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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Playing with Japanese fabrics and a visit from far away friends.
Lately, I have cleaned up my sewing room and have arranged my fabrics by style (Japanese, country, repro...) and by colour. That made me realize I had quite a big stash of Japanese fabrics.
So, inspired by the Farmer's Wife Quilt made by Sakae from Pink Caramel, I have started making blocks using my Japanese fabrics. It is going to be a long journey as I make only one or two blocks a week, but that's what I like with this project.
Not only am I learning more about Japnese fabrics and how to use them, I am also using Marti Michell's templates and Nat's (from Les Ouvrages de Nat) tutorials. This means I am piecing the blocks by machine which is quite unusual for me but this is the perfect exercice to get better and better at it.
This is my favoutite block so far :
And here are the other blocks I made :
Last weekend, I had friends from Portland who came over. What a great weekend it was! We talked and talked, had great food and wine, went to the farmer's market and we even visited Toulouse on Sunday afternoon.
Thanks Dean, Laura, Collin and Rachel for coming over. I'll see you again in Portland, hopefully soon ;-)
That made me realize that I should try to go to Toulouse with a tourist eye more often. I took pictures and thought it would be nice to share them with you, mainly for my overseas readers who don't know my little corner of France.
Can you see why it is called "La ville Rose" (the pink city) ?
Finally, I also wanted to share with you a new dish I tried a few weeks ago. It was a quinoa salad with grapefruit and mint leaves, pan-sautéed prawns (lightly "breaded" with quinoa flakes) . Healthy, light and so yummy..... I served it with some ratatouille made with our garden's vegetables. Give it a try...
I should be back very soon with my Stitched Me Club project completely finished ;-) and some quilt book reviews.
Now that back-to-school rush is over, I will probably post more regularly.
Until later,
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I love your farmer's wife blocs ! Great looking in japanese fabric :-)ReplyDelete
C'est aussi ce que je fais, je ne vais que rarement à Toulouse mais j'en profite comme une visiteuse... C'est beau ! As-tu remarqué les fenêtres du Capitole, nouvellement repeintes en bleu grisé ? C'est bien mieux qu'en blanc !ReplyDelete
Merci pour ces belles photos et bravo pour ces blocs, tu sais très bien manier ces délicates teintes.
What a great idea to do the Farmer's Wife blocks in Japanese fabrics. And how gorgeous they are too!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the tour of Toulouse. What a beautiful city it is.
Lovely to read your news.
The colors in the quilt blocks are lovely.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing Toulouse. How beautiful. I love the pink city!
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Your Farmer's Wife blocks look wonderful in Japanese fabrics David. Lunch looks delicious and how lovely to have friends visit from far away. I read about Toulouse in a writer's portrayal of her 6 month stints there in a house she bought. It looks like a beautiful place. Thank you for photographing like a tourist ! Have a good productive week.ReplyDelete
Salut from Germany, I just have found your blog and think your work really cute.. Nice to see the pics of Toulouse again, I lived there for one year, may I ask where do you buy your Japanese fabrics ? A bientot, EwaReplyDelete
Hi David, thank you for sharing the pictures of your "corner" of the world! I always love to see the places where people live and create :-) I also think that japanese version of Farmers wife is the best one, I will be considering it too :-)ReplyDelete
Il promet d'être magnifique avec ces tissus japonais.ReplyDelete
Great blocks and Toulouse looks like a beautiful town. It is always fun to see friends from far away again, isn't it? The food looks great, is there a recipe? I cooked with quinoa for the first time a few weeks ago and liked it , so am looking for more recipies. I have had lots of succes with your previous recipe (the prawn curry in coconut milk, yum!)ReplyDelete
Mmmm...le Farmer's revisité avec des tissus japonais ! Pourquoi pas ?ReplyDelete
J'ai hâte de voir le résultat...Bonne continuation !
Your fabric selection is so wonderful!!ReplyDelete
And, Thank you for showing great scenery. :))
bonjour David ,ReplyDelete
MErci pour ces belles photos de Toulouse prisent avec "un regard de touriste " !
C'est ma Ville de Region ... et comme toi je la trouve belle sous le soleil de septembre !
Je ne cuisine que peu le Quinoa , ta recette m' intéresse donc Car c'est une graine bénéfique pour notre corps .
Your Japanese choice does look gorgeous ! Well done on working with your sewing machine, it must be a great challenge when you are not used to it ! Sharing time with lovely people from far away is such a treat. It reminds me of my Kiwi friends visiting us last May :-)ReplyDelete
Would love the Quinoa recipe - never given it a try so it would be nice to taste it !
Beautiful blocks of your Farmers Wife. I saw then by Sakae, she make also beautiful things.ReplyDelete
The pictures of Toulouse are great! Thank you for sharing.
I love the profile picture of you, it's always nice to see the face behind this blog.
Have a nice week, Evelyne
Lovely blocks, always a joy to see what you have created.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos of Toulouse, I visited as a child in the early sixties. The food looks very yummy indeed:):)
Take care,
Anétte & Skruttan
Qu'il fait bon vivre chez toi...ReplyDelete
Давид!Меня зовут Лариса и я из России,из Санкт-Петербурга. Я восхищаюсь Вашими работами! Блоки очень красивые, ткани подобраны гармонично. Недавно заинтересовалась японским пэчворком,Заказала первые ткани,жду их с нетерпением. С удовольствием буду к Вам заглядывать. Тулуза прекрасна!ReplyDelete
J'ai aussi un petit faible pour les tissus japonais...et ai bien aimé vos coloris pour le patch de l'atelier perdu..Toulouse, nous avons adoré y vivre il y a quelque temps maintenant...surtout son animation nocturne contrairement aux villes du Sud Est qui s'endorment au premier frimât!ReplyDelete
Your Farmers wife blocks look lovely in that fabric.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous photos of Toulouse, thanks for sharing them with us. Glad you had a good visit with your friends
Your quilt blocks are beautiful and your favorite is my favorite, too! Really pretty. Love the pics of your beautiful city!ReplyDelete
i'm looking forward to watching your progress with the Farmers Wife quilt. It will be quite a change from the usual reproduction fabrics that I have seen it made in.ReplyDelete
Les tissus sont splendides et le projet intéressant, je suis curieuse d'en voir plus.ReplyDelete
Je ne connais pas Toulouse alors merci pour ces jolies photos.
Beautiful blocks and such lovely photos - thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I found you through Pink Caramel - I will be back to see your interesting blog - love the photosReplyDelete
Your Japanese blocks are beautiful! Toulouse looks lovely, I have not been that far West. Thank you for the photos!ReplyDelete
Merci pour ta visite David, cela me fait vraiment plaisir.ReplyDelete
De voir tes beaux blocs me donnent envie de me remettre à mon Farmer's Wife lâchement délaissé pour mon Jardin de Grand-Mère, comme toi, je ne sais pas dire non à tous ces beaux projets qui nous sont présentés!


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According to a survey, this simplest food has many fans, especially teenagers. Potatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and a variety of minerals. Its sex is flat and non-toxic, spleen and stomach, Yiqi Tiao Zhong. In addition, eating more rhizomatous vegetables in autumn can also help prevent colds, indigestion, stomach is not good for people, stomach and heart disease
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Best practices for eating potatoes and potatoes in autumn
In autumn, when rhizomatous vegetables are on the market in large quantities, eating them in autumn can prevent colds and help the stomach. Potatoes, especially, are foods that many people like. So, what are the benefits of eating potatoes? There are many ways to eat potatoes, but how to eat the most nutritious, the most healthy?
Eat potatoes in autumn
According to a survey, this simplest food has many fans, especially teenagers. Potatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and a variety of minerals. Its sex is flat and non-toxic, spleen and stomach, Yiqi Tiao Zhong. In addition, eating more rhizomatous vegetables in autumn can also help prevent colds, indigestion, stomach is not good for people, stomach and heart disease is a high-quality food.
Although the starch content of potatoes is very high, but similar to yam, even if eaten too much will not get fat, taste crisp or powder, suitable for frying, stewing, burning, fried, and easy to digest and absorb by the human body, so in Europe and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization officially designated 2008 as the "Year of the Potato". It is also known as the "future grain" of the earth.
4 advantages of eating potatoes
1, potatoes can lose weight.
Eating potatoes doesn't have to worry about excess fat because it contains only 0.1% fat, the lowest fat content of any starving food. Eating more potatoes every day can reduce fat intake, allowing the body to gradually metabolize excess fat, eliminating your heart and stomach trouble. Potatoes have a wonderful effect on human body. Thin people can get fat, fat people can eat thin, often eat their body will become slim. People who think they are not in ideal shape can get the effect of "the greedier, the more beautiful" if they list potatoes as a daily must-eat food for a period of time without suffering from a diet. However, the dieters should pay attention to making potatoes as staple food instead of cooking. Every time you eat 1 medium sized ones.
2, potatoes are natural beauty products.
Potatoes have a good protective effect on skin and face. Fresh potato juice directly applied to the face, whitening effect is very significant. People's skin is easy to be sunburned and tanned in hot summer, potato juice on the removal of stains effect is obvious, and no side effects. Potatoes also have significant beauty effects on the skin around the eyes. Slice the cooked potatoes and paste them on the eyes to relieve the swelling of the lower eyelid bags. Slice the potatoes and apply them to the face, which has good effects of skin care and wrinkles reduction. Young people's skin oil secretion is exuberant, often suffering from acne, acne, cotton dipped in fresh potato juice smear on the affected area can solve this problem.
3, potatoes can eat a good character.
Potatoes contain vitamin C. Working people living in modern society are the most vulnerable to depression, frustration, anxiety and other negative emotions, and potatoes can help you solve this problem. Food can affect people's emotions, because it contains minerals and nutrients can act on the human body, improve mental state. Potatoes can help you supplement vitamins A and C, or replace the acid-base imbalance caused by eating too much meat while providing nutrition.
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4, potatoes can adjust their weak constitution.
Potatoes not only make people fat, but also have the effects of callus, diuresis and spasmodic effects. It can prevent and treat crow, neuralgia, arthritis, coronary heart disease, and eye pain. Potatoes are rich in potassium, muscle weakness and loss of appetite, long-term use of diuretics or laxatives to eat potatoes, can supplement the body's lack of potassium.
High levels of protein and vitamin B can enhance physical fitness, but also improve memory and clear thinking. A friend who has no appetite in summer will insist on eating potatoes for a period of time, and you will be able to receive satisfactory results.
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Best practices for eating potatoes and potatoes in autumn
How do potatoes eat the most nutritious food?
First, steamed potatoes.
Steamed potatoes are the most ideal way of cooking. They have little effect on nutrition and retain natural fragrance. Studies have shown that potatoes have little loss of vitamin C after steaming, with a retention rate of more than 80%, while carbohydrates, minerals, dietary fiber have no loss, and starch granules are fully gelatinized, making them easier to digest and decompose in the body, without burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Cooking hints: steamed whole potatoes with skin loss less nutrition, especially vitamin C retained more, is the best way to eat.
Second place: mashed potatoes.
After the steamed potato is pressed into mud, it feels soft and more suitable for the elderly and children. After reasonable matching, it can also serve as a diet dish for people who need to control weight, blood sugar, blood pressure and so on. However, some inappropriate matching will destroy the nutritional and health functions of mashed potatoes. For example, the "mashed potato mashed potatoes" in some western fast food products, which include a large amount of margarine, artificial colors, flavors and sugar, greatly cut the nutrition of mashed potatoes.
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Less than an hour out of North Korea and I wondered, was I never going to be able to get away from bronze statues of leaders in squares? Continue reading "Chairman Mao Zedong"
Less than an hour out of North Korea and I wondered, was I never going to be able to get away from bronze statues of leaders in squares? Continue reading "Chairman Mao Zedong"
Across the road from the Eternal Life Monument is a duo of murals commonly found throughout North Korea and, in fact, the only murals that I have seen in multiple locations, including in Pyongyang and at Mt Myohyang in addition to this one in Sinuiju. The slogans on these murals are in keeping with the Eternal Life Monument and read "The great comrade Kim Il-sung will be with us forever" and "The great comrade Kim Jong-il will be with us forever".
Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, which has a virtual (if not real) monopoly on the production of statues, mosaics and murals of the leaders and, in fact, anything else featuring their images including the ubiquitous lapel pins worn by all adult North Koreans must have a raft of designers to be able to come up with an ever ending stream of new designs and pictures for this artwork.
One has to admit that the pastel colours and highly emphasised smiles on the leaders in these murals create a feeling of warmth and comfort in people looking at them. Who wouldn't want to be under the wings and loving care of these omnipresent, wise, benevolent and endearing gentlemen?
The cult of personality, unparalleled by any other world leader or indeed person, remains very much alive and well in North Korea, even 20 years after the death of Kim Il-sung and, of course, murals such as this are aimed at cementing loyalty to the Kim dynasty into the future.
The vehicle in the foreground of this picture was our transport in Sinuiju, remembering that in addition to two of us and the driver, room was needed for our two guides as well.
By this stage it was getting on to mid morning and our attention now turned to a more recent generation of North Koreans – our next stop was a school, but off course no ordinary school.
This blog entry is one of a group (loop) of entries based on my trip to Sinuiju, North Korea. I suggest you continue with my next entry – Sinuiju School Visit – or to start the loop at the beginning go to my introductory entry – In North Korea – On the Border with China.
North Korean flower shows are not quite the same as flower shows elsewhere. Well, that's not really a surprise as nothing is quite the same in North Korea. Continue reading "What did we say about the Flower Show?"
Throughout our tour in North Korea our guides went to great lengths to extol the virtues and wholesomeness of North Korea and its Leaders and took great pride in the fact that it and its people are pure, clean and devoid of negative outside influences. Our guide told us of how the State makes every effort to protect itself and its citizens from everything bad and wicked. This, of course or at least for the domestic audience, explains why North Korea isolates itself from the outside world rather than the outside world isolating itself from North Korea. Continue reading "International Friendship Exhibition"
No city in North Korea is complete without its bronze statue of the Great Leader, Kim Il-Sung, placed on the top of a hill for everybody to see. So naturally there is one here in Kaesong, on Mount Janam at the end of the grand boulevard that is Tongil Street. Kim Il-sung did not share the same modesty of his son who banned statues, etc of him being erected while he was alive. This statue of Kim Il-sung was erected in 1968. Continue reading "Kim Il-sung Watching from on High"
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death on 9 September, 1976. Continue reading "Visit Chairman Mao Zedong"
On the last day of our time in Pyongyang we got to go for a (guided) walk along the bank of the Taedong River. As I have indicated in my review of that walk it could have been a walk along a river anywhere but when we reached the sculpture in the attached picture, at the end of the walk, I was somewhat taken aback. Continue reading "Cranes bound for heaven?"
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This magnificent arch, or to give it its full title, the Monument to the Three-Point Charter for National Reunification, at the end of the Tongil Expressway marks the beginning of the Reunification Highway which takes you from Pyongyang to Panmunjom on the North-South Korean border and thence to Seoul should the road be reopened Continue reading "Reunification Monument"
Having emerged from the depths of the Pyongyang Metro we were met with the spectacular sight of the Arch of Triumph.
Those familiar with the Arc de Triomphe in Paris will see where the inspiration for North Korea's Arch of Triumph came from, though the latter incorporates both Western and Korean features. Continue reading "The Arch of Triumph"
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Suffering is a universal human experience, which may be engendered by the onset of illness, especially if illness is perceived to be life threatening. This paper examines the essence of suffering and the common sources of suffering in the setting of illness and the health system. It is proposed that many health care professionals, despite mastering the diagnosis and treatment of physiologic dysfunction, may be at a loss when it comes to helping to relieve patient suffering. At an existential level, suffering arises from the meaning ascribed by patients to events of illness, and is commonly expressed as a personal narrative. In order to help alleviate suffering and to promote healing, clinicians are encouraged to recognise themselves as therapeutic tools in understanding the nature of suffering, listening proactively to the narratives that patients need to tell so that narratives with new meanings can be created.
Suffering is a universal experience whose boundaries extend beyond the horizon of our understanding and its depth may be unfathomable to our enquiry. According to Cassell, suffering "arises from perceptions of impending destruction of an individual's personhood and continues until the threat of disintegration has passed or the integrity of the person is restored".1 Life threatening illness represents an assault on the whole person, the physical, psychological and spiritual. Furthermore, suffering is experienced by whole persons, not bodies. Coulehan suggests that suffering "is the experience of distress or disharmony caused by the loss, or threatened loss, of what we most cherish".2 The experience of suffering is idiosyncratic, mysterious and may vary in terms of intensity and duration. Reed characterises the intensity of suffering as a continuum extending from distress, through misery, anguish to agony.3 Perhaps the major themes of suffering are expressed most succinctly by Manon in Puccini's eponymous opera, when she tearfully declares herself to be "sola, perduta, abandonata",4 – alone, lost, adandoned. The four great themes of suffering, variably expressed in their intensity, are isolation, hopelessness, helplessness and loss. Concomitant with all suffering is some element of fear because according to Reed, "the patient's world view and sometimes his or her very existence are threatened by the disease or circumstances".3 According to Gillies and Neimeyer,5 it is a common observation that "illness threatens the integrity of personhood, isolating the patient and engendering suffering". Furthermore, suffering alienates the sufferer from self and society, and may engender a "crisis of meaning".6 As restated by Neimeyer, "profound loss perturbs these taken-for-granted constructions about life, sometimes traumatically shaking the very foundation of one's assumptive world".5 For many of our patients, drained of meaning and abandoned in the foreign world of sickness, "this is never how it was meant to be".
The experience of suffering is often idiosyncratic; intensely personal, the expression of suffering to clinicians includes patients describing themselves as being shattered, broken and disconnected. For many, their world simply falls apart and they fall to pieces. They become like "broken pottery".7 Suffering is therefore associated with a disintegration of self, a disintegration of values, belief systems, traditions and even daily routines. There is also disintegration of hope. Kearney considers suffering as "the experience of an individual who has become disconnected and alienated from the deepest and most fundamental aspects of him or herself".8 Kissane refers to this constellation of feelings and perceptions as the "demoralisation syndrome", in which hopelessness is the core construct, and involves negative cognitive attitudes such as pessimism, stoicism and fatalism, despair, loss of purpose, sense of failure and meaninglessness.9 Disintegration of interpersonal and community connectedness is common. Others refer to the condition as "spiritual pain".10
Of the many sources of suffering, the distressing effect of physical pain and other somatic symptoms cannot be over-emphasised. However, suffering may exist in the absence of significant physical symptoms,11 and suffering may even continue despite careful attention to physical distress. The suffering which may result from survivorship after cure of cancer has been recently highlighted,12 as has been reported the finding that a significant percentage of patients with advanced cancer do not consider themselves to be suffering.13 Undiagnosed depressive and anxiety disorders, unrecognised family dysfunction, fatigue, communication breakdown and emotional distress have been found to be additional important sources of suffering in palliative care patients.14 Wilson's recently reported study of suffering in patients with advanced cancer found that there was a dominant physical component in those with significant suffering (especially pain, malaise, functional loss, weakness and inability to eat).13 The major non-physical sources were grouped around the dimensions of social-relational concerns (especially dependence, isolation, concerns for others), psychological morbidity (especially anxiety, depression, hopelessness, loss of pleasure) and existential worries (especially loss of dignity, loss of resilience, loss of control, spiritual crisis).13
Despite the universal expectation that healthcare professionals have a central (core) role in relieving suffering, it is acknowledged that healthcare professionals are poorly trained and unprepared to diagnose, assess and manage patient suffering, even though pain management, psychological issues and psychiatric diagnoses are often covered.15 Since suffering frequently has an existential component, related to a shattering of meaning, purpose and hope, physicians cannot rely solely on theory, knowledge and skills that address physiologic dysfunction. Rather, as Coulehan, suggests "we must learn to engage the patient at an existential level".2
The starting point in attempting to engage with the suffering of our patients stems from our readiness to develop a deep awareness of illness, its meaning and symbolism to our patients and to recognise both mute and expressive phases of the suffering which may result from illness.16 That is, we need to be awake or alive to the other person, and to develop a readiness to connect with the 'person' of the patient.17 As Sassall says, the good doctor "must come close enough to recognise the patient fully".18
To be physically present during another's personal illness and distress is important. Our training places little emphasis on the importance of 'being there' and 'listening' in times of turmoil. Silences can often penetrate those places where words cannot go. In one of her earlier essays, Saunders suggests that it is sometimes simply enough for our patients to perceive that we are with them in their struggles and that we are on their side. Accordingly, "we are not there to take away, or explain or even understand it".10 It is important for our patients to know that we are witness to their suffering and that they are not abandoned.19 However, even when we dare to remain physically present, it is sometimes more comfortable to remain detached or to withdraw to the confines of the traditional medical history and unknowingly, conceal and imprison the distress of our patients within it.2
The theologian Henri Nouwen uses the term 'self emptying' to describe the process of being there, fully present in order to "pay attention to others in such a way that they begin to recognise their own value".17 However, as health professionals we tend to be in a state of preoccupation with emphasis on diagnosing, investigating and curing the physical aspects of disease; "curers of disease" rather than "healers of the sick".20 Nouwen continues: "Every time we pay attention we become emptier and the more empty we are the more healing space we have to offer".17
Dobkin and Stewart emphasise the importance that physicians develop 'mindfulness' as an initial step in fostering healing in their patients,21,22 and many commentators stress the need for physicians to better understand their own beliefs, feelings, attitudes and response patterns.23 Mindfulness is characterised by learned mental habits, such as attentive observation of self, patient and context – critical curiosity, a fresh mind and presence ('being there').23,24 Mindfulness enhances the physician's ability to bring awareness to the treatment of another human being. It is not what is done, but how it is done that matters most. It is not how much time is spent with a patient, but rather what transpires within that time.24 It has been recommended that mindfulness be introduced early in medical education, recognising the need to broaden training such that curing and caring are equally valued.23 Mental preparation in order to fully exercise compassion is a prominent teaching in Buddhism,24,25 as well as other followings.17
We therefore connect by emptying ourselves and listening actively. It has been said that the most valuable thing we can give each other is our attention (our emptiness), taking the time, being genuinely interested and not being distracted by professional title, by what I think I have to offer or what I want to be the outcomes. My essential self is sufficient.24
The recent interest in teaching communication skills to healthcare professionals is both encouraging and overdue.26,27 However, the communication techniques which are taught do not necessarily guarantee connection and better communication. The teaching of communication skills alone without true underlying communion, will predictably be seen by patients as gratuitous and superficial at best, and demeaning at worst. For many patients, communication techniques will only be of benefit when they are used in the context of a deep awareness that has already been established. Saunders suggests that patients "need someone who will come to this meeting not bearing any kind of technique, be it therapeutic, pastoral or evangelistic, but just as another person".10 As observed by Sackett, widely regarded as a father figure of evidence-based medicine, "the most powerful therapeutic tool you'll ever have is your own personality".27
The importance of connecting with patients and becoming aware of the therapeutic use of ourselves is usually not taught formally in medical schools.28 Instead, many aspiring young doctors might see that to be 'professional' also means becoming detached.2,25Providing a listening ear may risk opening up our own vulnerabilities. There has been an unwritten caveat that getting too close to patients can be dangerous, both personally and professionally, because so much perceived pain, negativity, fear and loneliness can prove to be overwhelming and may lead to emotional exhaustion and compromise good sound clinical decision-making and on the job learning. As Shlim describes it: "The only way they (doctors) feel they can care more for patients is by not caring too much".25 Remen has contrasted the important clinical roles that doctors have in fixing, helping and serving patients.29 In discussing the clinical role of service, Remen suggests that "we can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch".29
While it has been said that 'everyone has his or her own story', it is equally true that 'everyone is a story'. Each story is unique. I particularly enjoy Allen's opinion that "a human being is nothing but a story with skin around it".30
Our own stories define who we are. Human experience is framed and interpreted in terms of our life stories. Amato has said that "with no story to tell, we are no people at all".31 It has been said that we live in stories not in statistics; we "continually author our own life stories as we reflect, interpret and re-interpret what happens in our lives, and tell and re-tell our stories to other people and to ourselves".5 Stories help us to make sense of the insensible, to explain our view of the world. Storytelling can be regarded as one of the oldest healing arts.
Stories also allow us to tap into the state of suffering. Suffering arises from the meaning ascribed to events and is commonly expressed as a personal narrative – the only things about ourselves that cannot be taken away, the only things that remain coherent and intact. And from our stories, hope may gently trickle into our pools of pain. The poet Lesley Marmon Silko wrote: "I will tell you something about stories, they aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death".32 Stories, according to Mount et al, are one conduit through which "healing connections" may be created, so that patients may be able to move from suffering to a sense of wellbeing.33
In the health system, there are a large number of parameters and outcomes which are assessed – outcomes such as length of stay, infection rates, waiting times, responses to treatment, survival times and treatment-related toxicity. However, if it is accepted that a core activity of the health care system is about the relief of suffering, what is really known about the prevalence of suffering in our health system?
More than a quarter of a century ago, Cassell argued that physicians do, in fact, have a professional responsibility to understand and to treat suffering at an existential level.1 In addition to attending meticulously to physical symptoms and seeking other sources of suffering, listening to the stories of patients is one conduit by which clinicians can tap into that state of suffering; the telling of stories is the conduit by which patients endure, reflect on, redefine and may finally transcend their state of suffering.34,35 There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you; health care professionals can increase or prolong the state of suffering by ignoring it, by walking away and by ignoring the stories that need to be told. The cartoonist Leunig encourages "teach us to embrace sadness lest it turn to despair".36 Of course, many clinicians do not even get past the standard medical history; unwittingly, we may imprison our patients within the confines of the medical history. The direct question: "Do you feel that you are suffering?" does not yet appear to have found its way into our routine assessment of patients. A recent Consensus Conference provided strong recommendations for the implementation of a spiritual history and spiritual care in patients with life threatening illness.37
To be a witness to a person's story is a validating and re-personalising activity. Yes, this is really happening to you – no, it is not a dream. And I am a witness to your story. And, I will tell your story. "Besides talking himself", Broyard suggested, "the doctor ought to bleed the patient of talk".38 The physician-healer, according to Egnew, becomes a therapeutic instrument by drawing out the patient's narrative experience, and then "helps the patient to create or discover a healing narrative with new meanings that transcend suffering".35 As observed by Frankl, "suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning".39
Stories have healing power – not only in the content, but in the telling comes healing. Unlike the predictability of many clinical outcomes in medicine, the outcomes resulting from interpersonal communion may be neither predictable nor understandable. When we do listen to people's stories, we make room for mystery and healing to occur. A healing effect on the teller, as well as a healing effect on the listener (see Wal's story).
Wal's story
Wal came in to see me the other week. Wal is 79 years in the shade. He lives on his own in Sans Souci in the sun. I treated Wal eight years ago for prostate cancer. I think he is cured. Wal shuffles in; his fair skin makes him look anaemic. Wal has a problem with his weight, but he doesn't care. What he lacks in teeth he compensates with a big thirst for his favourite VB stubbies. Wal wears old faded fawn shorts and green thongs. Wal has good knees. In my honour, Wal has not shaven for a week. I sit with my two students; it is 11.30 am on a Friday, the end of a long follow-up clinic. And so close to lunch.
"How are you doc?" "How are you mate, what's news?" Wal and I are friends. We talk. He reaches back into the half-full pockets of his colourful past. The stories come, they start to flow. His stories about the war, his stories about life in the tropics, his work as an engineer, Mr Fixit; how he could make things work when others couldn't. A cheeky smile breaks across his ancient seafarer face; a toothless grin.
The students shuffle their feet. One looks at her watch, the other at the floor. They look at me (how much longer?). We finish – I thank Wal for his stories and for coming. "Your prostate cancer is under good control Wal, and your PSA is normal. See you in another six months time".
Wal stands, we shake hands, he turns to leave – and dissolves in tears. "All I wanted was someone to listen". No one speaks. He hugs me. None of us can speak.
Wal left. We were no longer hungry. There was silence. We have communed over the broken bread of Wal's life stories. And we were sustained. We sensed a healing had occurred for all of us.
Remen makes the common observation that "dying people often have the power to heal the rest of us in powerful ways. Years afterwards, many people can remember what a dying person has said to them, and carry it with them, woven into the fabric of their being".40
Finally, stories may represent a patient's quest for 'immortality', and they remain a legacy for others.34 Our patients may therefore say, as if in the words of Byron: "But I have lived, and have not lived in vain; My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, and my frame perish, Even in conquering pain; But, there is that within me which shall tire torture and time, and breathe when I expire".41
In the end, the value of our patients' lives may not be measured so much by what they knew, nor by their possessions, but by what they have to tell in their stories, enabling them to know at last who they are and how to come to peace with life and death. Our patients live on in their stories; our story becomes woven with theirs – two, but also one. We then, become custodians of what we have heard and witnessed.
In his letter of 1549, Michaelangelo Buonarotti suggested that sculpting is a process of 'taking away', in contrast to painting which was seen as 'adding on'.42 It is up to the sculptor to reveal the soul imprisoned within the stone. Michaelangelo carved in order to liberate, to set free, the figure imprisoned within the marble. We see this effect most powerfully in some of the unfinished statues of Slaves. The figures seem to explode from the stone. In fact, the power of the figures is enhanced by the very fact that the statues are unfinished on purpose. Complete, though unfinished; whole, though imperfect.
In conclusion, three recommendations appear appropriate. Firstly, understand and appreciate suffering. As a result, you will learn more about yourself. Secondly, understand and appreciate the stories that your patients need to tell you. As a result, you may become healers. Finally, never underestimate the therapeutic potential of who you are, whether student, intern or senior consultant. In the words of Remen, "who you are may affect your patients as deeply as what you know. You will often heal with your understanding and your presence things you cannot cure with your scientific knowledge".43
This paper was written to reflect some of the key themes of the inaugural Whole Person Care Symposium, held in Sydney, October 2009.
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The holiday shopping season is underway. Are you searching for the latest toys and gadgets? The one item that parents usually forget to buy is batteries. Check out some battery life and care tips and be prepared when giving gifts!
Battery Life Tips
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To consumers around the world: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 – a day that will live in infamy – Rayovac announced that FUSION batteries are now available for retail purchase. Shockwaves rumbled across the nation when consumers heard the news of 35% longer lasting batteries on shelves at local stores. Let this letter serve as a caution to the general public: once you try the new FUSION battery formula, all others will fail in comparison.
A celebration of battery invention, Battery Day lauds the accomplishments of Sir Alessandro Volta, the inventor of the world's first electrical battery. Fast-forward to 2015 and the Rayovac FUSION brand is pushing the limits of alkaline battery technology. FUSION is created when elite performance is paired with a super-charged formula. Expectations will be shattered. Boundaries will be surpassed. With an improved energy-dense formula that lasts 35% longer than alkaline, FUSION has taken energy to a whole new level. No doubt Professor Volta would have been proud. More...
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Hey there this is Oneminute! It has been a long time since we last posted, sorry for not updating with our blog posts >< This is going to be a long post!
(Yin Xi and our mysterious member, guess who)
These past three weeks have been eventful, with all of us busy working with our animations! We are using digital animation to animate!
This is what Audrey had been doing for the first week of the production week: animating smoke. (She spent an /extremely/ long time on it, because there were many changes to be made. This is not how the final smoke animation looks like, so do look forward to it!)
On the other hand, the other group members did the background and the characters, and let them 'spread' into the picture.
This is the software we use, Toonboom! As you can see, our fireman in this picture does not have his full body revealed, which is how we do our 'spreading' by slowly adding in his body+details bit by bit.
Here is a picture of Yin Xi doing the animation of our racial riots scene! The man seems to be doing martial arts, right?
Enough of not-as-fun pictures of our production! Now let's move on to the fun stuff! On the 28 Nov during our production, it was Mr Alvin's birthday (our beloved instructor)! He's stuck with us and the other groups+instructors to celebrate his birthday instead of his girlfriend, so of course we have to make it a memorable one!
Our present in the making!
An artist (actually Cynthia's mother) drew this for Mr Alvin as he loves Batman!
And here's our final present to Mr Alvin! Inside the envelopes are the letters our group and 2 other instructors wrote for Mr Alvin! (text in black: Let's analyse this drawing with Science!)
Here is a group picture of the four of us and Mr Alvin, with our presents! The Subway sandwich is a gift from the other instructors as a birthday cake (25 candles!)
Also, the blogger assigned to our group, Calvin came to visit us to interview us and chat with us. 🙂 (Check out his blog to see updates on his visit with us!)
He's in the picture below! He also brought us yummy donuts hehe
A big thank you to Calvin for the donuts!
2 more days to the end of production, and we're almost done with our animation! Looking forward to see the product of our hard work in NYP! Continue to support team Oneminute! 😀
the members from Oneminute!


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A Hardwood Classics (HWC) colorway of the Nike LeBron 15 is scheduled to release next month. Although tonal in design, the Nike LeBron 15 HWC comes with plenty of detailing. Let's get a closer look.
The Nike LeBron 15 HWC comes dressed in a Photo Blue and Total Orange color scheme. The upper comes in a Blue Flyknit construction offset by the Orange accents placed on the branding. Branding hits on the shoe include the Nike branding appears on the inner heels and LeBron's signature on the heel pull tabs. Other details on the shoe include the speckled midsole, translucent outsole, "B.B.Z" embossed on the inner tabs that pay homage to to his kids (Bronny, Bryce, and Zhuri), LeBron James' hometown of Akron, Ohio area code "330" and his Dunkman logo also appears on the inner tabs.
Like what you see? Look for the Nike LeBron 15 HWC to release on February 9th for $185.


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God's Word makes sure that you know what His views on homosexuality are but before learning what He thinks about them it is a good idea to visit Webster's and read his definition of homosexuality; Webster's tells who they are:
Main Entry:ho£mo£sexuality
1 : atypical sexuality characterized by manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex
2 : erotic activity with a member of one's own sex — compare LESBIANISM
3 : a stage in normal psychosexual development occurring during prepuberty in the male and during early adolescence in the female during which libidinal gratification is sought with members of one's own sex
A sexual desire towards members of one's own sex defines them, a definition that readies you for God's Word and updates you to an understanding of His feelings towards homosexuals. You begin with Romans 1:28 (KJV) where God is sharing these feelings with you:
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Going against nature, in God's way of thinking, is not convenient; it requires an effort. He made man and woman in such a manner that they, being attracted to each other, is natural and convenient.
Representing themselves to be wise, Romans 1:22 (KJV) shows homosexuals as those who have simply become fools:
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Through the lust of their own hearts, Romans 1:24 (KJV) shows that they, dishonoring their own bodies, causes God to turn them away as unclean:
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
And Romans 1:26 (KJV) describe women, changing the natural use of their bodies, as women with vile affections:
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
God's Views on Homosexuality are becoming quite clear and Romans 1:27 (KJV) continues by including His feelings about men who abandon their natural attraction for women and perform unnatural acts, one with the other:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Alexander is back in Medicine Hat, where he lives,
and he is recovering. Thankfully so.
I just don't know what more to write... it's hard to be a long distance mom
Posted by Jozien Keijzer at 10:29 AM
3 comments:
- Matt, Kara, Hunter and Cavan said...
Glad he is doing okay!
My mother-in-law is all the way out in Cape Breton and I know it is hard on her with us all the way out here. My parents are in Northern BC, so it isn't so bad.
- February 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- Cheryl Cato said...
Beautiful mountainscape!
- March 1, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Dienosaurus said...
I'm happy that he is okay now! I was shocked when I found out!
btw. Love this picture!
- March 10, 2012 at 12:48 AM
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You're a really nice movie, but I just don't think it's going to work out.
In "See Jane Date" (at 8 tonight on ABC Family Channel), Charisma Carpenter ("Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") plays Jane, a 20ish book editor who has less than a month to find a date to her younger cousin's wedding so she won't look like a loser.
On her quest, Jane encounters a rogue's gallery of Very Bad Dates: the shaky guy who's not over his ex; the antsy alcoholic; the guy who's belligerent with the wait staff; the fellow of ambiguous sexual orientation with tickets to "Hairspray"; the seemingly terrific guy who is suddenly "too busy" after Jane sleeps with him.
The whiny, dissatisfied single girl is a tired old scenario. Done cleverly, as in "Bridget Jones's Diary," I can just stomach it. But "See Jane Date" takes the hackneyed topic and leaves it smack in the middle of Clicheville. The film can only envision two options for its heroine: wedded bliss or pathetic spinsterhood.


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By Alex Easley
|Harry Kane scored his second goal in a week, but was injured as Spurs saw Sunderland off 1-0 at White Hart Lane.
The hosts earned all three points thanks to Kane's finish from close in after 59 minutes following a bad mistake by Sunderland defender Papy Djilobodji.
The win saw Spurs rise above north London rivals Arsenal in the table after not remaining unbeaten in their first five league games of the season so far for the first time in twelve years.
Sunderland, however, had Adnan Januzaj sent off at the death after a second yellow card and remain in the relegation zone as they are still winless in the top-flight this campaign under David Moyes.
Mauricio Pochettino's afternoon ended on a sour note when Kane had to be carried off three minutes from time with what looks like a serious ankle injury.
The Spurs boss revealed after the game that the forward was set to undergo a scan to determine the full extent of the problem.
Pochettino made three changes from the side that lost 2-1 at Wembley in the Champions League to Monaco on Wednesday, with Mousa Dembele starting his first Premier League game after completing his domestic suspension.
Moussa Sissoko made his first start for the club since joining from Newcastle on deadline day and there was movement in the defence, as Eric Dier partnered Toby Alderweireld in the centre and Jan Vertonghen moved to left back in place of Ben Davies.
David Moyes also chose to make three changes from the side that lost 3-0 to Everton last Monday night, all in midfield, with captain Lee Cattermole, Didier Ndong and Steven Pienaar all being recalled.
However, as kick-off neared, Sunderland made an unexpected late change, with Jason Denayor replacing Patrick Van Aanholt for his Premier League debut.
The Belgian defender was given a tough baptism of fire by Heung-Min Son, as the midfielder tormented him down the Tottenham left time and time again.
The South Korea international was a bundle of energy down the left flank in the opening exchanges, with Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford being forced into a brilliant reaction save at his near post to keep out Kane's close-range shot after nine minutes.
Pickford was an increasingly busy figure as the first period wore on as shots rained down on the visitors' 'keeper, with one particular effort from Son Heung-min six minutes before half-time beating the England U21 international, only to strike the outside of the post.
However, despite all Spurs' pressure, it was Sunderland who created the best chance of the first half after good play by Januzaj in the box saw the Belgian escape to the right-hand byline and pull the ball back for Steven Pienaar, whose close-range effort was cleared off the line by Kyle Walker.
|Kyle Walker denied ex-Spur Steven Pienaar as he the ball cleared off the line before half-time.
The pattern of the second period was much the same as the first, with Spurs pressing for that opening goal, which finally came just before the hour-mark, although Sunderland will be very disappointed with their part in it.
Walker swung in a cross from the right which Dele Alli headed back across goal, only for Djilobodji to make a hash of his clearance in the six-yard box and present Kane with a simple tap-in at the far post.
The home side, who had a Premier League record so far this season of 31 shots on goal, had several chances to increase their lead in the final quarter of the game, with Pickford furthering his already growing reputation by denying Alli and substitute Erik Lamela with excellent stops, while Dier also flashed a shot that went inches past the far post.
Pochettino may now have to make do without the likes of Kane, Dier, who suffered a hamstring injury, and Walker, who also appeared to be nursing a hamstring problem in the closing stages, over the course of the next few weeks.
|Spurs striker Harry Kane was stretchered off with an ankle injury in the remaining minutes of the game.
Tottenham: Lloris, Walker, Alderweireld, Dier, Vertonghen, Dembele, Wanyama, Sissoko, Alli, Son, Kane
Subs used: Janssen, Lamela, Davies
Sunderland: Pickford, Manquillo, Kone, Djilobodji, Denayer, Januzaj, Kirchhoff, Cattermole, Ndong, Pienaar, Defoe
Subs used: Khazri, Watmore, McNair
MAN OF THE MATCH: Heung-Min Son