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Monday, December 16, 2013

Mr. Pig's Holiday Gift Guide

Greetings! It's been a busy a week in the cottage. I've been baking and wrapping and decorating my curly tail off. (It's not easy stringing lights on the roof when you're 2 ft 7, but I managed.)

Kristen, Kara, Jamie and Anika have been busy, too, helping me pull together my

Holiday Gift Guide!

If you're looking for some last minute gift ideas. . . look no further!

Eggplant Rattle: If you want to bring people joy that lasts as long as life, then you might want to get them one of these knitted treasures. Kristen usually buys the rattles, even if the person doesn't have a baby. She calls them karma cleaners. You shake it to erase negativity and bring luck. She bought her agent two. Find them at the Five Trees etsy shop.
I Am Small by Emma Dodd: This is Anika's go-to gift book for very little kids or parents expecting a new baby. It begins simply: "The world is big... / and I am small. The world is fast... / and I am small. The ocean is deep... / and I am small." And ends sweetly: "But you are big / and you are kind. When I'm with you/ I do not mind." Dodd's mixed media illustrations of a baby penguin in an arctic landscape really capture the feeling of being small in a big wide world. And the baby penguin is cute and fuzzy. So fuzzy.

Emperor Penguin and Baby plush: Try pairing I Am Small with an adorable plush Emperor Penguin and Baby like this one we found on

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School: When it comes to stocking stuffers, Kristen likes to give people survival guides. Chronicle Books has a very good series of Worst Case Scenario handbooks. And for the 11-14 year olds in your life, they even have a guide to surviving middle school.

Anika's favorite winter-themed picture book this year is Snowflakes Fall, by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Steven Kellogg. MacLachlan and Kellogg, who are longtime friends, were moved to collaborate on a message of hope for children and their families following the tragic events in Sandy Hook. Kellogg and his family lived in the Sandy Hook community for thirty five years. The language and pictures are lovely, and Random House will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

Snowflake Origami Kit: Try pairing Snowflakes Fall with a Snowflake Origami kit, like this mini one by Jordana Tusman. Origami keeps Anika's daughters (ages 11 and 9) occupied during boring holiday dinners with too many grown-ups or long car trips.
The Origami Yoda Files by Tom Angleberger: Speaking of origami, SuperFolders will flip over this new boxed set of the bestselling Origami Yoda novels. Included are the first four books -- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Darth Paper Strikes Back, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee, and The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett. These books are favorites of Jamie's two boys.

Kara discovered the fabulous Out of Print Clothing: Classic children's book covers on tees and onesies . . . and they carry great stuff for adults, too! Visit their website at
The Smallest Gift of Christmas by Peter Reynolds: In this whimsical picture book by the beloved author-illustrator of Dot and Ish, a young boy learns that more isn’t always better -- and rediscovers the magic of home. We think this heartwarming, be-careful-what-you-wish-for story is the perfect holiday gift.

Puppets: Nothing says I love you like a puppet. Because you can actually put your own hand in the puppet and make it say "I love you." Some of Kristen's favorite hand puppets are made by Zubels. Her favorite finger puppets are made by Manhattan Toy.
Kara loves Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner: Gorgeous illustrations by Christopher Silas Neal illustrate this gentle unveiling of a hidden wintry world.

Jamie's a huge fan of Mega Mash-Ups by Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson: Kids can draw their own adventures in these short, funny books that mash up two very different storylines. While text and wacky illustrations appear on every page, there's plenty of white space for doodling. Perfect for reluctant readers! See all of the Mega Mash-Ups here.
Idaho Spud: Nothing says Happy Holidays like a nostalgic candy bar shaped like a potato. For people Kristen really wants to impress, she tries to get them a Christmas spud. Find them here.
Happy holidays!

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Saturday, 4 March 2017

Vaults - One Day I’ll Fly Away

Continuing with the chill out theme here's another take on the old Randy Crawford classic

Lady Fi said...

So wonderful!

Phil Slade said...

I always consideres Randy Crawford a singer rather neglected by the masses. One of for connoisseurs maybe? "Fly away" one of her best I agree.

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Gone Fishing11 Apr 2017 5:26 a.m. PST

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Saturday, April 11, 2009

The reason for the holiday

Okay, I haven't had time to work out the details on how to do this, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there before it's too late. We had a primary activity today and my friend did this activity that taught the Easter story using Easter eggs. Each egg had an item inside that helped tell the story: mini donkey, leaf, nail, praying hands, whip, etc. The last egg was empty to represent the empty tomb. She bought the set but I thought you could probably just improvise with stuff in your own home. I'll probably re-read the story from the Bible and rummage through my house to throw this together but I wanted to toss this idea to anyone who can get their creativity in gear in time to present this for Easter. I've been big on trying to emphasize the religious aspect of holidays for my children. Got any ideas on what items to use or other ways to help kids remember their Savior on this day filled with sugar and fighting for the prize egg :) ?

Gina said...

As I was pulling up the picture I used for this post on googleimages I thought it might be nice to have several images of the Savior to show the kids and talk about Jesus and his life and teachings and so forth.

debs said...

Cool! Our primary president gave that same presentation during sharing time today. She used soap with the verses about Pilate washing his hands, a piece of red cloth for the robe the Romans put on him, small rocks for the earthquake, a larger rock for the stone covering the sepulchre, a piece of white cloth to symbolize the burial clothes, dice for the Romans casting lots - I hope this gives you more ideas. She mainly used verses from Matthew 26-28 and a few from Luke and one from Mark (sorry I don't remember the chapters for those).

Emily had some great ideas on her blog post for other Easter activities. We dyed eggs yesterday and hid them at the park with some plastic eggs filled with candy. Today we heard talks and lessons about the resurrection at church. I think the repetition today has been very good. After church Julie asked to watch Finding Faith in Christ, a good movie for Easter, and wrote her own Friend magazine with articles about Easter. For family scripture study we discussed Easter for the Nephites. Josh was very excited to tell us all about the resurrection during our discussion. (He is a Sunbeam this year.) Simple, but kept the day reverent.


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Thursday, March 12, 2009

"Oh Yeah"

You know the song and unbeknownst to you, you can probably lip-synch the entire thing too. So why haven't you heard of the band Yello? Easy there Cowboy...I'm not blaming. Hell, I never knew who sang it until today and it's those two guys above, Deiter and Boris. I'm not making those names up either. You're probably thinking it's the "Macarena" too, huh? I would not do that to you. It's "Oh Yeah" by Yello. They Swiss electronica duo really only had the one hit, and that only peaked at #51 back in 1987. Why do you know it so well? Not Another teen Movie, Soul Plan, K9, SNL, Nip/Tuck, Gran Turismo, The Simpsons, Twix, and Oh Yeah...Ferris Bueller's Day Off - they've all used it.

"1961 Ferrari 250 GT California.
Less than a hundred were made.
My father spent three years restoring this car.
It is his love, it is his passion..."
"It is his fault he didn't lock the garage."

So, the song I know you know you know is actually by Yello and now when it comes up again in some obscure subway situation or the next AT&T commercial, you can at least say you know a smidgen about the song.

Yello - Oh Yeah

Anonymous said...

Yello have so much more great songs!! Like:
I Love You
Vicious Game
The Race

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Bodie Johnson said...

I agree...and I'm not saying they didn't have any more good songs. And, some may argue my deeming the song a "hit" as it only peaked at #51. But yes, they DO have other great songs...thanks for bringing them to my attention.


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29 January 2013

Being in the right place at the right time

Landscape photography is mostly that, right? But even if we happen to be on the right place and things, nevertheless, still look dull, we can always sit down, relax and enjoy the view. The right time may happen at any moment.
Fog bow (or glory) near the Pico Ruívo Mountain Hut. Fog bows are similar in formation as the common rainbows, however since the water droplets that reflect the sun light are much smaller than the ones on rainbows, they always have weaker colours.
Picture taken with Nikon D40X and Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED  VR kit lens. Post-processing (increasing saturation and contrast, slightly underexposing) in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

28 January 2013

Sunset in a romantic belvedere

The belvedere close to Montanha Restaurant, East of Funchal, is a cherished place for lovers and photographers alike. From it, we have one of the most magnificent vistas to the South coast of the island...
... and the sunsets over Funchal bay are, most of the times, memorable:
Both pictures taken with Nikon D40X and cheap Nikkor DX AF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR. Post-processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.01.

27 January 2013

The shape of the Earth

Galen Rowell once wrote that he liked to take pictures to treeless landscapes because the absence of vegetation allowed him to see the shapes of the Earth.
Although I would love to totally agree with him, I have to refrain my enthusiasm when I think about Madeira.
The forest fires that seem to become a Summer a habit since three years ago are allowing us to see the island's geological shape. That's a fact.
But at what cost? Desertification?
I guess his opinion is valid to the desert planes and high mountain massifs of the world. Actually it's valid to every region in the planet where the forest cover was never a part in the natural equation. At least during the most recent geological Era.
But in my island this does not hold true. Since its origins, Madeira was always a luxurious place, rich in water and vegetation.
Then in come the people and, as Lee Marvin wisely sang in "Paint Your Wagon",  gum it up good.
So... do I like to see my island's natural shapes? Yeah. But sometimes I miss her trees.
The shape of the Earth, as seen from the mouth of a tunnel, in the Levada do Folhadal, near the Encumeada Pass.
Picture taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 and cheap Panasonic Lumix 14-42mm kit lens. Post-processing in Adob Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

Funchal old town

Once a bad neighbourhood, the Funchal old town is now a central reference in the city's nightlife and cultural movement.
The cobbled narrow streets are cleaner. Commerce shops, restaurants and bars abound. And there's plenty of tourists walking around, giving the place a cosmopolitan atmosphere. Much like being in Lisboa's Bairro Alto. Only smaller.
The painted doors are one of the attractions in this charming city quarter, with the artists competing amongst themselves for the most original idea or just for showing their unique vision.
Believe it or not... this is a door.
Pictures made with Nikon D300 and Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX Macro DC HSM. Post-processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

Ship's crests

Among the various kind gifts we, sometimes, receive from the ship's Captains as a token of appreciation for a pilotage job well done, the ship's crests are, in my modest opinion, the most important ones.
Material value apart (these pieces are basically the ship's coat of arms - either made of metal or plastic - glued over a wooden shield plaque), their symbolic value is quite important: they are the ship's highest symbol and, for that reason are reserved only for official ceremonies, such as offerings between ships or between ships and shore institutions (namely port authorities and Pilot corporations). This normally happens on the vessel's inaugural call in a particular port. In both situations the ceremony assumes a generic form where crests are exchanged between both intervenients.
Therefore, this gift to an individual person is very rare. Personally speaking, in almost eight years of pilotage life, I received this kind gesture only once: in a docking manoeuvre of the M/V Oceana, in the port of Funchal, a few months ago.
In the maritime heraldry, the ship's crests occupy the highest rank. It's the ship's "visit card" by definition. Similarly to the noble families of the medieval times, it gives us, in a glimpse of an eye, an idea of how proud she is about her name.

24 January 2013

Sirui T005 - The ultimate travel light tripod?

For us, outdoor photographers, a tripod is not a luxury. It's a necessity. However finding the good perfect one is, probably, impossible. Let's see what is, normally, for us the definition of a perfect tripod: it has to be, simultaneously, light, small, stable, durable and... cheap.
A piece of equipment that unites all these characteristics still has to be invented. So we diversify. Any person that is a little bit serious about photography will end up acquiring at least two tripods: one, normally heavier, when maximum stability is paramount, and a lighter unit when (as Galen Rowell wisely pointed) it's better to take a light tripod than no tripod at all. Normally the latter is the problematic one. Until now my lightest tripod was a Manfrotto 190XDB that I used with their lightest ball head (the ProBall 308 RC). However, although stable, this combo is still heavy for a person that likes packing light and in most mountain trails it's already on the limit of what we can, comfortably, transport on our hands. In mountain trails, on steep terrain, if we need both our hands to help the progression, the last thing we need is one of them occupied in handling a tripod.
In those circumstances (quite common in Madeira, actually), we might choose one of three possibilities: leave the darn thing behind, strap it to the rucksack or use a tripod strap and pass it over your shoulder. Since I don't wear a rucksack (on daily hikes I enjoy very much my Lowepro Inverse AW200) and in my modest opinion the use of tripod straps is a good way to compromise your equilibrium in more technical steps, I went shopping for a tripod light enough to strap to my waist pack without damaging it and at the same time sturdy enough to allow for some sharp pictures. Galen Rowell used to talk about two which he considered as good options: the Gitzos 001 and 026.
Sadly the prices of Gitzo material are anything but accessible, so I tried to find a cheaper alternative.
And, in this particular case, it appeared as the Sirui T005.
The tripod comes in aluminium (in a choice of three different anodized colours: black, blue and red) and in a carbon fiber version. I bought the version shown in the above picture and one thing I can tell you: it's really light.
It's Gitzo look-a-like construction is visible particularly on the rubberized twisting leg-locks and the quality construction is patent on the machined parts of all the structure. With the legs (five sections!) fully extended, opened in minimum angle and with the center column not extended (as shown in the picture) this light piece of kit has the head's base plate at 1.20mts from the ground. With the additional extension of the center column (it's a telescopic one) we gain an additional 17cms in height, positioning an attached camera at about 1.38mts from the ground. Not bad for an equipment that retracts up to 31cm when fully closed.
Two of the legs have leg warmers, however that rubberized material seems a little delicate for intensive use. Certainly not in the same league as the ones on my trusty Manfrotto 055 NAT3. I think they will wear out quite fast. Have to start looking for spares.
The standard ball-head that comes with the equipment (called C10 by the maker) is well machined and with a smooth movement, having both a ball lock knob and a panning base lock knob. However the max load allowed for this rig (4kgs, according to the constructor) seems to me a bit optimistic. This is an equipment clearly aimed to a consumer DSLR kind of camera with a light kit lens and not for the weight of a professional product, such as the Nikon D4. Or even for a D300 or D700 with a heavier Nikkor lens. So you can imagine my surprise when I read on the SIRUI site that this particular ball head has a max. weight load of 15kgs (or 33.1lb). Now... that's optimism.
One thing annoys me, however: you cannot lower the center column. It's fixed on the tripod's base plate. and you will always have those 21cms of metal between the tripod base plate and the head you choose to put on top of it. I think it was John Shaw who once said that a raised center column turns a tripod into a three legged monopod. I'll see in the future how it works under windy conditions. Granted, there's a retractable hook on the tripod's base plate. You can always suspend some weight on it for additional stability, but... come on Sirui... all you needed was to drill a hole and place on it one more twist locker, pretty much similar to the ones on the legs.
By the time I'm writing this, their website is already showing another version of this tripod. This time, without its center column. But it would be more interesting that the center column was there. And that we could use its extension at our own discretion.
After testing it in the field, I'll update this small review. Meanwhile, a small tripod is better than no tripod. And this small buddy seems to be quite alright for the task. Keep on shooting...

20 January 2013

MV Arion

On the past Friday, a manoeuvre in the port of Caniçal took me very fast to my past career, when, in a vessel much like this one, I was tramping all over the North Atlantic. Sometimes, I really miss the sea.
The M/V Arion alongside the North terminal, in the Caniçal port, on the same day's morning.
Picture made with Panasonic DMC-FT3 and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

Pilot Card:
Ship's name: M/V Arion
IMO number: 9177868
Type: General cargo ship - coaster
LOA: 89.71 mts
Beam: 11.65 mts
Summer displacement: 3643 MT
Max draft on manoeuvre: 4.50 mts
Propulsion: Diesel engine, one fixed-pitch propeller, gear-box, total propulsion power: 1500 KW
Rudder: 1 - Balanced
Bow thruster: 1 (total power: 194 KW)
Stern thruster: N

The elevating bridge of the M/V Arion photographed at sunrise, on the past Friday morning.
Picture made with Panasonic DMC-FT3 and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

On my way back home, after the past Friday morning manoeuvres, I photographed the tuna fleet of Caniçal in dry hibernation, in the port's shipyard, waiting for the next fishing season.
Picture made with Panasonic DMC-FT3 and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, ver. 4.1.

02 January 2013

Volcanic heaven

Although the Madeira archipelago is no longer volcanically active, it's telluric origins are no surprise to those who visit this, presently, calm and sub-tropical paradise.
In fact, the old age of the islands, associated with the dramatic erosion forces of nature, shaped the islands in a way that is now difficult to find a large geological accident stating its origins, like a common volcanic cone or crater.
However, there are still a few curious examples all over the island reminding us of those violent birth days, some five million years ago, such as the S. Vicente lava tunnels.
The area where these formations (unique in the archipelago, as far as we know) are located is now an interpretation center and allow us a visually staggering and sensory voyage to the inners of the Earth.
Experiencing a sensory voyage to the Earth's core, on the Volcanism Center of S. Vicente.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Preggers unite!

Meet Sonja (German), one half of one of the couples we met in our childbirth classes. She is 37 weeks and due Nov 9th, but I reckon she's gonna go before me! Check out our bellies! We also have the same OBGYN and were sharing stories over dinner (my first experience with Raclette) at their place on Tuesday night. We've started walking and spending babe-free time together (while we have it!) as well. It's good fun.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

39 weeks and counting

It's officially been 39 weeks, and I had my weekly appointment with the OBGYN today. I'm still not effaced or dilated and rarely have contractions, but the baby's head is continuing to descend (I thought her head was already down all the way?!). I'm in no rush to have the baby though. The doc tells me that the hospital has been crazy busy with multiple births everyday, as has she! I think I'd rather give birth when the hospital isn't completely chockers.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Yey for lemons

This afternoon, Andreas and I went with a few friends to the CA Lemon Festival in Goleta. It was mostly for kids, but we throughly enjoyed the cornucopia of lemon and non-lemon food and festivities. Andreas had a very tasty bratwurst (made by real Germans nonetheless) with lemon ale in a fancy schmancy lemon festival mason jar. Some of the other lemon foods we enjoyed were fresh lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lemon ice cream, lemon pound cake, lemon cookies, etc etc. Twas a lemon-filled, yummy day.

UCSB's Grad Formal(er)

Stephen, Courtney, Andreas and I attended Grad Formal(er) last night. It's basically a night for graduate students and their partners to be whipped back in time to the high school days where formal and/or prom was the talk of the last half of junior and senior year. Unfortunately for them, this formal wasn't as fun or as memorable. But that's OK because it was nice to get out of the house on a Saturday night (even though we were on campus and had to pay $10 to be there!), dress up a little bit (I couldn't find anyone to lend me a moo moo), meet up with friends and attempt to dance to the lame music they played (a horrendous synthesis of 70's, 80's, and 90's, right in the middle of a single song!). We also had our caricatures done, which -again- I wasn't so pleased with (I mean, come on, LOOK AT MY FREAKING HONKER OF A CHIN)! Maybe I'm just getting more critical in my older age.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

New camera experimentation

Tonight we tested out our new digital camera. It takes great photos!

Also, this is the belly at 38 weeks. I had doctors appointment this morning and evidently I am not yet ready to give birth (not effaced = thick, not dilated = closed) for the second week in a row, although the baby is engaged and is very anterior (which are supposedly good things). I have a weird feeling I am going to be two weeks late...

Monday, October 13, 2008

The nursery is finally finished- furniture and all. Check it out!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Santa Barbara Baby Shower

It really is coming down to the nitty-gritty now. Today was not only truly my last baby class (PEP baby basics- where the best part was a mom showing us how to bathe her REAL 5 week old son!), but also my second and my last baby shower. And it really was a shower because it actually rained in SB... nothing short of a miracle. Courtney, Sara and Sarah hosted a fantastic shower- complete with entertaining baby/pregnancy games, adorable presents, healthy finger foods and delicious homemade cupcakes and caramel/chocolate covered pretzels. What good friends they are. We had so much fun. Hopefully I can spend a bit more "child-free" time with them in the coming weeks.

Speaking of which, I have now reached 37 weeks, or will have on Tues coming. I could give birth any day now and it would be considered term (37-41.5 weeks is term). It's also only 26 days until my due date of Oct 30th. This is such a trip, but we are over the moon! Stay tuned for photos/video of the finished nursery...


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Claramae Turner 1920- 2013

  Claramae was an important American contralto. I was lucky to catch her with the camera during 1967-1969 at New York City Opera.  No matter what she did she was that character, strong on stage.  We were friends. "Come over for lunch", she said. That  was  1967. We kept in touch until the last year.  Claramae loved gardening. She loved her dogs...  a great dane and Schatzie, the dachshund. These are a sampling of what Claramae did at the New York City Opera.   First BOMARZO as Diana Orsini with Salvador Novoa as Pier Francesco Orsini
Claramae as Lady Jane in PATIENCE.  Her cello routine always brought down the house.
Claramae as La Principessa in SUOR ANGELICA.
Rehearsing with Audrey Schuh
With Malcolm Smith, Tinca
A group of GIANNI SCHICHI images, alone as Zita
Big caption: From left to right, Michael Devlin as Spinellochio, William Ledbetter as Marco, Lois Crane as Nella, Malcolm Smith as Simone, Claramae, Jerry LoMonaco as Rinuccio, Judith Anthony as LaCiesca, and Nico Castel as Gherardo. 1968.
This time in rehearsal,  in 1967, from left to right,  David Rae Smith as Betto, William Ledbetter as Marco, Malcolm Smith as Simone, Frank Poretta as Rinuccio, Nico Castel as Gherardo, and the ladies- Lou Ann Wyckoff as La Ciesca, Claramae as Zita again, and LaVergne Monette as Nella
The ZARZUELLA in 1969 at City Center.  I don't remember the characters' names.  First with Nico Castel and then happy alone.
It's nice to have good memories.Claramae was a gem. Posted with love.

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opertutto said...

Ms. Berman, Your images of Miss Turner are absolutely splendid. Thank you, thank you! Please post additional ones from Bomarzo. And from rehearsals.
George Weaver


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Damodar: The Writings of a Hindu Chela

Theosophical University Press Online Edition

Part VI

References to Damodar
by the Mahatmans and H. P. Blavatsky

Part I: Quotations from The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett
Part II: Quotations from The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett
[The extensive correspondence between the Mahatmans and the two Englishmen, A. P. Sinnett and A. O. Hume, as well as the many letters written to the latter by H. P. Blavatsky in the early days of the Theosophical Society, contain many references to a large number of those most closely connected with the work of the Society, outstanding among whom was Damodar.
This Chapter is devoted to relevant passages from these Letters. A large number of short references have been omitted, which simply mention Damodar as transmitting messages and letters from the Mahatmans and H. P. Blavatsky by occult means and otherwise; and one or two other unimportant references which are not comprehensible without long explanations.
Signatures are herein given as they appear at the end of the Letters quoted from. Chronological arrangement has been followed according to the latest information published by Mrs. Margaret Conger and Miss Mary K. Neff. -— EDS]

Part I

Quotations from "The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett"

Letter VIII

[Received at Bombay. Feb. 20, 1881.]

I wrote a few words in the Maratha boy's letter, only to show you that he was obeying orders in submitting his views to you. Apart from his exaggerated idea about huge fees, his letter is in a way worth considering. For Damodar is a Hindu — and knows the mind of his people at Bombay; though the Bombay Hindus are about as unspiritual a group as can be found in all India. But, like the devoted enthusiastic lad he is, he jumped after the misty form of his own ideas even before I could give them the right direction. . . . — K. H.

[Sent from Debra Dun. Nov. 4, 1881.
Received at Allahabad. Nov. (?) 1881.]

. . . Adetyarom B. wrote a foolish letter to Damodar and Benemadhab writes a foolish request to Mr. Sinnett.

I will be pleased if Mr. Sinnett says, to everyone of those who may address him with similar pretensions the following: "The 'Brothers' desire me to inform one and all of you, natives, that unless a man is prepared to become a thorough theosophist i. e. to do as D. Mavalankar did, — give up entirely caste, his old superstitions and show himself a true reformer (especially in the case of child marriage) he will remain simply a member of the Society with no hope whatever of ever hearing from us. . . ."

Letter XLIII

 [Received at Allahabad. 1882.]

. . . As you have already been notified by Damodar thro' the D----, I did not call you a chela — examine your letter to assure yourself of it — I but jokingly asked O. the question whether he recognised in you the stuff of which chelas are made. — M.

 [Received at Allahabad. March 3, 1882.]

. . . Bhavani Shanker is with O., and he is stronger and fitter in many a way more than Damodar or even our mutual "female" friend. . . . — K. H.

 [Received at Allahabad. March 11, 1882.]

. . . My good friend — it is very easy for us to give phenomenal proofs when we have necessary conditions. For instance — Olcott's magnetism after six years of purification is intensely sympathetic with ours — physically and morally is constantly becoming more so. Damodar and Bhavani Rao being congenitally sympathetic their auras help — instead of repelling and impeding

Letter XI

[Received at Allahabad. June 30, 1882.]

. . . Yes, I am quite ready to look over your 50 or 60 pages and make notes on the margins: have them set up by all means and send them to me either through little "Deb" or Damodar and Djual Kul will transmit them. . . . — K. H.

Letter XVI

[Received at Simla. July, 1882.]

. . . Olcott is on his way to Lanka and Damodar packed up to Poona for a month, his foolish austerities and hard work having broken down his physical constitution. I will have to look after him, and perhaps, to take him away, if it comes to the worst. . . . — K. H.

Letter XXX

[Received at Simla. Aug., 1882.]

. . . None of our Upasika or Yu-posah, neither H. P. B. nor O., nor even Damodar, nor any of them can be incriminated. . . . — K. H.

Letter XXXII

[Received at Simla. (Aug. or Sept) 1882.]

. . . Since we have mixed ourselves with the outside world, we have no right to suppress the personal opinion of its individual members, nor eschew their criticisms, however unfavourable to us — hence the positive order to H. P. B. to publish Mr. Hume's article. Only, as we would have the world see both sides of the question, we have also allowed the joint protest [see Ch. IV, 'A Protest.' — EDS.] of Deb, Subba Row, Damodar and a few other chelas — to follow his criticism of ourselves and our System in the Theosophist. . . . — K. H.

[Received at London. (Sept. or Oct.) 1883.]

I am advised to request that, for the future, communications intended for me may be sent thro' either Damodar or Henry Olcott, Madam B's discretion is not improving in ratio with her physiological enfeeblement. — K. H.

To Station Adyar Madras From Station Jammoo
To Person Madame Blavatsky From Person Colonel Olcott
Editor of the Theosophist.

Damodar left before dawn at about eight o'clock letters from him and Koothumi found on my table -Don't say whether return or not — Damodar bids us all farewell conditionally and says brother theosophists should all feel encouraged knowing that he has found the blessed masters and been called by them. The dear boys recent developments astonishing Hooney bids me await orders.

Madras 25-11-83. Hour 17.30.

To Station Adyar Madras From Station Jummar
To Person Madame Blavatsky From Person Col. Olcott

The Masters have taken Damodar return not promised

We will send him back. K. H. Adyar

25-11-83. Hour 10.15.

Letter LV

[Received at Elberfeld. (Sept. or Oct.) 1884.]

. . . It would be well also to burn wood-fires in the rooms now and then, and carry about as fumigators open vessels (braziers?) with burning wood. You might also ask Damodar to send you some bundles of incense-sticks for you to use for this purpose. These are helps, but the best of all means to drive out unwelcome guests of this sort, is to live purely in deed and thought. . . .

I can now send my occasional instructions and letters with any certainty only thro' Damodar. But before I can do even so much the Soc. especially the H. Qrs. will have to pass first thro' the coming crisis K. H.

Letter LXIII

 [Received at London. Oct., 1884.]

My letters must not be published, in the manner you suggest, but on the contrary if you save Djual K. trouble copies of some should be sent to the Literary Committee at Adyar — about which Damodar has written to you — so that with the assistance of S. Y. K. Charya, Djual K., Subba Row and the Secret Committee (from which H. P. B. was purposely excluded by us to avoid new suspicions and calumnies) they might be able to utilise the information for the realization of the object with which the Committee was started, as explained by Damodar in the letter written by him under orders. . . . — K. H.

[Sent from Adyar. March 17, 1885,]

 . . . Happy Damodar! He went to the land of Bliss, to Tibet and must now be far away in the regions of our Masters. No one will ever see him now, I expect. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Part II

Quotations from The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett

 Letter VII

[Received at Allahabad. Nov., 1881.]

. . . The Disinherited wants to write to you he says — if you permit him — through Damodar. The Boss said something about going to see Damodar. But D---- does not say a word. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XX

[Sent from Bombay. Dec. 7, 1881. Received at Allahabad. Dec., 1881.]

. . . The Theosophist not out yet and we are the 8th to-day! Why? Because without me all went topsy-turvy and 2,000 Rupees of subscription money spent for what — better ask the wind. Damodar is as loony as a March hare. . . . — H. P. B.

Letter XC

[Received at Simla. June 4, 1882.]

 . . . As for O'Conor's letter it is such a stupid transparent thing for me that it is not worth talking about. I did receive his letter one hour later than E.'s for Mrs. Gordon; and with it orders to do about it as I liked, to either answer it or not but to hold my tongue as to the fact of my having received it until further developments. I left it with Damodar and Deb on March 30th with instructions. And to prove it to you — (about others I do not care) let me, my dear Boss, set your heart at ease. I happened to write to you about this O'Conor's letter on Friday — (at Madras) the Disinherited having advised me to do so. I sent my letter Friday. On Saturday, at 1.35 p.m. I received your telegram with your enquiry about O'Conor's letter. I answered as I was ordered and wrote to you that I should telegraph to Damodar in whose possession I left my answer to O'Conor to send it to you immediately. I sent the telegram on Saturday evening, but whether sent or not that night, it reached Damodar but Sunday when it was too late to send you a registered letter as he always does. Well, he sent it on Monday and you must have received it. Do not send it to O'Conor. I will have nothing to do with Mrs. Scott's friends now. I will have no more tests, no more insults, no more humiliation and explanation. Tear it after showing it to Mr. Hume. You are at liberty to show him also this letter. If your friends and sceptics will insist that, after receiving your telegram of enquiry I had time between Saturday and Monday to send to my "confederate" Damodar instructions, well show them the telegram he received from me on Sunday. This will prove, at least, that he had O'Conor's answer in his possession ever since March. — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter Xd

To Malabar Hill From Madras St. Thome
To Damodar K. Mavalankar From H. P. Blavatsky
c/o Theosophical Society,
Breach Candy

Letter to Oconor
given you March
thirty send Sinnett.

By Malabar Hill: 4-6-82.

Letter XIV

[Sent from Bombay. Aug. 4, 1882.]

. . . Poor Damodar is still at Poona, but is all right now in health. The brothers picked him up and even endowed him with such a mesmeric force that he cured several desperate cases (one blindness in a boy) in a few days. Whether it will last or not I do not know. But the Poona Fellows craved for something phenomenal and he gave it to them. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XVI

[Sent from Bombay. Aug. 26, 1882.1

. . . Damodar will write to Fern to decline receiving his letters to M. henceforth. He will not run the risk of being called a forger, and impostor and what not. Damodar a deceiver!! I may as well suspect Olcott or yourself of forgery or deceit as him. I won't have him insulted and that's all. . . . — H. P. B.

Letter XXV

[Sent from 'Ooty.' Aug. 23, 1883. Rec'd. at London. Oct. 1883.]

. . . Then about "Uncle Sam's" complaint — what the devil do I know about office doings? What have I to do with the business management of Damodar which is Olcott's business. He sent to Ward this printed notice as he did to thousands, and as Olcott is an American business man, so is Ward, and it is not for a Yankee to kick at sharp business as they call it. I was furiously ashamed when I received your letter and Ward's telegram. But I felt I was a fool; for Olcott, whom I blew up and skinned for it (he has just arrived here to form an Anglo-Indian Branch) says they send such printed compliments to everyone and Damodar did not know at that time that I had or rather was going to receive these 20 rupees Mr. Ward sent, enclosed in a private and even non-registered to me. Of course he ought to make a difference, but he does not because he is a boy and was not brought up for office business, and shall S. Ward think bad or any worse of me for it? Did I not send him the whole last year the Theosophist, and forbade Damodar to even ask the money for it. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XXVII

[Sent from Adyar. Sept. 27, 1883. Rec'd. at London. Nov., 1883.]

I would be happy to find one member in your L. L. [London Lodge. — EDS.] doing unremunerated one fourth of the work done by Damodar or Balloi Babu. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XXIX

[Sent from Madras. Nov. 17, 1883. Received at London. Dec., 1883.]

. . . Most extraordinary phenomena took place among the travellers — Olcott, Brown, Damodar and two Madrassee secretaries. Damodar has so developed that he can get out of his body at will. They sent him on the 10th to me, giving him a message and asking him to tell me to telegraph to them the message back as a sure sign he was indeed in his astral body. At the same hour Coulomb heard his voice in my room and I saw and heard him, and telegraphed what he had asked me immediately. You will find it in the Supplement. Then Brown puts letters and questions under Damodar's pillow and receives answers a few minutes later, in K. H.'s handwriting and his usual paper and from my Boss too. Now they will say that it is Damodar the third humourist an "Oriental" one this once. Olcott saw K. H. at last and so will Brown at Jammu — D. K. says. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XXX

[Sent from Adyar. Nov. 24 (26?), 1883. Received at London. Dec., 1883.]

. . . Well there's news again. Day before yesterday I received telegram from Jummar from Olcott "Damodar taken away by the Masters." Disappeared!! I thought and feared as much though it is strange for it is hardly four years he is chela. I send you both telegrams from Olcott and Mr. Brown's second one. Why should Brown be so favoured — is what I cannot understand. He may be a good man, but what the devil has he done [of] so holy and good! That's all I know about him that it seems to be K. H.'s second visit personally to him. He is expected here or in the neighbourhood by two chelas who have come from Mysore to meet Him. He is going somewhere to the Buddhists of the Southern Church. Shall we see him? I do not know. But there's a commotion here among the chelas. Well strange things are taking place. Earthquakes, and blue and green sun; Damodar spirited away and Mahatma coming. And now what shall we do in the office without Damodar! . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XXXI

[Sent from Madras. Jan. 25, 1884. Received at London. Feb., 1884.]

. . . Ragonath Row and Subba Row are to take charge of the Theosophist and Damodar and a new chela who will be sent here in my absence. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter XLIV

[Sent from Torre del Greco. June 21, 1885.]

. . . The only friend I have in life and death is poor little exiled Bowajee D. Nath in Europe; and poor dear Damodar — in Tibet. . . . — H. P. B.

Letter XLVI

[Sent from Wurzburg. Aug. 19, 1885.]

. . . Alexis Coulomb's handwriting is naturally like mine. We know all how Damodar was once deceived by an order written in my handwriting to go upstairs and seek for me in my bedroom in Bombay when I was at Allahabad. It was a trick of M. Coulomb, who thought it good fun to deceive him, "a chela" — and had prepared a semblance of myself lying on my bed, and having startled Damodar — laughed at him for three days. . . . And if he could imitate so well my handwriting in a note why could he not copy (he had four years to study and do it) every scrap and note of mine to Mme. Coulomb on identical paper and make any interpolations he liked? . . . I have seen Coulomb copying one of such scraps of mine, at his table, in a scene shown to me by Master in the Astral light. — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter CXIX

[Sent from Wurzburg. Oct., 1885.]

. . . Well you say you got that "impression" while reading some matter among the Secret Doctrine (in Dharbagiri's writing). I looked over carefully page by page and found nothing in D. N.'s writing, but in Damodar's which you probably mistook. It is about what the Earth (and other planets) does during "obscuration"? Is it this? For if so, then I can tell you that Damodar wrote it under dictation — but you have not understood the meaning quite correctly. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter L

[Sent from Wurzburg. Oct. 9, 1885.]

. . . He [D. N.] had heard from some one in Paris whom he won't name but whom I suspect, that Mr. Sinnett had said while in Paris that all the Hindus at Hd. Qtr. were liars; and that made him desperate, for he then thought that every word he said to Mr. Sinnett would be regarded as a lie. Now I feel sure Mr. Sinnett said nothing of the kind and if he has, he did not mean to include in that category our friend D. N. . . . his return to his Master depends upon the restoration of the T. S.'s previous status: unless the Society begins again to run smoothly, at least in appearance, he has to remain exiled -- as he says — for it appears that his Master — Mahatma K. H. holds him, Damodar, and Subba Row responsible for the two thirds of Mr. Hodgson's "mayas" — he says. It is they, who, irritated and insulted at his appearance at Adyar, regarding his (Hodgson's) cross-examination and talk about the Masters — degrading to themselves and blasphemous with regard to Masters; instead of being frank with H. and telling him openly that there were many things they could not tell him — went on to work to augment his perplexity, allowed him to suggest things without contradicting them, and threw him out of the saddle altogether. You see, Hodgson counted without his host: he had no idea of the character of the true Hindu — especially of a chela — of his ferocious veneration for things sacred, of his reserve and exclusiveness in religious matters; and they (our Hindus) whom even I had never heard pronounce or mention one of the Masters by name — were goaded into fury in hearing Hodgson make so cheap of those names —speaking laughingly of "K. H.", and "M." — etc. with the Oakleys. And it is unfortunate me who now pays for all! . . . [see The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett, pp.157-8 for further description of the attitude of a Hindu chela when trying to defend his Teacher. — EDS.] — H. P. BLAVATSKY

Letter LIV

[Sent from Wurzburg. 1885 (?1886)

I have a number of diagrams with reference to the evolution of the septenary globes and Cosmogony of Esoteric Buddhism, made by Djual Khool and Sarma for me to explain to you, and Hume during the first year of the Simla teaching; and several of them I had copied by a Parsee, a good draughtsman of the School of Arts at Bombay, who could not do them well — and then, I copied them from D. Kh.'s with Tibetan signs and names, translating them and doing it the best I could — since I did not want to give the originals out to a stranger and you could not have understood them — and gave them to Olcott to be copied and one of them — the one I sent to Hume I believe — was copied by Coulomb who is a very good draughtsman — too good unfortunately [cf. Letter XLVI, page 304 of this volume. — EDS.] I remember how well he copied the few lines in English, a remark by D. K. on the cosmogony — in a way that I was astonished: it was a perfect copy of D. K.'s writing, grammatical mistakes, and all. Neither Olcott, nor I, nor Damodar, ever made a secret of such copies. . . . [This letter was unsigned, but it is in H. P. B.'s handwriting. — EDS.]

Letter LXV

[Sent from Wurzburg. Jan., 1886.]

. . . You have perhaps heard, that Hurrissingjee (Thakur of Baunagar's cousin) took it into his head to build a shrine for the portraits of the two Masters and meant to spend over it 10,000 rupees. He several times asked Master; He would not answer. Then he asked Olcott, who bothered Mah. K. H. through Damodar, as I had refused point blank to put such questions to Masters. Then the Mahatma answered "Let him talk with the chelas about it I do not care" or something to that effect. Well Damodar and Chundra Coosho I think and others went to work to make a plan of the shrine. Even the dirty Coulomb, was called in for his draughtsman's capacities. We were in Europe then. But as soon as we were gone came the Coulomb row. When we returned, Hurrissingjee, to show that the exposure had no effect on him, wanted to sell a village and build the shrine quand meme. The day after my return Mahatma told me to write to Hurrissingjee that He expressly forbid spending such amount of money. That it was useless and foolish. So I wrote. Then came the anniversary and Hurrissingjee sent a delegate for himself as he was sick. When the superlatively idiotic idea of a Temple of Humanity or Universal Brotherhood came into Olcott's pumpkin, the delegate, when the others were subscribing, was asked by Olcott and he said (in full convention in the Pandala before hundreds of people) "I believe His Highness wants to subscribe Rs. 1,000"— I said to Olcott "too much — it's a shame" — but he pitched into me for my trouble and as I was then sitting there in the light of a prisoner in dock — I shut up. Well; Olcott came one day and said, "Do ask Master to permit me to have money (generally) subscribed for the Temple." So I sent his temple and himself to a hot place and said I would not. Then he went to Damodar, and D.---- asked I think, for two or three days after I heard through Damodar that the prohibition to Hurrissingjee of spending money on such flapdoodles had been removed and that Hurrissingjee had a letter to that effect. . . . — H. P. B.

[Sent from Wurzburg. Feb. 16, 1886.]

I never said, what he charges me with, either to the Coulomb or Damodar. Both were told by a party wronged by Mohini of that affair, one that happened before Mohini had even heard of the Theos. Soc. But, as Coulomb will swear to anything against me, and that Damodar is not there to answer it — hence Mr. Bowaji's safe charges against me, whom HE HATES — well in a way he did not conceal before the Countess. . . . — H. P. BLAVATSKY


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Love is Healing, is Freedom from Fear

A Conversation with Gerald G. Jampolsky and Grace F. Knoche
[Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., psychiatrist, formerly on the faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, in 1975 founded The Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California, a nonprofit organization to provide health education for young people facing life-threatening illness. All services at the Center are rendered free of charge. In 1979 he authored To Give is to Receive: Mini Course for Healing Relationships and Bringing About Peace of Mind, and Love is Letting Go of Fear, on which principles he lectures throughout the United States. We share with our readers the major portion of a conversation with Dr. Jampolsky held on June 1, 1981, at his Center. — Ed.]

GFK — We appreciate your taking time out of your busy schedule to talk with us. We wanted to share with our readers something of the important work you are doing for the children and also for their parents.

Jampolsky — There is a significant passage in Isaiah that says: "and a little child shall lead them" — this is what it is all about. These children are demonstrating spiritual principles that have been around a long time, and are being presented now so that they have practical application to today's life. It is not just a matter of catastrophic illness, but rather the truth of the very principles that Jesus taught.

GFK — Love, "perfect love casteth. out fear." I have just read your paperback, Love is Letting Go of Fear. How do you effect this total change of attitude from the inside out? If a boy or girl has cancer and is way down in the depths, how do you help that child face the reality of the situation in a constructive way?

Jampolsky — I guess it goes back to my own struggles for personal transformation, when back in 1975 I recognized, in an instant, that although I had never been on any spiritual pathway or had an special desire to experience God, that that was really what I was here for; that where I was going was to the heart of God, and that what I was was the essence of love, and what I had to do was to listen to that inner voice of God. At our Center we are here to heal our minds. We are not here to change people, or cure diseases, or even help people live longer. We have one single goal and that is to find peace of mind, peace of God. Our task is to create an environment where there is unconditional love, which means total acceptance — not wanting to change another person. We are just trying the change the thoughts that we put in our minds. We feel that our minds are made up essentially of god-thoughts and love-thoughts, and that a kind of shortcircuiting occurs when we have either attack thoughts or defensive thoughts, and so we are doing our best to learn how not to have that type of thoughts.

We have set up an environment where children are our teachers. We are on an equal basis where love is interchanged; we are all there to do the same thing: to let go of fear through the vehicle of love. We do this through learning that, no matter how much pain you have, if you take one instant and totally give to another person your love, during that one instant you will not experience pain or sickness; you will not perceive yourself as having pain. We find that when children and adults experience one such instant, and can recognize that instant in an eternity, we can then put two instants together, and soon put a day together.

I define love as total absence of fear and health as inner peace; so healing too is letting go of fear. This is quite different from the medical model where you are trying to change bodies. Although many children are not certain of living longer — and they may not necessarily live longer because of what we are doing — for sure they and their families are more at peace because they are getting rid of their fears. One 12-year-old summed it up: "Live life to the fullest. This minute is this minute. The disease doesn't own you; you own the disease."

GFK — This is splendid: you are transforming the whole trend of their approach; instead of going down with them into a dark hole of despair, you are helping them let the light through.

Jampolsky — We are saying that what we see isn't real; what's real is what you don't see with your physical eyes. There's a cartoon that says: "Let's look at a person's light, not his lampshade." The lampshade is the body, the disease, and what it may or may not do. And so I do my best to see everyone in Christ's light. Now I am not always doing that; at times I misperceive and may think that someone is attacking me. But I try, as consistently as I can, not to interpret, not to make deductions, not to analyze, but simply to see everyone as loving and, if they are fearful, as giving us a call for help, for love.

GFK The idea of "letting go of fear" seems to me cardinal. Wasn't it Marie Curie who said, "there's nothing to be feared; it is only to be understood"? Hers was more of an intellectual approach, and yours isn't intellectual, it's right from the heart.

Jampolsky — Ours is not intellectual; it is totally experiential; it is letting go of our investment in material goals. We need to recognize that our past belief system isn't working. The world's belief system is to try to get as much as you can and hold on to it. That doesn't really work; we have to go inside to find God.

GFK — How do you go about this? Do you start with the children or with their parents?

Jampolsky — On a typical Wednesday night, you will find at our Center about 20 kids, ages 5 to 15; here in this office you will see their brothers and sisters; in my home five minutes away will be the parents. Everything is free. We never have charged a fee for services. My time has always been volunteered. It is a matter really of trust. Money has been coming in in miraculous ways.

GFK — That just emphasizes the fact that people down deep are loving, are altruistic. Would you talk a little about visualization, positive, active imagination? In our experience, we have found this to be a two-edged sword: it can be used for very personal and selfish ends which can result in great harm. Your motivation is clearly altruistic, but how do you get this ideal over so as to keep your work on a pure and unselfish level?

Jampolsky — Perhaps I can give you an example. Recently Hugh Prather, a well-known author, and I were in Atlanta consulting with the parents and the agency concerned over the children who have been kidnapped and murdered there. A woman working in the agency had a child with sickle-cell anemia in the hospital; he was in terrible pain and wanted to die. We were asked to see him. What Hugh and I do is pray ahead of time for guidance, and the answer came not to make getting rid of the pain the main thing; to realize we were there to share peace. What came through to me was to ask the boy what he enjoys most when he is well. "I like to play pool" (billiards). So I suggested he could, with his mind, and with his eyes closed, actually play a game of pool with Hugh and myself (he could teach Hugh how to play as he went along), and that as the balls went into the pockets his fear and pain would disappear — if he put all of his attention into the game.

The next morning we went to the agency, and there was the boy! He had worked on playing pool during the night and all his pain had gone, to the surprise of the doctors and nurses who told us that with this kind of spasm usually it takes about three weeks for the pain to subside. This is just one example of that kind of imagery. Imagery isn't changing the body as much as it is helping a person drop his anxieties and allow peace to come through; it's letting go of the past and the future and making the present count.

We now have a telephone network where kids can help each other; this boy from Atlanta has been on the phone around the country talking to others who have real problems, such as leukemia. It's exciting to see people who are lonely and isolated helping each other through a love network; it's beautiful to see what can happen with very little money. We have started a number of other centers around the country — about 30 — and it is all done on a volunteer basis. The whole thing is self-help on a spiritual level; really it's a shifting of the consciousness. People have begun to recognize we just couldn't go on the way we were heading, and that we had to find another way; to me that way is going back and having faith in God.

GFK — Faith in God — for the Christian, the Jew, and the Moslem, of course; but you don't have only children of those faiths. How do you broaden your approach, say, for the Chinese or the Hindu?

Jampolsky — First, we are not here to impose our belief system on anybody; we see people from all religions. Second, the principle we follow is this: although it may be impossible for there to be a universal theology, not only is it possible, but it is absolutely necessary that we have a universal experience.

GFK. — That's it — and universal love.

Jampolsky — That is what we are after: to recognize that the biggest problem facing humanity is that we are living in a world where death is our main fear. When you learn to let go of the feeling that death is more real than life, all other problems seem minor. So we first have a spiritual base — which doesn't mean a religious attachment — it means that we are more than this body and mind, and that the essence of our being is God's love. That is not a material thing that you can see or touch; it is something that is real.

GFK — So it doesn't matter what your theology or particular spiritual heritage is?

Jampolsky — No, you don't even have to believe in God for it to work. But it's not something you can prove on a scientific basis. As you know, for scientists what is true is what you can measure and replicate. But I think what is true is what you can't see and measure. You can't measure the world of love.

GFK — How do you help people handle their fears?

Jampolsky — You look right at the fears and then you see them as not real, and you choose love instead of fear. We have five main principles here: to realize there has to be another way; to choose peace rather than conflict; to choose love rather than fear; to be a love-finder rather than a fault-finder; to be a love-giver rather than a love-seeker. When you can do all that, then you will be at peace with yourself, and a natural follow-up state is joy. So when our children make a transition — that is how we conceive of death — rather than having everyone sad, we have a celebration of life.

Recently we had a celebration for a boy whose parents were not religious. When we went to the family home afterwards many came up to us and said: "We went to the service with our children with trepidation, thinking it was going to be very sad, and we found it was very joyful" — we were not seeing death as finite; we were looking at life as eternal.

We had one six-week period where there were eight deaths right here. But, as I said, we don't see the physical body as real; we see it as a costume. I think children can be very close to spiritual truths. One bright kid said: "Look, as long as you're breathing, you're here to do a service of God, and that is to help other people; so as long as you are breathing, even if you have cancer and your body is all riddled up with it, you can be joyful and happy." Most of our children have had a very peaceful transition.

What is real doesn't change; the only thing that is changeless is God's love, because it has no beginning and no ending, it is eternal. This physical world that we call real is actually illusory in that everything we see with our physical eyes and ears undergoes change. Our job is to remind ourselves that if we are seeing other people with the eyes and consciousness of love, we are not really dealing with the physical universe at that point. What we are all becoming is the light of the world — joining as one light so that we can be where we have always been, in the heart of God. I think we are all here to be messengers of God, each of us, if you will, "doing our thing." You have a magazine that is helping thousands of people — that is your assignment. My assignment is a little different, but the goal is the same.

GFK — It is a beautiful work you are doing with these children and their parents. But the whole world needs this idea.

Jampolsky — The world is getting it. We were on TV recently, on 60 Minutes where 60 million people heard these children. Tonight I'm going to the University of California at Davis and will be taking two children and talking there to 300 students. Yesterday there was a large symposium in San Francisco on "Death and Dying," and I had a child from Atlanta and a little child from here teaching how death concepts are seen through a child's eye. The consciousness of a lot of people is being changed, just by my getting out of the way and letting the children teach. Working with children is a beautiful way of learning how to be consistent in one's life, in what you think, say, and do. Most of us can say nice words, but our thoughts might be quite different.

GFK — Does your Center use any of the regular modern cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation?

Jampolsky — Ours is a Center for Attitudinal Healing, which means it is an educational center; we don't use any medical treatment whatsoever — absolutely no treatment of any kind. Almost all of our children are involved in a medical model where they are seeing doctors and undergoing chemotherapy or X-ray therapy. Our work is a supplement to the medical model, not a substitute.

GFK — Aren't some doctors beginning to recognize you?

Jampolsky — More and more a shift is going on in the consciousness of the medical fraternity; particularly within the last two years there has been tremendous gain in acceptance of our work, and many hospitals are utilizing our methods. We have been in the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Columbia University, Baylor Medical School, University of California, Los Angeles. The American Medical Association is coming out next week with an article on us, and we will be in Family Circle magazine on July 21st. We make clear that we are not talking about medical models where healing means changing the body, getting rid of a cold, or of cancer; that what we are meaning by healing is letting go of fear.

Another Center like this one is being started by one of the Stanford oncologists who has been positively influenced by our work.

GFK --You are going back to the original sense of the word: healing, health, meaning "wholeness."

Jampolsky — Absolutely. Nothing from our past perceptions is whole; everyone is seeing things differently based on a limited perception. But when you are joined in love, joined with another totally in love or in prayer, you are experiencing wholeness at that point. Healing is wholeness, absolutely.

GFK — Usually with cancer there is so much suffering which is not only physical, but psychological and mental as well. If a person has a philosophy to live by, this helps no end. But what about these parents? Are any of them questioning the reason for this? Are they searching for a philosophy or a religious belief that will give them an explanation why their son or daughter should be afflicted?

Jampolsky — Most parents go through a why-stage, where they are very angry at the world, at the doctors, at everything — even God. People in Atlanta went through all this too — the anger, and "why is this happening to me?" This is a transitory phase. What we try to do is to create an atmosphere where parents can help each other; as this comes about, the why-questions begin to disappear and instead they want to be helpful to someone else. I find that many parents are opened up by their child's spiritual being. Oftentimes children who come from non-religious families are choosing to pray; they are choosing to say: "Hey, I don't have to hang on to the past or to the future; I just want to see this thing through for whatever time there is." A parent begins then to pick up that attitude from his child. We are finding that parents are shifting their consciousness and becoming beautiful teachers, and that all we need to do as workers here is to be consistent in sharing — not advice, but love. When we are loving, we are seeing the light in the children and parents we are working with: we identify not with their pain, but with their love. I really believe that giving and receiving are one in truth. Isn't this what life and love are all about?

(From Sunrise magazine, October/November 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Theosophical University Press)

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Monday, 17 November 2008

We have a winner for our Altered CD

We have a winner for our Altered CD.....

Karen Gist from Cornwall,
Here is the copy of her email she sent with the pic of her CD

Hi Chriss,
Great challenge!!!
I have altered a CD for you. I am still a beginner so its not as fantastic as the ones you have on your blog!!! But I really enjoyed doing it all the same and am pleased with it. I used 5 newspaper words and couldn't for the life of me find a 'from' so just wrote it!!!!
It just goes to show beginner or no beginner she is a winner.

Thank you to everyone who entered we were sooo thrilled, we want you to know in our eyes the Altered CD's were ALL worthy winners.
Thank you to all who VOTED because without your votes we would not have a winner.

Hope you are able to join in with our challenge for December to alter a piece of jigsaw to our downloadable shape and size, read more in the side panel on the right of our blog this weekend.
Pop over and visit our winner HERE
Here is a link to our other fantastic Altered CD's
I will add the others to this list as I receive their blog addy's.... silly me (Chriss) should have asked for them earlier. DOH.
The Papergirls xx

Carol said...

Congrats - beautiful piece as already stated they were all brilliant!!

Chris said...

Congratulations Karen... it's a beautiful Cd. I have loved looking at all of the stunning entries and hope everyone enjoyed the challenge :D
Chris xx

Janice said...

Well done Karen, it's a lovely CD, the subtle colours are very pleasing to the eye.

Anesha said...

Great challenge and congratulation to Karen.
Thanks for the comment on my blog.

Dawn said...

Well Done to the winner !

Karen said...

Awe thank you so much for the lovely comments and of course for voting!! I am so delighted but would like to say that the others were all beautiful X

REDLAN said...

i love the theme of this art. so unique!


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The Joy Of Being Dumped!

Kleenex boxes, sleepless nights and endless conversations with your girlfriends! You are convinced that the world is coming to an end. He dumped you! He said he loves you and two days later, checked out. You consulted relationship experts, books and advice columns. They all told you the same thing: It takes time to get over it!

Yes, it does, but it really matters how you use this time. After being dumped, you feel inferior, even if the relationship was toxic. Being dumped without your consent is a huge attack on your ego. He just made you feel inadequate, unattractive and plain unlovable. You label yourself with the negative feelings you just experienced and sink deeper into the inferiority trap. Binge eating, depression, isolation, anxiety and loss of control are very common. Yes, your world just turned upside down and you feel incapable of going on, but you must stop digging your own grave. Even if there is a chance that he might come back, he will not come back to the same person you once were. For this reason and your own sake, you must opt for positive revenge.

Here is the reality of being dumped: He didn’t decide against you, he simply decided to move on without you. He will never tell you the real reason why he left. His reason may have nothing to do with you! Accept it and move on. Easier said than done? Not for Jenni! She had been dumped so many times and became an expert. She figured out where she went wrong or why she missed the signs. She realized that most of these relationships were already broken, before the final dump. Even during grief, she refused to surrender to the pain. She never gave her
power away to those who hurt her.

She always knew there would be another love. Every dumping experience moved her closer to where she is today: Madly in love with the right person. Jenni opted for positive revenge. She decided to be happy and find true love. She kept the vision and never lost hope. After each roller-coaster relationship, she was free to become a better person inside and out. Free to develop into a strong, independent person ready for the real thing. On her wedding day, she thanked all the men who set her free. These past relationships were rehearsals along her
journey. She was the expert on speed-recovery indulging in the joy of being dumped:

• Destroy everything that reminds you of him
• Never call, sent e-mails or letters to him
• Never drive by his house
• Refuse to be friends with him
• Don’t buy into getting-back-together later
• Don’t exhaust your friends, get a coach instead
• Decide to be happy and act the part
• Eat healthy and loose weight (if you should)
• Boost your mood by working out
• Engage in sports
• Get a facial and a new make-up
• Buy new outfits
• Read what nurtures your soul
• Write a list of all the great things about you
• Listen to music that lifts your spirit
• Learn a new skill
• Get out of your rut
• Invest money
• Do things on the spur of the moment
• Reconnect with friends and family
• Re-decorate your home
• Make plans and travel
• Start dating and find someone better

Jenni always emerged after the post-dump phase looking more attractive, younger, healthier and happier. She always became more evolved, more interesting, smarter and more confident. She always turned up with better men and ultimately with her one and only. Looking great, being healthy, fit and happy is the most effective revenge. Finding someone better is the ultimate revenge and you will, if you follow Jenni’s tips.

© 2009 Allie Ochs is a speaker, relationship coach and author of: Are You Fit To Love?  Her book has received the honorable mention at the USA 2004 Best Book Awards.  She has appeared on TV, Radio and is published in numerous magazines and newsletters.  To order her book or take the Fit 2 Love! Test visit her website For Free Relationship/Dating Advice e-mail:


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Monday, 9 January 2017

Stirring the paint-cauldron!

In progress paint-conjuring

Hello! After a lovely cosy weekend with my boys, I'm taking a wee pause from 'Moth Music' and working on a new piece in water-based oils. Initially, it was inspired by a section of a Norwegian folk-tale entitled 'Ikke kjørende og ikke ridende', where the main female character uses her wiles to win a prince by riding a ram with her feet just dangling in the grass... I think those were the specified terms and conditions!

I liked the 'in-between' emphasis of this particular story element, as it makes me think of transitional moments, times when we are in-between one version of ourself and the next. Working with the water-based oils is joyful and I'm looking forward to cracking on with this picture tomorrow while the littles are in nursery school. But first, a walk is in order... We have been nesting elaborately for three days straight... I have demolished nearly two whole bars of Premium dark chocolate with seasalt and pecans, and have nibbled and gnawed constantly on nuts, raisins, blueberries, fruit, more fruit, and tea by the tankful and my tummy feels like a giant jelly!!!

I have also done a bit of sketching today, pondering on ideas about the majesty of self-awareness and adopting the role of observer in one's life, and how to present this theory compactly in an image.

My beloved Filofax Domino where all the project planning goes down!

Friday, 6 January 2017

Moth Music

Here are some snaps from my gnash-chattering -11 perambulation around Theisendammen yesterday, the lake nearest our house. Brrrr! Lovely fluttering out for a sun-kissed constitutional first thing in the morning after dropping off the munchkins! I wanted to collect a pawful of reference pics to give me a helping snowflake on my latest drawing.

By 11 I was back home in the nest, conjuring up the new picture, Moth Music (fuelled by tea in a lovely new teacup from my mamma and accompanied by my ancient pencil roll which has been a faithful companion in eons!). Listening simultaneously to The Infinite Monkey Cage, which I have fallen beak over claws with! Fascinating and a giggle too! I got to draw for about three hours before I left to pick up the buns! A good concentrated session.

Currently exploring building up shaded layers with pencil and then pushing them back with an eraser, think some nice subtle textures are starting to come through. This pic was originally intended to just be a sketch for an oil painting but so enjoying working with the pencil I will continue apace!

Thursday, 5 January 2017

Moth music

I'm busy conjuring up a new pencil drawing today entitled 'Moth music'. Pics coming soon! It's icy cold at the moment, -11 degrees, so I'm snuggled up with tea, toast with peanut butter and jam and a hot water bottle while I'm being a shady lady! Earlier I walked around Theisendammen to take snaps of the winter trees, and I think I will begin each working day like this, after dropping off the munchkins to barnehage. It's lovely starting the day with a brisk walk, whizzing the housework done, and then settling down to draw. I think it is nearly time to stretch my pins!


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They Tried to Serve Me Rosé!

In the Fligiht Reviews section of my blog, I’ll be discussing how I got from point A to point M (M is for Maldives) on points while staying away from too many pictures of airport lounges and lie-flat seats. I apologize in advance because I love taking pics of these things and I probably get too detailed in my review of both.

But, as I wrote in the introduction for my Hotel Reviews section I plan on keeping the repetitive pics to a minimum and the humor at a maximum.

There will most certainly be sarcastic (emphasis added) smugness regarding my experiences @30,000 feet so know that in advance.

Indeed, they did try to serve me rosé champagne and I may have thrown a small fit.

It’s all in good fun, relax.

No rosé for me!

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

School News from Around Kentucky

Drug testing only to include students, for now: There are still many unanswered questions regarding the implementation of student drug testing at Marion County High School, but the committee charged with developing a drug testing policy is working to resolve those issues before fall sports begin July 15. Last week, the Marion County Public Schools Drug Testing Implementation Committee met with school board attorney Joe Mattingly to discuss the legalities of student drug testing and the next steps that need to be taken. According to Mattingly, while many people in the public believe the school system should also drug test teachers and staff, the committee’s focus is strictly student drug testing, for now. (Lebanon Enterprise by way of KSBA)

Madison Clerk accepts Three Year plea deal: The former Madison Central high school secretary accused of having sex with a student has decided to accept a plea agreement, her attorney revealed Tuesday evening. Lynda Chase, 37, will plead guilty Thursday in Madison Circuit Court to third-degree rape and four counts of third-degree sodomy, said attorney Jim Baechtold. The state will recommend a one-year sentence on each count, he said. “Three of the counts will run consecutively and the other two will run concurrently,” Baechtold said, for a total sentence of three years. (Register)

Newport H.S. principal and site-based council to be replaced: Newport High School's principal and site-based council will be replaced before next school year after a state assessment team said they do "not have the capability and capacity to continue" in their roles. That comment was made in a report released this week by the Kentucky Department of Education after a school leadership assessment was conducted the last week of April. Principal Scott Draud, in his seventh year, will be out after his contract expires June 30. The site-based council, which makes major decisions on the direction of the school (such as the curriculum) will be replaced by August. (

At least 14 in running for Fayette school superintendent: At least 14 applications had been received as of Tuesday afternoon for Fayette County's school superintendent, the county school board's executive search firm reported. Tom Jacobson, owner and CEO of McPherson & Jacobson LLC in Omaha, Neb., said the list includes applicants from Kentucky, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York and Washington state. (H-L)

JCPS one step closer to hiring interim superintendent: The JCPS school board interviewed three candidates for interim superintendent Tuesday afternoon. The board is remaining tight-lipped about this process, but the board chair revealed the interim will not be the next superintendent. WDRB learned the three candidates come from both inside and outside the district. All of them were recruited. But none of the candidates, a woman and two men, have been superintendent before. (WDRB)

EDITORIAL - Cooperate for the kids: Local school boards should listen to the district and circuit court judges who are telling them it’s a mistake to split up an alternative education program that’s been conducted at Wilkinson Street School. Judges intervened in the debate because students in the alternative school often end up in contact with the criminal justice system, either as offenders or victims. Wilkinson Street School tries to put them on track for success and happiness and has a done a remarkably good job, according to a letter the court officials sent to chairmen of the city and county school districts. Because they fear the program will be less effective if pursued separately by the two systems, the judges have formed a task force to review options. (State Journal by way of KSBA)

Frankfort Ind Board chairman scolds council: Student testing data shows no evidence that Frankfort Middle and High School is doing “any better than average,” the city school board chairman said Monday. Paul Looney was responding to the school council’s decision to reject a pre-Advanced Placement program next year. The unanimous vote earlier this month puts the council at odds with the school board, which supports the rigorous curriculum. Looney told Frankfort High School Council members Monday that he was “really saddened and disappointed” with their decision. In Kentucky, school councils have the final say on curriculum choices. FHS teachers told school board members last month that they worried the SpringBoard program was being introduced too fast and could leave some kids behind. The council’s action contradicts the Frankfort Independent Board of Education’s unanimous vote in January to approve a 10-part improvement plan that included the use of the English and math program for all students in grades six through 12. “It has become obvious that this council has in no way bought into the board’s vision of raising student achievement,” Looney said in a 10-minute statement during public comment time at the council’s meeting Monday. (State Journal by way of KSBA)

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Episode 029 | Common Mistakes when Investing in Property

We’ve all made mistakes in life. Some are relatively harmless but when it comes to high value transactions such as investing in property, the stakes are higher. So this time on The Property Couch podcast, Bryce Holdaway and Ben Kingsley list out a few common mistakes that they’ve seen people make in their investment journey.

The first mistake is underestimating the importance of having a good lending strategy and structure. One investment property will not be sufficient to provide you with a self funded retirement so in time, you will need to buy another one and if you messed up your lending structure from the start, you might not be able to achieve your full potential in your portfolio. One of the common regret that Bryce and Ben have heard before is the investor’s drive to look for lenders that offer them the least interest payable has clouded their decision for better borrowing power and eventually, a better asset.

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CBP: Chameleon Fecal Exams with Alec O’Brien

Jul 15, 2017
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On the Web - Vet tech and chameleon breeder Alec O’Brien joins Bill Strand on this episode of Chameleon Breeder Podcast to talk about how to do your own fecal exam for your chameleon.

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Bill Morrissey, 1951-2011

Years before I was employed by the record label, the budget-priced Rounder Folk compilation was one of the first titles I bought in the then-new CD format. The exhausted tone and cracked voice displayed on Bill Morrissey's "My Old Town" led me to believe that the man was well into his 60s. I was shocked when I discovered that he was still young. A combination of Hank Williams and Robert Frost, the New England-based singer-songwriter rarely toured in the Midwest. I saw him perform just once. His bearing at a Rounder Records convention in Cambridge made me realize that his songs about hard living were probably based on actual experience. "These Cold Fingers", for instance, details a botched marriage proposal, alcoholism, shattered ambition and shooting a debilitated dog. Morrissey died July 23. This fine appreciation of Morrissey's career provides valuable context.

There are some saints in hiding by the river in the reeds/And they're turning down every train that don't feel the right speed. Sing them this song when you pass by, it'll be your last good deed. Ah babe, it's true, the saints are down every line waiting just for you.

"Night Train," Bill Morrissey

ECM's audio player for Levon Eskenian's The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble transports me to another realm.

Here's nice news for bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

This just in- Bjork's new song sounds just like Bjork.

You'd think I'd love the new single by Mocean Worker. I hate it.

I took no pleasure in trashing Snoop Dogg's performance in my town Tuesday. Here's my review.

I reviewed last night's performance by Paul Thorn.

I reviewed Big Scoob's Damn Fool album.

"Yoga doesn't make you invisible!" I adore The Ettes.

I suppose this marks the return of the "death blog," as my highly-valued friend BGO once put it. I still intend to note the recent passing of greats like Kenny Baker.

Kansas City Click: My weekly show previews for Ink are here.

(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)

bigsteveno said...

Thanks for the heads up on Jamaladeen Tacuma. I had lost track of his career, but now I can buy his albums and he gets all the money. And I get some fresh Ornette!

Happy In Bag said...

Thanks for being my reader, Steve.

house painting cost said...

I like the story. These are a great songs indeed. Thanks for sharing.

smoking electronic cigarettes said...

That's a sad news. His songs are great and I just can't believe he's already gone. May his soul rest in peace.


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