WELCOME
Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Coptic calendar 1735-1736.
Forgive the intrusion, this month's Grabs for personal consideration.
Let’s begin by sharing an insight:
“Character is what you are in the dark.” Dwight L. Moody (CE 1837-1899)
Discuss with sincerity. Deny untruth. Dismiss unuseful. Accept useful. Adapt to change. 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
Julie Szego explores migration, diverse elation and collective commitment to improving teamwork on competing playing platforms, reasoning why “
Footy mania has claimed the unlikeliest of victims - me” via The Age
Liam Mannix explores current medical thinking on brain, function and processes “
How much of my brain do I use? And ... can I boost it?” via The Brisbane Times
Kerri Sackville explores how evidence based immersion learning transcends intellectualism, revealing that “
It took a trip to the outback to teach me that I know nothing” via The Sydney Morning Herald
Intra
Pallavi Singhal explores an opportunity for scholastic settings to show their information gathering, critical thinking and technology prowess, announcing how “
Students challenged to create their own newspapers” via The Age
Amanda Lyons explores how all Australians want a country they have a say in, calling for a respectful “
Moving towards unity: Reconciliation Week 2019” via Australian Journal of General Practice
Nick Galvin explores nature, projection, expression and delight, seeing is believing as “
Vivid Sydney 2019: Seeds of Andrew Thomas Huang's floral fantasy planted from afar” via The Age
Inter
Michael Fowler explores a roadside collaboration between road builders, councils and artists, revealing “
Craigieburn warehouse painting the newest addition to Melbourne roadside art, EastLink collection” via The Brisbane Times
Madeleine Heffernan explores how skills learnt in education sector can be used in all areas of life, revealing how as a teacher “
'You are responsible for their lives': lessons from my time as a chalkie” via The Age
Steve Dow explores identity, intersectionality and transmission when “
YIRRAMBOI festival: Vicki Van Hout dance examines Indigenous culture as a commodity” via The Age
Multi
Carol Frost explores the value of timely kindness, truth and reflectiveness, sharing how in “
Faith: My time is precious to me” via The Age
Tabi Gee explores a time-proven natural remedy for Sufferers of anxiety, reporting her personal findings with “
The good soil: Put down that iPad and pick up a spade instead” via WA Today
Anthony Dennis explores time-proven trauma therapy for individuals with mass audience appeal, recounting “
The unusual Cambodian circus in Siem Reap: Unmissable and unexpected entertainment” via Traveller.com.au
All
Carolyn Webb explores enduring value of skilful and timely leadership when overcoming trials and tribulations as “
'Humanity hoisted above the humbug': Art critic's verdict on Ardern mural” via The Age
Cameron Woodhead explores segregation, absolutionism and radicalization, reviewing “
Inside the minds just one click away from radicalisation” via The Brisbane Times
Julie Perrin explores the discovery of sharing stories with unexplained endings, in this article of “
Faith: Leaving space to find meaning” via WA Today
Togather
Rebecca Puddy explores the value of empathy and generosity during communal grieving as "
Aboriginal community gives gifts of sorrow to Islamic community after Christchurch shootings” via ABC
John Shand explores the value in living together with difference, learning how Maestro “
Goran Bregovic is knitting the world back together, stitch by sonic stitch” via The Sydney Morning Herald
Yimou Lee writes of growing equality across a globalized world as “
Love wins In first for Asia, Taiwan says yes to same-sex marriage” via The Brisbane Times
Nobly
Hannie Rayson explores birthplace, journey, personal expression and different ingredients to make a place called home, reasons why “
I feel free: Lawyer Nyadol Nyuon's journey from horror to hope” via The Age
Gabriella Coslovich explores the redemptive powers of truth, compassion and sharing pathways to a brighter shared future, listening to “
Cries from the past inspire Deborah Cheetham's requiem for the lost” via WA Today
Michael Koziol recalls an example of leadership, lest we forget why “
Bob Hawke became a hero to Chinese people with one instinctual decision” via WA Today
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TED TALKS
10-20min presentations
Vicky Schdeva: Navigating life as a third culture kid (13 mins)
Anthony Peterson: What I am learning from my white grandchildren -- truths about race (18 mins)
Natalia Ortiz Hazarian: The dark secret behind sexist advertisements (15 mins)
Eric Hirshberg with Norman Lear: An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning (19 mins)
Deeyah Khan: What We Don’t Know About Europe’s Muslim Kids and Why We Should Care (20 mins)
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GUEST SINGS
Approx 5 min presentation
Dolly Parton with Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Peace Train
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STREET JIVES
Approx 2 min presentation
Sesame Street and Tori Kelly: Try a Little Kindness
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WISDOM RECONCILES
Approx 20 min presentation
What It's Like:
An Australian show for young people in our community whose voices, stories and perspectives aren't often seen or heard.
To Be A 12 Year Old Girl (9 mins)
In this episode we hear what 12 year old girls like about themselves, and about their hopes and dreams for the future.
To Be A Refugee (8 mins)
In this episode we hear what it's like to be a refugee.
To Be Queer (9 mins)
In this episode we hear what it's like to be queer.
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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:
Where to look for love?
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
disrupt
From late Middle English; from Latin
disrupt- = broken apart, from the verb
disrumpere;
dis- = expressing negation, denoting reversal/removal/separation/expulsion/intensification or stating absence of an action or state +
rumpere = burst out, break.
1. interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem. Ie, flooding disrupted rail services.
2. drastically alter or destroy the structure of. Ie, alcohol can disrupt the chromosomes of an unfertilized egg.
3. introduced innovation or implementation of a new way of doing things. Ie, Apps like Airtasker and Airbnb connect by matching separated individuals to services, products or providers in new, fast and unforeseen ways.
interrupt
From late Middle English; from Latin
interrupt- = broken, interrupted, from the verb
interrumpere, from
inter- = between +
rumpere = burst out, break.
1. stop the continuous progress of (an activity or process). Ie, the buzzer interrupted his thoughts.
2. stop (someone) by saying or doing something. Ie, ‘Of course …’ the teacher started until the student interrupted.
3. break the continuity of (a line or surface). Ie, the coastal plain is interrupted by chains of large lagoons.
4. obstruct (something, especially a view).
reconcile
From late Middle English; via Old French
reconcilier or Latin
reconciliare, from Latin
re- = back, intensifying, focused +
conciliare = bring together.
1. restore friendly relations between. Ie, the Prime Minister and the Premiers were publicly reconciled. Ie, the child wanted to be reconciled with the parent.
2. settle (a quarrel). Ie, advice on how to reconcile conflict.
3. make or show to be compatible. Ie, any agreement had to be reconciled with the city's new international relations policy.
4. acceptance by someone of a disagreeable or unwelcome thing. Ie, the employee was reconciled to leaving.
5. make (one account) consistent with another, especially by allowing for transactions begun but not yet completed. Ie, it is necessary to reconcile cheque accounts to ensure computer records match bank records.
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Practice]
Optional
-- Chant
Buddha Mantrastyle
One strategy to transform unlimited yearning is to learn and earn 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.
