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GEIFN | MIXING | Media | April 2023

Best wishes for less Suffering, more Happiness with Good Health and Time to Enjoy it. Welcome to Kali Yuga Hindu Calendar Year 5123–5124.

Sharing a timely aspiration:
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
Elizabeth II, British monarch and former Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (1926-2022 CE)

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

Welcome to the re:treat Edition. A word from late Middle English: from Old French retret (noun), retraiter (verb), from Latin retrahere = pull back.

verb

  1. move back or withdraw. Ie,: it becomes so hot that the lizards retreat into the shade. Ie, the ice retreated during warmer periods called interglacials. Ie, the sound of retreating footsteps.
  2. withdraw to a quiet or secluded place. Ie, after the funeral they retreated to country.
  3. change one's mind or plans as a result of criticism or difficulty. Ie, their proposals were clearly unreasonable and they were forced to retreat.
  4. (of shares) decline in value. Ie, the company reported healthy figures but the shares retreated.
  5. (military) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat. Ie, the opposition army retreated in disarray.
  6. (Chess move) move a piece back from a forward or threatened position on the board.
noun
  1. an act of moving back or withdrawing. Ie, a speedy retreat. Ie, the army was in retreat.
  2. an act of changing one's mind or plans as a result of criticism or difficulty. Ie, the trade unions made a retreat from their earlier position.
  3. (military) a signal for a military force to withdraw. Ie, the bugle sounded a retreat.
  4. (military) a musical ceremony carried out at sunset, originating in the playing of drums and bugles to tell soldiers to return to camp for the night.
  5. a quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax. Ie, their retreat in the country.
  6. a period or place of seclusion for the purposes of prayer and meditation. Ie, the bishop is away on annual retreat. Ie, before her ordination she went into retreat.
  7. a decline in the value of shares. Ie, a gloomy stock market forecast sent share prices into a rapid retreat.

Regular subscribers are invited to pause and reflect. Instead of additional words, intrepid explorers can leave the space usually "allocated to GEIFN Grabs" to things of their own choosing. Make it fun, playful and healing. 

If wishing that space still to be GEIFN Grabs, then look at a previous edition, pick one topic or subject, and reread. How is your view of the article same same and/or different different to the view that you first formed? If curious, ask some questions, make bold statements!!!! or be inspired and just give someone a hug, remembering to ask permission first and letting go afterwards.

If no-one has said it lately, thankyou for being you.

There is nothing more to see here, so goodbye for now and we'll reconnect next edition.



Of course, being fiesty independent, you probably ignored that last instruction. So for those continuing, read on and let's see what is to discover and if subscribers can find anything useful.

Topics

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

    1. Guest Sings

    Approx 5 min presentation 

    2. Street Jives

    Approx 2 min presentation 

    3. Wisdom Reconciles


    4. Media Writes

    Approx 5 min reads

    Intro
    Louise Rugendyke explores identity, culture and playing for laughs when "Lizzy Hoo gave comedy a crack at 32. Now she’s one of our brightest new talents” via The Age

    Michael Dwyer explores identity, origin and overcoming adversity when "At six, Ngaiire had already faced death. It wouldn’t be the last time” via The Brisbane Times

    Susan Horsburgh explores resilience, tenacity and fortitude recounting the direct experiences of "How Linda Burney found strength after overcoming unimaginable tragedy” via The Sydney Morning Herald


    Intra
    Jane Caro explores gender, opportunity and equity reasoning why "An equal society isn’t a loss for men but a gain for everyone” via The Age

    Gemma Di Bari explores connection, belonging and familiarity in a love letter to "Faith: My grandmothers were the epitome of actions, love and faith” via The Sydney Morning Herald

    Michael Dwyer explores identity, resilience and endurance when reviewing reasons why "Jimmy Little biography is a gripping and miraculous story of survival” via The Age


    Inter
    Caitlin Fitzsimmons explores fleeing conflict, refuge and adapting "After Tania arrived from Ukraine, Nadia helped make ‘Australian school’ less scary” via The Age

    Sarah Knapton explores history, culture and accounting when discovery of "Roman altar under British cathedral shows pagans were there first” via The Age

    Molly Cone explores changing times, minds and laws when "Canada repeals historic laws targeting women, LGBTQ community” via The Brisbane Times


    Multi
    Angus Thomson explores food, culture and passion as "By day, Kevin is an optometrist. By night, he tells 250,000 people where to eat in Sydney” via The Age

    Zoya Patel explores identity, culture and love when recounting how "With little else to guide me, I Googled ‘how to tell Indian parents about white partner’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

    Robert Moran explores identity, representation and visibility with "‘How did I even get here?’: Lucy Liu reflects on 30 years in Hollywood” via WA Today


    All
    Ben Pobjie explores purpose, public interest and curiosity are some of the reasons why "After the ‘world stopped’, Indira Naidoo searches for meaning in Compass” via The Age

    Jewel Topsfield explores living, learning and loving when meeting "The women proving old age isn’t a dreaded tragedy” via The Sydney Morning Herald

    Jackson Graham explores fun, flight and fundraising as "Birdman Rally contestants taunt gravity and come off second best” via The Age


    Togather
    Adam Carey explores place, people and preferences when recounting "How French lessons revived a struggling Melbourne primary school” via The Age

    Megan Backhouse explores new life for old ground in recounting how "A soccer pitch turned market garden? Even Ted Lasso would approve” via The Age

    Cara Waters explores place, people and purposeful "When a level crossing removal project becomes art” via The Age


    Nobly
    Good Weekend explores childhood, passion and persistence required in how to "‘Lead with love. It will return to you tenfold’” via The Sydney Morning Herald

    Mibenge Nsenduluka explores migration, cultural identity and thriving in "How a Filipino lime is driving inclusion in Australia” via The Age

    Madeleine Heffernan explores place, identity and belonging "‘A great place to start’: All new state schools to have Indigenous names” 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:
    What makes the way to direct motion?
    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 is traversing verse, adverse, obverse and reverse.

    traverse
    [trah'vers]
    From French, from pied de travers = foot askew.

    verb [with object] 
    1. travel across or through: they traversed the forest. 
      • extend across or through. Ie, a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space. 
      • cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another: I often use this route, eventually traversing around the headwall. 
      • ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height. Ie, ski patrol workers traverse the slope. 
      • • consider the whole extent of (a subject): he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines. 
    2. move back and forth or sideways. Ie, a probe is traversed along the tunnel. 
      • turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
    3. (Law) deny an allegation in pleading. Ie, the plaintiff must assert certain facts which, if traversed, would need to be proved. 
      • (archaic) oppose or thwart (a plan). 
    noun 
    1. an act of traversing something. Ie, high-level walks in the mountains often involve steep, exposed climbs, traverses, and descents. 
      • a rock face where traversing is necessary: a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice. 
      • a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope: I make long gentle traverses down the steepest sections. 
      • a zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination. 
    2. a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something. Ie, there were three jewels in the traverse of the cross and four in the body. 
      • a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 
    3. a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction: they had been practising firing at multiple targets, using the power traverse. 
      • the sideways movement of a part in a machine. 
    4. a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points. Ie, an area of land surveyed with a traverse. 
    5. (Military) a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire: he crept up and threw a grenade over the traverse. 
    6. variant spelling of travers.
    7. (Dressage) a movement performed by the horse moving parallel to the side of the arena, with its shoulders carried closer to the wall than its hindquarters and its body curved towards the centre. Ie, try some travers.

    verse
    [vers]
    From Old English fers, from Latin versus = a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing, from vertere = to turn; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from medieval Latin versus = against (especially in sporting and legal use); as opposed to; in contrast to; towards

    noun [mass noun] 
    1. writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. Ie, a lament in verse. Ie, verse drama. 
    2. a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza. Ie, the second verse. 
    3. each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture. Ie, we were each required to recite a Bible verse from memory. Ie, on the walls were framed verses from the Koran. 
    4. a versicle. 
    5. (archaic) a line of poetry. 
    6. a passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices. 
    verb
    • speak in or compose verse; versify. Ie, they began to verse extemporaneously.  Ie, they sat all day, playing on instruments and versing love.

    adverse
    [ad'vers]
    From late Middle English: from Old French advers, from Latin adversus = against, opposite, past participle of advertere, from ad- = to + vertere = to turn. 
    • preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable. Ie, higher taxes are having an adverse effect on production. Ie, adverse weather conditions. 

    obverse
    [ob'vers]
    From mid 17th century = turned towards the observer; from Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere = turn towards
    noun [usually in singular] 
    1. the side of a coin or medal bearing the head or principal design. 
      • the design or inscription on the principal side of a coin. 
    2. the opposite or counterpart of a fact or truth. Ie, true solitude is the obverse of true society. 
    adjective [attributive] 
    1. of or denoting the obverse of a coin or medal. 
    2. corresponding to something else as its opposite or counterpart. Ie, the obverse fates of the principals. 
    3. (Biology) narrower at the base or point of attachment than at the apex or top. Ie, an obverse leaf. 

    reverse
    [reh'vers]
    From Middle English: from Old French revers, reverse (nouns), reverser (verb), from Latin reversus = turned back, past participle of revertere, from re- = back + vertere = to turn.
    verb
    1. move backwards. Ie, the lorry reversed into the back of a bus. 
      • cause (a vehicle) to move backwards. Ie, the driver reversed the car into a side turn. 
      • (of an engine) work in a contrary direction. Ie, the ship's engines reversed and cut out altogether. 
    2. make (something) the opposite of what it was. Ie, the damage done to the ozone layer may be reversed. 
      • exchange (the position or function) of two people or things. Ie, the experimenter and the subject reversed roles and the experiment was repeated. 
      • (Law) revoke or annul (a judgement, sentence, or decree made by a lower court or authority). Ie, the court reversed the defendant’s conviction. 
    3. turn (something) the other way round or up or inside out. Ie, after completing a row of leaves or flowers I have reversed the pattern. 
    4. (Printing) make (type or a design) appear as white in a block of solid colour or a half-tone. Ie, their press ads had a headline reversed out of the illustration. 
    adjective [attributive] 
    1. going in or turned towards the direction opposite to that previously stated. Ie, the trend appears to be going in the reverse direction. 
    2. operating, behaving, or ordered in a way contrary or opposite to that which is usual or expected. Ie, indiscriminate bombing had a reverse effect on popular morale. 
    3. (Electronics) of a voltage applied to a semiconductor junction in the direction which does not allow significant current to flow. 
    4. (Geology) denoting a fault in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata on the underside of the fault plane. 
    noun 
    1. a complete change of direction or action: the gall actuates a reverse of photosynthesis. 
      • reverse gear on a motor vehicle; the position of a gear lever or selector corresponding to this: a knob to lock the box in four-wheel drive for reverse | some automatic cars are designed so that Reverse cannot be engaged unless the driver's foot is on the brake pedal. 
      • (American Football) a play in which a player reverses the direction of attack by passing the ball to a teammate moving in the opposite direction: the touchdown came after the player had scampered 58 yards on a reverse with a teammate. 
    2. the opposite to that previously stated. Ie, the traveller didn't feel homesick – quite the reverse. 
    3. an adverse change of fortune; a setback or defeat. Ie, the team suffered their heaviest reverse of the season. 
    4. the opposite side or face to the observer. Ie the address is given on the reverse of this leaflet. 
      • a left-hand page of an open book, or the back of a loose document. 
      • the side of a coin or medal bearing the value or secondary design. 
      • the design or inscription on the reverse of a coin or medal.
    [Practice]

    Optional
    -- Chant Mantrastyle

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




    7. Acknowledgments

    Reconciliation
    Acknowledging traditional inhabitants of Cities of Port Phillip and Glen Eira are the Boon Wurrung, Bunurong 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) or bodhicitta (Sanskrit = Awakening Consciousness). 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. Or not. As each case may be.

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


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