropriate distinctions. Do you resign because of your protest of the war or do you stay in and try to make the consequences of people having done what they felt was the right thing to do … and I was quite sympathetic with many of them….
And the question was discussed and the decision was made that here in Oregon, having a very small percentage of its domestic product dependent on the military. As a consequence, Oregon was one of the most fertile ground for opposition to the war. So how to accommodate to that? At first we were like almost every other jurisdiction, it was the judge's prerogative to sentence. And there were sentences to prison that were being given out, two or three years in some cases. But as the war became less and less popular, the judges were reacting to it, our office was reacting to it, we had a wonderful probation officer who came up with the idea that we don't have to send these folks to prison. We can send them to the Tillamook Forest camp where they can serve for six months doing ecological work….
It was a humane way of handling a very difficult problem. It was also representative of a concern that the courts have some response to public attitudes and policies. I would give more credit to our chief probation officer on that one. It was clear that he thought he had fertile ground with us and with a couple of the judges.
MY: Now you were transitioning out of the US Attorney's Office and getting into more of the mediation and should we discuss the next step in your career?
SL: It is interesting. If you look back in the Oregonian files you will find a quite long piece in what used to be the Northwest Magazine…. [O]n the front page there is a picture of me standing in front of the courthouse steps, "Sid Lezak – prosecutor, survivor, mediator"…. [W]hat I was doing, without knowing it, as US Attorney, was functioning as a mediator. That was my role, without having been trained for it in ways that I have been since. Without recognizing that that was what I was doing, and not always doing as good a job at it as I would have liked. He [the Oregonian writer] recognized that I stood between my assistants and the courts and certainly between private council and the agencies which wanted us to bring certain actions that we may disagree with. The first fun of being the US Attorney was that you could pick and choose the cases you wanted to try and that was fun. I picked some good ones and we had great times on some of the fraud cases that I handled with most of the work being done by one of the assistants. Then I realized that in the really difficult cases, my function, if I were to be active as the trial lawyer, I could not function as the mediator between the various kinds of interests that were there. So I backed away from being as active as a trial lawyer and concentrated on the role of being mediator. And it was OK with me when someone said to me, "Lezak you are an honest fixer." That was not a bad description for what I was doing.
MY: That was your tikkun olam [the Jewish concept of performing good deeds to repair the world. —ed.].
SL: That's right.
SL: I had the good fortune, something that we did initiate with the aid of a former nun at Lewis and Clark Law School, to use Federal funds for work/study for Law students. Nobody had ever done that before. I went back to the Justice Department. Then we had law students coming out of our ears. We had more law students per lawyer than anybody else has ever heard of. It was a great experience, for them to be in the courthouse. You will run across them occasionally, there were about a hundred of them and there are still a lot of them running around Portland. You talk to anyone who worked in our
On the other hand, if you want to have some way to make a judgment about what to do, you follow the advice of a great American philosopher, Mae West.
office. It was not only good for them, they were wonderful for the office as well. They have been great boosters because of their experience and they've made me look better than I am entitled to look because it was such a good experience for them. The other thing they liked was "Uncle Sidney's" advice: you are all going to have choices to make. Let me tell you that the most important word in plotting out your careers is "serendipity." Serendipity will play a greater roll in your life than any plans that you make. Between rational choices, you might just as well toss a coin because you have no way of telling which among rational choices is going to turn out for the best. On the other hand, if you want to have some way to make a judgment about what to do, you follow the advice of a great American philosopher, Mae West. She said, "When faced with the choice between two evils you either pick the one you haven't tried before or the one that is the most fun."


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OTTAWA — The Ottawa REDBLACKS officially entered off-season mode on Thursday, announcing contract extensions for two key Canadians in Antoine Pruneau and JC Beaulieu.
Veteran defensive back Pruneau has inked a three-year extension that will keep him in Ottawa through the 2021 season, while fullback Beaulieu signed a new two-year deal on Thursday.
"These are two quality players and people and we're happy to have them back in Ottawa moving forward," said REDBLACKS General Manager Marcel Desjardins.
Pruneau, a REDBLACK from day one, has 50 defensive tackles, six special teams tackles, an interception and a forced fumble in 2018 while suiting up for 13 games. In 84 career CFL games, all with Ottawa, the Montreal native has 293 defensive tackles, 54 on special teams, four sacks, eight interceptions, a forced fumble and a touchdown.
In his first year in Ottawa, Beaulieu set a number of career highs, including receptions (22), yards (285) and yards after the catch (178). He also had a touchdown in the Eastern Final and one during the regular season.


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Psalm 142
New International Version
Psalm 142[a]
A maskil[b] of David. When he was in the cave.(A) A prayer.
1 I cry aloud(B) to the Lord;
I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.(C)
2 I pour out before him my complaint;(D)
before him I tell my trouble.(E)
3 When my spirit grows faint(F) within me,
it is you who watch over my way.
In the path where I walk
people have hidden a snare for me.
4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;
no one is concerned for me.
I have no refuge;(G)
no one cares(H) for my life.
6 Listen to my cry,(L)
for I am in desperate need;(M)
rescue me(N) from those who pursue me,
for they are too strong(O) for me.
7 Set me free from my prison,(P)
that I may praise your name.(Q)
Then the righteous will gather about me
because of your goodness to me.(R)
- Psalm 142:1 In Hebrew texts 142:1-7 is numbered 142:2-8.
- Psalm 142:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
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Rebecca Gross is a Voler-sponsored professional cyclocross racer for Zero D Racing as well as an endurance and skills coach with a masters degree in sport and performance psychology. Rebecca spent the last year racing throughout China, the US, and Europe. You can follow her racing, writing and shenanigans on-line: @rebeccasgross and rebeccasgross.com
No matter what your discipline, mental preparation as it plays into our race day is rapidly becoming recognized as an important part of our everyday training. We hear more and more that the final piece of the puzzle involves not just exercising our body but our brain as well. So what does this mean and how can you actually practice a skill that takes place in your head?!
Below are three important aspects that you can use to improve your performance on race day or even for training:
1. Goal setting – Process vs. Outcome, SMART Goals
Establishing season goals sets you up with a sense of purpose as you progress through your training which allows you to maintain your motivation and focus. Whether the goal is getting the most out of your training, completing in one big event, or PRing in your tenth, it's important to keep two concepts in mind:
There are two types of goals: Process and Outcome. Process goals involve incremental successes along the way and are generally smaller and based on factors you can control. Outcome goals are broader, spanning ideas that you ultimately may not be able to impact. An example of an outcome goal would be "winning my age group" while a process goal could be "improving my pace from last year."
Showing up on race day fully prepared and ready is your best bet at doing well but ultimately your competition will do the same. Rather than dwell on how you size up to those in the start chute next to you, you can be focused on swimming smoothly, transitioning quickly, and maintaining your splits riding and running. This focus on you will allow you to have your best performance.
If you haven't heard of the acronym S.M.A.R.T, it stands for:
Specific – What exactly will you accomplish?
Measurable – What will be an indicator that you have reached this goal?
Attainable – Is this goal realistic? Do you have the means to achieve it?
Relevant – How is this significant to you?
Timely – When will you achieve this goal?
When setting goals remember that process goals are the ones that will yield the best results and be sure to have them be SMART so that you can reward yourself as you go. Being able to feel satisfaction while you are training or competing gives you positive feedback that can be used as fuel to go faster and try harder!
2. Positivity – Self-Talk and Confidence
That positive feel you get from achieving your goals and being able to note improvements as you go can be its own tool to improving your performance!
The first step in developing a positive mindset is to predetermine a list of affirmations such as:
"I'm good at this!"
"This makes me happy!"
"I feel strong."
"I did that well."
"I belong here."
While it seems simple, just repeating these phrases to yourself or rephrasing any negative thoughts in your head to be positive instead can lead you opening the door in your mind that the challenging is achievable! Examples of non-desirable affirmations turned positive could be:
"I GET to climb up that hill one more time!"
"I'm getting better,"
"I CAN do this!"
"I believe in myself,"
"My body is capable of pushing much harder than my brain may think."
Because your mind will process information from different sources in different ways, don't hesitate to say these out loud! "Good job self!" may seem like a goofy thing to tell yourself but the ultimate goal is to fuel the fire to push your limits. Feeling good about what you are doing is the perfect motivation to keep trying harder.
Stepping up to any challenge you may face feeling confident is an obvious way to start off well. But where does this confidence come from?! The first big step to building confidence is to develop competency. If you put the time in to train and to prepare, if you've established a routine and followed it for race day, if you have broken down all the skills needed to do each sport and practiced smooth transitions, you will develop competence. Competence is the building block that confidence is built upon and that is what learning, practice, and repetitive physical training is all about!
The key to using your confidence properly is to apply it to your performance, rather than to the outcome of the race (sound familiar?!). Because there is no way to control the results of the race, to include the weather, our competitors, or our equipment, we need to focus on what we can control, which is coming to a start line or a training day prepared and armed with those positive aspirations!
Race day nerves can be attributed to a few things but my favorite way to look at it is in a simple formula:
Nervousness = Excitement x Fear or the Unknown
As long as you have prepared properly, you know what to expect, and you have worked through contingency plans for the unexpected, you can appreciate being nervous. This just means the excitement of the challenge you are facing is fine tuning your system and getting you ready to go!
3. Visualization – Imagery and Mental Rehearsal
You may have heard of visualization or seen athletes at the Olympics standing on the start lines or waving their hands around with their eyes closed but how do you apply that for yourself?
Before race day, find a few moments of calm to focus inward on the upcoming event and all it will entail. It's important to include the full experience in your visualization, from your morning meal and preparation, the race itself, to what you will do afterwards. You should include all of the senses; not just where you will be and what you see, but what you are hearing, smelling, and feeling as well.
Focus on you and your performance, feelings of confidence, seeing yourself feeling prepared, capable, competent, and strong. Play this out in your head minute by minute and be sure to include contingency plans for what you will do if something goes other than perfect. Focus your thoughts on the resolution of the unexpected, less on the incident itself. Picture handling these situations calmly and efficiently while returning to your performance effort as quickly as possible. Visualize feelings of satisfaction and accomplishment after the day is complete, leaving the venue and returning home spent but happy.
You have the choice and complete control when it comes to mental rehearsal so planning for maintaining a positive outlook during race day (or even just a training or practice) will give you that extra level of competence.
While you can't control what happens on race day, you can control your actions and the mental preparation that you bring to the start line. Athletes who meet their goals maintain a positive degree of volition, or power of will. The spectrum of volition spans the choices available to us:
"I won't"
"I can't"
"I'd like to"
"I'll try"
"I can"
"I will"
The most important factor is that you don't impose self-limitations by predetermining your outcome and inhibiting your ability to succeed. Remember that even if you aren't perfectly satisfied with your day, as long as you
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today is my first day back at photography school! i've moved back out to vancouver, and am looking forward to long hours in the darkroom, 12 hour school days and talking about nothing but cameras.
for those of you who are interested, i am still available to work (family sessions, couples etc) so if you're interested don't hesitate to drop me an e-mail! and i've still got a wedding and a couple other fun sessions from the summer to blog, so keep watching.
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Gain More Energy: Eating a well-balanced, healthy diet on a consistent basis will provide you with plenty of energy to use when working, exercising and even daily recreational activities and enjoyable chores such as taking your dog for a walk.
Let Go of More Stress: Stress has become so common that most people accept it as part of a normal lifestyle. While it's true that we can't control all the stressful situations that come into our lives, we can certainly work toward controlling the ways we react to it, especially in how they affect our eating habits.
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{Marriage} Kara & Johnny
Marriage is such a precious and sacred bond between two lives, two souls, and two families. The choice to spend your life with someone else is beyond inspiring and monumental. Weddings are encouraged to celebrate the love of two people, but the most important thing about a wedding day isn't the size of the cake or the guest list, it is the joining of two hearts that makes up a marriage. The importance of these two things are often times misconstrued so that is why I am featuring a beautiful and personal elopement.
There is beauty in the divine nature of marriage and that is why I enjoy to see the intimate love between Kara and Johnny as the main focus for their special day. Love is all we need.


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On January 6, many Christians around the world celebrate the Twelfth Day of Christmas, which in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain is called El Día De Los Reyes (Three Kings' Day). This day, rather than December 25, is the main gift-giving occasion in most Spanish-speaking countries. Children leave their shoes or decorated shoeboxes under the Christmas tree at night, and in the morning, discover that the Three Kings (not Santa Claus) have filled them with candy and gifts. As the final day of the Christmas season, El Día De Los Reyes is also a day of feasting, in which many traditional foods are shared. The Rosca de Reyes (Kings' Cake) consists of an oval pastry, representing a crown, and a tiny doll within to represent the newborn Jesus, hidden safely away from Herod's soldiers. Receiving the slice of cake that includes the doll is a special honor, and the recipient typically hosts the Día de la Candelaria celebration one month later, and traditionally serves tamales.
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University of San Francisco School of Education Appoints New Dean, Shabnam Koirala-Azad
Human Rights Expert and First Woman to Take Helm of USF's School for Educators, Counselors and School Leaders
SAN FRANCISCO (June 26, 2017) – The University of San Francisco (USF) has appointed Shabnam Koirala-Azad as dean of the university's School of Education. Dr. Koirala-Azad has served as interim dean since January 2017 and has been a leading academic at USF's School of Education since 2005. She is an expert on international and multicultural education, human rights and education reform and the first woman to lead the school since its founding in 1947.
As dean, Koirala-Azad will oversee over 20 credential, master's and doctoral programs that serve over 1,000 aspiring and accomplished teachers, counselors and school leaders a year at USF's main campus in San Francisco, as well as branch campuses across the Bay Area. While many schools of education have struggled over the last decade, USF's enrollment has increased or remained steady year over year.
"Our work is especially significant in this moment," Koirala-Azad said. "At a time of division, fragmentation, and attacks on the very communities we seek to serve, USF's School of Education stands strong in its vision of promoting equity, unity and cohesion. We choose to align ourselves with the forces of integration. Our work is cut out for us, and our legacy and proven record of enhancing educational justice provides us with a solid footing from which to build further."
Koirala-Azad will also oversee initiatives at the McGrath Institute for Jesuit Catholic Education, which focuses on training for Catholic school educators and leaders. The McGrath Institute was named for donors Bob and Joan McGrath after they made a transformational gift of $6 million in April 2017, the largest gift in the School of Education's history.
"Shabnam is an inspiration to many of us," said Donald E. Heller, provost and vice president of academic affairs at USF. "She is brilliant at building relevant, sustainable programs that help today's school leaders and educators excel, and like many career educators, she has an inexorable drive to make the world a better place. Her commitment to equity and justice is an ideal reflection of the teaching profession and USF's School of Education mission. She can ground the school fiscally, and help light the way for a new generation of educators."
Koirala-Azad has risen through the ranks at USF, beginning her career as assistant professor of international and multicultural education in 2005 and becoming department chair in 2011. As chair, she established a new master's program in "Human Rights Education" (HRE), the first degree program of its type in the United States. Later, as associate dean of the School of Education, she also helped to strengthen financial and academic systems, and create a new need-based scholarship program that tripled support for students over three years.
A fourth generation educator, Koirala-Azad was born and raised in Nepal. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and education and a master's degree in teaching from Mount Holyoke College. She went on to achieve a master's and a doctorate degree from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. Koirala-Azad has published dozens of articles and is a longstanding member of scholarly communities like the Comparative International Education Society, the American Educational Research Association and the Council on Anthropology and Education. She also serves on numerous boards and supports a number of local organizations and initiatives, including the local Baha'i faith community.
Koirala-Azad was chosen from more than 30 applicants after a nationwide search, said Shirley McGuire, USF senior vice provost and chair of the committee that oversaw the dean's hiring.
"Shabnam is a widely-respected international, multicultural and human rights educator and researcher," McGuire said. "She is intelligent, wise and approachable — characteristics that students, alumni, faculty and staff reported they wanted to see in their new dean in surveys conducted during the process."
Koirala-Azad will assume the position of dean immediately.
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Eye for an Eye
In Albania, the centuries-old tradition of blood vengeance has seen a renewal over the past decade. The void in the law-and-order system, left by the collapse of Communism, sent many Albanians back to the common laws of their tribal roots. These laws include also the right, for the membership of a family, to avenge for a murder by killing a member of the murderer's family.
This can be read in the article 8 of the Kanun, that is a set of traditional Albanian laws. About 2,800 Albanian families are thought to be living in self-imposed isolation, in the attempt to avoid the destiny of victims of blood vengeance. Of course, for none of them there is the chance to work. In some areas the right of vengeance is even considered an obligation, compelled by the community, with the risk of the complete exclusion. In too many cases this turn¬s into a complete and utter feud, provoking an endless chain of crimes.
What I tried to do is to impress into pictures the impact of this situation on the life of a family and especially on its young members. The latter ones, in fact, spend all day stuck in their houses, with nothing to do.
I met both families fearing vengeance, and families craving for it. I tried to focus on emotional instability, on depression, on anger.
The title of my project is "Eye for an eye" and it centres upon the impact of this stalemate on minds and souls. I'd like to convey this situation and support somehow those Mediation Organization that try to bring the only possible solution: forgiveness.


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Stephanie felt the young woman's soft hand on hers and almost trembled. "I'd love that," she answered right away, much to her surprise. "I'll see if my mother is available to watch Benjamin." "We can meet at Peter's Pub.
It's not far from my place on Rosewood Lane." "Okay, I'm sure I can make it," Stephanie said, deciding to call a babysitter if her mother wasn't available.
The following Friday, Stephanie drove to the pub to meet Kelly. When she entered, she looked around in the dark restaurant and saw Kelly sitting in a back booth waving her hand. Then with a bright smile, she made her way to the booth and slid in across from Kelly. "No problem finding the place I take it?" Kelly said. "No, I drive by here often on my way back from the mall." The two women ordered drinks and then dinner. Several times as they talked, Kelly reached over and touched Stephanie's hand.
It felt to the older woman as if electricity shot through her at each touch. She found herself often losing her concentration as she looked into Kelly's eyes. It almost felt like she was falling into a bottomless pit. "Earth to Stephanie," Kelly said. She had asked a question and was met with dead silence. "I'm sorry," Stephanie blushed.
"What did you say?" "I said that I really appreciate your help with the children." "It's my pleasure. I love it." "I hope this isn't going to sound too strange, but I would like to do something for you. to thank you." "That's not necessary." Kelly continued. "During summers while in college, I worked in a beauty salon and learned to do nails.
I was wondering if you would let me do yours. Your hands are gorgeous. I can't help but notice you really take excellent care of them. I love hands. They are so sensual. Don't you agree they're a direct line to a woman's soul?" "Uh. that is more than kind of you, but I don't want to put you out." "You wouldn't be putting me out. We could go to my apartment now. if you have time. It's only several blocks from here." This was the last thing that Stephanie expected. "I don't know what to say." Kelly reached over and took her hand, rubbing it sensually, and said, "Say yes." A million thoughts went through Stephanie's head and there were at least that many reasons why she shouldn't do it, however, she found herself eagerly nodding her head yes.
A short time later, Kelly sat in front of Stephanie, holding her hand in hers again, a tray with instruments beneath them. She worked intently on her nails while they chatted: about kids, school and life in general.
It was a very relaxed conversation. When Kelly was done the manicure, she rubbed lotion into Stephanie's hands and began to give her a hand and arm massage.
Stephanie's breath caught in her throat as she felt the sensuous way the young woman worked on her hands and arms. "You do a very good job Kelly. You might have missed your calling." Kelly merely smiled and continued to work. She opened the older woman's palm. Using her thumbs, she began to massage that certain spot near the center. Stephanie felt her hands and arms tingling. Then a sudden shock went through her.
The feeling seemed to trickle up her arms and then down throughout her entire body. She began to breathe harder. Her pulse quickened.
She became light-headed. Juice began to drip into her panties and she almost pulled her hands away, but she couldn't move. she had no strength in her arms. "This delicate spot is the area that controls a woman's soul. It's a major erogenous zone," Kelly said as she moved her thumbs in tiny circles. "Men don't know it exists and neither do most women." The tingling in Stephanie's hands grew stronger as the electric current continued to flow directly to her pussy.
It almost felt like the young woman was massaging her now swollen sex lips. She had never felt anything like it. Stephanie squeezed her legs together. She felt her wet lips trapped between her thighs.
She tried to control her breathing as uncontrollable excited pulses radiated her desperate need throughout body. Kelly smiled and moved higher up her arm, leaving the palm tingling. A sigh of relief escaped from Stephanie's lips.
When both hands were done, Stephanie grabbed for her wine glass, gulping what was left in one final sip. She permitted Kelly lead her over to sit in front of the fireplace. She felt the friction of her swollen lips rubbing together as she moved. They sat close, their hips touching. Stephanie was very much aware of the warmth of Kelly's hip and thigh on hers. "Thanks again for the manicure. My hands and arms are still tingling," Stephanie said.
leaving out the fact that her hands and arms were not the only thing tingling. "My pleasure.
Thanks again for all your help. I know it's early in the year, but I don't know what I would have done without you this term," Kelly said, leaning closer to the older woman. When their faces were but inches apart, Kelly said, "I love your lips. They are so full and sensual." With that she reached out and touched them with her fingertips. "Women's lips are so sexy," she whispered. Warning bells were going off in Stephanie's head, but the sound of the blood rushing to her brain drowned them out.
Stephanie closed her eyes and waited, holding her breath in anticipation of what she knew was coming. A moment later she felt it. felt the lips of another woman on her own for the first time in her life.
A little moan escaped her mouth when Kelly pressed a little harder, spreading her soft lips across her own. Stephanie almost swooned when she felt Kelly's tongue touch her lips.
It ran back and forth, tickling her suddenly dry lips and leaving moisture behind. Then the tip moved to the center. wiggling gently but waiting patiently. It seemed like hours but was only seconds when, with a moan from deep in her throat, Stephanie opened her mouth.
Kelly turned her head to the side. She pressed her tongue forward, opening her mouth wide. She reached her hand up and grabbed the back of Stephanie's head gently, insuring that she didn't pull away. Now Stephanie felt Kelly's long and wet tongue inside her mouth. Her lips automatically closed around it, sucking the sweet saliva from the smooth surface and drinking it down.
She felt Kelly's tongue moving inside her open mouth as if trying to touch every place it could reach. Then, when Kelly pulled her tongue back, Stephanie's automatically followed until it was trapped in the younger woman's ravenous mouth. Kelly wasn't as reserved as Stephanie had been and sucked her tongue with thinly veiled sexual abandon.
The room filled with the loud sucking sound as the kiss continued and grew even more passionate by the second. Stephanie didn't know how long the kiss lasted. When she finally wrenched her lips away from Kelly's she was gasping for breath. Her mouth and tongue were tingling and her lips felt swollen. She looked at Kelly and saw fire in her eyes. With a Herculean effort, she stood up, breaking away from the younger woman. She swayed on her feet for a second before she could steady herself.
"I. I. I have to get home. the baby sitter. the baby sitter has to get home," she said. "I thought you said that your mother was watching Benjamin?" "Uh. she was going to, but then something came up," Stephanie lied. She knew that Kelly knew it was a lie, however, she had to get out of there or risk. or risk.
she didn't know what. "I'm sorry you have to leave," Kelly said sadly. "Maybe we can get together next week. You said you wanted to learn to do Pilate's. I'm almost a certified instructor." "Uh. alright." "Then we'll get together next Tuesday after school. if you can get your mother to watch Benjamin again, that is." "Yes, sure," Stephanie said, grabbing her purse and hurrying to the door.
When she turned around to say goodbye, she found Kelly standing there, her face close to her own again. "Thanks again for coming over," Kelly whispered and moved forward to kiss her lips again.
Stephanie moaned as her soft lips touched hers. Then she quickly pulled away. "I've got to. got to go," she gasped. She turned and rushed out of the apartment without thanking Kelly for the manicure. She practically ran the two blocks to her car. When she got in, she paused, gasping for breath.
She was trembling all over. She could still feel Kelly's warm and soft lips on hers and her tongue in her mouth. Her pussy was literally throbbing. With a trembling hand she touched her wet panties. Her clit was swollen and almost protruding through the wet gusset of her underwear.
It had never felt so large. When she touched it, her body began to convulse. "Ohhhhhh!!!" she hissed as a strong climax rushed through her. She grasped the steering wheel with one hand and rubbed her throbbing pussy with the other. Her legs squeezed tightly together as waves of incredible pleasure rushed through her. Chapter 3 On Tuesday morning, Stephanie went to school with trepidation in her heart. She had thought of nothing but Kelly and the kiss all weekend.
The feeling of the pretty woman's lips on hers was like nothing she had experienced. It was so different from a man's kiss. While, she was sure she wasn't a lesbian, she now wondered if she was what they called "Bi-sexual". She didn't like labels, but she could think of no other words that fit.
She had never reacted to a kiss from a man like that. The remembrance had forced her to masturbate three times since Friday. That was more than she normally did in a month. Stephanie was late that morning and didn't get to the school until almost eleven A.M. The truth was that she wasn't sure she should even be there today. When Stephanie walked into the classroom, she saw Kelly working at the board.
The kids were outside for recess. She went over quietly to her desk and picked up some tests to grade and sat down. Kelly turned around and looked at Stephanie and said, "Aren't you going to say hello?" Stephanie looked up and said, "Hi Kelly, sorry I'm late." The pretty teacher got a frown on her face and walked over to the seated woman.
She squatted next to the desk and reached for her hand. She held on when Stephanie tried to pull it away. "Steph, are we okay? I was worried that you weren't going to show up today." Stephanie said, "I'm fine." However, tension was apparent in her voice.
"Listen, I might have been out of line the other night." Her eyes suddenly filled with tears. "I like you and don't want anything to hurt our friendship." Stephanie felt her heart begin to melt. She had convinced herself that she would tell Kelly that she wasn't like that. Tell her she liked men, not women and maybe it would be best if she didn't help at school anymore. However, as she looked into Kelly's tear filled eyes, the words failed her. She remembered how she had felt all weekend.
She had butterflies in her stomach and her heart would react with a flutter every time she thought of her. It was so wrong, but she couldn't deny her feelings.
"Uh. I'm okay Kelly. I'm just a little embarrassed by how I reacted. You didn't do anything wrong. I. I could have stopped you." Kelly smiled for the first time. "Well, I can come on pretty strong sometimes. especially when I have that certain feeling about someone. It's been a long time since I felt that way." Tears came to Stephanie's eyes as well. She paused for a moment, wondering if she should share her own feelings.
She took a deep breath and said, "I know. I. I have the same feeling." Kelly wiped her eyes. "Are we still on for tonight. you know for Pilate's?" "Yes. I brought a change of clothes." Wiping her eyes, she said, "Good, see you at my place after school." With that, Kelly looked behind her and then bodily kissed Stephanie on the lips.
It was quick, little more than a peck, but was filled with meaning. Then she quickly stood up and went back to the board. The rest of the day seemed to go on forever for Stephanie. She tried to get involved in what she was doing, but then she would catch Kelly's eye and every thought she had would evaporate.
When it was time to leave for the day, she almost screamed in relief. Stephanie stepped out of the bathroom in her exercise clothes and saw Kelly already warming up. The pretty woman had on a bright yellow spandex top, which clearly showed her sexy breasts and a matching, equally tight, spandex exercise shorts.
Stephanie had chosen to wear a stretch blue tube top and a matching pair of tight blue spandex shorts. The top hugged her large breasts like a second skin and made her nipples poke through. The shiny bottom outlined her ample buttocks, separating and emphasizing her firm ass cheeks.
Kelly saw Stephanie and smiled. "Come over here," she said as she stood next to two yoga mats on the floor. The two women found themselves standing face to face. As they began stretching exercises, they stole glances at each other.
"You know, I not sure why we women wear such tight outfits when we exercise," Kelly said. "I guess it's about style. These shorts are so tight that they run between my cracks and rub me in sensitive places," Kelly said with a shy smile.
"See what I mean," she added as she looked down at her crotch. Stephanie almost gasped. The tight crotch of Kelly's shorts had pulled between her sex lips, separating and defining them as if she had nothing on. "It's a cameltoe," Kelly said with a laugh. Stephanie found her voice and said, "Cameltoe. what's a cameltoe?" "It's when a woman's panties or shorts are so tight that they pull up between their sex lips.
It happens mostly when a woman doesn't have pubic hair." Stephanie couldn't help stare at the exposure of Kelly's sex. "How did it get the name "cameltoe?" she asked, wondering if she really wanted to know. "Well, I think it's because a camel's hoofs have a crack down the middle. See," she said and reached down to the waistband and pulled her shorts upward, forcing the seam even further between the lips.
Stephanie felt she might faint. She couldn't believe that Kelly was exposing herself so blatantly. Or worse yet, that she was staring. She forced herself to look away. She knew the crotch of her shorts was getting wet. When she looked at Kelly again, she was staring directly into her fiery eyes. Her knees grew week. She thought that she might collapse. Kelly rescued her when she said, "Okay, let's get working." They began to do their Pilate's with Stephanie following Kelly's lead.
At one point as they lay on their backs, Kelly said, "Steph, let me show you how your abdominal muscles should tighten when you do the breathing exercises." With that Kelly touched Stephanie's stomach muscles, running her fingers up her soft skin, stopping a fraction of an inch below the pretty brunette's breasts. "Take a deep breath." It wasn't difficult for Stephanie to take a deep breath.
Her lungs already felt starved for oxygen. "Here is where your muscles should control the breath," Kelly said, pushing on her diaphragm just below her breasts. Stephanie shivered as Kelly let her hand linger on her stomach for longer than necessary. Then she watched as she slowly moved her fingers back down her stomach, making her shiver as goose bumps appeared on her skin.
Kelly removed her hand and said, "It takes a lot of practice and there's a lot of skill involved to get it right. That's why I need to practice so much before I can take my certification test. I want to teach it someday.
Now, feel my stomach." With a trembling hand, Stephanie touched Kelly's taut stomach.
As the younger woman took a breath, she moved Stephanie's hand up and down the smooth surface of her stomach. She could feel her vagina throbbing and knew that she was definitely going to have a wet spot on the crotch of her shorts. Kelly caught the older woman's eye and smiled and then suddenly pulled Stephanie's hand to her breast. Stephanie sucked in her breath and was so shocked that she didn't try to move her hand away.
"Can you feel my breathing here?" Kelly asked, holding her hand to her soft breast. Stephanie couldn't answer. She had never touched a woman's breast before, at least not in this manner. She could feel the warm and soft breast moving under her palm. The now hard nipple almost burned a hole in her hand. She looked at Kelly like a deer caught in the headlights and saw her smoldering eyes.
"Come here," Kelly whispered and pulled Stephanie up until she was leaning over her. "Kiss me." "Oh Jesus!" Stephanie almost whined. Her brain was telling her to run, but her body was in control. As if in slow motion she leaned down until her lips were inches from her friend. She closed her eyes and moved down. "Mmmmm," she moaned when she felt Kelly's soft lips under hers.
She had been dreaming and agonizing about this moment since Friday. Until that second, she didn't know how she was going to react. Her tongue came out of her mouth. Kelly moaned as Stephanie tongue touched her lips. She opened her mouth wide to take it inside. A second later they were kissing passionately again like Friday night. Stephanie was aware of her saliva draining from her mouth and into Kelly's.
She felt Kelly swallowing, drinking it down. Then she felt the younger woman's tongue pushing back on her own. She let it in and sucked her tongue hard. When Stephanie finally pulled away, she was breathing like she had run a marathon. Her eyes were opened wide, staring at Kelly. "Let's go over to the couch," Kelly said, getting up and pulling her friend behind her. When they were sitting side by side on the couch, Kelly turned to her and said, "How long has it been since you had sex?" "Huh?" Stephanie replied in surprise.
"I'm not dating anyone, so it's been a long time for me. It seems that almost anything makes me horny nowadays." "Uh. well, David and I." she stuttered, not sure if she wanted to share her problems at home with her. "Come on, tell me. I'd bet it's been a long time." "Yes," she answered truthfully, with more than a little embarrassment. "Do you masturbate?" Stephanie felt her head spinning faster. She wondered what Kelly was up to. Feeling scared and embarrassed, she answered truthfully, "Yes.
three times this weekend." "What were you thinking about?" Stephanie hesitated. She tried to think of a lie, however, nothing came to her. She took a deep breath and answered, "You. uh. the kiss." "Hmmm, I did to. I mean I thought about our kiss while I masturbated. "Uh. Kelly, maybe I. I had better leave," Stephanie said using every ounce of strength she had left to get the words out.
Kelly ignored her and said, "Will you do it for me?" "What?" "Masturbate. I want to watch you. and kiss you while you do it." "Oh God," Stephanie gasped. "This is craz." "Crazy," Kelly said, finishing her word.
"Yes." "Well, I'm crazy about you. Let me pull your shorts down." In spite of the screaming going on in Stephanie's head, she lifted up and let Kelly pull her tight shorts down to her knees, then off one foot, leaving them hanging on the other ankle. "Oh my," Kelly gasped as she stared at Stephanie's pussy.
It was dripping.
Stephanie's face turned beet red. She knew how wet she was. "I want to see your breasts too," Kelly whispered and without waiting for an answer, pushed Stephanie's tube top up and over her heaving breasts. Stephanie moaned loudly and closed her eyes, unable to look at the younger woman's face.
She could feel eyes staring at her nakedness, knowing she could see the juice glistening on her closely cropped pubic hair.
In fact, she could feel it running from between her lips now. "You're beautiful," Kelly whispered. Then she reached for Stephanie's hand and guided it between her legs. "Rub yourself," she said. She wanted desperately for it to be her own hand between Stephanie's legs. But she knew she had to take it slow or risk her running from her apartment.


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Apparat: Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
Apparat's musical accompaniment to a German theatre production of War and Peace oscillates from delicate pizzicato to violent squalls of white noise, struggling to find a balance between the two.
The last time we heard from Apparat, faces were quite literally melted. I'm of course referring to "Goodbye", the mournful highlight of his 2011 studio LP The Devil's Walk, which was used as the background music to Gus Fring's slow-mo walk to his final encounter with Walter White in the unforgettable season 4 finale of Breaking Bad. That season found the program at its most tense and explosive, and "Goodbye" -- while perhaps too much of a dead giveaway with its title -- was a perfectly timed moment of Zen-like tranquility before Walt took Gus's face... off. Many likely encountered Apparat -- the stage name of German electronic musician Sasha Ring -- for the first time with that Breaking Bad episode, and if any were to have picked up a copy of The Devil's Walk after finishing the episode, they would have likely been surprised by "Goodbye"'s uniqueness relative to the rest of the material on that album. Ring's style of electronic music is fairly subdued compared to some of his contemporaries, especially the famed glitch duo Modeselektor, with whom he collaborated on 2009's Moderat, but "Goodbye" significantly differed from the tracks it was placed with. Drenched in an almost overwhelming amount of mood, the track owed more to post-rock than to any of the electronic subgenres he's often pegged with.
Ring clearly sensed a strength in that song considering the style of his latest release, Krieg und Frieden (Music For Theatre). Commissioned as an accompaniment to Sebastian Hartmann's stage production of Tolstoy's War and Peace at the 2012 Ruhr Festival in Germany, Krieg und Frieden (German for "War and Peace") draws heavily from "Goodbye"'s melancholy, though the overall sonic has shifted in key ways. Although Krieg und Frieden isn't really a studio LP, at least in the way The Devil's Walk was, as a record it showcases Ring's skill with mood and dynamics, spreading what made "Goodbye" so powerful across 10 white-noise-laden compositions. Like the post-rock from which it takes many of its cues from, the album could easily be used as a sort of "soundtrack to an imaginary film," or at the very least a way to make your afternoon walk seem life defining.
The integral newish addition to Apparat's sonic palette, however, is an ambient/drone texture that overlays about a third of the LP. However, this isn't to say Krieg und Frieden is a homogenous affair. Multiple parallels can be drawn to other artists: in its fuzzy, distorted moments ("Tod") the record recalls Bass Communion, and in its glacial, shimmering textures ("44 [Noise Version]") it harkens to guys like Tim Hecker. A large part of what makes the mood here so effective is how Ring takes these elements of ambient and drone and capitalizes on the soundtrack-like sensibility that's inherent to both. Rather than letting a particular drone or texture go on and on in the hopes that it eventually forces a mood out of the listener, Ring squeezes out all possible emotion out of each note, wasting no time in crafting a sonic landscape uniquely designed for the stage. Sometimes he even drops subtlety completely and brings in the battle drums: the Hecker-like introduction to "Austerlitz" doesn't last long, as dramatic piano chords and resounding drum hits help bring the album to its conclusion.
But for all the times Ring is successful in balancing the soundtrack and ambient elements, there's a significant problem with the synch of the record, a problem best framed in the dichotomous nature of its title. Two sets of twin songs --"44" and "44 (Noise Version)", "K&F Thema (Pizzicato)" and "K&F Thema" -- are the key components of the LP. Unfortunately, they're also the weakest. This fact has little to do with the actual quality of the music itself; the somber Mansell flourishes of "K&F Thema" are actually quite lovely. Rather, in juxtaposing two variations on a theme, one with acoustic instruments and the other electric, the impression is given that Ring is still not quite sure how to reconcile those two compositional styles. The image of the confident artist who wrote "Goodbye", which balanced rich acoustic piano with synthetic textures masterfully, is revealed to be quite imperfect with Krieg und Frieden. Unlike the paradoxical title of the LP—"and" instead of "or"—we're instead presented with its opposite, the false choice: the cello or the synthesizer, the pizzicato or the pre-programmed distortion. There are a good many instances in Krieg und Frieden where there is some overlap between the two, and it's enough to make one wonder why Ring chose a segmented over a cohesive approach.
In a wise, semi-humble move, Ring pre-empted his critics in the announcement of the album, stating, "it's full of imperfection because it's made by humans." Tautologies may help his case initially, but it's hard to excuse the odd sequencing of cuts like "44" and "K&F Thema". War and peace can be mutually exclusive choices, but they don't have to be. There's plenty of room for a violin and a squally drone to get cozy. Apparat as a project fits well in the dynamic of a film score and in the style of an electronic ambient outfit; now all that's left to do is to bring those two worlds together, in so doing letting peace and warfare duke it out to find something in the middle. I imagine the result -- much like the charred remains of Gus Fring's face -- would be something quite visceral indeed.