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PictureFoxiebeau on the floor at Starbucks
Sometime between 5 and 6 in the morning, I hear the clink clank of my harness and leash, and then my one and only asks me if I want to go to Starbucks. This is never a real question. If I answer by crawling back into my crate, she tips it and I tumble out. Sometimes we are the first ones at the store even if we walk the long way around the back of the building. Other times men or women, mostly men, are already sleeping inside or sprawled outside near the door. When my one and only sees this, she tightens her grip on my leash, aware that my past has conditioned me to lunge at pant legs.

On this particular morning, two men are lounging near the entry. We push past them into the store. The coffee people don’t seem too interested in the pair outside, but my one and only says, uncharacteristically, “You have two crooks outside.” She usually isn’t judgmental. At least not outloud. But this day she must have a feeling because while waiting for her coffee, she turns toward the window and sees one of the men approach two bicycles with what looks like a red handled bolt cutter. He is bending over the bicycles. Alarmed, my one and only says “The man is stealing a bike!” Two big coffee workers run outside and stop the theft. Then one of the workers wheels a bike into the back of the store. He thanks my one and only for saving his bike. And the next morning when we went into the store, he thanked her again.

A few mornings after that, a different coffee worker was smoking a cigarette outside before starting her work day, and when we came out she asked my one and only if we weren’t scared to walk around the block in the dark. My one and only said she didn’t think she was scared. (I like to think I am protecting her.) The young woman said that she was always being approached and asked for cigarettes. We don’t smoke, so no one would stop us for that. The young woman went on to say people are crazy. As proof of this madness, she mentioned an almost bike heist right outside the store.

She didn’t seem to know she was speaking to the real hero of that thwarted theft. My one and only filled her in on what happened, not omitting who deserved the credit. She didn’t explain it exactly that way, but I think that was the gist of it. The young woman stubbed out her cigarette in a planter box and went inside to go to work. My one and only and I continued our daily walk around the block. She held her double short one Splenda latte in one hand and my leash in the other. We kept alert for crimes we could prevent, confident our crime-fighting reputation would keep us safe. We also greeted other early morning risers who crossed our path.

National Dog Day

PictureAsleep and it's National Dog Day! A.Rittger
National Dog Day almost came and went without me. We were just not tuned in. But when my one and only read an email from Roverdotcom, I heard her exclaim, "OMD!" and then she leashed me and we took  a walk to celebrate. We even lingered a little longer than usual at a favorite tree. She hinted that we might spend that National Dog Day afternoon streaming dog movies on Netflix. I was willing, but voted no on Lassie. That dog set the bar too high on heroics. Small dogs (like me) especially rescued dogs (like me) often do more cowering than towering acts of bravery. Lassie isn't even aggressive like small rescued dogs.

After mulling over the 12 possible films we could have streamed, we did not watch any movies. In fact, I spent part of the day crated and alone. Don't read this as a complaint. Those who matter most to us need some time apart from us. I have noticed that when my one and only comes back from wherever she's gone, she is totally appreciative of my single-minded attention. Clearly, she doesn't get that from the two-leggeds she spends time with. Except perhaps from her therapist which is only once a week. I have visited this therapist, but never had my trauma treated directly. In a veterinary hospital, I had  hernia surgery. Also the doctor snipped me so I could be adopted. I don't remember this, but I heard talk at Animal Control and guessed it was about me.

I am not the first animal in the family to have been rescued. My one and only's oldest son took in two pit bulls, Leeloo and Otto. Leeloo came from the San Francisco SPCA. Otto was taken off the streets in Oakland and passed around until the news of his needing a home reached that son and his wife via company email. They took Leeloo to meet Otto and nobody bit anybody, so Otto got to go home with them. My one and only's youngest son rescued quite a few animals himself, even when he was growing up and living with my one and only, long before I came on the scene. I have heard stories of him bringing home animals he met while skateboarding as if it he were certain they could move in. I believe several of those dogs were very big. One had seven puppies that chewed through cushions in a room where they were being kept. I would not do that. But I did eat through my duck toy and it had to be restuffed and sewed up several times. The son in the Philippines has a pit bull too, although I am not sure if he was rescued. That son also has a cat. I have met the son but not his animals, although he showed me pictures.

To tell the truth, I have used the fact of my rescue as an excuse for being aggressive. But I sense change is in the air because we watched a rerun of The Dog Whisperer, and my one and only perked up. The dog was a chihuahua with bad biting behavior, sort of like the way I am with other animals, pant cuffs, men moving fast minding their own business. Almost anything launches me.  I am small but untrustworthy. Until Cesar Millan showed up on late night TV, I had no incentive to be any different. If my one and only allows me to be leader of the pack and substitutes affection for discipline, who am I to object? Will she change just because Cesar says my behavior is her fault? What about setting the pace? Going in and out of doors first? Will I not get to stop at every tree and hydrant on our morning walk? What about pulling on the leash to show her where I want to go? Will I have to wait to be invited to sit on her lap?  What will happen next?

PictureLooking out below! A.Rittger
If I wanted to chronicle my life, I would need to dictate. An iPad is not an iPaw. My life will be in the hands of my one-and-only, and she likes long sentences. I will have to retrain her to honor my short attention span with shorter sentences. Nor should she add or pad with conjecture or interpretation. A dog’s mind is mostly subject/verb.  At least mine is.

I recall in a my last post alluding to loud and sudden sounds like firecrackers or the firing of Smith & Wesson 38 Specials and the terrible effect on my nervous system. And I believe I may have mentioned the sheer joy of a ringing phone. It often means friends are on their way up, or if my one-and-only grabs the leash, we are going downstairs to greet someone in the lobby. Clearly then, booms equals disaster and ring mean camaraderie. That’s just the way it is. No need to go deeper.

When at home, either alone or with my darling, I rarely watch TV. On my own, I would not have the skill to find Animal Planet. I have noticed that when we do turn on daytime TV, Law and Order SVU marathons are our go-to viewing. It did bother me that when my one and only offered me string cheese, she held it out and said in a creepy voice, “Is this the way you like it?” I felt my pelt crawl. But then she laughed. It only happened once.

I have learned to climb from the couch to a tabletop close to the window. From there I can look down on Grand Ave or at Webster and spy other dogs strolling. Low in my throat, I growl. Shushes or commands like “No! Foxie! No!” have no affect on this part of my nervous system. Food, of course, can redirect me, but then I hop back up and recommence my deep-throated growling. I absolutely could benefit from training, but we seem to have given up on that option. In fact, I have not worn nor seen my muzzle in months.

Yesterday I did launch myself at a fuzzy sort of something on a leash. I expected the muzzle to be rediscovered. Muzzle. Oh why do I even mention it here?  The mere memory undoes me. When I’m forced into it, my ears droop. My tail, likewise. I can only hope no other creature sees me thus shamed. It's important to remember that I can “cute” my way out of wearing it. My eyes go soft, and I position my small brown self to highlight my vulnerability. Overcome by my cuteness, my one and only sighs and relents. We go out. Too bad the next dog I see will trigger me once again. Without a dog whisperer, I doubt I’ll ever learn. While Animal Control wasn't terrible, being rescued gives me so much more material for The Life and Times of Foxiebeau le Chien

Have to stop! My body clock is telling me it is time to jump around, to signal a walk or a treat or, best of all, both.

A Foxiebeau Update

PictureFoxiebeau's favorite mural. /A.Rittger
No one asks me about my life what with all the moving we’ve been doing. While it’s hard to account for any particular day in the last several months, we did depart the small slow elevator with all the walkers and canes crowding me and move to a big building with three speedy talking elevators, usually empty when we take them for morning walks or afternoon outings. Lots more people of all ages are here and dogs – more than I like!

Highlights first: Car rides on Grand Ave to Safeway and the walks up Jean Street to the Morcom Rose Garden. Dogs can’t go in the park, so we follow the rules, but we do get to walk past the Ace nursery on our way. We pause at the park opening to read the inscription about red roses and blooddrops. Other times we walk toward Lake Merritt down a side street with lots of murals. The picture on this blog shows my favorite. At home, I like it when my one-and-only tosses treats to me.  I’m never sure where on the rug they’ll land. And it is fun to tear up toys. My new toy is a duck and has one quack in its butt.

When the ladies come for meditation, I do not play with squeaky toys. I leap on each of them while they sit their half-hour, but they don’t seem to mind. Then I lie in the center of the rug and chew on a blue toy that’s supposed to be good for my teeth and breath. I like how my one-and-only takes me downstairs to wait for them to arrive. It is fun to have friends!

Lowlights: All the celebrations! When the Warriors won the playoffs, fireworks, more like bombs I thought, went off for hours and I cowered in corners, shaking like crazy. Not my fault! Then the parade. It came right down the street where I live! More noise and bombs bursting in air. Then it was Fourth of July and the noisy fireworks. By that time, I was on medication. Sedatives they’re called. Finally I was fitted for a Thunder Shirt, which we are trying out. It seems complicated. But if it calms me, it will be worth being tossed around while my one-and-only sorts out the multiple lengths of Velcro straps.

Recently, a friend sent an email describing a circus-like training for dogs so they can do tricks. There’s even one for small dogs like me. I weigh just about 12 lbs. Unfortunately, I am unfriendly to other animals and to pant legs, particularly if they are going by fast. But even slower pant legs are not necessarily safe from my aggressive behavior. I'm lucky that my one-and-only laughs as she picks me up and hides my eyes so I won’t notice another dog. She stays cheerful as I struggle to attack, and she smiles while apologizing to the people at the end of their leashes. We never ride up in an elevator if another dog is in it or near it, even. Sometimes I wish I had a different disposition. I know I am like this from causes and conditions not my fault.

If dogs could meditate, would they tap into canine equanimity? My one-and-only could toss the sedatives, take back the Thunder Shirt for a refund, and buy another squeaky toy. Once I could abide other animals, we might join the circus and learn to jump through flaming hoops. Until then, it's the status quo for us.

PictureGo Warriors
I’m a happy Golden State Warrior’s fan, one who loved reading the sports page throughout the team’s campaign to take the Western Division. I delighted in rereading the wins and hearing the losses explained. But most of all I liked stories about the players themselves. For instance, sportswriter Rusty Simmons wrote how David Lee, once a starter, pulled a hamstring muscle and by the time he healed had been relegated to coming off the bench. He’d lost his starting power forward position to Draymond Green. I imagined that Lee, a strong player before being traded from the Knicks, couldn’t like not starting. But when interviewed by Simmons, Lee talked about what an unbelievably good job Green was doing. He said, “When you’ve got a full team of guys who want to see the guy next to him succeed, it makes the game a lot easier.”

If David Lee felt envy, and in his heart of hearts hoped that Draymond Green might not play quite so well, that wouldn’t be odd. After all sports is about winning and losing, and we live in a society that believes in winners and losers. Often, we compare our own successes with those of our peers. If Lee viewed Green’s gain as is his loss, he’d be right in step. But no, Lee praises his teammate’s good play and sense of accomplishment.

Wanting to see the guy next to you succeed and feeling happy for his success is mudita in action. As I was following Warrior action, I was also being with this one of the four brahma viharas as part of my practice. Reading about David Lee fit in with my thoughts about this different kind of joy, this way of being that responds to others’ successes not with withdrawal or envy, but with active delight. In Pali, the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism, mudita means sympathetic or appreciative joy. It is one of the four brahma viharas, or Divine Emotions, which means these four conditions of the heart are good to cultivate – good for you and good for everyone else. The other three brahma viharas are loving kindness or metta; compassion called karuna, and equanimity, upekka.

I have long suspected mudita was not my strong suit and if I hoped to cultivate it, I would have to come to terms with envy, curtail judging, and cut down comparing. Even as recently as my short stay at Hotel Lake Merritt, the place for independent senior living, I would have loved to be wholeheartedly happy for those residents whose adult children came often to visit. But no. Where were my adult children? Didn’t they think I might appreciate a visit?

Several years ago when I was Corky’s girlfriend, I envied her her eight grandchildren, for having been present at the birth of each one. However, I chose to discount the pleasure this gave her by thinking of those eight as eight more excuses for her to go out and spend money. I did not appreciate the joy shopping afforded her. Rather, I awarded myself a one-up star. Good for me, I am not acquisitive. I discounted Corky’s pleasure because it came from an activity or lifestyle choice that was not my preference. Now I am asking myself, “Did her choices really threaten the validity of my own?”

I get to experience appreciative joy during Small Group Ministry meetings at the Unitarian Universalist church when during our gatherings, group members speak about being deeply happy or feeling lucky. And believe me I am grateful for this recent ability because, as I said, accessing mudita hasn’t been easy. I’ve read that it is the most difficult of the brahma viharas to cultivate. Clearly, that’s true for me.

Not to cultivate appreciative joy goes directly against the UU seventh principle: our interdependence with the world around us. Clearly, another person’s joy does not diminish the supply of joy in the world; another person’s joy contributes to the joy available to all of us. And just maybe, our own joy in response creates even more.

Go Warriors. Sorry, Corky. And thank you, members of Small Group Ministry.

PictureUU Chalice clip art
Posted a few paragraphs below is the Reflection I gave at the First Unitarian Universalist Society worship service Sunday, April 19 with the Reverend Mary Ganz preaching. I liked being on the chancel and part of the service. Even before the flute soloist tootled the prelude, I felt useful. Rev. Ganz needed a platform at the pulpit because she is short. I helped that happen. When the Reverend mentioned having allergies, I had the  lilies close to minister's chair taken away. I was so into caring for her, I would have turned the pages of her sermon except she could do it herself and it would be inappropriate. Admittedly, the best part of the service, besides the sermon itself, were those moments behind the lectern when standing on tiptoe to ease my nervousness, I shared approximately 387 words.

For a while, the ministers did not want worship associates personal on the chancel; I was disappointed, felt shut out and felt compelled to craft a website to post my experiences. I needed to feel connected through stories to myself and to others. At last, First UU worship services again want lay people to tell their stories as worship associates; we're listed in the order of service as "Reflections."  Again I'm on the chancel and grateful for the chance to share insights.  I also appreciate this spot in cyberspace. Thank you if you are a reader.
Reflection: When I started to blog at Spiritflowsthru.com in October of 2011, I thought to write about living each day and being “actively engaged in finding meaning in the menial.” And I invited readers to join me in the “search for the holy in the daily.”

But it’s 2015 and I’ve changed what I’m looking for. No doubt sitting in stillness has influenced me to see the daily as the holy, and to look instead for ways to repay daily life for its abundance by contributing the energy of my true presence. Perhaps this way I could uncover a certain poverty of awareness on my part. Curious about my daily impact, I paid attention to leaving a room mindfully and not letting the door slam after me. I tried to note when I was truly present with those who spoke to me. Did I talk more than I listened? I wanted to be mindful of my ego when in the grip of “What about me?” because it is curiosity I want at the forefront asking, “Who are you?” “What is this?”

Daily, we learn of injustices we can’t remedy, so it is skillful to ask what good it can do to shift one’s perspective in the face of so much suffering and delusion?” I found answers to that question in Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Five Wonderful Precepts.” In the fourth precept are these guidelines and a beneficial outcome of wise speech.

“Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I vow to learn to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to criticize or condemn things of which I am not sure. I will refrain from uttering words that can cause division or discord, or that can cause the family or the community to break. I will make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.”

Influenced by such a precept, I vow to continue to look at daily life as sacred-ground, to measure the wealth and poverty of experience by how close to keeping my vows of nonharming I can come, and when I post my blogs, may spirit flow thru.

End of Reflection and final thought: May we remember to bring the gift of full presence to all the moments of each day.

The Big UhOh

PictureA Volvo that looks worse than my car.
I dropped by Quality Body and Fender to look in on my little Scion IQ, which couldn’t be driven until a new bumper came from Southern California and could be painted the requisite orange and reattached. The old bumper did not just fall off. I had to try to turn left from the right lane and bump another car for it to dangle unsafely and be beyond repair.

Having done wrong by sideswiping another vehicle, I did try to do right by continuing through an intersection and stopping at the curb to locate the distraught other to whom I owed an apology and my insurance assurances. But no one was anywhere. No damaged car knocked sideways by the impact. It seemed impossible but that was it: no one, nothing.

To understand why I risked turning right from the left lane, we have to go back a couple of hours to the moment I noticed the small lit upturned bowl with the exclamation mark on the dashboard glowing its warning about tire trouble. I had seen that indicator lit many times when I lived on Gough in San Francisco and it hadn’t alarmed me like it should. So when I did pull up to an air hose in a filling station near the location of my therapy appointment in Berkeley and saw the nail in the left rear tire and gauged how flat the tire was, I knew this time I was in real trouble. Air was escaping about as fast as I could pump in 40 lbs. of new air.

That excess air was part of my plan, which did not include panicking or canceling my weekly meeting with my beloved therapist. I assured myself I could stop at multiple air hoses until I was out of quarters and still get to a Big O in Berkeley in time to repair the tire without sacrificing the hour of trauma therapy I was now in desperate need of.

However, the false confidence fueling my behavior did not serve me well. With the tire flattening even as I sat in the orange chair I favor, I fiercely defended my thought process when my therapist hazarded the opinion that I might feel better canceling our morning meeting to deal with the tire. Oh the angry reaction. “I’ve thought this through!” I snapped, defending my territory, my right to be stupid, as it turned out.

And so it was that panic to replace the once-again flattened tire had me veering recklessly from the left lane to turn right onto San Pablo in Berkeley where I expected to find the Big O tire store. By this time though I couldn’t remember its location nor mine either.

And so with a damaged front bumper and a really flat tire, I pulled an illegal U turn and stopped near a small shop that did repairs. While it didn’t stock bumpers or replace tires, Andy who worked there drove the car in, jacked it up, removed the tire, patched it, filled it with the correct amount of air as well as checked the other three tires, and refused payment for his kindness.

He told me I could make it safely now to wherever the bumper could be repaired or replaced. With that assurance, I checked on Foxie, the dog, who was crated in the back of the car and drove away in search of Automobile Row/Broadway, making many wrong turns and seeming to choose only streets with speed bumps over which I would travel very slowly.

Eventually, I arrived at the Toyota sales and service but they did not do collision repairs. I was wearing as thin as that sad left rear tire and was close to dangling as loosely as the bumper, when the manager said Quality Body and Fender representatives were on their way to deliver a repaired Subaru and they would take the car. When the man from Quality arrived, I handed him the keys and let the dealership’s shuttle driver take Foxie and me home to 100 Grand Ave.

By the time of this posting, the car has been repaired and returned. And I found a prism of wisdom through which to look at this experience in chapter five of Pema Chodron’s book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change. Here’s my paraphrase: Experiences have “delightful” and “difficult” parts.  Here’s Pema: “Embracing the totality of your experience is one definition of having loving-kindness for yourself.”

My last word: I had been foolish and careless, yet all around me had been kindness.

PicturePumpkin chili ala Alison
At my new space, 100 Grand Ave., a restaurant isn't one of the perks. This is good because I am under some filial pressure to take responsibility for what I eat. It helps to have a kitchen bigger and better equipped than the miniature at Hotel Lake Merritt. Having kitchen amenities didn't matter there as most residents are relieved to be off kitchen duty. Here, my kitchen is conducive to staying involved in self-care. It has a washer-dryer, microwave, stove, refrigerator, garbage disposal. Few excuses for falling down on the job.

 Moreover, being successful in the kitchen has become kind of a big deal for me, particularly as it involves delving into Thug Kitchen, a vegan cookbook, gifted to me by my first born son. I am one among many whom it is his mission to convert to a vegan diet. (Parenthetically, I take some credit for the passion this son and the younger two bring to feeding themselves and those they care about. As a parent, I proved a kitchen disappointment, setting such an egregious example that over the years all three were driven to excellence as payback.) And my oldest son was married for a time to a culinary school graduate. Clearly the skill and passion for all things kitchen rubbed off.

Fed by his love for animals, he seriously converted to vegan cooking quite a while ago. I could follow his exploits as he posted them with pictures on Facebook. Maybe he feels really comfortable in Thug Kitchen because he is profanity-compatible. And scarcely an instruction in the book, from the first page to the last, lacks a !#^%%#^ing descriptor. Even the front cover advises readers to “eat like you give a $&^%@*!”

My first foray into Thug Kitchen was page 97, Pumpkin Chili. To organize myself, I used the camera on my phone to capture the ingredients. Leaving myself lots of time and going to a Trader Joe in Berkeley less congested than the tiny jammed TJ on Lakeshore in Oakland, I could consult the picture of listed ingredients as I searched out garlic, a kind of onion but smaller that you have to mince yourself. I skipped the jalapenos as I don’t really know what they look like. I forgot the *$@$#%@#! cumin, which was a required ingredient. And because pumpkin puree is seasonal, I settled for pumpkin soup, planning to add it without additional broth or water. Once I began to make the recipe, careful not to skip a #^$%#@^-ing step, I saw I was short on chili powder and had to substitute chipotle chili. I realized this made me a total *$@#$!@$, but so be it.

To shorten a long string of expletives, I succeeded in creating a Pumpkin Chili to be proud of, and it was a cause of mutual rejoicing when I texted my vegan son with the good news. He was proud of me, texting back: “Keep up the good work, holmes, and be sure to post to Facebook.”  What the $@%!, I don’t plan to do that.

PictureFoxie rug rolls in our new small space.
Where have I been these last three months? In a muddle of moving. In early February I see I posted about going to a lecture at East Bay Meditation Center. Rereading that blog, I also see that I was not wholehearted about it. Indeed, being less than wholehearted hovered over almost everything associated with moving to a studio apartment in senior independent living. It didn’t take long to realize it was too soon to succumb to old(er) age. I was beginning to feel even more depleted than when I felt at odds with noise and grime and made the move in the first place.

So once again I set about moving, not back to San Francisco, but a few blocks uptown. (Uptown is a term that gets a big play in Oakland.) Not knowing the East Bay at all, I only know there are a lot of Kaiser Permanentes in the vicinity and a very big Pandora building less than two blocks from here. Happily, Lake Merritt is but one city block from this location, so Foxie and I still have the option of visiting the birds.

In this new residence, a city-block sized apartment building in the neighborhood of other large building and some small and yummy eateries, anyone of any age with the proper paperwork and enough money can rent a one or two bedroom or studio apartment. This studio where Foxie and I live is on the 14th floor. It faces west and we can see the mountains of Marin and the San Francisco skyline, the Bay Bridge, and freeway traffic. Reflected in a black building on Webster directly in view of my one big window, virtual traffic heads up Grand. At the same time I see the actual traffic driving down Grand. Of course, the streets are under construction, although the noise is less than it was when Gough Street was being torn up. Here, when the sun sets, I must close the white sliding blinds or be blinded.

Because it is March, I have been watching much madness on my TV, which seems to loom over the wee space I have cordoned off as the living room in case guests come. I think I can accommodate four guests in the space, about as many as I ever accommodated in my last small space.

As for Foxie, he likes this location very much. He can go under the bed when he fears I am leaving. He has the couch to snuggle on, the rugs to rub on and the new bathroom mat as an emergency pee place. Right now, I blog to the rhythm of the washer undoing Foxie’s most recent yellowy blot on a new blue and gray striped bathmat.

For my wee fierce one, I felt compelled to buy a muzzle just in case of leaps and snarls in crowded elevators. Although I purchased renter’s insurance, I doubt it covers neighbor’s torn pant cuffs or visits to the vet for other wee canines headed out for their morning strolls. Wearing his muzzle, Foxie experiences total humiliation. His tail droops, his ears droop, his head drops and to endure this sight, I muster up as much of my adult as I can. We must be good neighbors. We cannot lunge at others. We cannot bark whenever one of the heavy fire doors on the nearby apartments open or close. We cannot bark at children running in the halls. The folks in this building are not hard of hearing as were most of our former neighbors in Hotel Lake Merritt. Once we are friendly on the 14th floor, we can joke about Foxie’s propensity to match every sound with his own.

Here on Grand Ave. we are closer to BART than before, we have the 12 bus running in both directions, going uptown or downtown as far as the Landmark Theater on Shattuck in Berkeley. Possibly, I will even take Foxie on public transportation, but not unmuzzled. We could try taking the free shuttle from here to Jack London Square. Weekends, I drive to keep my San Francisco commitments, but on weekdays a trip to the city means BART. It runs multiple morning trains and because I have aged (even more in these last three months) someone has to let me sit. Indeed, this is the good life!

PictureFrom March Shambala Sun. Ray Fenwick. Photo A.Rittger
This week I began a four-week Wednesday night class at East Bay Meditation Center on Siddhartha Guatama’s “Four Noble Truths.” Mushim, the teacher, calls the class “The Buddha’s 4 Big Truths.” This avoids explaining why the truths are noble; in as much as the truths are actually ennobling and meant for noble people, which means all of us.

It seemed like quite a few in the class of more than 100 learners were new to the subject matter. I was not, and at first I thought this was okay. I expected to battle through my end-of-the day weariness and not to mind if the dharma talk I anticipated got dumbed down. But I was wrong. If this had been my first class on the 4 big truths, I'm sure I would have appreciated Mushim’s friendly, easy-on-the-understanding teaching more than I actually did. During this first class, I was amused sometimes; but not like the real new learners, who laughed aloud at “dukkha”: the Pali word for suffering. Without realizing it, I had overestimated my equanimity and underestimated my capacity for dukkha.

I registered for the class because I have a three-block walk to EBMC, and in the past I had liked Mushim’s dharma talks. Moreover, I love the idea of EBMC – its diversity and generosity-based pay plan that excludes no one for lack of money.

That evening, because I have been taught to look at every aspect of my life as “the Path,” I took an interest in my restlessness: the shifts, twitches and yawns. I was aware that the room was dark, and air purifiers hummed in the background. As Mushim talked, I recited silently a three-part Pali chant I had learned in another EBMC workshop in December. I noticed how as the words became foreground I could hear her and the other students at the back of my attention.  This way, being judgmental was almost impossible as I didn't have enough left-over mental activity for judgments.

Despite my disappointment and general twitchiness, I did learn a few things. By tuning out because I thought I knew it all, I disregarded a lot I didn't know. I didn’t know Mushim had prepared a power-point presentation for this class; and Mahogany, the event manager, told her the class was too large for her to show it as everyone would have had to shift around. Surely that disappointment meant dukkha for Mushim and maybe for Mahogany too. And I learned Mushim's cat had died.

Walking home from that first class meeting, I remembered Mushim saying how the Buddha tells us to turn to our own experience. Ehipassiko which is Sanskrit and means "Come and see for yourself.So here is what I came to see for myself after that class: There is more than one thing and its opposite. So don't construct too narrow a category of what I think I need to learn. Leave room for the universe.


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From: Henrik Nordstrom <>
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Joe Cooper wrote:

> The whole configuration is working, except for load balancing. Without
> "carp" I always get FIRST_UP_PARENT/ With "carp" I always get
> CARP/, no matter what IP I'm coming from (and I tried a half
> dozen client IPs to be sure I wasn't just coincidentally always hashing to
> the same destination).

CARP balances based on a hash of the destination URL, not client.

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Week 26/2022: I’m reviewing the situation

Week of 27 June 2022

I’m reviewing the situation

When I made my 22 for 2022 list, I grouped the 22 things under the three areas where I wanted to make progress in the first three months of 2022:

  • supporting my body and mind
  • engaging in meaningful work
  • exploring

Half way though the year, I’ve completed six of the 22 things, all but one of which was under the “meaningful work” category.

  • 8 – Complete my TAFE course
  • 10 – Read Deep Work and make a summary of key takeaways and action
  • 11 – Review the Priority Samurai course material and identify actions
  • 13 – Sort out my Todoist
  • 18 – Complete the Content Writing course

The other thing I’ve done was to complete the Cosmic Calibration course (thing 22), which was about the INTP personality type.

I’m still working on the Mindspot course (thing 1), my personal “instruction manual” (thing 12) and reading the 20 (or 26) books from the Dymocks 2022 Reading Challenge (thing 21).

That means I have nine things either done or in progress and 13 things I haven’t started.

The undone 13 things and my new priorities

I still want to do 12 of them, though there are a couple I want to redefine. The other one, managing a small project (thing 9), relies on work. I don’t think the time is right for it at the moment, so that’s not one I’ll be able to do in the next six months.

When I started my list in January, I was only thinking three months ahead, and my idea was to review everything at the end of each month. I didn’t exactly do that.

The TAFE course (thing 8) took up more time than I had envisaged. You don’t just magically get an extra ten hours a week to do a study program. Something has to give way for it. And there’s a major ongoing family issue that is also taking a lot of my time and mental energy. Knowing both of those things, I probably knew my original plan was unrealistic, but that didn’t stop me making it. Surprise surprise! I didn’t do what I’d hoped to do in the first three months of the year, and it’s now the start of July and I still haven’t done it all.

Now that the TAFE course is finished, I’ve spent some time thinking about what’s really important for me to do next and I refined my original three areas into three main projects I want to spend the next three months focusing on. So many threes!

The first one relates to the original area of supporting mind and body, but I’ve made this more specific about getting treatment and a program to sort out my neck and shoulder issues and to get serious about fixing this. I still want to be fully active and walking every day when I’m 80, and the longer I leave this, the less likely it is to happen. I don’t think it’s ever going come right unless I address the underlying causes of my pain, which is going to take time to resolve.

I’m exploring a couple of different treatment options at the moment so I don’t know what this will look like yet but I’m sure it will mean devoting some time every day to exercise or exercises or putting new habits into place. This can’t be negotiable. I have to do it. This means getting a strength program (thing 7) has to wait until I’m physically capable of doing it. So that’s off the list for this year. I guess “fix my back, neck and shoulder” could replace thing 7 but this is a long-term project rather than a “thing”.

The second project I want to spend at least three months on is working on material related to my INTP personality type, which is a follow up to the Cosmic Calibration course (thing 22). It includes material from other courses I have either started or purchased and not yet started. This will all feed into my personal “instruction manual” (thing 12). Doing the Strengthsfinder assessment (thing 14) and finishing the Mindspot work (thing 1) also slot in here. Again, it’s a longer-term project, not a thing I can easily tick off.

Finally, I want to get more serious about my writing. I’ve purchased three courses that I haven’t worked through (things 17, 19 and 20) and they have time limits on them. None of them are anything like the commitment I needed for the TAFE course so if I can redirect my ten study hours a week to them I should be able to get through them fairly quickly. One at a time, of course. After I’ve finished them, I want to spend some time working through the exercises from the Life Writing course handbook that I did last year.

That leaves me with seven things I haven’t started but I still want to do, that don’t fit within those three areas. I’m going to park them for now while I work through my three priorities. I still have home, work and family responsibilities to manage too, so I don’t want to take on too much.

And on top of this, I’m compelled to do occasional photo exploration walks because, well, I just have to do it and I haven’t done it for ages and I miss it.

Corner of Elizabeth & Brisbane streets featuring The Rox apartments and Lexus Showroom
The “Hobart Street Corners” photo project continues

22 for 2022 mid-year review

Things I’ve completed in the fist six months of 2022 (6/22)

  • 8 – Complete my TAFE course
  • 10 – Read Deep Work
  • 11 – Review the Priority Samurai course
  • 13 – Sort out my Todoist
  • 18 – Complete the Content Writing course
  • 22 – Complete the Cosmic Calibration program

Things I’m still working on and/or want to work on in the next three months (6/22)

  • 1 – Complete the Mindspot program (feeds into 12)
  • 14 – Get a Strengthsfinder assessment (feeds into 12)
  • 17 – Do the Writing Bootcamp
  • 19 – Complete the Profile Writing course
  • 20 – Complete the Romance Writing course
  • 21 – Complete the Dymocks Reading Challenge

Things I’m reshaping (1/22)

  • 12 – My personal instruction manual (previously “Deep Work” handbook). This is an ongoing project rather than a “thing” I can tick off the list.

Things I’m parking but if I get a spare afternoon, I might find myself inspired to do (7/22)

  • 2 – See a nutritionist
  • 3 – Learn more about food waste and try to reduce this (I really need to get onto this one)
  • 4 – Talk to my GP about a non-urgent health concern
  • 5 – Restart my kombucha brewing
  • 6 – Set up my veggie bed
  • 15 – Set up an information management and tracking system at work
  • 16 – Complete the 30-day voice course

Things I’m probably not going to do in 2022 (2/22)

  • 7 – Strength training (I need to fix my shoulder first)
  • 9 – Manage a small project at work

So that’s it. Now it’s time to get on with it. I was feeling a little flat last week but having done this review of everything has made things seem a little less overwhelming and more focused.

Having these three priorities is supposed to mean that if I find myself with a spare hour or afternoon (that’s a joke, by the way), my first instinct should be to do an activity related to one of those things rather than gravitating towards my phone. And if not one of them, then something off the “parked” list. Let’s see how that goes . . .

22 for 2022 summary

  • Things completed to date: 6 (8, 10, 11, 13, 18, 22)
  • Things completed this week: 0
  • Things I worked on this week: 1: (21)
  • Things in progress: 3 (1, 12, 21)
  • Things not started: 4 (14, 17, 19, 20)
  • Things that are parked until the end of September: 7 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16)
  • Things I’m not going to do: 2 (7, 9)

What do I want to do next week?

Operation Fix My Back, Neck and Shoulder is starting next week and I’m having my first appointment with a professional I hope can help me.

For Project INTP, I’m going to review the first two weeks of Personality Hacker’s introductory INTP program of and do the exercises. I’m also going to review the INTP productivity course material on morning rituals and start to rebuild my own ritual of keeping away from my devices in the morning, walking, meditating and breathing.

And that’s enough for one week! I have family appointments and a “winter wellness” workshop to attend with Lil Sis over the weekend, as well as an ongoing video project. I think I have plenty enough to do.

Weekly summary

What was the best thing about this week?

I usually only make it into town once a week at most at the moment, and I always seem to have a pile of library books to pick up or return, and several items to pick up from various stores. Carrying heavy loads on my back isn’t possible with my shoulder in its current state so I joined the old lady shopping trolley club.

A black bag on a shopping trolley in a park
I joined the shopping trolley club

This is brilliant! It has stair climbing wheels, and you can take the bag off and use it as an actual trolley, for, you know, all those things you need a trolley to cart around.

What I’m reading this week

  • Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey
  • Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

Habit tracker

  • Days I went for a walk in the morning (Goal = 7): 4
  • No phone at breakfast (Goal = 6): 6
  • Days I did my morning planning routine at work (Goal = 4): 4
  • Days I did controlled breathing (Goal = 7): 7
  • No phone at lunch time (Goal = 7): 7
  • Days I did my post-work pack up routine (Goal = 4): 3
  • Finish work by 5.30 (Goal = 4): 4
  • Days I worked on my art (Goal = 2): 1
  • Days I read a book (Goal = 7): 7
  • Days I went for a walk or did other physical activity in the afternoon (Goal = 5): 6
  • Days I shut my computer down before 9.30 (Goal = 6): 6
  • Weekly review at work: Yes
  • Weekly review at home: Yes (mostly)
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Autumn in the North Cemetery.

Sixty miles west of Boston, Massachusetts there is the small New England town of Sturbridge. Located at the junction of I-90 (The Mass Pike), and I-84 it has become known as the "Crossroads of New England". The town was first settled over 300 years ago, and like other small New England towns it has grown just enough over the years to be in a difficult place today. How do we embrace the future without forgetting how we got to our present? How do we attract the right kind of growth, and maintain who we are? And, what about our culture out here in Central Massachusetts?

These pages will cause one to think about how to protect what we have, our future direction, and how to move on in the very best way.

Those thoughts, and other ramblings, will hopefully inspire more thought, conversation, action, and occasionally a smile...

...seems to be working so far

Monday, January 6, 2014

A Good Sign

I came home from work this past Friday morning around 8:00, and was greeted by my very excited step-daughter, Jenny.  She told me that our mail box, which used be over there was no longer over there, but way up there.  She pointed to a sad looking mailbox sitting high on the snow berm at roadside about 75 feet from its post.

This was our first mailbox vs. plow contest since we moved into this old house on Route 148 in 2006.  Of course, the mailbox lost.

I had placed a tall stake with a reflective red top on it about 10 feet before the mailbox, and I had lined the mailbox post with red plastic reflectors all in hopes of alerting the plow driver that our mailbox was there, and keeping that mailbox attached.  It worked for seven years.  Not bad, really.

Now, the issue I was confronted with now was making sure we continued to get our mail at our house, but first I had to notify the highway department.  I just wanted them to know that the mailbox had been hit.  The gentleman that answered the phone at the town garage said he would swing by, and check it out.  I imagined it was some sort of documentation thing he had to do in order to account to the damage the mailbox had done to their plow.  In the meantime, I had to work this past weekend in Boston, and that left little time to construct a temporary mailbox anchored in a bucket of concrete.  So, much to Mary's chagrin, I bungee'd a Shepard's crook from the garden onto the post, and hung a large, orange Home Depot bucket from its hook.

Worked for me.

I came home from work this morning, and turned the bucket horizontal on the Shepard's crook, and bungee'd the bejeepers out of it. I wanted to keep the rain out of the bucket, and although not the best looking solution, it worked for me.

My plan was to travel to Home Depot later in the day, buy some concrete, a post, and a new mailbox; I already had the bucket, and plant it at the roadside till spring.  Not how I wanted to spend my day off, but just one of those things that has to be done.

Around one o'clock I awoke, and headed downstairs.  I pulled back the curtain and stared at the rain hitting the road, and there, beside our front walkway, was a mailbox, on a nice post, standing in a bucket of concrete.

I swear there was a glow emitting from the mailbox, and heard angels voices singing when I first saw that mailbox.

I stared at that baby for a minute, or so, then called the Highway Department, and spoke to the young lady that answered the phone.  I asked if the Highway Department had dropped off the mailbox.  Which, looking back was a really dumb thing to ask.  She confirmed that it was them, and that a gentleman was out placing mailboxes today.

Seems there were other casualties the night of the storm.

I thanked her for the loan of the mailbox, and told her I did not expect it at all.  I promised I would get it back to them as soon as I could dig a hole, and put in a new mailbox, and post in the spring.  Funny thing is I had planned on putting a new post and mailbox in last fall.  In fact, I had notified Dig Safe, and they came out to mark the utilities along the road so wouldn't pierce a water main digging a post hole.

Good thing I waited.  In the spring I'll move everything back a foot or two, and hope we can avoid another snowplow encounter in the future.

The bottom line is that I am a happy man today.  The Town of Sturbridge, specifically, the Highway Department, surprised me, and made my day.  Thank you.

This is a sign.  I already knew that 2014 is going to be a better year in town.  Now, I can feel it.

  1. Not the first time Highway Dep't has done this ... we're damn lucky to have as good a crew as this one. 30+ years in town and never a complaint from me about them!

  2. And Charter came out and replaced my neighbors mailbox after the last plow event even when it wasn't 100% that they knocked it down. But, downside, probably our rates will be going up to cover it!

  3. Just an FYI Wally: Contact your Friendly Fiskdale Post Office to placement info - last thing you want to do is anger your FRD carrier!

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One of the 108 Temples & Celestial Abodes of Vishnu revered by the Tamil hymns of the Alwars of the 1st millennium CE

Location: Tiruvanandapuram- Kerala .
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Vishnu: Anantapadmanabhan
Taayaar: Harilakshmi
Theertham:Padma Theertham
Paasuram :Nammalwar
Vimaanam:Hemakoota Vimanam
Travel Base:Tiruvanandapuram
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Description Tiruvanandapuram (Trivandrum) gets its name from the grand Anantapadmanabhaswamy temple, enshrining the tutelary deity - Anantapadmanabha  of the Travancore kingdom. It is one of the grandest temples of Kerala, exhibiting an amalgamation of Dravidian and Kerala temple architectural styles. It is a temple vibrant with tradition, having been associated for years with the arts and music. The rulers of Travancore have held this temple in the highest regard. Even today, an elaborate worship protocol is followed in the strictest sense and this is one of the best maintained temples in India.

This is an ancient temple and has been revered by the tamil hymns of the Alwar Saint Nammalwar of the 1st millennium CE. Eight shrines in Kerala  Tirunaavai, Trikakkara, Moozhikkalam, Tiruvalla, Tirukkodittanam, Chengannur, Tirupuliyur, Aranmula, Tiruvanvandur and Tiruvanantapuram and two in Kanyakumari district (formerly in Travancore) Tiruvaattar and Tirupatisaram have been revered by the tamil hymns of Nammalwar. Tirumangaialwar has sung of Tiruvalla, and has mentioned Tirupuliyur in one of his hymns.

Deities: This temple enshrines an imposing image of Vishnu, in the Anantasayanam posture; an image viewed through three doors in front of the shrine. The original image was of wood; the current image was fashioned out of 1200 saalagramams which were specially brought down for this purpose and moulded into shape with a special paste kadusarkara - a mixture of lime, granite, molasses and mustard. Vishnu is viewed through three doors in a row - the face on the southern side, the feet on the northern side and the nabhi (navel) in the middle.  Padmanabhan is enshrined in the yoganidhra posture, reclining on Aadiseshan -( making offerings of vilvam to a small Shivalingam, to  his right).

The sanctum of this temple is fashioned in the style of the temples of Kerala, while the surrounding walls and the towers resemble that of the Tamil (Dravidian architecture)temples. Interesting murals adorn the outer walls of the sanctum. There are shrines to Narasimha, Hanuman and Krishna near the sanctum.

An interesting legend surrounds the origin of the imposing image. A rishi by name Divakara Yogi, who was engaged in the worship of Vishnu, was enraged by the sight of a two year old toddler swallowing his Salagramam, the object of his worship. The toddler, upon being chased by the yogi, entered a tree; the tree split, and Vishnu revealed himself in all his splendour to the Rishi, who then requested him to assume a form that could be held in worship, upon which Vishnu assumed the form of the image, now held in worship in this temple.

History: Martanda Varma of the Travancore Kingdom, in a spectacular ceremony in 1750 surrendered the kingdom to the presiding deity of the temple, and received it back as a fiefdom and ruled Travancore as a servant of Padmanabhan; all of his successors adopted this custom. Much of the present structure dates back to the period of Martanda Varma, who made several renovations and built the eastern gopuram, which got completed by 1798.

The  flagstaff  is enclosed in a casing of gold. The Kulasekhara mandapam near the flagstaff has fine sculptures dating back to the 17th century. The long prakaram, with a terraced roof with 324 columns, mesaures 540 feet by 325 feet, and is about 24 feet wide. It has two rows of granite pillars, and every pillar bears an image of a Deepalakshmi. Also here are images of yalis (mythological animal), with non removable stone balls in their mouths.

Festivals: There are two annual festivals here - one in the month of Pankuni (Pisces-Meenam) March 15-April14, and the other in Aippasi (Tulaa-Libra) (Oct-Nov).

More will be featured about this magnificient temple shortly on Templenet.

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Spy x Family Ch. 65 makes you think that this is just going to be another Yor misadventure. However, it then surprises you at the end by actually advancing the main plot! Well done, Tatsuya Endo. You fooled us all in the best way possible.

Spy x Family Ch. 65: Details

"Spy x Family" Ch. 65 page 1.
Anya’s vocabulary is as impressive as ever, I see.

Spy x Family Ch. 65 is, as its name suggests, the 65th chapter of the manga by Tatsuya Endo. Casey Loe is the English translator for this NA release, with Rina Mapa as the letterer. Shueisha published the original version in Japan, with Viz Media publishing it for its NA release.

Spy x Family Ch. 65 was released on July 24, 2022. You can read it for free on Weekly Shonen Jump on Viz Media. Note that the chapter will only remain free for 2 chapter releases. After the 3rd chapter past Ch. 65 launches, Ch. 65 will go into the Shonen Jump vault. Once in there, you will need a paid subscription to read it and all previous chapters. So if you want to read Ch. 65 for free, you might want to hurry up and do so. Fortunately, the manga has a biweekly release, so you won’t have to be in too much of a hurry.

Spy x Family also has an anime adaptation now. You can watch it only on Crunchyroll, and only if you have a paid premium account.

Warning: spoilers for Spy x Family Ch. 65 below. If you want to read about the suddenly plot-relevant misadventures of Yor Forger, then stop here, and come back once you’ve successfully survived a volleyball match with Yor. It makes sense in context.

Spy x Family Ch. 65: Plot Summary

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I see Anya is also demonstrating her deception skills on Yor. Such as they are.

Spy x Family Ch. 65 has Yor Forger back as our focus character. Her mission this time? Obtain “Crunch Crunch” tea cakes and an actual cake for Anya. Yor’s mission takes her to a local department store in search of her targets. Unfortunately, her lack of common sense and her worry about being reported to the Ostanian secret police derails her attempts to buy those cakes. Fortunately, she runs into some unexpected help. After saving a rich woman from tumbling down the stairs from carrying too many cakes (while also saving the cakes to boot), the rich woman lets her have quite a few of the cakes as a reward. However, she also wants Yor to help her out with something else for further rewards.

That something turns out to be a volleyball match. The wealthy woman turns out to be a member of a local housewives group called the Lady Patriots Society, and they want Yor to help them win a match for once. Yor has absolutely no idea how to play volleyball and needs to have the rules explained to her before the match, but at least she has her superhuman strength to compensate. What could possibly go wrong?

Volleyball Without Honor or Sense

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Oh Yor, you always want to think the best of Anya.

The volleyball match goes about as well as you’d expect. Yor’s superhuman strength is as much an advantage as it is a disadvantage. Maybe more the latter, considering one of her serves resulted in the innocent volleyball reaching orbit. I don’t think they’re going to get that ball back.

Still, the players all had fun during the match, and that was all that mattered. It even resulted in Yor realizing that not knowing what to do as a mother is normal. Then a random remark from one of the mothers of the Lady Patriots Society reveals that Yor and the wealthy woman both share a connection: they have a kid at Eden Academy. As it turns out: the wealthy woman’s name is Melinda Desmond. As in: the mother of Damian Desmond: Anya’s arch-nemesis/target. How will this plot twist play out? Well, that’s what we’ll presumably/hopefully find out in the next chapter of Spy x Family.

Spy x Family Ch. 65: The Good

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Strangely enough, her worries aren’t entirely without basis. Given how paranoid the S.S.S. are depicted as.

The story is definitely the best part of Spy x Family Ch. 65. Tatsuya Endo makes you think that this is just going to be another silly fluff chapter, and then pulls the rug out from under you with that plot twist at the end. A masterful stroke of plot, that was. Now, all we can do is wait and see how this plot twist affects the main story, especially since the manga as a whole is well-known for its relatively slow-paced main plot.

The artwork of Spy x Family Ch. 65 is the other best part about it. Tatsuya Endo does a really great job drawing highly detailed backgrounds and crowd scenes. And of course, facial expressions. You need only look at Anya throughout the manga to confirm that. This chapter is no exception, especially with the sheer amount and variety of facial expressions Yor makes throughout the chapter.

Spy x Family Ch. 65: The Bad

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Yor my dear, normality is overrated.

This is one chapter of Spy x Family I have zero complaints about. Why do you think I’m giving this a 100% score? Just read it for yourself on Weekly Shonen Jump to find out.

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MCPS to remove chemical additives from cafe food

By Eugenia Cardinale, Production Editor

MCPS Division of Food and Nutrition Services is working to remove a number of dangerous chemical additives and food dyes from food served in cafeterias after receiving a petition this summer from Real Food for Kids Montgomery (RFKM).

These additives and dyes include dyes Yellow 5 and 6, Tert-Butylhydroquione (TBHQ) and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame. RFKM proposed the banning of these additives because they are either mainly used in unhealthy foods and are substitutes for nutritious ingredients, cause a reaction in people sensitive to them or pose a risk of cancer or other adverse effects.

“There is a lot of documentation and research around these chemicals and the various risks and side effects,” RFKM co-director Karen Devitt said. “Some are carcinogenic, some effect behavior, [and] some exacerbate asthma.”

The Center of Science in Public Interest (CSPI) also contributed to this decision as the executive director Michael Jacobsen sent a letter to the school board about the harm these additives and dyes can cause.

According to a letter from Jacobsen, executive director of the (CSPI), almost all safety testing of food additives is conducted by manufacturers themselves and not the FDA. While the FDA recommends what testing should be done to demonstrate that a substance is safe, many of the recommended tests are rarely conducted.

RFKM argues that this should be a concern to all MCPS parents because these substances may cause hyperactivity in children who may be sensitive to them, therefore affecting children’s entire classroom environment.

According to the FDA, the behavior of certain children with ADHD may worsen if their diet contains too many of these substances, specifically artificial food colors.

“For kids who have ADHD the removal of food dyes from their diet has been shown to help certain behaviors,” Devitt said. “If one kid is acting up in class, that has a negative effect on everyone.”

These changes will affect all MCPS food product contracts going forward, but will not affect current contracts until they expire.

“We are working with manufacturers to reformulate their products,” said Marla Caplon, Director of MCPS Division of Food and Nutrition Services. “It is my hope that the next time a bid for purchase is submitted manufacturers will reformulate their recipes and minimal products will need to be removed.”

The RFKM and many parents hope for a change in MCPS’s way of serving processed, reheated food by preparing food fresh in a central facility, which would eliminate the use of many chemical additives.

However, the main concern for some students is how the removal of these additives and dyes will change the overall taste of the food.

“If it makes it taste worst, I’m against it, because it already tastes bad,” sophomore Evan Altschuler said.

For other students, the removal of these substances are seen as a positive change.

“If dyes and additives were removed, that would make it more appealing,” junior Griffin Bentzel said.

For the MCPS Division of Food and Nutrition Services this is just one of many steps that has been taken in order to provide students with healthy and nutritious food.

“We are always working with manufacturers to improve the quality and nutritional value of foods and beverages available to our students,” Caplon said.


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The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-39927, with some changes.

H Chrysolepis chrysophylla (Douglas ex Hook.) Hjelmq. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Chrysolepis (family Fagaceae).

The record derives from WCSP which reports it as an accepted name (record 39927) with original publication details: Bot. Not. Suppl. 2, 1: 117 1948.

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Castanea chrysophylla Douglas ex Hook. Synonym H WCSP
Castanopsis chrysophylla (Douglas ex Hook.) A.DC. Synonym H WCSP

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John Kessel Responds to the Future of the Fantastic

After I published the first Future of the Fantastic article about the relationship between SF and Literary Fiction, I sent an email to John Kessel, co-editor of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology and longtime SF writer, telling him about it. What followed was an in depth exchange on the subject of the article, reprinted here.

Silliman on Conjunctions

Perhaps it's a sign of the times that when Ron Silliman posts about the new issue of Conjunctions (calling Conjunctions the best literary review in America), his comments fill with backlash about how journals are too long, too obsequent to big names, and that there are simply too many of them. In a follow-up post, Silliman writes, "I found myself sympathizing also with the commentators who bemoaned the difficulty of 'keeping up' with journals in an era of shit distribution, increasing reliance on web publishing & still way too many print magazines." (Let's also point out that they're too expensive.) Silliman then proceeds with a very interesting review of the poetry in the Conjunctions issue in question, including a piece of poetry within a short story by Jonathan Lethem.

Review: Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick

In recent years it has become increasingly politically incorrect in literary circles to simply dismiss Philip K. Dick as a pulp Science Fiction writer; at this point, there seems to be a general consensus that there is more to Dick than there is to other "classic" scifi writers like Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, or Isaac Asimov. A dismissal of Dick in this way is no more acceptable than it would be to dismiss Kafka a horror writer, or Ernest Hemingway an Adventure writer. At the same time, there is the lingering problem with Dick in that he is somehow not of the same caliber as a Kafka or a Hemingway, and the critical appraisal of his work becomes problematic as a result.

The Future of the Fantastic: New Wave Slipstream Fabulism

It isn't so surprising that I didn't know what was going on in Science Fiction, as I'm the type of guy who generally reads "Literary Fiction," and like many readers of a particular type of writing, I didn't stray outside my aisles in the bookstore much. Sure I used to pick up a Philip K. Dick book now and again, maybe a Neil Gaimen novel, but hell, those guys are cool. And reading them made me feel like I was open minded and hip to what's going on, even if I wasn't.

Kelly Link, Pynchon, Moorcock and Genre

In a recent interview with Bat Segundo, Kelly Link offers some interesting comments about genre labels. She says that she feels like the term "Literary Fiction" turns off lots of people, and she prefers to call what she writes "Science Fiction:" "People who are turned off by the term 'Science Fiction' probably aren't the people I want reading my work, anyway." Which struck me as strange, since so much of what Link does is exactly what I think of as "Literary Fiction." Then again, a friend of mine once pointed out that Literary Fiction is a redundant term, and one wonders if it really means anything at all. Longtime Science Fiction and Fantasy author Michael Moorcock recently wrote a fascinating review of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, where, in a blistering litany of names and terms, he puts Pynchon in a linage that includes Brian Aldiss, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut. And perhaps Moorcock is right, and my own analysis that science fiction started growing up in the eighties is off by at least 20 years. If Neal Stephenson can call The Baroque Cycle Science Fiction then maybe there is no reason that we can't call Pynchon that too, and indeed his work may share more in common with Moorcock's own then it does with "Literary Fiction" stalwarts from Hemingway to Updike to Joyce Carol Oates.

However, if Link is right that it's the term "Literary Fiction" that turns people off, then someone like Pynchon would sell more as a Science Fiction writer, and I'm not sure that's the case. A lot of the Science Fiction fans I've met seem put off by anything remotely difficult, and I recall J.F. Quackenbush telling me about the time he went to a Science Fiction convention and a group of authors on a panel all agreed that writers shouldn't use big words. This kind of thing, and the Star Trek-type imprimatur I talked about in my earlier article, are what turns people off Science Fiction, and I can't help but feel like Link's own defensiveness about the value of her chosen genre (and, more importantly, I think, of the community she identifies with) results in a kind of reverse snobbery. Yes, Moorcock and Link are right; there are many works labeled Science Fiction that are really great, and besides, there's nothing wrong with a rip roaring good story (I am, in fact, in favor of those). Further, I really like lots of work that's labeled "Science Fiction." Further still, I respect the decision of people like Link, Stephenson and China Mieville who could declare themselves "Literary Fiction" writers and get out of the perceived "ghetto" of Sci Fi and Fantasy but don't on principle. The fact remains that I get very turned off by so much "genre" writing that reads like rapidly produced hack-work, and am reassured that even the least of the "Literary Fiction" crowd spend a good deal of time refining their craft and style in a way that just can't be said by the run-of-the-mill "genre" author, whose writing is often laughably bad. Which leaves me torn, because on the one hand I want to believe that's it's great to say "Yeah, stick it to those uppity snobs, Science Fiction and proud of it," and on the other hand I have trouble accepting the idea that labeling your work Science Fiction is in any way an improvement over labeling it Literary Fiction.

Ultimately though, it's a bad situation all around. I've certainly met people from the Literary crowd with an irrational dislike of Science Fiction, and vice versa with people from the Science Fiction crowd (as well as those of various other genres). There are, in fact, lots and lots of readers who will only voluntarily read one genre, voluntarily pigeon-holing themselves. So the whole thing becomes silly, a situation which I suspect is the product of the way bookstores started shelving things in the last hundred years or so that's taken on an unfortunate life of its own. Thus turning one's nose up at Literary Fiction makes as little sense as turning it up at Science Fiction, and I can't help but wish that Link's attitude towards Literary Fiction was a little more forgiving.

Must Characters Be Round?

I recently watched the Russian mini-series of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, which was wonderful and supposedly scrupulously faithful to the novel (which I haven't read). One of the remarkable things about it, as with Dostoevsky in general, is that despite the fact that there's a huge cast of characters, every single one seems incredibly real and true to life, as if they could simply step off the page (or in this case, screen).

In his book, Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forester separates characters into "round" and "flat." The difference is deceptively simple; a flat character is "constructed round a single idea or quality"; "The really flat character can be expressed in one sentence such as 'I never will desert Mr. Micawber.'" The round character, on the other hand, is a character "capable of surprising in a convincing way"; "It has the incalculability of life about it—life within the pages of a book."

Upon first glance, it would seem like a tautology that round characters are better than flat ones, with Dostoevsky as the perfect example. But Forester does not take this view at all, rather he says, "In Russian novels, where [flat characters] so seldom occur, they would be a decided help."


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Tourism has the potential to contribute, both directly and indirectly, to all of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, at the same time, "irresponsible tourism" has negatively impacted the social, cultural and ecological dimensions of the World Heritage sites. With an eye on the problems, the World Heritage Committee adopted the "World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme" (WH + ST) in 2012. Therefore, the World Heritage Centre encouraged WHITRAP Shanghai to conduct pilot studies in China to test this new approach. WHITRAP Shanghai has completed the first cycle of WH+ST Chinese Pilot Studies from 2015 to 2020. The outcomes have been well evaluated and recognised for its rational framework of research; the practical guidance outlined for the two World Heritage sites as well as the potential to the promotion in the region.

From 7th to 11th June, WHITRAP Shanghai will organise the training on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism in Shanghai. Taking into account the touristic vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we will re-think the management at World Heritage sites and the challenges of the recovery of tourism as well as its social resilience. The course will be divided into five sections as background introduction, OUV awareness, management planning, sustainable tourism and community collaboration.

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CC Sabathia Should Be Vilified In Cleveland

Celtics eliminated the Cavaliers in six games last week. Now, everyone speculates where LeBron James is going to play.

Basketball junkies encourage James to leave Cleveland for a chance to win a championship. Clevelanders warn their hometown star not to leave or else be vilified the way Art Modell was for moving the Browns to Baltimore.

If James leaves, Modell will be elated to know he will have a company for the most despised sports figure in Cleveland.

This begs one question to be asked.

How come CC Sabathia escapes the scorn he deserves? He's no better than Modell or James for what he did in leaving the Indians.

Sabathia left Cleveland for couple of reasons. For one thing, he wanted to get paid in the stratosphere ...

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Taking viewers back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the glass ceiling.

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It’s beginning to look like we may be in for a significant rainfall event again this weekend. The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a Flood Watch for our listening area from Friday morning through early Saturday afternoon with rain expected to taper off completely on Sunday. While there is no severe thunderstorm type activity such has high winds and hail in this forecast, rainfall totals of 3 – 4 inches should be expected in our immediate area, even more off to the East/Northeast.

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Richard Smith, one of our friends at the National Weather Service, put it this way. “Like the past few rain systems we've seen, the high moisture content in the air will result in very efficient rain-producing showers and storms. They may not look impressive on radar, but rainfall rates can be extremely high. It'll be like being in Florida but without the beach.”

So, we have a Flood Watch. Exactly what does that mean? According to the NWS office in Norman it means the possibility of flooding, flash flooding and/or river flooding at actionable levels. These are typically issued 6 – 48 hours before the event is expected.

If things get more serious the Watch is updated to a Flood Advisory which means we should expect ponding of water on streets, low-lying areas, highways, storm drains, and action stage river levels. With large parts of Wichita Falls utilizing above ground water runoff that means some streets are likely to have traffic issues. These typically last 3 – 6 hours.

The next level is an actual Flood Warning. These are issued in the event of a high flow, overflow, or inundation by water of normally dry areas. It can be by way of a river, lake, or any flood prone land area. These can be valid for many hours after the end of the rainfall, depending upon how long it takes the water to run off from the flooded areas. Flood Warnings do not involve rapidly rising water levels.

In the event of rapidly rising water a Flash Flood Warning will be issued. These are particularly dangerous and involve a rapid and extreme flow of high water into a normally dry area, or a rapid water level rise in a stream or creek above predetermined flood levels. These are typically valid for 3 -6 hours, sometimes longer, and typically begin within six hours of heavy rainfall.

What does all of this mean? If you have outdoor plans for the weekend be sure to keep an eye on the weather conditions and dress appropriately. If you live in a flood prone area be aware of the water levels around you and know when to head to high ground, and which roads to take to get there. If you’re driving and you see water across the road be aware that it might be a lot deeper than it looks. If the water is moving rapidly turn around, don’t drown. There will always be another path to your destination.


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Instagram Has a New "Active Status" Feature, and YES You Can Turn It Off

You know how on Facebook Messenger, your friends can see how recently you've been active? And, even worse, they can see if and when you read (and ignored) their last message?

Well, Instagram has adopted the same feature in their Direct Message and Stories feature.

Which means you can no longer read a message and ignore it without your friend knowing that you shunned them.

Good news for your privacy, though.  There IS a way to turn off the Active Status feature, and it only takes a few swipes and clicks.

First, go to your profile settings.  That's the lower right icon when you're looking at your Instagram home screen.

Then, click on the settings icon (note: It looks like a gear on iPhone...I think it's just 3 vertical dots on an Android).

And finally, scroll down until you see the option for "Show Activity Status", which will be below your cellular data and payments options.  Just toggle that to the left to turn it off

There, now you can happily ignore your friends and they'll be none the wiser.  Happy Instagramming!

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When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband’s coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

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The Hollow Point
Sanam Re

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