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In the first stroke of morning light,
a door creaks softly on its hinges.
The cool tiled mirror reflects
the last traces of sleep,
the mist of dreams upon the skin.
A bath – a beginning,
a cleansing of night and past.
The day's worn hands, aching back,
sweat from field, from factory, from human tide.
A shirt clings like a wax seal,
heavy with the weight of hours,
a witness to the body's toil.
But water falls,
like rain upon cracked earth,
washing away the city's pulse.
Each drop hums a quiet hymn:
"You have lived, you have fought,
now let go."
The bath before we step out,
before we don the mask of scent,
smooth palms,
tightened collar, softened cheek.
It is the threshold
from the intimate to the world,
from our raw, unguarded selves
to the shadow we cast in others' eyes.
Is it vanity –
or merely a gift of grace?
And then, the baths we share,
a child's laughter beneath the lathered hands,
a touch lifting
the small face,
pouring warmth over skin and skull
like a quiet blessing.
Lovers in mist and nearness,
low-lit glow,
words unspoken.
Water binding bodies
like a river
that never stops its journey.
But what is a bath?
A necessity, a luxury, a gesture?
In times when drops are counted,
when the earth sighs for rain,
water becomes a gift –
and we, the privileged,
let it slip through our fingers
without thought.
Yet in the stream of fleeting moments
the bath grants us
something rare:
a pause,
where the world dissolves,
and for a single breath,
we simply are.
Three Haikus
1.
Steam veils the mirror,
skin hums beneath falling streams—
a moment of hush.
2.
Laughter in warm waves,
tiny hands chasing the foam—
water holds us close.
3.
Day’s dust runs in swirls,
rivering back to the sea—
I am clean once more.
A sign marks out a groundnut plot under conservation agriculture (CA) in the field of small-scale maize and mixed-crop farmer Belita Maleko, of the Mwansambo extension planning area, Nkhotakota zone, central Malawi. Signs like these help visitors understand exactly what crops and activities she has deployed on each plot, and compare CA with conventional practices.
“I lost my husband in 1994, but I don’t complain because conservation agriculture is doing the work my husband would have done,” says Maleko, who kept on farming after she was widowed with help from her family. At the invitation of government extension officers and the non-governmental organization Total LandCare (TLC), she began adopting CA practices and sowing plots to demonstrate them to neighboring farmers in 2006. "I’d been hearing about CA from the radio and other people, so I was very interested in trying it. They asked me to host a demo, and I said 'yes' and started applying the practices," she says. "This is my sixth year. Some other farmers visit me for advice; some come to field days to see what I’m doing. Some just pass by and observe."
CA practices include eliminating traditional ridge-and-furrow tillage systems, keeping crop residues on the soil, and rotating or intercropping maize with other crops. In addition to labor and cost savings, the improved soil structure resists erosion and increases water infiltration and retention, a huge benefit when drought threatens in places like Malawi, where maize subsists on rain alone.
In Malawi draft animals are scarce and traditional cultivation for maize involves as many as 160,000 hoe strokes per hectare. It appeared strange and somehow unjust to neighbors when Maleko stopped hoe plowing and began to leave residues and stems from previous crops on her fields. "Some asked 'How can you do this?'" she says. "Others speculated that I was degrading the soil…some people thought I was mad, but I said 'No, I'm not mad, I know what I'm doing.'"
She notes that those local farmers who are using CA have suffered less from this year's erratic rains. She has sown cowpea as an intercrop in one of the CA maize plots; she eats the pods and leaves and it boosts soil fertility. The plants are quite small as she had not been able to sow the cowpea at the same time as the maize—the best practice so they grow up together. “During peak period I was in the hospital nursing my daughter, but with conservation agriculture I was able to manage," she says, referring to the reduced labor requirements of CA.
Ongoing support and training from extension workers is crucial as farmers learn new ways of doing things, and how to apply CA most effectively. "I was trained to collect rainfall data; when I see it reaches above 30 millimeters, I sow," says Maleko. "When I have problems, I just go to my extension officer and ask for help. Some people say my husband is the extension worker, but I don’t mind. Some women have stopped talking about me and started to practice conservation agriculture."
Maleko sees conservation agriculture as a blessing that has helped pay for school fees and homestead improvements. "I cannot stop practicing conservation agriculture, because I'm getting lots of benefits," she says. "I have enough time to grow other crops. I'm very happy because I've built another house with the proceeds. I don't even complain about being a widow—otherwise, I wouldn't have sent my children to school. Married women come to me and ask for food. I'm a happy woman."
Photo credit: T. Samson/CIMMYT.
For more, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story "Conservation agriculture in Malawi: 'We always have problems with rain here,'" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/front-page-tems/aboutmediaresources/130....
Whoever broke down this granite knew a thing or two, maybe three.
I've been known to make chunks of granite smaller in my time. Only ever have I used two of these methods. The third I've just seen used one and then on a demolition project.
I'd head off alone beyond the end of the road with 90lbs of portable Atlas Copco Cobra 2-stroke petrol powered rock drill cradled in a frame on a rucksack harness. They still make 'em. They're much lighter now so theirs must have been a winning formula. On my shoulder was an 8lb sledge hammer. Off to an outcrop, I'd be looking for an un-weathered sample to take back to the lab. With a line of drill holes in place I would drop in the 'feathers', put a wedge between each pair and tighten them up with that sledge hammer until they 'sang'. Eventually there'd be a 'pop' and the whole thing would split in two — method number one.
Sampling a granite for statistical validity of a whole rock analysis meant a big chunk; the crystals are big. I couldn't carry that chunk and the drill, so reversing my route with the drill I'd put it back in its crate and swap it for an empty rucksack to go back in and haul out the sample. Back at the lab some would get broken down for chemical analysis and some would be needed for chemical staining and point counting as a slab under a microscope; yellow for the K-spars, red for the plagioclase. That slab was cut off with a big diamond saw — method number two.
What is really interesting here is method number three. It shows up in that drill hole that looks to be filled with white 'gunk'. That 'gunk' is demolition grout, a chemical, mostly calcium oxide with a few other bits which when mixed with water expands and like the 'feather and wedge' method, cracks open the rock, concrete etc. Just why it was done like this I have no idea.
The provenance of all this partly worked granite is intriguing. I don't know. But I'll make a guess. This rock bears a remarkable resemblance to the boring as bat s… Eugowra Granite used on the façade of Parliament House. Imagine, if you can, a scenario where the contractor for the stonework forgot to include a provision for disposal of waste. When presented with that oversight the Parliament House Construction Authority likely shrugged and wandered off to bury their heads into a patch of sand somewhere. With the alternative of wasting profits on landfill, this patch of bush now is the reliquary for these bits and pieces — the place where granite goes to die.
Should not of posted this really. Taken in a cafe. But the scene was unusual with the dog at the table inside the cafe.
The Strokes, Planeta Terra 2011 / Playcenter.
São paulo / Brasil.
©2011 Rafael Kent All Rights Reserved
De Bakey and Stanford classification of aortic dissection. Ilustrated by AA Cevik by using figure in the Nienaber CA, Eagle KA.Aortic dissection: new frontiers in diagnosis and management: Part II: therapeutic management and follow-up. Circulation 2003 Aug 12;108(6):772-8
as utter contempt for all nationalists for their limited minds, as a loud protest against all kinds of discrimination by mentally immature adults and their children, as a voice against the idiotic idea of wikileaks about transparency provoking wars and destruction, against propaganda and manipulation and those who follow it. This is the only image i will share from Auschwitz so that it follows you in your empty and meaningless space regardless of your nation gender and religion.
i am a dreamer of piece and i struggle for fairness for the little kid dreaming about a family, for a woman running home to make dinner after a day of hard work, for the old lady looking at the price of the croissant and thinking if she can afford it or no for all those having hard times but keeping the little shiny line i can recall in their open and kind faces, for those who are happy and share their energy, making me believe there is a meaning =)
The Strokes performs at Outside Lands Festival 2010 - Day One - August 14, 2010. Photos by Robert Redfield.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE:
Remember the "3" steps.
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
1. S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
2. T *Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE.
(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today.)
3. R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.
If he or she has trouble with any one of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
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Murals on the interior walls of Spitzwald Kindergarten in Allschwil, a village next to Basel, Switzerland. Within the period of two weeks I drew on the walls directly using acrylic paint and graphite pens.
The illustrations show monster-like characters that explore their surroundings. They meet all kinds of animals that play with differently colored magical globes. There is three globes of every color, so that the children can discover all of them while walking the corridors of the Kindergarten.
The characters have a friendly vibe to them and greet the children with a swiss “Grüezi!” at the entrance.
Dynamic graphite strokes cut the illustrations here and there to let them merge with the walls and create a looser look.
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