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GEIFN | MIXING | Media | September 2021

Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Bahá'í calendar 177–178.

Sharing a timely aspiration:
“We are all the same. We are filled with uncertainty, regrets or sorrows.
Breathe. In. And out. Repeat. Calm the disturbances in mind. From this clarity arises natural inner wisdom and then we can do better from this moment on.”
Attributed to Buddhism (since 483 BCE to present)

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.


Media Writes

Approx 5 min reads

Intro
Jane Rocca explores upbringing, career and individuals who have influenced with "‘I’ve learnt that being happy is enough’: Casey Donovan” via The Age

Simone Fox Koob explores importance of fearlessness, longevity, and approachable attitude when meeting "Victoria Police’s longest-serving woman on almost half a century in the force” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Benjamin Law talks dicey topics death, money and politics with "ABC presenter Tony Armstrong: ‘The internet helped me understand how to talk about race’” via The Sydney Morning Herald


Intra
Benjamin Law explores dicey topics Death, Politics and Money with "Actor Rob Collins: ‘There’s a thirst for seeing First Nations people on screen’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Jane Caro 'Women are sick of asking nicely – and finally, we’re being heard” via The Brisbane Times

Amanda Hooton explores after death, respectfulness and saying goodbye, revealing "‘Pass me an aneurysm hook?’: the mother-daughter embalming team” via The Age


Inter
Benjamin Law explores dicey topics money, religion and bodies with "Indigenous author Anita Heiss: ‘Speaking language is an act of sovereignty’” via The Age

Tony Birch explores fostering, care, and familiarity, recounting how "At 5, far from home, my head was shaved, my back teeth removed. This was my ‘holiday’” via The Age

Neil McMahon explores one person’s strategy for dealing with uncertain times, telling the one about "A comedian walks into a pandemic, it knocks her life around” via The Age


Multi
David Whitley explores how engineering transformed early settlement and and the personal cost of cancel culture, turning the tap on the  "The Golden Pipeline, WA (Kalgoorlie to Mundaring): How one pipe changed Australian history” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Mike Foley explores discovery, evolution and bio diversity, reporting "Siblicidal kookaburras, truffle-snuffling potoroos: Why did Australia’s wildlife astonish even Charles Darwin?” via The Brisbane Times

Rob Harris explores visibility, representation and equity, reasons that "‘Deserve our recognition’: Three political trailblazers immortalised in bronze” via The Sydney Morning Herald


All
Liam Mannix explores science, medicine and track record, answering "How do we know vaccines won’t have long-term safety risks?” via The Age

Margaret Simons explores truthfulness, trustworthiness and rights and obligations of being heard, discussing "Freedom of speech or promotion of lies? Who gets to decide what’s true?” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Kerrie O’Brien explores continuing connection to place, people and enduring time as "Timo Hogan wins $50,000 prize in Australia’s longest-running Indigenous art awards” via The Brisbane Times


Togather
Fenella Souter explores the tenacity and love required to build modern family with "‘A shout-out to all the step-parents out there’: Fran and Marion on 30 years of love” via WA Today

Michael Fowler explores citizenry, community service and public benefit when "Misinformation was rife in Whatsapp groups in Nayana’s community, so she made her own” via The Age

Kerrie O’Brien explores visibility, representation and adaptability, reasons why "Underlining the power of communal effort, Kent Morris’ work couldn’t be more relevant” via The Brisbane Times


Nobly
Neil McMahon explores creative thinking, pragmatic solutions and civic mindedness, recounting how "Amazing generosity’: Quiet hero playing and paying in style” via WA Today

Carolyn Webb explores an example of one the job training and pathways to life, calling out "All aboard for coffee with a conscience at youth charity’s station cafe” via The Age

Anne Hyland explores home, rallying around the misfortunate and consistent hard work, recounting how "‘We had to speak up for our friends’: the little town that roared for a desperate family” 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 is a way to make relationships nurturing, over come obstacles, last over time, and beneficial to self and a greater number?
  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

peace
[pees]
From Middle English: from Old French pais, from Latin pax, pac- = peace.
  1. freedom from disturbance; tranquillity. Ie, the avid student just wanted to read a few chapters in peace. 
  2. mental or emotional calm. Ie, the peace of mind this assurance gives you. 
  3. a state or period in which there is no war or a war has ended. Ie, the Straits were to be open to warships in time of peace. Ie, the peace didn't last.
  4. a treaty agreeing peace between warring states. Ie, there was unilateral support for a negotiated peace. 
  5. the state of being free from civil disorder. Ie, police action to restore peace. 
  6. the state of being free from dissension. Ie, the 8.8 per cent wage increase offer promises peace with the union. 
  7. (the peace) a ceremonial handshake or kiss exchanged during a service in some Churches (now usually only in the Eucharist), symbolizing Christian love and unity.

war 
[wore]
From late Old English werre, from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French guerre, from a Germanic base shared by worse.
  1. a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. Ie, Japan declared war on America. Ie, the two countries were at war for the next eight years. Ie, the soldier fought in two wars. 
  2. a state of competition or hostility between different people or groups. Ie, the middle-child was at war with their parents. Ie, a price war among tour operators. 
  3. a sustained campaign against an undesirable situation or activity. Ie, the authorities are waging war against smuggling. Ie, a war on drugs. Ie, conflicting emotions were at war within her.

cause
[corze]
From Middle English: from Old French, from Latin causa (noun), causare (verb).
  1. a person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition. Ie, the cause of the accident is still be determined. Ie, this disease can cause blindness. Ie, we have a growing idea what has happened to cause people to stay away. Ie, this behaviour could cause them problems.
  2. reasonable grounds for doing, thinking, or feeling something. Ie, Faye's condition had given a cause for concern. Ie, class size is a cause for complaint in some schools. 
  3. a principle, aim, or movement to which one is committed and which one is prepared to defend or advocate. Ie, she devoted her whole adult life to the cause of deaf people. Ie, I'm raising money for good causes. Ie, a rebel without a cause is a person who is dissatisfied with society but does not have a specific aim to campaign for.
  4. a matter to be resolved in a court of law. Ie, forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session. 
  5. an individual's case offered at law. Ie, the rule that no man should be a judge in his own cause. 
  6. a principle of causation, the cause in "cause and effect" – the view to see everything as governed by simple laws of cause and effect. Ie, the operation or relation of a cause and its effect. Ie, cause and effect play an important part in the universe. 

[Practice]

Optional
-- Chant Mantrastyle

If peace was easy, everybody would be doing it while the only winners in war are those who make weapons. The causeof these extremely opposite outcomes begin with the motivation of the individual, shared with familiars and radiating to a greater number. Choose wisely.

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

Same Difference Equals


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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