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GEIFN | MIXING | Media | April 2022

Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Korean calendar year 4355.

Sharing a timely aspiration:
“May all our positive energy today
Extend out like a great ocean
Bringing less Suffering, peace and happiness to all.
May less Suffering and great peace begin here.”
Attributed to Buddhism (since 483 BCE to present)

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

Remember, information may contain misunderstandings, deliberate omissions and complete fabrications. Accept nothing blindly. Test for usefulness: if useful keep; adapt for personal circumstances if necessary; or if unuseful discard. Be your own guiding light.

The following monthly curation from publicly available information is offered below for consideration.


Topics

  1. Guest Sings
  2. Street Jives
  3. Wisdom Reconciles
  4. Media Writes
  5. TED Talks
  6. Music Challenges
  7. Acknowledgments

1. Guest Sings

Approx 5 min presentation

4. Media Writes

Approx 5 min reads

Intro
Chloe Wolifson explores self, creativity and exposition, reviewing how "‘I can realise this potential’: Atong Atem awarded inaugural La Prairie Art Award” via The Age

Jason Steger explores personal identity, societal visibility and role modelling diversity, recounting how "Gabrielle Wang failed year 12 English – now she’s the Australian Children’s Laureate” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Anthony O’Donnell salutes the life, times and passing of Dr Moss Cass who as a "Whitlam government minister championed progressive causes” via The Age


Intra
Fenella Souter explores childhood, circumstances and overcoming obstacles, hearing why "‘I thought he’d ghosted me. Turned out he was back in jail’: One couple’s rocky start” via The Age

Dilvin Yasa explores opportunity and capatibility for enduring friendship, recounting how "‘I went speed dating and instead of a partner, I found my best friend’” via The Brisbane Times

Jo Case explores being the parent of children with special needs, unsupportive partners and overcoming obstacles, reviewing a book in which the author writes "‘I roar every day’: The Keepers plunges us into a mother’s daily battleground” via WA Today


Inter
Tim Elliott explores transforming sustainable agriculture, exporting value added product and meeting growing demand with calls to "Feed the man (alternative) meat: The 25-year-old predicting our future meals” via WA Today

Alan Duffy explores origins of precious minerals, human ingenuity and sustainable manufacturing, reasoning to "Recycle like our planet depends on it” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Steve Dow explores displacement, fleeing violence and seeking refuge "As Russia bombs her city, Stanislava Pinchuk stands by marble monoliths” via The Age


Multi
Jamila Rizvi explores gender, nourishing alliances and overcoming obstacles, declaring "Female friendship is proof that romantic love is not the pinnacle” via WA Today

Amal Awad explores gender, migration and confronting the unfamiliar "With four words, I realised the importance of understanding my mother’s story” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Julia Mio Inuma explores personal difficulties and qualities desired in a situational companion, citing how "This Japanese man shows up and ‘does nothing’. He’s made a living out of it” via The Brisbane Times


All
Unni Krishnan values looking through a child’s eyes while applying wisdom of the saints, reasoning to "Give children and peace a chance” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Nicholas Reece explores labour, workplace and home life balancing with "Long hours, always ‘on’? We’ve forgotten why this is a long weekend” via The Age

Duane Hamacher explores place, star gazing and ancient analysis as "First Nations knowledge of the stars a conjunction of new and old knowledge” via The Sydney Morning Herald


Together
Benjamin Law talks dicey topics Religion, Body and Money and other reasons why "‘You just turn up’: Lawyer Nyadol Nyuon on tackling fears and imposter syndrome” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Barry Divola explores valuing personal identity, societal engagement and collective belonging, saluting "Asian persuasion: How a local Facebook group created a global community” via The Brisbane Times

Kerrie O’Brien explores importance of place, gathering and potential as "Skywhales take flight over Melbourne in a celebration of life” via The Age


Nobly
Jane Rocca explores becoming internationally recognised ethologist and environmentalist "Dr Jane Goodall: ‘Growing up girls didn’t do the things I wanted to do’” via The Brisbane Times

Overcoming trials and norms of the day, saluting the times, ways and gender "From Pam to Carlotta: Celebrating a century of trailblazing women” via The Sydney Morning Herald

Andrew Taylor explores the enduring message of overcoming adversity, celebrating diversity and peaceful coexistence as "Mardi Gras revellers celebrate hope and love with a message for Ukraine” via The Age


6. 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:
How to deal with unwanted change in the every day?
  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
This challenge reflects on attributes of practice – addition, attrition and nutrition.

addition
[ad’dih’shen]
From late Middle English: from Latin additio(n-), from the verb addere; from ad- = to + the base of dare = put.
  1. the action or process of adding something to something else. Ie, the hotel has been extended with the addition of more rooms. 
  2. a person or thing added or joined. Ie, you will find the jacket a useful addition to your wardrobe. 
  3. (Mathematics) the process of calculating the total of two or more numbers or amounts. Ie, the student began with simple arithmetic, addition and then subtraction. 
  4. (Mathematics) the process of combining matrices, vectors, or other quantities under specific rules to obtain their sum or resultant. Ie, the concepts of vectors and vector addition.

attrition
[ah’trih’shen]
From late Middle English from late Latin attritio(n-), from atterere = to rub.
  1. the process of reducing something's strength or effectiveness through sustained attack or pressure. Ie, the council is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition. Ie, the squadron suffered severe attrition of its bombers. 
  2. the gradual reduction of a workforce by employees leaving and not being replaced rather than by redundancy. Ie, the company said that it will reduce its worldwide employment by about 10% through natural attrition. 
  3. wearing away by friction; abrasion. Ie, the skull shows attrition of the edges of the teeth. 
  4. (Christian Theology) sorrow for sin, falling short of contrition. 

nutrition
[new’trih’shen]
From late Middle English: from late Latin nutritio(n-), from nutrire = feed, nourish.
  1. the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth. Ie, a guide to good nutrition. 
  2. food or nourishment. Ie, a feeding tube gives her nutrition and water. 
  3. the branch of science that deals with nutrients and nutrition, particularly in humans. 
[Practice]

Optional
-- Chant Mantrastyle

Not every addition is useful, not every act of attrition unuseful. Nutrition is measurable but highly subjective as one person's nutrition might be another person's poison. Understanding context, changing conditions and individual responsibility is a key to dealing with any circumstances.

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


7. 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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