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GEIFN | MIXING | Media | June 2021

Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Korean Calendar Year 4354.

Sharing a timely aspiration:
“Everything can be taken from an individual but one thing. The last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor (1905-1997 CE)

If having no reason to celebrate this month, here are 3 prepared earlier:

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

Media Writes

Approx 5 min reads

Intro
Mari Andrew explores life, loving and loss when "As a single woman, I’ve noticed an enormous gap in our rituals” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Benjamin Law explores dicey topics Bodies, Religion and Death, revealing reasons why "Tanya Hosch on race, faith and feeling smug at a Beyoncé concert” via WA Today

Jonathan Rivett explores relationships, building, when to hold, when to fold and when to walk away with "You can’t ask that: how to navigate uncomfortable interview questions” via WA Today


Intra
Emma Young explores retrenchment, life-long love and being motivated, citing example of "The Perth woman who turned a redundancy into a booming family business” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Nick Miller explores experience versus expertise when "Kids dissect parents’ divorces on stage – and break your heart in the process” via The Age

Tony Wright explores the value in hearing, recording and sharing collective truth when "The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission: some facts about truth-telling” via The Age


Inter
Jewel Topsfield explores ageing, engaging audience and the power of story telling, calling out "‘No more bingo!’ How creative writing is telling the true story of loneliness in old age” via WA Today

Cara Waters explores software giants moving to platforms enabling the sophisticated image projection in public domain, revealing why "‘Pastel QAnon’: Instagram conspiracy peddlers a political headache for design giants” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Benjamin Law explores dicey topics Death, Religion and Sex with "Novelist Alice Pung: ‘Don’t write with a vendetta’” via The Brisbane Times


Multi
Benjamin Law explores dicey topics Politics, Death and Sex with "Actor Pallavi Sharda: ‘I’m not scared to get my hands dirty’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Kerrie O’Brien explores nationality, citizenry and learning from history to overcome why "‘These things just keep happening’: When some Aussies are more Aussie than others” via The Age

Jessica Irvine explores connections between historical gendered bias, equity and balancing the household balance, discussing "What can (and can’t) the budget do to improve economic outcomes for women” via The Age


All
Stuart Layt explores the human project, precious nature of human existence and loss, revealing "How giant snails helped confirm the oldest human burial in Africa” via The Age

Ali Gripper explores artful depiction of the Great Australian Forgetting as "Australian Museum gears up for most important show in its history” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Megan Davis and George Williams explores growing public understanding and informed support for reconciliation, calling for "Politicians must trust the people on Indigenous Voice to Parliament” via WA Today


Togather
Melissa Singer explores stitching together a civic responsibility with fashionable style, when "HoMie improvement: tackling youth homelessness, one hoodie at a time” via The Age

Nick Miller explores origin, migration and belonging, recalling that "‘To survive you had to be a smuggler’: How James Nguyen turned seeds into art” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Anna Prytz explores educational settings demonstrating wearable inclusiveness, writing how "School uniforms evolving to give students a voice and a choice” via The Age


Nobly
Adam Carey, Anna Prytz and Lisa Visentine explore a growing maturity with reconciling the divided past, multicultural present and sharing a brighter future, reasoning why "New curriculum teaches cultural diversity, dumps ‘Christian heritage’” via The Age

Sherryn Groch explores the value of social housing in building jobs, household security and societal connectivity, citing reasons why "Before she was a CEO, Michele and her kids lost everything” via The Brisbane Times

Megan Backhouse explores urban agriculture, volunteerism and supporting sustainable living, revealing that "In a corner of Collingwood, the future of farming is being rewritten” via The Sydney Morning Herald

TED Talks

5-20 min presentations


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 is timeless advice for surviving obstacles, curve-balls, set-backs, adversity and uncertain times?
  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

seed
[ceed]
From Old English sǣd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaad, German Saat.
  1. the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant. Ie, cut open the peppers and remove the seeds. Ie, seed capsules. 
  2. a quantity of seeds. Ie, grass seed. Ie, you can grow artichokes from seed. 
  3. the cause or latent beginning of a feeling, process, or condition. Ie, the conversation sowed a tiny seed of doubt in the mind. 
  4. (biology) a man's semen. 
  5. (archaic chiefly in biblical use) a person's offspring or descendants. Ie, as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed. 
  6. any of a number of stronger competitors in a sports tournament who have been assigned a specified position in an ordered list with the aim of ensuring that they do not play each other in the early rounds. Ie, the player knocked the top seed out of the championships. Ie, she was seeded second for the competition.
  7. (Science) a small crystal introduced into a liquid to act as a nucleus for crystallization or condensation (especially in a cloud to produce rain). Ie, potential hail clouds are observed by radar, then seeded by lead iodide fired into the cloud's centre. 
  8. (Medicine) a small container for radioactive material placed in body tissue during radiotherapy. 
  9. sowing (land) with seeds. Ie, seed the shoreline with a special grass will slow coastal erosion. 
  10. sowing (seed). Ie, after seeding forage into the duff, they now have grassland mixed with mature forest. 
  11. causing (something) to begin to develop or grow. Ie, their interest in public service was seeded when they were children. 
  12. (of a plant) produce or drop seeds. Ie, mulches encourage many plants to seed freely. 
  13. (seed itself) (of a plant) reproducing itself by means of its own seeds. Ie, feverfew will seed itself readily. 
  14. removing the seeds from (vegetables or fruit). Ie, stem and seed the chillies. 

sow
[soe]
From Old English sāwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaaien and German säen.
  1. plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth. Ie, fill a pot with compost and sow a thin layer of seeds on top. 
  2. plant the seeds of (a plant or crop). Ie, catch crops should be sown after minimal cultivation. 
  3. plant (a piece of land) with seed. Ie, the field used to be sown with oats. 
  4. (be sown with) be thickly covered with. Ie, the night sky was sown with stars. 
  5. lay or plant (an explosive mine) or cover (territory) with mines. Ie, the field had both British and German mines sown in it. 
  6. disseminate or introduce (something undesirable). Ie, the new policy has sown confusion and doubt.

tend
[tend’ing]
From Middle English = move or be inclined to move in a certain direction: from Old French tendre = stretch, tend, from Latin tendere. Also shortening of French atendre = apply one's mind or energies to
  1. regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic. Ie, written language tends to be formal. Ie, her hair tended to come loose. 
  2. be liable to possess or display (a particular characteristic). Ie, the patient tended towards anxiety. 
  3. go or move in a particular direction. Ie, fire is hot and tends upwards. 
  4. (Mathematics) in a variable approach, a given quantity as a limit. Ie, the orbit tends to infinity. 
  5. care for or look after; give one's attention to. Ie, the tenant tended plants on the roof. Ie, ambulance crews were tending to the injured.
  6. (US) direct or manage; work in. Ie, the waiter was to tend bar for the special event.
  7. wait on as an attendant or servant. Ie, the apprentice that tended the carpenter. Ie, the staff tended on the Guest there.

fruition
[frew’ih’shone]
From late Middle English = enjoyment: via Old French from late Latin fruitio(n-), from frui = enjoy
  1. the realization or fulfilment of a plan or project. Ie, the plans have come to fruition rather sooner than expected. 
  2. literary the state or action of producing fruit. Ie, the apples in the orchards gave a suggestion of sour fruition. 

reap
[reep]
From Old English ripan, reopan
  1. time of cutting or gathering (a crop or harvest). Ie, many labourers were employed to reap the harvest. Ie, in terms of science, the Apollo programme reaped a meagre harvest.
  2. ongoing working a piece of land. Ie, farmers agreed to continue reaping the land by traditional means. 
  3. receive something as a consequence of one's own or another's actions. Ie, the company is poised to reap the benefits of this investment. Ie, you reap what you sow

enjoy
[en'joy]
From late Middle English: from Old French enjoier = give joy to or enjoïr = enjoy, both based on Latin gaudere = rejoice.
  1. take delight or pleasure in (an activity or occasion). Ie, I enjoy watching good films. 
  2. have a pleasant time. Ie, I could never enjoy myself, knowing you were in your room alone. 
  3. (informal) used to urge someone to take pleasure in what is being offered or is about to happen. Ie, Bake until the filling starts to bubble and the crust turns golden brown. Enjoy! 
  4. possess and benefit from. Ie, the security forces enjoy legal immunity from prosecution.
[Practice]

Optional
-- Chant Mantrastyle

Human existence is fragile, easily lost and an individual's most prized posession. Our thoughts make the seed. Through our words we sow. Through our actions, we tend the crop until experiencing fruition. Some, sum or none of these things are what we reap because we are all subject to individual and collective karmas – known or unknown, forgotten or remembered.
No thing arises of itself, every thing is interconnected and in a constant state of impermanence. The past explains how we got to here, the future hasn't been written yet, so what we do in the present is an opportunity full of potential. 
In our every day, when we think, live and experience wisdom, kindness and non-selfishness, peacefulness is easier to enjoy over a longer period of time.

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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