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The couple's decision to make a significant financial commitment to the Center for Children and Youth ties into their fundamental desire to care for the community—particularly as gay men without children of their own. They view each child as a child of our community and feel it is a shared responsibility to see that all children are nurtured and able to reach their full potential.
With their gift, Alex and Martin hope to inspire others to join this exciting and vital effort to support the next generation. Martin says, "We all need to invest in the future, and JFCS is the place to do it."
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For large gardens and commercial uses, there is a third type called towable lawn sweeper that will need to be pulled by a vehicle or small garden tractor. Overall, lawn sweepers are much cheaper than baggers and are a great alternative to standard leaf blowers.
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Firstly, think about how big your lawn is and how often you use your lawn mower. Secondly, consider the differences between the lawn sweeper and lawn bagger. As mentioned above, lawn baggers are attached to lawn mowers hence they will be great for small gardens as well as gardens that have a lot of obstacles.
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In order to ensure that your chosen garden tool will stay functional for years to come you will have to regularly clean it. Overall, there isn't an exact guide on how often you should clean a lawn sweeper or bagger but the rule of thumb is to thoroughly clean it after several uses.
Light cleaning such as wiping the top surface and handle will be best done after every use plus you would also want to turn the lawn mower upside down after every use in order to get all the grass clipping out.
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Lawn sweepers and lawn baggers will need to be stored away for the winter and it is recommended to clean the deck before you store it away too. Cleaning the deck before you store the tool away will ensure that no grass rods during the winter.
Moreover, it would be a good idea to empty the tank or remove the battery if you have an electrical lawn sweeper. Also, if you are going to clean the tool with water and stop then ensure that you dry it afterward. Plus, some gardeners prefer to lightly spray the deck with any sorts of oil including vegetables.
The gas tank is recommended to be emptied because otherwise it would be become gummy during the winter and could possibly damage the engine in electrical lawn sweepers. But, if you don't want to bother with emptying the tank then you could just add a small amount of fuel stabilizer into the tank and run the sweeper for several minutes so as to mix it with the fuel.
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A lawn sweeper or bagger is essential in any household that has a lawn because otherwise the fallen leaves will decay on the lawn and halt the growth of the grass. This leads to bare patches to form on the lawn thereby ruining the aesthetic appearance of your garden or front lawn.
Raking the fallen leaves and other debris manually can be very exhausting hence a lawn sweeper or bagger can very much ease the task.
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As you probably have already understood that choosing between a lawn sweeper and a bagger does not have to be difficult as each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
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Geoghegan (Irish: Mac Eochagáin) is a surname of Gaelic Irish origin.
Often spelt without the prefix "Mac", the name has many variants, including Gehegan, Geoghan, Geohegan, Gahagan, Gagan, and Gagon which approximate the most common pronunciations of the name. It is usually pronounced gay-gan, ge-heg-an or go-hee-gan. In Irish it is Mac (or Mag) Eochagáin, from Eochaidh. The initial "G" of Geoghegan comes from the prefix Mag, a variant of Mac and the anglicised form Mageoghegan was formerly much used.
The sept of the MacGeoghegans is of the southern Uí Néill, and said to be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages. Niall was alive from the mid 4th century into the early 5th century. His father was Eochaidh Muigh-Medon, of the Celtic line of Erimhon, one of the sons of Esbain who it is said took Ireland from the Tuatha de Danann.
Niall's mother was Carthann Cas Dubh, daughter of the king of Britain. Niall's first wife was Inné, mother of his son Fiachu mac Néill, from who the Geoghegans are said to be descended. He also had seven other sons with his second wife, Roighnech. Niall's ancestry is claimed by Irish legend to trace back to Miledh of Esbain, King of Spain, whose wife was the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh Nectonibus. This is not to say Spanish-speaking Spain, which did not exist at the time, but a Galician or Gaelic-speaking community on the Iberian penninsula. From there the line is sometimes traced to Niul (from whom the river Nile got its name) who was married to the daughter of Pharaoh Cingris (all known only in Irish legend).
As High King of Ireland, Niall reigned from the ancient Irish royal seat at Tara, in modern County Meath. During his reign he conquered all of Ireland. He took a royal hostage from each of the nine kingdoms he subjugated, hence his famous nickname. He gave each of his sons a territory to govern. Fiachu was given a large area in the midlands. His descendants were known as Cenel Fiachaigh, anglicised at Kenaleagh and their territory was known by that name until Elizabethan times when it became the "Barony of Moycashel", County Westmeath.
Niall is also famous for bringing St. Patrick to Ireland as a slave. It is said that Fiachu refused baptism from the saint himself at Carn, near Castletown-Geoghegan. The old name for this place was Carn Fhiachaigh, or Fiachu's burial mound.
On the other hand, it is claimed in the early 15th-century manuscript called Leabhar Breac that the Geoghegans are descended, not from Fiachu, son of Niall, but from a plebeian, Fiachu, son of Aedh. This claim so enraged the descendants of Fiachu, that they killed the author of the passage, even though he was under the protection of Suanach, the abbot of the monastery of Rahin.
Time of Cromwell
The MacGeoghegan Barony of Moycashel is located in south central County Westmeath bordering King's County of the Uí Falighe. The main town in the barony is the old 'post and market' town of Kilbeggan, noted for its fine whiskey, its booming stud business and the modern Kilbeggan Race Course. The Sept were of considerable importance up to the conquest of Cromwell when they suffered severely primarily through confiscation and banishment. Their leadership of the 'Irish of Meath' alliance had dire consequences. This alliance had kept 'The English of Meath' in check since the thirteenth century when they dispossessed the De Lacy alliance of its castellated marvels in Trim. The collapse was due in no small measure to an appalling lack of political acumen in dealing with the Royalist and Commonwealth forces and their Parliamentary leaders. The Geoghegans gave no quarter and in the military mores of the day, received none in return. The Down Survey enabled the Commonwealth to moved quickly to dispossess the leading family of land, wealth and sway. It further facilitated a harsh exile of what both the Commonwealth and the later restored Monarchy both considered tp be a very dangerous opponent indeed. Given the rich agricultural potential of the lush Westmeath paddocks, confiscations came quickly, at the commencement of the Survey rather than the end with the most productive holdings going to Gustavus Lambart, a son of Lord Kilcoursey, later Earl of Cavan.
Some fifteen MacGeoghegan chiefs of Cenel Fiachaigh (Kinaleagh) are mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters between 1291 and 1450. In the coming Tudor reconquest the (Nine Years' War) Richard MacGeoghegan, after fighting with great gallantry, was killed at the Siege of Dunboy in 1602. Five of the sons of Charles MacGeoghegan of Syonan, Co. Westmeath, were killed during the Williamite War in Ireland; and in the eighteenth century Mac Geoghegans appear as soldiers on the continent, mostly in the service of France. The extensive MacGeoghegan estates in Co. Westmeath were held by a number of different branches of the family. The most important of these properties was at Castletown-Geoghegan, followed by Jamestown, Rosemount, Carn and Donore. By the end of the seventeenth century the bulk of these vast estates had been confiscated and many of their original owners, who ranked among the leading gentry of the county, had been outlawed. Following the Stuart Restoration, the royalist were careful to keep many of the ex-parliamentary officials and ex Commonwealth soldiery on much former Geoghegan land. This precaution ensured physical and political loyalty. They also restored significant portions of post Down Survey distributions to former Geoghegan allies and Puritan opponents such as the Foxes, Molloys, Brennans, Coffeys and the Daltons. In return these families accepted grant and surrender oaths and religious civic commitments. Most of the Geoghegan leaders stubbornly refused to accept sign.
There have been several notable Geoghegans including:
- Michael Geoghegan (b. 1953), former HSBC Group chief executive
- Thomas Geoghegan (b. 1949), Chicago labour lawyer and politician
- John Geoghegan (b. 1956), Midfielder, Accrington Stanley FC
- John Michael Geoghegan (1881-1847) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980), American actress and Congresswoman from California whose electoral defeat to Richard M. Nixon propelled him into national politics.
- In the late 1800s William Geoghegan was head brewer, and his brother Samuel was chief engineer, at the Guinness brewery in Dublin.
- Ted Geoghegan (b. 1979) Director of We Are Still Here
- Roche MacGeoghegan (1580–1644), the Dominican, "saintly and enterprising" Bishop of Kildare;
- Richard Henry Geoghegan, linguist who designed the Esperanto flag.
- Richard MacGeoghegan who commanded the defenders at the siege of Dunboy at Berehaven Co Cork in 1601
- Conal MacGeoghegan, Chief of the Sept, translator of the "Annals of Clonmacnoise" into English in 1627
- Priest and historian James MacGeoghegan (1702–1764)
- Anthony Geoghegan (1810–1889), poet
- St. Hugh of Rahue between Tullamore and Tyrrellspass in Co. Westmeath) was of the family which became MacGeoghegan when surnames were adopted. The saint's crozier was in the possession of the MacGeoghegan family for many centuries. Through intermarriage, it passed to the Nagles of Jamestown House, Co, Westmeath.
- A branch of the MacGeoghegan sept settled in Bunowen, Co. Galway, and the name is found in that county as well as in their original territory. In the West it has been often shortened to Geoghan and even Gegan. In 1807, John Geoghegan of Bunowen Castle, Co. Galway assumed by royal licence the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Geoghegan and so his descendants.
- Lawrence and Sebastian Gahagan, who were sculptors of note in London between 1760 and 1820 were Irishmen called Geoghegan at home.
- John Geoghegan. Mayor of City of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada 1994–2003
- Simon Geoghegan Ireland rugby international.
- Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (b. 5 September 1950), Irish politician and current European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science.


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How Career Services can increase college hiring
Success of Career Services function is often associated with the number of students hired from the college. Even though the scope of career services is much larger and addresses overall career readiness of the students, the effectiveness of Career Services function is quantified in terms of number of students hired. Hence, building and managing relationship with employers is vital and more the number of employers the Career Center is engaged with, more the chances of students getting hired. Attracting employers to the institution, facilitating access to the talent pool and facilitating smooth hiring requires dedicated effort and teamwork. It's even more important to keep the employers interested by regularly engaging them so that they come back to your college every hiring season.
Ability to network and connect with people is an essential trait of a career services professional. By networking you make your college/university visible to the employers, build a brand for your institution and be on the radar of recruiters.
Events such as NACE Conference help Career Services professionals in networking with fellow CS professionals as well as Employers. Event participation will help you attract employers to your campus and refresh older connects and acquaintances. Events in which students can participate and make presentations representing their college/university is an effective branding avenue as well as highly helpful in getting noticed by the employers.
Social Media
Active presence in social media (LinkedIn and Twitter) is extremely important for any educational institute. All the major Universities' Career Centers are very much active on LinkedIn and the staff members post regularly, connect with recruiters and participate in groups & discussions. LinkedIn is a powerful medium for targeted communication and building your network of recruiters as most of them actively use LinkedIn. In fact, many companies use LinkedIn as a hiring tool and hence they are active on LinkedIn and Career Center staff members can connect with them easily.
Twitter is another media where the institutes can share regular updates about the latest developments in their school. Several Career Centers already have their Twitter handles and tweets multiple times in a day with relevant hash tags. The tweets could be about the events you are doing in the campus, any success stories & achievements, career fairs or even seasonal greetings and wishes.
Career Services Management Platforms
Career Services Management platforms will have jobs listed from the recruiters for which the students can apply directly. Some of the CSM platforms are integrated with popular jobs boards and hence the jobs from those job boards will be available on CSM platform. CSM platforms will also help you maintain relationship with the employers by helping career centers to be in constant touch with them, collaborate and share information just by a mouse click. Building a rapport with employers and maintaining it is so much easier if you have a sophisticated CSM platform. CSM platforms also facilitate smooth hiring from the campus using workflow driven processes. Modern systems also provide online interviews which makes it easier for the employers. Having a CSM System that can integrate with ATS systems will simplify the hiring process for employers.
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Nine in 10 young Saudis look towards emerging tourism and hospitality careers
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The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer behind the world's most ambitious regenerative tourism project, has released the findings of a new study into the perceptions of Saudi youth and their parents towards the tourism and hospitality industries.
The research, based on more than 850 face-to-face interviews, found that young Saudis are less interested in careers in more 'traditional' sectors such as petrochemicals and oil and gas, but favour those within the country's strategic growth industries aligned with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.
In total, nine in 10 (91%) young Saudis were interested in pursuing a career in tourism, compared to just over three quarters (77%) who were interested in a career in petrochemicals. "We are only at the beginning of Saudi Arabia's exciting transition to a new and diversified economy and future generations have a chance to play their part," said John Pagano, CEO of TRSDC.
"A career in tourism or hospitality offers a range of opportunities like no other. From managing an international hotel group, to becoming a world class chef or entrepreneur, the sector has something for everyone. The Red Sea Development Company is at the heart of this emerging industry and once completed our destination will support 70,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs providing opportunities to people throughout the country," he added.
Young Saudis and their parents are acknowledging the roles that tourism and hospitality will play in the country's new diversified economy with two thirds (69%) and six in 10 (59%) respectively believing the sectors will become more important for the Saudi economy over the next 10 years.
They are also optimistic that these roles will be a key driver of employment for Saudi nationals, with over two thirds (69%) of young Saudis believing that expanding tourism and hospitality industries would provide jobs for Saudi nationals.
The appeal to young Saudis of a career in tourism or hospitality is driven by the perceptions of the lifestyle it will provide. Over eight in 10 (84%) believe that a career in tourism and hospitality will give them the salary and resources they expect to sustain themselves.


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S-Video (also known as separate video and Y/C) is a signaling standard for standard definition video, typically 480i or 576i. By separating the black-and-white and coloring signals, it achieves better image quality than composite video, but has lower color resolution than component video.
Standard analog television signals go through several processing steps on their way to being broadcast, each of which discards information and lowers the quality of the resulting images.
The image is originally captured in RGB form and then processed into three signals known as YPbPr. The first of these signals is called Y, which is created from all three original signals based on a formula that produces an overall brightness of the image, or luma. This signal closely matches a traditional black and white television signal and the Y/C method of encoding was key to offering backward compatibility. Once the Y signal is produced, it is subtracted from the blue signal to produce Pb and from the red signal to produce Pr. To recover the original RGB information for display, the signals are mixed with the Y to produce the original blue and red, and then the sum of those is mixed with the Y to recover the green.
A signal with three components is no easier to broadcast than the original three-signal RGB, so additional processing is required. The first step is to combine the Pb and Pr to form the C signal, for chrominance. The phase and amplitude of the signal represent the two original signals. This signal is then bandwidth-limited to comply with requirements for broadcasting. The resulting Y and C signals are mixed together to produce composite video. To play back composite video, the Y and C signals must be separated, and this is difficult to do without adding artifacts.
Each of these steps is subject to deliberate or unavoidable loss of quality. To retain that quality in the final image, it is desirable to eliminate as many of the encoding/decoding steps as possible. S-Video is an approach to this problem. It eliminates the final mixing of C with Y and subsequent separation at playback time.
The S-video cable carries video using two synchronized signal and ground pairs, termed Y and C.
Y is the luma signal, which carries the luminance – or black-and-white – of the picture, including synchronization pulses.
C is the chroma signal, which carries the chrominance – or coloring-in – of the picture. This signal contains both the saturation and the hue of the video.
The luminance signal carries horizontal and vertical sync pulses in the same way as a composite video signal. Luma is a signal carrying luminance after gamma correction, and is therefore termed "Y" because of the similarity to the lower-case Greek letter gamma.
In composite video, the signals co-exist on different frequencies. To achieve this, the luminance signal must be low-pass filtered, dulling the image. As S-Video maintains the two as separate signals, such detrimental low-pass filtering for luminance is unnecessary, although the chrominance signal still has limited bandwidth relative to component video.
Compared with component video, which carries the identical luminance signal but separates the color-difference signals into Cb/Pb and Cr/Pr, the color resolution of S-Video is limited by the modulation on a subcarrier frequency of 3.57 to 4.43 megahertz, depending on the standard. This difference is meaningless on home videotape systems, as the chrominance is already severely constrained by both VHS and Betamax.
Carrying the color information as one signal means that the color has to be encoded in some way, typically in accord with NTSC, PAL, or SECAM, depending on the applicable local standard.
Also, S-Video suffers from low color resolution. NTSC S-Video color resolution is typically 120 lines horizontal (approximately 160 pixels edge-to-edge), versus 250 lines horizontal for the Rec. 601-encoded signal of a DVD, or 30 lines horizontal for standard VCRs.


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Mast plays an important part in the Iranian daily diet. Unlike other Middle Eastern countries, it is light and unfiltered. It is thinned with water to make dugh, a tangy beverage served ice cold, flavored with aromatic herbs.
Flavored with cucumber and mint, it is eaten on its own or with bread. "I'm allowed to eat a lot of it," says Baback, the son of the household, "because I often have an upset stomach and it helps." With the addition of herbs and spices, it becomes a salad dressing.
Thickened with starch, it is turned into a dessert; it can be piped out into various shapes and then fried in oil and served in a heavy syrup.
Iranians will tell you that it is so easy to make home-made yogurt that you really have no excuse not to try it. Avoid electric machines and yogurt makers that you find on the market, because the temperature is usually too high and you have no control over the final result.
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"Jane's Bath": The Presentation Of A Three Dimensional Drawing
Artist Robin A.S. Haynes, of Bath, Maine, created a three dimensional ink and poly-chrome drawing on heavy-weight archival paper.
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Deception, it happens to us all!!!
August 1st, 2011 by JimT
Sometimes in life when working in the christian field of helps and counseling we run into many different situation. Many times people will say one thing and mean another, or tell you something that not exactly true, you know Lie to you. Many time even when lying people will either convince themselves what they are saying is true or actually believe from the being, this is called being deceived and it is usually a form of ignorance or lack of understanding. It can be very hard to deal with people on this level, I know in times past I would be frustrated and even angry with people whom I felt were being deceptive.
Was I wrong to be Angry? If you asked me that 10 years ago I would said, No that I had every right to be angry. Ask me now and I'll say, Yes itâ€s wrong to be angry. Why? We should never be angry with the ignorance of other. I use to be ignorant in this area., Thank God and the Lord Jesus my Heart was finally filled with some Compassion for others.
"But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses. And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,â€
Acts 3:12-19 (NASB)
Here is a prime example of ignorance and deception. Peter is talking, most likely, to some of the very crowd of angry people that stood outside the Rome Judgment Hall the day Jesus was condemned to death. These were the people that prompted Pilate to condemn him by shouting "crucify him†repeatedly until Pilate decided he'd better wash his hands of this matter and simply do away with this man. (Luke 23:20-24) These people were deceived into thinking that Jesus was not who he claimed he was. Now at the feet of Peter and the witness of the power of God moving through the Holy Spirit in Peter. Now these people were having a heart change. God was absolutely willing to forgive them just as he forgave Paul on the Road to Damascus the one who condemned the followers of Jesus (Acts 9:1-22).
Some of these people in Acts 3 were the ones who shouted out to condemn Jesus, God's Grace and Mercy exceed our understanding, but what is clear is that in both cases, (Paul and the people Peter was speaking too) their acts of cruelty were clearly done in ignorance and God can deal with that.
This brings us to us, lets look at all the opportunity we have with other to either condemn or Love. As Christian we are forgiven people. We are forgiven by the Lord, we have both the reason and responsibility to forgive others. All we have to do, is remember the times the we hurt other, and we can understand that at times we may have been guilt of the same things we see others doing. So our job is to Love and Exhort, not condemn. We at times in our lives have been victims of the same deception and ignorance we see in others. As spiritual people we must work to restore others, to Loving set them on a the right path, help open eyes where other can't see the hurt in their own lives and hurt they may be causing. We must always Act in Love and not come down on people because that never helps.32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ephesians 4:32-5:2 (KJV)
" Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.â€
Galatians 6:1 (KJV)
Lets not be deceived ourselves into thinking that we are above anyone else, or into being hard on the lost. They might only need someone to guide them in a Loving manner. In the following record Philip had it together, walking by the spirit he Loving approached this man and helped him in to the Lords salvation!!!
"So he got up and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship, and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot. Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, "Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.†Acts 8:27-31 (NASB)
I Love You All and may God help us daily to save our Faith
One Response to "Deception, it happens to us all!!!"
on 01 Aug 2011 at 5:43 pm1 Doubting Thomas
Jim T,
Great article. I especially liked it when you said, "All we have to do, is remember the times that we hurt others, and we can understand that at times we may have been guilty of the same things we see others doing. So our job is to Love and Exhort, not condemn. We at times in our lives have been victims of the same deception and ignorance we see in others."
It is of course much easier to condemn then to compassionately Exhort and Love someone…


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Book review
From the opening pages of Emerson Whitney's debut memoir, "Heaven," the author occupies a body. It is their mother's body, but it is also their own.
"I am like Mom. Symmetrical and tan. I write about her body because of my own discomfort, the oil drum fire that is myself," Whitney writes. "The truth was in her mouth. The etymology of woman is wife … we were meant to be women, her eyes drawing me down."
"Heaven" is perhaps best described as a meditation — and it's a perfect read for Pride.
It's a slim book, compressed; it is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy, a physical experience and a cerebral one.
"The way we speak about the body disconnects it from the mind," Whitney writes, referencing Stephen J. Smith's "Physically Remembering Childhood." Throughout "Heaven," Whitney is in a constant reckoning with the paradox of this disconnect. Their mind and body are the same entity, but separate. The mind and body are at once connected and separated by language.
At the heart of "Heaven" is a tight weave of family — Whitney's grandmother, their mother and them. Three generations live within the constraints of femininity in their own ways, and their deepest wealth is the complicated love they have for each other.
Whitney moves deftly between heady philosophical analysis and the embodiment of a child's voice, braiding together personal memories with a vast array of references from academia and pop culture alike. They expertly render the experience of witnessing, and feeling in their own body, the consequences of their mother's addiction, confusing and abusive relationships with men, and abandonment; of the author's disjointed relationship with their brothers; of neighbors and friends who cared for them in ways they did not, as a child, understand.
And then there's the relationship Whitney has with their grandmother, a beacon of unconditional love, the physical and emotional anchor of their childhood.
"Memories unhooked from language show up as sense," Whitney writes, and the sensual does saturate this narrative. But the story is also defined by the limits of language, limits that restrain even this review, limits that bind all of us.
To explore what it means to live in a body, Whitney draws from across popular media — everything from the movie "Moonlight" to medical texts and Western psychology and philosophy; from the Amazon "best in transgender" list to elite middle-distance runner Caster Semenya's ongoing battle with the International Association of Athletics Federations to Justin Torres's novel "We the Animals."
In looking outward, they are drawing a map. It's a map of their own body, their family, of gender, culture and art; a representation of something that perhaps doesn't even exist. Language is Whitney's compass, their medium for charting experience. And to be sure, the map they draw is beautiful. But it can only ever be incomplete.
"Because of this gap in language," they write, "there's a gap in me."
Whitney connects the lyrical dots of their fragmented story with existential nuance, making "Heaven" both a challenging and deeply satisfying read. It is a book of questions and gaps. "This is the question of my body and my story about it: is it just mine?" Whitney writes. "What if there is no such thing as a place of pure 'me'?"
Ultimately, it is this unanswerable question that gives the reader permission to sink into their own senses, and to embrace their own confusion.
In a time when many feel more unmoored than usual, this is a relief. The unknown can be as much an opportunity as a source of fear. Whitney asks us to think about what we are underneath false binaries and the performance of self.
"There was nothing I wanted more than for my nakedness underneath clothes to match the movement of the sea," they write. "A kind of joy that hadn't cracked for me ever. I curled toward the sun."
"Heaven" by Emerson Whitney, McSweeney's 200 pp., $24