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Gentle Lift: Lessons from Our Grandparents
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Wednesday, August 8, 2012. Lessons from Our Grandparents. Recently for the first time, I saw records documenting my great grandfather's emmigration from Italy. A million questions sprang forth: What was he like? How did he feel? Was he outgoing and funny? Or dark and brooding? I can picture him setting off to sea, eager for a fresh start. In my mind's eye, I see him landing in his new world and trying hard to fit in. Eventually came his daughter, my grandmother, on the left.
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Gentle Lift: Watch Samsara and Baraka
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Sunday, September 9, 2012. Watch Samsara and Baraka. I just watched the non-narrative film Samsara. Directed by Ron Fricke. There is no plot, no storyline, no actors. I can only describe it as a visual journey that inspires the imagination and thinking. And it's absolutely stunning. Watch it, and you'll be shown the world in a new way.a way that might even reinvigorate your perception of it. While waiting for it to arrive at a theater. Posted by Miss B. Along for the ride.
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Gentle Lift: Inner Strength trumps Outer Judgment
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Inner Strength trumps Outer Judgment. Putting my thoughts out there via this blog can sometimes feel a little daunting. It makes them real, out on an open platter for criticism or judgment. And I blush when I think about coworkers or boyfriends reading these very words. Of course I want to put my best face forward. Of course I want to be accepted by the people I care about. But you know what? Really, now who doesn't have complex issues to deal with?
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Gentle Lift: Radical Acceptance
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Sunday, November 11, 2012. Over the past 6 months, the media machines dominated our psyches with finger pointing and petty drama. And then election day came and went.leaving behind the bitter sting of rivalry. Now people (among both parties) are frustrated and feeling all the more divided. Once in motion, the blame game is hard to unwind. 65279;. The only cure is a strong dose of radical acceptance. In the ideal scenario, we'd learn from setbacks, survey the situation as...
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Gentle Lift: It's Perceiving Time
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Sunday, May 20, 2012. How do we perceive the passage of time? There's no quantum leap from childhood to adulthood. We experience millisecond after millisecond.even right. How we visually imagine the continual flow of those seconds can invoke a wide range of emotion. Busy people think time moves. Too fast. Some people feel time speeding up or slowing down by life stage. And a ticking clock often symbolizes deadlines, due dates, or new beginnings. Posted by Miss B. We make o...
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Gentle Lift: Brain Reflections
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Poet Emily Dickinson once wrote:. Translates Dickinson's poem as:. 8220;[It's about] the mind’s capacity to absorb, interpret, and subsume perception and experience. The brain is wider than the sky despite the sky’s awesome size. Because the brain is able to incorporate the universe into itself,. And thereby even to absorb the ocean. The source of this capacity, in this poem, is God.”. Thus, a huge role has been played by scientists:. Copernic...
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Bittersweet | Beyond the Short Coat
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Beyond the Short Coat. Medicine, Skepticism, Other Cool Stuff As Needed. Laquo; Holoprosencephaly and Cephalocentesis: an Overview. Please note that some of the language in this piece is coarse. If you find that offensive, read my science posts instead. We shall begin our story. 8220;Is the heart still beating? 8221; whispers Dr Sanders, my attending for today. 8220;Of course the heart’s still beating, what do you take me for, an intern? More spectacular than Samuel L Jackson in Snakes on a Plane! This i...
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Gentle Lift: endless opportunities / finite time
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Tuesday, August 13, 2013. Endless opportunities / finite time. Readers, I've neglected Gentlelift. I've neglected my life passion- connecting to the world via writing. Sad because there's something personally therapeutic about exposing the innermost thoughts of my conscious. Pulling out the ideas from the bottom of my soul and sharing them with whoever dares to care. Some people say it's better to leave things unsaid. Two heads are better than one, right? When there are mi...
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Gentle Lift: Why People Act the Way They Do
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Deep thoughts on joie de vivre. Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Why People Act the Way They Do. Why do you dress up as a scary clown? Why do you find me scary? We're all guilty of it.At some point or another, we've questioned/analyzed/scrutinized someone else's behavior. Probably because that person's behavior seemed (at the time), well.totally irrational. So we ask ourselves, "What were they thinking? Or “Why did they do that? Or "How could they have done that? Neurons firing (or misfiring). We live in c...
