5 Photos – Street Art by Borondo in Madrid, Spain | STREET ART UTOPIA


ByBorondoin Madrid, Spain. Photos by dug_da_bug

Source: 5 Photos – Street Art by Borondo in Madrid, Spain | STREET ART UTOPIA

My wobbly knees and Tai Chi – Chen Song Ping

Cheng Man-ch’ing (1902-1975) – snake creeps down pose

A decade ago, a friend and I were walking up the stairs.
The lift was not functioning that day.
We cursed as we climbed.

She said, “next month I will be going for my knee operation.”
That got me thinking. For a year or so,
my wobbly, weak, and painful knees made climbing a challenge.

I enrolled for Tai Chi the following week.
I have never looked back since.
I don’t need to take knee supplements too.

I called Tai Chi, the ‘dancing meditation’!
Graceful yet deceptively challenging movements!

One of the toughest movements
is ‘snake creeps down. (see pose in picture above)
Many new students, including myself, looked on.
We (about thirty to sixty years old) shook our heads.
‘There is no way we can do this pose!’

It took me about three years
before I could do the ‘snake creeping down’!

…and my Tai Chi sifu was more than seventy years old! Still graceful and flexible!

Source: My wobbly knees and Tai Chi – Chen Song Ping

Long COVID on par with cancer – Boing Boing

Thursday morning, January 18, 2024, the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Bernie Sanders, held a hearing to discuss the current state of research and clinical practice regarding long COVID: Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care. Senate.gov provided an overview of the need for and purpose of the hearing:

“The impacts of this pandemic are still being felt by millions of families,” said Sanders. “We cannot turn our backs on the American people who continue to struggle with long COVID. At all levels of government, we must do more to address the health crises countless Americans are living through because of the coronavirus. Lives are at stake. I look forward to hearing from patients, experts, and researchers about what we must do to address this crisis, including the advanced research and patient care that so many Americans desperately need.”

Today, millions of Americans live with long COVID and its many symptoms. These include fatigue, cognitive impairment (commonly referred to as brain fog), muscle or joint pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sleep difficulties, mood changes, and more. With millions of Americans suffering each and every day, more must be done to address this crisis…

Source: Long COVID on par with cancer – Boing Boing

Era assim a vida na docilidade das coisas. – O Outro Lado

Havia jeito de asa para o lado do Sul
a maré previu a fase da lua
e a maresia invadiu meu quintal
eu era só teu olho diante da janela
a tarde tinha a brisa
tinha gesto
Guardei o meu amor em palavras
escrevi seu endereço no voo do pássaro
e seu nome foi jogado no céu antes que as estrelas acordassem.
Havia gestos de flores no quintal. O cão latia para o riso das crianças.
Era assim a vida na docilidade das coisas.

Mariana Gouveia.

Source: Era assim a vida na docilidade das coisas. – O Outro Lado

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Coloque seus estudos como prioridade. Opte sempre por quem você pode contar, independente da situação: você! O seu esposo tem que ser seu trabalho; tem que ser o seu estudo. Se um dia, todas as outras coisas te faltarem, o conhecimento não será uma causa perdida. É por isso que você deve manter firme esse compromisso de cuidar bem de você, para num segundo momento, trabalhar tudo aquilo que é necessário para construir o alicerce que dará sustentação aos sonhos, ao casamento, a família, os planos para o futuro. Estude; tornou-se uma pessoa melhor perante aos que lhes são caros, e também para ter a capacidade de atingir seus objetivos por meio de seus próprios méritos.

Marii Freire. Via Facebook

https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Source: Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Scientists reveal how trawling the bottom of the ocean could release millions of tonnes of CO2 | Euronews

A new study has revealed how much carbon bottom trawling releases into the atmosphere.

Much of the damage done by dragging huge nets – some as big as 10 passenger jets – across the bottom of the sea to catch fish has been clear for a long time. But this new research reveals the practice is also an unaccounted source of carbon emissions that is “too big to ignore”.

“Only recently, we have discovered that bottom trawling also unleashes plumes of carbon, which otherwise would be safely stored for millennia in the ocean floor,” says Dr Trisha Atwood, a marine ecologist from Utah State University and National Geographic Pristine Seas.

Source: Scientists reveal how trawling the bottom of the ocean could release millions of tonnes of CO2 | Euronews

hope and the breaths wrapped in a song – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

I chose black or the colour black has chosen me
withered stars, curled up under the canopies
the earth, the air and naked trees
the close calls from the tips of those misty hills

the isle of refugees
the horizon indistinguishable from the port
the clouds lower than the water
when the storms are eager to swallow whole the light
-house
trying to find the light the night sings its own tune

the wind of the tides flows
I’m on the roof of a house
the silent rafts are blown away by the cliffs
as the western glebe preen its feathers, flies away in the October light
I dip my fingers into the water
pick up the smell of fish scales so the sea may wash it away

I’m familiar with the nightmares
bulging like a metastasized nipple
passing a mirror in a dark corridor
I’m the testament of the sky
a dead fish on the cold boat deck

my neighbour is an annoying spectre
in thick glasses, on me
he drops his bombs
the days unbelievably adrift
me falling
like a boat smashed to smithereens
my death is slow
the grey waves crashing in my lungs
a version of migrating fish
or the procession of a funeral

on a bed soaked with sweat
where the dwarves grows nonsensically in a quadratic equation
I find an annotation describing the saints and apostles
in a tattered dream rows away in a boat

January 2024

Source: hope and the breaths wrapped in a song – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Jan. 13-17: Settlers Assault 74-year-old Maghayir al-‘Abeed Widow, Rob her of her Lambs | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

We sit – Ophir, Yo’av, and me – with 74-year-old N. and her 36-year-old daughter G., by their beautiful hillside cave and modest dwelling in Maghayir al-‘Abeed. I spotted colorful balloons hanging from a pole, and wondered why. “It was beautiful, like today, so we made a celebration for the beautiful day”, answers G. “And how has it been with the settlers?” I ask. “The last few days were quiet, hamdulillah“, answers G.

N. said she is afraid all the time. G., too, says they live in fear all day, every day. We sat there for a long hour, coddled by the winter sun. It seemed that fear, too, is being mollified. That was on Monday, January 15.

We then visited Taban, also in Massafer Yatta a couple of hills to the south. We saw young A., who is studying to be a veterinarian with our support.

On Wednesday morning, the 17th, we had to visit Maghayir al-‘Abeed again – Ehud, Yohi, Irena and myself – because a few hours earlier, at 2:30 AM, three settlers kicked open the door of the room where N., G., and G’s 14-year-old son S. were sleeping their fearful sleep. They immediately turned to 74-year-old N. who sleeps to the right of the entrance. “WHERE IS YOUR HUSBAND????” they roared. As N. tries to sit up and reply, one of them hits her face with a fist. “There is no husband”, she answers. He roars again: “WHERE IS YOUR HUSBAND????”, she tries to answer again – and again a fist into her face. Thus, three times, with the addition of kicks to her legs. [a defenseless 74-year-old widow]

Source: Jan. 13-17: Settlers Assault 74-year-old Maghayir al-‘Abeed Widow, Rob her of her Lambs | The Villages Group: Cooperation in Israel-Palestine

By The Rebel Bear – in Edinburgh, Scotland (5 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA


Couldn’t agree more. Our skies are cleaner our oceans are a little clearer and seeing animals in places we haven’t in decades. Long last the lockdown!!

In Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

By The Rebel Bear: https://www.instagram.com/the.rebel.bear/

Source: By The Rebel Bear – in Edinburgh, Scotland (5 photos) | STREET ART UTOPIA

Just What I’ve Been Sayin’ … | Filosofa’s Word

You’ve all heard me say more than a few times that for every ‘right’, there is an accompanying responsibility.  Of late, my pet peeve has been people’s claim to various ‘rights’ such as freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment, or the ‘right’ to own a gun as covered by the 2nd Amendment, but they don’t accept the responsibility to use that speech or that gun responsibly so that it doesn’t cause harm to others. I’ve long said that your rights end where they step on my toes.  When I saw Dr. John Persico’s post first thing this morning, I said, “BINGO!!!”  He is spot-on and I think (most of) you will agree.  Thank you, John, for this excellent reminder …

Source: Just What I’ve Been Sayin’ … | Filosofa’s Word

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