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A Prayer for the Days of Awe

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Over the past month, the Father has been speaking through several very prophetic and anointed voices 1 about the upcoming Days of Awe– a 40 day season from Elul 1 through Yom Kippur. 2 Traditionally, these 40 days, leading up to Yom Kippur, (the Day of Atonement) are understood to be a period of introspection, reconciliation with our brothers, and repentance before the King, so that we may enter the new year (Yom Teruam / Rosh HaShanah) as a bride without spot or blemish, having already dealt with our own sins, and without holding on to bitterness or resentment toward others in our communities.

Now over the last couple of days, the Father has been impressing upon me the need for not only personal prayers of repentance for ourselves, but also corporate prayers for our people, the House of Joseph, as a whole. The Father then directed me to Daniel’s prayer of repentance and restoration, (Daniel 9:4-19) and so I have decided to pray this prayer, every day, during the Days of Awe.

What I am presenting as follows is essentially Daniel’s prayer for the restoration of the nation, with some slight variances; for example, while Daniel was praying for the restoration of the Jewish people during their 70 years of Babylonian captivity, the prayer I am presenting here is for the repentance and restoration of the Ephraimite people, as we prepare to end our own captivity of 2,730 years. Following this revision of Daniel 9:4-19 is Psalm 80, which is presented in its original form.

Although the undertaking of this prayer was designed for me personally, I do readily welcome and encourage anyone who feels led to join me to do so.

A Prayer for the Days of Awe (Adapted from Daniel 9:4-19 and Psalm 80)

O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love You and keep Your commandments: we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, and have turned aside from Your commandments and from Your ordinances; neither have we listened to Your servants the Prophets, that spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness; but to us belongs open shame, as at this day; to the men of Ephraim, to those who live as foreigners in a foreign land, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries to which You have driven them, because they dealt treacherously with You. O YHWH, to us belongs open shame, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. To the Lord our God belongs compassion and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against Him; neither have we listened to the voice of YHWH our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the Prophets.

All Israel has transgressed Your Torah, and has turned aside, so as not to listen to Your voice; and so there has been poured out upon us the curse and the oath that is written in the Torah of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against Him. And He has confirmed His Word, which He spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil. As it is written in the Torah of Moses, all this evil is come upon us; yet have we not sought the favor of YHWH our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in Your truth. And so YHWH has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for YHWH our God is righteous in all His works which He has done, and we have not listened to His voice. And now, O Lord our God, that has brought Your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and has made Your name renown, as at this day: we have sinned, we have done wickedly. O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury, I pray You, be turned away from us. Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of Your servants, and to our supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon us, for the Lord’s sake. O our God, incline Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes, and behold; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteousness, but because of Your great compassion. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do, and do not defer; for Your own sake, O our God, because Your name is called upon Your people.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You that lead Joseph like a flock; You that are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth! Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your might, and come to save us. O God, restore us, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. O YHWH God of hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. You make us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies mock as they please. O God of hosts, restore us, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. You plucked up a vine out of Egypt; and You drove out the nations, and planted it. You cleared a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the mighty cedars with its boughs. She sent out her branches to the sea, and her shoots to the River.

Why have You broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood ravages it, and that which moves in the field feeds on it. O God of hosts, return, we beseech You; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine, and of the stock which Your right hand has planted, and the branch that You made strong for Yourself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance. Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, upon the Son of Man whom You made strong for Yourself. So shall we not turn back from You; give us life, and we will call upon Your name. O YHWH, God of hosts, restore us; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

1 See Ken Rank’s teaching “40 Days and Nights” at United2Restore, and Tzefanyah ben Yochanon’s teaching “Forty Days of Repentance, Reconciliation, and Restoration” at B’ney Yosef North America.

2 Sept. 3 through Oct. 12.

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When it comes to the essentials behind an individual’s recovery journey, it would interest you to note that no two persons can recover from the same addiction in the same way. It might be the same process. However, there would certainly be an outstanding difference.

What addicted individuals need to know is, everyone is dissimilar, so it is up to you to be honest with your actions, and see if the recovery tools would have a positive hold on you or not.

  1. Own up to your problem: This is the very first step which you need to imbibe, you have to come to terms with the fact that this addiction which has tied you down, is a big headache which you need to offload
  2. Search support: The next step would be for you to find support. The fact remains that, the faster you get support, the quicker your recovery process. It could be a family friend, a relative, just get a trusted person who would be willing to follow you up.
  3. Commence new routines: One peculiarity of addiction is, there is a conventional routine which makes it easier for the addiction to replay over again. So, it is essential that you take up new tasks, and change your approach to certain issues. Substituting a bad habit with a good one, is a vital part of recovery.
  4. Make amends for your misdeeds: One ill which comes with addiction is, offending people who we would ordinarily not have had issues with. Hence, to make up for this, as regards getting your addiction recovery process up to speed, there is a huge need for you to put your life in order, and see that you are at peace with everyone.
  5. Evade Relapse: Try as much as possible to ensure that you do not go back to your addiction, and this is the point where you need to be aware of the fact that there are chances that you could go back to your old ways.
  6. Live the rest of your life being sober: Now, you need to understand that the sober state of a post addiction process, does not mean you would lead a sad life. Rather, it is advised that you channel your energy towards other productive ventures which would keep your mind far from that addiction.

How Rehab Works

effective rehabRehab is something everyone has heard of, but many people are unfamiliar with. People often take Hollywood’s word for what a rehab is like but do not understand the operations of a real rehab. This is unfortunate, as rehabilitation centers offer a highly necessary service to the public. Many people are in need of a rehab program but are never connected to its services simply because of not knowing about them.

The first and foremost way a rehab is successful in breaking addiction is by separating its clients from the thing they are addicted to. The staff at a rehab take this element of physical separation very seriously, locking down the rehabilitation center, monitoring clients around the clock and doing random checks into their belongings to make sure they are completely free of their addictive substance or material. This allows clients to detox from substance abuse, if that was their type of addiction, and simply recall how to live life without their addiction.

A very important component to the success of rehab is counseling. There is a whole subconscious level to addiction that is strongly tied to a person’s psychology, physiology and life experiences. Counseling in rehab brings these subconscious items back into a level of consciousness for the addict so that they can understand their own behavior on a whole new level of awareness. Counseling also lets the client practice strength building, coping mechanisms and relapse prevention.

A rehabilitation program also allows its clients to practice a healthy lifestyle in how they work, eat, exercise, have fun and sleep. This is a very important element to maintaining a balanced lifestyle that every person needs to learn in order to be successful in life. A good rehab program will also connect its clients to quality aftercare services to ensure that their recovery lasts.

How Addiction Claims Lives

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Addiction is not at all a pretty picture. Severe addicts, whether they realize it or not, are in the clutches of a condition that can prove deadly. If not deadly, addiction is always destructive, at best. Many people become addicts because they convince themselves that they are in control of the situation. They tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with leaning on a substance or a process for release and their behavior is not out of line. This is the ugly face of denial leading them astray. No one wins when it comes to addiction.

The greatest threat that addiction poses to its victims is mortality. Obviously, some addictions come with a greater threat of mortality than others, but people have died because of more types of addictions than one would think. It is the lack of respect for how serious addiction is that causes mortality more than anything else. Substance addictions obviously pose the most serious threat because they often come with overdoses, shared needles and chemical poisoning. Sex addictions can involve sexually transmitted disease or asphyxiation. Food addictions frequently lead to deadly illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Most other addictions cause indirect mortality, for example, a person borrowing money from dangerous people to satisfy their gambling addiction, but can still cause a deadly situation if left unchecked.

When addiction does not take lives it all too often destroys them. Addicts begin to devalue their personal relationships because they are so wrapped up in their addiction. They neglect their financial responsibilities in order to finance their addiction. They lose sight of caring for their physical and mental health, and replace their personal responsibilities, hobbies and passions with focus on their addiction. Those who recover from their addiction have a lot of ground to cover to repair their lives, but those who do not recover often lose everything in their lives.

Five Tips for Individuals Seeking Residential Rehabilitation

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Substance abuse treatment programs are a large investment, and choosing the facility for yourself or your loved one to check into should involve a careful selection process. Here are five important tips from licensed rehabilitation staff members to keep in mind when choosing an addiction rehabilitation center:

  • Effectiveness. The first priority in choosing an addiction inpatient treatment program should be its success rate. Addiction can be devastating to a person’s life and health, and nothing should be placed above receiving necessary treatment. The best program for an addict is one that offers services that address that person’s particular addiction struggle, such as drugs or alcohol. Ask the rehab representative what tools, methods and resources are available to the recovering addict. Statistically, addiction rehabs with regular one-on-one counselling sessions have the highest success rate of any addiction treatment.
  • Price. Though the quality and effectiveness of the program should always be given first priority, the price of the rehabilitation stay must meet the individual’s budget. Depending on the rehab, services must be paid for through personal income, healthcare coverage or payment plans, so the addiction rehab program selected must be within the inividual’s means. However, letting this factor have too much sway over your decision can be detrimental, as many low-cost facilities lack the resources to provide effective treatment. Facilitated addiction recovery is a healthcare expense, and the rehabilitation centers that are the most current on effective treatment methods will be properly funded.
  • After care. Once the program is completed, a good quality rehabilitation center will offer ongoing services to the client in the form of sober living houses, continued support through counselling and other resources, and/or continued treatment free of charge in the case of a relapse. Ask the rehab representative about their ongoing after care and exit strategy, and whether or not they have a guarantee on their program.
  • Length. Studies have shown that the longer a patient stays in a rehabilitation program, the more likely they are to avoid relapse. The length of the program a rehabilitation center offers can be an indication of how intensive and involved it is. For people who know that an inpatient addiction option is best for them, the recommended lenth of time for an effective stay is 28-days to 90-days, depending on the severity of the addiction.
  • Location. Committing to the right program could mean moving to another vicinity for the addict, or the ideal program could be close to their current address. It is important to consider the location of the addiction rehabilitation center as a recovery tool. For example, if the facility is located near things that will trigger the individual’s addiction, such as favorite bars or places with drug availability, it could be that this program is not ideal for the individual. Changing your setting can change your relationship with the substance you abuse. California residents may want to seek Florida rehabilitation; Washington residents may want to seek an Alberta addiction treatment center; and so on.

The Battle for Sobriety

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Recovering from addiction require behavioral examination and cognitive processing unlike other circumstance does. For most bouncing back abusers, the procedure is not without its backslides and obstacles, yet this is not a reason to quit! Rather, take part in important reasoning to avoid regressions and strengthen the thoughts versus the pitfalls important abuse.

Making the decision to modify your life is the foundation of sobriety, and is additionally the most daunting component of it. Change can be something that terrifies us and makes us resentful, yet by reasoning with it in an organized fashion, that anxiety and animosity can develop into a plan that fills you with hope. Assume very carefully with exactly how you desire your dependency addressed, and just what learning methods work for you. Bear in mind, chemical obsession and mental issues go hand in hand, so don’t just resolve one or the other. As an alternative, seek assistance for both back to back, and take into consideration the probability that you need the solutions of an addiction rehabilitation facility.

Altering your life this dramatically is something no one expects you to undergo alone. Gather your support device near to you and make them knowledgeable about your problem and your selection to recover. If your obsession grows within your previous social system, transform it. Surround on your own with sobriety and peers that sustain your healing, even if it indicates checking out a dependence inpatient facility, joining a rehabilitation group or moving into a sober living residence.

Among the universal triggers important misuse is anxiety, and teaching yourself healthy and balanced coping systems is crucial to your continued healing. Don’t anticipate to have no issues since you are sober, merely anticipate the chance to practice trouble resolving without the limitation of dependency in your life. Consider healthy ways of relaxing, such as exercise, yoga exercise, mind-calming exercise or various other relaxing hobbies. Collection goals on your own and delight desires. Producing a life of function will advance your tension into the challenges of a meaninfgul existence.

It is essential to bear in mind that lures to relapse will occur as the accessibility of your dependency will certainly not go away. Individuals, locations and points can serve as sets off for your former lifestyle, and you must remain active in staying clear of and standing up to these catalysts to your dependence. Be upfront and communicative concerning your sobriety. Collection boundaries and keep them. If you do relapse, remember it is not the end of the globe, however an opportunity to start afresh. Your goal for sobriety has not fallen short, it is just a job in progress.

Making a Recovery from Addiction

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Dependence could be devastating to the individual afflicted and to their loved ones, and frequently inpatient rehablitation is the only method to dominate the grasp of dependence. When taking care of alcohol and drugs, there is a full range of healing actions the abuser must move via just before they can be responsible of their life once again, and the solutions of a dependence rehabilitation center could be the difference between success and failure.

A get up phone call or treatment usually should happen just before the abuser will certainly discover the seriousness of their circumstance. An addict can find this truth personally with a life transforming occasion such as the loss of a job or a drug abuse associated injury. Or, additional normally, the abuser has to be confronted by the individuals in their life to be warned of their dependency fact. Interferences can be demanding and emotional on every person included, and commonly require the outdoors solutions of an interference assistant or specialist. The moment the addict comes to terms with their addiction issue, they can find the help of an expert drug abuse procedure center, if the situation asks for it.

The initial step to being admitted to an inpatient therapy center is perhaps the most undesirable and the most necessary component of healing: detoxification. For much less severe dependencies, the addict may have the choice of detoxing prior to signing in to the property, usually with a physician’s physical exam. In additional severe situations, the abuser should be managed while detoxing as drawback signs can be harmful to the addict’s body and mind.

Next, the addict will certainly live in a household treatment facility and undergo surveillance and counseling as they start to practice sobriety. Time in the treatment facility can range from roughly 28-days to 90-days depending on the strength of the recovery procedure. Some rehabiliation programs concentrate on the chemical component of obsession, but most are based upon counselling services and therapy treatments that intend to recover the mental scars that make individuals at risk to dependency in the initial spot.

Once the bouncing back addict has worked their method with the rehabilitation program, it is really typical that they will certainly remain in a sober living unit prior to returning completely to their lives. Sober living houses are usually on-site in the dependence rehab, and provide the person a place to engage in sobriety while beginning to reenter the obligations of their lives. As opposed to making a clean break from the obsession inpatient center, the client relieves steadily back into the globe and gains self-reliance while still being kept an eye on, staying close to their counselors and sober peers and proceeding periodic procedures.

This common model for rehab facility programs is a tried-and-true technique of relocating an individual past their dependence utilizing level of sensitivity, know-how, self-discovery and expert hygiene.

The Top Ten Addiction Treatment Centers in the World

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  1. Passages Malibu: Located in the U.S.A; A luxury addiction rehabilitation center with a holistic approach to recovery offering patients an elegant facility overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
  2. Promises Treatment Centers: Located in the U.S.A. Caters to high profile individuals and offers both chemical and psychological drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
  3. The Sanctuary Byron Bay: Located in Australia. Considered one of the most elegant addiction inpatient centers in the world, and treats addictions and other disorders on a one-to-one basis.
  4. Valiant Recovery: Located in Canada. A luxury addiction rehab on the shore of Okanagan Lake offering private help through every phase of addiction recovery.
  5. The Priory Group: Located in the UK. With over 250 locations through out the UK, The Priory Group is well-known for its addiction and mental health treatments.
  6. Serenity House: Located in Spain. This 12-Step substance abuse treatment program helps patients work through the issues causing their addiction and creates an ongoing sobriety plan for them.
  7. Solutions Recovery Center: Located in the U.S.A. Offering a tropical setting, makes use of the “Break Free” plan for staying firm in continued sobriety.
  8. Sober Living by the Sea: Located in the U.S.A. Built on the idea of community living rather than facility living, housing patients in beach homes by the ocean.
  9. PROMIS Rehabilitation Clinic: Located in the U.K. Facility is a historic converted farmhouse in the countryside and addiction treatments range from traditional to grounbreaking.
  10.  Betty Ford Center: Located in the U.S.A. A reputable treatment center for drug and alcohol abuse, founded by former first lady Betty Ford who personally battled addiction.


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When and where did you start karate? 2005, Darwen Leisure Centre
Why did you start karate? Ellie wanted to do Karate and I had to train with her
First instructor? Andy Allwood
First started teaching? 2010 at Edgworth
Relevant experiences? not much, just chipping away at it
Biggest influences? Andy, Lorraine, Matt and Martyn
Competition honours? Tower Shukokai Club Championships 2012: !st Ladies' Kumite, Runner Up, Ladies' kata. And I once came third in a gymkhana.
Other qualifications? I got a green belt in judo as a teenager
Favourite technique(s) / aspects of karate? gyaks, throws and arm locks
Favourite food? pasta
Favourite book / author? Lord of the Rings
Desert Island disc? Rainy night in Soho by the Pogues
Favourite film/ movie genre/ director? Addam's Family or Sci-fi

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Summertime enjoyable begins when college is out and you can forget studies, that is for a few young ones. Schools now provide the children summer time school which can include getting through to hours to graduate or learning skills that are new attending classes that need improvement. Other young ones visit summer school merely to be using their friends and have now enjoyable. Many schools prepare outside activities like visiting the park, swimming pool, or likely to places to see the fire division, authorities headquarters and meet the individuals who provide their community. Some young ones take part in crafts and games at school, but overall most kids enjoy their time at summer time college.

A number of the activities outside nevertheless are going on in many areas. Girls and boys take part in playing T-ball or baseball, while parents and grand-parents cheer them in. It really is just element of summer time and being outdoors, even if it really is hot and muggy. This might be a good time for you to satisfy other moms and dads as well as your neighbors that you don’t always see. Usually, you are going to share a bag of popcorn, candy, ice cream and soft drink with your children or grandkids, just what a time that is great be together. You, of course, would want to just take the camera to help you to simply take that picture that is special movie of one’s kids or grandkids. Exactly what memories you may make they catch the ball or make a home run with them for being there at that special time when.

As summer season continues the outside sports like swimming, riding bikes, likely to camp and just being around their buddies is important to them.

While mom and dad are packing and having the motor vehicle all set on vacation. The children are getting their unique toys ready to take with them. Some families will want to visit spend their time at an enjoyment park or even to the coastline, while other families are receiving ready to go camping and spending time up in the mountains and enjoying the outdoors and scenery.

Summer time is a busy time, but can also be a lot of fun to enjoy your family and start to become together. Taking time together with your family is so today that is important days seem to be so busy and our schedules are so complete with work and other activities. Our kids and grandkids mature therefore fast and leave house to go off to college or away take a job.

We need to decelerate and enjoy them as they are young and at home.

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We Cook -Thai Home Garden Cooking School

As we consider ourselves lovers of Thai cuisine we chose to do a cooking class in Chiang Mai. Of course there are plenty (if not, too many) options available and we very nearly missed out because we couldn’t decide who to go with!

I noticed a particular leaflet advertising ‘We Cook Thai Home Garden Cooking School’ at our apartment. As a spur of the moment gesture I contacted them via email to see if they had availability for the next day. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a quick response from a lady called Miw to confirm availability and prices. Appreciating the speedy response, I booked our spots right away and told Kyle the good news!

The next day we were picked up by Miw and met the rest of the group. The day started off at the morning markets. At the markets we chose on the leaflet what we’d like to cook. We were allowed to make 1 appetiser, 1 stir fry, 1 curry paste, a soup dish, curry and desert of our choice.

All our names written in Thai!
All our names written in Thai!

Miw showed us what type of ingredients will be used in our class. There was so much fresh produce, I wanted to buy everything there! We all got the chance to ask our what’s this? and ‘what does it taste like? questions. Miw took it in her stride and answered all our questions effortlessly, even buying samples so we could try ourselves.

So fresh, so green!

We were given some time to wander around the markets and get a coffee before we departed. I was in awe at the amount of stock in. If we had this type of stock back at home I’d be there every day! The variety was abundant, the produce was so fresh and vibrant. It got us very excited to use some of these ingredients in our class.

Fresh, abundant, colorful!

After our stop at the markets we made our way to Miw’s home which was located in a local quiet residency. We were greeted with a lush, open air cooking environment and welcomed in Miw’s home for a drink before we began.

What a wonderful set up!
Ready to start 🙂

Time to cook!

I decided to make the following dishes:

Papaya salad – Pad Thai – Green curry paste – Green Curry – Noodle soup – Sticky rice and mango

The day was split into sections as if we were cooking a 3 course meal – appetizers, starters, mains and deserts. Without giving away all the secrets that we learned (cheeky, I know) Miw prepared us each step of the way and made us all realise how easy it was to cook Thai food.

First up were the ‘appetizers’ and starters. See how amazing this looks –

1. Spicy Papaya salad. I only used 2 chillies but the heat was mind blowing!
2. Pad Thai with shrimp and tofu

Excited by our first dishes we were sent upstairs by Miw to enjoy our creations. We had fun testing out each others food and comparing our spice levels!

Next up we prepared our curry pastes – this is where we got our muscles out and pounded the life into some spices!

The result!
3. The curry pastes

After the pastes were finished we were instructed by Miw to get some beers and take a rest! Not wanting to disobey we toddled off to nearest store for a ‘refreshing drink’ and walk around. When we arrived back the preparation table was ready with another set of ingredients for the next course.

Sampling a variety of roots and herbs

The next dish was easy to prepare as they were mainly soupy-broth dishes. Miw handed out various spices according to our chosen dishes and explained what flavours they bring to the dish. We also learned what other ingredients can be substitued in these dishes if we can’t find the ingredients back in our home countries.

We got on with preparing the deserts (this was done before we cooked the mains so they had time to cool down). Me and Kyle took to the hobs to create the bases for the 2 deserts – making the sticky rice and coconut milk. I cannot tell you how amazing the smells were from both pans!

Game faces on!

With the desert bases prepared and ready to rest, we turned our attentions to the soup and curries. It was now time to cook the mains!

Ingredients prepped for the Noodle soup

We started off with the soup dishes. They literally took a matter of minutes to make. It was intense, quick and easy. As soon as everyone’s dish had finished we swapped our pans for woks and changed the ingredients to make our curries. It was up to us how spicy we wanted to make the curry (the more paste you use the hotter the curry will be). Again the process was super fast and intense, but with speedy results. I have never in my life cooked a curry as quick as this one!

My not so green curry...yet!
My green curry bubbling away

The end result?

4. Noodle broth and 5. Green curry

After working up a mini sweat over our woks we gladly returned upstairs to gorge out. We passed our creations proudly around the table for us all to sample and to try out each others’ dishes. We literally ate until we couldn’t move, forgetting that we still had desert to come!

Excited by desert I forgot to take a photo of my sticky rice and mango 🙁 luckily Kyle took one of his and it was tasty enough to feature on my post! (This is how the sticky rice and mango looks taken from another class on We Cooks Facebook page – top image)

6. Desert, bananas in coconut milk.

Everything about this day was fab. We learned so much about Thai food, ingredients, preparation and presentation. All of this and how simple it is to create such tasty food. We even received a complimentary cookbook containing all the recipes made from our session.

There was nothing I could fault about our cooking experience with Miw. She was such a kind-hearted person that radiated fun and passion; Miw and her assistants did everything they could to make sure each of us had a great time. The cost of the session per person is around £20 – this includes pick up/drop off, 6 chosen dishes and a cookbook. What a bargain!

It also helped that our group got on really well – so well even that we all met up later for a few drinks out at the night markets! And to think we did this all last minute…See, it’s never to late to join in on the fun!

What a day!

To find out more information about We Cook – Thai Home Garden Cooking School you can check out their Facebook page here and TripAdvisor rating here

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Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde”

Blonde on Blonde album cover.This week, I’ve been listening to Bob Dylan‘s 1966 double LP “Blonde on Blonde” for what I can learn as a songwriting musician. I listened to Bob Dylan’s earlier “Highway 61 Revisited” for this project about two months ago. That has long been one of my favorite albums, but “Blonde on Blonde” was mostly new to me. Overall, Dylan got even better in the year between the two. The writing and performance are more focused and less chaotic. In its entirety, this double LP is remarkable with incredible high points. Some songs could stand to be cut to create a fantastic single LP album.

The album opens with perhaps the weakest song, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. I like the raucous marching circus accompaniment; Still, the lyrics are really too silly to justify four and half minutes. No matter what interpretation you read into the song, yhe “Everybody must get stoned” pun doesn’t deserve this much celebration. I’ll also skip by “Pledging My Time“, a blues track that fails to grab my attention.

My absolute favorite song on “Blonde on Blonde” is Visions of Johanna. The accompaniment is primarily an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression mostly based on I-IV-V7. The mid-section of each verse builds some suspense by repeating I-IV. A V7-I cadence closes each verse. Wistful lines of sustained notes are played on an organ in the right channel balanced by a twangy guitar’s occasional noodling on the left channel. A bass guitar in the center plays jugband bass-lines travelling the across chords. Dylan’s carries more emotion than typically heard on other songs; This is appropriate considering the subject matter, ambiguous as it may be.

The lyrics of “Visions of Johanna” made it quickly my favorite. It’s not particularly clear who or what Johanna is and if the “visions of Johanna” are memories, fantasies, or something else. Whatever they are, the speaker is uncomfortably haunted by the visions; they add a tinge of sadness to real experiences in the present. In a way, the visions “that kept me up past the dawn” remind me of Poe’s raven that visited “upon a midnight dreary.”

There are two female characters: the Johanna who is “not here” and Louise who is. There are several apparent male characters: the speaker in first person, Louise’s lover, the night watchman, the little boy lost, the peddler, and the fiddler. I wonder if all of these male characters are different aspects of the same person. Even Louise can act as a mirror forcing the speaker to look back within himself. Within that mirror the speaker sees himself replaced by the ever present visions of Johanna.

Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna’s not here
The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Another song I love, “I Want You” feels more like walking alone passing through various scenes. The chorus is a straight-forward “I want you, I want you, I want you so bad”. I read somewhere that often in songwriting, the chorus provides the lens through which to interpret the verses and that’s definitely the case here. This simple chorus also provides a nice contrast to the verses in which so much happens. In all that the speaker sees and encounters, the desire for subject of the song. I actually first heard this song as covered by Sophie B Hawkins when I was 15. Here version brings out the feelings of longing and hurt more than Dylan’s, but I think both are excellent. I especially like the motif played on a clean electric guitar that plays throughout the verses of the Dylan recording.

I continue to find Dylan an amazing lyricist and I’m really appreciating his use of traditional chord progressions and instrumentation. About 10 years, I was concerned about using too many common chord progressions and basic chords. I thought of this as a weakness and that chord progressions were an area where being unusual and creative were a measurement for quality songwriting. When I started writing songs for Trip Gunn, I threw out this assumption. Many amazing songs have been written on little more than I-IV-V progressions.  Variety is good, but there’s nothing wrong with the familiar.

What I learn as a songwriter from Dylan on “Blonde on Blonde” is much the same as “Highway 61 Revisited” and that includes the lesson that it’s beneficial for instruments to be in conversation with each other. The difference is that on the earlier album the individual instruments were often playing independent of each other and on this album they are working together. While the lyrics on “Highway 61” are often more inventive than they are here, there’s a greater sense of meaning and expression on “Blonde on Blonde.” There rhymes also feel more natural this time around. I like the use of imagery and setting of scenes on this album.

Unfortunately, the album versions of these songs are not available on YouTube, but I’ve provided links to decent versions that are similar. Most are live.


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Taking care of toddlers, I severely scold them whenever they make mistakes.
My heart hurts, but I decided that it is for the child’s own good to point out their faults.
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Scolding may change a person that moment, but it doesn’t last long. Though love does not change a person right away, as time passes by, that person realizes, and that realization stays touched in his heart. I think that eventually changes that person.

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That love gave me strength, for me to put on effort to change myself.
Though every moment, I try to resemble Mother’s heart, when I face difficult situation, it doesn’t turn out what I thought to be.
This is the evidence that I haven’t change into love yet.
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The Anniversary by Ruth EJ Booth

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When you first met, you asked her why she wouldn’t smile for you. She had such a beautiful smile back then. Red-lipped, pearl white — demure, yet dazzling. Everybody knew it. It was why you wanted her most of all.

For Whom the Dogs Bark by Ralph Robert Moore
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Clock ticking in darkness.

Black breeze across the bedroom window, branches scratching.

Eyes adjusting.

Ghostly humps of his knuckles on top of the sheet.

Hears a dog barking in the neighbor’s backyard.

Barking, barking, stopping, barking.

The Book of Dreems by Georgina Bruce
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In the Book of Dreems, a dog is a friend.

Fraser told Kate the dog was in her head. You imagined it, he said. The mind can play all sorts of funny tricks. But Kate was sure about the dog. It was the only thing she remembered: the little dog running around and through her feet as she tripped, stumbled, whirled in the darkness. A long vague slow sick wrestle with wet branches and thorny bushes, and the little dog tumbling at her feet, whining and yelping. After that – nothing. A lacuna, a drop of darkness in her mind. As if someone had reached in with thumb and forefinger and pinched out a little of her brain. An absence felt in the centre of her head, a something missing.

Do Not Google by Andrew Humphrey

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I have tried hard to convince myself that what happened wasn’t down to me. It’s what we do, isn’t it? Flail around for someone else to take the blame. It’s not our fault. Even when we act the bigger man and hold our hands up, which I’ve done, often enough, at the same time ostentatious and self-deprecating.

A Small Life by Carly Holmes
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It’s amazing how your perception of the place you live changes when you view it from a boat. The footpaths you walk, the picnic bench you sit at, even your own car in the car park, all look strange when you’re on the river, swan-high, pulling away from it. What is this village? you think as you lean into the stroke of the oar and slide into the cool shadow of slate banked beside you. Do I know it? Do I really live here? Drifting, groundless, you finally see the land for what it is: ancient, permanent, human-scarred but enduring. It doesn’t miss the unique weight and balance of your feet any more than the river will miss the trail of your fingers when you withdraw them and slip your hand back into your glove.

Tancho by Mel Kassel

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Laurie hates how easily the man is able to drown her. It’s laughable, drowning in less than six feet of water, held under by just one of his hands splayed in a heavy star on top of her head.

She tries to make excuses: how long, after all, has it been since she really had to fight? To push, physically, against an opposing force?

Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker

In America, unlike in England, we do not have a ghost story tradition associated with Christmas. ‘A Christmas Carol’ is perennially popular, but in general there is no particular sense that Christmas is a time for ghosts.

Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore

My father had piercing blue eyes. Most people who met him would mention those eyes, usually when he was in another room.

Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant

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The Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver; Written in Darkness by Mark Samuels; The Satyr & Other Tales by Stephen J. Clark; Horthólary by Michael Reynier; Earth, Air, Fire & Water by Brian Lumley; The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After by Shane Jiraiya Cummings; Zoopraxis by Richard Christian Matheson

Hap and Leonard: Savage Season by Jussi Piironen; The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers/I.N.J. Culbard; Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Volume 1 by M.R. James/Leah Moore/John Reppion

Jackdaws by Neil Campbell; The Numbers by Christopher Burns; Fury by D.B. Waters; Rounds by Wyl Menmuir; Paymon’s Trio by Colette de Curzon; The Automaton by David Wheldon

The Last Night at Tremore Beach by Mikel Santiago; The Golem by Gustav Meyrink; The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango; The Chosen by Kristina Ohlsson; A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba; Kill the Next One by Federico Axat

Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens

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George A. Romero: Between Night and Dawn; The Walking Dead: Season Seven; The Thing; Blood Feast/Scum of the Earth; Cult of Chucky; Not Quite Hollywood; Dark Age; Kadaicha/Innocent Prey; Out of the Shadows; Red Christmas; Cage Dive; The Bad Batch; Blood Simple; Willard/Ben; See No Evil; The Mummy; Vampir Cuadecuc; Don't Torture a Duckling; The Crunch…And Other Stories; Tag; Bushwick; Suntan; Eat Locals; Nails; Cabin 28; The Unraveling; Resurrection of Evil; Channel Zero

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Black Static readers will be interested to know that TTA Novella 4, The Teardrop Method by Simon Avery, is out now as a B-Format paperback with wraparound cover art by Richard Wagner and bonus connected short story. You can buy it now from this website's shop.

"The Teardrop Method is a story about stories; a beautiful novella about love and loss and the connections people make and then sometimes break. It's quiet, haunting, and ultimately moving" Gary McMahon

"Nightmare plotting infused with an aching mitteleuropäische sadness, Simon Avery’s tale of music and mortality could be the novelisation of a lost Argento movie" Nicholas Royle

"Without any prep or background, I started reading the novella The Teardrop Method by British author Simon Avery, and was immediately engaged by the moodiness, the bleakness, the desperation and creaky, world-weariness of the setting and characters. These appealing elements perfectly coalesced into a tragic and fervent eulogy to the creative process - to Art with a capital A - as a means of salvation and transcendence and doom, and to love itself in all its complex iterations, exploring the concept of loving, dying, and even killing, in order to achieve the proper reception code from the eternal Muse while the roaring Danube drowns out the rest of the world. This is a very European story, in all its faded baroque finery and cafe claustrophobia. The snow is heavier here, the dawn ever more surprising. The supernatural and the natural are not so far removed in places like this. The old and the new forever caught in a twirling waltz. I highly recommend this novella, and cannot wait to see what melody Mr Avery pens next. I'll be listening" T.E. Grau

"A monumentally haunting novella" Des Lewis

“Simon Avery’s descriptions of Krysztina’s music makes me want to hear it. It’s a subtle and beautifully told tale with echoes of European film-makers like Haneke and Kieslowski, as well as their predecessors like Franju and Polanski. It conjures a powerful sense of foreboding that reminds me of Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, and shares with that film a sense of being haunted. It has moments of profound sadness and yet still managed to surprise me with its uplifting ending. One of the novellas of the year” Mike O'Driscoll

“A dark and tense thriller, set against a cold Hungarian backdrop. The reconnection between father and daughter gives The Teardrop Method melancholy in light of the father’s declining health, and the handling of the supernatural element is done so latently it feels authentic and genuinely spooky. The prose is compulsively readable and even the stranger members of the cast pop off the page” Nick Cato, The Horror Fiction Review

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A blog covering life and happenings in Cape Town

Monday, April 11, 2005

Cape Town's winter has begun.

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Storm clouds over Table Mountain

We've had drought conditions here in Cape Town since last winter when we did not get our normal quota of winter rain.

To save water restrictions have been placed on us and gardens have suffered terribly because of the restrictions.

Because of the drought a brand new industry has sprung up in Cape Town.

Every houseowner has decided to put down a wellpoint to keep his garden alive.

Fortunately I got in early and had my wellpoint done a year or two ago which allowed me to water quite freely while others were restricted.

Unfortunately as the drought got worse so the underwater supplies also got scarcer, so much so that where I could water for an hour before the pump started sucking air it did that after about five minutes in the last week or two.

To make matters worse the levels of the dams deteriorated as well and were down to about 27% at the beginning of this last weekend.

Cape Town was desperate for water and one could feel the mood of the people as rain clouds gathered over Cape Town only to be blown away again without a drop of rain falling.

This weekend a south east gale came up, normally this is a summer wind and does not bring rain.

With this wind the thunder clouds started to gather and on Sunday afternoon we had a short sharp shower of rain which came in from the east and not from the north as it normally does.

Shortly afterwards the clouds once again blew away and we thought that the rain had gone again.

An hour or two later the clouds started to build up again and as it got dark Cape Town experienced the most wonderful thunder storm.

Cape Town seldom experiences thunder so you will find most Capetonians and their dogs hiding under their beds as the thunder and lightning crashes overhead.

At times the whole of the sky was alight and here and there fork lightning stabbed groundwards as the storm raged.

With the storm came the rain.

Lovely hard rain that teemed down and lashed the parched earth.

Gutters were soon full and streets became rivers as stormwater drains took strain from the downpour.

The good news is that the storm raged for hours and that this morning (Monday 11th April 2005) it is still raining.

Maybe we are going to have a good winter this year and get our full quota of rain.

The best of all is the feeling one gets when you step outside after the rain has stopped.

The parched earth looks green instead of brown and everything just comes alive when it gets a bit of water.

After such a long and hard summer I am sure Capetonians are all rejoicing this morning, even if it took them hours longer than normal to get to work because of some of the flooded roads.

On behalf of Cape Town I say thank you to God for the rain.

He knows exactly when to bless his people.

Geoff Fairman
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Ps These storms were very severe and brought about large scale flooding in the Bredasdorp Cape Agulhas area.

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Would the White Rose Blossom Today?

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Monument to Hans and Sophie Scholl: the White Rose in Munich.

Largely unknown outside of Germany, but very highly regarded within it, are the members of the White Rose resistance movement of the early 1940s. They were one of the very few movements who opposed the Nazis either philosophically or politically. In 1942 and 1943, they distributed six leaflets calling on Germans to resist the Nazis in any way possible. The most famous of the White Rose are Hans and Sophie Scholl.*

Among younger Germans, they are the most highly regarded Germans of all time. One hundred ninety schools are named after Sophie alone. She is Germany’s Woman of the Century.

Why this esteem? Why this honor? Do Germans today likewise stand against injustice and for freedom of religion and conscience? They too must say that the conscience of the individual must guide him or her — even against the law when it opposes conscience — for the conscience is the very echo of God within each man and woman. For this cause, the White Rose perished. Would it blossom today?

If Germans today do not stand for freedom of conscience, even against the intimidating power of the state itself, then why do they applaud the heroism of Sophie and Hans Scholl? If they believe their government has no higher authority to which it must answer concerning its laws and decrees, then they betray their true fatherhood and their true nature. They are unlike their heroes in the most fundamental way. Indeed, they are then no different in honoring the Scholls than the Scribes and Pharisees who honored the prophets and righteous men whom their fathers murdered.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, “If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.” Consequently you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers! (Matthew 23:29-32)

Let them face the test of conscience to see whether they stand with the righteous they honor or with the fathers who murdered them. Almost certainly the overwhelming majority of Germans today, young and old, will fail this test. They already have. Is there any possibility of change?

Sophie Scholl under arrest after distributing White Rose leaflets (scene from “Sophie Scholl – The Last Days).

Consider this dialogue taken from the Gestapo transcripts of the interrogation of Sophie Scholl shortly before her execution:

Sophie: So why do you want to punish us?

Interrogator: Because it’s the law. Without law there is no order.

Sophie: The law you’re referring to protected free speech before the Nazis came to power in 1933. Someone who speaks freely now is imprisoned or put to death. Is that order?

Interrogator: What can we rely on if not the law, no matter who wrote it?

Sophie: On your conscience.

Interrogator: Nonsense! Here is the law, and here are the people. As a criminologist, it is my duty to find out if they coincide, and if not… to find the rotten spot.

Sophie: The law changes; conscience doesn’t.

Interrogator: Why do you risk so much for false ideas?

Sophie: Because of my conscience.

Interrogator: You have to realize that a new age has dawned. What you’re saying has nothing to do with reality.

Sophie: Of course it has to do with reality — with decency, morals, and God.

Interrogator: God doesn’t exist.

{Interrogation scene from Sophie Scholl – The Last Days.}

Replace “free speech” with “child discipline” and “Nazis” with “Social Democrats” and “1933” with “2000” (when for the first time in German history child discipline by parents was outlawed) and you have exactly the same judgment to make:

should men and women obey the law when in their own judgment it goes against their conscience and violates their deeply held religious beliefs?

Your answer to that question determines, whether you like it or not, your answers to the following questions:

  • Is freedom of religion possible in Germany? (including the practice of what one believes)
  • Is freedom of education possible in a socialist state?
  • Is the state now our conscience, the sole arbiter of right and wrong?
  • Or to put it more simply, is there any basis at all for freedom in Germany?

The interrogation would go like this today:

Parent: So why do you want to punish us for disciplining our children?

Interrogator: Because it’s the law. Without law there’s no order.

Parent: The law you’re referring to protected parental authority before the Socialists came to power in 1998. Spanking was only outlawed in 2000. Someone who spanks his children now has them ripped away. Is that justice? Is that order?

Interrogator: What can we rely on if not the law, no matter who wrote it?

Parent: On your conscience.

Interrogator: Nonsense!

Parent: The law changes, conscience doesn’t.

Interrogator: Why do you risk so much, your very children, for such false ideas?

Parent: Because of my conscience.

Interrogator: You have to realize that a new age has dawned. What you’re saying has nothing to do with reality. You must renounce discipline if you ever hope to get your children back. You know that, don’t you?

Parent: Of course the love I have for my children, teaching them what I know is right, has to do with reality — with decency, morals, and God.

Interrogator: God doesn’t exist.

Does God exist? Or is the Gestapo Interrogator correct? He is dead, then. You decide. A prophet, one of your own, said, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. [He] has bled to death under our knives.” {Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125: The Madman, 1882.}

Did God really speak to the consciences of Sophie and Hans and the rest of the White Rose about the family, about freedom of speech, and of religion? Did they lay down their lives in that belief, to attenuate the guilt of their nation before the world? Maybe they shouldn’t have bothered.

So, do you really stand with Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement, O German people? Or do you stand with your fathers who executed them? What do you say about parents who believe it is love to discipline their children for wrongdoing? Consider the opening words of Leaflet 4 from the White Rose about the normal, everyday wisdom of child discipline!

There is an ancient maxim that we repeat to our children: “He who won’t listen will have to feel.” (Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen.)

{Text of Leaflet 4 is at http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/wrleaflets.html}

White Rose Leaflet 4, page 1

Maybe you would arrest Sophie and Hans Scholl today, as your fathers did! Your Jugendamt ripped our children out of their parents’ arms because they disciplined them. Did you applaud? If so, then that is your answer. The white rose of freedom is freezing to death.

Ponder the role of the family in civilization as seen by the brave souls of the White Rose. It precedes in time and in importance the state itself.

White Rose Leaflet 3, page 1

We must not forget that at the starting point of every civilization the state was already there in rudimentary form. The family is as old as man himself, and out of this initial bond man, endowed with reason, created for himself a state founded on justice, whose highest law was the common good. The state should exist as a parallel to the divine order, and the highest of all utopias, the civitas dei, is the model which in the end it should approximate. (Leaflet 3 – available at same site as Leaflet 4 above.)

Can a state, as seen by these visionaries, both model itself on the City of God and also outlaw His word, as Germany has done? It must outlaw the whole Bible, too! Do not stop at half measures, O Germany!

Are you one, then, who calls good evil and evil good, as Isaiah 5:20 prophesies of those who reject Proverbs 13:24?

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently. (Proverbs 13:24)

No one who calls hatred love and love hatred will escape the just judgment of God.

A Final Word

A higher court judge in Germany recently wrote about the “Legal Aspects of Chastisement.” In it he quoted a letter from more than twenty years ago, one written by a Christian, a theologian, and a father of six. He was protesting, futilely it seems, the demise of fundamental spiritual and political rights. His focus: controlled chastisement of children by parents.

Whoever punishes every form of physical punishment without differentiation, evens out the profound pedagogical difference between child abuse and clear, child-rearing guidelines of controlled chastisement which are aimed at the welfare of the child and are not administered in anger. No one can argue that the Bible agrees with chastisement as long as it is done within measure and as long as it serves to raise a child lovingly. A state that forbids Christian parents all forms of physical discipline intrudes in a God-given, inalienable right, and restricts not only parental rights but also the freedom of religion that is protected by the German Constitution. {Friedrich, M. (pseudonym), Juristische Aspekte koeperlicher Zuechtigung, (Gemeindegründung Nr. 110, 2/12, p. 21-27), p. 22.}

It remains to be seen whether Germans will continue to forfeit what remains of their “God-given, inalienable rights.” Among these, certainly, are parental rights and freedom of religion. These rights, like almost all others, are principally lost through non-use, through not standing up for them: forfeiture.

State-controlled education is the most powerful influence persuading people that the State, not God, is the giver of rights. Permissions granted by the state are never inalienable.

This loss of rights and the view of God and man that stands behind them is a world-wide phenomena, by no means limited to Germany. An ignorant people can never be free, a famous American said long ago (Thomas Jefferson). Inculcating this ignorance concerning human rights is the very purpose of modern state-controlled education.** At stake is the future of freedom.

Who will tend the tender, fragile white rose of freedom?

*About Hans and Sophie: In a nation-wide competition to determine Germany’s best, people were asked to list the most important Germans of all time. If the votes of young viewers alone had been counted, Sophie and Hans Scholl would have been ranked first — before Einstein, Bach, Bismark, and Goethe. Several years earlier, readers of Brigitte, a German magazine for women, voted Scholl “the greatest woman of the twentieth century.” Wikipedia entry: “Sophie Scholl.”

**This is not limited to the gymnasium (high school), but extends to the highest levels of education and society in Germany. “Writings by legal authors who have written positively about spanking have not been distributed among universities or the court system.” (Friedrich, M. “Juristische Aspekte koeperlicher Zuechtigung”)

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Monday, April 09, 2012

My Pink Flower for Payton

Hi everypuggy,

Winston heres.

Well yesterday me, my Mum and Granny worked in the garden all afternoons.

Halfway through Mum called me overs.

She saids.... "Winston it is time to plant our flower for Payton, where shall we place it?"

We choose a Begonia flower and I thoughts to place it right by our sliding door so it is the first things you see when you step outsides.

We planted two pink Begonias

Planted on the wall mount near the door... with a heart!

During the plantings a flower popped offs!
"OH NO!" exclaimed Mum.

But not to worrys cuz I had an ideas...

We put it into the water feature that Mum mades!
Here is a close ups... Payton's flower floating in our tears.

It felt so goods planting these two flowers in Memory of Payton.

In fact we have a few pink flowers in the garden this years. Mum had pinks on her mind when at the Garden Centre!

In fact even Kizzy wanted to helps plant the pink flowers!

Kizzy and more of our pink flowers
So everytime I am outsides I can thinks of my friend Payton.

Winston Wilbur

I hopes you all had a great Easter holiday.

  1. Oh Winston, what a beautiful tribute to Payton! You will think of her every time you see that pretty flower!

  2. Your flowers looks beautiful, they blooms so cool and looks great, I'm sure payton will be feel great.

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  3. Hi Winston
    Your pink flower for Paytons memorial is beautious! It looks so pretty and just the perfect spot.
    And I think it was so sweet of you to place the pink flower that accidently fell off- in the water bowl- it was so perfect an idea.
    I liked your other pink flowers that are growing. I don't have any flowers blooming yet- because its colder here. But soon I will have lots of pink flowers to go with the pink flower that I planted for Payton.
    This was a wonderful idea Winston- than you for allowing us to share your tribute.
    It was nice of Kizzy to help too.

  4. What a wonderful tribute to a beautiful girl like Payton xoxo

  5. Your pinkies are beautiful! So far we've planted pink daisies for Payton! More to come.

    Drools and licks,
    Minnie and Mack

  6. What beautiful flowers and what a loving gesture to Payton. You are such a good gardener your mom is so lucky to have your help

    urban hounds

  7. oh winston!
    what a beautiful tribute for miss payton!

    we love you!
    you always share your love and wisdom with us and it makes this world a very special place to be!

  8. Those are just lovely Winston! And putting the flower that popped off into the water was a great idea :)

    Meredith & Scarlet

  9. Winston -

    You are one smart puggie! You always come up with the bestest ideas. I just know that Payton is smiling at the Bridge because she is overjoyed at all the pink flowers she can look down on. And way to recycle the flower that came off the plant! You are definitely keeping it green! Stubby would be so proud.

  10. Hi Winston!

    Your pink flower for Payton is beautiful!
    She would love it so much!

    -Dana, Daisy & Bruce

  11. Winstons, buddy.....yer not gonna buhlieve this but we're plannin' on pink Begonias, too ('cause it's about the only thing my mom can grow!).

    All o' yer flowers look really nice, bud. Even that cat done a good job.

  12. You picked a really pretty flower to remember Payton, and it looks extra-pretty floating in the water.

  13. Awwww Winston, that is so beautiful, the flowers are so pretty and the lovely pot and hanger with the heart is a perfect tribute to Payton! You are such a sweetheart! I'm sure that Payton is looking down on us with a smile, she would love it and would be thankful for your kind wishes and every time I see a pink flower I will have wonderful memories of her! Love, Licks and Pugalier Hugs from your friend Frank xxxxxxxxx

  14. What a beautiful tribute!

    Nubbin wiggles,

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