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The purpose of this analysis is to carry on a PEST and SWOT analysis in the context of AirAsia ‘s international concern operations, placing the. AirAsia Berhad dba AirAsia MYX: is a Malaysian low-cost airline. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights and is Asia’s. 1 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF AIR ASIA AirAsia .. PESTEL ANALYSIS The PESTEL framework illustrates a comprehensive list of.

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Now, AirAsia has become one of the most successful air hoses in the Southeast Asiatic part and the innovator of low cost and no frills travel in Malaysia. There’s a specialist from your university waiting to help you with that essay.

Tell us what you need to have done now! The taking low menu air hose in the Asia — AirAsia has anxlysis spread outing quickly sinceto go an analyais winning and the largest low cost bearer in Asia. With a fleet of 72 aircrafts, AirAsia flies to over 61 domestic and international finishs with paths, and operates over flights daily from hubs located in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

To day of ariasia month, AirAsia has flown over 55 million invitees across the part and continues to distribute its wings to make more extended path web through its associate companies, Thai AirAsia and Indonesia AirAsia. AirAsia believes in the no-frills, hassle-free, low menu concern construct and feels that maintaining costs low requires high efficiency in every portion of the concern. Efficiency creates nest eggs which are so passed on to invitees so that low-cost air travel can go a anwlysis.

As AirAsia continuously strives to advance ana,ysis travel, we besides seek to make exhilaration amongst our invitees with our scope of advanced and individualized service. Besides that, The intent of this study is to place its stakeholders and nucleus competences, carry out a probe of its external environment, reexamine a strategic analysis of Airasia to place chances and menaces it might confront, and to insulate cardinal strengths and any failings that need covering with.

Furthermore a SWOT analysis will be carried out to ajalysis the extent to which its schemes are suited to what is go oning in its snalysis environment. Finally, after placing competitory scheme a Strategic program will be made to derive competitory advantage. It dynamic nature of concern is based on domestic and international flights, vacation and concern agreements for its clients domestically and internationally around the part with the low menu, safe and convenience agencies of transit.

To be the largest low cost air hose in Asia and functioning the 3 billion people who are presently underserved analhsis hapless connectivity and high menus. AirAsia make the low menu theoretical account possible through the execution of the undermentioned cardinal schemes:.

Implementing the parts fastest turnaround clip at merely 25 proceedingss, guaranting lower costs and analysiss productiveness. Supplying invitees with the pick of custom-making services without compromising on quality and services.

In-flight services pedtel repasts and ware bundle upon anqlysis e. Flight information is available to assist clients do questions on flight agendas reaching and going clip and day of the month. Created for a group of people, concern travelers for intents like meetings, conventions, leisure or even exhibition.

AirAsia is an international company, and traveling planetary invites a batch of competition. AirAsia has to cover with the competition of local companies in the same field- Airline services. Competition for AirAsia would besides be encountered in the practical world-the cyberspace.

As they entered into the usage of modern engineering such as the public sphere would ask for competition on the planetary graduated table. Different vicinities and states have different technological criterions, and quality control policies, which AirAsia would hold to adhere to, by attachment to these policies ; certain intended developments airaia be possible in certain communities but non acceptable in others. Fernandez, there are a batch workers or low wage wages earners who would wish to go frequently to run into their households particularly during particular occasions but due to how expensive it was that clip, their desire are non fulfilled.

By presenting a low menu will give airsaia those people chance to go if non more than one time in a twelvemonth. This enables them to place their mark market.

Decreased monetary value gross revenues is one of the rudimentss of procuring a mark market for AirAsia. They cut down their monetary value to accommodate their category of clients. Discounts or other offers can assist exposure concern to new clients, ensuing in a gross revenues addition.

AirAsia is a ticketless Airline that allows clients to buy their ticket online with at a discounted rate. They besides have a strategy of group price reduction and this aid to acquire more mark market, particularly internet based clients.

Open Skies scaled airasoa to suit our growing.

It is an incorporate web-based reserve and stock list system. It includes Internet, call centre, airport going control and more.

It is a direct gross revenues engine that efficaciously eliminates the jobber travel agents and the gross revenues committees that need to be paid to them.

By implementing this bundle AirAsia is looking to successfully keep procedure unity, cut down fiscal month-end shutting processing times, and speed up coverage and informations retrieval processes.

With the usage of the new ego cheque in service a quicker and more convenient manner to look into in utilizing nomadic phones, laptops etc, linking to the cyberspace.

This system is easier and faster for clients and their household to look into in at or before they get to the airdrome without holding to line up up at the counter to look into in. Air Asia offers a pick of recognition card installations iarasia suit in their clients travel life manner be it concern, leisure, preparation or vacations. With an Air Asia recognition card a client can buy any goods or services while going anyplace in the universe online.

Using E-commerce, clients are able to choose and do a vacation and travel agreement with a hotel of their pick and category, a choice up auto and even medical services. And payments for all this can be done on the cyberspace utilizing recognition cards or other on-line E-payment methods in front of travel clip.

AirAsia besides target most foreign workers from Indonesia, Anqlysis, Thailand, China, Macau who may non afford the expensive flight place and offer them the cheap menu which attracted most of them as would travel place really frequently without paying much. Companies in all industries have direct every bit good as indirect rivals. Direct rivals in the air power industry are companies that offer flights to similar finishs on comparable footings of travel.

AirAsia are confronting strong competition with major international and national air hoses on the market portions In contrast to other air hoses, AirAsia offers better value for money. The external environment of any organisation can be analyzed by carry anaysis a PEST analysis.

The acronym PEST is used to depict a model for the analysis of a scope of macro environmental factors including the Political, Economical Social and Technological environment. Flying outside Malaysia is hard. Bilateral understanding is one of the chief obstructions in the manner of low cost bearers.

Landing charges is besides another large influencing factor on costing of low menu air hoses. The low- cost air hose industry in south-east Asia has been underdeveloped because the air power market is tightly regulated by bilateral air rights understandings. Menace of terrorist act, people is afraid to wing after the September 11 terrorist onslaughts incident.

Current recession hit the air power concern. But with this economic system decelerating down, more people will desire to bask its inexpensive tickets. Oil monetary values is another regulative factor for this type of air hoses.

If oil monetary values go high, it is really hard to command cost of operation. AirAsia provides on-line service that combines air fining with hotel engagements, auto hire and travel insurance. To assist maintain costs in cheque, Air Asia has pushed cyberspace engagement services. AirAsia has bought in A to replace Boeing Low operational and care cost by holding a individual aircraft type fleet i.

Economy of scales benefits. As it is low cost air hoses, it can aim clients who are presently utilizing non-aircraft manners like, Bus, Trains, auto to go to distances.

Pest Analysis On AirAsia

Huge investing to buy air planes and implementing latest engineerings there is high sum of operational cost. The flight times are more or less limited to 2. So they can non run flights of longer continuance without any Frill, so No-Frill becomes impossible to implement for riders.

Low menus offer by AirAsia has encourage people from all walks of life manner to wing. Particularly, during economic system down bend. With the committedness in guaranting the security of staff and clients, client will hold more confident to wing via AirAsia. Singapore Airlines plans to establish a budget bearer, they see the success of AirAsia. They know how large the market is and how good the chance is in Asia. Travelers may non analsyis AirAsia if they are to go long distance flight.

Using one type of aircraft Boeing which will be to the full replaced with Airbus A consequences in decrease of care cost one of the major disbursals in air hose industryscheduling pestl, administrative cost, and stock list of parts. Creative and low-priced advertisement significantly reduces selling cost. On the other manus, AirAsia direct gross revenues through cyberspace, call Centres, walk-in airdrome gross revenues, and gross revenues offices significantly cut down the committee fee to go peste, as AirAsia merely assigned its gross revenues to.

Malaysia outgrowth as a regional concern and touristry hub has provided AirAsia plentifulness of room for growing and has fuelled regional air rider traffic. Widening current services into new markets may be helpful to farther growing of this company. It is possible to accomplish this scheme by establishing bing services into new geographical country or new market sections. Adding new paths and finishs are possible ; particularly there is growing Malaysia and East Asia touristry.

New finishs are implemented to accomplish new market development. Flight figure in new finish is the best manner to mensurate consequence of this scheme.

Introducing new services into bing markets implies merchandise development. This scheme involves the development of fresh competences and requires concern to spread out customized services which can use to current markets. By analyzing PEST, SWOT and selling analysis, it could be said that AirAsia is situated in standard rhythm markets where it acquire competitory advantage for its concern policy and scheme.

Supplying clients with superior merchandises and services with low menu is synonymous to the AirAsia trade name. However, it is necessary that Airasia should re-evaluate its schemes and concentrate on nucleus values and competences. airawia

Pest Analysis On AirAsia | Management Paradise

For this why, AirAsia should reconsider their market and specific paths to obtain value other than monetary value and last the competition. From this survey, it is possible to state analyssi still there is some other option to spread out this company. Adding new path and presenting concern category suite may be suited option for AirAsia for farther growing.

To stay leader in the market in functioning clients, AirAsia has to re-evaluate their current scheme. Recommendation for betterment can be outlined as follows:. AirAsia should do any major alterations to their scheme after proper proficient and feasibleness survey to avoid unneeded hazards.

Oil monetary value zirasia a large factor to low menu air hoses. So this company should do longer contracts with fuel providers for more stableness. As Airasia operates their fight really often, so they should hold a spare aircraft at each location to avoid holds.

AirAsia should see environmentally friendly operation system every bit such as C countervailing to salvage environment.

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Virus of the mind

The first time you become aware will not be a pleasant experience. And the feeling of loneliness that comes with isn’t easy to handle. People around you will start looking at you differently while you try to explain your enlightenment; authorities will suddenly regard you as a nuisance or threat while the world you live in begins to look more absurd for every breath you take.

While your ethical code changes with this new knowledge, so will you. As with any belief, fictitious or otherwise, you’ll start looking at people and society in a way that will transform you, to a certain extent, into another person.

It can be compared with, both figuratively and literarily, to a slave realizing, for the first time, that he really is a slave – for the first time seeing the shackles holding him down, looking up at his captives and dungeon masters and seeing the malice in their eyes. This process seldom happens over night, it’s a gradual development. As with ridding oneself of an addiction or getting over the loss of a loved one, it takes time for the body and mind to process and adopt.

I can still fully remember the first step I took on this road. I was about eleven years old and the public school I went too had received some extra founding. This was a pretty run-down school with algae and mushrooms growing on the walls, we had nothing to do during brakes and our publically paid for books had seen better days. However, the school leadership decided we needed artwork for this money. Not new books, not better walls, not a new cafeteria or anything of the sort, no art it was. And not just any art, they bought a huge blue blob in some cement-like material they put on the schoolyard as some sort of testament to their madness. This abstract blob cost the school close to a million and it couldn’t be used for anything other than to look at, a sight which in itself was horrible enough.

The next step came very soon after. I was a pretty intelligent child, not a genius in any way, but smarter than most and I’ve always had very easy to learn. While in fourth grade I’d already gone through the seventh grade math book and made the mistake of asking my teacher to help me get books from even higher up. Oh the horrified look I got. A child going ahead? Someone trying to outsmart the rest? Needless to say I didn’t only have very suspicious teacher saying ‘no’ but I also got stripped from my books and had several reprimands and platitudes thrown at me. Everyone was supposed to do calculations step by step, so the curriculum said. This meant that each week we did another chapter, all together. It wasn’t really disallowed to go further, but they did go to lengths to keep everyone within this boundary, because how else could the teacher hold class if the adolescent students wasn’t on the same page? So instead of support I got shot down. Being young and finding girls more interesting than math I sort of didn’t care, but it’s hard not to wonder what level of proficiency I could have been at today if this interest and skill would have been allowed to grow and been encouraged.

Throughout my upbringing trough education and many years spent within politics I became more and more aware of what’s really going on. I became highly suspicious of anyone claiming they lived in a free country, clearly such an individual needed psychiatric help. I also realized that very few people actually know how deeply inbreeded in manure our society really is. Sure people react to injustice now and again, and sometimes a scandal or event trigger some bent up feelings of public resentment, but mostly people wander around in a zombie-like state of tranquility, never really understanding, or rather don’t want to understand, what’s being done to them.

At first I got angry, tried to wake people up, but the empty eyes staring back at you while you try to explain why a free man produce more and live happier then the tied down man, is a deterrent. And the few people that do listen or have reached understanding on their own cannot folly substitute relatives, friends and co-workers that seem to be happy living in servitude.

Although I over time became more and more disillusioned and sort of gave up hope on humanity, I still sometimes get that angry feeling. Like when it comes to the total scam of manmade global warming. Here you have a politically motivated hoax with not a single shred of evidence in support. There’s no science, and no rational thinking behind it and the so called proof have been debunked many times over. Still, somehow, we let our elected frauds, bought for scientists and manipulating journalists sell us this lunacy. Do we really want the elitists to control and tax us so much that we accept anything, even something so ridiculous that it makes the “the earth is flat” –argument seem sane in comparison? Apparently so.

I also have a hard time grasping how so many can blatantly accept government taking our money and handing it over to banksters and tricksters under the disguise of bail-outs and stimulus packages. An unprecedented transference of wealth and power from the working man to the already rich and powerful have just been taken place in front of our eyes, but somehow we accept it as “necessary” to save the economy.

But nothing gets me boiling as how we coop with rapes (referring mostly to Sweden, but most countries are the same), and in particular how rape is compared to other crimes. Cheat on your taxes or be in possession of cocaine and you’ll spend many, many years locked up, but rape someone and a couple of years, at the most, seem sufficient. But as if the humiliation of the vile act, the following trial and a ridiculous sentence wasn’t enough, government has also outlawed self-protection. Guns are outlawed and if you use one or any other weapon to fend off an attacker, the punishment will, by far, exceed what the rapists might get. And anyone trying to stop a would-be rapist, can also be sentenced. The poor little rapist’s rights shall not be violated.

It’s like living in bizarro world.

When did we become so lame as a species that we allowed ourselves to be bullied around, controlled and lied to in this manner? Has it always been like this?

Most of the time, however, I laugh at the misery of this world. How can you not? You may argue it’s a defense-mechanism to react with amusement to the horror-show, but it’s really not. It is hilarious to watch, read and hear about people dying, starving and being swindled at every step when obvious solutions are starring them in the face. We can today feed and clothe every person on this planet, there’s jobs for everyone and injustice of all kinds can be solved. But instead we allow ourselves to be wrapped up in this GramscoFabiaNazi nightmare were the righteous elitists can sit and rub their hands together and do whatever they want.

Maybe the processed foods, the reality-shows, indoctrinating schools and the constant bombardment of lies has, over time, planted a virus in our genetic code that makes us incapable to react or act when it comes to injustice? If so, what’s the cure?

Maybe we need wars and the occasional holocaust, because only when faced with such horrors people seem to, at least temporarily, wake up. If that’s what you need, you’re going to get some of that very soon when that financial Armageddon lurking around the corner hits us. Maybe, just maybe, enough of you mindless drones will wake up during or after that debacle. That’s the only form of hope I can offer.

Now it is time for me to play Fall-out 3, seems appropriate…

Leftie shoes

Noticed that the police in southern Sweden have apprehended international thieves specializing in stealing left shoes. Apparently they intended to go to Denmark and steal the equivalent right shoes.

They must be Russians, or at least of Eastern European background. One of the legacies of the Great potentate Josef Stalin and his communist regime was the introduction of weight quota comes to production. This, among other things, meant that some factories only produced left shoes and often of the larger size because that made it easier to fulfill their assignment. I would guess something like that may trigger thievery of this kind.

But left shoes…? Come on… Not even thieves have standards anymore…

The devil you should know

Sadly most people don’t understand or, rather, don’t want to understand basic economics. This means that most people haven’t a clue what’s really going on within politics, why recessions happen, what happens to their purchasing power and their salaries. You all need to know.

As long as you’re oblivious to the facts they will continue to lie, cheat and steal from you.

There’s no way around it, either you except ignorance as blissful or you try to understand how much they are screwing you.

And to really make you understand how essential this is, I can tell you am absolutely sure that if a large portion of the general public really knew there would be rallies each weekend, politicians would be shoot on a daily basis and parliament would either be burned to the ground or be surrounded by military forces. And no, I’m not kidding. If anything this is an understatement.

The first thing you need to understand is that economy isn’t magic, it’s not any form of trickery. It’s fairly simple. This the elitists don’t want you to know; how easy it is to see through all the crap they are saying. Basic understanding of finance and how the economy works don’t take much of your time, you don’t need a degree or work at a bank to grasp the basic facts.

The basic facts.

- Deflation is basically a good thing
- Inflation means higher prices, and higher taxes and that you need to work harder but gain less
- Low interest rates may temporarily “help”, but always, without exception, makes the economy worse.
- No government can create jobs or wealth.
- 1+1=2 and 2-1=1

There are a lot of other stuff like M:(1,2,3,4) trade and such, but the points above is all you really need to know, with one exception; GDP (BNP in Swedish).

Let’s start by looking at how GDP is normally calculated.

GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports), or,
GDP = C + I + G + (X − M)

What the equation tells us, among other things, is that if Government spends more, GDP goes up. You probably get this, but what you need to know is that it doesn’t matter what they spend money on. It can be daycare, roads or flowers, it does not matter. According to GDP-calculation it is beneficiary to have people dig holes in ground, fill them up again, and do this over and over. In fact, this is what government often does, not directly, that would be too obvious, but through other schemes like “investigations” or useless government programs to hide unemployment. An investigation takes manpower, costs money and often leads to conclusions a monkey could tell us beforehand. Anything being done to cover up people’s lack of jobs also cost money. Actually it may cost more, in essence contribute more to GDP, then if people in fact had productive jobs.

The same goes for private consumption. The more we shop ‘till we drop, the higher GDP. In the eyes of Keynesians and our enemies it means that the more stuff you buy, the better. If you borrow, use your credit-card or work to get that money to spend is irrelevant, what matters is GDP. Sometimes you can hear one or two voices claiming that savings are too low or that there is a difference in what we actually consume, but those are very few and not nearly as interesting for the media to quote.

If you’re with me this far and now understand why GDP is so important for the elitist agenda and why that measurement, to a large extent, is a fraudulent way of thinking, then you should already have started pondering on what gun to buy. Keep that thought, because it get a lot worse.

Inflation VS deflation
Many economists claim that deflation is the worst thing that can happen, which is, of course, totally false. Deflation - meaning lower prices - is a very good thing and a cornerstone in any healthy economy. If we produce more, faster, and better then prices should go down, even when adjusted for pay-increases and profits to stock-holders. Deflation – meaning the value of money goes up – is also a good thing since we need less money to pay for goods and services.

With this said; do you know what our enemies real concern is? Deflation may “prevent monetary policies from stabilizing the economy” because of a mechanism called the liquidity trap which essentially means that central banks and politicians lose control of the economy.

The “problem” economists (and their fellow criminals) see, and what also is one of the reasons for the massive bail-outs and stimulus packages being thrown everywhere, is that deflation is said to cause “credit-crunches” (really another word for liquidity trap). What they mean is that less money in the system leads to people buying less hence we end up in a recession, and/or GDP goes down because less money exchanging hands means lower GDP then if more money changes hands. This is, of course, not true.

You need to remember that money is useless pieces of paper we use as exchange-goods. Whether the name is “idiot-money” or “dollars” has no meaning whatsoever and so hasn’t - if all else stay the same - what it says on the note. If the note say 10, 20 or 100 is irrelevant, what is relevant, however, is what you can buy with it.

In order to combat the horrifying deflation and get people buying stuff again, central banks and politicians have decided to use Gutenberg’s marvel; the printing press! Basically what they are doing is throwing money into the system which, partly, according to above, is meant to get spending going again, but it is also partly to pay off debt (or increase income) and this in two ways.

The first way is that they use newly printed money to pay off loans. More specifically, in our situation, they are printing money to loan money on. Sounds strange don’t it? The government prints money and says; “Hey you, come buy our country’s debt”. Often they even buy that debt from themselves...
Putting aside, for a moment, the inflation growing from this bamboozle, it also means that all the money pouring in might trigger some illusions that get spending going. Since most of this money first goes to banks, financial institutes and the government it means, among other things, that - ta-dah! – prices on stocks go up! Surprise then that many stock markets are overvalued with around 40 percent at the moment, don’t you think?

But the real deception isn’t how they trick markets with fictitious money printed out of thin air, oh no, not at all. The real scam comes from how the money loses in value. You see, whenever there’s more of something then before, each piece becomes worth less. If you double the money supply you’ll effectively reduced each note’s value with 50%. If we at any given moment increase the number of notes in the economy this happens, however, the taxes stay the same…

Did you get that?

Do you understand?

If the value of each note reduces in value it means that prices go up and we get the salary-price-spiral. But since taxation is based on prices and the number of notes you earn, it means that taxation also have increased. It’s a hidden tax, and this is the other reasons why our enemies, the politicians and other elitists don’t want you to know what inflation is.

Ever wondered why our grandparents could survive on one job per family while we today hardly can manage with two? This is why.

What do our masters do?
Like crazed cardiologists journalists and politicians are rushing out to declare that the heart is beating again. In complete unison with cornflake economists and a bunch of oily businessmen they are solemnly affirming to the public that the economic crisis is easing off. Sentences like: “There are green shoots in the economy” and the hilarious: “The recession is easing off”, is spreading across the globe by the same mainstream media and the same spokespersons that just a little over a year ago said that nothing is wrong and the economy is fine. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.

Our enemies are on the warpath trying to bamboozle us one last time before the inevitable collapse. Oh, what they are trying.

Don’t kid yourself people, it’s a firesale going on. They are trying to milk us one last time - transferring control and money into the hands of the few, in essence allocating power for what’s to come. Certain banks are using their (yours) bail-out money (freshly printed and/or borrowed which you’ll be paying back for generations) to purchase large portions of the economy, privileged companies are putting up securities as walls against an unsuspected populace, and politicians are doing their part in making internet, the last bastion of freedom, into their fascist playground.

While stupid borrowers are indebting themselves the printing-press is going clickety-click day and night, effectively transforming the common man into a duped underprivileged state-controlled hobo.

Take a look at the banksters whom are resuming their carefree habits from the days of the credit boom leading up to our current debacle. Now they are back with a bonus-vengeance and this during an unprecedented money boom curtsey of banksters and elected criminals in suits. Again they are lending out to people that shouldn’t have any loans, again they are throwing money around and again the low interest rates are creating bubbles while very cheap money is handed out like candy.

And how do they manage all this? - With inflation and borrowed money.

And, again, you’re paying for it!

If you’re not clear about the string of events here you’ll better read it all again from the start or take a look at this:

Government create inflation and borrow money in order to increase income so they can bribe constituencies to re-elect them -> bubbles form in the economy, worker income decline, prices go up –> government intervene to “help” people against higher prices -> some crisis emerge -> government print more money and borrow even more -> the cycle starts over again.

This cycle is bad enough, but government has many other tricks up their sleeves. If we look at what happened recently several governments had created lending-institutes to keep spending up according to the mad GDP-scheme talked about above. They also decreased interest rates for the same reason. This enhanced the problems and inflated the bubbles many times over before it collapsed. The solution? You guessed it; print more money and borrow a shitload more.

With all this in mind you can either sit back and wait for the next collapse that will dwarf the smaller recession we’re in now, or you can go out and get that gun you should be longing for by now.

The next crash will occur very soon, within a year or two. From the heights our bubbles has been inflated to now and from the amounts of printing and borrowing that now, today, surpasses anything in history it will lead to the worst depression ever seen. And this is what happens when you don’t know what’s going on and let the elitists run the show.

Felines undress at the pole

Apparently a bunch of women went on a little trip, a 562-mile cross-country skiing expedition to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth, landing at the South Pole on Tuesday. The assemblage consisted of women from Britain, Brunei, Cyprus, Ghana, India, Jamaica, New Zealand and Singapore.

Now this is what I’m talking about. Frosty, but sweaty, females in need of a warming embrace that manage a task of this magnitude. Oh, yeah baby, come to me. I see a porno being made in the future on this theme.

Regardless, I give two thumbs and my penis up for this accomplishment. Good work ladies.

Why knock off wolfs?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not really a friend of animals. Well, I don’t regard them as equal to us humans or having any form of rights, they really don’t. Animals can serve us; give us food, clothes or company. And if they are in the way, like Polar Bears, Kangaroos or sharks, then let’s just kill them. I have no quarrel about that. Animals go extinct each day, regardless of human interference, and new species take their place. Man is what matters, screw any useless furry beasts.

But when Sweden again have allowed people to hunt wolfs I don’t get it. Firstly I don’t get hunting at all because modern day hunting has nothing to do with getting food or clothes, it’s about “fun”. How can it be fun sitting around in the forest waiting for some harmless thing to walk by so you can shot it? What is the deal with people hunting defenseless animals? I never got that. Feels stupid to me. If someone goes out, armed with a pocket-knife or a couple of spoons and tries to kill a Grizzly, okay, then I would get it. That’s a challenge, a test of your manhood or something of the sort. Feel free to do so.

And wolfs? It’s not like we have an abundant supply of them, and they never do anything to us humans with the exception of the occasional attack on some domestic animal, which we have the means to counter if necessary. And wolfs kind of reminds me of dogs, and I’m a dog-person, so I don’t really like this shooting thingy comes to wolfs at all.

Here’s a thought. Why don’t we catch the worst fiends we have, our politicians, let them run around in the forest and then we can have an all year around free-for-all hunting season for politicians? Now that would be fun.

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    Plan to include protein, healthy fat and fiber-rich carbs at each meal today. This combination of macronutrients will not only stabilize your blood sugar so that you have sustained energy, it will help keep you satiated. Consider leaving out gluten, dairy, and refined sugar today. Most of my clients feel much better when they remove these items from their diet, and I think you probably will too.

    Protein | Some good protein sources include organic turkey, chicken and eggs, wild Alaskan salmon (and other wild fatty fish), grass-fed beef and wild game, collagen peptides, vegan protein powder (I like pure hemp seed- or pumpkin seed-based powders), nuts and seeds.

    Fiber | Examples of healthy fiber rich carbs include non-starchy vegetables (e.g. Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, leafy greens), starchy vegetables (e.g. sweet potatoes, acorn squash), gluten-free grains (e.g. amaranth, quinoa) and legumes (e.g. chickpeas, black beans). Choose your favorites, but aim to fill at least half of your plate with non-starchy veggies!

    Fat | Good sources of healthy fat include nuts, seeds, avocados, ghee, coconut oil, coconut milk, and coconut butter, extra-virgin olive oil, olives, avocado oil, wild Alaskan salmon, homemade nut milks, walnut, hazelnut and pecan oils. The Meal Plan

    Wondering how to put it all together into meals? I’ve created a sample self love diet meal plan for you to try today…

    For Breakfast:
    Over Easy Eggs with Sautéed Spinach, Tomatoes + Avocado

    2 cups fresh organic spinach
    1/2 cup chopped tomatoes
    1/2 avocado
    extra-virgin olive oil
    lemon juice
    Himalayan pink salt and ground, black pepper to taste

    Sauté spinach and tomatoes in extra-virgin olive oil over medium heat until spinach is just wilted and tomatoes are slightly softened. Squeeze lemon juice over veggies and add Himalayan pink salt and ground, black pepper to taste. Turn off heat.

    In a separate pan, fry two eggs with extra-virgin olive oil over medium-low heat until eggs are cooked over easy, over medium, or over hard, depending on desired level of doneness.

    Place spinach and tomato mixture on a plate, top with eggs and one half of an avocado. Squeeze lemon juice over avocado and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Top dish with microgreens. Serve and enjoy!

    For Lunch:
    Chipotle Harissa Chicken Salad Collard Wrap

    1 large collard green leaf
    1/2 cup organic rotisserie chicken, shredded
    1/4 avocado, sliced
    1 Tbsp + 2 tsp Primal Kitchen Chipotle Lime Avocado Oil Mayonnaise
    1 tomato on the vine, chopped
    1 Tbsp chopped cilantro
    1/8 tsp harissa powder
    Himalayan pink salt to taste

    Add chicken, harissa powder, 1 tsp. mayo and salt to a bowl and mix to combine. Adjust salt to taste.

    Place collard green leaf on a cutting board and shave stalk to approximately the same thickness of the leaf. Fill the center of the collard leaf lengthwise with chicken mixture.Top chicken mixture with remaining mayo, tomato and avocado, and sprinkle with cilantro.

    Fold collard green leaf inward over the chicken salad and roll into a wrap. Cut wrap in half. Serve with your favorite side salad and enjoy!

    For Dinner:
    Thai-Inspired Chicken Meatball + Veggie Bowl with Sesame Tahini Dressing

    For the tahini dressing:
    1/4 cup tahini paste
    1/2 cup rice wine vinegar (sugar-free)
    1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp sesame oil
    1 Tbsp coconut aminos
    2 Tbsp Coconut Secret Coconut Aminos Teriyaki Sauce
    1 clove garlic
    Himalayan pink salt and ground, black pepper to taste

    For the chicken meatballs:
    1 pound ground, organic chicken
    1 cup parsley, chopped and tightly packed
    1/2 cup nutritional yeast
    1 tsp Himalayan pink salt
    1/8 tsp ground, black pepper
    extra-virgin olive oil

    For the bowl:
    1 cup organic baby broccoli
    1 carrot, thinly sliced at a diagonal angle
    1/2 cup organic green beans, chopped
    1/2 cup red bell pepper, thinly sliced
    1/2 cup cooked forbidden rice
    5-6 chicken meatballs
    1 Tbsp coconut oil
    2 Tbsp cilantro, chopped
    1 Tbsp sesame seeds
    1/2 red chili, thinly sliced
    Himalayan pink salt

    To make the dressing: Add ingredients to Vitamix or other high-speed blender and blend until emulsified. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.

    To make the meatballs: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Using your hands, mix ground chicken, parsley, nutritional yeast, salt and pepper in a bowl until combined. Form meatballs from chicken mixture and place on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet that has been prepared with olive oil. Bake meatballs for about 20 minutes, or until lightly browned and cooked through. Remove meatballs from the oven and set aside 5-6 for use with the bowl and freeze the rest.

    To make the bowl: Heat coconut oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add broccoli, carrots, green beans, red bell pepper and salt, and sauté until tender. Adjust salt to taste and turn off heat. Place vegetables in a bowl with forbidden rice and chicken meatballs. Drizzle with sesame tahini dressing. Sprinkle with cilantro, sesame seeds, and red chili. Serve and enjoy!

    Start Each Meal Mindfully

    Once your meals are cooked and ready to eat, find a comfortable place to sit. Before you take a bite, put away anything that might distract you from your food — books, phone, computer, TV, etc. Then, tune into the physical hunger levels in your body. Eat slowly, tasting (and enjoying) each bite you take. When you’re full, stop eating. Remind yourself that you’re respecting your body by listening to it’s needs. And, by being fully present with your food, you’re allowing yourself to experience more pleasure from it, which is an act of self-love.

    Learn more about mindful eating with these tips.

    When Cravings Strike, Seek Balance If you want a treat today, give yourself total permission to have it. Eat the amount that satisfies your physical hunger and make sure you enjoy every bite without the shame or guilt that often accompanies an indulgence. Now, check in with yourself. How do you feel after eating it? If you feel unwell, please don’t judge yourself for having eaten it. Simply make a note of the way the food made you feel so you can decide whether you want to eat it next time.

    Be Kind To Yourself

    Connect | Today, start noticing how the food that you eat makes you feel. I suggest writing your observations down in a food journal (or food journal app) after each meal. As you begin to identify how your body reacts to different foods, you’ll be more inclined to start choosing the foods that give you energy and make you feel great, and pass on the ones that leave you feeling unwell. As this becomes the gauge for your food choices, you’ll find it easier to make sustainable healthy changes.

    If you’d like to take things to the next level, I recommend trying a full elimination diet down the line — it’s the best way to pinpoint which foods are triggering symptoms and inflammation.

    Trust | Your body is the best tool you have to figure out which foods are working for it.  Honor your body today by trusting what it’s telling you. Here’s how: mindfully eat whole-foods based meals, connect to how the food that you eat makes you feel and then trust the messages that your body gives you without second guessing yourself. We all have a unique biochemistry — so even if a particular food works well for 99% of the population, if it doesn’t make you feel well, then it’s not for you.

    Release Perfection | If you decide to follow this self-love food plan today and it doesn’t go the way you wanted it to, that’s okay. No one is perfect — can you practice letting go of having this expectation for yourself? Can you try to let your best be good enough? And, even if you weren’t able to do your best, can you try to have compassion for yourself? If this is hard for you, try envisioning an older and wiser version of yourself coming in and comforting you. What would she say to you that you might not be able to say to yourself right now? Allow the words to fill you up with love. Now check in with yourself. Are you still having self-punishing thoughts? You have the power to stop your inner critic and replace it with love. Why not give it a try?

    Trying the day’s worth of tips and recipes? Let us know how
    it goes in the comments below!

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    1. It lists non-starchy veggies under “fats”–thinking this is a typo 🙂

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WW1 Christmas Truce

The Christmas truce during World War I has become legendary, especially among those who long for peace, even in the midst of war. This phenomenon has most recently been portrayed cinematically in the French movie, Joyeux Noel, also mentioned on this site in the section, Chaplains in the Movies.

On Christmas Eve in 2014, Time Magazine published on its website a great summary of what really happened in 1914. Written by Naina Bajekal and appearing here, it’s reproduced in its entirely (including links) on The Chaplain Kit for educational purposes, but more than being educated, I hope that you are encouraged that peace can be found in the midst of war, even if only for a short time. This temporary peace during World War I came as a result of the birth of Jesus, and its celebration. True and final peace will ultimately come with the return of Jesus.

Silent Night: The Story of the World War 1 Christmas Truce of 1914

Exactly a century ago, the men in the trenches heard something unusual: singing

On a crisp, clear morning 100 years ago, thousands of British, Belgian and French soldiers put down their rifles, stepped out of their trenches and spent Christmas mingling with their German enemies along the Western front. In the hundred years since, the event has been seen as a kind of miracle, a rare moment of peace just a few months into a war that would eventually claim over 15 million lives. But what actually happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1914 — and did they really play soccer on the battlefield?

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About Daryl Densford

I am an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene serving as an active-duty Army Chaplain. I am currently an ethics instructor at the U.S. Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

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We are no longer shipping orders to Alaska or Hawaii due to delivery delays with USPS.

COVID-19 and how it relates to our hatchery.

It’s no secret that we are living in some strange times right now.  We are open and operating as normal.  We do not expect to be shut down nor do we expect the post office to be shut down.  Of course, if any of that were to change we would notify our customers.  Our office has been overwhelmed with phone calls and emails.  If you could not get through on our phone lines email us at and we will get back to you as fast as we can.

The viral quarantine, shut-downs, and food shortages have brewed the perfect storm for chick sales.  People want to know they can continue to provide for their families and chickens check that box for a lot of individuals.  With that being said we have received an astounding amount of chick orders – especially Cornish Cross Broilers.

However, it is still imperative that you practice good bio-security.  Always wash your hands after handling chickens or their equipment.

Year after year, more people discover that eggs and meat they have raised themselves are tastier and healthier than most of the mass-produced products available in supermarkets.  We here at The Chick Hatchery have been supplying family farmers, hobby flock owners and Feed Stores with chicks of the highest quality since 2012.

Chicks are hatched from NPIP Certified Flocks and carry minimum classifications of Avian Influenza Clean as well as Pullorum Typhoid Clean.  Marek’s Vaccination is available for all Chicken Breeds for a small fee.  We operate NO KILL Facilities!   All Poultry are raised Humanely.  Unsold Male chicks are shipped to large Amish Family Farms.

We belong to a very unique network of Breeders and Hatcheries to supply you with Superior Quality Chicks.  All poultry are guaranteed to be delivered alive and in good condition on every order.  Even though not all poultry will be shipped direct from our Michigan location, you will receive poultry of the highest quality.  We have Shipping Points in Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Hobby and small-scale family farms are, and must continue to be, a vital part of our community.  We believe that keeping small farms profitable is essential to the health and stability of the community.

As always, we remind you to order early!   We look forward to serving you this year and for many years to come.

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The 30 Day Minimalism Challenge

Photo of Remy Millar
27 January 2017

As consumers, we spend so much time on the hunt, never satisfied with what we have and constantly searching for that next material high. Culture Trip’s 30 Day Minimalism Challenge aims to focus on one aspect of our often over-complicated lives each day, stripping back what we deem necessary and examining whether our habitual consumption is in fact essential.

30 Day Minimalism Challenge

1. Purge your wardrobe

Start the month off with a good deed by donating unwanted items to charity. This is also a good opportunity to ‘shop your wardrobe’. Try on clothes you’ve forgotten about, and rediscover that outfit that used to make you feel fabulous.

2. Empty the contents of your handbag

How many receipts, packets of chewing gum, and loose change has accumulated since you last inspected your handbag? Tip it upside down and watch the dust and debris shower down. This might be a good time to give the inside a quick hoover and wipe down.

3. Throw away worn out socks and underwear

We’re looking at you, emergency underwear and socks who’s partner has long been lost in the laundry.

4. Purge your digital devices.

How much storage are you wasting on apps you don’t need? When was the last time you played Angry Birds or made a Dubsmash? Clear your WhatsApp history and delete photos from your device once they’re in digital storage. And don’t forget to clear your desktop too. It makes your computer run much quicker.

5. Empty your wallet.

Throw away half-stamped loyalty cards, and donate those copper coins.

6. Write a list of personality traits that you admire in others

Take time to evaluate the qualities you look for in people you choose to surround yourself with.

7. Write a list of personality traits that you admire in yourself

List things you’re good at, what you like about yourself and pay attention to self-love. It will make you grateful for the non-material things you have to offer the world.

8. Journal for 20 minutes

This is best to do first thing when you wake up, or last thing at night. In the morning, writing a stream of consciousness will empty your mind and help you focus on the important things as you go about your day. If you do this at night, you will also be able to offload stress, making for a better night’s sleep without your mind whirring with anxiety.

9. Donate books you will never read again

Keep those life-changing favourites, but donate those class-assigned texts, that poolside read from three summers ago, or that intimidating classic you have been planning to read but probably never will.

10. Go without make up for a day

Simply learn to love yourself.

11. Meditate

There are lots of apps that can help you with this. It’s all about taking time to be calm and present in the moment.

12. Spend time with loved ones…without your phone

When was the last time you had dinner with friends without absentmindedly scrolling through your Instagram feed mid conversation? Suggest a meal where everyone puts their phones in a box and practices the art of uninterrupted conversation, listening and eye contact.

13. Make a gratitude log

This will bring to light the things in life you appreciate, whether it’s friendships, the roof over your head, or your ability to buy lunch.

14. Evaluate your last five purchases

The glittery lava lamp? That emoji cushion? Those unicorn slippers? The Star Wars ice cube tray? That limited edition lipstick that is exactly the same as the nine other nude shades you own but in Cinderella packaging?

15. Stay offline for a day

You’ll notice how everyone else is always plugged in. And then you will feel pious and superior as they stumble along, heads buried in their phones. Hey, it’s nice to look up and not down for a day.

16. Don’t spend money for 24 hours

You’ll discover different modes of transport (walking, cycling, skateboarding), different routes, and activities you didn’t know existed. What are these museums you speak of?

17. Don’t complain all day

When making the conscious effort not to, you’ll realise how much you complain, and how much you have to be grateful for.

18. Go out without your phone

It might feel like you’ve lost a limb for the first couple of hours, but push through it and you’ll feel liberated, carefree and lost in just the right kind of way.

19. Venture outdoors

Get out of the city, get into an open green space, and appreciate earth in its purest form.

20. Create a relaxing space

You don’t need to buy anything to achieve zen at home. With a candle, a couple of cushions and a cup of herbal tea, you’ll have a distraction-free location in which to wind down. What you choose to do here is up to you!

21. Re-evaluate your to do list

Whether it’s a date with an old school friend or a trip to IKEA, think about why exactly you need to do it. Is it necessary, or are you inventing needless tasks for yourself?

22. De-clutter your storage

Store things out of sight. Do you need your shower products to be on the ledge of the bath? Do you need pencils on your desk? Put them in cupboards and drawers and your room will feel less cluttered.

23. Empty you junk drawer

The screws, the spare buttons, half a stick of glue, a piece of string, old elastic bands, dried out pens and expired coupons. Chuck it!

24. Turn off notifications

Turn off alerts for emails, push notifications, news (it’s not like anything pleasant is going on today anyway). You should be in control of when you check your social media, not your phone.

25. Batch cook your meals

Take the stress out of cooking every night by bulk cooking a few meals that will last the week. Then you’ll be able to enjoy cheaper dishes without the stress of food shopping or meal planning.

26. Get all your errands done today

Instead of spreading your tasks out over the week, get them all done in a concentrated amount of time so you can enjoy your week without life admin getting in the way.

27. Eliminate a toxic relationship

Whether it’s unfollowing someone on social media, unfriending people you haven’t seen since high school, or even letting a negative person in your life know that you don’t want to hang out with them anymore.

28. Clear out your make up collection

Empty your make up collection into one place and evaluate everything you have. Get rid of duplicates, smashed bronzers and dried out lip glosses. Remember, mascara shouldn’t be kept longer than three months, and foundation shouldn’t be kept longer than a year.

29. Say no to something you don’t want to do

Be true to yourself. This isn’t saying no to new opportunities, it’s saying no to something that you feel obliged to do that wouldn’t be good for your mental, physical and spiritual health.

30. Re-purge your wardrobe

Having lived a mindfully minimal life for the past month, re-evaluate your wardrobe and see if you can get rid of anything you might have missed the first time round. If you haven’t worn it in the past month, this might be a good indicator that it can go!

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The Best Tattoo Parlours in Sydney, Australia

Japanese bodysuit tattoo by Kian Forreal | Courtesy of Authentink
Japanese bodysuit tattoo by Kian Forreal | Courtesy of Authentink
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21 November 2017

A number of phenomena have gripped Sydney’s inner-city trendies over the last decade or so. Beards and undercuts when it comes to hair. Kale and craft beer in the food and drink department. Plaid and horn-rimmed glasses in the field of fashion. But the one trend that’s been most permanent, in every sense of the word? Tattoos, which have become a near-compulsory addition to the skin of anyone who hopes to live in Sydney’s coolest neighbourhoods. So where should you get inked up before you move to Marrickville or Surry Hills? Try these eight excellent tattoo parlours around town.

If you’re after a traditional Japanese tattoo, look no further than this converted Surry Hills warehouse, with a stable of artists that specialise in Japanese bodysuits – particularly the dapper Horisumi-Kian Forreal, an ‘irezumi’ master known for tattooing in his signature P Johnson tailored suits. Authentink’s other six tattooists handle more than just the Japanese style – they also create stunning custom geometric, dot-work, ethnographic, monochromatic realist and floral designs.

Kian Forreal | Courtesy of Authentink

Kian Forreal | Courtesy of Authentink

Hunter and Fox

This bright, retro, inner-city studio has earned a huge following for serving up envelope-pushing tats to its fashionable clientele over the five years it’s been in business. Owned by husband and wife partnership Heath Nock and Lauren Winzer (Lauren’s even inked Miley Cyrus, FYI), Hunter and Fox boasts a team of 12 ink-masters as well as a laser removal service if you want to tidy up some of your old work.

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Stone Heart

Formerly known as First Blood, Stone Heart is a great choice for first-timers, with a versatile roster of five terrific tattooists covering any style you’re after. Open seven days near Hyde Park in Sydney’s city centre and also offering body piercings, Stone Heart’s website steps you through FAQs, prices and after-care instructions if you’re an ink virgin.

Stone Heart tattoo parlour | © Courtesy of Stone Heart

Stone Heart tattoo parlour | © Courtesy of Stone Heart

Little Tokyo

Don’t let the name fool you, Little Tokyo does plenty more than just traditional Japanese ink, with a squad of 11 experienced tattooists covering everything from Americana to detailed realism. The hidden Surry Hills studio– which boasts Ruby Rose and Justin Bieber as past clients – is what Little Tokyo describes as “a treasure-trove of tattoo relics, tattoo memorabilia and just plain old cool shit”, including historic Japanese hand-poke needles.

Lighthouse Tattoo

Another studio renowned for its large-scale Japanese pieces, Lighthouse is proud of the fact that nearly 100 per cent of their customers leave their industrial warehouse in Botany with a carefully designed custom piece. Lighthouse has 11 resident tattooists who each specialise in a chosen area, rather than a handful of all-rounders – book in advance to arrange the perfect tattooist to customise your piece.

Back tattoo by Alex Rusty | © Alex Rusty:Courtesy of Lighthouse Tattoo

Back tattoo by Alex Rusty | © Alex Rusty/Courtesy of Lighthouse Tattoo

LDF Tattoo

The owner of LDF, Leslie Rice, has art in his veins. His father Les Bowen began tattooing in Brisbane as a teenager in the 1950s and passed the passion onto his son, who’s an accomplished ink-master as well as an award-winning painter – Leslie even made the final of the Archibald Prize in 2012 for his portrait of the world’s most-tatted man, Lucky Diamond Rich. LDF has two classic studios in Sydney’s inner-west – one in Newtown and one in Marrickville, suburbs known for their commitment to art and culture – with more than a dozen artists.

Bondi Ink

It’s not just tattoo aficionados who’ve heard of Bondi Ink after the beachside studio hit the small screen with its own reality TV series in 2015. That celebrity – plus the five talented in-house tattooists and the attention that comes with the likes of Zayn Malik passing through the chair – ensures that Bondi Ink is one of Sydney’s most popular studios.

The Darling Parlour

This Balmain studio has 10 terrific resident artists that specialise in old-school American tats, as well as an impressive rotation of esteemed guest ink-masters. The husband-and-wife-owned Darling Parlour – which also offers an on-site laser removal service – is an approachable option for tattoo first-timers as well as ink veterans who want to talk through their bespoke design with the friendly staff.

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Jaffee-ing the Fall & Rise of Captain Atom

DC just announced two new mini-series yesterday and the promo image for the Rise and Fall of Captain Atom made me mad!

I mean, ‘mad’ as in Mad Magazine because if you draw two arrows on an image, of course I’m going to go all Al Jaffee and fold-in the image. First, here’s the original promo image:

And here’s the image “folded in”:

Hmmm…. I don’t know what I was expecting but that was a bit anti-climactic.

Nothing came to mind.

But then I looked at the image upside down and had this thought:

I know, I know… I’m losing my mind.

The full story on this mini-series and the new Odyssey of the Amazons can be found on DC’s blog.

UPDATE: I can’t stop:

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The Hibiscus

May 2, 2020 | Linda, Love

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin

The bodacious orange-red hibiscus flower opened its luscious petals, unfurling gracefully, teased wide by the unbridled adoration of a white-hot summer sun.  The orb’s rays boldly caressed the bloom, licking its puckered edges, drawing the golden pistil in its center to rapt, proud attention, a siren song salute to daring daylight.

Come the dim, diluted dusk, the flower pulled its tuckered, wrinkled petals tightly, tenderly, around its now spent and drooping pistil. With one, last, lingering nod to a sinking sun, the hibiscus shrunk silently into itself. By morning, when the new light of dawn peeked shyly over the horizon, the bloom had fallen.  The new day found a brown, shriveled ghost scattered among the rocks, a wretched remnant of a beauty once so alive it danced with the unbearable lightness of being.

The slender, fragile green tendril that had held the now fallen bloom aloft to the sun moved slowly in the breeze, lighter, mourning its lost creation. But serrated leaves also sheltered the next bud, sheathed in a tight swaddling blanket of green husk. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow.  Maybe soon, the next bud would be big enough, strong enough to boldly entertain the scorching sun, its auspicious admirer, to dance one day, just one day in the freedom of becoming.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom,” Anais Nin wrote.  The compelling words were stenciled on fake parchment paper adjacent to an oriental-looking flower. I found the budget print of priceless wisdom in a cluttered dime store, when I was a naïve young woman. I bought the print and encased it in a cheap, wooden frame. The simple quote stirred me, poked me, mocked me, inspired me, touched me in ways hard to fathom, much less describe.

The print traveled with me to each college dorm room, to my first humble dwelling as a single woman, to my even humbler first apartment as a new wife, to my spacious condo as a joyful new mother, to my home in the mountains of West Virginia as a doctoral student…it graced thirteen walls before I lost track of it. Were the words no longer relevant?  Had I lost hope that I would blossom? I don’t know.

But if I could lift that print from the rubble, rescue it from the trash heap, reclaim it for myself, I would. I’d tenderly wipe away the detritus of my neglect. I’d ensconce it in the finest, polished red mahogany frame. I’d hang it without fanfare, but with exquisite reverence, on the wall painted fresh cream, above my computer. No one else would know what it meant to me.  But I would know.  I had taken the risk.  I had blossomed.  And the sight was a dazzling beauty to behold.

A mournful, even maudlin lyric sings, “hold onto life with both hands until the holding starts to kill you.”  There are days, now and then, when I see Lilliputian glimpses of a time coming when the physical pain of living will outweigh the parting pain of dying. Like the hibiscus, I’ll pull in my precious petals around the spent essence of self and drop gracefully into the nocturnal abyss. In the morning, they’ll find my husk but search in vain for my beauty. I will have blossomed into what I came to be.

Copyright 2020 Linda Sandel Pettit, Ed.D.

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