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This paper is about stillness—a singular stillness, occurring within movement yet also framing, holding all movement. Using a phenomenological hermeneutic theoretical framework and drawing on Master of Health Science research Dance and Stillness (De Leon, 2005), the works of poet T.S. Eliot, phenomenological and philosophical writings of Heidegger, Milner, Smythe, de Chardin and others, notions of equipoise and hysteresis, as well as an underlying Christocentric philosophy, the potential therapeutic value of this stillness is discussed.
The post-graduate research (2003–2005) involved creating a dance work, Stillpoint, which embodied this stillness. Dancers and watchers were questioned about their experience. Information was sought about the essence of the danced, watched and felt stillness-in-the-dance, and what constituted the lived experience of it.
My goal was to gain understanding of the therapeutic and transformative potential of this particular stillness and how it may inform therapeutic engagement. My research looked from a psychotherapeutic perspective at what happens in "a moment of time (for)… that moment of time gives the meaning" (Eliot, 1936, p. 163).
Leading questions were:
- How can dance and dance-movement therapy contribute to well-being and personal growth?
- How can dance and dance-movement therapy be employed as tools for health and healing?
- What place does the lived experience of stillness have in the practice of dance and dance movement psychotherapy?
Analysis of the research with participants in the Stillpoint project revealed important psychotherapeutic themes such as relationships with chaos, with each other, and with design and time; and the meaning of authenticity, symbolism, awareness, focus, and release.
The first dance
When we are born, one of the first things we do is breathe. Our tiny body gasps and shudders, twitches, reaches, stretches, curls and unfolds, gulping great in-breaths of life-giving air. Breath is thus the first dance, and this 'dance' continues as the fundamental kinetic impulse for the rest of our lives. The breath sustains our bodies, thus breath + body = movement.
There is no client, dancer, watcher—or any person—who comes to therapy independently of breath, body or movement. Preceding and containing whatever issue for which a client has come to therapy, are breath, body and movement. Every person presents with distinct characteristics of breathing, body and movement. Paradoxically then, what then does it mean to be still in the midst of movement?
Living in a state of paradox seems to be the way life is: we feel urged—pulled or goaded—one way and then another. We want to do this and end up doing that. We wish for this and the other is what happens. Within this tension often lies a place of distress; sometimes a profoundly deep distress that manifests itself as disease, chronic depression, or even death. I propose that in dance the paradox and its attendant tension can be held in a kind of "dance of paradox."
It can be likened to currents that seem oppositional—as the current and its undertow (a current under the surface of the water, which is not apparent on the surface). This paper proposes that not only are these currents profoundly symbiotic, they cannot exist without each other. That is to say, not solved, resolved, or cured—but held—held at the "still point of a turning world" (Eliot, 1936, p. 177).
A central premise is that all movement is contained within stillness and further, that stillness is at the same time also the core, the central axis of all movement. Both my research and my present practice indicate that the dancer who understands and allows the experience of stillness to inform her or his dance is accordingly closer to achieving the stillness "at the eye of the paradox"—the still point. Research participants and present clients report that this moment in time seems time-less, a moment in which realisations occur and in which lies potential for transformation.
My objective in discussing currents and undercurrents, paradox, flow and undertow is not to blend, merge or subsume but to recognise and celebrate the opposition/harmony; the discreteness/connectedness—with the desire that readers, practitioners, colleagues may be willing to investigate, "partake in the communion in which we no longer remain the same" (De Leon 2005, p. 58).
The stillpoint
The poetry of T. S. Eliot for me epitomises the stillness with which this study is concerned. I suggest it is a stillness known through "the grace of sense" and when thus felt it is 'lifted and moving':
At the still-point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance….
The inner freedom from the practical desire,
The release from action and suffering, release from the inner
And the outer compulsion, yet surrounded
By a grace of sense, a white light lifted and moving
Burnt Norton, (Eliot, 1935, p. 177)
What is expressed here? Eliot's poetry speaks of the suspended, timeless moment or state that is neither this nor that: a moment that is neither a coming towards nor a departing from. I interpret Eliot as giving words to the experience of a particular suspended stillness at the peak of the up-breath, the ah! The moment is aware, conscious, and mindful—yet it is given; un-orchestrated, un-manipulated, surrendered.
My research revealed that the still point at the core of the dance was experienced as tangible and real; that the felt experience of it contributes to well-being and personal growth and that when brought to consciousness and employed in dance and dance-movement therapy it brought about experience that was transformative and life-changing. Epstein (1996, p. 101) names it 'equipoise.' Stephen Donaldson, in his epic trilogy The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (1977, 1978) returns again and again to the theme of living "at the eye of paradox". I think of it also as "hysteresis."
Epstein links his equipoise with Freud's notion of sublimation, where inborn, instinctual cravings and impulses are "sublimated…transformed into wisdom…" (1996, p. 79). He informs us that meditative equipoise is achieved when the attention is turned towards conscious stillness:
Firmly grounded in awareness of breath and body … learning to surrender to the ebb and flow of breath, a stilling into one's body… stilling the mind … then approaching some sense of open space … surrendering to the flow. (ibid, pp. 145-146)
In intentionally directing the attention inwards, as the dancer does when he or she prepares to dance—to the core of stillness; stillness within the whirl, within the tumult, within the choreography itself—there in the moment of its recognition the perceiver (dancer, client) is ready to surrender to the flow. It seems that it is in this recognition the perceiver (dancer, client) is, to some greater or lesser extent, releasing, surrendering, allowing the 'yes.'
This stillness is the moment of neither this nor that: neither a coming towards nor a departing from—a hiatus of suspended stillness—hysteresis. 1 The hysteresis moment is one of exchange/interchange between the movement that goes up then down, in then out, wide then narrow, tightened then released, curved then straightened.
This is the moment of the time/no-time when consciousness is occupied with neither coming nor going, neither haste nor urgency or imposition, but simply being. It is a movement-in-time example of phenomenologist Heidegger's dasein (1927). The dasein concept refers to the nature of being: being-in-the-world, being in, being there—something concrete, literal, actual and daily. Since the salient point about dasein is that it can wonder about itself as existing (Steiner, 1989, Smythe, 1998), then the dasein moment/state provokes questions as "What am I?" "Why am I?" "What does my existence mean?" These are questions that arise continually in my practice, and that I suggest are the stuff of life itself.
Further, this hysteresis in the dance, this hysteresis of dasein, is not manipulated or engineered through disconnection with the 'before' or the 'after'. It does not require deliberate choreographed stillness. It is a condition without announcement of, or grand preparation for—it simply happens—it is simply part of the dance. It is as if Heraclitus' notion of all things changing, yet nothing ever becoming disconnected (in Koch, 1994), is danced.
Neither is the stillness dormant or fixed, for change occurs even in the time of stillness. And furthermore, this stillness/hysteresis/dasein/still point exists within a cosmic holding together of constant change. As soon as we observe, recognise, become aware of this moment—it has passed. But in that moment, of felt, embodied consciousness, we are wholly present, wholly attentive, wholly here. 2
The symbolic
Within this stillness is an opportunity for experience of the symbolic. In the dance our bodies and the shapes and sequences made by them are symbolic. Working with my clients in the domain of the symbolic does not require the movement to be spectacular or beautiful—the dance itself carries the symbol. The symbolic expression is an entry to a kind of ebullient overflow, expressive of the orgasmic joy of creative experiencing (Milner, 1987).
Milner further suggests says Raab (2004), that mystical and creative states hold the potential for elements of joy, union, ecstasy, absorption, loss of self-consciousness and loss of sense of time, and that both states undo the over-fixed separation between self and other caused by the tyranny of the conscious mind. Where the over-fixed separation is undone and the tyranny of the conscious mind is released is a place of timeless suspension, an equipoise that occurs between movements. Milner (1987) holds that creative and symbolic experiencing has many phases: agonising, depressive, dead, empty, thrilling, high, emptied—and still. It allows a person to experience stillness in which the state of paradox—affirming I and not-I, self and no-self may be contained.
Raab (2004) declares this psychologically beneficial. As attested to by my clients, fellow dancers, and me, the symbolic experience contributes powerfully to well-being and personal growth and is a tool in the journey towards health and healing. The power of the symbolic dance is to tell a story that cannot be said in words.
Thomas Merton (1958, p. 48) says that the symbolic within the created work contains in itself that which makes us aware of the inner meaning of life, a deeper reality. He says a true symbol points to the stillness at the heart of all being. I do not think that all created works are authentic emanations from the stillness at the heart of all being. But I do suggest that in conditions of humility, receptivity; of resonance with the tenet that the essence of our existence is the passion to create (Moreno, 1959); that the symbolic language of dance can arise from nowhere other than the stillness deep in the dancer's being. I believe it possible that the dance, being symbolic, may hold at its core the stillness at the heart of all being.
Symbol, stillness and healing
Nothing that knowledge can grasp or desire can want is God—but that where the pursuit is subsumed and knowledge and desire are still, there is darkness, and there, God shines. (Eckhart, 1994, p.185)
The words 'grasp' and 'desire' I here construe as movement, thus I interpret Eckhart's words as describing movement, stilled, and in these moments I become aware of a potency that I can only name—God. But here is a paradoxical state of affairs, for to glimpse the "stillness at the heart of all being" and perceive/receive the shining of God (also known as healing and wholeness), I dance. I dance the grasping, desire, darkness, stillness—all may be expressed in the dance.
So, to dance or be still: is it one, or the other, or both? My research findings suggest that the stillness is throughout and in the spaces between... the dance and the stillness become indivisible.
In my dance therapy practice I work with the principle and goal that in the midst of turbulence, in the ebb and flow of the dance, the dancer becomes still, conscious, self, other and context-aware. Still in a way which is 'neither arrest nor movement, neither fixity, neither from nor towards, neither ascent nor decline but still, at the still point' (Eliot, 1936, p.177). In more mystic vein philosophers Teilhard de Chardin and Matthew Fox describe a similar stillness: "Awakening from the dream; the world, this palpable world… we stand still, for this is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it" (de Chardin, 1968, p. 112), and Fox (1988, p. 60) uses the biblical reference (John 4: 6-29) to describe "the suspended moment at the well, at the source of being, of images, of creativity … That power from which the dance … comes, is silence, and stillness".
Here are experiences of stillness that surely may wake in us an energy of creativity and a sense of the holy. It is an experience into and towards which I invite my clients. My intention is that they will experience the awakening of creativity and something of the divine.
Literature from the world of dance
In the area of dance writing, the work of dance therapists and body workers provides insight into the subject of stillness within movement. Amy Kaplan, a process oriented psychotherapist, dance movement therapist, and writer of The Hidden Dance (1986) speaks of the unfolding nature of authentic movement, "You wait in the stillness, and watch the creative spirit of nature unfold" (p. 73).
Other dance therapists reinforce this idea of "waiting and watching". Joan Chodorow (1991, p. 196), dance therapist and Jungian psychologist comments: "Movement is followed by a period of natural stillness and continuing inner attentiveness … sometimes the transformative experience simply cannot be expressed in words." Ruth Noble (1998), UK dance therapist says, "Our embodiment in the material world and our struggle to manifest this creatively … is within body and mind, movement and stillness".
Rudolf Laban (1879–1958), physicist, dancer, philosopher, perhaps the first movement psychotherapist and one of the 'gospel' writers of dance, captures in Laban Movement Fundamentals terminology, the essence of dance and stillness—the moment caught—the moment that permits the next to be seen:
Movement is man's magic mirror, reflecting and creating the inner life in and by visible trace-forms, in turn also reflecting and creating the visible trace-forms in and by the inner life. The simplest visible element of this startling and paradoxical operation is the plate between the axial-stable and the surface-mobile bodily movements, or, in other words, the struggle between the binding power of a knot and the loosening power of an untwisting line with an intermediary lemniscate. (Laban, 1966, p. 54)
And then, perhaps most eloquent of all, are the timeless lines of Eliot that, whilst not the" (Eliot, 1936).
A task (for dance therapists, for the human race)
In the midst of living, we are dying and the client seeking psychotherapy is essentially, afraid (Jung, 1965). I here pool all problems, issues and manifestations presented by clients, into the one core issue, fear—fear of living, fear of dying. Is not one of the questions of dasein, if not the ultimate question of life, (this knowing that we are dying), therefore, how shall we live?
Indubitably then, I suggest this must also be one, if not the ultimate task of dance therapy to create an environment wherein the fear of living and of dying, may be brought into the open, where it may be met and the life lived again. James Hillman (1975) comments that the significance a soul makes possible, derives from its special relation with death. If psychotherapy is to do with the healing of the soul, then it must be a psychotherapy that has a relationship with death. What is required then is a therapy that dares work with clients who are afraid, dares confront the terror, dares admit the paradoxes and the unanswerable.
Is the dance, with its movement and its stillness and a dance therapy employing these concepts adequate for such a task? I believe there is no one methodology of psychotherapy that meets the need for every unique individual, but my research showed that the stillness studied and described here contributes profoundly to this task. Working with research participants and clients of my dance therapy practice I realise that the stillness within and undergirding the dance epitomises a greater stillness that undergirds both psychotherapy and life's transformative experiences.
Participant and client feedback 3 suggests it is the stillness, the moment caught in the midst of the turning world, in the midst of turmoil and busyness that allows the space and the pause to make the psychotherapy work at all.
The watcher
This paper refers so far to the person who dances, but what about the one who does not dance, but watches the dancer? Is any of this therapeutic for that person? My research indicates that those watching dance become physically, kinetically and mentally aware. A cellular response, an innate sense of kinaesthetic empathy with moving bodies to directly receive the dancer's message occurs (Foster, 1986, Langer, 1953, Sachs, 1963, Grove, 2003).
It is not without cognitive processing but it is not dependent on it. Choreography can be a voice for both dancers and audience. An audience may not learn the movements or the shape of the choreography—yet it 'speaks' for them. Wordless emotion can be expressed; and there is a sense that despite (or because of) wordlessness, dancer and audience both, share such expression.
While this empathic kinaesthesia can be verbalised, it has a potential that is beyond words to reach both dancer and audience. My research showed that this level of embodied resonance in the dance-stillness experience has the capacity to hold and express the dasein of both dancer and watcher and that the stillness becomes a vessel, a therapeutic crucible in which healing may take place for both.
Further comment
Working together with my clients watching, experiencing, waiting, processing, the question arises: Is it possible that the quintessential essence of dance and stillness are one and the same?
Writer Iris Murdoch poses a question of seemingly irreconcilable contradiction:
You have created me with the longing and the hunger—I must dance, or die. Is my art the ultimate distraction; the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods?—or is my dance the most profound entrance into God's presence that I shall ever essay on this earth? (Murdoch, 2005, p. 1)
Here is a tension of opposites that was borne out in my research as being familiar, to us, the research participants, and to my clients. The details were unique but the dilemma of opposites was shared. The findings showed that the stillness between (movements) was the time-space in which the current and undertow could be contained, reconciled, welcomed. Stillness and movement, as current and undertow are indivisible, the reflection of each other, for in the midst of movement there is stillness and the stillness contains all the movement.
In terms of our original questions remarking the place of dance, dance-movement therapy and stillness in the journey of healing, participants in the research said that they had experienced a kind of 'eternal' healing stillness. Their experience of stillness in conjunct with movement that was at times fast and frantic gave permission and expression to both personal chaos and personal source or essence of stillness. One client (whom I shall refer to as 'M' for confidentiality purposes) said:
We cannot find our own stillness unless we're in chaos. It's out of our own madness, our freneticism, our searching, always searching, searching… unless we look within we can't find the stillness, and the healing. Your portrayal of chaos has the effect of leading me into my own stillness by way of comparison. It leads me to reflect on the healing nature of stillness and how that can be encouraged within the context of daily life.
Another client, whom I shall name 'S', explained the experience as follows:
You can describe it but not define it. When the breathing goes right - like the ebb and tide of the sea, there's certain stillness there, it definitely doesn't mean no movement because that is static and this is a dynamic something. It starts as moments, but you hope to be getting to stillness as a state.
Other participants commented that it was the sense of time (or suspended time), a timelessness they experienced in dancing and watching that they identified as integral to their way of being. It was a 'space' that released them from the need to do and do, and simply—be. We understand our bodies and their movement in space and time; our bodies and their stillness in space and time is then the dance that contains the stillness and the stillness that contains the dance... not simply a metaphor for Dasein, being-in-the-world (Grenz, 1996)—these are Dasein.
The dance-stillness journey may be understood as an expression of the dialogue between the sacred, or God and all who are engaged in healing, creating, resting, growing; it is a pilgrimage, a prayer, a way of life. As a choreographer, psychotherapist, dance therapist and human being, my desire is that my work might inspire others to recognise the steps of their own dance, perchance feel a rhythm behind the words that stirs them to dance on, and a stillness that enables them to rest and recover for whatever follows.
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Plastic Soldier Company - Universal Carrier
Discussions with Will from PSC on Saturday revealed that not only will there be a Lloyd Carrier and 6 pdr gun, but also a conversion kit for other variants Mortar/MMG, Wasp and even the early scout carrier.
6 comments:
- Phil Broeders said...
Very nice paint jobs on both. Good work Will.
- 9 October 2012 at 17:13
- Mike said...
Size difference is not surprising. The old Airfix model is 1/76 whereas the PSC model is 1/72.
- 9 October 2012 at 19:21
- Fire at Will said...
Phil, I know it's not 6mm but the PSC version is unpainted.
Mike, the Airfix carrier model is slightly under scale and others like the Crusader are over scale - hence Alan's desire to check as the real scale seems to vary by manufacturer.
Still, it's a lovely model and measures 50mm mudguard to mudguard, or 48mm for the hull compared to the quoted 12 foot length means it must be close to 1/72
- 9 October 2012 at 19:32
- Phil said...
Very nice looking vehicles!
- 11 October 2012 at 13:37
- EY said...
Thanks for the comparison pics. Now someone needs to make the Aussie LP2 or put out a conversion set.
- 19 October 2012 at 18:32
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On a 3-2 decision, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has denied Carlos Tobon's call for a manual recount following his controversial and contested one-vote loss to state Representative William San Bento of Pawtucket.
The state chapter of the ACLU sought the recount after the Board of Elections deemed San Bento the winner.
The majority ruled the case was not properly before the court because, it says, objections to the approval or exclusion of a mail ballot must be raised when the ballot is certified.
The majority also said that existing law prevents the court from ordering a manual recount in this case.
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Chief Justice Paul Suttell and Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg dissented from the majority, noting in part, "In the primary election at issue, the ballots have been counted on four occasions, each resulting in different totals."
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The island's literary heritage is of course second to none:
Arthur Lord Dennison (pictured) lived at Farflung House, overlooking Freshwater Bay for nearly 40 years, and wrote Come Into The Condemned Greenhouse, Mary and King Perkin and His Bedraggled Gentlemen at Arms there. He also finished The Mysterious Floating Medieval Lady on the island and often welcomed famous photographers of nude children to Farflung House, including Juliet May Carmion and Charles Lewis, who also wrote the famous children's book Agnes in Dreamland.
Famous writer of sensual odes, John Bleates, also stayed on the island twice, between 1817 and 1819. He escaped to the island with his friend, Tom Browne, in an effort to cure himself of the contemporary disease of opium-exacerbated narcissistic sensuality. He was able to rid himself of this blight, but, sadly, fell victim to consumption, which eventually killed him. But not before he had produced some of the English language's greatest poetry. While staying at Shanklin and later at Mottistone, he worked on his celebrated Ode to a Sea-Plover, which explores the parameters of life and death as symbolised by the shifting boundaries of land and sea.
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What: Shares of Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW) lost about 1% this morning after Goldman Sachs downgraded the home-improvement retailer from buy to neutral.
So what: Along with the downgrade, analyst Matthew Fassler lowered his price target to $51 (from $54), representing about 9% worth of upside to yesterday's close. While value investors might be attracted to the stock's sluggish action in recent months, Fassler thinks that Lowe's appreciation prospects remain limited given his view of slowing growth in housing turnover.
Now what: According to Goldman, Lowe's risk/reward trade-off is pretty balanced at this point. "If past trends are predictive, then fading housing turns would begin to impact demand with a lag, in 2Q/3Q," noted Fassler. "We believe that current forecasts are achievable, but that upside becomes more elusive in the absence of the housing strength that propelled sales and valuation over the past two years." When you couple those housing headwinds with Lowe's 20-plus P/E, waiting for a wider margin of safety certainly seems prudent.
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This might have been illegal, but it was also really clever.
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The bloody rep of mixed martial arts is softened by the sweetest moment in the sports' history.
Some of the top sports stars on the planet still think Ronda Rousey deserves the respect of a champion.
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Never meet your heroes, for they might crop you out of selfies.
Nice Guy Conor is gone.
After months of denials by UFC execs, the mixed martial arts organization has been sold.
Bearded American fighter became an MMA star after YouTube fame.
Is this good or bad?
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This Australian clothing startup really went for all - or nothing.
Though more badass female superstars is hardly a bad thing.
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Holly Holm convincingly knocked out the heavily favored Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 on Saturday night, stunning the most dominant figure in combat sports with an early second-round head kick that caught the previously undefeated champ -- already dazed an...
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Ronda Rousey. So hot right now.
Talk sh*t, get hit.
Jon Jones was arrested in New Mexico after a hit-and-run that police say left a pregnant woman with a broken arm.
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Monster unveiled several new audio products at CES, including a few celebrity surprises.
Sometimes video games glitch out in spectacular ways, and that makes us love them more.
Along with a roster of UFC all-stars and title-holders, EA announced that Bruce Lee will be a playable character as a preorder bonus in its new UFC game.


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Saturday, 19 November 2016
Supernatural Think Tank - Anna's Thinky Thoughts on 12x06
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- Anonymous20 November 2016 at 02:09
Hey Anna, thanks for your thinky thoughts which by the way are getting thinkier and thinkier! I'm also of the opinion that the big bad of the season is a mortal human. People are worse than monsters... If this is what the season is going to be about - well, wouldn't it be a real new turn for the show?ReplyDelete
Mary's fate worries me no end, your theory sounds horribly convincing. Only such a demise would contradict with that big bad human arc, wouldn't it? The only hope...
Monsters are awful no doubt, but they are what they are and do what they do because it's their nature. It's their genetic makeup. But humans, they are far worse in my opinion, because they go against what separates us from the monsters and defines who we should be by nature. Humane...Humanity. Humanity is a quality all humans have that makes puts us right up at the top of the food chain. To see a human be represented as a monster, to have that humanity disappear is scariest of all. We have seen in the last few eps the villains as human ones. Dean and Sam of course are parallel to those humans, those monsters...they represent everything wonderful, loving, exceptional about humans...Sam and Dean are the epitome of what humanity is all about.ReplyDelete
I just wanted to note, as I forgot to mention it in my article, how awesome this new writer is for representing the true characterizations of both our boys. It could be scary when a new writer is introduced, especially 11 years into a show where the boys are so established. Steve Yockey did an incredible job though. He certainly did his homework and kept true to Sam and Dean. It was in the little things but it meant so much. I mentioned those precious Sam moments above, the couch scene, his talk with his Mom about how scared Dean is, because no one knows Dean better than Sam, his talk with Mary over Asa's body and his understanding about what she's going through. I failed to mention those awesome Dean moments and why it is I love him so much. I did get the biggest kick of him as well on the couch, his glee over letting Jody know he killed Hitler and that so subtle and secret need to feel the pride from her. I also love that he acknowledges Jody as their surrogate mom and his instant need to be their for her when she learned Asa died. I love that the boys both wanted to be there for her though they used her as an excuse to go to a hunter gathering. I also love that he really listens to Jody when she talks and acknowledges that he knows she's there when and if he needs an ear. My favorite part though, as small a moment as it might have been was Dean's reaction when Billie informed him that she reaped a fresh soul. The panic knowing Sam was still in there...and the moment that grabbed my heart most of all was when Dean called out Sam's name above all others. His mom was in there too. Jody was in there. Dean's first concern, his first words...Sam, Sammy....where's my brother....I'll never tire of that. Thank you Mr. Yockey for remembering that as well....and just one more word of thanks...thanks Mr. Y for giving the Winchesters a dose of gratitude from all those hunters who were gathered for the funeral, who recognized Sam and Dean as heroes and even allowed Sam to have his own groupie. Awesome.
Thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts.
- Anonymous20 November 2016 at 04:44
Your thinky Thoughts are the same as mine. So glad to find someone else thinking the same way. There have been way too manhy paralles this season with Sam and his connection with Lucifer. And I have loved Mary from the beginning. I understand her and I understand both Dean and Sam's reactions toward Mary. I also love the fact that humans are evil this season because for me this show has always been about humans and human emotions. The demons who are characters on the show, for me, represent the demons and monsters we as humans battle every day to be the people we are. And Sam and Dean have always been the hope that we as humans can find the balance in order to push on. The overall arc for me and it is quite obvious is parent issues and people are monsters. How do we deal with aging parents, why do our parents still see us as 12-year-olds when we are well past that age, who are we as young adults trying to leave the nest while keeping one feet still in the nest. The Supernatural world is just enough fantasy to make those real world issues bearable. Nice review.ReplyDelete
Hey Anna, loved your Thinky Thoughts as always! I loved, loved this episode so much! Loved seeing Dean and Sam relax and interact with Jodie! I have always loved their relationship so much and think Jodie knows them both so well. Yes, she does have a closeness with Sam that I love but she also sees right through Dean's walls and lets him know its ok, that she's there for him! Loved seeing how Dean and Sam are viewed by other hunter's. I so wanted to find out more about what they say about Dean, other than Didn't you die like multiple times, lol! Love Dean's "Yeah, didn't take", lol! Mary continues to confuse and annoy me, I know she's obviously struggling, but this whole "all about me attitude" is really starting to grate. Dean's comments to her, and then Dean and Jody conversation at the door, for me showed how bad it's hurting Dean! Your thoughts on Lucifer and Mary, I don't know. I sorta hope they don't go that way because it's too obvious and really I'm over Lucifer at this stage. Billie is another character that I love, Lisa Berry is amazing, and I love the chemistry between her and Jensen, they always have fantastic scenes together! Billie is always saying she can't stand the Winchesters but somehow she always ends up helping, even at a price! Also I think she sort of likes Dean, as Death did in his own strange way. By the way, does Dean still owe Billie, because that's not good at all! Loved the twins, really hope to see them again. Jensen and Jared as usual were amazing and I think this was Kim's best episode!! So, all in all I loved this episode and now we have 2 weeks until the next, damn it!! Next episode has Dean in leather, I say again Dean in leather, sigh....lol!! Sorry, I know I went on a bit, until next time, ciao! :)ReplyDelete
I wonder if Billie is Death. As we learned from Tessa, reapers can make one see what they want them to see and it's not like we haven't seen angels or even God himself take other forms. I'm ready for Luci to go back to his cage as well. I know they keep bringing up that Sam was once Luci's vessel, but I do believe that that ship has most definitely sailed. In the Devil's in the Details, Sam pretty much pronounced once and for all that he would never say yes to the Devil...he will never again be his bitch. Mary did just find out that Sam was Luci's vessel from Demon Jody so I'm wondering if that will go anywhere. I got the impression from Mary that she didn't quite say no to Billie as much as she was just delaying going back. In all honesty I would be fine with Mary going back to Heaven as long as she does it her way and by her own choice. It would be sad, but not tragic...As much as I'm enjoying the boys having their mom back, it's always been the boys against the world and I think that's how I want show to go out.... thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts with me....Happy Thanksgiving to all of you...ReplyDelete


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I'd like to illustrate one of the reasons for this deliberate and very brute-force information diet hack. It basically comes down to time management.
At some point in recent history, this happened:
I was not there. In fact, during the particular moment pictured here, it's very likely that I was instead reading Hacker News and/or arguing with some fat dude somewhere on the Internet about some kind of computer bullshit. That represents a near-total failure of time management and life choices. I've prepared a diagram to clarify.
I want to qualify this statement, because there's a real problem with sexism in the programming world, but for me personally, a bunch of girls in brightly-colored bikinis wins out 100% over arguing with anonymous computer dudes on the internet, every single time, and not just because they're women in bikinis, but also because bright colors are easier to see than the grey-text-on-a-grey-background experience of Hacker News.
when I become emperor, anybody who makes a web site without reading robert bringhurst will be beheaded
Obviously, if you're a straight woman or a gay dude, you might want to replace "girls in bikinis" with "boys in bikinis." Hell, you can make it animals for all I care. Maybe what excites you is a rabbit fucking a chicken. Who am I to judge?
Irrespective of the specifics, my point here should be clear. "XYZ in brightly-colored bikinis" wins for many different values of XYZ. And in some cases, you can take out the bikinis and the XYZ, and win on bright colors alone.
it's kind of disturbing how many different things you can find rabbits trying to have sex with on youtube, including guinea pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, people, teddy bears, and balloons.
This much, of course, is obvious to anyone who likes to have fun. But anyone out there who's made a living as an actor or a musician (or even just tried) knows that if all you want is to have fun, making it a hobby is your smartest move. For every actor who becomes a star with their first audition, or claims to have become a star with their first audition (citation needed), there are hundreds who worked their asses off before becoming stars, and thousands who worked their asses off without ever becoming stars, but were thrilled just to become working actors -- and thousands more who never got anywhere. Music is pretty much the same thing.
When I purged my Twitter feed of tech content, a ton of music and acting content remained. This had a very interesting effect. Almost immediately, I found myself thinking of my own music and acting in more serious terms. There are tons of other hackers who make music, and there are tons of musicians who also write code, but it's different when all you hear from is people who do it for real. Doing it for fun, to relax, after a hard day's work, is different from working your ass off for years. As a guy who's done his fair share of working his ass off, I like reading tweets from other people who've done the same thing and really gotten somewhere as a result.
So I started following more actors and musicians. It's a peer pressure hack. Peer pressure is one of the most useful and powerful forces in human psychology. It's probably second only to habit and/or hypnosis. The most amazing thing about peer pressure is that few people ever discuss how incredibly handy it is. The majority of the discussion around peer pressure is idiotic handwringing about how teenagers should resist it. But peer pressure is so powerful that if you want to change who you are, all you really need to change is who you communicate with on a regular basis.
I want to change who I am. I always have and I probably always will, because you can always get better, and after you've changed yourself once, you look for ways to do it again. For instance, in 2009 I lost 82 pounds in six months. It was a profound transformation.
Unfortunately, I got that weight back a few years later, because I got bored and completely abandoned the healthy eating habits which drove the change, but it was still an awesome experience, and I'm definitely doing it again.
I experienced another transformation in that same time period. In 2008, I was so fundamentally disorganized that I considered it part of who I was and would always be. By 2010 I was organized as hell. That was also awesome.
I can think of several experiences like this. Some of them were awesome and all of them were interesting. A lot of people seem to think that being "a morning person" or "a night person" is some utterly fundamental element of who a person is -- the language itself conflates that particular behavior with identity -- but I switch back and forth every year or so. I once thought myself doomed to never understand math, but I got good at it. I was a guy who couldn't draw, and became a guy who could. I've been a nerd and I've been a party kid. I've gotten beautiful women to go on dates with me despite not even speaking the same language, and I've had people ask me if I was a real-life 40-year-old virgin.
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Identity is much, much more malleable than most people imagine, which is what makes acting such an interesting art form. It can be about the essence of being, but it can also be about the bizarre permanency of personal illusions, and it can even be about both those things at the same time.
However, what acting is mostly about is drama. I have many times been agitated about hacker drama, but I'm not one of those people who say "I hate drama" all the time. Firstly, because everybody knows that people who say "I hate drama" all the time actually love drama, and live for it. Secondly, because I know I love drama. That's why I've been studying acting seriously since 2004 -- among professionals, with one of my coaches being a two-time Emmy winner. I freaking love drama.
But geek drama is to good acting like Cheetos are to organic strawberries. Is it really so surprising that people who mostly communicate over the Internet are constantly misunderstanding each other? It's tiresome, histrionic, and almost always very poorly reasoned. And another major benefit of unfollowing every hacker I had followed on Twitter was that all this low-quality junk food drama just disappeared.
Another noticeable effect, I'm sorry to say, was an immediate and massive decline in the number of negative tweets. If you're only following successful musicians and actors, you're going to see less negativity. The obvious reason is it's bad PR. But there's another, more important reason. These are people who work really hard to create a lifestyle that many many people dream of, but few ever get to experience. Spoiler alert: people who are incredibly fortunate are typically positive about stuff. (And if they're not, I unfollow them.)
Whether you term it with a metaphor of hygiene or nutrition, the information you consume affects your perspective. Habit-forming distractions are everywhere on the internet, but focus is more valuable than Twitter could ever be.
I delete all my Twitter apps probably at least once a month. But when I am reading Twitter, I'm very aggressive about controlling its peer pressure effects. I think this is a good decision.


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NRG Energy Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Padoma Wind Power LLC, has entered into a 50-50 joint venture with BP Alternative Energy North America to build the first phase of the Sherbino Wind Farm.
The Sherbino I Wind Farm will be a 150 MW wind project, consisting of 50 Vestas 3 MW wind turbines, located in Pecos County, Texas.
Padoma Wind Power is managing the construction, which began in late 2007, with Mortenson Construction as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor. The project is scheduled to begin commercial operation during the second half of 2008, at which time BP will handle the operations and dispatch.
'Harnessing west Texas' abundant wind adds to our country's efforts to become more energy independent while helping further diversify the Texas fuel mix,' says Jan Paulin, president and CEO of Padoma Wind Power. 'Later this year, we will be online, delivering electricity to Texans to help meet the ever increasing demand for additional power.'


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Monday, May 7, 2012
Sweet Alpha Doodles with Sweet Stamp Shop
Happy Monday (again)!
This is my second post today so please scroll down if you want to see my Avocado Arts post. :) When you get done with this post of course! :)
Today I am sharing a card using a set from Sweet Stamp Shop called Sweet Alpha Doodles! I think this is such a fun set. I love the font of the letters and all of those frames are just adorable!!
Make sure to check back here tomorrow as well as the Sweet Stamp Shop blog. The May new release posts start tomorrow. You won't want to miss these new sets... they are super sweet!!
Peace and Love!
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- Bethany said...
Very pretty Kelley! I love the colors :)
- May 7, 2012 at 2:25 PM
- ~Tammy~ said...
Super cute Kelley!
- May 7, 2012 at 5:03 PM
- Shelly said...
So Simple...and I love it!! I like the colors, as well. :)
- May 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- Elizabeth Allan said...
Eye-catching colors! Very cute!
- May 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM
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Lithuania-based candlemaker LessCandles creates realistic fruit candles that are a great decor for any home and parties or a perfect gift for your friends.
These cute candles are made from eco-friendly materials such as food grade paraffin wax, pure cotton wicks and special dyes.
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In this episode, I'll be circling back to one of the main inspirations for this show, Steve Savage the Balloon Buster! Despite the very few appearances made by this obscure DC war hero, some of the top names in comics worked on his feature, and it really produced some top notch genre stories. Check out a recap of the Maverick Ace's very 1st adventure and,
Download this episode HERE!
Please scroll down to see images from this issue, and be sure to check out previous episodes of I'm the Gun on iTunes & Google Play!
If you are a fan of DC war comics - I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com, or hit me up on Twitter: @marksweeneyjr
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|If you're so poor, Pa Savage, why you having young Steve shoot up all your damn money?!
|Top notch aerial action, courtesy of Russ Heath
|Dead comrades tied to the wings - chilling


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Knit the City, are a group of "graffiti knitting" artists founded in London, England in 2009. The collective distinguished themselves by being one of the first to go beyond the simple 'cosies' of early graffiti knitting, handmaking knitted and crochet creatures and objects to add to public areas, sculptures or structures, creating fibre art installations that were influenced by their surroundings.
The street art has been called "knit graffiti" and yarn bombing or "yarnstorming". Their mission is to "to guerilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the world, and bring the art of the sneaky stitch to a world without wool".
Knit the City was founded by Deadly Knitshade in February 2009 with six members. The 'Yarn Corps' grew to seven members with the addition of The Fastener in late 2009. In October 2010 two members left the group and one became inactive, leaving the group with four active members.
The group have continued to graffiti knit as a foursome of Deadly Knitshade, The Fastener, Shorn-a the Dead and Lady Loop.


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Plane crashed in Nepal leaving 40 dead
The aircraft belonging to the US-Bangla airline was about to land in Kathmandu Airport. An airplane of the Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla fell ashore today at 2:20 p.m. at the Kathmandu Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), Nepal, when it was about to land. The aircraft Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 and registration S2-AGU took off from Dhaka, Bangladesh, carrying out Flight 211, with 71 people on board, 67 passengers and 4 crew members. The plane crashed on a football field near the airport and caught fire in the collision. About 40 people died in…Read More


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|My Newport
by Sam Bolton
Photographs by Nick Mele and Alex Kendall
Ward McCallister, in referring to Newport, the summer resort of the Gilded Age, once said, "The most charming people of the country had formed a select little community there."
Newport "Society" is a bit reserved compared to the Hamptons. Also what was once considered a 10-week summer colony in those palatial "cottages," has become a year-round community for many who used to spend just 3 months out of the year.
In the 1970s, Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress and philanthropist, also financed the restoration of many of the 18th century houses, in the historic Point section of town.
Growing up in Newport, one of the first schools I attended was located in a dilapidated old mansion, whose facade can be seen in the opening credits to the 1960's TV show "Dark Shadows."
The summer months in Newport have always thrived on events, this summer being no exception. Every weekend and continuing into the week the town was at capacity, hosting one event after the other — the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals, the Tennis Hall of Fame, Tall Ships, Coaching, and the new to the mix, Newport's own film festival (NewportFilm) featuring documentary film series all year long.
Let's not forget the event that helped put the town on the map, the sailing map that is: The America's Cup sailing race. For a number of years the race left town and went "down under," but the trials returned this past summer with a totally new vitality and spot on national television no less!
Thousands were able to watch the races from the shoreline of Narragansett Bay with cocktails in hand without ever stepping aboard a boat. The multi-hulls careened around short courses at dangerously high speeds for short intervals a mere stone's throw from shore. They were all followed by a flag-flying spectator fleet, a melange of yachts of every conceivable size and shape, speed boats, canoes, even kayaks.
When I tell people I grew up in Newport they automatically assume I sail on boats on a regular basis. Actually most of my friends who live here rarely ever set foot on a boat. I did sail a bit as a child, so I was happy to be able to see one of the races with all the masses.
|I was inspired by the great photographer Slim Aarons — who shot a lot of Newport through the years — to shoot a pictorial on some of the people I know here in town. Although there are not many of the Old Guard left, we were lucky enough convince a few to pose.
Nick Mele had been shooting some wonderful pictures up here, including the one of his Grandmother Oatsie Charles, so I enlisted him and another friend Alex Kendall, who grew up here as well, to shoot the portraits for the story.
Alex Kendall lives and works in Breckenridge, Colorado. She studied photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nick Mele graduated from Georgetown University and studied photography at ICP in New York. He currently lives in Newport with his wife Molly.


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4 comments:
- Trisha said...
So glad you posted these titles! Love a good book. I especially love books that make me think and reflect. PS glad to have you back. You blogs has long been one of my favorites!
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- DeeAnna said...
As soon as I read the words WWII, I thought "Unbroken"! Fascinating book. And I heard that the movie is in the works, I hope they stay true to the tone and feel of the book (and that they can somehow keep it from being R rated!). I'll have to check out the other ones you recommended. Enjoying having your blog pop up again!
- January 8, 2014 at 10:21 AM
- Tif Sweeney said...
First things first ... so glad you are back!! I have missed you! :)
I have really been wanting to read Unbroken, but these other books sound so good too. Adding them to my list!
- January 8, 2014 at 12:52 PM
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Thanks, girls! It's fun to get back at it again. Like coming out of a fog!
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The Real Story Behind 'Argo' and the Steven Spielberg Connection
If you rushed out to theaters to see 'Argo' last weekend (wise choice, friends), you may be curious to know more about the real-life story that inspired Ben Affleck's latest and the man Affleck portrayed in the film. We've got some details for you, but we also found something even more interesting -- did you know that Steven Spielberg has a connection to the true story?
Antonio J. Mendez, the CIA operative responsible for orchestrating the 'Argo' mission, posted this story on the CIA's website a couple of years ago, detailing how his crazy heroic plan was a success. For those unfamiliar: six US State Department workers in Iran came under attack at the embassy and escaped, hiding out with the Canadian ambassador. A mission to save the six was incredibly difficult thanks to the increased security in Iran at the time and the distrust of Americans for housing the nation's former leader.
So Mendez had a really nutty idea to put together a fake movie studio and pretend that he was in Iran on a location scout for a science-fiction movie (a la 'Star Wars'). He would then meet with the Americans, forge their passports, and act as though they were the (Canadian) film crew and had entered the country with him. And it actually worked, using a real sci-fi script for a film called 'Argo,' Mendez even went so far as to have storyboards drawn up with the help of comic book legend Jack Kirby.
In his account, Mendez discusses the quick set-up of a faux film studio:
I made a quick visit to California. I brought along $10,000 in cash, the first of several black-bag deliveries of funds to set up our motion picture company. I arrived on Friday night and met with Jerome and one of his associates in a suite of production offices they had reserved for our purposes on the old Columbia Studio lot in Hollywood. I had invited a CIA contracts officer to the meeting to act as witness to the cash delivery and to follow up as bagman and auditor for the run of the operation. It would take two years to clear all accounts on these matters.
Our production company, "Studio Six Productions," was created in four days, including a weekend, in mid-January. Our offices had previously been occupied by Michael Douglas, who had just completed producing The China Syndrome.
And even though it was a fake studio, thanks to the planted publicity in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Studio Six started receiving scripts, including one from a highly-acclaimed director:
An ironic coda: by the time Studio Six folded several weeks after the rescue, we had received 26 scripts, including some potential moneymakers. One was from Steven Spielberg.
Could the script that they received from Spielberg have been 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial'? It's likely, considering that this took place between 1979 and 1980, the studio was looking at legitimate sci-fi scripts for their cover story, and 'E.T.' was released in 1981. Can you imagine if Mendez had used 'E.T.' as a cover? Spielberg might have never had the chance to actually make the film!


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Back In Time 07-23-14
July 23, 1944: The body of Ensign Charles H. Davis, 22, of Plainview is to arrive here late this afternoon or tonight, relatives have been informed. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Davis of Plainview, the pilot of a Navy bomber died Tuesday near Alameda, Calif., where he was stationed, when his plane crashed. The body is being accompanied by his wife, the former Brownie Simmons of Plainview.
•A German machine gun pistol which was taken by American troops in Africa has been presented to Hoyt Curry, Plainview chief of police, for his department. It fires at the rate of 1,250 rounds per minute, is about the same caliber as the U.S. automatic .38-caliber gun and carries a clip of 32 rounds.
•In the only contested county office in Hale County, clerk Inez Ott polled 1,591 votes, losing to Fannie Norman, who polled 1,821 votes in yesterday's primary election.
July 23, 1954: A group of Edmonson Cub Scouts and their leaders flew to Lubbock Tuesday on a Pioneer Air Lines plane to take an educational tour of that city. The leaders included Mrs. Eldridge Freeman, Mrs. Bill Pinkerton, Mrs. Modell Wiggins and Wayne Snelling. The boys were Michael Freeman, Bill Ed Pinkerton, Guy Snelling, Keith Wiggins, Gary Gladwell, Dale Grishaw and Kenneth Wiggins.
•Eldon L Smith of Plainview, an ROTC cadet who recently completed academic work at Texas Tech, will complete six weeks of intensive summer training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., on July 30 and will be commissioned as a reserve second lieutenant in the Army.
•Foy Yancy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Yancey, is home from the Air Force upon receiving his discharge. He was stationed in Germany for three years before coming home.
July 23, 1964: Wilburn England and Virginia Kirchhoff will give first-hand reports on the National Republican Convention at San Francisco to the Hale County Republicans on Friday. England was a delegate to the convention and Mrs. Kirchhoff was an observer.
•The Texas Teens for Goldwater will host three GOP candidates for office at a meeting Thursday at Hillcrest School. They include Joe Phillips, 19th Congressional District hopeful; Ralph Nafzger, who is running for the state legislature, 87th District; and Manuel Flores, candidate for constable, Precinct 1, Place 2.will be constructed at Fifth and Milwaukee in the Gabriel-Wayland Shopping Center, according to U.S. Rep. George Mahon. The building will be leased from J.B. Roberts. Currently, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has offices in the Weksler Building.
July 23, 1974: Plainview Mayor John Stoneham met for two hours with Joe Aleman on Monday. Aleman of LULAC is a representative of a citizen's committee formed to investigate the shooting death of Eliseo Camargo by Plainview Police Officer Steve Holmes.
•The West Texas Tractor Pullers Association organized Monday night in Petersburg with Steve Trowbridge elected president. Junior Looney is vice president and James Hale of Floydada is secretary-treasurer.
•The Nu Griddle is now owned and operated by the McCarty family. Maxine McCarty has cooked at the Nu Griddle for 14 years, her mother, Mrs. Lillie Morgan, has been cooking there for 26 years, and Paul McCarty Jr. is night manager.
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Creamy Carrot Bisque
I thought a bisque was just a smooth, creamy soup. But I just finished researching (and by reasearching I mean googling) and discovered that a bisque is defined as a smooth creamy soup made with shellfish. So this vegetarian-friendly starter really should have been named Bisque-esque.
But the photos were ready with its original name. And I was
Most of my other onion-based soups begin with a light caramelizing of the onions. But this version has the allium sauteed in bouillon. I thought that there would be a loss of flavor, but as you can see (and I could taste) it worked surprisingly well.
The original recipe suggests using your favorite non-dairy milk, but since I planned to pair the soup with grilled cheese, I went with real dairy ... skimmed evaporated milk to boost the richness a tad without adding more fat to an already rich lunch.
Creamy Carrot Bisque
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First, I'd like to thank beautiful & talented Susanne, the editor behind the blog Me and Alice for mentioning this blog as her favorite, when interviewed by the Brazilian Magazine Casa e Jardim (House & Garden). I am very humbled and flattered! Head over to her blog, filled with beautiful pictures of her country home, up in the north of Sweden.
This was a great surprise - and a lovely start of my weekend. I'm looking forward to working in my garden the next couple of days. Lots to do. Soon enough Easter is here. Below are some feathery pictures I've collected on Pinterest to help me get into an Easter mode. Enjoy your weekend!
Pictures from the top: www.emiliehalpern.com, parisapartment.wordpress.com, www.louiseroe.dk, flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief, and of course tumblr (without source).


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On my first day as a principal, I received a frantic email (cc'd to the superintendant, no less) from a teacher locked out of the school. This email was sent at 7 am on the 22nd of August, a full two weeks before school started! When I arrived, at a much more reasonable 8:45, I discovered that I had no computer or network access. I couldn't even put in a ticket to request a tech analyst help me with my problem, because I was locked out of any and all computers in the school. At least the phones worked. I spent much of the rest of the day searching for keys to cabinets, missing document cameras and projectors, vinegar for the moldy coffee maker (Starbucks is REALLY far away) and chatting with teachers (a much more fruitful and enjoyable task!). I can't wait to hire a secretary for this school!
On my second day, I arrived at my "other" school to discover that my office had been entirely deconstructed by the custodian over the summer. He did a bang up job of cleaning the carpets, but in the process hid my office furniture (and computer) in various parts of the school. As I searched throughout the school I discovered not one, but two, leaks from the previous day's thunderstorm. "No problem", I said to myself. Once I get my office arranged and my computer set up, I'll put in a ticket to have the roofer or the plumber come have a look. However, I soon discovered that I did not have access to any computers at this school either! Didn't we solve this problem yesterday? Fortunately I soon had computer access and was able to write a newsletter, create a year-at-a-glance calendar, and take a big bite out of my staff handbook.
I share these adventures not as a discouragement, or by way of complaint, but to celebrate what wonderfully diverse jobs we have. The funny part is, I haven't even met any parents or students yet! It is bound to get only more exciting.


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Played Rozy tonight and league wednesday and wanted to mention that the erosion prevention work around the short woods placements is SPECTACULAR! There was at least two inches of rain on Monday and no mud around that basket Wednesday at all. The only one I know involved for certain was Tink, he said he helped spread mulch but lotsa love to whoever put in the 4x4's and rebar. Erosion efficient and aesthetically pleasing, you guys are really onto something here!