African-American student Virginius B. Thornton receiving tolerance training before picketing. (Photo by Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

 

African-American student Virginius B. Thornton receiving tolerance training before picketing.

Location:Petersburg, VA, US

Date taken:May 1960

Photographer:Howard Sochurek

 

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Touch of red

 

Reaching depth of clarity

I'm not supposed to be like this

I should be on the top of the world

Is anybody out there like me?

 

I followed something's missing

Self control Forcing me down

Whispers consume the air

Above her I'm endless

 

When the rain comes falling

I'll freeze I'm so afraid

When things start to flood me

I will drown in seconds

 

Fear - There's no way out

Touch of red

Break away

Nothing has it all

Bury the place I've been

I fear there's no way out

 

As If I ever had a choice

All in the hands of the energy

Once again feel the quicksand swallow me

Tonight = I won't struggle

 

Fear - There's no way out

Touch of red

Break away

Nothing has it all

Bury the place I've been

I fear there's no way out

 

The weak in me should know I'm as sober as I could be

 

Fear - There's no way out

Touch of red

Break away

Nothing has it all

Bury the place I've been

I fear there's no way out

I worked for a long while on this pun! (years in higher education weren't wasted on me!) I think it's doubly appropriate because I've posted fairly similar shots recently, and by the way the sheep are ignoring the wonderful inversion behind them, they've seen many a spectacle from here before!

 

The sheep had an admirable control that meant they didn't move a muscle for the one second exposure (apart from the one looking the other way). My children would show no such self-control.

 

Sheep pun based comments welcome, but "what are ewe looking at?", and "I only have eyes for ewe" have already been rejected even by my low standards!!! (there are even web-sites dedicated to animal puns!)

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Life confronts us daily with witution which can seduce us and distract us from ourselves. The art of not getting lost in it lies in finding balance.

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Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

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More shake shots of my gorgeous boy taken down in my dad's yard.

 

BTW, how does that saying go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. . .

 

Bogart enjoyed himself another banana muffin today.

 

(Love you, Kevin.)

 

Oh, I took Magnus to a trail around a lake again this morning. Not a bright idea given today is a holiday. Challenging outing for both of us. Sigh. Magnus does great with bikers (as long as they don't talk to us) and fine with rollerbladers. Other dogs and screaming kids? Not so good. When a family of four biked by us, the mom commented to me, "Great dog!" Magnus was fabulously behaved and didn't react. I'm the one who needed to exhibit self-control. "Thanks!" No, not in voicing that. I needed self-control to not yell after her: "You want him?" I bit my tongue. After all, in a matter on months (I hope), Magnus will be a fabulous dog. I've just got to believe that. Double sigh.

 

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Have you no sense man? Try to control yourself.

with singer Laura Branigan. Incredibly tan compared to this: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Laura_Branigan_-_S...

Hebrews 6:13–20 (ESV)

 

The Certainty of God’s Promise

 

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. 17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. 19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

 

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Ah I am so delighted summer is almost here! Things are slowing down for me a bit before I start traveling again. As always I have missed you all when I can't find my way to Flickr, but so glad to be here today! These captures were taken in Cabo San Lucas in January. If you happen to recognize this gal, yes, long shot I know, but please let me know, because I have at least 25 shots that I would love to give her. I was just behind the scenes while her photographer was clicking away. I was so delighted to happen upon this fun moment! Hope you enjoy :)

 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

 

“So it's not gonna be easy.It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you.I want all of you, forever, everyday.You and me everyday.” Sparks

 

"Marriage" by Chuck Swindoll...."It's rough. It's tough. It's work. Anybody who says it isn't. Has never been married. Marriage has far bigger problems Than toothpaste squeezed From the middle of the tube.Marriage means Grappling, aching, struggling It means putting up With personality weaknesses Accepting criticism And giving each other freedom to fail It means sharing deep feelings About fear and rejection It means turning self-pity into laughter And taking a walk to gain self-control. Marriage means Gentleness and joy Toughness and fortitude Fairness and forgiveness And a great amount of sacrifice Marriage means Learning when to say nothing When to keep talking When to push a little When to back off It means acknowledging I can't be God to you I need Him, too.Marriage means...You are the other part of me I am the other part of you We'll work through With never a thought of walking out Marriage means Two imperfect mates Giving totally In partnership with a perfect God Marriage, my love, means us.

 

"Love—the Greatest of All"

I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I do not have love, it will sound like noisy brass. 2 If I have the gift of speaking God’s Word and if I understand all secrets, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I know all things and if I have the gift of faith so I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give everything I have to feed poor people and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it will not help me. 4 Love does not give up. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not put itself up as being important. Love has no pride. 5 Love does not do the wrong thing. Love never thinks of itself. Love does not get angry. Love does not remember the suffering that comes from being hurt by someone. 6 Love is not happy with sin. Love is happy with the truth. 7 Love takes everything that comes without giving up. Love believes all things. Love hopes for all things. Love keeps on in all things.8 Love never comes to an end. The gift of speaking God’s Word will come to an end. The gift of speaking in special sounds will be stopped. The gift of understanding will come to an end. 9 For we only know a part now, and we speak only a part. 10 When everything is perfect, then we will not need these gifts that are not perfect.11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I understood like a child. Now I am a man. I do not act like a child anymore. 12 Now that which we see is as if we were looking in a broken mirror. But then we will see everything. Now I know only a part. But then I will know everything in a perfect way. That is how God knows me right now. 13 And now we have these three: faith and hope and love, but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13

 

May God's extravagant love touch your life today! Blessings, to you all! :)

Sting & Peter Gabriel @ BB&T Pavilion, Camden, NJ, on Sunday, June 26, 2016.

 

Rock Paper Scissors Spring 2016 Tour Setlist:

 

Peter Gabriel:

The Rhythm of the Heat

 

Sting:

If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

No Self Control

Invisible Sun

Games Without Frontiers

 

Sting:

Shock the Monkey

(Peter Gabriel cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Secret World

 

Sting:

Driven to Tears

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Fragile

 

Peter Gabriel:

Red Rain

 

Sting &; Peter Gabriel:

Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Genesis cover)

Message in a Bottle (The Police cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Darkness

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel

Walking in Your Footsteps (The Police cover)

 

Sting:

Kiss That Frog (Peter Gabriel cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Don't Give Up

 

Sting:

The Hounds of Winter

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Big Time

Englishman in New York

Solsbury Hill

 

Sting:

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (The Police cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Sting cover)

 

Sting:

Roxanne (with 'Ain't No Sunshine' interpolation)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Love Can Heal (dedicated to Jo Cox)

 

Sting:

Desert Rose

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes

  

Encore:

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Every Breath You Take (The Police cover)

Sledgehammer

Hebrews 12:1–3 (ESV)

 

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

Do Not Grow Weary

3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

 

11 And the LORD said to me, x“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward ythe north, and say,

 

z“ ‘Return, faithless Israel,

declares the LORD.

I will not look on you in anger,

for aI am merciful,

declares the LORD;

bI will not be angry forever.

13 cOnly acknowledge your guilt,

that you rebelled against the LORD your God

and scattered your favors among foreigners under devery green tree,

and that you have not obeyed my voice,

declares the LORD.

14 eReturn, O faithless children,

declares the LORD;

ffor I am your master;

I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,

and I will bring you to Zion.

 

15 “ ‘And gI will give you shepherds after my own heart, hwho will feed you with knowledge and understanding

 

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Je 3:11–15.

Another week, another batch of fresh cranberries in the farm share to dispatch. Decided to go the cookie-ish route this time, and make these cranberry-walnut squares. They came out very good (it’s taking all my self-control to not just park myself on the couch with a glass of milk and eat the whole batch), but I’m saving them for the kids to snack on. Yeah, the kids. Saving ’em for the kids. That’s the ticket…

 

Just shot these in the light coming into the living room window this morning, with a white card out of frame to the right. I intentionally left the white balance a little on the blue side, which I think looks more natural here than when I corrected for shade.

 

This recipe started life as my stock whole-berry cranberry sauce recipe and my raspberry bar recipe, which my notes don’t state explicitly but which I’m almost positive is based on the one from the Cooks Illustrated folks. I haven't converted this one from volume to weights yet, meaning it’s from the older part of the repertoire.

  

Ingredients

 

for the cranberry sauce

 

2 c. fresh cranberries, picked over to get rid of leaves and twigs

1 1/2 c. granulated sugar

1/2 c. orange juice

pinch of salt

 

for the squares

 

2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour

1 3/4 c. rolled oats

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 c. granulated sugar

1/2 c. packed light brown sugar

3/4 c. finely chopped walnuts

18 tbl. unsalted butter, soft but still a little cold

1 recipe of cranberry sauce

1 golden delicious apple, peeled, cored, and cut into small dice

 

Directions

 

Make the cranberry sauce: combine the berries, salt, and orange juice in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Once most of the berries have popped, add the sugar, and continue boiling for a few minutes for the liquid to start thickening. Remove from the heat.

 

Preheat your oven to 350°F.

 

Prepare a 13"x9" pan by spraying it with cooking spray and lining the bottom and sides either with parchment or a double-layer of foil, leaving the ends free to help de-pan the baked squares later.

 

Combine the flour, oats, walnuts, salt, baking powder, and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and combine at low speed. Keeping the mixer at low speed, add the butter 1 tbl. at a time, pausing a few seconds between each addition. Mix until you have a coarse, sandy consistency, 2 to 3 minutes.

 

Pour 2/3 of the mixture into the prepared pan, and press into an even layer with your fingers. Bake for 20 minutes, until browning around the edges.

 

Stir the diced apple into the cranberry sauce. Spread the cranberry-apple mixture on top of the baked base with a spoon or rubber spatula, then sprinkle the remaining 1/3 of the flour-butter mixture on top of the berries. Don't press this in, you want it to be sandy. Return to the oven for 30 minutes, until the topping is a light golden brown. Remove from the oven, set on a rack, and allow to cool completely, 90 minutes to 2 hours.

 

Once cool, remove from the pan (lift the parchment or foil you lined the pan with) and cut into approximately 2" squares with a serrated knife. Yields about 24 pieces.

T-minus 5 ️days to what I consider to be the most important surgery of my life, my FFS. 👷‍♂️➡️👷‍♀️

 

There's other surgeries, but this is ***The*** One 1️⃣️, for me.

 

It's also the most expensive out of all of them, at $30K. 🔪🌍💵💵💵💵💵3️⃣️0️⃣️0️⃣️0️⃣️0️⃣️

 

SRS:🔪🍆 I mean, I still don't know if I'm ever gonna get SRS/GCS ("sex change"). I'm open to the idea and will undergo necessary preparations*** to do so, but I don't have any explicit plans to do that, as my genitals don't give me any dysphoria, as I've always known that "Some Women Have Penises...Get Over It". This is covered 100% by Carolyn's insurance, and is covered in a lot of places. Anti-discrimination clauses got this one covered way before anything else. Possibly a $0-5K surgery,

 

BA: 🍅🍅 Breast augmentation is a near-100% thing with trans women. But that surgery is also pretty cheap due to how common it is due to cis women getting it. It's less than a car. And it's increasingly covered by insurance, as well. It's just not a huge deal compared to face. $5-15K.

 

VFS: 🙅‍♀️️ Voice feminization surgery ($10K) is a pretty big deal, especially having to have the self control to not speak, cough, or clear your throat for a month afterwards -- which would ruin the surgery and cause you to have wasted $10,000 on nothing. Besides my lifelong throat-clearing problem.... I've done so well in speech therapy -- with my pitch higher 📈 than many cis women [my last cis-woman date asked me how to get her voice like mine!] -- that surgery seems unnecessary.

 

BFS: ‍♀️⛹️‍♀️🙋‍♀️ That really just leaves body feminization surgery. That's an arena that could end up costing as much as my face, in aggregate. Butt implants (~$10K), hip implants (~$15K), liposuctions (~$8K)... all fall under this category. This category could end up being more than my face 😪😰. But you don't do it all at the same time, usually. (if you do butt+hips, you have to sleep on your stomach for 3 months, fuck that).

But I also have a pretty damn good body 👅👩‍🎤💋. I'm completely and utterly satisfied with my body as a human body -- I consider myself a "sexy rectangle" 💋💟🚺. I've gotten dates with a cis-woman who simply noticed me in public and struck up a conversation with me and later admitted it was because they were checkin' out my bod 👩‍❤️‍👩💪💅👅. People simply aren't harsh to me in public. Ever. It never happens. Old people laughed at me once in 2017, before public misgendering permanently stopped -- I haven't been called "sir" in public in over 6 months, and not even on the phone in months.

But admittedly, I'd fucking kill for those gorgeous feminine curves (like what Carolyn & Beth have), and I really want my body to have those kinds of curves, too, to really feel like "me".

 

So I mean... This Is The Big One. 💥1️⃣️💥 This is the one I will put the most research, effort, and money 📉 into. It's also the one that has the worst recovery - shit like wearing a nose 👃👃 guard for 4 months until my follow-up appointment in New York City 🗽 or London (which itself will add another $2K to the costs, probably!).

 

Sure would be nice if ANY of this was covered. 😤‍♀️👎 FFS coverage is only just now starting to roll out, as anti-LGBT medical discrimination statutes are just starting to be applied to FFS, thanks to peoples' legal challenges. ✊✊✊ I'd be covered if I worked at Starbucks ☕, but not if I worked in my actual career field (or what's left of it). But since I waited decades, and my former cis(ha!)-het(ha!)-white-male(ha!) privilege did afford me a certain financial empowerment ✊ to where I can just do this in 2018, rather than play legal games for a year or 2. And honestly, my contributions simply set the stage for Carolyn's contributions to be "spare cash" instead of "needed cash". It's really Carolyn who is making all of this possible, at this point. She works so hard. I don't. She is so, so, so, so, so unimaginably strong in this regard. She's the man! 👩‍🚒💪👩‍❤️‍👩 She's the one who's dealt with this dumpster-fire 🔥 of a human being as her spouse for decades. And not to diminish Beth's role: I also couldn't have done this without her support and guidance, either. I love you both sooo fucking much! 😍😘👩‍👧‍👧👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

 

So anyway... T-minus 5 days, and I'm pretty fuckin' stoked about all of this. 😍😅👩‍💻‍♂️👠💄😊

 

Y'all won't be seeing me for a bit afterwards, except for gory pix on FB. 😷😭🙅‍♀️ I'm not going to RambleGrue ⛺🌌🎭, I'm not going to Constellation ⛺🌌🌠, I'm not going to any more pool parties 👙💦, I won't be going somewhere crowded like Risque at The Crucible 😥. Nothing where my face might get bumped, or where I don't end up at home at the end of the night ☹️. I won't be giving oral sex 😮🍆😸 to either sex for a couple months (😭). I won't be drinking 🍹 or smoking 🔥 again until September 29th -- but I'll be eating plenty of edibles, I'm sure.

 

Y'all probably will think I look weird and fake afterwards, and probably won't like my new face as much as the one you are familiar with. 😥 And that's kind of the expected result. This isn't about you. It's about me. 😘🙋‍♀️‍♀️ And it's about the people who haven't met me yet, and about the strangers who see me on the street and in the public. And about future co-workers. Etc etc.

 

Swelling will take 3-6 mos to go down; nose 👃👃 will take 1-2 yrs to settle; hairline damage will take a year to grow over. The FULL recovery for this 6.5hrs of surgery will be slower than most recoveries from most surgeries are. . My calendar will be FULL of post-surgical care for months ️📆. I'm supposed to not go in the sun without sunscreen 🌅🌇☀️, basically until 2019. (and i NEVER wear sunscreen, not even if i'm sitting on the beach ️ for 4 hours, not even if i'm camping for a week.. so this will be a HARD habit for me).

 

And to those of you who don't think the new me looks weird or different -- You might fall into the category of people who don't even see the difference. And then think, "What was the point of all that money and effort?" 🤔 ... When people who get FFS don't tell their co-workers, their co-workers tend to think they "got a different haircut" or "look different" or "had something done" without knowing what it was.

There are a LOT of people (especially cis females, and bisexual people) who simply don't perceive ️👨‍🔧👩‍🔧️‍♂️ the differences between male vs female facial structure -- and those people might not even notice the difference that much 🤔.

 

Except for the nose 👃👃👃. Noses say a lot. My nose change will probably be obvious to everybody. Hoping for as little MichaelJacksonism as possible *nervous laughter* 😅😅

 

So anyway.... I'll share some before-after pix from the clinic 🌏👨‍⚕️🔪 i am going to, in the comments.

 

Cheers! ❤️💛💚💙💜

 

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FOOTNOTES:

 

***[[[ thousands of dollars of genital 🍆⚡⚡🔥electrolysis (which electrologists always mark up 50% compared to facial electrolysis -- which seems exploitative ), tons of doctor research, years-long wait lists, etc. ]]]

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

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Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

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My camera and my life long love of people have led me to make the acquaintance of some really fascinating individuals.

 

If you ask any street photographer, they will tell you that the pictures they most remember are the ones they didn't take...

 

the photograph that they 'saw' but 'missed.'

 

The one that got away.

 

That's how I met a man named George Anastaplo.

 

I saw him walking down the street while I was on the way to a very special dinner that I was already late in getting to.

 

As I passed him up on the sidewalk there I resisted with everything that I had the urge to stop and photograph him.

 

I wanted to impress the woman that I was with with the fact that indeed I possessed a modicum of self control and that I didn't have to 'pop' every interesting looking person that I encountered in life.

 

After we arrived at the dinner I thought about the man that had just looked so fascinating to me out there on the street.

 

The man whose picture I didn't take.

 

The shot I missed.

 

Then fate did a funny thing just then.

 

That man sat down at the table right next to me.

 

Fate has given me so many second chances to capture 'his soul' in a photograph.

 

I swore to myself that day that one day I'd get 'the shot that I missed.'

 

The 'soul portrait.'

 

Fate is a funny thing indeed.

 

And she has always been good to me.

 

I am going to get that photograph.

 

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"One door closes"

 

An article written by Richard Mertens in 'The University of Chicago Magazine.'

 

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“Are you a member of the Communist Party?” George Anastaplo, AB’48, JD’51, PhD’64, refused to answer that question, a refusal that shaped his life.

 

Justice Hugo Black once called George Anastaplo, AB’48, JD’51, PhD’64, “too stubborn for his own good.” Sixty-some years later, Anastaplo sits in a basement room in the Gleacher Center, in downtown Chicago, surrounded by a dozen adult-education students, the picture of cheerful amiability. At 86 years old, Anastaplo has taught in the University of Chicago’s Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults for 55 years. A small man with white hair and clear gray eyes, wearing running shoes and an old tweed jacket, Anastaplo is lively and relaxed. A photocopy of Emerson’s essay “Friendship” lies on the table in front of him.

 

“I was appalled by how elitist Emerson was in his view of friendship,” says one student, a middle-aged woman.

 

Anastaplo’s eyes light up. He leans forward, and a smile tugs at the corners of his mouth. “You were appalled?” he says. She reads from a passage in which Emerson writes, “‘I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.’ Give me a break!” she exclaims, rolling her eyes. Delighted, Anastaplo swivels his head around the room. “Any reactions?”

 

This was not the life Anastaplo envisioned. On the morning of November 10, 1950, three days after his 25th birthday, he put on a coat and tie and headed downtown to the offices of the Chicago Bar Association, on LaSalle Street, for what he assumed would be the last step to launching a legal career in Illinois. The son of Greek immigrants from downstate Carterville, Anastaplo was a World War II veteran—he had navigated B-17 and B-29 bombers—and a top student at the University of Chicago Law School.

 

He had already passed the bar exam. He had begun talking to firms in the city. All that remained was a routine interview with two members of the Illinois Bar Association’s Committee on Character and Fitness. Anastaplo expected 15 minutes of pleasantries. Other applicants were waiting outside.

 

But the interview took an unexpected turn. After a few harmless questions, one of the lawyers asked Anastaplo if a member of the Communist Party should be eligible to practice law in Illinois. Anastaplo was surprised. “I should think so,” he said. But didn’t Communists believe in overthrowing the government? the lawyer asked. In the long colloquy that followed, Anastaplo, invoking George Washington and American political tradition, insisted that the right to revolt was “one of the most fundamental rights any people have.” The committee members were unconvinced. Finally the second one asked, “Are you a member of the Communist Party?”

 

Although this question was much in the air in the 1950s—earlier that year in West Virginia, Senator Joe McCarthy had brandished a list of Communists he claimed had infiltrated the State Department—no one seriously thought that Anastaplo was a Communist. Nor did anyone doubt his intellect, character, or patriotism. “If the mothers in Car­terville have their way, all their boys will be like George,” Fred K. Lingle, one of his high-school teachers, had told the committee in a written statement. And yet Anastaplo had determined that, as a matter of principle, the committee had no right to ask about his political beliefs or affiliations. “I think it is an illegitimate question,” he replied.

 

Thus began a decade-long confrontation pitting an unknown but determined young Army reservist and Law School graduate against the Illinois Bar Association and the climate of fear and suspicion that then pervaded public life in the United States. Anastaplo never did become a lawyer. But the case made him famous as an example of resistance to communist witch-hunting and launched him on a long and prolific career as a scholar, law professor, and teacher of great books, a good-natured contrarian, gadfly, and independent thinker.

 

In the months and years that followed his first interview with the Committee on Character and Fitness, Anastaplo had many chances to change his mind and answer the question. He had plenty of encouragement to do so, including a warning from his Law School dean, Edward H. Levi, U-High’28, PhB’32, JD’35, that he was making a big mistake. But he refused—and kept on refusing. He declined, as one writer put it, “to follow the line of least resistance.” For its part, the Illinois Bar was no less intractable: it simply refused to admit him. Anastaplo sued. The two sides fought back and forth through ten years of hearings and rehearings, rulings and appeals, until the case landed before the Supreme Court in 1960.

 

By then Anastaplo had spent a decade practicing law, all on his own behalf. He made the oral argument himself. On April 24, 1961, the court ruled against him, upholding the Illinois Bar five to four. In a lengthy petition for rehearing that he had little hope would succeed, Anastaplo wrote, “It is highly probable that upon disposition of this Petition for Rehearing, petitioner will have practiced all the law he is ever going to.”

 

With that valedictory flourish, Anastaplo moved on. But although he had lost, neither he nor the case was forgotten, thanks primarily to Justice Black, whose dissent raised Anastaplo to something more than a legal footnote. Black had not taken Anastaplo seriously at first. Of his lawsuit, Black had confided to Chief Justice William Brennan, “This whole thing is a little silly on his part.” But recent cases had left Black worried about the fate of the First Amendment and of what he later called “that great heritage of freedom.” In Anastaplo he found freedom’s champion. “The very most that can fairly be said against Anastaplo’s position in this entire matter is that he took too much of the responsibility of preserving [this country’s] freedom upon himself,” Black wrote. He compared Anastaplo to great lawyers like Clarence Darrow and then, taking measure of the nation’s ills, decried “the present trend, not only in the legal profession but in almost every walk of life” in which “too many men are being driven to become government-fearing and time-serving because the Government is being permitted to strike out at those who are fearless enough to think as they please and say what they think.” He concluded with an exhortation that still resonates: “We must not be afraid to be free.” Black liked this dissent so much that he had parts of it read at his funeral in 1971. When Brennan, who voted with Black, read it, he told him, “You’ve immortalized Anastaplo.”

   

Anastaplo has been called many things, some worse than stubborn. Sidney Hook, the leftist New York intellectual turned anticommunist crusader, described him as “a very much confused young man—both philosophically and politically—with a large bump of self righteousness.” On the other hand, Leon Despres, PhB’27, JD’29, a Hyde Park alderman and one of Anastap­lo’s most fervent admirers, dubbed him the “Socrates of Chicago.”

 

But Studs Terkel, PhB’32, JD’34, who interviewed Anastaplo twice on Chicago’s WFMT, may have hit closest to the truth when he described him simply as “one of those rare individuals who belongs to himself.” Anastaplo remains an unconventional figure, a lecturer in the Graham School’s Basic Program, a law professor at Loyola University of Chicago since 1981, and a writer of unusual range and productivity, with articles and books on subjects as diverse as the US Constitution, the Bhagavad Gita, and the lights at Wrigley Field. Shut out of the law, Anastaplo poured his energies into new channels, where, his friends say, he has proven himself as much his own man as he was before the Committee on Character and Fitness.

 

“To use a cliché, George really marches to his own drummer,” says Stanley Katz, an old friend and a professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. “I don’t know anybody of whom that is truer.”

 

Anastaplo inspires strong feelings. To a dwindling number of old friends and admirers—he has outlived not only his antagonists but also most of his old supporters—he is a heroic figure who stood up for liberty and decency at a dark moment in American history. At its 40th reunion, his Law School class gave him a bronze plaque that read “In admiration of a life devoted to high principle.” He has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Later generations know Anastaplo mainly as a gifted teacher and writer who delights in expressing unpopular or idiosyncratic positions. His first book, a close reading of the First Amendment, holds that the amendment does not apply to the states, in contrast to the views of almost every other constitutional scholar. Once, at a ceremony honoring him for his defense of civil liberties, Anastaplo surprised the audience by arguing for the abolition of television. On a talk show, he defended Richard Nixon against Gore Vidal, asserting that Nixon’s Watergate transgressions were minor compared to the actions of some other presidents, such as Harry Truman.

 

“He has always behaved as some kind of gadfly,” Laurence Berns, AB’50, PhD’57, an old friend, said in a 1986 Chicago magazine article written by Andrew Patner, X’81. “When the conventional opinion goes overboard in one direction, he tends to move in the other.”

 

But Anastaplo is more than a gadfly. He is an intellectual omnivore, a generalist who respects few intellectual boundaries. In lectures, essays, and op-ed pieces, he often returns to favorite subjects, including the Constitution, the Greek classics, Shakespeare, and Lincoln. He comments frequently on contemporary issues involving questions of rights and liberties. Recently, for instance, he criticized the use of drones against terror suspects.

 

In fact Anastaplo writes about whatever interests him. He has published about 20 books, a dozen book-length law-review articles, and hundreds of essays. Many of his books treat aspects of the Constitution (including one on Lincoln and the Constitution), but they also explore literature (The Artist as Thinker: From Shakespeare to Joyce, Swallow Press, 1982), non-Western ideas (But Not Philosophy: Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought, Lexington Books, 2002), religion (The Bible: Respectful Readings, Lexington Books, 2008), and other subjects far from his training in law and Western political philosophy. This variety is in part a consequence of teaching in the Basic Program, where, during a typical week last fall, he led discussions of Emerson, Plutarch, and Newton’s Principia, and where, he notes with a kind of pride, “I teach whatever other people don’t want to.”

 

It is also an expression of a lively curiosity and the freedom to follow it. Anastaplo frequently attends University lectures, panels, and colloquia—the Franke Institute for Wednesday lunch, a Physics colloquium on Thursdays—where, he laments, he is often the only layman in the room. As his friend Stanley Katz suggests, Anastaplo exemplifies an older intellectual ideal, one envisioned by Robert Hutchins’s university and Mortimer Adler’s Great Books of the Western World.

 

Friends have long marveled at his capacity for work. His eldest daughter, Helen Newlin, U-High’67, JD’75, CER’02, says that in winter he would rise and begin working as soon as the family’s modest wood frame house had cooled sufficiently to wake him. John Murley, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in whose house Anastaplo stayed while a guest lecturer in the 1980s, remembers that his typewriter began clattering away at 5 a.m.

 

“I have always had the overwhelming feeling, when I’m with him, that I should get much more serious about my work,” says Murley.

 

In person Anastaplo is mild, courteous, and funny. He is a classicist at heart, with a deep faith in reason, moderation, and human goodness, and devoted to the search for enduring values. He is skeptical of modernity. He dislikes what he calls “value-free social sciences.” He is fascinated by the physical sciences but thinks their influence has been bad, chiding scientists for their “abandonment” of “common sense.” His 1961 petition to the Supreme Court included his own exhortation: “We must try to take seriously again the concern and conditions for virtue, nobility, and the life most fitting for man.”

 

“He’s a person who is profoundly conservative, with a small ‘c,’ ” says Katz. “He’s deeply committed to traditional values … that for him are more than intellectual. … The bar-admissions case was about that. This is simply a man for whom principle is everything.”

 

The bar case was not his only clash with authorities. In 1960 the Anastaplo family drove a Volkswagen microbus across Europe, one of many summer trips the family made. On a public square in Moscow, Anastaplo approached a group of British tourists handing out copies of an American magazine, attracting a crowd. He meant only to warn them they could get in trouble, but when the police showed up, he says, someone pointed him out, and he was arrested along with the others. The next day he was expelled. In 1968 Greece’s military rulers threw him out of the country for criticizing their regime. C. Hermann Pritchard later quipped, “Any man who is kicked out of Russia, Greece, and the Illinois Bar can’t be all bad.”

 

As a teacher, Anastaplo has a talent for inducing thoughtfulness, says Laurence Nee, a tutor at St. John’s College in Sante Fe and a former student of Anastaplo. Once, Nee recalls, Anastaplo gave a talk on Constitution Day at the University of Dallas, a conservative Catholic institution where he taught for many years, flying down regularly from Chicago. Flag burning was in the news, and Anastaplo began by handing out photocopies of a canceled stamp bearing the image of a flag—in effect, a mutilated flag.

 

“His first motion isn’t to argue for or against a position,” says Nee, then a graduate student in Dallas. “It’s, ‘Have we thought about this?’”

 

Students like his obvious love of learning. He often scribbles notes in class, and he tries to approach each work afresh, using a clean text whenever he can. “He has a kind of boyishness to him still,” Nee says. “I think that’s part of his appeal. He enjoys learning. You can see the pleasure he takes in it.”

 

Monday and Tuesday mornings this past fall, Anastap­lo taught at the Gleacher Center, then walked briskly up Michigan Avenue, a canvas tote in each hand, to teach jurisprudence and constitutional law at Loyola. He uses public transportation (or his feet) whenever possible, and until a few years ago he biked to classes downtown, pedaling an old three-speed up the lakeshore path.

 

Anastaplo’s freewheeling and often philosophical approach to the law is a welcome contrast to the “nuts and bolts” fare of other courses, says Rebecca Blabolil, a recent Loyola graduate who took Anastaplo’s class last fall. “His classes are an opportunity to think and exercise a part of your brain that has been dormant for the three years you’ve been here,” Blabolil says. During one week, for example, he discussed the Emancipation Proclamation, a new Supreme Court ruling concerning images on cigarette packs, and Civil War songs, which he described as a neglected window into sectional differences.

   

Anastaplo’s Law School classmates remember him as brilliant and witty, although quiet, even solitary. He was clearly not a typical law student. “He had his own ideas about how to spend his time,” says Abner Mikva, JD’51, who went on to become a congressman, federal judge, and adviser to President Clinton. Instead of joining the Law Review, a sure path to advancement, Anastaplo audited other courses at the University. When Dean Levi decreed that students wear coats and ties to class, Anastaplo continued to show up in jeans. When a lecture bored him, he would pull out a newspaper and read.

 

Few of his classmates, then, were surprised when Anastaplo defied the Committee on Character and Fitness, says Alexander Polikoff, AB’48, AM’50, JD’53, who later helped write a friend-of-the-court brief for him. “He was strong willed and stubborn when it came to constitutional principles.”

 

At the hearings Anastaplo was polite but confident. Transcripts suggest he was more than an intellectual match for his questioners. But he seems to have misjudged them. He arrived as if armed for a graduate seminar, laden with books, citing Jefferson, Locke, and English parliamentary rules, expecting to engage in real debate. To the lawyers on the committee, however, his arguments seem to have been mostly beside the point. The anxieties over communism in America, fanned by far right, anti–New Deal Republicans, were real, if misguided, and the lawyers could not easily discount them. In Chicago schoolteachers had been forced to take loyalty oaths. An Illinois legislative committee had been investigating communist sympathies among the faculties of Illinois universities, including the University of Chicago. Anastaplo’s talk about revolution was alarming.

 

“I had a feeling that George was not a communist in any shape or form,” said the late Edmund A. Stephan, who presided over a rehearing of Anastaplo’s case in 1958, in the Chicago magazine article. “But at that time, ‘communist’ meant somebody who would overthrow the government. It wasn’t something to be trifled with.”

 

A bigger issue for the lawyers—and a decisive one for the Supreme Court—was whether Anastaplo could get away with refusing to answer questions. His manner, as much as his arguments, exasperated some committee members. One told Patner he was “a smart aleck.”

 

“The big mistake, if it was a mistake, was in assuming that other people in other institutions had sense and good will, and they didn’t,” concludes Lawrence Friedman, AB’48, JD’51, LLM’53, a former classmate and today a professor of law at Stanford University. “It was an age of intolerance and moral panic. He was asking for trouble, and he got it. You don’t argue with George—‘Why are you doing this?’ It won’t do any good. I think it was admirable. He stood up for his principle. And he took the consequences.”

 

At the Law School, sentiment ran heavily against him. Students seem to have respected his principles but doubted the wisdom of his position.

 

“I think the majority felt that it was impractical,” says Ramsey Clark, AM’50, JD’51, a classmate and a former US attorney general. “It was kind of a quixotic gesture that might hurt the Law School a little bit. And I think some, and I shared this, felt some pain for what you might call a self-inflicted injury. But I admired him.”

 

A few Law School professors defended Anastaplo, but most did not. Several wrote a proposal, likely never adopted, to discourage other students from following his example. Levi, who went on to serve as University president and US attorney general, urged Anastaplo to reconsider.

 

“I thought Anastaplo’s position was ill-timed,” Levi told the New York Times in a 1975 profile published after he became attorney general. “I thought the big problem was the teacher-oath cases. I thought to raise the non-Communist oath issue with the Character and Fitness Committee was the wrong way to do it, and because of the timing of the thing he would lose and hurt himself, and he did. We were all trying to help him, whether he knows it or not.”

 

Indeed, Anastaplo felt betrayed. To this day he believes that if the Law School had stood up for him, the Illinois Bar would have backed down. For all his abilities, he says, Levi, then in his first year as dean, “was a timid man.” The faculty, too, “were fearful.” In his view, he was standing up to “hazing, harassment, whatever you want to call it.” His years as a flying officer in the Army Air Corps had helped to give him confidence. “I wasn’t going to be bullied.”

 

While the bar-admissions case was under way, Anastap­lo worked at different jobs, including, briefly, driving a taxi. He also studied political philosophy in the Committee on Social Thought under Leo Strauss. He taught, first in the Basic Program and then, after earning his PhD, at Rosary College, the University of Dallas, and eventually, Loyola, often holding two or three positions at a time.

 

His relationship with the University has been complicated and a source of disappointment. With three degrees, Anastap­lo is as much a creature of the institution as anybody. But he remains marginal. For a long time he hoped to secure a regular faculty position, and each time was rebuffed. In April 1975, after Levi had departed for Washington, Anastap­lo loaded a shopping cart with manila envelopes and pushed it the mile from his house on Harper Avenue to the Faculty Exchange mail office. The envelopes contained samples of his writing, a bibliography listing some 300 publications, and a letter making “a quiet … appeal to the good sense of the University faculty.” They were addressed to acting president John T. Wilson, the provost, and the heads of schools, divisions, departments, and committees. He received a few replies but no offers. He never tried again.

 

Anastaplo did teach once at the Law School, in a not-for-credit course organized by Patner, then a law student. For many years he also met informally with graduate students in the University library. He recounts a separate occasion several decades ago when he was offered a course in the College and actually taught the first class—on the Declaration of Independence—only to have the offer withdrawn without explanation.

 

Anastaplo and his supporters say he was blacklisted because of the bar-admissions case and the opposition of his old dean, Edward Levi. He was too much of a troublemaker. Others offer different explanations. James Redfield, U-High’50, AB’54, PhD’61, a professor of classics and former master of the New Collegiate Division, recalls that he and Levi talked “more than once” about Anastaplo and that some professors recommended him. But Anastaplo lacked broad faculty support. The reason, Redfield suggests, was neither Levi nor the bar case but Anastaplo’s link to Leo Strauss. “There was generally a hostility toward Leo Strauss on the humanities faculty,” he says.

 

Katz believes that Anastaplo’s scholarship was simply too unconventional. “He has not respected any of the norms of academic discourse,” he says. “He’s turned that into a virtue, but he never would have gotten tenure at the University of Chicago like that.”

 

Still, Anastaplo has thrived in the academic hinterland, finding appreciative audiences at lesser known and often conservative institutions like the University of Dallas and publishing in obscure journals like the Oklahoma City University Law Review and the South Dakota Law Review. “The main thing is to write it the way I want it,” he says. “That’s what I’ve been able to do.”

 

Anastaplo has taken care that his writings do not languish in obscurity. “My model in self-advertisement is Don Quixote, who seems to have reckoned that if he (as an artist of knight-errantry) went to the trouble of doing useful things, others should benefit from learning about them,” he writes in an essay footnote. He collects many of his essays into books. In recent years friends have posted his writings on the Internet (at anastaplo.wordpress.com). And for most of his adult life Anastaplo has regularly sent packets of his writings to large numbers of friends and acquaintances. His children received packets when they were at college. So, in the last ten years of his life, did Hugo Black, who responded that he enjoyed them. “I have long thought and still believe that you have the capacity to make a highly useful citizen of this country,” he wrote in 1969.

 

Anastaplo’s work has attracted critical notice and often praise, but no large following. “George is prolific, original,” says Geoffrey Stone, JD’71, an expert on constitutional law and a Law School professor since 1973. “But in the world of legal scholars, he isn’t widely recognized.” An exasperated Dean Alfange Jr., now a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, noted in a 1974 review that Anastaplo would not extend First Amendment protection to artistic or literary expression: “Professor Anastaplo states that he knows of no one who agrees with his position on the First Amendment. It is unlikely that he will have to change that assessment as the result of this book.” Another writer praised Anastaplo’s “fervent and selfless moral vision, rooted in the classics of Western thought,” and called him a “rare intellectual: thought and learning are not for him the meaning of life, inducing a withdrawal into books, ideas, and ideological posturings; they give meaning to life, enabling one to live it actively and as perfectly as possible.”

 

At 86, Anastaplo maintains a busy schedule of teaching and writing. “That’s how you stay alive,” he says. He is in the middle of a projected ten-volume series called Reflections, each volume a collection of essays, or “constitutional sonnets,” as he calls them, on various topics. In the third volume, for example, titled Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), he takes up Pericles’s funeral oration, assisted suicide, obliteration bombing, and “The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time.” In the meantime he is trying to publish a collection of essays on the aftermath of 9/11, as well as a book-length series of interviews he conducted a decade ago with a Holocaust survivor. He would like to write a book about Roma people and about Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus, a work he considers “the greatest of our plays.”

 

Despite his full life, Anastaplo remains aggrieved by the bar-admissions case. He finds it ironic when people tell him they admire what he did. Last year, on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, he wrote, “If such people had expressed their admiration publicly in the 1950s, the Character Committee would probably have backed away from demands that were being made only of me.”

   

After anticommunist fervor cooled in the United States, friends and supporters tried several times to get Anastaplo finally admitted to the Illinois Bar. The Committee on Character and Fitness itself had a change of heart: in 1978 it voted 13 to 4 to certify him. But Anastaplo refused to reapply, and without his cooperation these efforts died. “George doesn’t want to let them off the hook,” says Katz.

 

Indeed, Anastaplo has done his part to keep the case alive. He has spoken about it occasionally and has chronicled it in immense detail, publishing not only most of the essential documents but also much correspondence and commentary about it afterward. “Frankly, I felt, and still do, that staying out on the terms I did was more instructive,” Anastaplo says. “I figured that, all in all, it was better to stay out.”

 

Was he too stubborn for his own good? Certainly Anastaplo sacrificed what might have been a lucrative law career. As a graduate of a leading law school, he might have found other opportunities open up to him as well. Many of his fellow students, including Mikva, Clark, Friedman, and Robert Bork, AB’48, JD’53, went on to distinguished careers in government and academia. From a practical point of view, says Clark, Anastaplo’s actions in 1950 were “catastrophic.”

 

But the practical point of view never was Anastaplo’s. In the end, he says, his case proved “liberating and even empowering.” It made him a symbol of principled resistance and set him on what he calls “my career as a naysayer.” More than that, losing the case gave him the freedom to “do what I want to do and publish what I want to.” Those who know him say they cannot imagine him doing anything differently.

 

“George is always at peace, as far as I can tell,” Clark says. “He was confident. The consequences, which he fully understood, were not a concern. He was determined to live a life of principle as far as he understood it. ... And that’s the type of life he’s lived.”

 

Richard Mertens 'The University of Chicago Magazine' March-April 2012

 

mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/one-door-closes

   

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Ecclesiastes 1:1–11 (ESV)

 

All Is Vanity

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

 

2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,

vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

3 What does man gain by all the toil

at which he toils under the sun?

4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,

but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,

and hastens to the place where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south

and goes around to the north;

around and around goes the wind,

and on its circuits the wind returns.

7 All streams run to the sea,

but the sea is not full;

to the place where the streams flow,

there they flow again.

8 All things are full of weariness;

a man cannot utter it;

the eye is not satisfied with seeing,

nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done,

and there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it is said,

“See, this is new”?

It has been already

in the ages before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things,

nor will there be any remembrance

of later things yet to be

among those who come after.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUpvJa9FmY

A fun shoot!

 

Yes, the results might had been better had I banished the pup and used Henry, alone. But then Toby wouldn't learn anything, would he?

 

The spoons (yes, there's two) held Maple Yogurt - the remainder destined to be slathered on the pup's KONGs but a few spoonfuls put into service as the Prop of the Day.

 

This the first time I've tried using yogurt for this kind of shoot, and the jury is still out on it. I would have given it a definitive thumbs down due to lack of visibility and the difficulty keeping it on the spoon long enough to get the image

 

BUT

 

... then I saw this image of it dripping all over the place, and, well, who doesn't love that?

 

It is also MUCH easier for the dogs to clean up yogurt from the floor than peanut butter, which is what I've used in the past.

 

119 Pictures in 2019 - #96. "A Spoonful Of..."

 

Daily Dog Challenge 2620. "Dear Diary"

 

It was a good day.

 

100x in 2019: #3 (I never said I wouldn't include ANY black backgrounds!)

 

NOTE: I also intended to cover Our Daily Challenge - Jan 9, 2018 - "Anticipation" but just couldn't resist the dripping yogurt of this shot, which is obviously post-anticipation (satisfaction?)

 

The pre-enjoyment shots were also uploaded, showing Toby's admirable self-control.

 

What a good pup!

 

That thing in my left hand is the remote for the camera, so I suppose this is also somewhat of a behind-the-scenes shot. :)

 

Stop on by Henry and Toby's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

~ Galatians 5:22-23

 

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Sting & Peter Gabriel @ Verizon Center, Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

 

Rock Paper Scissors Spring 2016 Tour Setlist:

 

Peter Gabriel:

The Rhythm of the Heat

 

Sting:

If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

No Self Control

Invisible Sun

Games Without Frontiers

 

Sting:

Shock the Monkey

(Peter Gabriel cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Secret World

 

Sting:

Driven to Tears

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Fragile

 

Peter Gabriel:

Red Rain

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (Genesis cover)

Message in a Bottle (The Police cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Darkness

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel

Walking in Your Footsteps (The Police cover)

 

Sting:

Kiss That Frog (Peter Gabriel cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Don't Give Up

 

Sting:

The Hounds of Winter

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Big Time

Englishman in New York

Solsbury Hill

 

Sting:

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (The Police cover)

 

Peter Gabriel:

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Sting cover)

 

Sting:

Roxanne (with 'Ain't No Sunshine' interpolation)

 

Peter Gabriel:

Love Can Heal (dedicated to Jo Cox)

 

Sting:

Desert Rose

 

Sting & Peter Gabriel

In Your Eyes

  

Encore:

Sting & Peter Gabriel:

Every Breath You Take (The Police cover)

Sledgehammer

I think I should have exercised self control. But I stopped eating out and laid back on Starbucks so I could go a little nuts at the craft store. I plan to turn all of this stuff into presents and incorporate into paintings somehow.

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Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

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No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

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TheDiet Chronicles Documents an example of healthy eating or rather mindful eating. An idea of a way one "could" eat as a means to eat healthy and enjoy the process. As black belts and martial artist we are aware that Heart Disease is the number one cause of death among Americans and 1 out of 3 people will develop Type 2 Diabetes. It only makes sense then to make Healthy Eating a part of any self-defense program. Statistics show more people will be hurt by what's on their plate than they ever will be by a punch, kick, throw, or grappling match. Learning martial art techniques is important but where it stops the self-discipline of eating healthy and mindfully begins. Just an idea we explore and one that I ask my students to explore as well.

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

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Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

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TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

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We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

TheDiet Chronicles Documents an example of healthy eating or rather mindful eating. An idea of a way one "could" eat as a means to eat healthy and enjoy the process. As black belts and martial artist we are aware that Heart Disease is the number one cause of death among Americans and 1 out of 3 people will develop Type 2 Diabetes. It only makes sense then to make Healthy Eating a part of any self-defense program. Statistics show more people will be hurt by what's on their plate than they ever will be by a punch, kick, throw, or grappling match. Learning martial art techniques is important but where it stops the self-discipline of eating healthy and mindfully begins. Just an idea we explore and one that I ask my students to explore as well.

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

Parents, Download your FREE Report The 7 Steps for Parents: Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Click HERE to visit our website

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Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

Our e-mail address: SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org - Our Facebook page: Like us at TheDOJO or Friend us DanRominski

 

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A link to where our school is on Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/TheD......

If you live in the Rutherford, NJ area and would like to inquire about our programs, reach out to us at the phone and/or e-mail or text addresses above. -Sensei Dan

 

Read our Blog at senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com...

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We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

Went out with my Parents to enjoy the Pohela Boishakh celebrations after two whole years. However, being not so fond of crowds I returned home in an hour. Enjoyed this performance though! The kids were so adorable it took me a lot of self control not to run over to the podium to give them hugs! =P

 

Mukto Moncho, Dhanmondi Lake, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

TheDiet Chronicles Documents an example of healthy eating or rather mindful eating. An idea of a way one "could" eat as a means to eat healthy and enjoy the process. As black belts and martial artist we are aware that Heart Disease is the number one cause of death among Americans and 1 out of 3 people will develop Type 2 Diabetes. It only makes sense then to make Healthy Eating a part of any self-defense program. Statistics show more people will be hurt by what's on their plate than they ever will be by a punch, kick, throw, or grappling match. Learning martial art techniques is important but where it stops the self-discipline of eating healthy and mindfully begins. Just an idea we explore and one that I ask my students to explore as well.

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

Parents, Download your FREE Report The 7 Steps for Parents: Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Click HERE to visit our website

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Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

Our e-mail address: SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org - Our Facebook page: Like us at TheDOJO or Friend us DanRominski

 

Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/DanRominski - Our Twitter www.twitter.com/danrominski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/danrominski

 

A link to where our school is on Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/TheD......

If you live in the Rutherford, NJ area and would like to inquire about our programs, reach out to us at the phone and/or e-mail or text addresses above. -Sensei Dan

 

Read our Blog at senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com...

Read our blog at www.DanRominski.Tumblr.com

 

We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

Parents, Download your FREE Report The 7 Steps for Parents: Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Click HERE to visit our website

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Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

Our e-mail address: SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org - Our Facebook page: Like us at TheDOJO or Friend us DanRominski

 

Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/DanRominski - Our Twitter www.twitter.com/danrominski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/danrominski

 

A link to where our school is on Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/TheD......

If you live in the Rutherford, NJ area and would like to inquire about our programs, reach out to us at the phone and/or e-mail or text addresses above. -Sensei Dan

 

Read our Blog at senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com...

Read our blog at www.DanRominski.Tumblr.com

 

We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

Parents, Download your FREE Report The 7 Steps for Parents: Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Click HERE to visit our website

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Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

Our e-mail address: SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org - Our Facebook page: Like us at TheDOJO or Friend us DanRominski

 

Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/DanRominski - Our Twitter www.twitter.com/danrominski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/danrominski

 

A link to where our school is on Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/TheD......

If you live in the Rutherford, NJ area and would like to inquire about our programs, reach out to us at the phone and/or e-mail or text addresses above. -Sensei Dan

 

Read our Blog at senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com...

Read our blog at www.DanRominski.Tumblr.com

 

We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

Adults Learn How to get and stay in shape, Stress Release, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Slow start program (come as you are), a coach in every class, Confidence, Focus, Self-Discipline, Positive Peer Group and it’s Fun!

 

Parents, Download your FREE Report The 7 Steps for Parents: Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse Click HERE to visit our website

danrominski.squarespace.com/c...|/sexual-abuse-prevention

Sensei Dan is available for Scheduled TALKS & PRESENTATIONS.

 

Get more information about our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum involving Everything Self-Defense at TheDOJO located in Rutherford NJ.

Contact Chief Instructor: Owner Sensei Dan Rominski at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

Visit our website www.TheDOJO.org

 

TheDOJO - 52 Park Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070 - Phone: (201) 933-3050 - Text us for info here: (201) 838-4177

 

Our e-mail address: SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org - Our Facebook page: Like us at TheDOJO or Friend us DanRominski

 

Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/DanRominski - Our Twitter www.twitter.com/danrominski

Instagram: www.instagram.com/danrominski

 

A link to where our school is on Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/TheD......

If you live in the Rutherford, NJ area and would like to inquire about our programs, reach out to us at the phone and/or e-mail or text addresses above. -Sensei Dan

 

Read our Blog at senseidanromisnki.blogspot.com...

Read our blog at www.DanRominski.Tumblr.com

 

We Teach Children, Teens and Adults from Rutherford, NJ; East Rutherford, NJ; Carlstadt, NJ; Kearny, NJ; Lyndhurst, NJ; Woodridge, NJ; Hackensack, NJ; Belleville, NJ; Bloomfield, NJ; Nutley, NJ; Clifton, NJ; Montclair, NJ; and surrounding areas.

 

No Matter The Martial Art we’ll help you accomplish your goals through our expertise or help you find a school that will best suit you.

Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Juijitsu, Jiu-jitsu, Goju Ryu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, Iaido, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, Ryukyu Okinawa Kobudo, Shorin Ryu, TKD, Tae Kwon Do

 

TheDiet Chronicles Documents an example of healthy eating or rather mindful eating. An idea of a way one "could" eat as a means to eat healthy and enjoy the process. As black belts and martial artist we are aware that Heart Disease is the number one cause of death among Americans and 1 out of 3 people will develop Type 2 Diabetes. It only makes sense then to make Healthy Eating a part of any self-defense program. Statistics show more people will be hurt by what's on their plate than they ever will be by a punch, kick, throw, or grappling match. Learning martial art techniques is important but where it stops the self-discipline of eating healthy and mindfully begins. Just an idea we explore and one that I ask my students to explore as well.

 

A martial arts education of intelligent curriculum curated by Sensei Dan Rominski at his martial art school located in Rutherford NJ. Visit our website www.thedojo.org Self-Defense for children at (201) 933-3050 or email SenseiDan@TheDOJO.org

 

Visit our website www.thedojo.org

 

Children Learn Focus, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, Fitness, Confidence, Respect, Have Better Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating and Self-Defense.

 

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It turns out our mothers were right about the importance of hanging out with the right people. A University of Georgia study has revealed that self-control – and the lack of it– is contagious.

 

Researchers found that watching or even thinking about someone with good self-control makes others more likely exert discipline. They found the opposite holds, too, so that people with bad self-control influence others negatively. The effect is so powerful, in fact, that seeing the name of someone with good or bad self-control flashing on a screen for just 10 milliseconds changed the behavior of volunteers.

 

There were a number of studies over several years. In one, volunteers watched others exert self-control by choosing a carrot from a plate in front of them instead of a cookie from a nearby plate, while others watched people eat the cookies instead of the carrots. The volunteers had no interaction with the tasters, yet their performance was altered on a later test depending on who they were randomly assigned to watch.

 

We know that people tend to mimic the behavior of those around them, and problems like smoking, drug use and obesity tend to spread through social networks. But this study is the first to show that self-control is also contagious. The bottom line: picking social influences that are positive can improve your self-control.

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Jainism (/ˈdʒeɪnɪzəm/[1] or /ˈdʒaɪnɪzəm/[2]), traditionally known as Jina Sashana or Jain dharma (Sanskrit: जैन धर्म),[3] belonging to the Dharmic tradition, is a Shraman philosophy and an Indian religion. It emphasizes nonviolence towards all living beings. Jains believe nonviolence and self-control are means to liberation from the cycle of births and deaths.

 

The word "Jain" derives from the Sanskrit word Jina (meaning victor). A human being who has conquered all inner passions like attachment, desire, anger, pride, greed, etc. and therefore, possesses pure infinite knowledge (Kevala Jnana) is called Jina. Followers of the path practised and preached by Jinas are known as Jains.[3][4][5]

 

Jainism is one of the oldest religions in the world.[6] Jains trace their history through a succession of twenty-four teachers and revivers of Jain teachings known as tirthankaras with Rishabha as the first and Mahāvīra as the last of the current era.

  

Non-violence (ahimsa)[edit]

Main article: Ahimsa in Jainism

 

The hand with a wheel on the palm symbolizes Ahimsa (nonviolence). The word in the middle is "Ahimsa". The wheel represents the dharmacakra which stands for the resolve to halt the cycle of reincarnation through relentless pursuit of truth and non-violence.

The principle of ahimsa is the most fundamental and well known aspect of Jain religious practice.[7] The everyday implementation of ahimsa is more comprehensive than in other religions and is the hallmark for Jain identity.[8][9] Non-violence is practiced first and foremost during interactions with other human beings, and Jains believe in avoiding harm to others through actions, speech and thoughts.[10]

 

In addition to other humans, Jains extend the practice of nonviolence towards all living beings. As this ideal cannot be completely implemented in practice, Jains recognize a hierarchy of life, which gives more protection to humans followed by animals followed by insects followed by plants. For this reason, vegetarianism is a hallmark of Jain practice, with the majority of Jains practicing lacto-vegetarianism. If there is violence against animals during the production of dairy products, veganism is also encouraged (see Jain vegetarianism). After humans and animals, insects are the next living being offered protection in Jain practice with avoidance of intentional harm to insects emphasized. For example, insects in the home are often escorted out instead of killed. Intentional harm and the absence of compassion make an action more violent per Jainism.

 

After nonviolence towards humans, animals and insects, Jains make efforts not to injure plants any more than necessary. Although they admit that plants must be destroyed for the sake of food, they accept such violence only inasmuch as it is indispensable for human survival. Strict Jains, including Jain monks and nuns, do not eat root vegetables such as potatoes, onions and garlic, because tiny organisms are injured when the plant is pulled up, and also because a bulb or tuber's ability to sprout is seen as characteristic of a living being.[11]

 

Jainism has a very elaborate framework on types of life and includes life-forms that may be invisible. Per Jainism, the intent and emotions behind the violence are more important than the action itself. For example, if a person kills another living being out of carelessness and then regrets later, the karma bandhan (bondage of karma) is less versus when the person kills the same living being with anger, revenge, etc. The emotions (bhava) determine the bondage of karmas. A soldier acting in self defense is a different type of violence versus someone killing another person out of hatred or revenge.

 

Violence or war in self-defense may be justified, but this must only be used as a last resort after peaceful measures have been thoroughly exhausted.[12] Mahatma Gandhi notably practiced and preached ahimsa.

 

Non-absolutism[edit]

Main article: Anekantavada

The second main principle of Jainism is non-absolutism (anēkāntavāda). For Jains, non-absolutism means maintaining open-mindedness. This includes the recognition of all perspectives and a humble respect for differences in beliefs. Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the views and beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties. The principle of anekāntavāda influenced Mahatma Gandhi to adopt principles of religious tolerance and ahiṃsā.[13]

 

Anekāntavāda emphasizes the principles of pluralism (multiplicity of viewpoints) and the notion that truth and reality are perceived differently from diverse points of view, no single one of which is complete.[14][15]

 

Jains illustrate this theory through the parable of the blind men and an elephant. In this story, each blind man feels a different part of an elephant: its trunk, leg, ear, and so on. All of them claim to understand and explain the true appearance of the elephant but, due to their limited perspectives, can only partly succeed.[16] The concept of anēkāntavāda extends to and is further explained by Syādvāda (below).

 

Non-possessiveness[edit]

Main article: Aparigraha

The third main principle in Jainism is non-possessiveness (aparigraha). This is the concept of greedlessness or non-grasping and includes non-materialism. Jainism emphasizes taking no more than is necessary. While ownership of objects is allowed, non-attachment to possessions is taught. Followers should minimize the tendency to hoard unnecessary material possessions and limit attachment to current possessions. Further, wealth and possessions should be shared and donated whenever possible. Jainism believes that unchecked attachment to possessions can lead to direct harm to oneself and others.

 

Five main vows[edit]

See also: Yamas § Five Yamas

Jainism encourages spiritual development through cultivation of personal wisdom and through reliance on self-control through vows.[17] Jains accept different levels of compliance for strict followers and laymen.[17] Followers of this religion undertake five major vows:

 

Ahimsa: Ahimsa means nonviolence. The first major vow taken by followers is to cause no harm to living beings. It involves minimizing intentional and unintentional harm to other living creatures by actions, speech or thoughts.

Satya: Satya means truth. This vow is to always speak the truth. Given that non-violence has priority, other principles yield to it whenever they conflict: in a situation where speaking truth could lead to violence, silence may be observed.[17]

Asteya: Asteya means not stealing. Jains should not take anything that is not willingly offered.[17] Attempting to extort material wealth from others or to exploit the weak is considered theft. Fair value should be given for all goods and services purchased.

Brahmacharya: Brahmacharya means chastity for laymen and celibacy for Jain monks and nuns. This requires the exercise of control over the senses to control indulgence in sexual activity.[18]

Aparigraha: Aparigraha means non-possessiveness. This includes non-materialism and non-attachment to objects, places and people.[17] Jain monks and nuns completely renounce property and social relations.

Monks and nuns are obligated to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possessiveness very strictly, while laymen are encouraged to observe them within their current practical limitations.[17]

 

Additionally, Jainism identifies four passions of the mind: Anger, pride (ego), deceitfulness, greed. It recommends conquering anger by forgiveness, pride by humility, deceitfulness by straight-forwardness and greed by contentment.

 

God[edit]

Main article: God in Jainism

 

Image of Rishabha, first tīrthaṅkara of the present Avsarpini era (Photo - Kundalpur, Madhya Pradesh)

Jainism rejects the idea of a creator or destroyer god and postulates that the universe is eternal. Jainism believes every soul has the potential for salvation and to become god. In Jainism, perfect souls with body are called Arihantas (victors) and perfect souls without the body are called Siddhas (liberated souls). Tirthankara is an Arihanta who help others in achieving liberation. Jainism has been described as a transtheistic religion ,[19] as it does not teach the dependency on any supreme being for enlightenment. The Tirthankara is a guide and teacher who points the way to enlightenment, but the struggle for enlightenment is one's own.

 

Arihanta (Jina)- A human being who conquers all inner passions and possesses infinite knowledge (Kevala Jnana). They are also known as Kevalins (omniscient beings). There are two kinds of Arihantas [20]-

Sāmānya (Ordinary victors) - Kevalins who are concerned with their own salvation.

Tirthankara - Tīrthaṅkara literally means a 'ford-maker', or a founder of salvation teaching.[21] They propagate and revitalize the Jain faith and become role-models for those seeking spiritual guidance. They reorganise the fourfold order (chaturvidha sangha) that consists of monks (śramana), nuns (śramani), male followers (srāvaka) and female followers (śravaika).[22][23] Jains believe that exactly twenty-four tirthankaras are born in each half cycle of time (Jain cosmology). The last tirthankara, Mahavira and his predecessor Parsvanatha are historical figures whose existence is recorded.[24] [25]

 

Siddhas (the liberated beings), although they are formless, this is how they are depicted in Jain temples

Siddha- Siddhas are Arihantas who attain salvation (moksha) and dwell in Siddhashila with infinite bliss, infinite perception, infinite knowledge and infinite energy.

Practices[edit]

Monasticism[edit]

Main article: Jain monasticism

 

Jain nuns meditating

In Jainism, monasticism is encouraged and respected. Jain monks and nuns live extremely austere and ascetic lifestyles. They follow the five main vows of Jainism absolutely. Jain monks and nuns have neither a permanent home nor possessions. They do not use vehicles and always travel barefoot from one place to another, irrespective of the distance. They wander from place to place except during the months of Chaturmas. They do not use telephones or electricity. They do not prepare food and live only on what people offer them. Jain monks and nuns also usually keep a cloth for ritual mouth-covering to avoid inadvertently harming micro-organisms in the air. Most will carry a broomlike object (Rayoharan), made from dense, thick thread strands, to sweep the ground ahead of them, or before sitting down, to avoid inadvertently crushing small insects.[26]

 

The monks of Jainism, whose presence is not needed for most Jain rituals, should not be confused with priests. However, some sects of Jainism often employ a pujari, who need not be a Jain, to perform special daily rituals and other priestly duties at the temple.[27]

 

Prayers[edit]

Jains pray to these passionless gods not for any favors, material goods or rewards[28] but rather pray to the qualities of the god with the objective of destroying their own karmas and achieving liberation.[29] This is best understood by the term vandetadgunalabhdhaye – i.e. "we pray to the attributes of such Gods to acquire such attributes".[29]

 

Navkar Mantra[edit]

The Navkār mantra is the fundamental prayer of Jainism and may be recited at any time. In this mantra, Jains worship the qualities (Gunas) of the spiritually supreme in order to attain Godhood. The prayer does not name any one particular person. In Jainism, the purpose of worship or prayer is to break the barriers of worldly attachments and desires and to assist in the liberation of the soul.

 

Fasting[edit]

Most Jains fast throughout the year, particularly during festivals (fasting in Jainism). This takes on various forms and may be practiced based on one's ability. Some examples include: eating only one or two meals per day, drinking only water all day, not eating after sunset, not eating processed foods, eating food without sugar/oil/salt. Two purposes of fasting are to exercise self-control and to clear the mind to devote more mental energy to prayer.

 

Meditation[edit]

Main article: Jain meditation

Jains have developed a type of meditation called samayika, a term derived from the word samaya. The goal of Samayika is to achieve a feeling of perfect calmness and to understand the unchanging truth of the self. Such meditation is based on contemplation of the universe and the reincarnation of self.[30] Samayika is particularly important during the Paryushana religious festival. It is believed that meditation will assist in managing and balancing one's passions. Great emphasis is placed on the internal control of thoughts, as they influence behavior, actions and goals.[31]

 

Jains follow six duties known as avashyakas: samyika (practising serenity), chaturvimshati (praising the tirthankara), vandan (respecting teachers and monks), pratikramana (introspection), kayotsarga (stillness), and pratyakhyana (renunciation).[32]

 

Philosophy[edit]

Main article: Jain philosophy

Soul and karma[edit]

Main article: Karma in Jainism

According to Jains, souls are intrinsically pure and possess the qualities of infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite bliss and infinite energy in their ideal state.[33] In reality, however, these qualities are found to be obstructed due to the soul's association with a substance called karma.[34] The ultimate goal in Jainism is to obtain moksha, which means liberation or salvation of the soul completely freeing it from karmic bondage.

 

The relationship between the soul and karma is explained by the analogy of gold. Gold is always found mixed with impurities in its natural state. Similarly, the ideal, pure state of the soul is always mixed with the impurities of karma. Just like gold, purification of the soul may be achieved if the proper methods of refining are applied.[34] The Jain karmic theory is used to attach responsibility to individual action and is cited to explain inequalities, sufferings and pain.

 

Three gems[edit]

Main article: Ratnatraya

The following three gems of Jainism lay down the path to achieve liberation of the soul (moksha).[35]-

 

Right View (Samyak Darshana) - Having the right perception and seeking the truth while avoiding preconceptions that get in the way of seeing things clearly.

Right Knowledge (Samyak Gyana) - Having the right knowledge of Jain principles.

Right Conduct (Samyak Charitra) - Applying Jain principles to your life.

Tattva[edit]

Jain metaphysics is based on seven or nine fundamentals which are known as tattva, which attempt to explain the nature of the human predicament and to provide solutions for the ultimate goal of liberation of the soul (moksha):[36]

 

Jīva: The essence of living beings is called jiva, a substance which is different from the body that houses it. Consciousness, knowledge and perception are its fundamental attributes.

Ajīva: Non-living entities that consist of matter, space and time.

Asrava: The interaction between jīva and ajīva causes the influx of karma (a particular form of ajiva) into the soul.

Bandha: The karma masks the jiva and restricts it from having its true potential of perfect knowledge and perception.

Saṃvara: Through right conduct, it is possible to stop the influx of additional karma.

Nirjarā: By performing asceticism, it is possible to discard the existing karma.

Mokṣa: The liberated jiva which has removed its karma and is said to have the pure, intrinsic quality of perfect knowledge and perception.

Some authors add two additional categories: the meritorious (puńya) and demeritorious (pāpa) acts related to karma.

 

Syādvāda[edit]

 

Mahāvīra employed anekānta extensively to explain Jain philosophical concepts (painting from Rajasthan, ca. 1900)

Syādvāda is the doctrine extending from non-absolutism (anēkāntavāda). This recommends the expression of anekānta by prefixing the epithet Syād to every phrase or expression.[37] The Sanskrit etymological root of the term syād is "perhaps" or "maybe", but in the context of syādvāda it means "in some ways" or "from some perspective." As reality is complex, no single proposition can express its full nature. The term syāt- should therefore be prefixed to each proposition, giving it a conditional point of view and thus removing dogmatism from the statement.[38] There are seven conditioned propositions (saptibhaṅgī) in syādvāda as follows:[39]

 

syād-asti—in some ways, it is;

syād-nāsti—in some ways, it is not;

syād-asti-nāsti—in some ways, it is, and it is not;

syād-asti-avaktavyaḥ—in some ways, it is, and it is indescribable;

syād-nāsti-avaktavyaḥ—in some ways, it is not, and it is indescribable;

syād-asti-nāsti-avaktavyaḥ—in some ways, it is, it is not, and it is indescribable;

syād-avaktavyaḥ—in some ways, it is indescribable.

Each of these seven propositions examines the complex and multifaceted nature of reality from a relative point of view of time, space, substance and mode.[39] To ignore the complexity of reality is to commit the fallacy of dogmatism.[15]

 

Nayavāda is the theory of partial standpoints or viewpoints.[40] Nayavāda is a compound of two Sanskrit words: naya ("partial viewpoint") and vada ("school of thought or debate"). It is used to arrive at a certain inference from a point of view. Every object has infinite aspects, but when we describe one in practice, we speak only of relevant aspects and ignore the irrelevant.[40] Nayavāda holds that philosophical disputes arise out of confusion of standpoints, and the standpoints we adopt are "the outcome of purposes that we may pursue"— although we may not realize it. While operating within the limits of language and perceiving the complex nature of reality, Māhavīra used the language of nayas. Naya, being a partial expression of truth, enables us to comprehend reality part by part.[41]

 

Non-absolutism (anēkāntavāda) is more formally stated by observing that objects are infinite in their qualities and modes of existence, so they cannot be completely grasped in all aspects and manifestations by finite human perception. Only Kevalins (omniscient beings) can comprehend objects in all aspects and manifestations; others are only capable of partial knowledge.[42] Accordingly, no single, specific, human view can claim to represent absolute truth.[14]

 

Gunasthana[edit]

Main article: Gunasthana

According to Jainism, the soul can gradually attain liberation (moksha) by guiding it through the following fourteen stages (gunasthana):[43]

 

#QualityStage name

01Wrong believermithya-drishti

02One who has a slight taste of right beliefsasvadana-samyagdrsti

03Mixed beliefmisradrsti

04True belief but no self-disciplineavirata-samyagdrsti

05Partial self-controldesavirata

06Complete self-discipline with some negligencepramatta-samyata

07Complete self-control without negligenceapramatta samyata

08Gross occurrence of passionsnivrtti badra samparaya

09Utilizing meditation to further minimize passionsannivrtti badara samparaya

10Subtle occurrence of passionssuksama samparaya

11Every passion is suppressed but still does not possess omniscienceupasana kasaya vitaraga chadmasta

12Every passion is annihilated but still does not yet possess omniscienceksina kasay vitaraga chadmasta

13Omniscience (Kevala Jnana) with activitysayogi kevalin

14Omniscience without any activityayogi kevalin

[44]

 

History[edit]

Main article: History of Jainism

Origins[edit]

See also: Timeline of Jainism

The origins of Jainism are obscure.[6][45] Jainism is a philosophy of eternity,.[46] According to Jain time cycle, in each half of the time cycle, twenty-four great humans rise to the level of tirthankaras and show humans the true path to salvation. Therefore, they are also called human spiritual guides.[47] Parshvanatha, predecessor of Mahāvīra and the twenty-third tirthankara was a historical figure.[25][48] He lived somewhere in the 9th–7th century BC.[49][50][51][52] Followers of Pārśva are mentioned in the canonical books; and a legend in the Uttarādhyayana sūtra relates a meeting between a disciple of Pārśva and a disciple of Mahāvīra which brought about the union of the old and the new Jain teachings.[53]

 

During the 5th or 6th century BC, Vardhamana Mahāvīra became one of the most influential teachers of Jainism. Jains revere him as twenty-forth tirthankara and regard him as the last of the great tīrthankaras of this era. He appears in the tradition as one who, from the beginning, had followed a religion established long ago.[53]

 

Universal history[edit]

According to Jain legends, sixty-three illustrious beings called Salakapurusas have appeared on earth.[54] The Jain universal history is a compilation of the deeds of these illustrious persons.[55] They comprise twenty-four tīrthaṅkaras, twelve chakravartins, nine baladevas, nine vāsudevas and nine prativāsudevas.[54]

 

A chakravarti is an emperor of the world and lord of the material realm.[54] Though he possesses worldly power, he often finds his ambitions dwarfed by the vastness of the cosmos. Jain puranas give a list of twelve chakravartins. They are golden in complexion.[56] One of the greatest chakravartin mentioned in Jain scriptures is Bharata. Traditions say that India came to be known as Bharatavarsha in his memory.[57]

 

There are nine sets of baladeva, vāsudeva and prativāsudeva. Certain Digambara texts refer to them as balabhadra, narayana and pratinarayana, respectively. The origin of this list of brothers can be traced to the Jinacaritra by Bhadrabahu (c. 3rd–4th century BCE).[58] Baladeva are non-violent heroes, vasudeva are violent heroes and prativāsudeva can be described as villains. According to the legends, the vasudeva ultimately kill the prativasudeva. Of the nine baladeva, eight attain liberation and the last goes to heaven. The vasudeva go to hell on account of their violent exploits, even if these were intended to uphold righteousness.[59]

 

Royal patronage[edit]

 

Chandragupta Maurya (c. 322–298 BCE), became a Jain in the later part of his life.

The ancient city Pithunda, capital of Kalinga (modern Odisha), is described in the Jain text Uttaradhyana Sutra as an important centre at the time of Mahāvīra, and was frequented by merchants from Champa.[60] Rishabha, the first tirthankara, was revered and worshiped in Pithunda and is known as the Kalinga Jina. Mahapadma Nanda (c. 450–362 BCE) conquered Kalinga and took a statue of Rishabha from Pithunda to his capital in Magadha. Jainism is said to have flourished under the Nanda Empire.[61]

 

The Maurya Empire came to power after the downfall of the Nanda. The first Mauryan emperor, Chandragupta Maurya (c. 322–298 BCE), became a Jain in the latter part of his life. He was a disciple of Bhadrabahu, a Jain acharya who was responsible for propagation of Jainism in South India.[62] The Mauryan king Ashoka was converted to Buddhism and his pro-Buddhist policy subjugated the Jains of Kalinga. Ashoka's grandson Samprati (c. 224–215 BCE) is said to have converted to Jainism by a Jain monk named Suhasti. He is known to have erected many Jain temples. He ruled a place called Ujjain.[63]

 

In the 1st century BCE, Emperor Kharavela of the Mahameghavahana dynasty of Kalinga conquered Magadha. He retrieved Rishabha's statue and installed it in Udaygiri, near his capital Shishupalgadh. Kharavela[64] was responsible for the propagation of Jainism across the Indian subcontinent.

 

Xuanzang (629–645 CE), a Chinese traveller, notes that there were numerous Jains present in Kalinga during his time.[65] The Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves near Bhubaneswar, Odisha are the only surviving stone Jain monuments in Orissa.[66]

 

King Vanaraja (c. 720–780 CE) of the Chawda dynasty in northern Gujarat was raised by a Jain monk Silunga Suri. He supported Jainism during his rule. The king of kannauj Ama (c. 8th century CE) was converted to Jainism by Bappabhatti, a disciple of famous Jain monk Siddhasena Divakara.[67] Bappabhatti also converted Vakpati, the friend of Ama who authored a famous prakrit epic named Gaudavaho.[68]

 

Festivals[edit]

Main article: Jain rituals and festivals

Paryushana is the most important annual event for Jains, and is usually celebrated in August or September. It lasts 8–10 days and is a time when lay people increase their level of spiritual intensity often using fasting, study and prayer/meditation to help. The five main vows are emphasized during this time. There are no set rules, and followers are encouraged to practice according to their ability and desires. The last day involves a focused prayer/meditation session known as Samvatsari Pratikramana. At the conclusion of the festival, followers request forgiveness from others for any offenses committed during the last year. Forgiveness is asked by saying "Micchami Dukkadam" to others, which means "If I have caused you offence in any way, knowingly or unknowingly, in thought, word or action, then I seek your forgiveness." The literal meaning of Paryushana is "abiding" or "coming together."[93]

 

Mahāvīra Jayanti, the Janam (birth) of Mahāvīra, the last tirthankara, is usually celebrated in late March or early April based on the lunar calendar.[94]

 

Diwali is a festival that marks the anniversary of attainment of Nirvana of Lord Mahavira, the last of the Jain Tirthankar of this era. It is celebrated at the same time as the Hindu festival of Diwali. Diwali is celebrated in an atmosphere of austerity, simplicity, serenity, equity, calmness, charity, philanthropy and environment-consciousness. Jain temples, homes, offices, shops are decorated with lights and diyas. The lights are symbolic of knowledge or removal of ignorance. Sweets are often distributed to each other. The new Jain year starts right after Diwali.

 

Rituals[edit]

 

Jains praying at the feet of a statue of Lord Bahubali.

There are many Jain rituals including ones involving idol worshiping, depending on the sect. One example related to the five life events of tirthankara called the Panch Kalyanaka are rituals such as the panch kalyanaka pratishtha, panch kalyanaka puja, and snatra puja.[95][96]

 

Schools and branches[edit]

Main article: Jain schools and branches

The Jain community is divided into two major denominations, Digambara and Śvētāmbara. Digambara monks do not wear clothes because they believe these, like other possessions, increase dependency and desire for material things—and desire for anything ultimately leads to sorrow. This practice restricts full monastic life (and therefore mokṣa) to males, as Digambaras do not permit women to be nude; female renunciates wear white and are referred to as Aryikas. Śvētāmbara monastics, on the other hand, wear white seamless clothes for practical reasons, and believe there is nothing in the scriptures that condemns the wearing of clothes. Women are accorded full status as renunciates and are often called sadhvi, the feminine of sadhu, a term often used for male monastics. Śvētāmbara believe women may attain liberation and that the tirthankara Māllīnātha was female.[97]

 

Even though the Śvētāmbara allowed women the status of renunciate the nuns were still under the control of the monks. In general women in Indic society were governed by a triad of guardian males: father, husband, and son. The honor of the family and even the entire community seemed to rest on their women and whether or not they conformed to societal expectations placed on them. Jain nuns also had a triad to govern them: the male teacher (āyariya), the male preceptor (uvajjhāya) or head of the monastic group (gani), and the female supervisor (pavatinnî ganinî). The trio of guardians for the nuns were needed since women were thought to be most vulnerable to attack or seduction and could easily be swayed to corruptibility. The integrity of the monastic community rested on the nuns behaving accordingly and the responsibility for this belonged to the monks.[98]

 

The earliest record of Digambara beliefs is contained in the Prakrit Suttapahuda of the Digambara mendicant Kundakunda (c. 2nd century CE).[99] Digambaras believe that Mahāvīra remained unmarried, whereas Śvētāmbara believe Mahāvīra married a woman who bore him a daughter. The two sects also differ on the origin of Mata Trishala, Mahāvīra's mother.[100]

 

Excavations at Mathura revealed Jain statues from the time of the Kushan Empire (c. 1st century CE). Tirthankara, represented without clothes, and monks with cloth wrapped around the left arm are identified as the Ardhaphalaka ("half-clothed") mentioned in texts. The Yapaniyas, believed to have originated from the Ardhaphalaka, followed Digambara nudity along with several Śvētāmbara beliefs.[101]

 

Śvētāmbara sub-sects include Sthanakavasi, Terapanthi, and Murtipujaka. The Sthanakvasi and Terapanthi are aniconic. Śvētāmbara follow the twelve Jain Agamas. Digambara sub-sects include Bisapanthi, Kanjipanthi, Taranapanthi and Terapanthi.[102] In 1974 a committee with representatives from every sect compiled a new text called the Saman Suttam.[103]

  

Timeline of various denominations in Jainism

Jain texts[edit]

Main article: Jain literature

Agamas[edit]

 

A Jain manuscript giving instructions on how best to live a proper Jain life

 

Kalpasutra folio on Mahavira Nirvana. Note the crescent shaped Siddhashila, a place where all siddhas reside after Nirvana.

The tradition talks about a body of scriptures preached by the tirthankaras. These scriptures are said to be contained in fourteen parts called purvas. These were memorised and passed on through the ages, but were vulnerable and were lost because of famine that caused the death of several saints within a thousand years of Mahāvīra's death.[104]

 

The Jain Agamas are canonical texts of Jainism based on Mahāvīra's teachings. These comprise forty-six works: twelve angās, twelve upanga āgamas, six chedasūtras, four mūlasūtras, ten prakīrnaka sūtras and two cūlikasūtras.[105]

 

There are two major denominations of Jain monks and nuns, the Śvētāmbara ("white-clad", who wear white garments) and Digambara, or "Sky Clad", who, as a further austerity, eschew clothing altogether. The Digambara sect of Jainism maintains that these agamas were also lost during the same famine. In the absence of authentic scriptures, Digambaras use about twenty-five scriptures written for their religious practice by great Acharyas. These include two main texts, four Pratham-Anuyog, three charn-anuyoga, four karan-anuyoga and twelve dravya-anuyoga.[106]

 

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So it's the 2nd of January and I have taken a photo every day after completing my 365 in 2011. I am not meant to be doing a 366 in 2012 (yes, it's a once in a 4 year opportunity!) and I probably won't as life will get busy once I head back to London in April but at the moment it is hard not to take a photo a day. I managed to not take a photo until 22:30 on the 2nd but then my self-control wilted and I had to take some photographs...yes yes, I have a problem!

 

As you can see from the subject matter this was a "what can I take a photo of" moment but I just had to take a photo so the coloured fineliners it was!

 

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