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In 2017, Shankari started an Organic Farm and Homestead with her life partner Dan! It has been such an incredible journey full of chicken, duck, goat and dog raising. They have over 40 animals taking up residence at Waddle Om Farm! In addition the harvest from the organic garden and crops is so rewarding! Waddle Om Farm will continue to grow and expand, and offer farm fresh, local options to the Blue Ridge Mountain communities around Charlottesville, Virginia. They are dedicated to preserving the soil and using the art of permaculture to sustain the land and animals. If you are interested in purchasing any eggs, veggies or canned goods, contact Shankari @email@example.com
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Join Shankari and friends into a the land of new age, devotional music!
Their style of music is a fusion of techno trance with overtones of mystical vibes. This music, when merged with Bhakti incantations, yields a state of bliss not experienced before.
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What is Kirtan?
Derived from Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan or Bhajans are chants and songs that are set to melodies. This call-and-response style music, is said to invoke the divine.
This devotional performance art is said to quiet and ease the mind.
"Kirtan is a direct path to freeing the authentic voice within.'"
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My time with Shankari during her workshop was a gift filled with community, love, and song. She brings an energy of compassion and grace to the practice of Yoga that lingers long after she's gone. It's been a special honor to share her music with my Yoga students and I look so forward to the next time I get to share the fruits of this magical Yoga journey with her again.
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Sheer Power! My energy is still buzzing two weeks after a Weekend of Bliss Workshop with Shankari. I felt as if she had brought Yogaville to Charlotte, NC. I was mesmerized, I cried, I felt the Kali, Durga, and Lakshmi within me, within the 30+ women of all colors. We were a tribe, singing, breathing, dharma talking, and my favorite, Active Resting! I will continue to support and visit Yogaville on the strength of her goddess essence.
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My second trip to Yogaville afforded me a chance to hear Shankari 's story and connection to Swami Satchidananda. Her story brought us all to tears. And my most recent workshop with her to learn about Bhakti Yoga has yet again been life changing. Shankari has a deep love for this practice and shares in a way that touches your soul.
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Shankari's Yoga classes and workshops simply strike through your heart. It opened my eyes to what I can deeply experience inside. During the class she is very observant and gives full attention to the students needs. She is authentic and her teachings come from her own practice and from her heart. It is a pure pleasure to be in her class. I learned a lot and also enjoyed every single moment of her powerful teachings.


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Apartment Update: I was really surprised that no one picked apartment #3...but I did. I wish that I could report that it looks much different today than it did in the original photos that I posted, but that's not the case. I'm supposed to move in next weekend, but I'm not thinking that it's going to happen. We just came back from checking in on the progress and nothing has been done. Guess who's going to be sending a strongly worded email in a bit?!
|The view from the top of Victoria Peak
|The view from our hotel room! It was absolutely beautiful.
|The view was crystal clear from the top of the peak.
|Daddy at the top of the peak with the harbor in the background.
|We had such a nice time, but boy was it hot!
|We took the Peak Tram back down the mountain. You ride down backwards and at its steepest point, the tram is at an angle of 27 degrees.
Our view from the cable car overlooking the South China Sea
|We rode the Ngong Ping 360 cable car to the Ngong Ping Village. The bottom was glass so that we could see the mountains and waterfalls below.
We were 12,968 Km away from the Statue of Liberty, USA. I really should have paid more attention in math class when the metric system was being taught. Thank goodness for my convertor app.
|Daddy and I in front of the arch at Ngong Ping Village.
|This is the Tian Tan Buddha. The largest seated Buddah in the world. There were 238 steps up!
The view on the way up to the Ngong Ping Village. The view of the South China Sea was awesome.
|We found a really cool garden on afternoon. Yes, I'm wearing a hat...it's beyond hot here.
|Another Buddah picture...this was my favorite thing. It's massive!
2. A taxi is not the best place to practice the new direction words you know in Vietnamese! (I'm really good at turn left, turn right and go straight)
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This is how we represented our new understandings of WebQuest.
WebQuest Learnings
Monday I leave for Columbia, MO to meet with my eMINTS colleagues where I will undoubtedly get bombarded with a whole new list of resources to look at and figure out how they fit into my professional and personal learning organizational scheme. Before I depart I really need to clean up some of these tabs and commit them to memory or at least share them so that their time spent open in my Firefox tab group taking up precious memory and processor speed is not in vain.
General Stuff:
Teaching Practices/Resources:
Instructional Strategies that can be sorted into different instructional purposes.
The Best 10 Google Docs Tips for Teachers
Student-centered Learning: in the form of a Genius hour, 20% Project, FedEx Day -
Mobile Learning - aka iPad Stuff:
The eMINTS Conference call for presenters has opened. We are now awaiting your innovative, creative, high-energy proposals for both 1-hour and/or 2-hour presentations. The 14th annual conference will be held in Columbia, MO February 26–28, 2014. This is your chance to share the ground-breaking, exciting, and imaginative things you and your district are doing! It's time for you to be a part of the eMINTS learning community at the eMINTS Conference!
eMINTS is hosting an event offering many hands-on, participant centered sessions that will focus on purposeful planning in a constructivist environment with a community of learners using technology as a tool for teaching and learning.
Are you ready for the challenge? We will accept individual and multi-presenter session proposals. When your session is accepted, one presenter per proposal will receive free registration for a day at the 2014 eMINTS Conference. Want to bring all your friends? Make a few session proposals so you can all attend a day for FREE! FYI - Certified eMINTS Instructional Specialists (PD4ETS) earn 2 re-certification units by presenting at the eMINTS Conference. Notification of acceptance will be mid-October 2013 so you will have plenty of time to prepare.
I can't wait to see you there and attend your session(s). So who's in? What questions might you have? How can I help you as you begin putting together your proposal? Sign up NOW!
For more information about the conference go to: http://www.emints.org/conference-2014/
Firefox: Organizational Tip - Tab Groups
This was my browser workflow before finding Firefox Tab Groups....
I would be working on, let's say, a blog post. I would have open multiple browser windows (2-3 usually), each with their own VERY IMPORTANT plethora of tabs, all in some sort of order that made sense in my delusional organization plan. I thought I was organized! With my tons of tabs, in order, in multiple windows, trying to figure out which to bring to the front, where a specific webpage was, and then deciding that they were grouped wrong and then dragging tabs from one window to another.
I would drive myself nuts trying to position the windows just right so that I could drag tabs to new windows. It was crushing when I would accidentally close a window FULL of sites to never see them again. Don't even get me started about the amount of prime property it took up in my dock when all these windows were all minimized. It really was going to be the death of me until....
How to Tame the BEAST: It's pretty simple to set up, but the directions from Firefox didn't work exactly as stated on the website under the "How do I create a tab group?" section. What I did was first add a couple of tabs, then right-clicked next to the last tab, selected "Customize", from there I selected the "Tab Groups" icon, and clicked "Done". *You can also get to the "Customize" toolbar from the View>Toolbars drop-down menu.
Now you are ready to role. Create new groups by double-clicking in the gray area to add a new tab in a new group. Name your groups by hovering over a group until the "Name this group" text field shows up and then type in the name you wish to have. Drag your existing widows around to the appropriate group. And resize your groups so that you can see a larger or smaller image of the tabs to help you identify them. I have 3 main groups, 2 for work and 1 personal group.
When you are ready to start browsing click on the tab you want front and center, notice all of the other tabs in that group are available in the same window. When you want to get back to view all the tab groups just click the "Group Your Tabs" button in the top right corner of the Firefox window. Practice going back and forth between tabs and groups but be careful because when it asks if you are sure you want to close the windows it means all of your Firefox windows.
There are a few additional features such as searching and saving resources for reviewing later using Pocket.
These instructions, and more, can be found on the Use Tab Groups Mozilla Support Page. All images captured by Brooke Higgins.
Random Resources - 1st Session Planning
I have been collecting resources (tools, blog posts, lesson ideas, opinion pieces, etc.) all summer long to share with my eMINTS teachers. I copied and pasted their links in my facilitator agenda, on their participant agenda, I pinned them to my Pinterest Learn Board, bookmarked them in Xmarks, shared them through an Edmodo post, Tweeted and Retweeted them, etc, etc, etc. But what didn't occur to me as I was doing all of that was to post them here, for everyone (the 10 people that read this blog) to benefit from.
So here is what I have decided to do: every now-and-then, because I don't want to commit to a certain day or time, I will share the Random Resources I have gathered. I hope to present them in some sort of organized fashion, but what really will probably happen is that the post will be a quick list of links with a short description and/or explanation of why I included it in the list.
Here goes....let me know what you think and share more in a comment.
As you perused these resources, what might be some new ideas you had or inspiration you found that your students will benefit from?
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It's back to school time again and teachers are in the rush of meetings, open houses, preparing classrooms and lesson plans. Talk about a time to feel stressed or overwhelmed, but what a perfect time for inspiration in the form of multimedia. I don't seem to be the only one having this thought. This week, I read two other posts from a couple of great bloggers, Krissy from Venspired and William of #WmChamberlain, who both seem to have the same thought. But you know when an eMINTS facilitator shares fun video links there's probably an ulterior motive.
Ideas and inspiration can be found in interesting places. Earlier this year, I was reading a favorite memory keepers blog and she linked to a couple of great videos in a post, her goal being to share something uplifting. This was my first introduction to SoulPancake (see below). In the same week, one of my wonderful colleagues, Debbie, sent a link to one of the same videos and instantly the classroom/PD session application ideas started flowing.
eMINTS facilitators and teachers are constantly thinking about how to continue building a better community of learners. As you think about starting this new school year, what ideas do you have for using videos to inspire and support your learners as you build community in your classrooms? And what videos will you, or do you use? Please share them in the comments.
Here is one idea shared by Debbie: "The ball pit video made me wonder about ways to bring out the kid/joy in our participants. While the ball pit itself may not be feasible, I like the idea of a barrel of balls with a different question or prompt written on each. The Barrel could be a large clear cheese puffs container. Depending on questions, this could be used as anything from a "getting to know you" community builder to an end of year reflection activity. Maybe THEY (learners) could compose questions and write them on balls so we could bounce (hehehehe) our ideas around."
Below are a few of my favorite inspirational, smile inducing, bring a tear to your eye, and/or motivational clips. Maybe they will provide some ideas for you. The first are from SoulPancake followed by a collection of other great videos.
A HUGE thank you goes out to the AWESOME people I work with who share so selflessly. Many of these clips were shared by them and often times included ideas on how we might use them with the teachers we have the opportunity to work with. Because of my colleagues, and they know who they are, I am a better person both professionally and personally! :)
*Many of the videos reside on YouTube. You may wish to share them through online tools such as TubeChop or similar site to filter out the related videos and other content such as comments. As always, please preview all videos before sharing with students.
Comedians and Life Lesson's
Life lessons and aha moments come at some unexpected times. Yesterday, as I ate lunch, I watched the first episode in Jerry Seinfeld's newest project called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. I loved Seinfeld and continue to try and see Jerry Seinfeld in action.
The gist of the show is that Jerry selects a car based on his "guest", picks them up, they travel around catching up, and eventually stop for coffee. In this episode, he was catching up with his Seinfeld show friend, Michael Richards. As I listened, they began talking about the success of the show and their craft. At that point in the conversation Michael started to cut himself down saying he studied too hard and should have been more relaxed about preparing. He implied that others had fun and he didn't because he felt that preparing took so much practice. Immediately, Jerry stopped him and said, "I don't accept the judging of process." He continued by stating, "we are all trying to get to the same island." He then finished with, "what matters is when the red light comes on" ... "our job is to make sure they enjoy it". Jerry and Michael go on to talk about how it's about working selflessly not selfishly and the importance in remembering that.
That is teaching in a nutshell...selfless not selfish. Our goal, as teachers, is to leave kids in a better place than when we get them. Each teacher has to prepare in the way that makes him or her feel ready to "perform", to put on the best show possible. As I have reflected back on what I heard them say, I have wondered...in what ways might we support our-self and others in doing just that? And more importantly, how can we build each other up and not tear each other down with judgment as we all work to achieve that same goal? How can we be a positive influence and not a negative influence?
What I choose to take from this conversation is this: we each have to do what we feel we have to do to prepare, we must respect that in ourselves and others, and we must presume positive intentions of others, because we all have the same audience and the same goal. That audience, those kids, deserve our very best. Parents, communities, and the world are depending on us. We are all here for the same reason doing what we can. As Maya Angelou said, "When we know better we do better." We are all doing best we know how.
So as many of you, my friends, go back to begin a new year with students, my hope is that you take care of yourself, you take care of each other, and give the kids the best experience possible. Make sure they enjoy the journey you get to share with them.
*Coincidentally, I heard about Comedians in Cars Having Coffee on NPR as I drove home from some class visits last spring, and yes, it took me this long to get back to it. I will be watching the rest of the episodes. Who knows what else I might learn.
Collaboration Skills in Kindergarten
Here are the skills we think you can teach kindergarten students.
List developed by kindergarten teachers attending the Collaborating with the iPad workshop in Carthage, MO.
A few weeks ago I was facilitating iPad trainings and had searched for resources to support the teachers in using the iPad as a production and collaboration tool. I found a lot of demonstration videos on YouTube to show how to use different apps that we were highlighting in the sessions and I linked those resources on the training site.
As we worked through the session there were certain iPad skills I suggested and demonstrated, but then after leaving the session I realized I didn't have any resources linked for those skills that participants could refer back to. That is where Screencast-O-Matic came in. Some colleagues introduced me to the computer web 2.0 tool, Screencast-O-Matic and I knew it was just the fix for my participants need. I signed up for a free account, followed the directions on the screen, quickly created a screencast, uploaded it to YouTube (also downloaded to my laptop as an MP4), and made a link to the "how-to" video on our Weebly training site. It took about 15 minutes from start to finish which I am sure will be even quicker the next time through.
As you can see in my video below, it includes a screencast of the iPad screen (created using Reflector to mirror my iPad image on my computer), my voice, and a video of me talking (not really necessary but I was playing with all the features). I felt like the tool was very easy to figure out once I click the "Start Recording" button with on-screen directions.
The free version allows for 15 minutes of recording time, recording the screen and webcam, publishing to YouTube or downloading as MP4. One challenge in the free version to be aware of is that you can't go back and re-record but have to start all over if you make a mistake. Not a big deal if you have a script to follow and have practiced what you are demonstrating before you begin recording. This seems to be everything I need for now, but some of the options and features of the pro version includes: no watermark, unlimited recording time, editing tools, webcam only recording, the ability to publish to Google Drive/Vimeo/Box/Dropbox, and more.
In those iPad sessions, other things we discussed was how to empower learners. One way the group talked about was giving students access to resources and allowing them to decide if and when they might need them. Creating screen-casts and posting them on a teacher website or WebQuest would be a great way to offer optional scaffolding for learners to support their thinking and self-directedness. Students could even create their own screen-casts and post them to a class/school YouTube or SchoolTube account so that everyone could benefit from their expertise and knowledge.
Screencast-O-Matic isn't the only screen-casting software available, but it is simple to use and the free account offers a lot of features and options. What's your favorite screen-casting tool? How have you and your students used screen-casting software to support thinking and learning?
Additional Resources
How to Record Your iPad w/Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic Help Channel
"Genius Hour" and "20% Projects" have been showing up all over my PLN in the past months...Twitter, blog posts, Pinterest, Facebook and more. As I read more about this instructional practice I was reminded of a 60 Minutes show I watched a few years back when they were at Google's home office. The show focused on highlighting the environment and working policy Google developed designed to support staff to be as creative as possible. This policy allows staff to spend 20% of their work week on the "pet project" of their choice. They believe that giving that time will encourage creativity and breed innovative ideas. It has been claimed that half of Google's innovative "products" have come from this 20% of time.
Being intrigued by the idea of integrated time for creativity, I took a bit of R&D time (maybe we should call it my "Genius Hour" or "20% Project") to dig a little deeper and found that 3M has been doing this even longer than Google, and HP even longer; possibly as far back as 1939. They can all argue they were the first but what's more important is that we have benefited with products such as Gmail, Post-It notes, and HTML, all coming from that structured/unstructured time.
What's even better, this ideas has made it into the education world. "20% Projects" and "Genius Hour" are rooted in constructivism where authentic learning is intrinsically motivating to students. Teachers implementing this instructional practice have created structured unstructured learning time. No matter what they call this time, all have constructivist beliefs at the core. All require that learning is relevant to life. Projects require students to learn concepts at deeper levels. This type of open-ended, project-based learning requires student to question and explore, and the most effective projects end with a product and require students to present and reflect on new learning. Teachers that want students to get the most from this experience become the guide on the side and support students to find direction, develop action plans, research effectively, revisit what they are learning and what they still need to do to accomplish their goal, and efficaciously present their projects and new ideas.
Kevin Brookhouser from the I Teach, I Think blog has some great strategies, management tips, and classroom practices that could help you implement your own "20% Projects". In listening to his Radical Autonomy: Giving Your Students 20% Time Google Hangout, it is obvious he has it figured out. In this presentation, he shares best practices and has defined the steps that can help projects like his to be successful beginning with prepare parents, students, and administrators, to having the student make final presentation very similar to Ted Talks. Visit his site to learn more about his implementation steps for successful "20% Project" and check out his TedX Monterrey Talk Don't Call it a Classroom which can be found on his blog. His site also includes student examples and instructional support for implementing your own "20% Projects".
"Genius Hours" and "20% Projects" seem to align perfectly with my first educational experiences in Montessori school, my educational beliefs as a teacher, and eMINTS, my job and my love. It is intriguing enough to wish I was back in the classroom so that I could try and implement such a progressive idea. Exploring this innovative idea in learning where I can help learners find their own "genius", expertise, and passion has me thinking...could this work with professional development? My wheels are turning; what about yours?
To learn more about "Genius Hours" or "20% Projects" check out these great resources and experts on the topic.
About Brooke
As an eMINTS Instructional Specialist, it is my goal to support teachers through coaching, collaborating, and consulting.
April 2014
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I was driving north and the two objects were observed ahead of me in the NNW sky. I watched them in the sky for about ten minutes. The objects slowly moved closer and ended up on the NNE sky. Finally, when they were directly east of me, the "lead" object swooped down beyond the horizon. The 2nd rose and then swooped as well. Each object was the size of a full moon when high in the sky. Two white lights alternately dimmed on each object It looked like a car with its brights on, only set in the sky.


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A technique pioneered by Brazilian radical Augusto Boal. A play or scene, usually indicating some kind of oppression, is shown twice. During the replay, any member of the audience ('spect-actor') is allowed to shout 'Stop!', step forward and take the place of one of the oppressed characters, showing how they could change the situation to enable a different outcome. Several alternatives may be explored by different spect-actors. The other actors remain in character, improvising their responses. A facilitator (Joker) is necessary to enable communication between the players and the audience.
The strategy breaks through the barrier between performers and audience, putting them on an equal footing. It enables participants to try out courses of action which could be applicable to their everyday lives. Originally the technique was developed by Boal as a political tool for change (part of the Theatre of the Oppressed), but has been widely adapted for use in educational contexts.


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Dethatching is a vital part of lawn care. Over time, a layer of thatch, or dead grass and weeds, builds up in between the blades of grass in a lawn. This layer becomes thicker and thicker if you don't remove it. Eventually, it can get so thick and compacted that it doesn't let water and nutrients reach the grass roots. This can result in yellow spots at best, and the(…)
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By Michael Lambrix for MinutesBeforeSix
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A collection of thoughts, opinions and essays by Michael Lambrix, on Florida's death row for 34 years
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"Family Visitation Providers" Providing private and group transportation services to incarcerated love ones throughout the state of Florida. We are diligently working to bring you more routes and the best rates to help you stay connected to your incarcerated loved ones. We need your help! Please help us by spreading the word to other families! All prison trips requested will be added to our monthly schedule.
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To Mike,I have not commented on this site in years. I am against the death penalty simply because taking the life of another is wrong.
It doesn't mean I am for those who do not take responsibility for their actions. From the multitude of blogs in support of your "innocence" please spare us the bs you and yours keep heaping on this world.
My previous comment was years ago just after Thomas' dad stated he would no longer participate in this blog because it hurt too many people.
At that time, my comment to Thomas was at least you have been forgiven by your Dad.
Thomas had revealed the truth in that he came clean with his part in the killing. That is what made this blog once great. Allowing others to add their stories without taking ownership is well, unforgivable.
You have until Feb, 2016. I would suggest you come up with an honest statement and beg forgiveness from all those lives your actions caused such destruction.
Note to killers, you are not innocent. You do not deserve man made executions, but you are responsible....


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Shop News April 2017
It's hard to imagine that we are in April already and yet we don't seem to have had any winter weather. All our tutors are always a little dubious of Classes or workshops in the winter months because of driving conditions for their pupils. How lucky have we all been here in East Anglia, and long may it continue!
We hope you like the workshops we have arranged for you. Please call to book your place in a class or workshop first before sending off your payment (although obviously you can do both over the phone once your placement has been confirmed).
In our last news letter we reported that the shop and our church and surrounding area were collecting good quality clothes, shoes and blankets for Syria. You really didn't let us down with your support (as if we thought you would!). Initially we thought we would hire a Transit van to transport the boxes to Nuneaton which is the collection point for us. The number of boxes grew so much that our thoughts were then on hiring a somewhat larger Luton van. To cut a long story short we ended up hiring a 7.5 ton lorry to carry 430 boxes and bags of duvets to their destination. Thank you all so very very much for your wonderful, generous support. And guess what, we are going to do it all over again with our collection cut off date being Saturday June the 10th, so if you have any good quality clean items that are now "spare" to your wardrobe we'd love to have them. Last time we were asked for winter clothes, now they are asking us for summer clothes as well, as they now have storage areas close to the borders of this horrendously war torn country.
We have had news from the orphanage in Thailand that sadly terrorism is still playing a large part of daily life in Betong in Yala province too. They have also experienced floods earlier in the year but now sandstorms and extremes in heat making life tough for the children to study. We have recently sent funds to them and will be sending further funding after our quilt show in July. We really do think this promises to be the biggest and best show we have ever produced so please give us your support by popping along and buying a raffle ticket or two. As you know every single penny made, with no exceptions goes to the orphanage and naturally they'll be some great offers in the shop too!
As you may have seen in our workshop programme we are very pleased to welcome Debra Jarrad who is now working with us in the shop. Having attended classes for many years she "knows the ropes" in the shop very well and is a wonderful asset to our team. We have recently taken delivery of some stunning Hoffmann batiks, beautiful seaside fabrics from Stoff, the new 'Guess how much I love you" fabrics by Clothworks and High meadow farm by Lynette Anderson. Dare we say it too that Christmas fabrics, already chosen, should reach us in July!
We do hope you enjoy the workshops we have arranged for you but please call to reserve your choice of dates etc. before sending payments, although obviously you can do both over the phone.Thank you for all your support,have a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you very soon.
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IN reply to Sue Goacher's letter last week concerning the new cycle path north of Lavant, I would like to take issue with her over the following points.
The badger setts which she says have been disturbed is complete nonsense, the badgers are very evidently continuing to live happily all along the new route, not batting an eyelid.
I am amazed that children still cross the road in almost the same location as one of the barred access points in order to reach West Dean primary school, perhaps the school needs to be closed at once since it is so dangerous!
Yet Sue Goacher maintains that any entry onto this road is just too hazardous! However she is quite happy to condemn us all to walking along the main road along the existing narrow path with all its noise and pollution, not a route I would willingly choose with young children or dogs.
The ugly fence with its rolls of barbed wire that she refers to is designed to keep us from accessing the short distance of about four metres to the 'dangerous' road.
Already there have been some ugly incidents when people have been frustrated in their attempts to reach the road.
Will you be satisfied when someone gets hurt in their attempt, and who will be liable if they are damaged by the barbed wire? I am sure the National Park can't be very happy to see it there.
Does West Dean support its local businesses because it seems you are going about it in a very strange way, more a 'keep out' policy I would say. What a very unfriendly place!
But how strange, the very cycle path that you did not want to see, West Dean, appears to be regularly used by West Dean residents who have the combination to the padlock that opens the gate!
How wonderful for you, your very own private access to a path, built for us all using public money! Do you know, I don't think I want to visit West Dean again.
Cynthia Blades
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By Sara Rosner
I&M Staff Writer
Barbara Capizzo, owner of the Capizzo Gallery, is turning her space on Old South Wharf into an eclectic mix of her unique takes on classic Nantucket scenery in preparation for the first solo show of her own work since the summer of 2004.
�It�s really the show I meant to have last year,� Capizzo said this week. �But time ran out.�
Though Capizzo had initially intended to focus on a singular subject and portray it in different mediums, her current show will consist of 18 pieces that center around four themes: Hydrangea Blues; Surfside: Water�s Edge; Island Fog; and A Bit of Architecture, A Bit of Nature.
�It all just sort of formed its own way,� Capizzo said of the variety in her work. �When you�re painting, your mind has all of this time to diddle. That�s when you start thinking about other paintings you could be doing.�
Works that are part of the Island Fog portion of the show depict the coast and waters of the island in still gray tranquility and muted colors, while the pieces in Surfside: Water�s Edge portray the dunes, beaches and trails of its namesake awash in bright sunlight.
Capizzo also goes beyond landscapes with her Hydrangea Blues paintings as she interprets the flower in varying degrees of azure, sometimes tinged with pink and lavender.
Perhaps the most striking portion of her current works are the paintings that convey the theme A Bit of Architecture, a Bit of Nature, as they provide a striking commentary on the interaction between man and the environment on the island.
�Man has touched both architecture and plants. Man has touched all of my nature, unfortunately,� said Capizzo.
Capizzo�s use of mediums is just as various as her choices in subject matter. The walls of her gallery are awash in oils, watercolors, acrylics and even collage.
Capizzo became interested in collage when she took a mixed-medium workshop in Florida a few years ago. Her affinity for the technique can be seen in the attention to intricate detail in her untitled piece of a bicycle silhouette against a backdrop of a foggy moon over a creek.
�I like to be adventurous,� Capizzo said. �Just to be different, explore, change and try something new.�
Helen Potter, an artist whose work often appears in the Capizzo gallery, said that diversity has always been one of Capizzo�s strengths.
�She�s a very versatile artist. She�s not afraid to try something,� Potter said.
Despite such variety, Capizzo�s focus on quintessential Nantucket scenes brings a cohesive flow to all of her pieces.
�There�s an appreciation for the beauty and fragility of it,� said Capizzo of her work and its relationship to the island.
Capizzo moved to Nantucket in 1964 with her husband Vito, Nantucket High School�s football coach, and although they have spent the last few winters in Florida, they still spend more than half the year on the island.
The opening reception will be held at the Capizzo Gallery, 22 Old South Wharf, on Friday, July 6, from 6-8 p.m.


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Spring 2017 Hive NYC Fund grantees
The Hive NYC Fund is pleased to announce its first round of Innovation Fund grants, which were awarded this month to members ranging in organizational budget, population served, program focus, and youth engagement approach. A total of $130,635 to 7 organizations was granted to the following members and projects:
Center for Urban Pedagogy and Wildlife Conservation Society received a collaborative grant totaling $39,606 ($19,803 each) to pilot Digital City Studies, an afterschool transmedia program that will engage high school youth to examine New York City's environmental ecosystem and the individuals that have shaped its distinct identity.
Education Video Center received a grant of $20,000 to facilitate a learning exchange that will bring young people from NYC and Tennessee's Clearfork Valley communities together to engage thinking critically about digital equity and activism in urban and rural areas. This exchange will focus on the interconnected systems that impact their communities, introduce youth to current initiatives to bring broadband access to rural Tennessee, and provide a participatory and collaborative opportunity for youth to build on their storytelling, media making, and digital communications skills.
Global Action Project received a grant of $20,000 to pilot and develop a model for youth-produced, politically responsive, cross-platform, rapid response media production that can speak to critical issues impacting youth as they arise.
New York On Tech received a grant of $20,000 to pilot a digital storytelling curriculum that teaches students how to effectively capture their experiences learning about coding, technology, and careers in digital media and technical fields.
STEM from Dance received a grant of $12,200 to iterate on its core programming–in which young women choreograph multimedia dance pieces that they learn to code throughout the semester–to prototype new ways of integrating dance and technology and create corresponding curriculum in partnership with their youth participants.
TechKids Unlimited received a grant of $18,830 to pilot their Creative Technologist Teen Internship for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which aims to support youth transitioning from high school in learning computer science and tech skills while also developing their social and emotional learning skills.


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I remember it so vividly that it's crystal clear. Nearly a year ago on Monday, January 25th, 2016, during the review of our 2016 budget at the Board meeting, one of our Board members questioned whether we were sandbagging our aggressive budget and asked CEO Henry Schuck the quintessential question on every Board's and CEO's mind: "How can you grow the company faster?"
Really? They want faster growth?
That's a monumental challenge. DiscoverOrg has already achieved a 49% compound annual growth rate over the past 5 years, and with an ever-growing customer and revenue base, the law of large numbers makes it that much harder to actually accelerate growth. Here's how the math works out:
- if you add $10m of new sales when you're a $10m company, you're growing 100% a year;
- if you add the same amount in new sales when you're a $50m company, you're only growing 20% a year.
Fortunately, we hadn't waited for a Board member to ask us this question, as we'd held a growth offsite planning meeting two months earlier and were already implementing our growth acceleration ideas.
So…How Did 2016 Turn Out?
DiscoverOrg delivered a record performance in 2016 and achieved the rare feat of accelerating growth while maintaining profit margins by growing revenue through our new products and technology and an even better customer experience, As a result, DiscoverOrg's new business sales exited the year with 36% year-over-year (YoY) growth, upsells to our 2,200+ customers increased a staggering 142% YoY, and our retention was the best we ever reported.
How Did We Achieve This Growth?
We'll fill you in on our secrets to success so that you can replicate them at your company, but let's be clear – there's no silver bullet, single strategy, big idea, or great salesperson that's responsible for success. Rather, it's about the execution of hundreds of ideas and process improvements by a dedicated and passionate team that has an all-in DNA and a company culture of relentless innovation.
We Invested In Accurate Sales Intelligence, For Us.
One of the biggest changes we made in 2016 for our own sales team was building "DiscoverOrg for DiscoverOrg". Yes, we know this seems really obvious. And after nearly 10 years of building datasets for our customers, we finally realized that we needed to build "DiscoverOrg for DiscoverOrg". So, we started 2016 off by building our new Sales Dataset.
The results couldn't have been more dramatic.
After building the dataset and implementing it in Q3, our new business sales skyrocketed. New sales in the second half of 2016 were up a staggering 49% compared to the first half. That's acceleration with some serious g-force!
Sales & Marketing? We Aligned Them.
We further drove this success by implementing a weekly pre-funnel dashboard and tracking all of the pre-sales metrics – from qualified leads passed over from marketing, to demos set, demos completed, opps created, and sales pipeline. Distributed every week, this key dashboard shows our performance in aggregate for marketing and sales as well as by Team, location, and even the individual SDRs and Account Executives. This roll-up of transparent, data-based insights also includes our performance vs. budget as well as the performance of both ramping and experienced employees.
Our Sales Ops group also accelerated the team's performance by implementing new sales productivity technology – using tools like Tellwise, Outreach.io, and FrontSpin – to setup campaigns and track performance. Our Marketing Ops group performed a major overhaul of our Marketo to Salesforce tracking system and deployed a cohesive view into marketing's revenue contribution through the implementation of Full Circle Insights so that we could spend our efforts and money in the right places.
Finally, we made sure we had the right people on the two teams and that everyone was crystal clear on what's most important, what they needed to deliver on, and that hitting their number was absolutely critical to our success. The end result was an all-time record number of leads, demos, opportunities, all of which resulted in 51% more wins in Q4'16 than we had a year earlier.
New & Expanded Products for Our Customer's Success.
Another driver of our 2016 success was the launch of multiple new products – including datasets for TEDD (Technology, Engineering, Design, and Development), Sales, CXO, and HR – all of which performed exceedingly well with rapid customer adoption.
Delivering extraordinary value to our customers was another core focus in 2016, and part of the way we achieved this objective was through the rapid expansion of our existing datasets.
Over the past two years we've made a massive investment in our U.S.-based research team, which at nearly 250 is the best and largest in the industry. Combining this depth of resources with our advanced technology, we increased the number of contacts in our datasets by 138% — in ONE YEAR!
Think about that. We added more contacts to our datasets in the past year than we did in the prior 8 years combined.
Simultaneously we:
- Nearly doubled the number of companies profiled over the past year
- Enhanced all of the company technology stack information
- Launched our next-generation platform
- Created our Account-Based Toolkit
- Introduced DealPredict predictive analytics
- Updated our industry-leading CRM Application – Salesforce® Edition
- Launched the industry's only CRM Application for Bullhorn®
- Launched a seamless integration of DiscoverOrg data with Tellwise's, Outreach's, and Salesloft's SDR sales automation platform
All of these enhancements ensure that DiscoverOrg's customers have the best sales intelligence and customer experience in the industry, bar none.
A Focus on Customer Experience.
Delivering an amazing customer experience takes not just better data and great technology but also an outstanding customer experience. During 2016, we continued to deliver on that commitment.
Since January 2016, we've increased our Customer Success team by a staggering 70%! As a result the number of accounts that each Customer Success Manager supports has dropped 52% since early 2015, which gives us more time to spend with customers to ensure their success. Similarly, the support team has increased 50% over the past year. And with the additional resources, customer support cases are being answered faster than ever, we're providing more feedback to our development team to improve the product, and new support cases are at record lows.
Learning & Development: The Art to Our Science of Sales.
Ensuring that new customers successfully adopt DiscoverOrg and that employees at our existing 2,200+ customers learn about our new features and platform is no small feat. Beginning with the creation of a dedicated Learning & Development team in late 2015, last year the team:
- added in-app training
- created the DiscoverOrg online learning portal
- introduced our TiLT Sales Development Challenge for customers
- and completely revamped our new user onboarding training.
As a result we've switched from a "one-and-done" webinar training to continuous learning, with ~8,000 training activities being completed each month.
Investing in our Outstanding DiscoverOrg Employees.
Building a great company takes an outstanding team of highly motivated and successful people that are committed to our culture and your success. It's our fundamental belief that achieving this is only possible if we take care of our employees and make DiscoverOrg a great place to work. And during 2016, we delivered on this commitment in spades. Last year we:
- Increased pay across the board so that every person on our team makes a living wage
- Expanded our benefits and lowered costs – employees now can have great medical coverage for just $25 a month
- Created a dedicated employee training team that now provides onboarding, ongoing training, new management training, and leadership training across the company
- Implemented a CARE committee to drive engagement and implement employee suggestions, and
- Celebrated wins, victories, success, and rewarded those that go above and beyond
So, how do employees think we're doing?
On Glasssdoor.com, DiscoverOrg has an impressive 4.5 star rating and 90% of employees would recommend the company to a friend. As one employees said, "I've seen a lot of tech companies and DiscoverOrg is hands down the best company I've ever worked for. Period."!
Our Commitment to the Community.
It's an honor working for a hyper-growth tech company with so many outstanding customers. It's even more amazing when that company cares about its people and the community it operates in.
While we supported many groups each year, last year DiscoverOrg raised the bar to an entirely new level. In Q4, we committed to helping the 1,100+ homeless and needy children attending local schools near our Vancouver, WA headquarters. Employees were split into teams, competing against one another to raise the most money or goods for the cause, and the results were amazing, with DiscoverOrg making the largest donation ever to the Evergreen Public School Foundation, contributing $40,000 in cash and thousands of pounds of clothing and household supplies.
A Final Look Back Before We Look Forward.
Last year DiscoverOrg achieved what would be the envy of any tech company: accelerating growth while maintain profit margins; record retention, sales, and upsells; and a dramatic expansion of our products, infrastructure and teams. We're focused on making DiscoverOrg a great company to work for, that makes you successful, and we appreciate your trust and support as we continue to be the industry's premier sales intelligence provider.
Now, on to 2017 and more record growth!
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Fall travel planning is well underway in our office, and many of our staff members will be hitting the road soon. Although we do some of our recruitment travel during the spring and summer, we do the vast majority of our travel during the fall (usually 4 to 6 weeks of travel per admissions officer).
I'm particularly excited for this year's travel season because my state responsibilities have changed. While our application review process is not strongly influenced by the regions/states to which individuals admissions officers are assigned, these assignments do have a significant impact on the regions of the country to which we travel. In the past three years I have spent a lot of time in Southern California and in the Southeastern United States, and while I have really enjoyed getting to know these areas, I'm excited to see new parts of the country.
Right now I'm planning trips to Iowa and Nebraska, which are both states that we haven't had the chance to visit in a while. I would like to visit all 50 states at some point, so this is a great opportunity to visit two states that we don't travel to as often. It's a lot of fun to see where our applicants are from, and traveling has also really expanded my own understanding of the tremendous diversity of experiences and perspectives represented in our country.
This is my hometown (Hilo, HI):
And this is a photo taken from my porch in Hanover:
Photos of your hometown (Omaha, NE?) to come soon.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Dartmouth in Your City
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The Doctrine of Niceology
This is why almost every seeker sensitive church (and many that are not) trains people to be nice to you when you visit so you will come back. It's called "the welcome center." You will invariably walk away from it thinking, "Wow, those people were nice. They gave me coffee, showed me where to dump off my kids so I don't have to look at them during the service, and they are well groomed. This guy (or gal) is my new best friend! I wonder if they are married?" Just don't ask yourself the obvious question: why don't I ever see that nice person ever again unless I see them at the welcome center? Don't forget the follow-up question, "Why didn't anyone else in this church say hello to me?"
Niceology says that nice equates with "love." The Bible says that love is part and parcel with sacrifice. It also commands us to speak the truth with love. It's pretty easy to make the case that if you are not speaking the truth you do not love.
And there is the rub. In our culture that views the slaughter of the unborn as a form of birth control, views homosexual marriage as just another option for couples, and is becoming more and more post-modern (and therefore more and more atheistic) if you speak the truth you will violate the fundamental tenet of Niceology: "Whatever you do, don't say something that could offend someone."
The second tenet is like it: "Do not act as if you know the truth and someone else does not." On these two laws hang all of the doctrine of Niceology. We will refer to these two tenets as the "fallacy of nice." It is a logical fallacy which states, "If you want to bring someone to Jesus you have to be nice."
Nice and Culture Do Not MixIn our culture you will have to say things that are considered "not nice" in order to communicate truth that can either save someone from Hell or confront them in their sin or bad thinking. This may involve the unpleasant term "sacrifice": as in you may have to sacrifice your reputation as a nice guy. Or you may have to sacrifice a friendship. Ironically, that may be the most loving thing you could do. Jesus made Himself of no reputation in order to sacrifice Himself for our sins. No one would accuse Jesus of being unloving, but He said some pretty direct things to those who opposed the truth as well as those who He brought to salvation.
Was Jesus "nice" when He told the woman at the well that she had had five husbands and that the man she was currently living with was not her husband?
Was Jesus "nice" when He called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones?
Was Jesus "nice" when He drove the money changers out of the temple?
How "nice" was it of Jesus to tell the rich young ruler that he needed to sell everything he had and give it to the poor to enter the Kingdom? All the poor guy wanted was to follow Jesus! As Kirk Cameron said in an old episode of Way of the Master, maybe Jesus would have benefited from a class in friendship evangelism!
The Fallacy of Nice in ActionI have seen the fallacy of nice play out on my Facebook wall. Here's what you need to know about my FB profile: I don't use my FB profile to post pictures of kittens, fortune cookie quotes, what I am having for dinner or comments on my favorite reality TV show (for the record I don't have one). I have more than 2700 friends, many of whom are people who bought my book on evangelism or are into street evangelism, a few family members, and some unbelievers I have either known personally or who I have met on FB. I use FB to address cultural and doctrinal issues with the truth.
So here's how it works: some friend of mine who is a Christian sees something controversial that I have posted as a status update (BTW, this has happened more than once so if you think I am talking about you I suppose I might be, but it's happened enough times now that I might not be). I get a private message from the Christian friend who: 1) is concerned that I am going to drive unbelievers away with such outrageous behavior, 2) thinks what I am doing is unBiblical, and 3) suggests a teaching or their own opinion on what an effective Christian does in evangelism.
The essence of what they are saying is this: I know a better way than you do and for proof, here is an experience that I have had which proves you wrong, a verse or two taken out of context to prove you wrong, and\or a book from another evangelism expert that proves you wrong. Apparently my experiences, Scriptures in context and my own book mean nothing. The whole thing is tied up with a bow when they make (my personal favorite) the Westboro Baptist fallacy, comparing what I do to the Westboro Baptists who protest at military funerals and host websites and carry banners that say that God hates fags.
Are They Right?Of course not. I have never received a private message like this from the unbelievers on my FB profile. Bear in mind that I have had post-abortive women, gay rights activists, Mormons, atheists, Muslims, liberals and so on on my wall for years. This explains why some of the threads run to more than 100 comments. Many of these I know from face to face interaction (much like the Christians who criticize plain speaking). Do you know what they say in private conversation?
"I don't agree with what you say, but I respect your bravery."
"Hey, I just moved across country and the people who were supposed to help me and my parents unload the truck aren't here. Can you find someone to help us?" This one came the same day I was catching flack from a believer from the town that this person had moved away from on a different issue. We had contacted them to get this person help with food assistance but they never did it. And I am the one who is not loving enough? By the way, we found a group of believers who unloaded the truck in a couple of hours and left this family with the gospel.
"If you Christians are so loving and all that, why don't you help me with some food?" This came from a homosexual rights activist who we met at a gay pride event. We raised $800 in a few days and bought her a couple of months worth of groceries. It gave us the opportunity to buy her dinner, share the gospel with her for a couple of hours, and then continue an ongoing relationship that has lasted a few years where we've been able to share the gospel with her again.
"I know you are a man of God. Would you pray for my wife? She has a rare cancer and is not expected to live. Maybe God will hear your prayers." Not much to comment on here since just typing this makes me tear up. I cannot imagine. Pray for Scott and Marilyn.
"Would you read this paper I just wrote? I would like your feedback." I have had this a few times and haven't always been able to do it. These requests have come from Mormons and atheists.
Many of these folks, and others, will private message me with specific questions about the gospel and cultural issues.
Perhaps the most recent example comes from an incident that happened just two weeks ago. I was preaching on Hollywood Boulevard after we did some "man on the street" video interviews for our upcoming documentary on abortion called Babies Are Murdered Here. We ran into one of the stars from the reality TV show, Bad Girls Club. Rocky Santiago began heckling me as I preached the gospel and we dove into the issues of sin, hell, homosexuality and abortion. A couple of videos circulated of our confrontation and I began to be labelled as a hateful preacher in a few places.
What they did not see was the interview she granted us about ten or fifteen minutes later. In that interview she began sharing about her rough upbringing and her desire to change her life. I gently shared the gospel with her, she listened and even took a gospel tract with my email address on it. We've not released this interview yet because we have plans for it on the documentary, but it proves the point. Rocky respected me, probably because I was willing to take her abuse for a few minutes over the issues of the gospel. And probably because she's not used to a man who will listen to her and tell her the truth rather than abuse her.
The Lies of ExpertsHere's the deal: Christians have been lied to by the experts. They have us believing falsely that confrontation and effectiveness are diametrically opposed to each other. They say it cannot work. What I have discovered is the exact opposite. When you speak the truth in love--backing up the hard hitting truth with acts of love--people in our culture appreciate it because they cannot find too many Christians who will shoot straight with them. They know we believe in sin, in Hell, in a God of wrath as well as a God of love. They have seen too many Christians dance around the issues for fear of offending. Do you know how they interpret that jitterbug around the truth? They do not see you as loving. They might think of you as nice. But they will see you as nice in an insincere way. They're not really sure that you believe what you claim to believe because in some cases they know what you believe better than you do.
In the meantime, I expect that as long as I keep posting things about our ministry at abortion clinics, the issue of homosexual marriage, calling out false teachers for their false teaching, and calling out the heresy of Roman Catholicism, I will be attacked by the Christians as being irrelevant. From now on, I am going to ignore it. I know what I do, what the Scriptures say and how this works.
In part two, I will provide the Scriptural evidence for this approach.


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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Empaths: The Power of NOT Knowing WHY you are the way you are!
If you feel that your own ideas of what you thought were 'true' are crumbling around you, then you are not alone. It's happening for all empaths. Spirit is 'sprinkling' us with it's Divine magic right now. One of the ways this alchemical process happens is through the experience of being surprised, awed, and sometimes shocked into seeing the Truth of spiritual existence. Sometimes it takes chaotic and unpleasant situations to propel us forward into dramatic spiritual transformation. If this is happening to you now, please congratulate yourself for continuing to make the choice to breathe and remain in your human body. It takes courage and bravery for you, as an empath, to do this.
Even though we may think we know what's happening, the reality is that we don't. One of the wisest man I have ever known, a Lakota elder, is fond of saying, "I don't know nothing." The act of vocalizing this is a precursor to gaining spiritual wisdom, and in his teachings, is one of the top five attributes of spiritual warriors, which could very well be an accurate definition of an empath is.
Some of you might be thinking 'why would I want to affirm that I don't know anything?". To certain ways of thinking, this affirmation might seem counterintuitive. And yet consider the larger picture. The truth is that very few of us, if any, are privy to the details of what's happening in the BIG PICTURE. Very few of us, if any, have any idea of what REALLY happening in the moment-to-moment changing energy of humanity and the World. Do we have an idea of what might be happening, broad scale, in the spiritual age in which we live?
Many of us would say yes, we do. We believe, as have cultures for hundreds of years, that we are all engaged in a magical time that presents opportunities to create new ways of thinking, being, and actiing. YOU, as an empath, have a huge role to play in this co-creation.
Is it scary for the human ego to not know what's going on? Absolutely! The human ego's job is to make things understandable for us, to make things smaller and 'digestable'. The ego is what gets us through the daily grind of paying bills, realizing which road to turn, and making otherwise mundane (but important) decisions to keep us safe and grounded.
And yet in all of my coaching work with empath clients, and in my books; there is one important message that rises to the top, and that is the following: none of us have any idea of Who We Really Are. If we did, it would be too much for the human ego to handle. Thus, the ego serves an important function. It protects us. It is NOT our enemy, and any attempt to make it into such is only doing us harm. Many of us would like to turn that mental chatter off, and rightfully so. However, getting 'rid' of the human ego is not a worthwhile endeavor. Not only is it impossible to do because the very fact that we are in a body necessitates it, but even if we did actually override it, we very well may become schizophrenic.
As much as you might want to get 'rid' of all that mental chatter, do you really want to wind up in a mental ward? I hope your answer to that question would be in the negative! Regardless, there are three very powerful words that you can speak at any given point in time, and they provide instant relief to the ever-inquisitive and sometimes demanding human ego.
Those three words are: "I don't know."
As an empath, begin to EMBRACE the act of saying and vocalizing those words. They provide instant relief. And when you add another phrase on top of it "I don't know, and I don't need to know," you become ever more empowered.
Paradoxically, by giving away the belief that you have some powerful knowledge, you become more powerful! And so the great Mystery continues....the great 'cosmic joke' continues. Not only is it OK not to know, it's actually an empowering state of being.
So take all those unanswered questions that have been nagging you.....'why am I the way I am?" - "what is my karma?" "why must I suffer as an empath?" - and begin to make friends with the uncertainty. ENGAGE the UNKNOWING, and you'll find that your life, and the perceived burdens that you carry, become less and less of an issue. Then you can move forward with the knowledge that we are all connected to something MUCH greater than we think we know. And therein lies the MAGIC, the mystery, and the beauty.
Until next time, may you embrace those three powerful words, vocalize them to yourself and to your friends. You may be pleasantly surprised that what you thought was an uncomfortable state can actually be the greatest bliss imagineable!
Michael Smith
4 comments:
- Razzy said...
I Dont know .....!!!
I dont have to know.......YEA
It works......lol
- March 13, 2012 at 8:03 AM
True that! I don't know, I don't want to know. Now I am aware I feel better now.
- March 15, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- KP722 said...
Over the last few years when it came to my faith in God and being questioned by others as to WHY... Well, I took up this exact phrase, "I don't Know and I don't Need to know" attitude. Ever since then, these signs of being an Empath have been SO much more evident and I can no longer deny it. I've discovered that this empathy I have is not contradicting my faith, but goes hand in hand. It's all coming together and makes sense to my soul, though to express this realization in words is difficult.
- March 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Wow! To stop fighting ego, to stop wrestling with the mental chatter...I feel such relief from that thought. It seems I knew all along and just didn't trust it for it is the trend in the spiritual community to transcend ego which make it more even louder....to tame Ego and appreciate ego that gives me relief.
I am experimenting with the I don't know and I don't need to know attitude and wow it does calm down the mental chatter.
I have just recently purchased the toolkit and to me it has been a Godsend...I am learning to accept myself as I am and let myself be...let go of the guilt of being so sensitive.
I am so grateful...I feel at 51 that I am starting a brand new life! Thank you Micheal!
- July 20, 2012 at 5:33 AM


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The top is just a plain cotton yellow with a light grey chevron pattern. The sewing pattern is Simplicity 1779.
I ended up helping my mom out with some shopping, spending a few hours in the greenhouse and also getting some planters set up, and my mom was nice enough to trim my bangs (untrimmed in the picture to the right).
I picked up some new patterns the other day - because I'm totally a sewing addict - and I plan on making a 50s play-set in a tropical print. This is a challenge because I don't wear shorts well. I have the chub rub going on and the fabric pulls up. ARGH! Just thinking about it makes me nervous. Good thing my mom has a killer dress form that has adjustable padding.
|I told her "rounded bangs like a smile".
Tomorrow night I'm going to push pretty far ahead for my cookbook. We will be having a feast! Lots of fish dishes, potatoes, corn, grain, and some various sauces (applesauce type sauces). I can't believe I'm almost done with this book. It's been quite the challenge since I'm making everything for the sake of pictures.
I'm excited about my Sew-Time Wednesday post for this next week. I think it's going to be real useful to the girls with big arms. If you missed this last Wednesday, Sew-Time Wednesday is a new thing I decided to do. I can answer sewing questions, do demos, make pattern recommendations, etc. PLEASE leave me questions and stuff! I've been sewing since I was about 5 or 6...geez, that's like 27 or 28 years now. I never actually thought of it until now.
I managed to drop 20 pounds and I did as I promised myself; I bought a few things. My immediate purchase was Escada perfume. I don't normally buy perfume...actually I think this was my first time buy perfume! If I had perfume before it was always given to me by my mom. I also went to ModCloth and bought a pair of pants and 40s-style wedge sandals. I also got a little carried away and ordered a vintage 1940s dressing robe in bright pink. If it matters, I really didn't buy anything this last month except for groceries and gas for my truck. I think it's okay to splurge every so often and HEY, I think I earned a little splurge! I'll allow myself to splurge again after I drop another 20 pounds!


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Now everyone is an insider!
In order to provide an open forum for ALL of the museum's collection and activities, the Paper + People blog is being renamed SCMA Insider. With its expanded focus, SCMA Insider will act as a go-to place for sharing information on the diverse collections and many voices and visions that shape SCMA.
If you want to contribute to the blog, please contact the Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, Shanice Bailey, at email@example.com.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
French and Italian Drawings: Renaissance through Romanticism, Part II
Two weeks ago, Paper + People featured a blog poston the Smith College colloquium French and Italian Drawings: Renaissance through Romanticism,which is currently being taught by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. The class of six students organized and wrote wall texts for an installation of French and Italian Drawings from the SCMA collection. This installation is on view in the Nixon gallery on the Museum's second floor until December 16, which is fast approaching – be sure to check it out!
The course takes a very hands-on approach to learning about drawings. Not only did the students spend the first half of their semester in the Cunningham Center working directly with the drawings and writing labels which are now in the Museum's installation (a selection are shown below), but they also had the rare opportunity to actually make some of the materials which those drawings employed. In one of classes in November, the students and Professor McCullagh were joined by David Dempsey, SCMA's Associate Director of Museum Services, and Phoebe Dent Weil, a retired conservator and expert on historic methods and materials. The class learned how to chemically create iron gall ink as it would have been made centuries ago, with some surprising results:
Labels written by the French and Italian Drawings Class
Label written by Maddy Barker, class of 2015:
Benedetto Luti was famous for his work in pastel. His use of the medium can be traced back to 1703 and is considered among the earliest pastel paintings in Italy. This work is for a series of the twelve apostles. The identity of this figure is uncertain, but the presence of the open book makes it likely to be one of the four Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. The viewer is drawn in by the careful attention to tactility of the hair and beard of the apostle. Luti mastered color to create volume and luminosity reminiscent of the art of Correggio.
Label written by Sara Ottomano, class of 2015:
Renowned as a printmaker and draftsman, this French artist spent most of his career in Italy. Many of his works capture the diverse social classes within Italian society. One series of works focused on the life of beggars. Rather than depicting them as parasitic and resentful, a common practice at the time, Callot drew the beggars as feeble and harassed.
This delicate drawing is stamped with large and unsightly collectors' marks, including a crowned P, indicating this drawing was once part of Tsar Paul I's and Catherine the Great's collection in Russia.
Label written by Amanda Manocherian, class of 2015:
Giambattista Tiepolo, a renowned eighteenth-century Venetian painter, was considered an exemplar of the monumental pictorial tradition in Italian art. Favoring heroic and religious themes, he had a unique talent for depicting forceful visual dramas through dynamic, theatrically staged scenes.
In this drawing Giambattista aggressively uses washes of differing intensities to model space and form along with bold brush-strokes and brilliant highlights that clash with deep shadows to illustrate the love story of Angelica and Medoro. Angelica, the princess of Cathay, fell in love with the wounded Moorish soldier Medoro, whom she nursed back to health. Sharply contrasting planes of shadow and light meet over the lover's stylized bodies and, in combination with Giambattista's sweeping brush strokes, create an almost painfully dynamic composition that breathes fiery life into the scene.
Label written by Ellen Monroe, class of 2015:
This fantastically angular drawing is characteristic of the late sixteenth-century Florentine artist Andrea Boscoli. The same crisp lines can be seen in his sketch after a fifteenth-century Benozzo Gozzoli fresco, currently part of the Drawn to Excellence exhibition on SCMA's first floor. Boscoli's precise lines animate both compositions, but here Boscoli layered gray wash on top of his red chalk drawing. This was a technique Boscoli frequently used to create dramatic shading. Indeed, the tree on the right casts a shadow on the foreground figure, while Christ's kneeling form is illuminated.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
David Becker Day 2012
Last year in this blog I suggested that everyone observe David Becker Dayon December 11 in honor of the late print scholar, curator, collector, and philanthropist. Well, that day has rolled around again, presenting the perfect occasion to interact deeply with a work of art (preferably, a print or an illustrated book), and particularly a work of art that speaks deeply to your personal values or beliefs.
As a scholar, one of David's specialties was the French eccentric printmaker Rodolphe Bresdin, whose works feature fantastical scenes rendered in painstaking detail. Here is one example of Bresdin's etchings, donated by David to SCMA in honor of his mother, Helen Pillsbury Becker, class of 1928.
David's enthusiasms as a collector were significantly broader. One opportunity to get an idea of the breadth of his interests is an engaging exhibition drawn from the 1,500 objects he donated to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. On view until March 24, 2013, Printmaking ABC: In Memorium David P. Beckershowcases significant prints in beautiful impressions made between the 16th and 21st centuries.
However you decide to observe David Becker Day, I hope you will take the time to acknowledge and appreciate the things you love and the people that have nurtured and mentored you. While I see this day as an opportunity to encourage people to engage directly with works of art, ultimately, the day also honors someone whose ability and desire to share his knowledge and passion impacted many people (myself included) on a deep and lasting level. Pass on what you know and love, and have a wonderful David Becker Day.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
French and Italian Drawings: Renaissance through Romanticism, Part I
Here at the Smith College Museum of Art, Smith students are given many amazing opportunities to be deeply involved in their collection. This semester, one such chance was given to six students who enrolled in the colloquium French and Italian Drawings: Renaissance through Romanticism,taught by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, who is this year's Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor of Renaissance Studies. A Smith alumna herself (class of 1973), McCullagh is the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. As a specialist in French and Italian prints and drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque, she provides extensive knowledge of drawings in terms of connoisseurship, techniques, conservation, provenance, and collecting, as well as her invaluable experience as a curator at a world-renowned museum.
As an important part of the course, Professor McCullagh and her students developed an installation of French and Italian Drawings from the SCMA collection, which is on view in the Nixon gallery on the second floor of the Museum until December 16. To develop their installation, the class met here in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, where the students acquired unique hands-on experience of working directly with these drawings. Students learned how to tell more about the history and provenance of these drawings by identifying materials, paper type, watermarks and collectors marks. Using all of this information and much outside research, students wrote their own wall labels for the installation (a selection is shown below). Professor McCullagh and her students' installation of SCMA's drawings also creates a dynamic conversation with our exhibition Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection,on view on the first floor until January 6.
Labels written by the French and Italian Drawings Class
Label written by Suzanne Folds McCullagh (B.A., Smith College '73; Ph.D., Harvard University '81), the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago:
Cigoli was a prolific and expressive draftsman who brought a new naturalism and clarity to his vast corpus of drawings, many of which were preparatory for paintings and espoused Counter Reformation decorum and piety.
This double-sided drawing is comprised of red chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink (verso) studies for The Dream of Jacob, one of his early masterpieces—probably the 1593 version (the painting pictured here) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy.
Discovered mounted in a book in 1996 at an antiquarian book sale in Northampton, the sheet joins an impressive list of at least nine studies for that composition, which Cigoli executed several times in oil. The red chalk study is clearly drawn from a studio model in contemporary dress.
Label written by Carol Kaminsky:
Géricault's short life spanned the rise and fall of Napoleon and the shift from rigid Classicism to the intensity of Romanticism. His short apprenticeship in the former style was followed by a period of self-study in Paris copying paintings in the Louvre and two years (1816–17) in Florence and Rome. This brooding landscape, possibly made in Italy, is transformed by sharp contrasts between light and dark. Bands of clouds race across the horizon; a glow emanates from a hidden moon and lights a crenellated tower as smoke rises to merge with the midnight blue of the sky. Landscapes are relatively rare within the artist's drawn oeuvre, but another landscape by Géricault appears in the exhibition Drawn to Excellence on SCMA's first floor.
Agostino Carracci, Annibale Carracci. Italian, Agostino 1557 – 1602; Annibale 1560 – 1609. Landscape: Hillock with Trees,n.d. Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. Purchased. Photography by Petegorsky/Gipe. SC 1955:30
Label written by Maggie Hoot, class of 2016:
The Carracci family of artists reformed art in late sixteenth-century Italy, moving from the sterility of Mannerism to the drama of the Baroque, emphasizing drawing from nature and living subjects. While this landscape is surely from the Carracci dynasty, it is highly debatable which family member made this small sketch. A past collector attributed it to "Antonio Caracie" (as inscribed), but most scholars believe it to be by Antonio's father, Agostino, or his uncle Annibale. Drawings representing trees by both of these artists are featured in the exhibition Drawn to Excellence downstairs and provide an intriguing comparison and foundation for this work's origins.
Anne K. Socolow, Cayman Islands, British West Indies - 06/12/2012
Gericault drawing "Landscape with Stormy Sky"An extraordinary label by Carol Kaminsky - in SCMA French and Italian Drawings Class - of young Gericault's work. Her explanation of detail of chiarascuro and swirling romantic movement in this drawing prefigures Gericault's later painted oeuvre.


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Iran Weathers Another Set of Sanctions
By: Meir Javedanfar
The Iranian government has managed to weather another set of sanction from the UN. This is despite Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN General Assembly, which was anti Western and anti- semitic.
This is quite an accomplishment for Ahmadinejad and the right wingers in Iran. They can now say that talking tough has worked, and the world is at a loss as to how to deal with Iran. That the international community no longer has the patience or the strength to deal with them.
Therefore it is difficult to understand why Gholamreza Aghazadeh, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has canceled his trip to the annual IAEA meeting in Vienna. It is believed that he did it as a protest. I think there could be another reason. He stayed at home to celebrate Iran's recent diplomatic accomplishment.
For now, there is no international community to speak of, when it comes to dealing with Iran's nuclear program. It is now up to the EU and US. Still, all is not lost. There are part of Ahmadinejad's government which they can hurt with sanctions, badly.
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A lot of talk about Twitter around here. Even had a meeting with our TV pals about it yesterday.
In case you haven't noticed, a lot of our CNBC shows and reporters are throwing up Twitter pages lately (in addition to all the fakes out there). They aren't always doing it in conjunction with the us here at the Web site. I don't mind all that much but some other folks around here do, so we had a little chat about it. (More after video)
And, like most corporate confabs, we resolved nothing. But it was an interesting discussion from a "what are we in the news business going to end up doing with it?" point of view.
TV is often looking for audience participation and feedback. Twitter, various producers told me, helps that cause. It also helps that cause with a 140-character limit. A time-pressed show producer trying to get feedback onto a screen doesn't like to wade through long-winded emails. That's a good point I hadn't thought about before. (Even more after video).


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