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The Supreme Court was Wrong

The court made a bad call.

In its rush to be seen as progressive and on the right side of history, it “solved” one problem while leaving too many unresolved, and it overturned the republican method in the process.

Here is what should have happened:

Marriage, if it is going to be defined by government at all, would be left up to the states based on the Constitution and Amendments IX and X. Since marriage is not mentioned as something the federal government would have a say in, it would have to be a state decision. If a state wants to define marriage as between two people of the opposite sex only, or include two people of the same sex, or choose not to define it in any capacity at all, that would be up to the state to determine.

However, there is a little something called the full faith and credit clause which, I think, could be applied to marriage contracts without too much trouble. What it means is a marriage valid in one state would, therefore, be valid in all other states, too. This means a same-sex couple could travel to another state, be married, and when they moved back to their home state, their marriage would still be valid. Eventually this might become quite a hassle for states that didn’t want to go along at first, and this and social pressure would, sooner or later, result in those less-than-willing states to legalize it anyway. Yes, it would take a lot longer (years longer) than people want, but I am persuaded that too many people in their rush for immediate gratification forgot about a few very big problems that need to be resolved alongside the now-resolved marriage question.

The biggest problem I can think of that is still unresolved is that in several states it is legal to fire or refuse to hire someone based on their sexual orientation. This is wrong, but it is still the law of the land in many areas, and it remains the law of the land in these states even with this court decision. So what now? You could have a theoretical instance where two people of the same sex marry, one’s employer finds out about it, and conjures up a reason for dismissal that has to do with not wanting “people like that” on the job. Repulsive, but still possible. Ideally, it would have been better to work on both of those (discrimination problems and marriage) at once.

Now I have no doubt that the discrimination problem will be resolved shortly, but we’re going to have to put up with this fight even longer while that change works its way through the system. It will probably be resolved at the federal level within the next couple years depending on which ideology is popular in twelve months or so, but if it had been left at the state level, these problems could have been resolved side-by-side.

A couple other thoughts, only marginally related to the above…

I am sure there are many conservative evangelicals who are very upset today, although they should not have been surprised by today’s ruling. Our society has been steadily marching down this path for years, cheapening marriage a little more every decade, forgetting the glory it once held and turning it into a validation of the feelings you have for someone. So really, today is only the next logical step.

The church got it wrong, too. I want to admire its endeavor to uphold what it holds as good and true, but it was going about it all the wrong ways. Going to the court, influencing the legislature to pass laws to enshrine your beliefs into public law, that was the wrong way to do it. If they really wanted to get the message across effectively, they might try leading by example. Want the world to know what marriage is? Try living it. Try staying with your spouse rather than forming a contract based and dependent on emotion and dissolving the contract when the feeling is gone.

It will not change the law you do not like, but at least you’ll be consistent in your application.

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Enhancing Your Style: 4 Tips for Writing and Teaching Bible Studies

By Katy Kauffman

I love autumn everything. The pumpkin spice donuts and lattes, the color of the leaves as they change, and the boots. Fall has a style all its own. September has been all about Bible studies on my blog, and on this second day of fall, I’d like to share some tips for enhancing the style of your Bible study teaching and writing. Maybe you’ve got a style that works and fits your group perfectly. Please leave a comment of things that have worked for you! I’d like to give some tips that I’ve seen work in Bible study groups and have made the style of teaching engaging and uplifting.

4 tips for writing and teaching Bible Studies that impact the heart and mind:

1. Grab the group members’ attention from the beginning.

When I first started teaching the Bible, the beginning of my lesson started with something like: Turn to Ephesians 1, and will someone read verses 1-3 for us? I had no slant, no angle from which to approach Scripture. When I started writing devotions for my first book, all that changed. I learned to start with something that grabbed the reader’s attention.

That works for a Bible lesson as well. If a teacher started with, Open to Matthew 5, and let’s look at the Sermon on the Mount, we would obediently follow. But if she used the illustration of the house built on the rock from Matthew 7, consider how this sounds: Today I want us to look at the Sermon on the Mount and see truths that will build our lives on solid rock, so that when the storms of life come, we can stand strong. How much more enriching and attention-grabbing is that?

Sometimes we want to save all the good stuff for the end of our class or chapter. But if we front-load our lesson with why they need to listen, we can keep our class or readers with us. They will be anticipating the hope, help, or refreshment we promise to deliver. So when you teach or write, get their attention from the beginning. Be aware of people’s everyday needs and struggles, and start your lesson or chapter with something that will engage their minds and stir their hearts.

2. Explain Scripture in a memorable way.

A good Bible study uses all kinds of illustrations and examples to bring out the treasures of Scripture. Personal stories that emphasize a need or solution and group activities that get people participating help a group to remember what’s being taught. I won’t forget the illustration I saw at a Christian camp when the leader blindfolded one of the girls and had another volunteer to guide her through some obstacles, using only his voice to do it. The rest of us were told to shout to keep her from hearing him. That illustration taught me about listening to the Holy Spirit’s voice and not letting the world hinder me from hearing Him.

Definitions and commentary notes can fill in a missing piece of the puzzle and etch an understanding of Scripture on a person’s memory. Acrostics do the same thing. Dr. Charles Stanley once taught that remembering HALT could guard us from giving into temptation. He said, “Don’t ever let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.” All kinds of creative and insightful tools are at our disposal to teach the Bible, and a Bible study that touches the soul and transforms the heart uses them well.

3. Set aside enough time for group discussion.

Joy and strength come from hearing each other talk about God and His Word. I’ve heard from women in Bible classes that they want enough time to discuss Scripture, and sometimes their DVDs eat into their discussion time. Just a few years ago, more Bible study publishers were opting for studies without DVDs because people wanted to hear from each other and discuss the lesson.

As a leader or writer, select some questions you definitely want to cover in your group time, and use questions that require more than a yes/no answer. We’re encouraged when we hear how God has worked in other people’s lives and what He has taught them about Scripture, so steer away from How does this make you feel? questions and get them talking about God’s Word and work.

4. Save time by using a leader guide.

A leader guide can save a lot of time and frustration. So if you’re a writer, help a girl out! Put a leader guide in the back of your book that maps out what questions to discuss and highlights the most important points. A leader guide gives a sense of You can do it! to new leaders, and provides a sense of direction and completion for each lesson. If you’re a leader, save time preparing by seeing what the author has suggested for each lesson, and add your own notes as desired.

What do you think enhances a Bible study’s style and impact? Share your ideas in the comments section below, and as you write or teach, remember to warm the heart and feed the soul. This coming Friday, I will compare the styles of some popular Bible teachers and add a few new ones in the mix.

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  • anon

    Thank you for this, Katy. Very good information to enable teaching the Truth of God in a practical way.

    Sep 23, 2014
  • anon

    Thank you, Jeanne! Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I know you love God's Word. The Truth of God is powerful and alive, and transforms the soul.

    Sep 23, 2014
  • anon

    I once started a class with a Barbie doll. That got their attention. Great points Katy! What a blessing to have teachers who are committed to bringing truth with excellence.

    Sep 23, 2014
  • anon

    I bet that got their attention, Ginger. Thanks for your kind comments! I have liked finding other writers and Bible teachers who love God's Word, too. :)

    Sep 23, 2014

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Sentinels Encased in Ice by Elinor DeWire

from WeatherWise November-December 2011

The ice was here, the ice was there
The ice was all around;
I t cracked and growled, and roared and howled
Like noise in a swound…
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Caption: St. Joseph Pierhead in Michigan as it appeared on December 20, 2010.

In December 2010, images of Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse appeared on international news broadcasts, and a video of the lighthouse taken by a Cleveland, Ohio, news station went viral on YouTube. The fascination had nothing to do with the light’s solicitous mission of guiding shipping into the Cuyahoga River, nor did it reflect interest in the beacon’s 100th anniversary , just months away . The excitement was about ice, lots of
it, wondrously transforming the sentinel’s exterior into — in the words of a British news station — a “stunning ice palace.”

The public was mesmerized. Nature had created something magical just in time for the holidays. The massive arctic blast had descended on Lake Erie around December 9, churned the lake into a frigid soup, and produced powerful waves that slammed the pierhead. Hour-by-hour, layers of ice were laid down until the entire lighthouse was shrouded. Heavy lake-effect snow on December 13 and 14 heaped on more winter majesty .

Such icy spectacles are not uncommon. Icing-over of lighthouses occurs every year in northern climates, some years worse than others. In the modern era of high-tech navigation, an iced-over lighthouse is mostly a curiosity — a tourist attraction. Few mariners depend solely on lighthouses these days. Many have been phased out, and
those that remain operate with automatic devices that turn on and off the lights and fog signals. There are no resident lightkeepers employed to run them . Step back 50 years or more, however, and the story changes. As late as the 1970s, keepers still lived at lighthouses and had to endure all manner of weather calamities, including ice.

Image8Caption: The USLHT Marigold was responsible for getting offshore lightkeepers safely delivered to the mainland before ice conditions made Lake Superior a frozen wasteland. While the Marigold normally finished up this duty by December 1, an early cold blast in 1919 complicated her mission. Here, she was pictured doing a little ice-breaking on her own as a crewman trekked over the ice to the crew of a lighthouse.

A Dangerous History

Before ice-breaking technology came into broad use in the 1920s, winter weather made ship travel dangerous in northern waters—too risky even to depend on a lighthouse. Shipping on the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, and the St. Lawrence Seaway closed down on December 1 and resumed at the end of March. Lighthouse keepers in these regions shut off their lights or switched them to low-intensity , and then came ashore for the winter. But the closing and opening dates weren’t always reliable. An early winter blast of cold could seize up every thing. A late spring thaw might com pound problems.

Getting the keepers off their lighthouses before ice closed the sea lanes often was hazardous. A good example was the December 1919 cold snap that caused hardship for offshore lighthouse crews and for the tender Marigold, the vessel tasked with removing the lightkeepers from Lake Superior’s sentinels. Conditions were especially bad at the notorious “ice lights”—Stannard Rock, Isle Royale, Rock of Ages, Racine Reef, and Lansing Shoal — where frigid, wind-driven ice jams formed around the towers. The Marigold suffered miserably trying to reach these men and only avoided becoming icebound itself by staying in constant motion. Lightkeepers were forced to climb down icy
towers with ropes and make their way over the piled-up ice to a waiting surfboat that transferred them to the tender. Some could simply walk across the ice to the tender and get aboard using the ship’s derrick and a sling chair.

Stannard Rock Lighthouse

Stannard Rock Lighthouse in Lake Superior had a reputation for freezing up in winter. The 110-foot stone lighthouse was placed in service in 1 882 on a concrete caisson near a perilous reef off Keeweenaw Peninsula, 24 miles from the nearest land. As the nation’s most distant lighthouse from shore, lightkeepers dubbed it “The Loneliest Place in the World.” Only  en were permitted to live there, due to the remoteness and difficulty getting
crews on and off the tower.

During the first winter of the lighthouse’s career, there were problems with ice. Dampness in the tower caused a thin rim e to form on the walls on the coldest days. Keepers sometimes awoke with frost on their beards and eyelashes, or blankets frozen to their metal bunks. As the end of the shipping season approached every November
and cold storms swept down from Canada, they were diligent about keeping the entry door to the lighthouse free of ice. The Lighthouse Service tender usually made its way to the rock around Thanksgiving, hoping to remove the men before conditions at the tower became too dangerous for a landing. In preparation for their departure, the keepers switched on a low intensity light.

By the end of March, the tender would make its way back to the lighthouse to return the crew and reinstate the beacon for the shipping season ahead. Plenty of pick axes and sledgehammers were on board, since the entry door almost always needed to be de-iced before it could be opened. In some y ears, ice removal took several days. In the spring of 1922 , the keepers returned to the lighthouse and found that the half-inch protective iron sheathing around the concrete pier was completely torn away . Heavy overhanging ice had ruptured and collapsed the metal.

The winter of 1929 is remembered as one of the most bitter, with cold air settling over Lake Superior early . On December 4, the tender Amaranth arrived at Stannard Rock Light to remove the lightkeepers. As the ship approached in the evening darkness, the beacon was barely discernible. Its peculiar greenish glow seemed feeble, With mounting concern, Amaranth slowed to a crawl and threw her searchlight on the sentinel. It was an incredible scene: The stone tower was totally sheathed in ice and glistened like a mammoth iceberg. Ice covered everything — the tower, the hoisting equipment, fuel tanks, foghorns, and the sturdy caisson on which the lighthouse perched. Long icicles hung from the lantern gallery like monster teeth. The lantern itself was wrapped entirely in an icy shroud, its light struggling to escape. But on the deck, the keepers were shouting and waving. They had managed to keep the exterior doors open with a steam hose. The reason the light was so feeble, they later told the skipper of the Amaranth, was that the intense cold and battering waves had caused the kerosene vapor apparatus to fail. They were forced to use the old-style wick lamp, which could barely shine through the thick ice.

Stannard Rock’s principal keeper later reported:

The weather during the latter part of November at Stannard Rock Lighthouse was the worst that I have ever experienced in my 30 years or more on the Great Lakes … snow squalls … very cold … spray went over the dome every minute and plate glass outside the lantern became one solid mass of ice.…Everything iced up from top of tower down to the water’s edge.

Caption: Grand Haven Lighthouse on Lake Michigan gets an annual shroud of ice.

Caption: The December 1876 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine captured the lighthouse keepers’ annual travail with winter weather. Keeping the lantern windows clear of ice was a never-ending task in some regions.

Caption: Racine Reef (two images bottom) in Lake Superior and the Lansing Shoal Light in Lake Michigan were among about a dozen Great Lakes sentinels the U.S. Lighthouse Service dubbed “ The I ce Lights.” Winter weather usually encapsulated these structures in ice by New Year’s Day. Racine Reef Lighthouse served from 1906 until the early 1960s when it was demolished. The 1928 Lansing Shoal Light (top) is still on duty.

Caption: Michigan City East Pierhead Lighthouse, on the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan was photographed by the Lighthouse Service on December 26, 1929 after a storm draped the walkway and tower in ice. The lighthouse survives today and is owned by the city.

Caption: Minot’s Ledge Light off Cohasset, Massachusetts, often becomes shrouded in ice from winter storm waves. The sentinel stands on a submerged rock ledge and has stood watch since 1860.

Caption: St. Joseph Pierhead Light on Lake Michigan has dazzled the public throughout its career with strange and marvelous ice formations sculpted by spray and wind. This is the lighthouse circa 1950.

Caption: Ice plagued the lighthouses on the Hudson River, New York, prior to ice-breaking technology. A 1961 image shows a Coast Guard icebreaker approaching the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse.

The Ashtabula Lighthouse

The many breakwater and pierhead lights on the Great Lakes also ice up in winter. Just 50 miles east of Cleveland, the breakwater lighthouse at Ashtabula was totally sheathed in ice in November 1928. The Lighthouse Service Bulletin for that y ear described the storm :

On January 20, 1928, a gale from the westward set in with the temperature steadily falling. This gale continued through the next day, with the temperature reaching zero. Due to the open water and force of the gale, the sea and spray froze to the lighthouse crib and buildings, completely encasing the entire structure in heavy ice…. The structure is over 52 feet high above water, which shows the height of the seas and spray.

Relief keepers, who had arrived only days before to allow the regular Ashtabula lightkeepers a few days vacation ashore, panicked when the ice built up quickly and imprisoned them inside the tower. Terrified, they radioed the Lighthouse Depot at Cleveland for help and began working on the ice-locked door with picks and hammers.

Meanwhile, the regular keepers made their way from shore over the slippery breakwater and began chiseling away at the ice from the outside. A supply tender arrived several hours later and pumped hot water over the lighthouse entry door to free the men.

The Colchester Reef Light

Lake Cham plain has often been called “The Sixth Great Lake.” Like its Midwest sister lakes, it also experiences harsh winters with extreme cold and ice. The lake has only a few lights still operating today , but in its heyday as a shipping corridor for lumber and slate, it had about a dozen lighthouses. The most exposed was Colchester Reef Light, a quaint house and lantern sitting atop a stone caisson to mark three dangerous reefs between the
lakeshores of Vermont and New York. Knowing the sentinel would have to endure high winds and winter’s freeze, its walls were strengthened with one-and-one-half-inch thick iron rods. The stout construction paid off when the lake froze over, but also when the ice thawed, broke up, and began to move.

Many lightkeepers tended Colchester Reef Lighthouse, but August Lorenz was the most intrepid. A bachelor who enjoyed winter solitude, he could be seen skating on the lake around the lighthouse, trudging the four miles to shore in snowshoes, or ice fishing. One afternoon in November in the early -1920s, before the lake had completely frozen, he was rowing home from the mainland where he had picked up supplies. A stout wind whipped up a spray , and by the time Lorenz reached the lighthouse, he was completely covered in ice, and his feet were frozen to the bottom of the boat. He used his pocketknife to free him self.

Worse was a February day in 1923 when an unseasonable warm front initiated an early thaw and ice began to mov e on the lake. Large chunks slowly passed the lighthouse and ground against the stone foundation. After supper, as Lorenz was working in the lantern, a loud bang jarred the entire structure. A few seconds, later the kitchen wall gave way as an ice floe drove into the lighthouse. Lorenz rushed downstairs in time to see it recede into the night. The keeper did what he could to cover the hole. The next morning he discovered his dory had been torn from its davits and was sitting some distance away on a cake of ice. He was able to retrieve it by hopping from ice cake to ice cake and dragging it back to the lighthouse with a hooked pole.

The Mid-Atlantic and New England

The bays, sounds, and rivers of the Mid-Atlantic and New England were plagued with ice during the coldest winters. In these bodies of water, the structures most at risk were the screwpile-style lighthouses in the open water of the Chesapeake Bay — curious little lighthouses perched on iron legs that were literally screwed into the bay floor. Ice jams slammed these structures and did serious damage, sometimes shearing them off their legs. The Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board noted a particularly tough winter in February 188 for the keepers of Sharps Island Lighthouse off the southern tip of Tilghman Island:

The structure was lifted from its foundation and thrown over on its side and carried away by ice. The keeper and his assistant clung to the floating house and … drifted in the bay 16½ hours without fire or food, always in imminent danger.… [the lighthouse] grounded however, full of water, on an island
shortly after midnight at high tide.

Twelve years later, another big ice jam in January 1893 ruined three screwpile lighthouses in the Chesapeake Bay at Smith Point, Solomons Lump, and Wolf Trap. The first two were damaged but not destroyed. The fearful keepers at Solomons Lump stuck to their post, but at Smith Point the men abandoned the lighthouse and lost their jobs as a consequence. The Wolf Trap Light, situated at the entrance to Winter Harbor, was sheared off its legs and thrown into the bay . The two keepers escaped to their boat moments before the calamity . The lighthouse, with only its upper part above water, drifted for almost a day before being lassoed by a cutter and towed to shore.

Ice truly can be a contest between nature and man-made structures, and lighthouses feel the brunt of this bittersweet winter punishment. But not every winter blast causes mayhem. The late Frank Jo Raymond, keeper at Long Island Sound’s Latimer Reef Lighthouse in the 1920s, made peace with the snow and ice. When winter settled over the cast-iron, caisson-style tower and locked the doors and windows with its icy fingers, Raymond stoked the coal stove, made a big pot of coffee, and picked up his paintbrush. His oil paintings fetched extra income in the summer months when tourists swarmed the nearby shores.

One storm in 1925 kept Raymond sequestered inside for several days. During that time, he kept the light going, as required, and painted a fantastic winter scene on the circular walls of the tower’s interior. Unfortunately, when the lighthouse inspector came to visit a few weeks later to assess the storm dam age, he ordered Raymond to paint over the mural. Regulations said all interior walls had to be white.

“I smiled and did as I was told,” Raymond said in a 1987 interview. “But as soon as the next storm came, I picked up my paintbrush and went at it. You had to see that lighthouse in winter to believe it — so beautiful.”

Caption: Thomas Point Shoal Light is the only screwpile lighthouse that remains in service on the bay. Rocks piled around the iron legs of the lighthouse help protect it from ice.

Caption: The first lighthouse at Sharps Island in the Chesapeake Bay was a screwpile design. It was destroyed by drifting ice in 1881 and was replaced by a caisson tower a few years later, but the annual assault by ice has caused the lighthouse to lean. Even so, it remains in service.

A PDF copy of the file is available here.

On this website there are some more beautiful photos of ice-encrusted lighthouses on Lake Michigan. Really eerie!

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Wedding Photography Slide Show | Craig Pifer Photography

I recently put together a slide show of photo that I took at my brother-in-law's wedding last July. The included photos are from the rehearsal and dinner as well as from the wedding and reception.

They had another paid photographer, so I was just there as a guest, and father of the flower girls, but had fun getting a few shots anyway. Please enjoy the images.

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We should include more people on our currency than just presidents (and Hamilton and Franklin). I’d like to see people who contributed to the nation’s culture and history in positive ways - authors, musicians, artists, scientists/inventors.


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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

How To Avoid A Meltdown

I started a new telesales job on Sunday and although I love it, so far it has left me feeling rather frazzled. I didn't know I spent so much time writing until I've spent it in my other job working. The job is flexible in the sense I don't have to work set hours, so in theory I still have time for my writing. But like any other normal person (when have I ever considered myself normal?), I want to devote all my energy into this job until I get settled.

But I thought I would still have the time and the inclination to write. And then I realised I'm not superhuman, and yes, I do need an adequate amount of sleep to function. Something has got to give and my big question is what's that going to be?

In order to prevent myself from going absolutely stark raving mad, I decided to write a list. I thought I would use the same strategy as I use to write my books and plan and outline my life so I can see just how much I have to do without feeling like the walls are closing in on me.

It was only when I composed this list did I realise how much stuff I actually do that's not essential. Things like watch television. Who needs a TV to survive? Reading magazines and having coffee with friends. Surfing useless social media sites like Facebook. Feeding and walking the dogs (okay, I'm joking here - I would never neglect my dogs) but my point is I desperately need to prioritise my life more. I do housework every day because of my boyfriend's dust allergy but instead I'll just buy him a dust mask. I also like to read a lot but I guess I can cut down on that as well. All these things do not pay the bills so I need to focus on the stuff that can pay the bills and give that priority.

So, how do you cope when life feels overwhelming?

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

How To Become A Prolific Writer

Many people think that in order to become a prolific writer you have to write full time. I thought this myself until I started meeting lots of successful writers who had full time jobs. Back then I wondered how they did it; be so involved in work and then to come back home and start writing.

But then I realised these writers had traits in common. They follow a strict routine. They probably write everyday. They write regularly so they always have a constant flow of ideas floating around their head.

They probably write after using an outline to map out ideas. (Before you pantsers send me hatemail to object to this, I'm going to insert a clause here to say I know this isn't always the case but I am an outline writer so I'll stick to what I know). Writers who outline say once they've finished they just have to fill in the blanks in their first draft. They write their first draft to get the story down on paper. Then they go back to edit and rewrite it while ignoring the voice of self doubt that tells them their writing is rubbish. Through ignoring this voice they continue to put pen to paper, thus improving their confidence. They just sit down and write, producing one book after another.

If you really, really want to write you'll always find a way. I know one writer who took ten years to finish his first novel. Now it's available in a major U.K. bookstore. People who make excuses why they don't write all have one thing in common: their heart really isn't in it. They use the excuse of being too busy with other things in their life so that's why they fail to write. Sometimes I think you can write better with a little bit of outside pressure. There's just enough stress to get you focused. I know I can write more efficiently when I have a looming deadline in front of me.

Are you a prolific writer?

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

What Is Your Favourite Point Of View?

I am almost 6,000 words into my third book and I am finding it easier than ever to write. I don't know if this is because it's my third piece of work and I am better because of the practice I've had writing my previous two books, or because it's a complete work of fiction. But I have noticed all three books have one thing in common - they all have the same point of view (POV).

I have noticed during the time I've been writing seriously that most books are narrated from a third person POV. Of course, POV depends a lot on the genre of the book as some POV's are better suited to books like crime and chick lit.

I've always preferred the first person POV because I feel more connected to the book. You feel as if you have been let into someone's life as the style of narration is so personal. I've always said for my first two books I wanted the reader to feel as if they've met a close friend who they haven't seen for a while and they spend that time having a good catch up. I wanted my readers to feel like they're in their friend's house, having coffee with them while they have their feet up.

But first person POV isn't suited to everyone and every book. A lot of writers say that this style of narration is very limiting because the reader only gets to see what's inside one character's head. First person is written from the protagonist's POV, so it's always their take on the story. You don't get to see other people's opinions.

I think the majority of writers like their readers to really know all of their characters so they use third person POV. I think this POV is maybe best suited in giving an all round balanced view of the story.

So what is your favorite POV? Do you use different POV depending on the type of book you are writing? Do you find some POV's easier to write than others?

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Reasons Why Writing On Paper Is A Good Idea

No matter what I write, whether it's a book or a blog post, I will always write the first draft on paper.
Some days my writing will always flow quicker than others. Sometimes it can take hours just to write one single sentence. But my mind is always fully engaged in a very complex thought pattern, brain storming ideas and sorting them out into some kind of order. I find it much easier to pen these thoughts onto paper rather than type them into my computer, mainly because I focus too much on where the next key is instead of where my next idea will come from.

Staring at a blank screen also does nothing for my creative juices. It's as if someone is holding the delete button down in my mind, preventing me from typing a single sentence. I find just looking at the brightness of the screen wipes my mind blank in one swift movement.

I love writing words down on paper. I love the process of shaping out each letter into a word. I find it helps me to think of the following sentences much easier than it would just to type them. Writing stimulates my creativity. I have more time to ponder mid sentence, and as a result I am often a slow writer. But when I finish the first draft I often find little needs doing in my second one. I think this is because my focus has been entirely on the creative process and I haven't been distracted doing unnecessary editing in this early stage.

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Lambuth Memorial Church was organized as the Jackson City Mission on November 26, 1873.  Dr. A.B. Jones, one of the early presidents of M.C.F.I. (Lambuth College), was instrumental in its founding though the Rev. Thomas Taylor was the first regular pastor.  The small brick building erected on the corner of Campbell and Talbot streets was practically out in the country.  The church had only one room and the pews were without backs.

As time passed, the church experienced several small name changes and remodeling but nothing major was done until 1941 when the Rev. C.H. Rayl was appointed as pastor.  He remodeled the church now known as Lambuth Memorial, giving the interior a cruciform plan and the exterior a Spanish Gothic style.  The arrangement of the sanctuary was modeled on London’s City Road Chapel.

In 1951, disaster struck when a fire practically destroyed the building.  During the long period of reconstruction, the congregation worshiped in the mornings at West Jackson School and in the evenings at Temple B’nai Israel.  Midweek services were held in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Baptist churches, and other Methodist churches.  Eventually the church rose like a phoenix from the ashes.

The educational facilities at Lambuth Memorial were built in three units, 1934, 1948, and 1961.  The first two units were remodeled in 1970.  The beautiful Martindale Family Life Center was completed in February, 1989.  It houses a gym, an office, a meeting room, a kitchen, and a kiln room.  The Center is an expression of Lambuth Memorial’s outreach to the surrounding community.

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PAGCOR, Quezon Metropolis Officials Imbroglio over Suggested Casino

Quezon Area casino job puts Philippine gambling regulator and Urban center Council for odds more than whether owners should be happen to be gamble

The best dispute regarding the Philippine gaming regulator plus Quezon Town officials spanning a proposed betting house in the locale now appears to be imminent . City representatives passed before this week a strong ordinance which, among other things, would likely restricts residents’ access to the modern casino with becomes operational.

However , PAGCOR, the regulator tasked having overseeing typically the Philippines wagering industry , argued that ordinance dishonored national legal guidelines, and threatened to file a suit the city intended for trying to intervene in issues that are categorized as the regulating body’s purview.

Philippine internet casino resort creator and provider Bloomberry Resorts Corp. shown last summer plans to be able to expand it’s Solaire make with a property or home in Quezon City . The company, which can be owned through Philippine business mogul Enrique Razon Jr, currently works out Solaire Turn & On line casino, a $1. 2 tera- integrated resort located down the Bay Community area of Parañ aque, Neighborhood Manila. The posh hotel as well as casino complicated opened opportunities in 2013 and was the initially four qualities of this variety within Entertainment City, an even better government-spearheaded job aimed at maximizing the nation’s travel industry.

This last year, Bloomberry released that a pair of its subsidiaries have placed a PHP40 billion (approximately $767 million) loan towards partly money the development in addition to operation of the planned Quezon City destination. Bloomberry is trying to break flooring on it has the new vacation resort later this and to launch it around 2022. The property or house will be situated at the Vertis North Complex.

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Earlier asap, the City Authorities of Quezon City transferred an ordinance that brought the nod to Bloomberry’s project, nevertheless included convention aimed to limit the connection of people of the town to the near future gambling site.

Quezon Area officials hence revealed plans to whether impose a superior entry fee for metropolis residents or perhaps an overall ban that is going to prevent all of them from playing at the center. The ordinance was apparently largely based on measures introduced in Singapore. The city-state collects a day-to-day entry payment of S$100 or an annual fee regarding S$2, 000 from nationals and long term residents who wish to gamble at one of a two casinos Marina These types of Sands as well as Resorts Earth Sentosa.

Quezon City officials pointed out earlier this week they will expect PAGCOR to competition their ordinance and seek out a temporary keeping order. Yet , Vice Superior Joy Belmonte noted that while they agreed upon the hotel room and on line casino complex could bring quite a few economic benefits, they were feeling it was all their duty for you to ‘look once the welfare’ belonging to the city’s people .

According to the ordinance’s passage, PAGCOR said in a very statement that this would be a ‘dereliction of it’s duties while gaming regulator’ not to some important step of tough the calculate in the country’s courts.

PAGCOR cited the country’s Presidential Rule 1869 plus Republic Behave No . 9487 to stress that the regulation of casino surgical procedures on the terrain of the Uk fell fully under the governing administration agency’s purview, and that county units have tried their capacity to ‘issue license license or any style of franchise towards operate, sustain, and set up forms of wagering ‘ revoked through Presidential Decree 771.

Perversité Mayor Belmonte told area media that will she would allowed a court docket challenge on their ordinance since it would be decided once and for all irrespective of whether ‘it’s PAGCOR charter and also the local government program code that has precedence’ in concerns of this character.

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Citizens Oppose Emanuel Cleaver’s Abortion Hypocrisy

This is a powerful example of citizens standing up and educating hypocritical politicians. Features Cleaver under fire for supporting the funding of abortions and violating the law.

Conservative Black Forum, 1/23/2012. Hosted by Allen West, Moderated by Star Parker.

At 1:43:22 Parker opened the floor to Q&A. The first person was a woman who directly questioned and challenged Cleaver on the Hyde Amendment and his support of funding Planned Parenthood/etc. He dodged the question and very condescendingly instructed her on how politics work. She stood up again and restated her question and demanded that he specifically answer. He said that he would vote against abortion but he would not defund clinics (Planned Parenthood, specifically) that provide other services for the poor. He was forceful and clear. The next audience member was a man who challenged Cleaver to, “as a man of God”, do his due research on the origins of Planned Parenthood as a eugenics program. Other members of the panel pressed Cleaver further. Cleaver left during the Q&A at 1:54:20.

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Recently the Congressional Budget Office published a scathing report that the US government debt-to-GDP ratio will double over the next 30-years.

Few government agencies are as blunt as the Congressional Budget Office.

In fact the agency’s report plainly states that “the prospect of such large and growing debt poses substantial risks for the nation. . .”

Echoing this sentiment, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office called the US debt:

“a serial horror story in which the greatest economic power ever to grace the globe sails directly into self-inflicted crisis, suffering and decline.”

Debt matters.

Nearly every major superpower over the last thousand years, from the French Bourbon monarchy to the Ottoman Empire, was eventually crushed under the weight of its debt.

The CBO has been sounding the alarm bells for years warning successive administrations that there will be serious, serious consequences in the future.

The irony is that the CBO is probably being overly optimistic.

I pulled some of their older projections from several years ago, and while they nailed the trend, they totally underestimated how severe the debt crisis would be.

In January 2007, for example, the CBO issued its annual budget and economic outlook in which they made 10-year projections about the national debt.

So, 10 years ago, the CBO estimated that by 2017, the “debt held by the public” would be $4.2 trillion, which they estimated would be 24.6% of GDP.

(Note that the CBO tends to focus on “debt held by the public”, but this number is only a portion of the total national debt.)

Now it really is 2017.

So how much is the actual debt held by the public today?

$14.35 trillion, or 76.5% of GDP… more than three times what the CBO projected back in 2007.

(Bear in mind that TOTAL government debt in the US is $20 trillion, around 106% of GDP.)

In other words, the CBO’s projection was wrong by $10 TRILLION.

That’s not to take anything away from the CBO; as the old saying goes, predictions are hard, especially about the future.

The agency is clearly doing its best to objectively highlight the obvious (and dangerous) trend of rising debt levels in the Land of the Free.

Their math just happens to be off by an order of magnitude.

It’s not just the CBO either.

As I frequently write to you, each year the Board of Trustees of the various Social Security trust funds releases a report detailing the dismal finances of that program.

In the Trustees’ 2005 report, for example, they projected that the trust funds would be “fully depleted,” i.e. completely run out of money, in the year 2043, nearly four decades later.

Eh, who really cared… 40 years was such a long time away.

The next year in the 2006 report, however, their estimated year of depletion changed to 2040… 34 years in the future.

By 2010, it had changed again to 2037… 27 years into the future.

And from last year’s 2016 report, the estimate changed yet again to 2034, just 18 years into the future.

Notice the trend? In a little more than a decade, the Trustees’ estimated date when the trust funds would be fully depleted has accelerated by 9 years.

In other words, the closer we get to the date, the more accurate their calculations become, and the faster they believe the trust funds will go bust.

Again, it’s hard to fault the trustees.

They have the right message: Social Security is going broke. They just happen to have been too optimistic in their timing.

It mystifies me how this is not front-page news on a daily basis.

I mean, the implications are enormous; the people who run the Social Security program are saying, flat out, that they’re running out of money and the program will have to curtail benefits.

And the guys within the government who watch over the budget are shouting from the rooftops that the national debt poses substantial risks.”

I imagine most people would probably agree that this stuff matters.

It just doesn’t matter to them today. Or tomorrow. Or next year.

It’s easy to put off obvious and dangerous consequences that won’t strike until several years into the future.

Such short-term thinking is in our nature as human beings.

It’s why we eat garbage foods that poison our bodies… because the life-threatening diabetes and heart disease won’t hit us for another couple of decades.

This is a dangerous gamble, especially considering that there are countless solutions to distance yourself from the impact of your government’s serial irresponsibility.

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Meet the Artist: Alessandro Puccinelli

Storm Chaser Alessandro Puccinelli moved to Australia in 1993 working in advertising photography, he had that feeling of wanderlust, and an idea that turned into a personal photographic project: “A Van In The Sea”. Alessandro showcased his favorite places along the European coast in his van. This was a nocturnal photography project capturing the luminous stars amongst the magnificence of the glimmering sea, a place above all other places where he prefers to be.

Alessandro divides his time between Tuscany, Lisbon, and the southern coast of Portugal. He often takes a break from the humdrum of life in his motorhome hideaway (his van in the sea), chasing storms of the ocean. He patiently waits for the perfect moment to capture the fearsome waves that collide into the coastlines moody sky, together creating mother nature’s fury in spectacular form. His contemporary photography captures the essence of the sea and sky that immerses you in the fascinating depths of mystery, magic, and beauty.

Alessandro’s work is highly collectible and has been published in reputable magazines and recognized in many photography awards including: Sony World Photography, International Photography, Black and White Photography, Hasselblad Masters, and many others.

Tell us what how/why you decided on photography as your career? My career in photography started early, I was interested at the young age of 20 and had been quite lucky to find work as photographic assistant. Photographic schools in Italy in those days were very expensive. I knew by then that learning on the job was my window of opportunity. A local photo studio in Lucca (Italy) hired me despite me having no education or knowledge about the technical process of photography. I was extremely motivated and enthusiastic, and this was what gave me my start to building a photographic career. As I had no art background, or even any real interest in art at that time, the choice of commercial photography as a career for me was more about the appeal of traveling and doing a work that I enjoyed. The idea of using photography as an art medium came much later, after 10 years of assisting and freelance in commercial photography, I had an idea about photographing the sea – a personal project. I realized that producing art is much more complicated and rewarding than just satisfying a client. It may be easier under technical aspects, but from an artistic and intellectual point of view, you have to dig deeply in search of some reason or aspects of yourself that has something interesting to say to the rest of the world. You have to find a trigger, something that is you, something to make your mark and your point of view in some way, special. I feel this is an ongoing progress and certainly studying commercial photography had really benefited me in my personal art work projects.

If you hadn’t chosen photography what would have done instead? I really think I would have loved to be a gardener or scuba diving instructor.

Whose work has influenced you most? My work has been strongly influenced by romantic painters – mainly by the work of JW Turner, Eugène Delacroix, John Martin and Caspar David Friedrich. In a very natural way, since I started to photograph the ocean, I found a lot of similarities with the main romantic ideas. I looked at the ocean probably as they used to do, even the life in the van along the European coast has a lot of romanticism in it. Originally, I feel I took inspiration from the late Turner, however currently my work is shifting more towards an abstract element, inspired by the work of the New York School Of Abstract Expressionism and other abstract contemporary artists like Marta Jungwirth from Austria.

What is the fascination you have with photographing the ocean? The love for the ocean was born when I first started surfing as a child in 1986. The more I got involved with surfing, the more I started to look at the ocean. I began to idealize it, to love it. I got hooked by its amazing power and its inner beauty and elegance that all together are able to live in the same element. It became a sort of unreachable point of arrival, an example to follow but at the same time it gave me a sense of frustration and fragility when facing it. There is a huge amount of admiration and respect towards the ocean in my photography. At the same time, mainly in the recent works, I shifted a bit towards investigating a sense of fragility and fear, I’m looking at beauty that comes out of chaos and unpredictability.

You have fearlessly climbed high cliff points to obtain the perfect shot. Describe to us your process and your most memorable experience: The process is almost the same every time. It may change a bit from series to series, but the places are the same. What may change are the conditions of the ocean. Having said that, as I’m shooting in Europe, the period of time that suits my photography is the winter season. During that period, I have to be ready each time a big swell reaches the coast. Nowadays is quite easy to predict the conditions thanks to technology but at the real end, you can’t be so sure of what are you going to see that day. I mean that many times, I’m expecting some amazing condition and I may drive for hundreds of kilometers, and then it’s not as good as I thought. Thank god there is still some unpredictability in this technological world. When a good swell is expected, I decide where to go. I have some secret spots, mainly in Portugal, but so far, the best one is a well-known place called Nazarè, a famous spot for huge waves. My gear has to be well protected, as well as myself, as many times I get wet, waves splash, rain, etc. If the condition is good, I like to stay there all day. That’s why I can’t afford to get wet. Sometimes I have to walk a lot to get to a certain point.

The most memorable day was one morning where I couldn’t take a single photograph. It was early in the morning in Nazarè, Portugal. I was close to the location, and on the way I could see a electricity post lying on the road, loose cables on the ground, the wind was very very strong and hard rain. The moment I got to the place, I felt the wind was almost lifting my car. I tried to go out to reach the location and as soon as I got out, I found myself lying on the road. I couldn’t even stand up. I had to reach the car crawling on my knees and for the next two hours, I had to give up. But I had the chance to look at the sea and it was huge – the biggest I’d ever saw. There is a bit of regret in my words as I could try again but that place with that kind of wind can be quite dangerous. Luckily the wind dropped a few knots in the next hours, enough to let me go in and reach the point. It was still huge, maybe not as big as a few hours before, but still an amazing to view entirely on my own.

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE ENDEAVOR? A few years trip around the world to photograph all the big waves and places during huge swells. Or a collaboration with other photographers and associations to document and help bring awareness about ocean pollution. I know that some awareness has been already lifted about that. I actually already did a series about plastic, but I would like to do some big project to spread the word in those places where there is no awareness at all, and to force big companies to change their policies.

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IN YOUR STUDIO/MOTORHOME? One thing I cannot live without in my motorhome is coffee.

BEST ADVICE: Stop photographing everything. The images in your memory are the most powerful. Enjoy the place, the scenery around you, and then take pictures once you have assimilated what’s in front of you.

FIVE FAVOURITE SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES YOU FOLLOW, AND WHY? I’m not a fan of spending time on social media. I haven’t found yet a way to use them properly. The one that I use mostly is Behance as I haven’t had to post on it every day. At the same time, it can be an excellent place to see what’s going on in photography and advertising. Instagram is the other one. I don’t publish much material on it, not daily, but I use it to check what’s going on the art world and in photography. Recently, I found a profile on artsy called ARE.NA. It seems interesting, no follows or likes. I may decide to get involved soon.

Australian abstract artist Boe Sapun is the founder and curator of Ecume Gallery. The Melbourne-based gallery represents both local, international, established, and emerging contemporary art. The idea of having great art accessible to a broad audience prompted the online gallery showcasing her own work, as well as a diverse range and ever-growing list of talented contributing artists. Boe’s passion is in discovering creative minds and understanding the finer nuances of their character which influence their process, inspiration, and art. Follow Boe Sapun and Écume Gallery on Instagram and Facebook.

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Jurm - 2005

Bobby Deol plays a business tycoon Avinash, who is a content man happily married to Sanjana (Lara Dutta). But Avinash?s world collapses after his wife is murdered and he is arrested for the deed.

The first half of the movie is interspersed with flashbacks of romance and marriage between Bobby and Lara.

Avinash?s case in the court is fought by his good friend Rohit (Milind Soman). There are some subtle allusions in the story about Rohit being a shady character. Anyway, as the case proceeds in the court of law, Avinash?s innocence becomes more and more difficult to prove.

In this dark hour, when Avinash can?t seem to trust anyone, the only person who stands by him is Sonia (Gul Panag) who loves him secretly but has never expressed her emotions.

Unable to prove his innocence, Avinash escapes from the prison and flees to Malaysia. As he penetrates deeper into the mystery of his wife?s murder, he comes across a startling truth that makes him rethink his relation with his wife all over again.

One problem with Jurm is that it offers nothing new and fresh. What it offers has been seen umpteen times before in Hindi films. Secondly, the script of the movie has tremendous scope for improvement.

Bobby Deol plays his part with conviction and portrays the dilemmas and predicaments of his character quite well. Lara Dutta looks chic but her acting range is limited. Milind Soman looks suave and brings out right expressions in his character. Gul Panag is a delight to watch.

All in all, watching Jurm is akin to killing your time.

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" (between the fairy tale and Václav Stratil) A fairy tale resides within the slants of the consciousness. Comparing it to rational mind is denied, as the end result is always untenable, or at best is only considered an emergence of the structures of the collective consciousness.
However, at the very moment the fairy tale transforms into the one and only order of the world, it is accepted, and victoriously annexes our mind during a disturbance in our normal reflexive abilities. The thing that gives the fairy tale its power of illusion is an underlying foundation of trustworthiness. Representation of the elements of the fantasy is not the deciding factor — rather it is the way in which it is used in forging links to what is established as undisputed, lived reality. Bit by bit the fairy tale changes the features of reality in favor of the ethical imperative, without having to resort to a “mirroring of reality.”
Alice was forced to leap beyond a looking glass in order to live through all her peculiar adventures, and for this maybe we should consider whether a certain intellectual poverty on the part of Lewis Carroll is not to blame. But more likely blame should be placed on his assumed readers, who had to be led out of reality through a trick of “mirrors.” In this way, the fairy tale floods the borders of our normally insurmountable dogma, and it shows how the it can only be experienced beyond these imaginary borders. Therefore Carroll’s “mirror trick” could by considered an imaginary hammer to the thick hide of the bourgeois, and the only fault is that the word appears in the title. For, abusing the tricks of the images of reality is one of the basic tactics of every fairy-tale narrator.
The fairy tale works with everyday (para-rational) experience more than it may seem at first sight. And controlling our everyday experience is a tall order. Incidentally, this is capable of showing us that control over our own mind is fragile and vulnerable, and the fairy tale is capable of destroying this control and anchoring our minds within it.
But every fairy tale comes to an end: a withdrawal of its principles, a gradual or sudden collapse into the nature of the world. Like hallucinogens, the hangover after experiencing the fairy tale is mild; there is just a transition to a different version of experience. The pieces are carefully reassembled back into the original stained-glass window, and the remembering person, just like the restorer, is doomed to wind up his messy patchwork and vague retouching. Only the memory of the fairy tale will become the product of dream activity, but its original effect depends on submission and passivity. What is fascinating is that the fairy tale is a projection screen of human desire, and an accelerator of associative links. And the author and narrator — as the only movers of this relationship — are denied the seductive power of the fairy tale, because they are the ones who sprinkle in the life-giving ingredients.
Thus understood, the fairy tale crosses the borders of the genre, and especially the narrow vision of the children’s bed-time story. The fairy tale fills the thoughts of the adult on all levels, and these effective tools are more refined versions of ideological propaganda and scientific popularization, etc. If it is often ascribed as being a “substitute for myths” or “cosmological renewal,” then it is once again the ending which demonstrates that it is also a delightful lurch off the well-trodden path of pragmatism.
At least this is true of the fairy tales made up for children (spoken, written or in films). But what about present-day narrators? What are they after? Regardless of the number of copies made or the size of the format, their mission is to show parallels in the birth and death of the fairy tale.

Children’s hands run deep

The fairy-tale illustrator is a different breed from the story creator. Psychological strategy keeps the imagination reined in. This is how it is with Václav Stratil. His “fairy tale phase”
occurred after he’d considered the esthetic postulates of the society, the state of art culture and equally the search for expressive means for his main theme: the recording of his shifting position within this field. For that matter, only a group of a few dozen of his drawings, mostly figurative or partly figurative, rightly belong to the category of the fairy tale, and the
others can be observed through the
optics of reference and commentary on modernism. It is an intimate and visual history, a mixture of spiritual codes. Showing a whole generation of his drawings would take up extensive space and would shift focus away from an important level which puts Václav Stratil among the visual narrators-seducers. I consider this level in the fairy tale as necessary: the establishment of communication and assuming the leading role for the purpose of creating a world of rules; showing the key that is the secret code to the resulting absorption of attention of the autonomous world of the creator’s imagination.
After experimenting with felt-tips, Stratil found a more suitable media in colored pencils for his series. These became the primary layer for his altogether cunning seduction. Colored pencils are a direct catalyst of memories from childhood, of scribbling on paper. They can’t be used otherwise, as they are always closely tied to the experience of being a child. Memories of joy-filled and free creation blankets work drawn in colored pencils. We could say that the appropriation of
reality during the unrestrained formation of the individual’s personality fuels children’s creativity, and that oftentimes we can see the incorporation of the outside influences, more so than any inner intoxication. But then we get by with the adult nostalgia for the forever lost, half-forgotten and (understandingly) exaggerated time of “no responsibilities and no obligations, when things came to us untouched as freshly fallen snow.” And these models of understanding shake society, individual reflections and history much more than any kind of reasonable contemplation is capable of.
If the fairy tale remains analogous to the realm of youth, Stratil’s drawings are hooked into this nostalgia and become drawings of the return, traps made out of the longing to find the chimera.

Mica and the strawberry shallows

We admire the unconventional linking of motifs in the expression of children’s art. Once again out of the corner of the eye we are able to spot ourselves. Children don’t perceive disparateness as troublesome. At first sight Stratil’s drawings look to contain something similar. Jesus on the cross is accompanied by a red fox. The Son of God smiles down at us with no sign of pain. Above him the dark night sky looms, scattered with stars, but a bright light illuminates the spectacle. And then there is the portrait of a boy whose eye whites have turned yellow (!) and a third ear is growing from his neck.
Stratil’s grasp of disparateness lies
entirely in his layering of symbols. On the other hand, the drawings harmonize color tones, surfaces, lines and their gesture expressions into a single unit. This gives them a unique atmosphere necessary to attain the feeling of perfect harmony. The artist wishes to avoid dissension, brutality and radical action, typical elements of the fairy tale. Instead he implements a soothing lyricism and sentiment. Václav Stratil shows that he is a master at the careful retrieval of milky and mica tones, a master of compositions that grow out of the main theme accompanied by stylish digressions that never develop into dissonance.
He comforts us and lets us wade in the warm strawberry shallows, with no threat of falling into the flaming tar of the deeps. He lets us see his lullaby pictures.

The end of the fairy tale: the dangerous reaches of the hedonistic

If the fairy tale functions through the conflict of good and evil, including the predestined dominance of the first, and its format can be considered ethical, then Václav Stratil’s drawings don’t allow for the depiction of duality. This would require violating this comforting atmosphere. Nothing remains but to reveal the fairy tale in its final version, in its victory over evil, in its absence. The fairy tale has ended and once again we find ourselves in paradise restored. The fairy tale has ended because it no longer has its own development — in fact, it never had it. Blissful goodness spreads over the land. The tricks of seduction were performed only to convince us that the fairy tale is to remain unreachable.
These drawings intend to convince us of something other than of the meaning of the fairy tale itself. Its attributes and tricks are used to momentarily accomplish the utopian construct of happiness within us, without frightening us or us analyzing it. Here the fairy tale is a modus operandi with orientation towards the modus vivendi, a mystery wrapped in an enigma. The dangers that arise while putting this into practice are thankfully avoided due to the reality of the social impact of the art. Václav Stratil doesn’t expect a change to occur in the mind of one who has seen his pictures in the gallery, and anyway this would not make him happy. He only moves within the fairy tale of seeming freedom and sentiment with the courage and experience of a conjuror who enjoys approaching the limits of a chosen theme.

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It is awild, obscure and primitive scent, based upon the very precious essence of Oud, which well combines with complex and mysterious personalities.

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It is a wild, obscure and primitive scent which well combines with complex and mysterious personalities. It is based upon the very precious essence of Oud, it is characterized by musky and animal-like nuances, mixed together with a smell of leather, of roots and of earth, together with sweet notes such as cacao, caramel and other oriental indescribable aromas.

A scent which includes the overwhelming strength of nature – we could define it as “supernatural” – reminding an old and mysterious past. It expresses sexuality, passion, ecstasy and love. These features are even more emphasized by the strong, fiery and exotic aroma of black pepper.

It is dedicated to the legendary character of the “Damned”, typical of the Tuscan countryside. The Damned represented, in people’s unconscious, the soul of the one who, during his life, sullied his reputation with reproachable behaviors and, for this reason, was buried outside the consecrated grounds.

Indecent expressions and supernatural phenomena were associated to the destiny of that soul. It represented the collective fear which made a “community”: the Damned was that unquestionable mysterious aspect of the place which was necessary in order to pluck up one’s courage staying close, developing a passion and get warm each other.

The fragrances it is composed of have stimulating, revitalizing, balm-like, antioxidant, cleansing and energizing properties.

  • Olfactory pyramid - Top Notes: Aromatic Spicy: Black Pepper, Pink Pepper, Frankincense, Myrrh, Saffron, Nutmeg.
  • Olfactory pyramid - Body Notes: Floral Woody: Rose of damask, Jasmine, Orange Blossom, Oud, Sandalwood, Ceddar wood.
  • Olfactory pyramid - Bottom Notes: Ambery Musky: Ambergris, White Musk