A Serious Man, Coen Brothers

I like this film. I like the way that it looks. I like the characters, and the sense I felt of what it might have been like to be within the Jewish community in 1967 in Minnesota, suburb of St. Louis. I did not feel uneasy, but amused whist watching. I particularly liked Larry, the protagonist. He does everything right yet unexpected and troublesome things happen upon him, and it seems there is no reason.

Good Grief

Interesting article on grief
Clementine showed me this article written for "The New Yorker" by Meghan O’Rourke on grief. Part of it talks about the work of this lady, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist. She wrote "On Death and Dying" and then "On Grief and Grieving" ..anyway she stated that there were five stages of the dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance... and the same for the grieving. At the end of her life, she knew that grief can't really be boxed into categorical stages..'Other research suggests that grief and mourning don’t follow a checklist; they’re complicated and untidy processes, less like a progression of stages and more like an ongoing process'.

The article also discusses resilience of the bereaved, the way in which non-grieving others may retract from the bereaved, or think that after a certain amount of time they should be finished with grieving, and how death is dealt with in different cultures and points in history.

The Unheard Truth | Poverty and Human Right | Irene Khan

The Unheard Truth | Poverty and Human Right | Irene Khan

It's nice to get out of the city

I think about it sometimes but mostly do not

I've been thinking about obsession, what the word means, but mostly what it is like to be obsessed, fixated.
It's recognisable in all of us, but embarrassing to admit.

I found, for me fixation did not elucidate anything, but seemed a pleasant escape at the time.

Bear

TUB OF ICECREAM AS A HAT

"Went surfing in Wales last weekend - painful. I'd liken the feeling to....
wearing a tub of ice cream as a hat."

Mr Dave Casey

this
this panda

HOT AIR BALLOONS THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Eve Ensler: "If your Vagina got dressed, what would it wear?"

Six-year-old girl: "Red high-tops and a Mets cap worn backward."

'The Vagina Monologues'

Banana loaf cake

2 ripe medium bananas, mashed
2 medium eggs, separated
150g low fat plain yoghurt
80g soft light brown sugar
250g self raising flour
salt

*Preheat oven to 160, fan bake
*Mix mashed bananas with egg yolks, yoghurt
and sugar
*Sift in the flour and a pinch of salt
then stir together till mixed
*In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites to soft peaks
*Stir a spoonful in to slacken the mixture then fold
in the remainder
*Bake on centre shelf for 50-60 mins

CONGO NOW

People have looked at the Congo for over one hundred years and they’ve seen a great big pile of riches with some black people inconveniently sitting on top of them.

http://www.warchild.org/

I found this on 'Women's Asylum Charter' and once again was reminded that some of the dramas in my life are so trivial, pathetic. At the moment I am embarrassed because I made a reasonably substantial mistake at work. I just have to remember that it does not matter. Please watch this short clip about women's experiences with seeking asylum in the UK, possibly to put your own anxieties into perspective.

Every single woman from Asylum Aid on Vimeo.

I'm pretty sure that little piece of glass is still stuck in my finger.
It's concealed way down below layers of cells now though, so the pain minor and infrequent.

Time for some colour

Love Holly Golightly

There's an End
On The Fire

From kitchen window.

I wonder why we don't talk much about violence and abuse

Once we start to converse about the dark realities of human behavior, they are difficult to ignore.
When we agree that violence exists, we feel removed, blameless.

Yet hopefully the mare acknowledgment of these daily brutalities, would make us feel like we, in some way were expressing our grave disappointment, and in doing so, slightly eroding that feeling of complete hopelessness.

We could get used to voicing how we feel about these truths with people, whom we know.

Stop Raping our Greatest Resource, Power to Women and Girls of DRC

vday
I held and eight-year-old girl on my lap
Who had been raped by so many men
She had an extra hole inside her
When she accidently peed on me
I was baptized

- Eve Ensler

Somewhere in Leeds.

In Manchester.

apathetic
pathetic
apprehensive
uncertain
paranoid
anxious
joyous
optimistic

Old paintings from university.