WELCOME
Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Armenian calendar 1468.
Forgive the intrusion, this month's Grabs for personal consideration.
Let’s begin by sharing an insight:
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin
Discuss with sincerity. Deny that untrue. Dismiss when unuseful. Accept now useful. Adapt to changing circumstances. Adopt least effort most benefit. Adept with sharing. Enjoy throughout. As each case may be. Round. And again. Or not.
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TOPICS
-- Media Words
-- TED Talks
-- Guest Sings
-- Street Jives
-- Wisdom Reconciles
-- Challenge Reflects
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MEDIA WORDS
Approx 5 min reads
Intro
Melanie Kembrey explores increasing opportunity, access and visibility for women’s’ voices, celebrating reasons why “
Stella Prize 2019 shortlist includes youngest ever finalist” via The Age
Pauline Nguyen shares her experience of difficult upbringing, reconciling the Anger and liberating oneself from personal, familial and generational Suffering “
After running away at 17, I finally decided to face my father” via The Age
Jim Palmer explores mental health, caring, hospitality and “
Minding the gap between hopelessness and faith” via The Sydney Morning Herald
Intra
Kim Dunphy reviews an exploration of identity, society and belonging in this multilayered expressive “
Cycles of darkness and light in Karul Projects' Dance Massive work Co_Ex_En” via The Age
Anna Prytz explores how transforming disrepaired school environment into open, connected and collaborative spaces raises learning standards, revealing secrets of “
Schools that Excel: tearing down the rusty fence and raising the bar” via The Canberra Times
Maureen Matthews explores a time proven constructive way to overcoming difficulties in relationships, recommending to “
About Last Night: Be prepared to listen, without firing up” via The Sydney Morning Herald
Inter
Henrietta Cook explores Australia’s freedom of assembly, right to strike and permitted voicing of dissent in public places to decision makers, as “
Thousands of students skip school for climate change protests” via The Age
Tony Wright explores overcoming challenges for disinterested disengaged students, reporting “
Cash push for acclaimed scheme that keeps at-risk students in school” via The Age
Charlotte Grieve explores the time-worn role of art to transform misfortune, tragedy and disgrace into understanding, forgiveness and redemption, shining a spotlight on “
Abbotsford Convent Magdalen Laundries to open doors for first time since 1975” via The Age
Multi
Hannie Rayson explores poverty, domestic violence and helping hand of strangers, walking the streets through discussion with “
Author Mark Brandi on crime, poverty and the burden of family violence” via The Age
Royce Millar and Ben Schneider explore changing attitudes over supportive environments for returning service personnel as “
Young veterans' reform group presses for a pokie-free RSL” via The Age
Maureen Matthews explores acknowledging lived experience, present trigger buttons and adaptive mind fields in “
About Last Night: How to handle the laws of emotion” via The Canberra Times
All
Carolyn Webb explores seeing opportunity, minimizing waste and more sustainable living, awakening to “
Restock and roll: It's a food truck, but not as you know it” via The Age
Richard Cornish takes a trip to the past for sustainable land management, shining a spotlight behind “
The Eel Dinner: Discovering food secrets of our past” via GoodFood
Paul Byrnes explores the importance of introducing fresh faces to overcoming present environmental challenges, reviewing a documentary revealing “
Inventing Tomorrow: Forget Marvel, these kids are the real superheroes” via The Age
Togather
Anna Prytz explores developments to improve equity and access to meaningful reproductive health education, reporting “
Breaking the period talk taboo” via The Age
Jewel Topsfield explores how cultivating self responsibility, student centering and supportive environments improves learning outcomes, reasons “
Schools that Excel: How the west was won” via The Sydney Morning Herald
Kim Dunphy explores performances acting as a medium for constructive and dynamic engagement with historical inequity, reviewing “
Struggles for survival embodied in dance” via The Age
Nobly
Emma Koehn explores examples of individuals taking responsibility for taking unsustainable practices to the big end of town and reasoning for change, reporting “
How a crafty potter's petition got a promise from Australia Post CEO” via The Canberra Times
James Massola and Veena Thoopkrajae explore personal identity, civic responsibility and providing positive role models for a brighter shared future “
'It's not about being famous': Meet Thailand's first transgender PM candidate” via The Brisbane Times
Jamila Rizvi salutes qualities of inspiring leadership: wisdom, compassion, consistency, sincerity and importantly in the time of need, citing how “
Jacinda Ardern just proved typically 'feminine' behaviour is powerful” via The Age
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TED TALKS
10-20min presentations
Alex Edmans: What to trust in a "post-truth” world (18 mins)
Dawn Bennett-Alexander: Practical diversity: taking inclusion from theory to practice (17 mins)
Simon Tam: How to Talk with a White Supremacist (13 mins)
Helen Turnbull: Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion and Collusion (13 mins)
Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it) (13 mins)
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GUEST SINGS
Approx 5 min presentation
Te Vaka with Orchestra - We Know the Way
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STREET JIVES
Approx 2 min presentation
Sesame Street and Sarah Michelle Gellar: Disappointed
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WISDOM RECONCILES
Approx 20 min presentation
David Suzuki - For Thought: Hope for the Planet (25 mins)
Scientist, broadcaster, author, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation and Grandpa and Elder. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2012 Inamori Ethics Prize, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and UNEP's Global 500. Dr. Suzuki is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and holds 29 honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things
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CHALLENGE REFLECTS
Approx 30 min presentation + reflection times
If desired, a short selection of publicly available material on a chosen theme for personal reflection.
For best results, sit comfortably with a straight back, have headphones in a shared space, after each clicked link, allow a little reflection with your personally-held view before clicking on the next link.
Get ready to Reflect!
Choose your playing level:
Be introduced at 1.
Be soothed at 2-4.
Be shocked at 5.
Be inspired at 6.
Fuller illumination 1-6.
And yes, its a repeat of an oldie and a goodie. Or not. You be the judge.
Cryptic Clue:
What is a strategy to overcoming hurdles, facing distant horizons and dealing with uncertainty?
1.
Inspire
2.
Perspire
3.
Collaborate
4.
Engage: Test for personal circumstances, if useful keep, if unuseful discard, if exceeds needs, share mindfully
5.
Endure: Adapt for present times without sacrificing intent
6.
Endear: (Inspiring Others To Tend the Flame) live/ demonstrate/ inspire/ teach experience with others
disappointment
[diss'uh'point'ment]
late Middle English; via Old French
des- ; from Latin comprising:
dis- = negation, reversal or absence of an action or state, removal of something, separation, expulsion, completeness or intensification of an unpleasant or unattractive action;
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apointer = from a point ‘to a point’, assignation of a job or role to (someone), determine or decide on (a time or a place), Law Determination of the disposition of (property of which one is not the owner) under powers granted by the owner
+ -
mentum = means or result of an action
a) Feeling of sadness or displeasure because someone or something has failed to fulfil one's hopes or expectations. Ie, I'm disappointed in you. Ie, thousands of disappointed customers were kept waiting.
b) Result of hopes or expectations prevented from being realized. Ie, the rising was a revolution of disappointed hopes.
forgive
[for'gihv]
Old English
forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch
vergeven and German
vergeben, comprising:
for- = prohibiting, abstention from, neglecting, or renunciating, used as an intensifier
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give = transferrance of possessions of some thing from one to another, cause or allow (someone or something) to have or experience (something); carry out or perform (a specified action); yield as a product or result; concede (something) as valid or deserved in respect of (someone); state or put forward (information or argument); alter in shape under pressure rather than resist or break
a) stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake. Ie, I'll never forgive David for the way he treated her.
b) no longer feel angry about or wish to punish (an offence, flaw, or mistake). Ie, I was willing to forgive all her faults for the sake of our friendship; Ie, sometimes it is advanced understanding why to forgive and forget.
c) cancel (a debt). Ie, he proposed that their debts should be forgiven due to hardship provisions.
d) used in polite expressions as a request to excuse one's foibles, ignorance, or impoliteness. Ie, you will have to forgive my suspicious mind.
forget
[for'geht]
Old English
forgietan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch
vergeten and German
vergessen, comprising:
for- = prohibiting, abstention from, neglecting, or renunciating, used as an intensifier
+
get = Middle English from Old Norse geta = obtain, beget, guess; related to Old English gietan (in
begietan = beget,
forgietan = forget), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin
praeda = booty, prey,
praehendere = get hold of, seize, and Greek
khandanein = hold, contain, be able.
a) fail to remember. Ie, he had forgotten his lines; Ie, she had completely forgotten how hungry she was.
b) inadvertently neglect to do, bring, or mention something. Ie, I forgot my raincoat; Ie, she forgot to lock her door; Ie, I'm sorry, I just forgot.
c) deliberately cease to think of. Ie, forget all this romantic stuff; Ie, after the break up she chose to forget about him.
d) neglect to behave in an appropriate way. Ie, ‘I'm sorry, Cassie. I forget myself’.
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Practice]
Optional
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Chant Buddha Mantrastyle
One strategy of transforming
disappointment is to
forgive and
forget with all, some or sum of the above meanings. Or not. As the case may be.
This is universal basis of
re:lig:ion (again:uniting:energy). Here in this email, we'll hear it as countless sounds: of thoughts, words and actions wishing, causing and receiving less Suffering and more Happiness. For benefit initially of the individual increasing in beneficiaries until it includes all across all times and directions.
It is not personal, it just the way things are.
