Complements for charlotte - In memory of Charlotte Moggach

For a woman who I have never heard of just before I read an article about her grateful death with her daughter Deborah Moggach.

I've learned a few things about her and one thing I pparticularly liked: her book of complements- her diary of hand written testimonials - I find this a magnificent idea.

I don't know if you can do something g in life now to prevent dementia, but for all of those who already have it - I hope there are people arouf you who can understand you, care for you with love and dedication and can still remember who you were.

The Article "I'm grateful to her dying" is from the family supplement of the guardian from Saturday 24 January (it's October now) 2009

Testing mobile email to blogg function

Which will mean that I will finally be able to have a straight forward way to publish post and hopefully lead to less newspaper articles inhabitting my floor my files shelves magazine baskets bags walets diaries etc for centuries...

Yay!

Ekaterina Belcheva
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Planet Earth

toys for brothers and sisters

Toy for Brother:

i.e. that's what my brother Boris Belchev is getting.

Toy for Sister:

i.e. that's what I am getting when my brother gets the above.

Jonny WIlkinson - "I've been searching for tranquility in a world of obsession"

I have been modestly observing the carrer journey of one of ENglands top rugby player and it was a really nice surprise to find an article in the sport section of the guardian about him with the subtitle "the fly-half reveals how Buddhism has helped him reach a fresh equilibrium".

I am not sure if I have ever discussed on this blog that I have been going on multiple courses to become a facilitator for reducing the psychological effects of trauma, but also to facilitate personal development and self-actualisations. This approach generally helps reach equilibrium with the self and others.

Looking back I have had many acquaintances with buddhism masked or simply implemented in many other spiritual and not so spiritual practices... such as cleaning (i find it very maditative).

Here is a link to the article and to the audio recording of the interview with Jonny Wilkinson.

I really like the interview and through the words of the Interviewer I can see how misunderstood Buddhism as the philosophy of the East is and how far away from peace and tranquility the majority of the western people are.

I do put myself in that number but I am working on it, and I recommend that sort of personal work to anyone. It gives you so much more ability to fully experience every moment of life.

Jamila sleeps

There isnt anything as sweet, as gentle and as peacful as having a child fall asleep in your arms.

 

Pure serenity.

Trent Reznor "The Alchemist of Melody"

If anyone is still wonderring why I do like Trent reznor - have a listen below.
My favourite album is with teeth.

However there is one thing that is so fascinating about who he really is and that is his amazing talent.

Here is an exserpt from a diary log of Stephanie Jorgl: Recording Drums and Bass
Reznor sits down at an 88 weighted-key controller that is nestled between Ross’ workstation and a rack of effects processors. As soon as the click track starts, Reznor hammers out a few sequences of drums, with perfect timing and precision—fills and all— via the keyboard. All I can think is “Wow. Those childhood piano lessons really paid off.”

When Reznor finishes playing, he turns to Ross and states, “Let me hear those.” Ross plays the drum tracks back and Reznor, deploying the quick decision making expertise that is evident in most world leaders, states, “Okay, I want part 1 followed by part 3, followed by part 2.” .....

and here is some more:
Meanwhile, Reznor turns, thinks and then speaks his next desire for the song in progress. “Next, I’m going to do a bass track and I think I’m going to use these three pedals...” Reznor speaks out loud the names of the pedals, and as he turns to his rack full of basses, picks one up and tunes it, the pedals almost magically appear before him, hooked up by his highly efficient studio assistant.

By the time Reznor is satisfied with his tuning (less than a minute from the initial contemplation of the bass part), Ross has the arrangement ready and the pedals are ready to be played through. Reznor begins recording his next part. After yet another stellar performance, I realize that the absence of studio musicians isn’t a control thing, it’s purely logistical. No studio musicians are required because Reznor is a virtuoso when it comes to probably every instrument short of the physical drums. And even then, he effortlessly masters drum programming and drum performance when triggering samples in Battery through a keyboard controller.

Isnt that utterly and ultimately awesome!?!?!?

I can do this all night!

Here is a picture of Trent Reznor I scraped off the internet. The copy right isn't mine...unfortunately and I just want to share it with the world.

Tara Akshar - Literacy for India

This is a follow up for my previous post. The project that Victor Lyons started few years ago in India. The Project is called Tara Akshar.

"TARA Akshar has taught more adults to read in India in the last two years than any other adult literacy method. Over 55,000 illiterate women have graduated the TARA Akshar course and so learned to read and write in just over 35 days."

Empowering people... helping them to become more capable, able to make informed decisions - thats what the 3rd world need, not aimless aid.

Awesome!

At the presentation I saw at the TIRA/AMI Technical, Victor Lyons was talking about the Anti-shiness courses that he is thinking as a next stage from literacy and numeracy workshop.

Reading Wise

I met someone recently who is teaching people in INdia how to read and write. I am only mentioning this story because he went there first ot help people with imporving basic hygiene and help build fresh water and draining system (I think). SO he went there with the leaflets... that made me think about the concept of making intelligent decisions - you need to read, know where to find correct factual information and then make up your mind.

It aslo made me think about us - the 1st world countries - we can read, we have access to the internet to an enormous quantity and quality of information - and we still make what decisions - educated, doubt it, intelligent, sometimes, do we actually decide? For anything?

Direct action for the environment is something I find as decisive and as effective as someone could voice their opinion, based on factual information and foloowed by a decision making and action planning process.

For the educated loud voicing action committed dread-locked human beings! Salute!

And for the ill-witted, cynical (may be), bad-moody, shadow of a journalist - yes you Mr Hugo Rifkind - get some anger management or better REB Therapy!

The Lords of Grunge

All my favourite ones...

From Left: Mike, Matt, Jeff, Gerry, Stone, Chris, Eddie ... I dont know the keymaster's name unfortunately - well not on the top of my head at least.