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Donna Waldhorn

Donna Waldhorn

Donna Waldhorn - An Active Retiree

Currently employed at Us postal service

Previous: Suny Prchase, Yonkers HS

    A retired postal worker, Donna Waldhorn assisted the United States Postal Service in Hartsdale, New York, as passport agent, sales associate, and clerk. Her responsibilities included providing stamps to customers and collecting information as part of the passport issuance procedure. In honor of her accomplishments, Donna Waldhorn earned the Service Appreciation recognition. Complementing her service to the American postal system, Donna Waldhorn participates in charitable activities linked to animal and social welfare. She collects supplies for local rescue groups as well as animal shelters. In her private life, Donna Waldhorn stays active by attending exercise classes like Jazzercise and Zumba. She also does basic yoga and regularly ice and roller skates. For entertainment, she appreciates the music of Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles, the last of which she saw two times in the mid-1960s. In terms of movies, she enjoys screwball comedies and vintage detective films from the 1930s and 1940s. An avid collector, she owns more than 300 beanie babies, which she displays by theme.

Suny Prchase, Purchase, Ny, Us

liberal studies/history , Suny Prchase

From September 1987 to May 1998
BA - Graduated cum laude, participated in campus life, did internship at ny psychiatric for human service class.

Yonkers HS, Yonkers, Ny, Us

Yonkers HS

From September 1961 to June 1964
regents diploma - manager of twirling squadAchievements

  • Microsoft Passport

Centres d'intérêt

  • love arobic classes
  • love my animals


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OUSFG Trinity Termcard 2017

Sunday Library Meetings would usually be held from 8pm until late (normally around midnight) in the OUSFG library. These evenings are an opportunity to socialise, and chat about life, the universe and everything, whilst also perusing and borrowing from OUSFG's library of around 600 books. Unfortunately, this term is proving tricky to organise library meetings every Sunday, but we will endeavour to hold one or two Sunday meetings with the actual books.

Wednesday discussion and video meetings are held at 8pm in one of the Pembroke College (map) or Somerville College (map) meeting rooms. See below for details.

Sign up for the ousfg-announce mailing list to receive a reminder and details for each meeting.

26 Apr  Wednesday 1st Week Pembroke Discussion AI discussion led by Will. Is true Artificial Intelligence possible or desirable? Do we risk being replaced/eliminated? (Maybe that's a good thing.) What precautions should we be taking? This is a classic theme of SF. Some examples that come to mind that maybe we can discuss are I, Robot, The Terminator, Person of Interest, and Humans,
3 May  Wednesday 2nd Week Somerville Video A stand-alone episode from Black Mirror and, to cheer us up afterwards, the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (US series).
10 May  Wednesday 3rd Week Pembroke Discussion Translation of SF and Fantasy discussion led by Lyuba. Bilbo Who? Reading SF in translation and trying to make sense of the original. This meeting will be in Pembroke's Hester Room (18 on map).
17 May  Wednesday 4th Week Somerville Discussion Remembrance of futures past discussion led by Will. How has SF of different times viewed the future? This meeting will be in Somerville's New Powell Room (top right on map).
25 May  Thursday 5th Week Worcester Quiz Oxford Geek Quiz — battle of wits and knowledge against Docsoc, Tolksoc, HPsoc et al. Bring your own round of questions if you like (don't tell anyone the answers).
7pm, Nazrin Shah auditorium in Worcester College (map; Details from WhoSoc).
31 May  Wednesday 6th Week Somerville Discussion Favourite obscure book. Bring your favourite book/eBook that isn't so well known (probably safe, as long as it isn't Discworld). We'd like to hear a bit more about it than we usually have time for at Desert Planet Books, and maybe read a little bit according to your recommendation.
7 Jun  Wednesday 7th Week Pembroke Silly games I suppose serious games are also allowed. Maybe.

We will also have a punt party later in the term (perhaps Saturday 6th Week, 3 June).

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Don't ask me to upload old records since they can all be found on a P2P service that's totally free.
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onsdag 27 oktober 2010

Immoral discipline - Battlefield 7'' (1988)

01. The whole worlds a battlefeld
02. Liar
03. Redneck stomp
04. Coffee achievers

Released by Smash! Records in 1988.

The band was now a 5-piece band adding Brian Robinson on rythm guitar.

First off all i have to mention the coverart. Its simple but daaamn its nice. Appearently the guy that made the cover is called Tony Browning. Dont know if he has made any other vinylcovers but if somebody knows then please mail me cause i want that record for my collection.

This record is a bit twosided. It contains my favourite song by the band but the other 3 songs are crapp if you ask me. The whole worlds a battlefield is pure love since the day i first heard it. Kickass drums, great guitars and Shawn singing like a laidback and relaxed version of Roger Miret. Judging by the cover and the first verse one could think this was a warmongering song but its actually the complete opposite of that.
Liar is an ok track but the 2 last are not even worth mentioning.
Even if i dont even like 3/4 of the album its a classic EP with more bark then most bands that copies it.
Believe it or not but this record is actually still availible to buy. Its on ebay and it costs 10$ but anyway. Bid on it here.

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March 8, 2016

Soup and Bread Night Fundraiser at UWEC Produces $4,030 for Local Food Bank

Blugold Dining raised $4,030 during its Soup and Bread Night on Feb. 24 at Riverview Cafe East at the Hilltop Center, thanks to the generosity of UWEC students.

The money has been donated to Feed My People Food Bank in Eau Claire, benefiting senior citizens, single parents, the working poor, the homeless, the mentally ill and others across the Chippewa Valley. More than 14,500 people each month – 38 percent of them children – rely on food from Feed My People programs.

Students selected soups and breads as the only menu items on Feb. 24 at Riverview Cafe East in place of the regular entrees and sides inside the all-you-care-to-eat cafeteria. Sixty volunteers from student organizations served 252 gallons of soup, and the money that Blugold Dining saved in labor and food costs went to Feed My People. Soup and Bread Night has generated more than $23,000 for Feed My People since 1995.

March 1, 2016

Blugold Diner’s Club Bonus Day on March 8!

Our second Blugold Diner’s Club bonus day of the spring semester is Tuesday, March 8. For any deposit you make of $100 or more that day, you’ll receive a 10 percent bonus on funds deposited. Deposits can be made in person from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Blugold Card Services office on the first floor of Davies Center, at value transfer stations around campus or online.
Bonus funds are awarded on a Blugold Dining gift card. On March 8, we’ll have a table set up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the Blugold Card Services office for Blugold Diner’s Club members to pick up their gift cards. If you can’t pick up your gift card on March 8, your gift card must be picked up at the Blugold Dining office on the second floor of Davies Center by Tuesday, March 15 at 5 p.m. To receive your gift card, please provide any of the following:

• A deposit receipt from Blugold Card Services

• A receipt from the value transfer station

• A printed copy of an emailed receipt for an online deposit, showing your name, the deposit amount and the date

Also, check out our weekly members-only specials for the spring semester! Make sure to mention the specials to your cashier to take advantage of your savings!


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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

SDC213: Milestone Celebrations

It's time for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge and this week Kathi is our hostess.  She is taking us to a scary place, Milestone Birthday or Anniversaries. Here is what she says about this challenge,
"21, 25, 50, 60th Birthday or Anniversary -- It's time to celebrate! Let's see a project that celebrates those sometimes scary milestones of life!"
My mom and dad just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and I am so inspired by their love for each other and commitment to each other.  Here is just a little project celebrating their beautiful milestone...
Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Little Church, Word Collage, Vintage Script
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
Audrey Hepburn

  1. Wow, this is gorgeous Val ! I love it !
    Corrie x

  2. Really lovely Val, and a fab anniversary card xx

  3. Wow Val, 50 years! what a milestone that is, congrats to them and they are sure to love this card

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment! Your kind words are so inspiring...

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Tahiti Papeete Mission
L'Eglise de Jesus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours,
Mission Mormone, BP93
(for pkgs add: Cours de L'Union Sacree)
Papeete Tahiti 98714
Polynesie Francaise

Unto the Islands of the Sea

Send forth the elders of my church unto the nations which are afar off, unto the islands of the sea; send forth unto foreign lands; call upon all nations . . . -------------------------------------------Doctrine & Covenants 133:8
Bonjour! [bon-ZHOOR]:French-------------------------IaOrana! [ee-ah oh-RAH-na]:Tahitian-------------------------Hello!
Bienvenue! [bee-ahn-vuh-new]:French-----------------------Maeva! [mah-AY-vah]:Tahitian-----------------------Welcome!

JUL 11, 2011 TAUTU

Dear Family,
 Nothing has happened really cause no one is ever home, but I saw Tautu. Tautu spray paints his name all over everything in Bora. One day we were riding in a member's truck when he said, "That's the richest man in Bora and he pointed to what was clearly a homeless man in dirty pants and a T shirt with a walking stick and one of those big orange things that we put water in for scout things walking down the side of the road.  But apparently he really is the richest man in Bora because everything that he puts his name on is his because he is the great great grandson of some king of something. So Tautu walks around the island and spray paints his name on everything. and in his orange bucket he has the papers for the rights to the land he owns and supposedly sometimes he just gives out land for free.  When he wants to go to the other little islands around Bora he puts his clothes in his orange bucket and uses it a a floaty and swims.  Tautu says never ever sell land. Happy marriage to Jacob and Lauren next week.
Love, Elder Cosby

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Monday, February 28, 2011

packing day...

Jayden watching Michigan Out Of Doors online with Lucy and Hunter Easton's bear that he accidentally left here!  Luisa is giving Hunter lots of love for you Easton.

Everything comes in bags here.  The jam, milk, oj, water, yogurt.  Which is fine when you buy it and then stay home, but when you have to move with a bag of opened milk (the jam is the only one with a nifty top on it all the rest you have to put in a separate container) it requires a little more thought.

Almost all packed up and ready to go.  I had forgotten about 2 year old behavior, she was taking stuff out as fast as I was putting it in, and turning on and off the lights, and climbing onto things and touching EVERYTHING that she shouldn't....But, she is a sweet baby and we managed to get it all done despite her 2 year old behavior!

I bribed the boys with a chocolate milkshake at El Corral if they worked hard for me today.  Which of course they did, I am so glad I have my guys here!

It was raining tonight, we made it back from the mall just in time.
We had a good day again today, although packing up was sad.  I found a few items left by the kids and I teared up, and I am a tad nervous to go to our new neighborhood.  I love this one, but I need to move to save some major money, however, the new neighborhood looks very nice.  It is like moving from the suburbs to downtown.  So it will probably be louder, but who knows, and we won't have access to the pool after this week.  I hope to get our internet up and running so I can continue to update the blog!  It was great to be able to Skype with the family today, they finally made it home, safe and sound.  There was a boatload of groceries there waiting for them!  Thank you to everyone who is taking such great care of us, we really do appreciate you!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Casa de Campo...

First of all, Ryan and the kids finally made it safely to Chicago late tonight.  They will be home tomorrow.
Secondly, sorry for the bad pictures, we no longer have our photographer with us.  We miss you Mary Ellen!

Lucy being goofy while we waited for the van to take us to the Casa de Campo.

Spencer took this picture of the palm tree at the club.

In the van ready to go, we thought it was just going to be the 3 of us. But we stopped and picked up several more people and the van was packed by the time we got there!

She likes to sit by the window, and whom ever is closest to the window.

Casa de Campo is a country like setting in a mountainous area with a small lake and water sports and a restaurant.  We were able to catch a ride there through the club, it is a members only type place I think and I am glad we went and were able to check it out.

It is hard to see but there were mountains in the back ground.  It was a beautiful setting, too bad it sprinkled on and off all day long.

Luisa copying her brothers.  Silly girl.  They got a huge kick out of the dogs that were running around playing all day.

Luisa loved jumping on the trampoline with the boys, she is a wild child just like her sister!

The boys had fun with the water on the tramploine

Luisa was not too sure about swinging so high.
We left the house this morning at around 9 and didn't get back until 7pm!  It was a good day even with the rain.  We sat around a bit, but we had a good time laughing at Luisa when she ate dirt, ate bubbles, and got totally freaked out when the speed boats would take off pulling someone on water skis.  We met several very friendly people there today, we also saw one of our drivers, and the lady who owns this apartment too!  It was comforting to know they were there as I was very nervous about my Spanish up there.  I feel like God just places these people right there when I need them and it is so incredibly awesome!  But I did have a small conversation with a man entirely in Spanish.  I probably sounded like a 2 year old trying to talk, but at least I tried!  It is amazing how being put in the situation helps it to come back to your mind, that, and Mary Ellen's Spanish dictionary helped a ton too!  {Thanks Mary Ellen!}  I looked up a few words before I approached the life guard to ask if the boys could jump on the water trampoline.

Well, it is late, I have been Skyping with my family, it is so good to see their faces!  Thank you Lord for Skype!  Tomorrow we will be packing up this apartment and getting ready to leave for the new one on Tuesday.  Thanks for praying and checking in on us.  Your words of encouragement are a blessing, thanks for the comments!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

This is for the birds...

 No, literally, we have had our windows open the entire 2 weeks we were here and never had a bird inside, then all of a sudden today, these guys show up!  It was kinda cool, but I wanted to make sure they flew back out and not further into the house!  That would have been creepy.

 Since we are on the subject of birds, here are the quail eggs that they say Luisa likes to eat!

 they are cute little bite size things, we saw someone eating them from a street vendor too, so they must be popular.

 Yes, she likes them!
But what is for the birds is being separated from the rest of our family!
They are giving their sad faces.  We really did cry too much today, we are hoping tomorrow is better and that by Monday we will be able to actually talk to and see Ryan via skype and things should get better by then.  We know that each day is a gift and we are going to try to enjoy our time here.  We think we are going to try to go to the club tomorrow as they take a bus to the 'country' and there is a lake and water sports, fishing, kayaking for us to do.  We are not going to be here at this apartment much longer so we decided to try to take advantage of the club while we can, plus we will be gone all day and hopefully that will get our mind off the fact that we miss the rest of the family so much!  Of course it did not help that I have such a sweet husband and eldest son.  We found notes all around the house for us today!  Here are a few...

 We watched a movie in Spanish!  Wishing I took more movies along!
The night ended with the lady who owns the apartment stopping by to give us the receipt for paying rent and a (still warm) spice cake.  I cried again.  They are just too darn sweet here!  She just wanted to check on us and said I could call her at anytime for anything!

"Thank you Lord for loving us and giving me encouragement when I needed it the most!  Please help us to enjoy our time in Colombia and bring us back together again...SOON!"

*UPDATE* Ryan, the kids and Mary Ellen are staying in the same hotel that we stayed at in Bogota.  They are being treated well, they got 2 rooms and all meals (Ryan got a steak!) paid for by the airline.  They should leave Bogota tomorrow morning at 10:30 and should arrive in Chicago at 5:25pm.  Thanks for praying.

We are all very sad to be separated from each other! This is the part we all have been dreading, pretty much from the beginning. But we know that we are here for a very good reason, and trust God to help us through! Will post more later, just wanted to give a quick update. Ryan, Dylan, Easton, Anaya and Mary Ellen are all stuck in Bogota. Their flight out of Bucaramanga was canceled this morning, so they missed their flight out of Bogota. Last I heard, they were flying out tomorrow morning! We are really bummed we couldn't have spent this day together!
Lots of tears were shed this morning when 1/2 of the family left!  It is just not right!

Luis was wondering what was going on!

Here are a few happier shots we got last night before they left!

Please pray this process goes fast so we can be together again!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Chichamocha Canyon...

Yes, he is on cloud 9 that she wanted to sit on his lap!

We headed out in Alvaro's van this morning at around 9am

We stopped at a 'toll road' of sorts and the boys bought some fried ants to take home for their cousins to eat!

We were told there was a zoo, but in fact there were only goats!  Good thing my kids LOVE goats!!!

I do not know what I will do with my other half leaving soon!  Dreading it!

Love this cheese-ball, so glad he is staying with me!

Will miss this one!

There was this weird big huge monument thing that was on a steep curve, these pictures show a tad bit of the depth, it was freakishly high!

The flowers were gorgeous!

This is the park on the top of the mountain, the monument is the weird thing at the top of the hill.

Cool tree

We tried...but to no avail to get everyone looking and smiling at the same time.

The view was amazing!

Back to the weird monument with the weird kids!

Mary Ellen and I enjoying some Colombian coffee.

These trees were so awesome.

There were several of these truck wash places, which we found kind of strange, in the middle of pretty much nowhere, on the curvy mountain roads.

Passing on double yellow lines!  And guess what, we were right behind doing the same thing!  Aye!
It was about an hour and a half drive up the mountain, we did a lot of walking around then drove back down the mountain and we were all very sleepy on the way back home!

There was a cable car that you could ride across the canyon, which would be amazing I am sure, but we decided to just take in the view from the top of the mountain!  What an absolutely beautiful creation, we have an amazing God!  So glad we had the opportunity to see more of this beautiful country today.


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Monday, February 28, 2011

Soccer day!!

This morning we started off by going to soccer. Preston was so adorable. Every week he is doing more and more by himself. I just crack up at the beginning of class when Preston and all the little kids are doing their stretches. Ethan actually did a decent job of waiting for his class. Just towards the end him and his little friend decided that they both needed to use the restroom every five minutes. After Ethan would get off the toilet he would ask if he could play soccer.

When it was time for Ethan's class, he decided that he didn't want to play soccer. I was finally able to get him in to class but he just wasn't listening. After about thirty minutes and a million warnings, I pulled Ethan out of class. I think I shocked all the other kids and parents.
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Don't only humans have the ability to enter social contracts?

Other animals do agree to certain types of social contracts with each other. For example, some species of bats share the food they find with others in their community who they are not related to. It is not possible to force a bat to share against his will, since this process is done by regurgitating food directly into the mount of the recipient. Each bat remembers which individuals in the community have helped them when they themselves were hungry, and they remember which individuals refused to help them in their time of need, and these bats respond in kind.

It is not unusual for a bat to be unable to find food for several days, in which case his survival depends on having friends. In effect, by sharing food with others, these bats are purchasing an insurance policy. A bat with a large network of friends is much more likely to survive - and a bat who chooses not to honor his contracts (not help those who have helped him in the past) will soon find himself without any friends when he is in need of assistance.

Follow up questions:

What do we gain by respecting the rights of other animals if they do not respect our rights?

Aren't only humans self aware?

What evidence is there that other animals can make moral decisions?

Don't only human beings have a soul?

Don't only humans have the ability to use language and understand abstract concepts?

How do you know that other animals can feel pain?

Don't only humans have the ability to pass on cultural information from one generation to the next?

Don't only humans understand the concept of death?

Don't only humans have the ability to use tools?

How can some animal rights activists believe that other animals are our equals?

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

July Vegan Freezer Exchange and the Beauty of Specialty Grocers

Grand Rapids has been breaking one heat record after another this month. But I will be heating up my kitchen a lot less because I have a stash of freezer meals.  The exchange has been a great gift in this heat.

This month we exchanged:
Wendy brought these.

Concerning Potstickers:
Many premade potsticker wrappers you find in grocery stores contain egg. So check the ingredients label before you buy. Quite often a Asian grocery will stock vegan ones.  They are wonderful for making pierogi as well. I recommend freezing a single layer flat on a cookie sheet so they do not stick together. Later you can transfer them to bags or containers to save space.

If you have never been to a specialty grocer I would recommend checking one out in your area. You will probably be amazed by the prices and quality of ingredients. I have also found them to be a great source of help and information. Recently, I had bought a new Indian cookbook online and picked out three recipes I wanted to try. I brought it into a local Indian grocer and they walked me through the store getting everything I needed and advising me on what to keep in mind while cooking. They are also extremely good for bulk items. Not only does it lower the cost to buy in bulk but you will be reducing your post consumer waste compared to smaller packages.

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    1. Thank you!! It has been a lot of fun to do the exchange and blog about it. Your Comfort Food blog is neat--I immediately resonated with the "Vegans don't just eat salad!" line. :D


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Friday, September 16, 2011

My Vegan Priority

Sometimes it seems like the thing to do is take the easy way out: eat crap, get wasted, work oneself to death, be a dick, care only about our self. That is what pretty much everyone else is doing and maybe that is why we live in a world like this.

I think that veganism and straight edge to a great extent have to do with priorities that become our life. We can always (and have the right to) choose what is bad, because for some reason , what is wrong is also easy. Only the stuff that are good and right are hard to do.

Maintainng a good vegan diet is not always easy when you're on the run, working long hours, not having enough time to plan your meals etc. Modern life is not designed for vegans. On the other hand, in a way veganism is designed for modern life: it is like an antidote for the crazy pace that goes on. Being vegan is totally more worth it when you live in a mad place like this (Athens for me, put your city here ________ ).

The way we live and what we put in out bodies definitely affects how we feel in everyday life. It is good to know you can depend on yourself to take care of yourself. It is good to know you can rely on yourself to find the stuff that will make you healthier and last more in this task we have... to stay alive and be well.

And this is just one more reason why I've been following the vegan straight edge lifestyle.

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Common Cycling Injuries and How to Fix Them

We’ve all had it at some time, pain. And I don’t mean the sweet pain of going full gas, I mean the niggling, sometimes agonizing pain of a poor fit or misalignment.

Usually new cyclists are the most vulnerable, as they tend to go looking for a bike and either buy it used, regardless of size, or who buy their bikes from a clueless shop assistant who just wants to make a sale.

I bought my first bike from a very reputable local bike shop. The only adjustment they made was the seat height, but the bars were too narrow, the stem was too long, and due to the slightly awkward reach, my back and shoulders hurt. I just thought that was normal.

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It was a year later that I was fortunate to meet pro mechanic who ran a bike shop who measured and fitted me to a new bike…. and suddenly I was one with the machine and my cycling experience was completely transformed. Cycling became painless and a pleasure.

My go-to guy won’t sell you a bike until after he’s measured you. Then he’ll recommend a make and model based on your measurements and your style of riding. Then he’ll fit you on your new bike on a raised trainer and tweak everything while you ride. He’ll shim your shoes if you need it. The bike will be truly yours, it will fit like a glove.

Never underestimate the power of a good fit. It can optimize your power output, your aerodynamics and your comfort.

If things don’t feel quite right on your bike, I recommend getting fitted by a pro. But sometimes you can tweak just one thing on your bike and eliminate that nagging pain or discomfort. This guide shows you what to look for.

Common Cycling Injuries and How to Fix (and Prevent) Them

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How Two Tiny Centimeters Unlocked 500 Miles

Reader Brian F tells a story that dramatically illustrates the potential power or destructiveness of a bike fit, and how little adjustments can have major effects. 1500 miles in to a 2000 mile bike tour he faced defeat due to unbearable pain…

“We had already done about 1500 miles, but I started to develop saddle sores. I spent almost two entire days coasting and standing because I couldn’t bear to pedal while sitting. I was resigned to having to take a bus for the last 500 miles of the trip, which was a completely demoralizing thought. About four in the morning I woke up in my tent and said out loud, “Lower the seat.” A couple of hours later I lowered the seat by about 2 cm. and I was good to go. It was like a miracle.

Don’t you love the way his mind figured it out while he was sleeping?

Speaking of bike fit and saddle sores, I had the hardest time finding a saddle that was comfortable. I used to ride quite a bit, up to 40-50 miles was no problem, but a couple of days a week I’d do 90 miles, and occasionally I’d do 120-150.

It’s those long rides that revealed the weakness in a saddle for me… and frankly scared me a bit as I started experiencing lingering numbness and pain.

Finally I found one that worked, here’s the saddle that saved my butt.

Saddles are a very personal thing, but if you’ve had issues and are not quite satisfied with your saddle, I recommend giving this one a try.

Bicycle Fit: Nailing Your Saddle Height

One of the critical elements in a good bike fit is saddle height, get it wrong and you can put undue strain on your knees and be in for a world of hurt.

When I had just started cycling, maybe 6 months, I somehow talked my wife into doing the MS150.

Crazy bicycle fit with high saddleI signed us up for the extended version which turned out to be 107 miles on day one. Around about 80 miles my knees started to feel fragile, like they were eggshells and cracking. It was almost unbearable, I only got through it with the help of painkillers.

The painkillers worked wonders and we completed the ride, all 187 agonizing miles of it. My wife has never let me forget.

I learned a valuable lesson; it’s so not so much about the bike, or the rider, but the marriage of the two.

When I bought that first bike, some kid in the bike shop had set me up, and sent me to circle the parking lot a couple of times. “Perfect,” I said. I was clueless.

My next bike was built by a veteran mechanic on the pro circuit, and a bike fitting fanatic… what a diffeence. That bike was a part of me. It still is. Fourteen years later I’m still riding it, it’s my trainer bike.

So how do you stop your knees from feeling like they’re about to shatter? Here’s a quick video on how to get that crucial saddle height right.

How to Set Your Saddle Height Just Right

Click the link below to watch the short video with tips on getting your seat height perfect:


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gabriela vivacqua africa

Life is a wonderful adventure. You make plans and decisions but life has its own funny ways. Gabriela Vivacqua became a lawyer in her native Rio de Janeiro, assuring a quiet life, near her family, with a fixed schedule… little did she know, that wasn’t the plan destiny had for her. Now based in Sudan, this young photographer tells us about the secrets that Africa has to share:

Photography is my true passion and the profession I chose. Nowadays being a lawyer is a background, which gives me good insights of maybe how I can help the people I get in touch when I travel.

gabriela vivacqua photo

Photography happened unexpectedly in my life. I never thought that one day I would work as a photographer. I graduated in law but never enjoyed the office routine and all the bureaucracies that the lawyer work involves. I love nature, animals, I was born in a farm, always enjoy the freedom. With a friend I decided to do a photography course and I fell in love.

“I started photographing animals, that was my focus. I traveled to the Amazon, I worked as a volunteer in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden at the Fauna Project. Photographing animals helped me to evolve quickly in photograph, as these “models” never stopped. My love for social photography came later, when I was invited to work in the IOM (International Organization for Migration) in Sudan, Africa. One of my biggest dreams was always come to Africa. I didn’t think twice and saw it as an opportunity to start something different.”

“First what caught my attention was a completely different culture, the way people lived, poverty, trash on the streets, but over time I created another way to look. I start to see how people were interesting, receptive,how light was so beautiful. I began photographing the women who make tea in the streets, the families who live in the desert, their stories and that was when I fell in love of social photography, humanitarian photohraphy.”

I decided that I wanted to use my art to help people, tell their stories, show the beautiful side that exists in every situation, inside of everyone. After that I started working in the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) covering all types of social projects that they provide and this just made me more sure that this is the path I want to follow.

Until now I never feared for my life. I’m always cautious in this kind of places. You should always take appropriate actions. Before the visit I search everything about the place and I always have someone local to accompany me.

What’s the biggest culture shock you’ve experienced?

Definitely was when I moved to Sudan. Especially because I am a woman. It was a big challenge. The culture is totally different from what I am used to.

I always have a local guide. This helps me to communicate properly with people, get to know their life stories and make them feel more comfortable about being photographed.

gabriela vivacqua photographer

Photography is my tool to interact with these different cultures, listen to their stories, and learn new life references. I hope by registering their traditions I will be somehow helping to preserve them. I am just like a “vehicle” which shares the beauty of these remote cultures with the world and this is what makes me proud of my work.

“All are very interesting and fascinating, because each one has a unique story. I would mention the close relationship I developed with Beduins from Sudan Desert. They were so warm, treating me like family, serving me meals and inviting me to live with them and even proposing me marriage!”

gabriela vivacqua

Have you ever bonded with people from remote places and tribes?

Yes and the story above is a good example. Another very nice episode was in Ethiopia at the Darsaneh tribe when I had a magical moment with the old women and children. I could really feel we exchange something… there was a love coming from them. We dance together and the children walked with me back to my boat, singing a very beautiful farewell song. I have deep respect for everyone I take pictures and I never do it if the person is not comfortable with it. When this bond is built here comes the magical moment and maybe a great picture.

It is funny how I can communicate quite well, even not speaking nor understanding their language at all. We communicate with the eyes, the body language and tone of voice. I speak with them in Portuguese and they in their own language, we laugh a lot and at the end we understand each other.

My favorites place up to now are Amazonia Forest (Brazil) because of the abundant nature and Omo Valley (Ethiopia) because of the diversity and exotic ancient traditions.

What’s the most touching experience you’ve had in your career?

When I am visiting the humanitarian camps I face scenes and listen to stories I would never think could be possible. It is always very intense.

The most rewarding part of photography is the possibility to get in touch and learn from completely different new cultures. My photography has been teaching me to respect even more the differences and to have more compassion and kindness.

What parts of the world would you like to travel to and shoot?

Oh! There are so many! Papua (New Guine), Tahiti, places in Latin America and still many African Countries as I always dreamed about coming here.
The best of travelling continously is the opportunity of be always learning something new. The hard part is to be away from family and friends.

My advice is be persistent and have courage enough to move foward and face challenges. Get out of the comfort zone!

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Bernard Hours is an independent member of Verlinvest Board and an operational advisor for several of its portfolio investments.

From 2008 to 2014, Bernard was Co-Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of the Board of Danone (a 22 Bn € turnover- and 100,000 employee-company) with full line responsibility of the 4 business units: dairy, baby food, water and medical nutrition, as well as Research & Development.

Since 2009, Bernard Hours is also a Member of the Board and the remuneration, strategic and CSR committees of Essilor, the world leader for corrective lenses.

Finally Bernard Hours is consulting for and advising Andros (the French leading company in fruit), Meridian (a private-equity based in Hong-Kong) and Danone, through Medved, his consultancy.

Bernard is a HEC graduate (Paris) and speaks fluently English, German, Spanish, Russian and Hungarian.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Gloria Posada

In dust that is light
is the age of the stars
In the sea that is depth
the history of life
In the fire, that which illuminates
and vanishes
In the air, breath
In the earth, seed
and path
In the sky
gaze and dream

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Robert Bly

The Cat in the Kitchen
(For Donald Hall)

Have you heard about the boy who walked by
The black water? I won't say much more.
Let's wait a few years. It wanted to be entered.
Sometimes a man walks by a pond, and a hand
Reaches out and pulls him in.

There was no
Intention, exactly. The pond was lonely, or needed
Calcium, bones would do. What happened then?

It was a little like the night wind, which is soft,
And moves slowly, sighing like an old woman
In her kitchen late at night, moving pans
About, lighting a fire, making some food for the cat.

© Robert Bly. Online Source

Monday, May 28, 2012

Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954)

Good Luck

Four hundred years ago
you landed in the Tropic of Capricorn
on the carbuncular plank
of ships
steered by dark stars
the pale beetle
of the seas
Every exile was a king
skinny, insomniac, colorless
as clay

You will create a world
from coarse laughter
from sterile glues
from coarse laughter
You will plant insurgent hatreds side by side
frustrated hatreds
You will invoke humanity, mist and frost
Among the lianas you will build a palace of termites
and from a tower circled by hills
bleating with sincere cincerre-bells
you will rise toward the moon
like hope

Space is a prison.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Ilya Kaminksky

Marina Tsvetaeva

In each line's strange syllable: she awakes
as a gull, torn
between heaven and earth.

I accept her, stand with her face to face.
-- in this dream: she wears her dress
like a sail, runs behind me, stopping

when I stop. She laughs
as a child speaking to herself:
"soul = pain + everything else."

I bend clumsily at the knees
and I quarrel no more,
all I want is a human window

in a house whose roof is my life.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Li-Young Lee

Early In The Morning

While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
for breakfast, before the birds,
my mother glides an ivory comb
through her hair, heavy
and black as calligrapher's ink.

She sits at the foot of the bed.
My father watches, listens for
the music of comb
against hair.

My mother combs,
pulls her hair back
tight, rolls it
around two fingers, pins it
in a bun to the back of her head.
For half a hundred years she has done this.
My father likes to see it like this.
He says it is kempt.

But I know
it is because of the way
my mother's hair falls
when he pulls the pins out.
Easily, like the curtains
when they untie them in the evening.

Li-Young Lee :

Friday, May 25, 2012

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

All That I Owe the Fellows of the Grave

All that I owe the fellows of the grave
And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates
Lies in the fortuned bone, the flask of blood,
Like senna stirs along the ravaged roots.
O all I owe is all the flesh inherits,
My fathers' loves that pull upon my nerves,
My sisters tears that sing upon my head
My brothers' blood that salts my open wounds

Heir to the scalding veins that hold love's drop,
My fallen filled, that had the hint of death,
Heir to the telling senses that alone
Acquaint the flesh with a remembered itch,
I round this heritage as rounds the sun
His winy sky, and , as the candles moon,
Cast light upon my weather. I am heir
To women who have twisted their last smile,
To children who were suckled on a plague,
To young adorers dying on a kiss.
All such disease I doctor in my blood,
And all such love's a shrub sown in the breath.

Then look, my eyes, upon this bonehead fortune
And browse upon the postures of the dead;
All night and day I eye the ragged globe
Through periscopes rightsighted from the grave;
All night and day I wander in these same
Wax clothes that wax upon the ageing ribs;
All night my fortune slumbers in its sheet.
Then look, my heart, upon the scarlet trove,
And look, my grain, upon the falling wheat;
All night my fortune slumbers in its sheet.

Dylan Thomas

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Nadia Anjuman (1980-2005)

Light Blue Memories

O exiles of the mountain of oblivion!
O the jewels of your names, slumbering in the mire of silence
O your obliterated memories, your light blue memories
In the silty mind of a wave in the sea of forgetting
Where is the clear, flowing stream of your thoughts?
Which thieving hand plundered the pure golden statue of your dreams?
In this storm which gives birth to oppression
Where has your ship, your serene silver mooncraft gone?
After this bitter cold which gives birth to death –
If the sea should fall calm
If the cloud should release the heart's knotted sorrows
If the maiden of moonlight should bring love, offer a smile
If the mountain should soften its heart, adorn itself with green,
become fruitful –
Will one of your names, above the peaks,
become bright as the sun?
Will the rise of your memories
Your light blue memories
In the eyes of fishes weary of floodwaters and
fearful of the rain of oppression
become a reflection of hope?
O, exiles of the mountain of oblivion!

November/December 2001

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tomas Transtromer

A blue light
radiates from my clothing.
Clattering tambourines of ice.
I close my eyes.
There is a silent world
there is a crack
where the dead
are smuggled across the border.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Another Day

having the low down blues and going
into a restraunt to eat.
you sit at a table.
the waitress smiles at you.
she's dumpy. her ass is too big.
she radiates kindess and symphaty.
live with her 3 months and a man would no real agony.
o.k., you'll tip her 15 percent.
you order a turkey sandwich and a
the man at the table across from you
has watery blue eyes and
a head like an elephant.
at a table further down are 3 men
with very tiny heads
and long necks
like ostiches.
they talk loudly of land development.
why, you think, did I ever come
in here when I have the low-down
then the the waitress comes back eith the sandwich
and she asks you if there will be anything
snd you tell her, no no, this will be
then somebody behind you laughs.
it's a cork laugh filled with sand and
broken glass.

you begin eating the sandwhich.

it's something.
it's a minor, difficult,
sensible action
like composing a popular song
to make a 14-year old
you order another beer.
jesus,look at that guy
his hands hang down almost to his knees and he's
well, time to get out.
pivk up the bill.
go to the register.
pick up a toothpick.
go out the door.
your car is still there.
and there are 3 men with heads
and necks
like ostriches all getting into one
they each have a toothpick and now
they are talking about women.
they drive away first
they drive away fast.
they're best i guess.
it's an unberably hot day.
there's a first-stage smog alert.
all the birds and plants are dead
or dying.

you start the engine.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Clair De Lune

Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair,
Peopled with maskers delicate and dim,
That play on lutes and dance and have an air
Of being sad in their fantastic trim.

The while they celebrate in minor strain
Triumphant love, effective enterprise,
They have an air of knowing all is vain,-
And through the quiet moonlight their songs rise,

The melancholy moonlight, sweet and lone,
That makes to dream the birds upon the tree,
And in their polished basins of white stone
The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy.

Paul Verlaine

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

A Dirge

Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,--
Wail, for the world’s wrong!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

A Song Of Despair

The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.

Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!

Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.

In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose.

You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!

It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss.
The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse.

Pilot's dread, fury of blind driver,
turbulent drunkenness of love, in you everything sank!

In the childhood of mist my soul, winged and wounded.
Lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

You girdled sorrow, you clung to desire,
sadness stunned you, in you everything sank!

I made the wall of shadow draw back,
beyond desire and act, I walked on.

Oh flesh, my own flesh, woman whom I loved and lost,
I summon you in the moist hour, I raise my song to you.

Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness.
and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

There was the black solitude of the islands,
and there, woman of love, your arms took me in.

There was thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and ruins, and you were the miracle.

Ah woman, I do not know how you could contain me
in the earth of your soul, in the cross of your arms!

How terrible and brief my desire was to you!
How difficult and drunken, how tensed and avid.

Cemetery of kisses, there is still fire in your tombs,
still the fruited boughs burn, pecked at by birds.

Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs,
oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies.

Oh the mad coupling of hope and force
in which we merged and despaired.

And the tenderness, light as water and as flour.
And the word scarcely begun on the lips.

This was my destiny and in it was my voyage of my longing,
and in it my longing fell, in you everything sank!

Oh pit of debris, everything fell into you,
what sorrow did you not express, in what sorrow are you not drowned!

From billow to billow you still called and sang.
Standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel.

You still flowered in songs, you still brike the currents.
Oh pit of debris, open and bitter well.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger,
lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour
which the night fastens to all the timetables.

The rustling belt of the sea girdles the shore.
Cold stars heave up, black birds migrate.

Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
Only tremulous shadow twists in my hands.

Oh farther than everything. Oh farther than everything.

It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one!

Pablo Neruda

Friday, May 18, 2012

Chen Li

An Open Cage——for John Cage

You are a born cage,
so are we——
writing our faunas in the destined space.

But your bird is not the nightingale that eats ice cream and cotton candy;
yours is a magical bird that eats screws, rubber, wood,
spitting out piles of fantastic notes,
hitting the fence around it,
shattering the glass that blocks it,
and like excavators, digging out every throat that has been
buried by habits.

It also eats the wind, drinks dews, and hangs the cage
upside down like a basket,
filling it with sounds of wind and water,
sounds of vehicles and people,
with mushrooms,
with silence——

with silence, like an empty
conch shell
receiving all the sounds of existence.

Your clock is twelve radios telling different stories.
Your calendar is musical scores arranged at random.
To your bird nothing is discordant. It can’t tell
which is more musical——the noise of a truck passing by a factory or
the noise of a truck passing by a music school.
It enjoys the biting of gears as much as it welcomes
the kisses of trees with wind or the dialogue between hammers.

A mechanical bird flying with a cage,
a wound-up bomb of notions,
you respond to the posture of falling leaves, the speed of running water
with lonely but clear heartbeats,
and on an afternoon when all strings contend to be heard,
blow open the world with
deafening silence——

blow open the cage of the world,
and make us hear the open music.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Leonard Cohen

I've worked at my work
I've slept at my sleep
I've died at my death
And now I can leave
Leave what is needed
And leave what is full
Need in the Spirit
And need in the Hole
Beloved, I'm yours
As I've always been
From marrow to pore
From longing to skin
Now that my mission
Has come to its end:
Pray I'm forgiven
The life that I've led
The Body I chased
It chased me as well
My longing's a place
My dying a sail

The lovesick monk

I shaved my head
I put on robes
I sleep in the corner of a cabin
sixty-five hundred feet up a mountain
It's dismal here
The only thing I don't need
is a comb
- Mt. Baldy, 1997

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Chen Li

My Mistress

My mistress is a slack-stringed guitar.
Hidden in the case, her smooth body
is kept away from moonbeams.

Occasionally I'll take her out,
holding her in my arms, gently
touching the back of her cold neck.
Winding with the left hand, touching the strings with the right,
I tune her in various ways.
Then she tenses herself into a real
six-string instrument, spreading intensely
her easily-ignited beauty.

But when I start playing, the strings

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Anticipating the Passion (from The Life of the Virgin Mary)

If you had really wanted to be strong,
you would not have come from a woman's womb.
For messiahs are quarried from mountains
where the sturdy and strong comes from stone.

Are you not sorry to have despoiled your land
by such limitations? I am weak, don't you see;
I only had streams of milk or tears to offer,
and you were ever so much more than me.

So much ado when your birth to me was announced.
You could have been born fierce and wild from the start.
If you only needed tigers to tear you to pieces,
why did I learn gentleness as an art

by which I wove for you a soft, pure gown
without even the slightest seam
for comfort--: that's how my life has been,
which you now have turned upside down.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954)

Crones sails cicadas
Mists on the Vesuvian sea
Geckoed gardens and golden women
Between walls of garden-path grapes
Of lush orchards
Piedigrotta insects
Gnawing matchboxes in the trouses pocket
White trigonometries
In the blue crepe of Neapolitan waters
Distant city siestas quiet
Amidst scarves thrown over the shoulder
Dotting indigo grays of hillocks

An old Englishman slept with his mouth open
like the blackened mouth of a tunnel beneath civilized
Vesuvius awaits eruptive orders from Thomas Cook & Son.
And a woman in yellow informed a sport-shirted individual
that marriage was un unbreakable contract.

Sal o May

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Charlesb Bukowski (1820-1994)

A Radio With Guts

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the window
while it was playing, and, of course,
it would break the glass in the window
and the radio would sit there on the roof
still playing
and I'd tell my woman,
"Ah, what a marvelous radio!"
the next morning I'd take the window
off the hinges
and carry it down the street
to the glass man
who would put in another pane.
I kept throwing that radio through the window
each time I got drunk
and it would sit there on the roof
still playing-
a magic radio
a radio with guts,
and each morning I'd take the window
back to the glass man.
I don't remember how it ended exactly
though I do remember
we finally moved out.
there was a woman downstairs who worked in
the garden in her bathing suit,
she really dug with that trowel
and she put her behind up in the air
and I used to sit in the window
and watch the sun shine all over that thing
while the music played.

Charles Bukowski :

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)

To Mother

In the old Strauss waltz for the first time
We had listened to your quiet call,
Since then all the living things are alien
And the knocking of the clock consoles.

We, like you, are gladly greeting sunsets,
And are drunk on nearness of the end.
All, with which on better nights we're wealthy
Is put in the hearts by your own hand.

Bowing to a child's dreams with no tire.
(Only crescent looked in them indeed
Without you)! You have led your kids past
Bitter lifetime of the thoughts and deeds.

From the early age the sad one's close to us,
Laughter bores and home we left behind..
Our ship not in good times left the harbor
And it sails by will of every wind!

Azure isle of childhood is paling,
On the deck of ship we stand alone.
It appears, oh mother, to your daughters
You've left an inheritance of woe.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Li- Young Lee

Early In The Morning

While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
for breakfast, before the birds,
my mother glides an ivory comb
through her hair, heavy
and black as calligrapher's ink.

She sits at the foot of the bed.
My father watches, listens for
the music of comb
against hair.

My mother combs,
pulls her hair back
tight, rolls it
around two fingers, pins it
in a bun to the back of her head.
For half a hundred years she has done this.
My father likes to see it like this.
He says it is kempt.

But I know
it is because of the way
my mother's hair falls
when he pulls the pins out.
Easily, like the curtains
when they untie them in the evening.

Li-Young Lee :

Thursday, May 10, 2012

George Albon

I Had

I had a distant youth,
one outside the family.
I had a restless bargaining eye,
an altar to the provider.
I had my father’s dreaminess,
my mother’s soldiers.
I had to cut all the crap
and go straight into the deep end.
I had the mark of the day on me,
condensed to stray events.
I had a desire to be subtle,
but that implies a totality.
I had my eye on his gait,
he left the five and dime.
I had the judges give me a clue,
I encapsulated mystically.
I had a reckless view of the contest,
then an ill-chosen terrain.
I had a fever of computation,
spaces between halting words.
I had a level playing field,
the frenzy of the visible.
I had everything you could want,
roses, a song from the courtyard.
I had a minaret of perceptions
that began to stand in need.
I had a random grace period,
taking instruction from the intermediary.
I had a letter of introduction,
but no knowledge of the watermark.
I had flashes of mundane survival,
exhaling toward the sunlight.
I had one card tucked in,
I could step outside all that.
I had a method of response,
using up the inner self in living.
I had assurances from the victors
to see where the ground lies.
I had a tingle of vocation,
unaware of the subliminal fiat.
I had no money,
and he was such a laugh.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Indeed this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with a ruby large enow
To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost,--
This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost,
I should not love withal, unless that thou
Hadst set me an example, shown me how,
When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed,
And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

I smile like a flower not only with my lips
but with my whole being
for I am alone with the King and
have lost myself in him.

At dawn your flame seized my heart
but left behind my body.
I will shout and raise havoc until
you come back for me tonight.

My Beloved, do not let anger estrange my heart
be generous, invite me to your feast.
Let no one be deprived of the joy
of your company.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Like trains...
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry

Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To vanquish other blooms.

His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.

His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!

~Emily Dickinson

Sunday, May 6, 2012

William Blake (1757-1827)

Ah Sunflower

Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

William Blake

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)

Let Evening Come

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don't
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

Jane Kenyon

Friday, May 4, 2012

Spirit Wind (Pat Poland)

Call To The Four Sacred Winds
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I call to the East, where the Father ascends
to all Mother Earth where life begins.
I fly through the cedars, pines, willows, and birch
as animals below me wander and search.
I call to the South, to the land down below.
Turtle stands silent, as man strings his bow
to hunt food and fur for his kin before snow.
A life will end so others will grow.
I call to the North, that yansa once knew.
I follow their path til it disappears from view.
Once vast in number, there stand but a few.
I hear only ghost thunder of millions of hooves.
I call to the West, to the ends of the lands,
to the Tsalagi, Kiowa, Comanche ... all bands.
Unite for the strength. Teach the young and demand
that you are Native Americans. Learn your tongue and stand.
My name is Freedom... I fly through this land.
I call to the Four Sacred Winds of Turtle Island.

Spirit Wind (Pat Poland)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Follow my ways and I will lead you
To golden-haired suns,
Logos and music, blameless joys,
Innocent of questions
And beyond answers.
For I, Solitude, am thine own Self:
I, Nothingness, am thy All.
I, Silence, am thy Amen.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)

A Few Words on the Soul

We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.

Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.

it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.

It rarely lends a hand
in uphill tasks,
like moving furniture,
or lifting luggage,
or going miles in shoes that pinch.

It usually steps out
whenever meat needs chopping
or forms have to be filled.

For every thousand conversations
it participates in one,
if even that,
since it prefers silence.

Just when our body goes from ache to pain,
it slips off-duty.

It’s picky:
it doesn’t like seeing us in crowds,
our hustling for a dubious advantage
and creaky machinations make it sick.

Joy and sorrow
aren’t two different feelings for it.
It attends us
only when the two are joined.

We can count on it
when we’re sure of nothing
and curious about everything.

Among the material objects
it favors clocks with pendulums
and mirrors, which keep on working
even when no one is looking.

It won’t say where it comes from
or when it’s taking off again,
though it’s clearly expecting such questions.

We need it
but apparently
it needs us
for some reason too.

translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Dick Holmes

Lost in thought
cycling round
Sunview Lake,
I suddenly
to inhale
through my
nose, and the
deep, sweet
of spring
begins to
pedal me
beyond thought
to nature's
fresh heart.


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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Melancholy Era

by Lin Hsin-Chen

It’s a scattered flower. It’s fragmented, beyond borders, beyond imagination. It has been forced to change the reason for living in order to protect the innermost vitality. The flowers in this era will be out of our impression and bloom beautifully in another way. Learning about reverse thinking is an important lesson.

July and August in 2014 are sorrowful to me. It’s a very different summer, due to environmental issues, climate, natural disasters, man-made disasters, earthquakes, typhoons, plane crashes, war, disease, etc.; we no longer feel the happiness that summer brings to us. Dozens of major disasters occurred worldwide during this period. Living in Taiwan, the gas pipeline explosion which happened in the neighbor city makes me extremely anxious. I used to believe that if we think positively, unfortunate things will never come. However, that’s not the fact.

Does the comfortable and safe world no longer exist? Sketching before making a quilt used to be an easy thing for me, but this time I couldn’t make a decision after I drew several pictures. I couldn’t sweep the sorrow away so I had to give up. I followed my heart to cut the fabric freely and sew them by hand. I pray for healing the sorrows by the warmth of hand sewing. Sadness will pass and bring out opportunities for changes and miracles. I used the hand dyed fabrics that I got from Sue in this quilt. They strengthen and enrich my work.

Living in this generation, we need to have not only the courage of accepting diverse challenges due to global environmental changes, but also the ability of overcoming the fears. “A stitch in time saves nine” reminds me of a Chinese saying, "Be prepared for danger in times of peace". Thank you, Sue, this challenge topic gave me another chance for introspection. I hope everyone is safe and sound.

Materials: dyed fabric, commercial cottons, satin, beads, metallic threads, statuette, cross
Techniques: hand pieced, hand appliqué, hand quilted
Size: 18” x 27”

  1. If melancholy could be this beautiful. I love your universality in your thoughts Hsin-Chen, a thoughtful, beautiful piece.

    1. Thank you, Sue! I really enjoy your challenge topic; it makes me think and learn. I also develop a new way for creating- follow my heart to cut and sew freely!

  2. Thank you for a beautiful interpretation of this challenge, Hsin-Chen. Your sentiment is heartfelt and one I share. I think the important thing and what your work attests to, is not that positive thinking will keep unfortunate things from happening, but it will help us cope with the unfortunate things we are faced with. Even if you don't consciously feel that, it is expressed through your beautiful work.


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The 2008 World Youth Day is currently ongoing. As I've posted before, my sister is one of the lucky people who flew to Sydney to attend the event. And if plans push through, she was even in the ship that brought Pope Benedict to Sydney Harbor -- his first public appearance in Sydney. Prior to the activities, he stayed in a retreat house to rest and recollect.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Look how festive day 23's box is from Amy, of

Christmas Eve and the box from Angela, of
Pages By The Sea
couldn't be more perfect! It's vintage charm...and that Santa Key stole my heart.

Speaking of heart stealing, Christmas Day's box from Becky, of
Don't Look Back
had this precious hand knit mitten inside!
Many thanks to Amy, Angela and Becky for wrapping up this countdown so beautifully.
And HUGE holiday hugs go out to our wonderful swap hostess, Linda, of
A Swap for All Seasons.
Linda had 75 of us, each making 25 matchboxes and gifts, and had them packaged and swapped out to all, with time to spare before our December 1 countdown began.

Mina said...

You have all done a fabulous job and I have enjoyed each and every day. Merry Christmas.

Sassy Marsha said...

Merry Christmas!!!

Feathers and Flight said...

Merry Christmas Dear Joanne!
May Peace and Joy Find you and your Family in the Coming New Year!
Many Blessings and Hugs

Linda said...

I just wanted to stop in and wish you a Merry Christmas and to thank you for participating in the Matchbox Swap! Linda


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Friday, July 27, 2012

Eggs & Nests

I love this theme for our monthly vintage gluebook page swap in the
blissfullARTswaps group
This is the front and back of my August submissions.
Hope you're all enjoying a creative summer!

Eggs and Nest are so awesome! It's going to be some cool book!
Happy Weekend!

Sarah said...

These are beautiful gluebook pages! The recipient is very lucky.

Cathy L. Calamas said...

lovely book.I love birds and egg motifs. Sounds like a wonderful swap.

MISS PEACH ~(^.^)~ said...

oh how lovely...I HOPE I get one of yours JoAnne!

Katherine said...

That is simply beautiful! :D I love the eggs and birdies and colours! :D

Dorthe said...

Joanne, they are SO beautiful, both.
So lovely ,-dayes gone by pages, which I love, and the most sweet images,you have used to create your wonderful pages.
Thankyou for showing, dear.

Creative Wings Boutique said...

those are wonderful JoAnne

Nook and Cranny said...

Beautiful pages, JoAnne.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a wonderful Sunday.

Mina said...

How absolutely gorgeous, JoAnne.

Linda said...

OMGosh those are beautiful!

Barb said...

Eggs and nests are one of my favorites, luv, luv, luv the papers and pictures you used creating this!

Laurie said...

'Love that theme -- that looks like a fun group to belong to!