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GEIFN | MIXING | Media | April 2021

Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Armenian Calendar Year 1470. 

Let’s begin by sharing a timely aspiration:
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Attributed to the Buddha (c563-c483 BCE)
Otherwise, the following monthly curation from publicly available information is offered below for consideration.

Topics

  • Guest Sings
  • Street Jives
  • Wisdom Reconciles
  • Media Writes
  • TED Talks
  • Music Challenges
  • Acknowledgments

Guest Sings

Approx 5 min presentation

Media Writes

Approx 5 min reads

Intro
Robyn Doreian explores when prodigal talent is nurtured, supported and celebrated with "Great expectations: How Van-Anh Nguyen struck a chord from such a young age” via The Age

Genevieve Quigley explores how determination, visibility and community spirit means "‘There’s no excuse’: The family gamble that taught Sarah Abo to chase her dreams” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Zach Hope explores place, people, redressing history and sharing a common future in "A moment of truth: How hearing our First Nations can change this state” via The Age


Intra
Evelyn Lewin explores some strategies for staying calm, cool and collected, when "Anxiety can be debilitating, but there are four steps to manage it” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Kerrie O’Brien explores visibility, expression when shining a light on reasons how "Birrarangga Film Festival celebrates global indigenous movies” via The Age

Karl Quinn explores listening, expression and making communication, playing for laughs when "‘The English are the last ethnic group it’s still woke to bag’: plenty fire left in Ben Elton” via WA Today


Inter
Susan Horsburgh explores family, society and God, sharing "The light-bulb moment that healed a Catholic-Muslim family rift” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick Miller explores climate, art and and sustainability as "‘These issues are global’: new NGV exhibit connects country and climate” via The Brisbane Times

Garry Maddox explores an Australia film legend’s history, celebrating living and revealing reasons why "‘I’m just trying to stay alive’: as the end approaches, David Gulpilil is feted one more time” via WA Today


Multi
Susan Horsburgh explores a shared vision to assist youth struggling with mental illness, reasoning why "‘He’s traditional medicine, I’m very alternative’: the unlikely pair on a mental health mission” via WA Today

Sue Williams explores increasing calls for multi-generational housing, arguing "The case for diversifying housing options for older Australians” via Domain.com.au

Dilvin Yasa explores toxic relationships and consequences of staying or going, citing different reasons why "Walking away isn’t easy – but it may be the best move you’ll ever make” via The Sydney Morning Herald


All
Jane Caro explores identifying, engaging and overcoming implicit bias is a job for everyone, addressing "When will a woman simply be a fellow human being who happens to be female?” via WA Today 

Michael Lallo explores natural curiosity, non-judgemental gaze and bearing witness are key ingredients behind "To help others open up, Insight host Kumi Taguchi had to face her family history” via The Age

Poh Ling Yeow explores migration, culture, sacrifice, belonging and gratitude, sharing "My hope for all women this International Women’s Day, and beyond” via The Sydney Morning Herald


Togather
Sonia Shah explores biodiversity, tracking wildlife and making tracks, raising "High hopes: the satellite network building the ‘internet of animals’” via The Brisbane Times

Jane Wheatley explores origin stories, familial upbringing and critical thinking to address lies, injustice and inequity, reasoning behind "Rage through the ages: feminist Carmen Callil looks back in anger” via WA Today

Emma Lee explores rebalancing and reconciling relationships with people and place, reasoning why "Indigenous Voice gives us the chance to work together” via The Age


Nobly
Tim Elliott explores the personal cost of accumulating a worldly experience, reasons why "‘Life at home just didn’t make sense’: the mental trauma of foreign correspondent Sally Sara” via The Age

Benjamin Law talks dicey topics Politics, Death and Religion with "Local hero Rosemary Kariuki: ‘Politics is very dirty. I don’t think it’s for me’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Kylie Northover explores 2nd wave feminism and how the march towards changing society’s awareness, understanding and attitude is an ongoing one, reviewing Brazen Hussies - "‘A must-watch’: Five stars for rare, inspirational new documentary” via The Sydney Morning Herald


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:
What do we need to acknowledge first to make a more equitable present and forge brighter futures together?
  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
subsist
[sub’sist]
From mid 16th century (in the sense ‘continue to exist’): from Latin subsistere = stand firm, from sub- = from below + sistere = to stop, set/stand still, take one's stand.
  1. maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level. Ie, the neighbour subsisted on welfare and casual labour. 
  2. (archaic) provide sustenance for. Ie, the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of high accomodation prices. 
  3. (Law) remain in force or effect. Ie, the court may treat a contract as still subsisting. Ie, the peace subsisted between 1303 and 1324. 
  4. (Science) be attributable to. Ie, the effect of genetic maldevelopment may subsist in chromosomal mutation. 

assist
[ah’sist]
From late Middle English: from Old French assister, from Latin assistere = take one's stand by, from ad- = to, at + sistere = to stop, set/stand still, take one's stand.
  1. help (someone), typically by doing a share of the work. Ie, a senior academic would assist students in their work. Ie, their presence would assist in keeping the peace. 
  2. help by providing money or information. Ie, they were assisting police with their inquiries. Ie, funds to assist with capital investment. 
  3. be present as a helper. Ie, two midwives who assisted at a water birth. 
  4. an act of giving help, typically by providing money. Ie, the budget must have an assist from tax policies. 
  5. an act of touching the ball in a play in which a teammate scores or an opposing batter is put out. Ie, the player had 10 points and five assists.

persist
[per’sist]
From mid 16th century: from Latin persistere, from per- = through, steadfastly + sistere = to stop, set/stand still, take one's stand.
  1. continue in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. Ie, the minority of drivers who persist in drinking. Ie, we are persisting with policies that will create jobs for the future. 
  2. continue to exist; be prolonged. Ie, if the symptoms persist for more than a few days, then contact your doctor. 
[Practice]

Optional
-- Chant Mantrastyle

Experience shows that individuals adapting to circumstances, subsisting where necessary assisting as means allows contribute to making societies that persist.

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



Acknowledgments

Reconciliation
Acknowledging traditional inhabitants of Cities of Port Phillip and Glen Eira are the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples 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.

Invitation to Support Content Creators
The music/stories/videos have been sourced from public domain. If you like any of the content, please consider buying directly from online marketplaces to support creators and truth telling in the public interest.

Caretaker Disclosure
Words and concepts are conditional things that point to a 'reflection of experience'. They are limited and do not adequately describe the 'full lived experience'. Like the moon's reflection on a lake's surface, it is not the moon, nor the experience of gazing up at the darkened sky transformed by the presence of a full moon. It is in the eyes/ears/nose/mouth/touch/cognisance of the beholder.

This curation is an interpretation of the universal basis of re:lig:ion (Latin = again:uniting:energy). This email invites a sharing of countless 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 the 3 times and 10 directions. As each case may be. Or not.

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

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