Happy Longest Day
Today is the Summer Solstice, which is the Longest Day.
Here in Orlando, 14 hours from sunrise to sunset. Up North the day is longer. In my old stomping grounds in Jersey 15 hours from sunrise til sunset. In The Artic and Alaska now is the time of the Midnight Sun. I was in Cornwall England for The Longest Day once. 10:10 PM was sunset. Between The Stones.
I think all days should be The Longest Day.
As I muse and ponder and live, as people keep on passing in and out of my life, I wonder.
We are all so unique, and so quick to judge others negatively.
I sigh and I yearn
I weep and I laugh.
I'm getting ready to do a move again. If I think of it in context of Torah energy, it makes it more bearable. The events leading to this move to not bespeak of failure, but of change.
Change can be quite foreboding. Even though most of me knows that this is necessary and in all likelihood the most behoovingof any viable choice I can make, I shake and tremble with anxiety and worries. Hey. That doesn't make it wrong, you see. It is the way I am. I have trouble with that, accepting myself for what I am. A lot of it has to do with the unacceptance I get from others.
People see everything from their own perspectives, which are individually unique.
And marvelous, and wonderous because of the endless variety contained within the energy manifestation.
All this was precipitated by an argument with a friend about, of all things, Bruce Springsteen Tickets.
I GOT SOME!!!!!! For PNC in Jersey on Sunday June 25th. I've been trying and trying to get these tix. I'll have to pick them up at the concert, because the Bruce fan who is selling them is picking them up at will call. That means the tickets are kosher. But, my friend somehow got a neurotic personal attitude about it. I don't understand. We're talking BRUCE here. Bruce Springsteen and The Seeger Sessions Band. She knows how I feel. We've spoken about it enough times. But, when you get to the nitty gritty, somehow, the wheel becomes clogged a bit , communication becomes difficult, and a tangent appears which did not previously exist. I understand that she does not feel the same way about Bruce Springsteen and his music as I do.
Ok. That taken into consideration, why do they feel that they must burst your bubble? I was so filled with excitement that the hithertofore impossible had now become manifest. Whoa I was excited when I made the phone call. Burst Bubble. Argument. Defending my actions.
I pretend a lot when I'm listening to other people. That's what makes a good listener. I pretend I'm interested in the conversation. I'm also good at helping people through difficult situtations.
I try to put myself in their shoes.
I have an exciting trip coming up. Seeing houses - a decision will have to be made.
Seeing Sydney
Seeing Bruce.
All good. Take deep breaths and just ignore the entire airport scenario.
.....
MSN posted a good article on depression. It is biochemical. I'm quite well versed on the subject. I'm posting this because it is accurate data.
Anxiety and Depression: Battling Dual Disorders
by Rich Maloof for MSN Health & Fitness
Anxiety and depression, two mental illnesses that plague an enormous number of Americans, are deeply entwined. Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental disorders and afflict 19.2 million adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Depression follows closely at more than 18.8 million. In about half of all depression and anxiety cases—the more severe cases, typically—a person who suffers from one will be affected by the other as well.
The combination punch is a lot for anyone to bear. Researchers cite a common “chicken or the egg” syndrome, where it’s unclear which disorder led to the other and complicated the patient’s condition. While this might make the climb out of a psychological hole feel longer and steeper, it’s encouraging to know that health-care professionals are very successful at treating the two in tandem.
The Sting of Stigma
Let’s first be clear about what these conditions are not. In the past 20 years or so, the increase in public education and, to a degree, pharmaceutical advertising has been responsible for legitimizing depression and anxiety in the public eye, but a few antiquated ideas still linger.
“Depression used to be an under-treated disease, in part because people were ashamed of it,” says Dr. Faruk Abuzzahab Sr., who practices with Clinical Psychopharmacology Consultants in Minneapolis. “They thought it was a disgrace to (appear to have) fallen out of your faith or to lose hope or be suicidal. People thought it was their cross in life to bear.”
Similarly, a pervasive perception remains that depression and anxiety stem from some mental weakness or inherent fault in a person’s constitution. People suffering from these disorders are hypersensitive to the world around them and often adapt misconceptions like these as their own. They can be haunted by the familiar refrain, “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”
The sense of inadequacy people can feel while dealing with a mental disorder is further burdened by the notion that they are not even strong enough to rescue themselves.
But by their very definitions, anxiety and depression are marked by incapacitation and a disruption in one’s ability to cope. Inadequacy is not a cause—it’s a symptom.
.....
No Depression Allowed on The Longest Day. One Must Bask in the Glory of it All.
.....
BBC news. This is fascinating.
Work begins on Arctic seed vault
The Arctic seed vault will be built into mountain rock
Norway is starting construction on a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops.
Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe.
More than 100 countries have backed the vault, which will store seeds, packaged in foil, at sub-zero temperatures.
Prime Ministers from five nations helped lay the cornerstone on Monday.
Premiers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland attended the ceremony near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, roughly 1,000 km (620 miles) from the North Pole.
Secure facility
Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the Norwegian news agency NTB: "The vault is of international importance. It will be the only one of its kind; all the other gene banks are of a commercial nature."
Fenced in and guarded, with steel airlock doors, motion detectors and polar bears roaming outside - the concrete facility will, its backers say, be the most secure building of its type in the world.
Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard."
The vault's purpose is to ensure survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change; and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out.
At temperatures of minus 18C (minus 0.4F), the seeds could last hundreds, even thousands, of years. Even if all cooling systems failed, explained Mr Riis-Johansen, the temperature in the frozen mountain would never rise above freezing due to the permafrost on the mountainside.
Ultimate back-up
The Global Crop Diversity Trust, founded in 2004, will help run the vault, which is planned to open and start accepting seeds from around the world in September 2007. The bank is eventually expected to house some three million seeds.
This is polar bear country
"This facility will provide a practical means to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters," Cary Fowler, executive secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, said in a statement.
Fowler, who led a feasibility study on the project, said crop diversity was also threatened by "accidents, mismanagement, and short-sighted budget cuts".
Already, some 1,400 seed banks around the world, most of them national, hold samples of a country's crops. But these banks "can be affected by shutdowns, natural disasters, war or simply a lack of money," said Mr Riis-Johansen.
While Norway will own the vault itself, countries sending seeds will own the material they deposit - much as with a bank safe-deposit box. The Global Crop Diversity Trust will help developing countries pay the cost of preparing and sending seeds.
.....
I haven't posted a Daily Dose (from Chabad) in a long time because I'm having a problem with religious dogma. This one fits my mood. We're allowed to have moods. We're allowed to be different. It is good to get excited. It is good to get sad. Everything is to be experienced. And at some point there has to be an acknowledment in some kind of faith. I have problems with control freaks, and people who teach self impowerment. Self empowerment usually leans towards magnifying the ego.
B"H
The Core--------
It has to come from the core, but we are not masters over that place.
We can barely master our wardrobe--our conscious thought, our words to others, what our hands and feet are doing. Never mind the hidden things within.
But we can do this: We can wash our clothes and bathe our skin in pure waters. We can focus our thoughts, guide our words and clean up our act. Once scrubbed enough that light can pass through, we await the moment when the core awakens.
This is what Moses told his people on their last day together:"The hidden things belong to G-d. But the obvious is for us and our children forever, to do what needs to be done."
.....
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. A little understanding and compassion wouldn't hurt. Even on an inter-personal level we all seem to have problems with it. We 've gotta stop it. Reach out . Catalize Change.
in
Peace
Here in Orlando, 14 hours from sunrise to sunset. Up North the day is longer. In my old stomping grounds in Jersey 15 hours from sunrise til sunset. In The Artic and Alaska now is the time of the Midnight Sun. I was in Cornwall England for The Longest Day once. 10:10 PM was sunset. Between The Stones.
I think all days should be The Longest Day.
As I muse and ponder and live, as people keep on passing in and out of my life, I wonder.
We are all so unique, and so quick to judge others negatively.
I sigh and I yearn
I weep and I laugh.
I'm getting ready to do a move again. If I think of it in context of Torah energy, it makes it more bearable. The events leading to this move to not bespeak of failure, but of change.
Change can be quite foreboding. Even though most of me knows that this is necessary and in all likelihood the most behoovingof any viable choice I can make, I shake and tremble with anxiety and worries. Hey. That doesn't make it wrong, you see. It is the way I am. I have trouble with that, accepting myself for what I am. A lot of it has to do with the unacceptance I get from others.
People see everything from their own perspectives, which are individually unique.
And marvelous, and wonderous because of the endless variety contained within the energy manifestation.
All this was precipitated by an argument with a friend about, of all things, Bruce Springsteen Tickets.
I GOT SOME!!!!!! For PNC in Jersey on Sunday June 25th. I've been trying and trying to get these tix. I'll have to pick them up at the concert, because the Bruce fan who is selling them is picking them up at will call. That means the tickets are kosher. But, my friend somehow got a neurotic personal attitude about it. I don't understand. We're talking BRUCE here. Bruce Springsteen and The Seeger Sessions Band. She knows how I feel. We've spoken about it enough times. But, when you get to the nitty gritty, somehow, the wheel becomes clogged a bit , communication becomes difficult, and a tangent appears which did not previously exist. I understand that she does not feel the same way about Bruce Springsteen and his music as I do.
Ok. That taken into consideration, why do they feel that they must burst your bubble? I was so filled with excitement that the hithertofore impossible had now become manifest. Whoa I was excited when I made the phone call. Burst Bubble. Argument. Defending my actions.
I pretend a lot when I'm listening to other people. That's what makes a good listener. I pretend I'm interested in the conversation. I'm also good at helping people through difficult situtations.
I try to put myself in their shoes.
I have an exciting trip coming up. Seeing houses - a decision will have to be made.
Seeing Sydney
Seeing Bruce.
All good. Take deep breaths and just ignore the entire airport scenario.
.....
MSN posted a good article on depression. It is biochemical. I'm quite well versed on the subject. I'm posting this because it is accurate data.
Anxiety and Depression: Battling Dual Disorders
by Rich Maloof for MSN Health & Fitness
Anxiety and depression, two mental illnesses that plague an enormous number of Americans, are deeply entwined. Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental disorders and afflict 19.2 million adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Depression follows closely at more than 18.8 million. In about half of all depression and anxiety cases—the more severe cases, typically—a person who suffers from one will be affected by the other as well.
The combination punch is a lot for anyone to bear. Researchers cite a common “chicken or the egg” syndrome, where it’s unclear which disorder led to the other and complicated the patient’s condition. While this might make the climb out of a psychological hole feel longer and steeper, it’s encouraging to know that health-care professionals are very successful at treating the two in tandem.
The Sting of Stigma
Let’s first be clear about what these conditions are not. In the past 20 years or so, the increase in public education and, to a degree, pharmaceutical advertising has been responsible for legitimizing depression and anxiety in the public eye, but a few antiquated ideas still linger.
“Depression used to be an under-treated disease, in part because people were ashamed of it,” says Dr. Faruk Abuzzahab Sr., who practices with Clinical Psychopharmacology Consultants in Minneapolis. “They thought it was a disgrace to (appear to have) fallen out of your faith or to lose hope or be suicidal. People thought it was their cross in life to bear.”
Similarly, a pervasive perception remains that depression and anxiety stem from some mental weakness or inherent fault in a person’s constitution. People suffering from these disorders are hypersensitive to the world around them and often adapt misconceptions like these as their own. They can be haunted by the familiar refrain, “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”
The sense of inadequacy people can feel while dealing with a mental disorder is further burdened by the notion that they are not even strong enough to rescue themselves.
But by their very definitions, anxiety and depression are marked by incapacitation and a disruption in one’s ability to cope. Inadequacy is not a cause—it’s a symptom.
.....
No Depression Allowed on The Longest Day. One Must Bask in the Glory of it All.
.....
BBC news. This is fascinating.
Work begins on Arctic seed vault
The Arctic seed vault will be built into mountain rock
Norway is starting construction on a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops.
Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global catastrophe.
More than 100 countries have backed the vault, which will store seeds, packaged in foil, at sub-zero temperatures.
Prime Ministers from five nations helped lay the cornerstone on Monday.
Premiers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland attended the ceremony near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, roughly 1,000 km (620 miles) from the North Pole.
Secure facility
Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the Norwegian news agency NTB: "The vault is of international importance. It will be the only one of its kind; all the other gene banks are of a commercial nature."
Fenced in and guarded, with steel airlock doors, motion detectors and polar bears roaming outside - the concrete facility will, its backers say, be the most secure building of its type in the world.
Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard."
The vault's purpose is to ensure survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change; and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out.
At temperatures of minus 18C (minus 0.4F), the seeds could last hundreds, even thousands, of years. Even if all cooling systems failed, explained Mr Riis-Johansen, the temperature in the frozen mountain would never rise above freezing due to the permafrost on the mountainside.
Ultimate back-up
The Global Crop Diversity Trust, founded in 2004, will help run the vault, which is planned to open and start accepting seeds from around the world in September 2007. The bank is eventually expected to house some three million seeds.
This is polar bear country
"This facility will provide a practical means to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters," Cary Fowler, executive secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, said in a statement.
Fowler, who led a feasibility study on the project, said crop diversity was also threatened by "accidents, mismanagement, and short-sighted budget cuts".
Already, some 1,400 seed banks around the world, most of them national, hold samples of a country's crops. But these banks "can be affected by shutdowns, natural disasters, war or simply a lack of money," said Mr Riis-Johansen.
While Norway will own the vault itself, countries sending seeds will own the material they deposit - much as with a bank safe-deposit box. The Global Crop Diversity Trust will help developing countries pay the cost of preparing and sending seeds.
.....
I haven't posted a Daily Dose (from Chabad) in a long time because I'm having a problem with religious dogma. This one fits my mood. We're allowed to have moods. We're allowed to be different. It is good to get excited. It is good to get sad. Everything is to be experienced. And at some point there has to be an acknowledment in some kind of faith. I have problems with control freaks, and people who teach self impowerment. Self empowerment usually leans towards magnifying the ego.
B"H
The Core--------
It has to come from the core, but we are not masters over that place.
We can barely master our wardrobe--our conscious thought, our words to others, what our hands and feet are doing. Never mind the hidden things within.
But we can do this: We can wash our clothes and bathe our skin in pure waters. We can focus our thoughts, guide our words and clean up our act. Once scrubbed enough that light can pass through, we await the moment when the core awakens.
This is what Moses told his people on their last day together:"The hidden things belong to G-d. But the obvious is for us and our children forever, to do what needs to be done."
.....
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. A little understanding and compassion wouldn't hurt. Even on an inter-personal level we all seem to have problems with it. We 've gotta stop it. Reach out . Catalize Change.
in
Peace
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