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May this find you well and kindly treated.
Another special edition Grabs for challenging times.

Adopting, Holding and Embodying the view that this is universal year of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Topics

  • Guest Sings
  • Street Jives
  • Wisdom Reconciles
  • Media Writes
  • Music Challenges
  • TED Talks
  • Caretaker Disclosure
  • Acknowledgment

Guest Sings

Approx 5 min presentation


Street Jives

Approx 2 min presentation
Sesame Street with Abby Cadabby: How to Self Hug


Wisdom Reconciles


Media Writes

Approx 5 min reads

Intro
Rob Mills explores how using unemployment and self-isolation improved his relationship to alcohol, parties and loved ones, revealing how "Deep in a COVID funk, here's how I found joy again” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Warwick McFadyen explores non-essentialism and the rationing of movement during trying times, reasoning why "We've had to redefine what's ‘essential’” via The Age

Kelly DiNardo "Breathe better and reduce stress with these simple exercises” via WA Today

Intra
Benjamin Law talks dicey topics politics, sex and bodies with "Anne Aly: 'God, how the f--- did I get here?’” Via The Brisbane Times

Michael Dwyer explores belonging, dispossession and reconciliation as shining "Midnight Oil amplify Uluru Statement with first new song in 18 years” via The Age

Nicole Azzopardi explores ancient stress busting techniques for the modern age, resonating with "The power of 'om': How chanting can help your stress and sleep” via The Brisbane Times


Inter
Luke Slattery explores place, nature and nurture make these "Material girls: meet some of the Apple Isle's most intriguing designers” via The Brisbane Times

Martin Boulton explores artistic freedom of expression challenging societal hypocrisies, creativity’s purposeful existence and other reasons why "Nick Cave slams cancel culture as 'bad religion run amuck’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Ben Pobjie explores place, people and progress in a factual time-travelling tv show, reviewing how "Aaron Pedersen reveals an intimate story of country and place” via The Sydney Morning Herald


Multi
Kerrie O’Brien explores birthplace, origin story, identity and legacy, citing Jenna Lee's reasons why "'I'm more Australian than Captain Cook will ever be’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Tom Cowie explores continuity and changing nature of a caring village, "When the yiayia next door is in lockdown: Daniel and Luke do their bit” via The Age

Christine Jackman shares her before and after experience with retreat style meditation, revealing that "To calm down, shut up: a multitasker's meditation breakthrough” via WA Today


All
Anthony Dennis explores examples, responses and legacies of past pandemics, thing a spotlight on "Sydney during the Spanish flu: Tour goes inside the city's disease-ridden past” via Traveller.com.au

Elizabeth Farrelly explores the differing role of face coverings through history pages to the present, "Unmasking the mask, from Greek theatre to facial fad” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix explores ongoing global research and developments into viruses and vaccinations, revealing  "Scientists discover many people unexposed to coronavirus have immune cells for COVID-19” via WA Today


Togather
Carolyn Webb explores initiative, belonging and celebration of public community citing how this "Artist finds a creative way to bring people together” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Chani Getter explores here journey from prescribed religious orthodoxy to an authentic self identity celebrating secular inclusiveness, recounting "At 17, I went on one date. The next day, our engagement was announced” via The Age

Jacqueline Maley explores religious upbringing, social conscious and team-building approach, revealing some of the reasons why, how and when "Jacinda Ardern keeps up the good fight” via The Sydney Morning Herald


Nobly
Susan Horsburgh explores the rocky road to getting of wisdom, compassion and a shared greater happiness, revealing how "'He looked so sad': the new mum who welcomed a refugee into her home” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Greg Callaghan explores how migration, diligence and non-selfish generousity is why "'Mum told me to give back to the community': the young Australian creating robots for good” via WA Today

Sherryn Groch explores the fearlessness of an everyday hero standing up for fairness and equity, writing "Can a 'housewife' in Belarus bring down Europe's last dictator?” via The Age


Music Challenges

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.
You be the judge. Or not.

Cryptic Clue:
When times are troubled, where is the best vantage point?

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


key 
[kee]
From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe; from Old English cǣg, cǣge = key, solution, experiment; related to Old English cǣggian = to lock, shut. of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai = key, West Frisian kaai = key, and North Frisian kay = key. Possibly from Proto-Germanic kēgaz, kēguz = stake, post, pole, from Proto-Indo-European ǵogʰ-, ǵegʰ-, ǵegʰn- = branch, stake, bush, which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk = whipping post, pillory, and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige = javelin, spear and Middle Low German keie, keige = spear. For semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. It is noted by some scholars, however, the original meaning of kaig-jo- was presumably = pin with a twisted end – only common in the North Germanic languages are words with the root kai- followed by a consonant = crooked, bent; twisted.
  1. An object designed to open and close a lock.
  2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
  3. A crucial step or requirement. Ie, The key to solving this problem is persistence. Ie, teamwork is the key to winning a game
  4. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend. Ie, the key says that A stands for the accounting department.
  5. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test. Ie, some students cheated by using the answer key.
  6. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters. Ie, press the Escape key.
  7. (music) 
    1. In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind. 
    2. In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
  8. (music) 
    1. The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
    2. In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
    3. In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
    4. In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key. Ie, the key of B-flat major
  9. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
  10. (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
  11. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
  12. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
  13. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  14. (Internet) A password restricting access to an Internet Relay Chat channel.
  15. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
  16. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
  17. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole. Ie, he shoots from the top of the key.
  18. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
  19. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
  20. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
  21. (masonry) A keystone.
  22. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  23. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
  24. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue. Ie, the door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.
  25. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
  26. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
  27. (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.

character 
[ka’rack’ter]
From Middle English; via Old French caractere, via Latin from Greek kharaktēr = a stamping tool. From early sense = distinctive mark; arose early 16th century = token, feature, or trait; and from this = a description, especially of a person's qualities; giving rise to = distinguishing qualities.
  1. the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Ie, running away was not in keeping with her character. 
  2. the distinctive nature of something. Ie, gas lamps give the area its character. 
  3. the quality of being individual in an interesting or unusual way. Ie, the outback town is full of character. 
  4. strength and originality in a person's nature. Ie, the horse had character as well as beauty. 
  5. a person's good reputation. Ie, to what do I owe this attack on my character? 
  6. (archaic) a written statement of someone's good qualities; a testimonial: the worker was dismissed without a character. 
  7. a person in a novel, play, or film. Ie, the author's compassionate identification with the characters. 
  8. a part played by an actor, Ie, the actor's TV character is often on the wrong side of the law. 
  9. a person seen in terms of a particular aspect of character. Ie, the Mayor was a larger-than-life character. Ie, shady characters. 
  10. an unusual or amusing person. Ie, she's a right character with a will of her own. 
  11. a printed or written letter or symbol. Ie, a computing symbol representing a letter or number. 
  12. (Biology) a characteristic, especially one that assists in the identification of a species. 

era
[ear’rah]
From mid 17th century; from late Latin aera = a number used as a basis of reckoning, an epoch from which time is reckoned, plural of aes, aer- = money, counter.
  1. a long and distinct period of history. Ie, the chief's death marked the end of an era. Ie, leading photographers of the Victorian era. 
  2. a system of chronology dating from a particular event. Ie, the dawn of the Common era. 
  3. (Geology) a major division of time that is a subdivision of an aeon and is itself subdivided into periods. Ie, the Mesozoic era. 
  4. (archaic) a date or event marking the beginning of a new and distinct period of time. Ie, the landing of English Colonialism was an era in what came to be known as Australian lives.
[Practice]

Optional
-- Chant Mantrastyle

If Life is a journey: with smooth conditions, the longest of journeys seems brief; while with difficult circumstances, even the shortest of journeys seems to take an eternity. A key worth having is Free Will. Character determines how/to/who/why/when to move and assemble with. Motion or direction is important but influenced by potential of, having presence of or reaching unconditional love. Does unconditional love exist or is that just a misdirection?
Is love relative and impermanent, subject to conditions like every other thing?

The right era to be with this experience is the present one. The past has been done and can't be undone. The future hasn't been determined yet, is full of potential and influenced by what we do now.

Why? Why not?
Start today. 
As the case may be.
Or not.

TED Talks

5-20 min presentations

Caretaker Disclosure

This curation is an interpretation of the universal basis of re:lig:ion (Latin = again:uniting:energy). This email invites a shared hearing 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. Or not. As each case may be.

It is not personal, it just the way things are.


Acknowledgment

Acknowledging traditional inhabitants of Cities of Port Phillip and Glen Eira are the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeripeoples of the Kulin Nation. Respect is offered to past, present and future elders of all spiritual traditions. May we find together a generous way to accommodate those in need of refuge. Let us be cool, strive individually and together to overcome inequality, violence, disengagement, tragedy and injustice wherever it may be. Let us honour, savor and enjoy results of mindful effort so more thrive peacefully with less effort in our place called home.



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