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UFYB 233: CURIOSITY, COMPASSION, AND TRAUMA TREATMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH GABBY BERNSTEIN
"Trauma" has been a hot topic over the last few years. We went through the collective trauma of the pandemic, and most of us have unhealed trauma from our childhoods. But to do the work of healing trauma on an individual or collective scale, we have to understand what trauma is and how it shows up.
I have the perfect guest on the podcast this week to talk about this: New York Times bestselling author, motivational speaker, and spiritual leader Gabby Bernstein. If you've been around self development for more than 30 seconds, you've likely heard of Gabby and her amazing work in this space. She's here to discuss her new book, Happy Days: The Guided Path From Trauma To Profound Freedom And Inner Peace, and how we can all begin the work of healing our trauma.
Listen in for my conversation with Gabby Bernstein all about trauma, curiosity, compassion. We discuss what trauma is, how our internal family systems respond to it, and how we can help those different parts of ourselves heal. Find out why you have to be willing to explore your emotions, not just your intellectual side, to process your pain.
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The difference between small T trauma and big T trauma.
What contributed to Gabby's ability to heal her trauma.
How to explore the different parts of yourself with Internal Family Systems.
Why we might feel resistant to exploring our emotions.
How to view ourselves and others with more compassion.
Why it's critical that we all do the internal work of healing from trauma.
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Happy Days: The Guided Path From Trauma To Profound Freedom And Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein
Peter Levine, PhD.
UFYB213: When You Don't Know What the F*ck Is Going On With Your Brain
My chickens, I feel like 2022 has been a lot. I don't know about you, we're like halfway through April. I feel like it's already been a whole year and my brain hasn't even caught up yet with 2020 and 2021, even the end of 2019 never really got a chance to process. I know that we are all feeling a little burnt out these days. But I also know that no matter what's going on in the world, our brains are where we can make a difference in our experience of the world.
Unless you are much more powerful than me in international relations and public health, you cannot solve the pandemic or the war in Ukraine or anything else tomorrow. But you can make a difference in your thought process tomorrow and you can do something about how you feel in the world and take steps that will help you manage your mind so that you have more energy, more resilience, less overwhelm, less burnout.
And so I know that all of us are feeling this way, many of us are feeling this way, and that is why I have created a brand spanking new offer called the 2022 Burnout Breakthrough Challenge.
It is my newest, my best work on emotional resilience, on dealing with physical and emotional fatigue, on how to stave off burnout or heal it and repair it even after it's already begun. And so we are not quite ready to share all the details with you yet but we will be soon. And here's what I want you to know, you need to get on the waitlist to get all the information about it. Okay?
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Okay my chickens, I almost feel like I could just be like, I'm talking to Gabby Bernstein. And then I won't have to say anything else. Because if you have been around self-development for more than 30 seconds, you have heard of her. I'm actually super excited to have her on the podcast because I would be fascinated to see if we have a lot of overlap or if we attract very different kinds of people. So, I'm really excited to have this conversation.
So, for those of you who have been living under a rock, Gabby Bernstein is a New York Times bestselling author. She's a motivational speaker. She's a spiritual leader and podcast host. She is a New York Times bestselling author and has written nine books. I think the titles people might be most familiar with are The Universe Has Your Back, Super Attractor, Spirit Junkie are some of her biggest. But she has a new book out called Happy Days which we are going to talk all about on the show. I'm just thrilled to have you here. Is there anything else you want people to know about you?
Gabby: I am a mom to a three year old and a mom to a kitten called Jimmy Blue.
Kara: What a great name for a kitten. That's the kitten's name, not the child's name I assume.
Gabby: Child's name is Oliver.
Kara: Also, a great name.
Gabby: A good one, right, Ollie. Ollie Blue.
Kara: Kittens are really – I'm amazed you get anything else done. I think if I had a kitten I would just watch it 24/7.
Gabby: Whenever I try to meditate she just bites the shit out of my feet. I haven't had a proper meditation in weeks because this little girl just bites my hands and feet. And she wants to play. She's a [crosstalk] cat.
Kara: The universe was like, you're too good at this, let's add some – let's add a little distraction. Now try with a cat biting you. So cute. So, we are going to talk all about what you do in this book. But I wanted to start off by asking you about something that I talk a lot on the podcast and my listeners have heard me talk about what is trauma, what is not trauma, when it's useful to think about trauma in different ways. But I'm always interested in kind of any psychological concept that gets into the mainstream and then gets understood in a lot of different ways by different people.
And so, then people are trying to have conversations about mental health in which they are not even necessarily talking with the same definition about what the thing is that they're experiencing. And you make a distinction between trauma small t and trauma big T in this work. And I would love to hear kind of what your thoughts are on that, how you differentiate between those. And why you think it's important to have that differentiation.
Gabby: Sure, yeah. Well, a big T trauma would be the experience of maybe being abused, or having a sexual assault, or extreme neglect, or living through a catastrophic event. Whereas a small t trauma could be being bullied, which is ultimately can turn into a big T trauma. A small t trauma could be told you're not good enough, or you're not smart enough, or to experience just not feeling seen by your parents as a kid. And we all have trauma, it's just period, end of story, we've all had had trauma.
And in most of our lives I think people have never taken on that word as their own because the word comes with stigma and shame behind it. But these days all of our coping mechanisms aren't working anymore. We are pretty rocked to the core. We can find ourselves in very destructive patterns. And so, a lot of that has been the result of COVID. And then of course now being the witness of war online and being alive at this time. So, we're not immune to trauma. Living through this experience is trauma.
And then when we feel unsafe in our world it will activate all those unresolved traumas from our past, big T or small t. So, I imagine your listeners are like, yeah, my shit got kicked up in the last two years. And my prayer, at the beginning of the podcast you asked me, "Well, is there anything else you want to talk about other than this book?" And I said, "No, I just want to talk about the book."
And it's not because I'm on the book tour and it's not because I want to sell books. And if I could, I would drop books out of an airplane and just let them land in people's hands. Because I just want people to get to this guidance. I suffered for so many years with unresolved trauma and now I've come out the other side and I've lived to tell what that freedom and inner peace looks like. And what it means to truly live with happy days. And I just, I want it to get into the hands of as many people as possible.
Kara: Yeah. So, can you tell us a little bit about that, what led you to write this book and what that journey was like for you?
Gabby: Yeah. Well, you mentioned my other books, so I share very openly in a lot of my other books about being an addict. I was a cocaine addict. I got sober at 25. And in my sober recovery I started to get very spiritual. But I also was leaning on other addictive patterns like workaholism, and codependency, and controlling mechanisms. And eventually I was like, why am I so extreme, and scared, and anxious all the time, even amidst writing, at that point maybe half a dozen books. This was when I was 36 years old, I started to really contemplate, what the fuck is up with me?
And I began to start cracking into this very scary place. And I was having meltdown after meltdown and my mantra was, I can't go on like this. When ultimately I had a dream and in the dream I remembered I was an adult confronting that I had been sexually abused as a child. And the dream was so real and so scary that I just was just like, no way, push that away, don't go there.
A few days later I was in my therapy and my therapist and I were having a conversation and the acceptance of that memory came through. And not all the pieces of the memory, not all the stories, but the acceptance. Yes, this fucking happened to me. And it explained everything, it explained why I was such an addict. It explained why I was so anxious. It explained why I was never able to be present. It explained that I was seeking so far into my spiritual practice to find safety. It just explained everything.
And that began the journey of undoing the traumas from my past so that I could be free right here right now with you in this present moment. And in 2016 I knew I wanted to write this book but there was no way I would write it until I was on the other side of it. And in 2020 I started writing it. And here we are two years later and it's out.
Kara: Wow. This is obviously a big question and I want to bookmark, I want to come back to the safety fear thing because this has come up for me recently in some of my own kind of work on trauma, and control, and safety, as you were going through it. And okay, we've got to live and experience it before can write about it and teach it. What do you think were the kind of biggest contributors to your ability to move through and process that? Was it traditional therapy? Was it some of your spiritual work? Did you find that you needed a new set of tools or were the tools you already had kind of applicable?
Gabby: No, I needed a new set of tools. The spiritual foundation that I had established was going to be the throughline throughout the entire recovery process. And really keeping me safe and guided along the way. And I believe that my spiritual practice, and my spiritual guidance, and my connection to spirit guides. And all of the truth that I know to be true for myself led me one step at a time to the right therapist, and the right practice, and the right book, and the right modality, and the right spiritual practice one step at a time. It was all guided.
So, I know that that was all there. But the deeper healing came through therapeutic work. And that therapeutic work had already been established before I remembered in the therapy that I have had. My therapist, I joke around with her, I'm like, "Who do you think is going to play you in the movie?" Because she's such a big role in this book. And I have been guided with her through a therapy known as Internal Family Systems therapy which is otherwise known as IFS.
And IFS has been extraordinarily transformational for me, so much so that I got trained in the Level 1 training and will continue my education with IFS far, far, far beyond Level 1. And can use it now, really can use it in my practice and write about it. And that Internal Family Systems therapy is really about recognizing all the parts of ourselves. And becoming the internal leader in our system, or connecting to the internal leader in our internal system. And then I bring EMDR, which is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
And EMDR is designed to relax the nervous system through bilateral brain stimulation. So, when you're practicing EMDR therapy it's a really great trauma based therapy. Where you have a buzzer in either hand or a buzzer in either ear and that bilateral brain stimulation opens up your window of tolerance to reprocess unresolved traumas in the present moment. And it's fucking awesome, it's so good. And I give EMDR practices in the book that people can start by themselves safely.
And I also mention somatic experiencing. I mentioned I have a whole chapter on somatic experiencing which is a body based trauma therapy that really helps you move the stagnant truncated energy through. And I give a lot of really powerful body based practices in that chapter to help the reader get grounded even in the moment because Peter Levine who is the founder of somatic experiencing said that trauma is the inability to be present.
And so, when we give ourselves presence in the moment we can start to slowly touch into that trauma and then come back out and touch in. It's a very, very gentle process, can't be ripping off that band-aid too quickly.
Kara: Yeah, I think that's so important because especially I think that my listeners much like me tend to prefer to stay in the intellectual realm. And I think that's what attracts a lot of people to the kind of work I do which is very cognitive and thought based. And for sure the first few years I was doing this work I was like, "I know my tutor keeps talking about emotions in the body but I think I'll just ignore that part and just try to swap all my thoughts around."
But eventually I think you hit on things in your self-work that you cannot just do that with. You can't just change your thought. You are not going to be able to make that shift unless you're willing to be in your body for however long you're currently capable of. That window of tolerance of how long can I be with the sensation before I become kind of so activated that it's no longer helpful. And one of the things that I have found, I'm curious if you maybe would talk about it a different way but if you kind of experience this.
Is that I have been – I did a podcast maybe a month or two ago that was just called What to do When You Don't Know What the Fuck is Going on in your Brain. Because that was the experience I was having was something, I was working through something that was so murky to me for so long. I'm finally now on the other side of but one of the biggest shifts for me was that I had to even start telling myself that it was safe to briefly feel unsafe.
There's such a drive to not feel what feels unsafe or out of control that I think that was one of the things that I was so blocked on is that I kept trying to direct my work towards, okay, I just need to figure out what will make me feel safe. But that whole time I'm telling myself this feeling of being unsafe, or not having control is that's dangerous. So of course, now I'm just setting my brain to be terrified of that state which creates even more kind of anxiety. So, I think also for anybody who's listening and is sort of – obviously buy Gabby's book and read it.
And she gives you many practices but I think also for those of you who are like me, are very cognitively oriented. Just teaching yourself that it is paradoxically safe to feel unsafe sometimes is going to be hugely helpful because I was just constantly running away from that feeling of unsafety, whatever that means.
Gabby: We're all running, Kara, we're all running away from the feeling of unsafety. And so, I'll explain to you what you're talking about in IFS terminology and Internal Family Systems terminology. So, we all have traumatized parts of us from childhood that we've exiled, we've just shut them down. We said, lock you up, don't want to ever talk to you again, don't want to look at you. But whenever they get activated when we feel unsafe, when we feel out of control, when we feel – when we enter a sexual situation, whatever it might be, that activates those impermissible feelings.
We immediately go into a place of protection. And the ways that we protect ourselves from feeling that impermissible exiled part become multiple different parts of who we are, known as protectors. And so, in your case you actually mentioned one of your protectors which is intellectualizing, getting in the head rather than the heart or in the body. So, running from the body. So, you have the intellectualizing part, the very bright, smart, you've built up a very strong protector who can really understand things logically. And she's done a great – I don't know if it's a she so I want to give you voice to it.
Kara: Probably.
Gabby: So, let's call her a she. And she's done a really good job keeping you safe from those deeper feelings. And so, we can thank her and have compassion towards her. But she is keeping you stuck in the patterns of needing to intellectualize rather than go deeper because it's too scary to go there. But in IFS we also all have self. And self is the adult resourced undamaged part of who we are. And self has these qualities of compassion, and courage, and creativity, and calmness, and connectedness.
And when we start to connect more closely to self we can let self soothe the protectors. For instance, maybe in the moment when you're like, I don't want to feel that. And you notice yourself going into this intellectual, get above it kind of place, you could just say to the intellectual part, literally it's a separate part of you, speak to it and say, "What do I notice about that part? Where is it in my body? What does it feel like? Is it fast? Is it slow? Does it have a color? And then what do I know about it? Is it five? Is it female? Where does it live? And then what does it need?"
And when you do those three steps of what do I notice, know and need, you can start to extend curiosity to that part. And in that extension of curiosity, you're bringing self energy to the scared protector.
Kara: Yeah. And I think for listeners who have done any kind of sort of work, whether it's therapeutic or coach, I mean some of this will sound familiar. You may have done it as inner child work, inner voice work, these things overlap in some ways, and the ways that we talk about them. But even if you're listening to this and it resonates with you to just think of – we talk a lot on the podcast about just how do you speak to yourself. How do you meet yourself with curiosity and compassion.
These are I think all different ways of talking about that process, the most important thing is not to be judgmental, shutting yourself down, trying to just tough it out, but rather to be able to have that conversation with yourself, whether you are working with somebody who's doing Internal Family Systems therapy. Or you are trying to do your sort of own thought work, the way I teach it. Either way what you're trying to do is on some level learn to speak to these different, whether they're parts, or levels, or thought patterns, whatever they are in a way that is more compassionate.
What are you trying to tell me? What do you want? What do you need? As opposed to I know what should be happening. I know what I should be feeling.
Gabby: Yeah, I think in spiritual conversations and in a lot of sometimes in the intellectual space it can be really easy to sort of override the voice of the protector parts because it's like I don't want to be that judgmental person. I'm going to just forgive and pray. And I've written books about this. So, there's great power in that pivot. But there's another layer that is necessary which is, why do I want to judge right now? Notice, what is it that's in my body? What is it, what do I know about that?
Yesterday I did this on myself and I had been in a setting that was very – a lot of wealth, I was around a lot of wealth. And for me that is an old active [inaudible], because I grew up in a very wealthy town but we had no money. I lived in an apartment. All my friends lived in these big houses. And it was just a lot of less than bullshit. And so, I have stuff around that but I hadn't touched into it in so long. So, I was just doing some IFS out loud to my husband who is just such a beautiful space holder for that.
And I was like, "Okay." I came home from this trip and I was like, "Why am I so hungover and activated? And kind of a little depressed and I don't know why." And so, I just started to notice where that place was in my body. And I was like, "Okay, I'm feeling a little bit depressed. I'm feeling inadequate. I feel like I want to blame them. And I feel shame. I feel some funky feelings here. And what do I know about that?" And I started to just get, like just talk it out.
I was like, "What do I know about you?" I was like, "Well, I know that you're young. And I know that you're in high school. And I know that you are on the bus with the rich girls who play lacrosse with you. And one of them just threw an antisemitic slur at you. And you feel like a piece of shit and you feel less than. And then they think that you are separate, and not good enough, and you don't have enough." And I was like, I'm not going to say the names out loud because like God forbid people see.
But I said the girls' name out loud. And I'm like "Oh my God that girls is there right now." And so, I noticed. And then I asked her, "What do you need?" And she's like, "I need a hug." And so not only did I hug myself, I asked my husband for a hug and I asked my son for a hug. And I was like, "Okay, I need a hug." And then really what do I need from you, Gabby? What do I need from self? And I need compassion.
And I started speaking to that part of me and I was like, "Girl, totally, get it. I can see how that would have been so hard for you to be activated in that way. And look how far you've come. And you have nothing to prove to anybody. You've done it. You're here right now. But the biggest accomplishment isn't your success, it's your inner peace, and good job." That kind of self-talk.
Kara: Yeah, totally.
Gabby: But it started with a curiosity.
Kara: It's such a beautiful way of accessing what was coming up for me then. When did this start? Or what is that memory? And meeting yourself in that way. And I think also for people who want to start practicing this, I want to say it's not always smooth. I did some of this with actually a coach I was working with, as I was working on this big knot I had been working on. And it was fascinating to see the first time that I did it my visualization of the part of me, the younger part of me.
The coach was like, do you want to, how do you want to interact with her, whatever it was. And I was I was literally like, "I will not hold her hand, she can sit over there." I was like, "We can be in the same room. I don't want to hold her hand." Because I had so much wrapped up around sort of fear of weakness and kind of rejection. And I did the same exercise actually with somebody else a few months later. It wasn't the same exercise but led to the same place. And I was like, "Well, I'll give her a hug."
And it was wild to me to just be like, this is so fascinating. Even though I hadn't been consciously working on that. It's one way of, I think, seeing, and especially for people who are more visual maybe or who are more [crosstalk].
Gabby: It's great for visual.
Kara: Yeah, I've very non-visual so it's even more fun for me. Sometimes I'm like, wow, there's actually, I don't have an image. But it was just this way of sort of almost – it sounds funny to say make it concrete because nothing's actually happening around you. But it's sort of concretizing your relationship to yourself. What are your thoughts about your former self? How did you speak to, probably then you were not that kind and compassionate to yourself because you hadn't learned, not you, you, just one in general.
Gabby: All of us. All of us, yeah.
Kara: All of us, yeah, hadn't learned that or didn't know that or were just mimicking what we've been taught which for a lot of us was shove it down, don't talk about it. Just stiff upper lip, or ignore it, or whatever. And so, I think going through that I was able to say, even though it is in the past, for me what I felt was happening was I was changing my relationship with the emotions I'd had in the past kind of. I was creating more compassion for my past self, which was [crosstalk].
Gabby: We would say, IFS, sorry, I interrupted you. But in IFS we would say that you are creating a direct access from self, from compassion to the inner child. So that's a process that in the book I write about is reparenting yourself. Because the love that we did not get, the care that we did not get, the soothing that we did not get, the safety that we did not get from our parents, in whatever form that came. We can give to ourselves. We can bring little Kara and little Gabby back to safety in so many different ways all the time.
And when we create that direct access from self to the part, or to the protector, or the child part, whatever we get access to, we can let those parts know that they are safe and cared for in our Internal Family System. It has nothing to do with our family. It's our internal.
Kara: It's not to go get your parents to cooperate. It's the internal system.
Gabby: Internal Family System, yeah.
Kara: Yeah. And I think for anyone listening who – I think sometimes certain words, I think my listeners, probably some of them hear this and are like, "It sounds amazing." And some of them hear the word 'reparenting' and are like, "Oh, Jesus." But whether or not you have some reaction to some of these terms of they sound too woo for you or whatever. Fundamentally what we're talking about and this is why I wanted to have this conversation, there's different ways to talk about these things.
But we're fundamentally talking about something that I also teach in different words which is you now can learn how to have a different relationship with yourself. And everything you experienced is part of that person you are now. And you still have, if you had that experience on the bus that's been in the back of your mind somewhere.
Gabby: It's been there, yeah.
Kara: Yeah. You've had thoughts about it, you weren't even aware of. And this is a way you're able to address them.
Gabby: The girl on the bus would show up whenever I was around very affluent people, I was around people particularly affluent people that weren't Jewish because that was the antisemitic piece and I'm not implying that any of these people that I've been around were antisemitic.
Kara: No, no, of course.
Gabby: But there was just sort of this, maybe there was more of a related connection to the affluent Jewish person because I'd been around that in a different format. And so, whatever the storyline is for each individual as we begin to tend to those younger parts of ourselves or the protector parts of ourselves, whatever language you want to use. But as we start to give that compassion and that curiosity, and that courage, and that calmness to ourself in all these ways it's miraculous.
And just to expand upon what you're saying as it relates to the sort of woo woo lexicon and the therapeutic lexicon. In this book I think that my gift has been to be a translator and to take very lofty big metaphysical principles and bring them back to Earth. And in this case it's that and taking these big therapeutic principles that people may not find because the podcast were they're speaking about it in clinical terms as too heady. Or just because they didn't get the chance to have the privilege of having a therapist that does that kind of work. They may never get there.
So, in the book I really demystify these therapeutic practices that are so profoundly soothing to our nervous system, to our brain. They allow us to literally create new neural pathways and have this profound experience of neuroplasticity, of just witnessing, holy shit, I can change my brain. And how profound that is when we have the opportunity to witness and experience these practices in a terminology that's more relevant to the individual average person picking up a book that may not be super heady like you and I but wants to hear what they can do to help themselves.
Kara: Yeah. I think that thing we've been talking about that is the throughline, that is the most important thing to me is that sort of gentle curiosity. Whatever framework you're using, whatever language you're going to use, and that's what so many of us didn't get when we were suffering as children, or we had these experiences, or we were, especially if you were dealing with sort of, I think, the smaller t version of just never being encouraged to talk about how you felt, or being whatever, kind of different experiences we had growing up.
I think for so many of us one of the reasons we become someone who doesn't want to experience our emotions is that we were not met with curiosity. We were not met with kind curiosity, [crosstalk] experiences.
Gabby: We were shut down. Yes. And that actually is one of the greatest gifts of my own process. When we talk about reparenting, call it whatever you want but we didn't have the safety, we were not seen. We were not soothed. We were not safe or secure in our own unique ways because particularly we've had a different generation of parents that may not have been pulled aside with a stack of Dan Siegel self-help books and knew what to do.
Kara: Right. I mean everybody was doing the best they could with their resources.
Gabby: Old style, old school style of parenting was time out and shut it down, and don't go there, your big feelings don't matter. Whereas this new version of parenting that if you choose to follow it and make a commitment to yourself as a parent and your child in that way is all about the feelings and emotions. It's all about the curiosity. It's all about creating a safe environment internally.
And I spend half of my day just soothing my son, just holding him in his big beautiful feelings. And letting him express himself completely freely. And allowing him to create resilience when he doesn't get what he wants. And all these gifts that I was able to give him. And there's a whole chapter in the book where I turn them on myself.
Kara: Yes. That's what I was exactly going to say is I often find with my students. They'll be like, "Of course, if my child is having a big", I mean sometimes the way we parent is a reflection of how we shut ourselves down. But sometimes we're able to give it to our kids in the way we aren't able to give it to ourselves. And I think that is such a powerful exercise, to just be like, okay, if my three year old came to me crying with this feeling, what would I say? And then what do I say to myself when I come to myself crying with this feeling?
Gabby: That's right.
Kara: And if they're different, that's a place to bring them together.
Gabby: I've always felt when you notice something's up, what would you say to a child? And it's never what we would say to ourselves.
Kara: A friend of mine who's a coach actually, she just started doing this thing where she put – she has a lot of negative self-talk. And she put up child photos of herself. And whenever she wants to say something mean to herself she looks at the three year old version of her.
Gabby: I love that. Beautiful.
Kara: And it's what I say to her, and I think for her that was really, she was like, "Oh, shit, a lot of the stuff I've been saying that I thought was not mean because it wasn't", I think often what I see in my students also is some people of course come in and the self-talk is so critical, it's very obvious. It's like, you're an idiot, you're stupid, why do you say that, blah, blah, blah. But then a lot of us, especially who have already done some of this work, it's like, no, I'm fine to myself, it's realistic. It's gentler mean self-talk kind of, that can easily pass when you think of yourself as an adult.
But then when you think of your three year old, you would not say that to your three year old. You wouldn't be like, "Well, I'm just being realistic, honey, you're pretty lazy." You would never say that to your three year old. But we think that because it's not you're a worthless piece of shit, it's better and we're being nice to ourselves. So, I think that imagining yourself and other people, imagining your partner as a three year old, or the person who you think is being whatever at work as a three year old.
Gabby: That's right. Seeing the loved ones in our life with that compassion and that care.
Kara: And so many people, that's where we're operating with is basically a three year old level of emotional fluency and tools.
Gabby: 100,000%.
Kara: And probably less than a current three year old.
Gabby: I mean listen, that's why I said to you, I only want to talk about this book or these principles around the book because right here right now we are witnessing what happens when there's collective trauma that's unresolved, fucking Putin. And sorry for all my eff bombs in the show.
Kara: No, please, it's called Unf*ck Your Brain, so this is obviously [crosstalk].
Gabby: Exactly, exactly. I do not know why I'm apologizing to you. So, looking at Donald Trump, looking at these players in the world who have just been so blown out. So, their traumas were so extreme that the protector parts that they build up have had such massive destruction, not only to them but to the world. And that's why I said we've got to get this on the individual level right here, right now begin to do the work on ourselves, begin to establish a safer sense of security within, however we get there.
There's a lot of ways to get there. I put a lot of them in the book. But to get there fast, and do the work, and make it a commitment because it is a collective energy field as well. So, let's say this in a less woo woo way. When you and I have this conversation today and you feel hopefully elevated after we've spoken. And I feel really elevated in your presence. I'm going to go and make dinner for my kid and I'm going to be in a good space with him.
And then he's going to feel really good and he's going to be really fun with his dad later. And it all has a ripple effect, particularly with our children. I mean they're just regulating all day based on our energy. And they're all about coregulating with us and we're all about – well, they're no coregulating, they're regulating with us and we're bonding to them. But they need us. So, it's not just the kids, it's just every human, but with energy we show up with.
Kara: Yeah. I talk on the podcast all the time about the idea that social change starts with individuals. And if we want to change the world, where is any change coming from? It's coming from a human mind. The more the idea that sort of self-work or thought work is out of touch or just for privileged people, or is just naval-gazing. It's like anything created in the world is created by a human mind. And the more that you are, as you say, able to self-regulate, understand yourself, able to have curiosity and compassion.
That's how you develop it for other people, that's how you have more mental energy. That's how you come up with better solutions. We're not coming up with – you can't solve a problem with the same set of tools and skills that you've built the problem with. You have to have a different perspective in order to come up with a different solution.
Gabby: Well said.
Kara: All of that, the microscale and the macroscale, it's not like we don't need social change. It's just who's doing the social change? Humans with brains. So, if we don't do this work.
Gabby: And we can't do that kind of work, create social change from a place of our exiled child parts. Because if we're leading from that place then a 10 year, or a five year old is leading and that really sucks.
Kara: Yeah. And that's how we get all the burnout. I mean I used to be a social justice lawyer, why is there so much burnout? Because the world is very challenging. And if we are not learning how to resource ourselves we're not capable of doing that big work.
Gabby: Right on, what insight you have there. Beautiful.
Kara: Anything else you want to tell people about the book, other than where they can get it? Which you should tell us but I assume it's literally any bookstore in the world?
Gabby: It's why I just love that you went from being a lawyer to go Unf*ck Your Brain.
Kara: Yeah, I was an abortion rights lawyer and now I'm a life coach. My Jewish parents are very confused by it.
Gabby: Wow, God bless you for being an abortion rights lawyer. I have to imagine that you're still probably outraged.
Kara: It's interesting, we could have a whole other podcast. I have had to do a lot of work on yeah, I went from a very – there's wrong and right, and bad and good, and these people are terrible and we're the good ones. And to become a coach was a real mental evolution.
Gabby: I've met of lawyers that have become coaches, yeah, and particularly in that space, yeah, that's a lot of work to be even in that kind of law to be, yeah.
Kara: Yeah. Well, just build your whole career and then blow it up, do something else. I don't know what I'll do in another 10 years.
Gabby: Beautiful, it's beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful.
Kara: So where do people find you and the book?
Gabby: Everybody can find me at deargabby.com. I have a podcast called Dear Gabby. The book is Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace. And you can get it wherever you get your books. Go to your bookstore, help them out.
Kara: Go to your local bookstore, also bookshop.org is one of my favorites online. It's a website that brings together indie booksellers so if you don't want to order from Amazon, you go to bookshop.org, works very similarly but all the money goes to indie bookstores.
Gabby: I love that, very cool.
Kara: And then go check out Gabby's social media, including her Instagram, so we'll be doing an Instagram Live the week that this podcast comes out too. So, you want a double dose, as who wouldn't, that's where you can get it.
Gabby: Fun to be with you.
Kara: Yeah, thank you for coming on.
Gabby: Thank you.
If you're loving what you're learning in the podcast, you have got to come check out The Clutch. The Clutch is the podcast community for all things Unf*ck Your Brain. It's where you can get individual help applying the concepts to your own life.
It's where you can learn new coaching tools not shared on the podcast that will blow your mind even more. And it's where you can hang out and connect over all things thought work with other podcast chickens just like you and me. It's my favorite place on earth and it will change your life, I guarantee it. Come join us at www.unfuckyourbrain.com/theclutch. That's unfuckyourbrain.com/theclutch. I can't wait to see you there.


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St. Louis Designer Starts Up Plus-Sized Clothing Line
By Aimee Levitt on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Lisa Holmes in her signature "Lisa" dress.
Even if you're a size 2, clothes shopping is not always fun. But at least you have lots of options. If you're plus-sized, retailers seem to expect you to be happy with a small range of cheap, badly-fitting polyester things originally intended for old ladies but "redesigned" for the trendy modern girl with the application of a few sequins (sparkly means it's new and shiny!). Or caftans. Because if you're not a size 2, it's obviously your fault and you deserve to wear super-ugly clothes or go naked.
(For a thorough excoriation of the plus-sized departments of most mainstream retailers, take a look at this discussion on Jezebel.)
Lisa Holmes is one of those plus-sized women. "I'd grown frustrated," she says. "I could find a few things at Macy's or Dillard's, but they don't understand what we want. It's all antiquey, old-lady stuff. I want trendy stuff. There's a segment of women that's overlooked in the fashion market -- even though the average woman is over size 14."
So she decided to start her own fashion line. Honey Clothing Company launched last month and caters exclusively to women sizes 14 to 24.
Holmes is not much of a seamstress. "But I can sketch," she says, "and I knew what I wanted." She consulted with her friends to find out what styles they wanted to wear. Her husband, a computer whiz, helped her turn her sketches into actual dresses.
All of the clothes in the Honey line are made from polyester/viscose, which Holmes chose because it is form-fitting but not clingy and because it travels well. Unlike many designers who make plus-sized clothes, her clothes were created expressly for plus-sized women. (Many designers create a master pattern for an "average" size 6 or 8 and then add or remove inches to make it fit bigger or smaller women. The problem is, they don't change the cuts to accommodate extra curves.)
"That red dress was made for me," says Holmes. (The design is actually called the Lisa.) "I'm heavier in the middle. I've got a tummy. It's my sore spot. I have to figure out how to get along with it. It's not going anywhere, so I had to make peace with it. The tie in the middle gives the illusion of cinching and a smaller waist."
Other Honey dresses use draping to minimize bellies and butts and plunging necklines to show off boobs.
Honey Clothing Company
A recent article in the New York Times pointed out that plus-size is the only clothing category where there has been market growth in the past year. Nonetheless, many retailers refuse to accommodate their larger customers. (Some, reports the LA Times, flat-out refuse to stock anything larger than size 10. "It often seems that it's easier to find and buy stylish clothes for Chihuahuas than for roughly half the country's female population.")
Writes the New York Times:
Some bigger women do not like to try on clothes in the same fitting rooms as smaller women. Plus-size stocks take up valuable storage space, and not everyone is big in the same way, meaning stores cannot count on, say, a size 16 dress fitting most 180-pound women -- one might have a larger torso, another big thighs and another wider hips....
Cost is one issue. Plus-size clothes are more difficult, and expensive, to make than more traditional sizes. Material can be the largest portion of a garment's cost -- up to about 60 percent -- and larger sizes require not only more of it, but sometimes different production processes.
"Its not just about how much fabric is required," said Deepa Neary, a retail consultant at A.T. Kearney, a consulting firm. "You're actually using wider bolts of fabric, and that sometimes requires special machinery to produce the garments. You often don't get to pass that on to the consumer, so your margins are not as high as the regular-size clothing."
And with limited floor space, retailers say it's hard to display, say, blouses from size 0 to 24. So the plus market "unfortunately gets treated like an exile," said Kathy Bradley-Riley, senior vice president for merchandising at the trend forecasting firm Doneger Group.
Many stores, like Old Navy or Ann Taylor, only sell their plus-sized clothes online.
Honey, too, is only available online. Holmes considered trying to get her dresses into stores, but decided, in the end, that the costs were too prohibitive. "I want women to feel they can afford what we're selling," she says. She wants to keep the costs of all her clothes under $100.
So far, Honey offers six dresses, three tops and one suit, most named for the women -- all friends of Holmes' -- who inspired them. There's also a small assortment of accessories (bags and jewelry) and Holmes is currently at work on a fall line that will include, among other things, a leather vest.
Holmes is still getting the word about Honey out. For the fall advertising campaign, she wants to show five different models wearing the same dress so customers can see how Honey's clothes fit on different figures. (A model search will get underway soon.) "I want to show we all look different," she says, "and that's OK."
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The National Weather Service is calling for cloudy skies with snow developing after midnight Tuesday. Snowfall totals by dawn should range between 3 to 5 inches.
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Latinas In Streetwear Discuss Breaking Stereotypes, Influence, And Longevity
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Tasha Bleu/Hypebae
The self-made trailblazers talk about their experience in the industry.
As streetwear continues to gain more exposure, the irony of the movement continues to ride along with it. Its origins run deep in the lives of black and brown people — even more so black and brown women — and yet, its gatekeepers don't represent that. Visual representation matters, and when a movement like streetwear still rarely features a Latina on a national campaign, I can't help but wonder who really gets to create the narrative and if there is space for Latina women in the world they helped create.
Like Black American women, Latinas are responsible for the birth of many notable fashion trends. For example nameplate jewelry originated as trend that was once labeled 'ghetto' or 'tacky'' and has since been normalized and replicated in runway shows and on clothing racks.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we're highlighting Latinas in the industry who continue to break the rules and pave the way for more women of color to live their truth: Evelynn Escobar, streetwear enthusiast, Gaby Serrano, NYC Nike on Air winner, Gigi Fernandez, celebrity stylist, and Coco & Breezy, two sisters doing it big in the accessories space.
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How did you get introduced to streetwear/sneaker culture?
Gigi: Growing up in NYC and hip hop are the two things that introduced me to streetwear and sneaker culture. I also had a lot of older cousins who were very into streetwear. I very vividly remember my dad driving all across Manhattan looking for Air Jordan 1s for me because I refused to go to school without them.
Gaby: I first was introduced into sneaker culture through basketball, as an athlete wearing the same sneakers as my favorite basketball players I felt like anything was possible. Sneaker culture and streetwear culture go hand and hand so I was introduced to both simultaneously growing up in New York.
Evelynn: I'm from Northern Virginia and growing up my brother and I were heavily influenced by Pharrell. He essentially opened my eyes to the culture.
Coco & Breezy: Growing up, our parents couldn't afford to buy us multiple pairs of shoes for school. They always got us one to two pairs that had to last us for the whole school year. We were dedicated to keeping our sneakers clean and cleaning them everyday with a toothbrush and dishwashing liquid. We would switch up our shoelaces to match our airbrushed outfits. I got my first pair of Jordans in middle school when I made a trade with the new girl in school.
In Latin culture, physical appearance is something that women begin to obsess over at a young age, down to what they wear. Latinas are encouraged to dress more "feminine" (tight clothing, heels, etc). How did your environment motivate you to go against this idea when it came to expressing yourself through fashion?
Gaby: I grew up surrounded by Latin women who dressed very feminine, my grandma even made dresses from scratch for them. I also grew up looking up to my big brother and wanting to be just like him. The Latin culture does encourage women to dress more feminine, but I feel they are also very accepting of women who want to express themselves through fashion differently. I noticed based on my personal experience that by wearing sneakers or clothes that isn't as feminine I have helped my Hispanic family be more accepting and even go out and try new ways to express themselves through fashion as well.
Coco & Breezy: Our mother would always tell us to not walk out of the house without earrings. That is probably why we are so obsessed with accessories now. We had it better than a lot of other Latina families, because our mom gave us a lot of creative freedom when it came to self-expression through our clothing choices. Our mom grew up in a traditional and strict Puerto Rican household. It was taboo to have short hair, so she had hair past her waist for a long time. She would also never leave the house without heels and makeup. Our mom thought it was important to give us the freedom that she didn't have growing up. We were around other Latina friends who were pushed to always wear heels and dresses when it was time to "dress up" and didn't have a lot of freedom. Their parents had one idea of how femininity should be presented, and our parents helped us develop a more flexible one that fits our own multifaceted identities.
Gigi: Luckily I didn't really experience this too much because my parents moved from Dominican Republic to Harlem when they were still in their teens. Because of this, they were a lot more "Americanized" and hip, especially being in Harlem where it's such a melting pot and streetwear was a part of everyday life. When I was in middle school/high school searching around the city for the latest sneaker drops that came out my father would be right there encouraging me. He was a sneakerhead himself. However I do see from other family members of mine when I'm wearing sneakers or anything not "feminine" they will make comments and ask why do I like dressing like a "tomboy" and I'm the furthest thing from one.
Evelynn: In a sense I feel like my personal style in some ways was an act of rebellion to this stereotypical hyper-sexual, feminine look. When I was able to have a conscious opinion around style choices I always defaulted to comfort first because ultimately that was what made me feel best.
What are some of your thoughts on cultural appropriation?
Coco & Breezy: This is a subject that we talk about all of the time. I don't think it's fair when big fashion houses take from other cultures without any knowledge of a cultural practice and don't give the people they copy the opportunity to be apart of it or benefit from it. Some fashion houses put hairstyles or religious garments on the runway as trends while people get discriminated for the same garments and styles in their everyday lives and workplaces. At the same time, there has to be some room for inspiration and experimentation, which we attempt to do thoughtfully as designers and artists with a complex view of the cultural contexts we engage and reference.
Gigi: All I can say is give credit, where credit is due.
Gaby: As a minority in the America we live in now, cultural appropriation is a big topic. I designed a sneaker based on NYC and made it a point to highlight the different skin complexions of all the people who live here because my hope is that we learn to move forward with love and acceptance of everyone regardless of their ethnicity. Of course in a perfect world that would be great but there are marginalized groups who have felt the negative aspects of cultural appropriation and rightfully so have been offended and hurt by this. I am guilty of wanting to keep certain aspects of my culture to myself and not have to share it with the world but I also think if people would take the time to understand the history and actually want to learn about each other's cultures, with respect and care, without appropriating it with clothes or hairstyles that may offend that culture, then we could grow as a society.
Evelynn: I think cultural appropriation should be way easier to understand than it is. If you are borrowing something from a culture and are taking it as your own than it is appropriation period. Latin culture like Black culture and so on is constantly being used as a point of inspiration for trends etc. Nowadays all you see is gold hoops, "saint" necklaces, rings etc. as popular and trendy. The same things that were once used against us to talk down to us are now being mass marketed as cool and hip to everyone.
"In a sense I feel like my personal style in some ways was an act of rebellion to this stereotypical hyper-sexual, feminine look"
Where do you see Latina women within the streetwear space in the next five years?
Evelynn: I think Latinas will be at the forefront of the streetwear space alongside our other sisters of color. We've helped set the trends that are popular now and we will continue to pave the way for the future.
Gigi: I really believe Latina women are slept on heavily in the fashion industry. We are mostly looked at as sex symbols and not much else. I do believe that women like myself and articles such as this, can really start to shine a light on the Latina women that are in this streetwear world and there will be a lot of growth in the next five years.
Gaby: I see Latina women front and center in the streetwear space within five years. Currently there are not many women of color or Latin women in streetwear that are well known but thankfully clothing brands and sneaker companies are starting to reach out to these women. We are the women that push the culture forward so we should be the at the center of the streetwear space and we will get there!
Coco & Breezy: I see it growing tremendously and see more Latina women being involved in the streetwear space. The new and young generation of Latina women are more open minded when it comes to exploring style and streetwear, and have come up in rich fashion and music cultures across the world. Connecting via the internet has been a strong force for experimentation and stylistic meritocracy. As we know well you can make a splash with an audience on a look you built yourself — you don't necessarily need to grow up with a certain pedigree and financial resources.
More related articles: Dior brings streetwear OG Shawn Stussy out of retirement, 16 chic, beanie-free ways to cover your head this season, Meet the unsung heroes of streetwear.
MadeTrends is a fashion trend forecasting agency based in NYC. For your industry-specific 2020 forecast, please contact us.


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PROVIDENCE, RI – A member of a Central Falls neighborhood-based street gang known for flashing drugs, firearms, and gang signs on social media, pled guilty in federal court today to trafficking crack cocaine and being in possession of two stolen firearms.
Elton Andrade, aka "MT Flex," 20, a member of the "Money Team" street-gang, was arrested by members of the FBI's Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force and Central Falls Police in February 2018, during a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into individuals in Central Falls involved in, among other things, drug trafficking and firearms violations.
On February 26, 2018, Central Falls Police and members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force executed a court-authorized search of a Central Falls residence where they seized from Andrade's bedroom two bags containing a total of 28.53 grams of crack cocaine, two loaded firearms that a forensic audit later determined to be stolen, and $1,503 in cash.
Andrade, who was not present at the time of the search, was arrested the following day after being surveilled by law enforcement leaving a Seekonk, Mass., motel and taking a taxi to Central Falls. He was arrested by Central Falls police when they conducted a traffic stop of the taxi.
Andrade, who has been detained since his arrest, today pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and two counts of possession of a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, Central Falls Police Chief Colonel Daniel J. Barzykowski, and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta.
Andrade is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., on May 18, 2020.
Possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base is punishable by statutory penalties of not less than 5 years and not more than 40 years imprisonment, 3 years' supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000. Possession of a stolen firearm is punishable by statutory penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment, 3 years' supervised release, and a fine of $250,000.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald R. Gendron.
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice's violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
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package war.bs;

import org.skfiy.typhon.dobj.BSaSkill;
import org.skfiy.typhon.spi.war.AttackEntry;
import org.skfiy.typhon.spi.war.BSaScript;
import org.skfiy.typhon.spi.war.BSaWapper;
import org.skfiy.typhon.spi.war.FightObject;
import org.skfiy.typhon.spi.war.MultiAttackResult;
import org.skfiy.typhon.util.FastRandom;

/**
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 * @author Kevin Zou <kevinz@skfiy.org>
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public class B_s066 extends BSaScript {

    private final FastRandom RANDOM = new FastRandom();

    @Override
    protected Object doExecute(BSaWapper bsaWapper) {
        BSaSkill bsaSkill = bsaWapper.getBsaSkill();
        int atk = getAtk(bsaWapper, bsaWapper.getAobj());

        FightObject aobj = bsaWapper.getAobj();
        MultiAttackResult mar = new MultiAttackResult();

        for (FightObject goal : bsaWapper.getDefenderEntity().findFightGoals(bsaSkill.getNumOfTargets())) {
            AttackEntry ae = getWarProvider().attack0(bsaWapper.getWarInfo().getTerrain(), aobj,
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Wait for Me — девятый студийный альбом американского музыканта Моби, выпуск которого состоялся 30 июня 2009 года.

Об альбоме
Моби заявил о записи альбома:

«Я записывал альбом в собственной студии в южном Ист-Сайде (хотя "студия" — слишком громко сказано о связке оборудования, настроенной в маленькой спальне). В прошлом я работал в больших и маленьких студиях, но для этой записи я хотел сделать всё у себя дома сам».

Он также высказался о начале записи альбома: «Я начал работать над альбомом около года назад, и творческим стимулом для записи стала услышанная мной речь Дэвида Линча на BAFTA, в Великобритании».

Моби и Дэвид Линч обсуждали процесс записи альбома на онлайн-канале Линча, David Lynch Foundation Television Beta. 14 апреля 2009 года на своём сайте Моби объявил о названии альбома, списке композиций и дате релиза. Альбом был выпущен на звукозаписывающем лейбле Little Idiot, принадлежащем самому исполнителю.

Смикшировал Wait for Me Кен Томас (Sigur Rós). Согласно Моби, «микшировать записи с ним (Thomas) было действительно хорошо, так как он творчески открыт для попытки чего-нибудь (как запись старого сломанного бакелитового радио и управление этим через некоторые сломанные старые педали эффектов, чтобы видеть, на что это походило бы)».

Первым синглом с альбома стал «Shot in the Back of the Head». Видео на музыку снял Дэвид Линч.

Список композиций

Тур
Моби планирует тур со своим новым альбомом с полным составом группы, что редко происходило во время рекламной кампании Last Night, за исключением некоторых фестивальных представлений.

Моби заявил в своём журнале 25 апреля 2009 года: «Тур в поддержку альбома , будет проходить с группой в полном составе и несколькими вокалистами, хотя я мог бы включить некоторые элементы электронного/эмбиент показа, поскольку это позволило бы мне представить некоторые песни, которые я никогда не был в состоянии представить прежде (как "God Moving over the Face of the Waters", и другие инструментальные песни прошлого)».

Моби объявил даты своего европейского тура.

Чарты

Примечания

Ссылки

Альбомы Моби
Альбомы 2009 года
Альбомы Mute Records

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Thus far I have been enjoying my work very much. When I first designed this project, all I knew was that I wanted to study some aspect of French fairytales. I was not aware of Madame d'Aulnoy or other salonnières, and I feel very fortunate to have fallen upon their work. Although very few people have written in depth about these women an their work, the scholarship of those who have is quite extensive and there are diverse perspectives and interpretations among this small community of scholars. I have been learning a great deal of new information every week, and I am excited to have the opportunity to study and write about this topic.
Although I am very invested in my work and grateful to be able to do independent research, I will admit that this kind of work doesn't always fit in with a high school schedule. Nonetheless, I expected that my schedule would not be particularly accommodating to long-term independent research. Sometimes I spend the entire 45-minute independent period just thinking and circulating ideas through my head, and by the time I am ready to write it is time for class again. Producing a thorough, well-written blog post every week can be demanding, especially when I have weekly assignments due every Friday or Saturday for several other classes, but the blog posts have helped me stay on track, continue to learn new information, and produce material that I can use in my paper. They also allow me to share my work with others in my community.
One thing I am struggling with is doing most of my work in French. I have little difficulty reading and writing in French, but many of my resources are in English and I have to write these posts in English as well. Although I have produced a great deal of writing for this blog, none of it is in the language in which I will write my paper. I have also been having trouble connecting with my mentor, with whom I am supposed to be conversing with in French every 1-2 weeks. Our schedules do not line up well at all and it has been difficult to connect.
Despite some of these challenges, I do think I am capable of doing long-term independent research, and this project gives be confidence that I will be able to handle major research assignments in college. I have learned a lot about the research process and time management already, and I have been exposed to a whole new world of writing, folklore, and feminist thought. In the second half of this semester, I will need to start formulating a thesis, rewriting my written work in French, and compiling it to support that thesis. I also need to come up with an oral/visual way for presenting my work and decide how, when, and to whom I will present it. In addition, I will have to be more proactive about meeting with my mentor. I hope I will able to complete this project in accordance with my expectations and end up with something I can be proud of.
This entry was posted in World Languages and Cultures and tagged French, independent study, westtown school on October 26, 2013 by lyrapiscitelli.
Just out of curiosity, what are the three qualities that you found really interesting in French fairy tales? And how do them compare to those in the US?
It is hard to pin down what "American" fairytales are. Due to its multicultural nature, the US is home to a rich variety of folklore but the most well-known tales in the US (stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, etc…) are attributed to Charles Perrault of France and The Brothers Grimm of Germany, although both of these sources undoubtably borrowed Middle Eastern, East Asian, and Ancient Greek and Roman cultures. These authors borrowed from each other as well, and they both canonized their works during the time period I am studying. Therefore, there is a large overlap between fairytales in the U.S. that you might see in a Disney movie and fairytales from seventh century france. There is, however, a comparison to be made between the mainstream authors whose work is well known today, and the specific group of female authors I am studying. They were known as the conteuses and their work was rather counter cultural. In my opinion, three things that made them different from their contemporary male counterparts would be: 1. Their writing style was far more baroque. The conteuses spun long, complex tales that used ornate language and lots of wordplay. They were criticized for this by both Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, who thought fairytales should be simple and appeal to peasants. In fact many of the Perrault and Grimm's fairytales that we know today are heavily modified and simplified versions of the conteuses' work. 2. Their fairytales tended to center around strong female protagonists and rejected the idea of "Prince Charming." This was a bold political statement in a time where women were viewed as second class citizens. 3. They did not always have happy endings. Although many of the conteuses' tales do end happily, many others end in murder, suicide, or dismemberment, often induced by love/lack thereof. Some fairytale scholars assert that these tragic endings were meant to refute the idea that marriage resolved everything and was key to stability. Anyways, I know this post is a bit long, but I hope it was informative!


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Google public DNS resolving services on IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 was sold as being a faster solution for users, since caching could occur on a massive scale, but is it just a statistics gathering exercise for Google?
for that, I'd recommend https://www.ultratools.com/tools/dnsHostingSpeedResult - Check for "A" record response, where you should aim to get a response time of 50ms or less.
Here is a speed check of this blog, which is hosted by Google.
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If you have a Nokia phone, then we've just developed a new App for the Nokia OVI store that allows you manage the DNS settings for your domain.


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When was Solos Endoscopy, Inc. incorporated?
Solos Endoscopy, Inc. (Solos Endoscopy) was incorporated April 16, 1986 under the name Solos Endoscopy, Inc.
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In April of 2006, Solos Endoscopy announced that the Company has gone public through a merger with ViaDux Healthcare, a public company (VDXH).
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(Munich, January 2019) Already in November the Cloud EcoSystem e.V., in its capacity powerful member club for cloud software vendors and the entire cloud technology, had invited all members and partners to the annual Community Meeting to Cologne. On this occasion, the association presented the relaunch of its online portal, along with a new certification program.
Certified Cloud is the name of the new leading certification program, and with its three certified seals "Certified Cloud Solution", "Certified Cloud Infrastructure" and "Certified Cloud Professional", it supports companies from now on in the selection of qualified cloud solutions and the appropriate experts.
The "Certified Solution" category, certified for the year 2019, once again included the Seneca Controlling solution with its three editions Seneca Local, Seneca Global and Seneca Galaxy.
The new certification program of the Cloud Ecosystem has not only visually transformed itself compared to the previous concept. On the newly created website www.certifiedcloud.org, interested parties will find an overview of all already certified companies from different business areas. The certifications are awarded on the basis of freely available checklists, which provide the relevant decision-makers in the companies with the most important criteria in the selection process of cloud solutions. An extensive checklist of the 30 most important questions can be found here: https://www.certifiedcloud.org/checkliste .
Seneca is very pleased to have received this valuable technological certification for the year 2019 as well.
(Munich, 10/27/2017) On the 20th and 21st of October, the annual autumn congress of the Seneca partner K|M|S AG took place in Unterhaching. K|M|S is the leading provider of technology and knowledge management in German healthcare.
The attending professional audience of more than 180 people showed great interest in the hospital planning manager, which was newly developed by Seneca for K|M|S. This manager completes the software solution eisTIK® as a new module.
The pleasingly big positive response to the management accounting module for healthcare made by Seneca makes both partners very optimistic about the future. Especially since the K|M|S autumn meeting coincides with the starting signal for the immediate start of the eisTIK® planning manager powered by Seneca.
(Munich the 15th of May 2017) The "Working Group of West German Companies" was founded in April of this year with the help of the Menedzsment és Controlling Egyesület (MCE).
The main initiator and head of the working group is Ms. Nikoletta Biczó, consultant at Seneca Business Software GmbH. The event was hosted by BPW-Hungária Kft. in Szombately, Hungary, on the 12th of April 2017.
The first session of the working group started with two top class lectures held by István Bánfalvi and Judit Reményi, both heads of the finance and controlling department of BPW-Hungária Kft. The main topic of this first meeting was the "capacity planning and resource utilization in a volatile environment", as in the case in today´s markets and enterprises.
The interactive nature of the workshop quickly led to a gratifyingly dynamic discussion, in which each participant took the opportunity to a vigorous and active exchange of professional experiences and ideas.
The participants of the first event included Audi Hungaria Zrt., Autoliv Kft., BUSCH-HUNGARIA Kft., Delphi Hungary Kft., BPW-Hungária Kft., Dana Hungary Kft., Hirtenberger Automotive Safety Hungary Bt., IFUA Horváth & Partners Kft., iQor Global Services Hungary Kft., LUK Savaria Kft., Nemak Györ Kft., Rába Futómü Kft., Schott Hungary Kft. and the Seneca Business Software GmbH.
For further information on future events, please contact Ms. Biczo (nib(at)seneca-control.com) or visit the event page of MCE.
(Budapest, 15. September 2016) First is work, and the comes the celebration. On 14th of September 2016, the Budapest Metropolitan University and Seneca Business Software GmbH have sealed their partnership.
Since the beginning of the wintersemester 2016, the implementation of sophisticated tasks in the area of controlling are being applied from the students of BMU who are taking Business Administration with the support of Seneca Controlling Software on their curriculum. The active exchange between the university and Seneca from the aspects of business pratice and academical research leads to the development of creative common solutions for numerous challenges in the subject of Managerial Accounting in future. Amongst others the goal is to encourage the practical education of students who are aspiring for a career in the field of Managerial Accounting.
Together with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV trade partner, M&A Soft GmbH, we developed an interface - efficient and easy to handle.
Companies, which work with the fully integrated solution of Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP 2009 or 2013, have now the possibility to pass from the Microsoft NAV database their corporate data to and from Seneca. The new joint development with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV trade partner M&A Soft GmbH allows the user to screen the delivered plan variants and number groups. All dimensions of your ERP are easily transferred. This procedure can of course be done automatically.
The Seneca-Interface is already fully integrated to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV.


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10th Death Anniversary of Legendary Broadcaster Vernon Corea
The 10th death anniversary of the Legendary Radio Ceylon/Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster falls on the 23rd of September 2012. He had a glittering career of 45 years in public service broadcasting in Sri Lanka and in the United Kingdom.
In a tribute to the 'Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon', Neville Jayaweera, the distinguished Sri Lankan civil servant and former Director-General of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation said:
'I first heard of Vernon Corea, as many others too did, before I had ever met him face to face. In the early nineteen sixties Vernon was probably the most popular male voice heard over Radio Ceylon's English Commercial Service.'
Vernon was born in Kurana, Katunayake on the 11th of September 1927. His parents were the Reverend Canon Ivan and Ouida Corea who served the parish of St. Luke's Church, Borella for over 25 years. Vernon's brother is the distinguished diplomat, Ernest Corea who was Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the United States, Cuba, Mexico and High Commissioner to Canada. He was the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Select Committee on the media and development and currently President of the Global Co-operation Council Media Task Force in the United States of America.
Vernon taught at Uva College in Badulla where he met his wife Monica. They married in 1954. Tragedy struck when their first born Harischandra died in 1955 as a result of a stomach problem.
Radio Ceylon was 'King of the Airwaves' at the time. Clifford R.Dodd a first class Australian administrator, was sent to Ceylon in the 1950s under the Colombo Plan. He set up the Commercial Service and started recruiting some of the finest Sri Lankan talents and mentored them. Vernon joined Radio Ceylon during this time as a Relief Announcer in 1956.
Dodd wrote to Vernon on 17th September 1957 to inform him that he had been 'placed on the panel of Relief Announcers in English on the Commercial Service with effect from September 1st, 1957' on the princely sum of Rs 1/75 per hour, subject to a maximum of Rs. 12 per day. He started his career in radio at the bottom of the ladder but he soon climbed up - Vernon was appointed Announcer from 1958-1959, Programme Assistant from 1959-1968, Business Manager from 1968-1974 and he was appointed Director News of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in 1974. Vernon spent six months in England from 29th April 1970 following a course of training in Broadcasting Management under the Imperial Relations Trust at the British Broadcasting Corporation.
He was instrumental in introducing Sinhala music into the English Service. Together with his cousins, Sangabo Corea and Vijaya Corea he made Clarence Wijewardene, Annesley Malawana and other talented Sri Lankan musicians, household names. He had an influential EMCEE column in the Daily News in the 1960s and 1970s and many musicians went to see Vernon. Vernon has also mentored some of the great radio names of today, including his cousin Vijaya Corea, Leon Belleth (still broadcasting in Australia), and Nihal Bhareti.
Vernon took to broadcasting and soon enjoyed massive popularity across the Indian sub-continent. Hundreds of listeners wrote to him from all over South Asia. During his broadcasting career with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation Vernon Corea presented some of the most popular radio programmes in Sri Lanka including: Saturday Stars,Two for the Money, Kiddies Corner, Old Folks at Home, To Each His Own, Ponds Hit Parade, Saturday Stars, Take it or Leave It, Radio Journal, Holiday Choice, Housewives Choice, Maliban Bandwagon (Maliban Show), Dial-a-disc and many more.
Vernon was a pioneering broadcaster, an 'ideas man' who came up with innovative radio programmes.He worked very closely with Sri Lankan broadcasting icons Karunaratne Abeysekera and S.P. Mylvaganam. Radio Ceylon was very much a 'hit factory' a creative powerhouse in South Asia.
He had joined the 'greats' in broadcasting in Sri Lanka in the 1960s, broadcasters of the calibre of Livy Wijemanne, Pearl Ondaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley Peiris, Shirley Perera, Bob Harvie, B.H. Abdul Hameed, Claude Selveratnam, Christopher Greet, Prosper Fernando, Ameen Sayani, Hameed Sayani, S.P. Mylvaganam, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Thevis Guruge, H.M. Gunasekera, A.W. Dharmapala, Chitrananda Abeysekera, Mervyn Jayasuriya to name a few.
Like so many other announcers, Vernon could easily spot talent and promoted young musicians who went on to become huge stars in Sri Lanka and even overseas – people like Nimal Mendis, Cliff Foenander, Des Kelly, Bill Forbes, The Jetliners, Clarence Wijewardena, Annesley Malewana – he became close friends with young Indian musicians Usha Uthup and Ernest Ignatius of 'I Married A Female Wrestler' fame.
In the 1970s the family moved to the United Kingdom where Vernon worked briefly with Radio Worldwide, the radio project with WEC and then joined BBC Radio London. The BBC wanted to change their idea of Asian programming, so they gave Vernon a pioneering opportunity of presenting the FIRST EVER Asian programme in English – the programme went over the airwaves of BBC Radio London 206 in Marylebone High Street.
Produced by the legendary BBC man Keith Yeomans 'London Sounds Eastern' was attracting massive audiences across the capital. It was so popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Vernon moved up the ladder in the BBC – he was appointed Asian Programmes Officer of 22 BBC local radio stations and then came the appointment as the Ethnic Minorities Adviser to the BBC – Vernon created history once again by being the first Asian to be appointed to senior management of the BBC. His appointment to the BBC was heralded by the 'Thunderer' the London Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times in the United Kingdom.
The Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke said this of Vernon Corea: 'Vernon was a pioneering influence in the BBC and helped to lay the foundation for the work we are continuing to do to make sure our staff and our programmes are truly representative of our nation's diverse population.'
The London Times said: 'The BBC at this time was striving to be more inclusive, and Corea found himself at the forefront of an increasing thrust for diversity. His importance both as a figurehead and a consultant was recognized by his appointment as the first ethnic minorities' adviser in 1978.'
Here again he mentored so many broadcasters, when top BBC television presenter George Aligiah wanted to join the BBC – one of the first people he went to meet after doing his university degree was Vernon Corea.
He died in his sleep on 23rd September 2002 aged 75 years of age, leaving his wife Monica and children – Ivan, Vernon jr and Ouida.
Vernon Corea has left behind a legacy in broadcasting – in Sri Lanka and in the United Kingdom. At a recent broadcasting and television awards ceremony in Colombo – people were still paying tributes to the legendary broadcaster who came into so many living rooms in Sri Lanka – through the medium of radio. He was truly the 'Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon.'


That's what our attitude needs to be today because what you focus on is what you will see. No matter what the medical report says, no matter what your finances look like, no matter how bad that relationship may seem, be confident that you will see His goodness! He is the all-powerful, omniscient, Creator of the universe, and He holds you in the palm of His hand. Nothing is too difficult for Him. Take hold of this truth by faith and focus on His goodness today. Allow His peace to settle in your heart and mind as you move forward in His blessing all the days of your life!
Father in heaven, thank You for Your goodness in my life. I choose to focus on You today no matter what my circumstances may look like. Give me Your peace as I keep my mind stayed on You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.


Discussion in '1st Gen Tundras (2000-2006)' started by Afkouki, Sep 14, 2018.
Haven't seen anything made for the first gen. I have seen people rig a mounting bracket at the back end of the hole and install the LED cube that way.
I put led bulbs into factory housing. Very bright and can be made to be yellow if wanted. Bulbs weren't cheap. About $70.00. But happy with results.


Following the original K-I-Deez release in 2016, Freddie Grahamz has released a remix featuring two Miami artists, Prez P and Fatboy Marley. Grahamz is representing K.I.D.S (Kings In a Damned Society) Records with a second upcoming mixtape release, entitled Goldmouth. The remix is the first track from the mixtape. Stay tuned.


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How to Watch 'Game of Thrones': Game of Thrones: The Final Battle (Video)
We've been following HBO's Game of Throne since the premiere last week.
In the meantime, HBO has also been working on a new series of TV shows based on the books, and we've been watching the latest to see how the show's final battle between Cersei and Jaime will play out.
HBO is also making the first season of Game of War, a new, interactive show for kids based on Westeros.
And while we're talking about HBO, it's also bringing back the Game of Winter, a series of interactive and interactive-themed video games.
We're going to get to that in a second.
Game of Westeros: The Last Battle (season 1) will premiere in 2017, and HBO is bringing it to its virtual reality headset.
It will be available to HBO Go subscribers, but will not be available on mobile devices.
In its original form, the game allows players to explore Westeros from the perspective of the characters, with an emphasis on the POV of Cersei.
Game: The Thrones: Game of Battle (second season) is also coming to HBO VR in 2017.
The show will feature a brand-new story and characters with new dialogue, characters that you'll meet, and new locations.
Game Thrones: Winter is coming to Game of Game War (season 2).
And HBO will be bringing Game of Ice and Fire: The Second War (first season) to the Oculus Rift in 2018.
The company is also developing a virtual reality version of Game Changers, which will be shown on Oculus Rift headsets and on Gear VR.
Game of Winter: A Game of the Thrones: Season 2: The End (second half) is coming in 2019.
This season of HBO's virtual reality series will focus on Cersei Lannister, and will follow the events of the book series.
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Résumé: Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery crew are faced with the harsh reality of the war during their absence. In order to move forward, Starfleet must use unconventional tactics and sources to take their next action against the Klingons.


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'Democracy Awakening' Rally Brings Thousands to the Capitol to Demand a Better Democracy
Speakers Including Rev. William Barber II, Cornell William Brooks, Dolores Huerta, Kathleen Turner Call for Money in Politics Reforms, Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy, Protection of Voting Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, thousands of people from across the country joined the Rally for Democracy at the U.S. Capitol, part of the three-day "Democracy Awakening." The rally featured national leaders, celebrities and performers – all sending a message to Congress to reform democracy to ensure that every voice is heard.
Rally speakers called for money in politics reforms, filling the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy and the protection of voting rights. Key speakers included Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP; Rev. William Barber II, pastor and Moral Monday architect; Kathleen Turner, award-winning actress and advocate; Ellen Weintraub, U.S. Federal Election Commission commissioner; and many other leaders and activists from across the country. Key statements from these and others are below.
After the rally, attendees marched around the U.S. Capitol and past the Supreme Court, ending at Columbus Circle for a faith vigil. Faith leaders told the story of "The Golden Calf" and explained how idolatry of money in the United States today is stifling our democracy and underscores why we must get money out of politics.
In addition to today's rally and vigil, "Democracy Awakening" events included teach-ins on Saturday. On Monday, hundreds of people – including 60 organization leaders and high-profile individuals – will risk arrest while others participate in a day of advocacy urging members of Congress to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, protect voting rights and curb the influence of corporations and the wealthy in politics.
More than 300 organizations have endorsed the landmark mobilization. It is a broad coalition representing the labor, peace, environmental, student, racial justice, civil rights and money in politics reform movements. Participants are coming from throughout the country, by bus (from 19 states), air, van and car. They are coming from such states as Michigan, Kentucky, Florida, Connecticut, Tennessee and California.
Statements from Democracy Awakening speakers and leaders:
Marge Baker, executive vice president of People For the American Way: "This is a movement moment. Americans feel enormous frustration towards a system where voters have to stand in lines for hours, where every day Americans can't be heard over the roar of big money, and where some members of Congress are trying to prevent our courts from functioning. Congress has solutions in front of them, and we're going to keep making noise until our elected leaders take action to create a democracy that works for all of us."
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, pastor and Moral Monday architect: "Fifty years after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, we have seen the Supreme Court nullify its preclearance protections while congressional leadership has refused to fix it for more than two years. This is immoral, an attack on our democracy and a threat to the furtherance of every other progressive ideal – we cannot stand quietly by. We must now stand up all over the country and reawaken the spirit of true democracy."
Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP: "The right to vote is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament. It is enshrined in our temple of democracy. Yet we are going into the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act. When more than 33 states pass new laws requiring a photo ID to vote, but cut back and shut down the government offices where voters can obtain the required cards, the need to act is clear. This is a profound challenge and assault on our democracy. That is why we are here today. An NAACP member by the name of the Rev. James Edmund Prioleau, my grandfather, stood for the right to vote 70 years ago. I stand in his name – and his legacy stands with us."
Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO: "The AFL-CIO is proud to be part of this Democracy Awakening. The unions of the AFL-CIO are committed to broadening our democracy – to having the voices and votes of working people heard. That's why we will continue to fight the corrupting influence of corporate cash."
Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch: "It's time to be bold and visionary. Only a massive grassroots movement can build the political power necessary for taking back our democracy and ousting the plutocrats who've stolen it. That's why I'm thrilled to be one of thousands rallying this weekend at Democracy Awakening – supporting calls to restore voting rights and repeal Citizen's United. I'm proud that Food & Water Watch is one of the more than 300 groups coalescing to demand that people and the environment are prioritized over profits."
Jim Hightower, radio commentator and activist: "Democracy Awakening is us – grassroots people rising up to restore our sovereignty over big money. Progress on every one of our issues is hopelessly walled in by corporate bribery funds, K Street lobbyists, crony capitalism, Koch-headed ideology and nefarious voter suppression. This is the start of something big, and we want you to be there to help make democracy happen again."
Dolores Huerta, civil rights leader and People For the American Way board member: "Without a strong democracy movement, we won't be able to make progress on the biggest issues we face: climate change, immigration reform, protecting workers' rights, raising the minimum wage, empowering women and so much more. I'm coming to D.C. this month to demand that Congress listen to the American people and stop blocking democracy reforms. Si se puede!"
William H. Lamar IV, pastor at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.: "Now is the time for a new politics to emerge in this nation. Poor and working class Americans now know what black Americans have always known. The myth that holds America captive is fraudulent. People cannot hope to rise by hard work and determination when the political system is rigged to favor big money and highest bidder public policy. Democracy will not be given to the people by those who have purchased the people's government. The people must accumulate power – across dividing lines – and demand something new. People power must supplant money power! Money is not speech. Money corrupts speech. Undisclosed money corrupts absolutely!"
The Rev. Ezra L. Tillman Jr., pastor of First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Flint, Michigan and member of People For the American Way Foundation's Micah Leadership Council: "As a father, husband and pastor in Flint, Michigan, I have experienced personally and through the lives of my members and friends, the kind of tragedy that can happen when democracy is threatened. When elected persons place non-elected persons in positions to value cost-cutting budgets above the health and well-being of everyday people, democracy is threatened. I'm coming to D.C. for the Democracy Awakening because democracy is not for some but for all. This is a 'Humanity Matters' issue. We stand united, with a unified message, that it's time to choose the well-being of people over politics."
Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen: "Fundamental reform to expand and deepen our democracy, we know from America's history, follows from one thing and one thing only: mass movements. With our democracy in crisis, now is the time for Americans to mobilize to ensure the right to vote and to get Big Money out of politics. Democracy Awakening is the start of something, not the end, as the democracy movement enters a new phase of intensity, mobilization, aggressive activism and disruption of business as usual."
For pictures from the event, more information on the 'Democracy Awakening' or to schedule an interview, please email Angela Bradbery (abradbery@citizen.org) or Laura Epstein (lepstein@pfaw.org).
Protecting Democracy: Money in Politics, Protecting Voting Rights
Conflicts of Interest Appear Rampant Within the Interior Department
McConnell Buries Popular Democracy Reforms in His Private Legislative Graveyard
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Whither gottest thou, Jack Kerouac, thy shiny prose style?
by Ryan Harrington
"To hell with the dirty lousy shit," the letter begins. Via Christie's.
I saw the best minds of my generation corresponding exuberantly. And by "exuberantly," I mean "on speed."
One major influence on Jack Kerouac and the whole beat generation was a Benzedrine-fueled, 16,000-word letter from Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady, which the revered On the Road author called "the greatest piece of writing I ever saw." And perhaps you might like to buy it, if that dorm-room Kerouac poster isn't quite cutting it: the original, eighteen-typewritten-page letter, newly discovered, is expected to fetch up $600,000 dollars in an auction at Christie's.
Dated December 17, 1950, the epistle—commonly referred to as the "Joan Anderson letter," for a former lover whom Cassady describes visiting in the hospital after a suicide attempt—has been believed lost for the last sixty-six years. In fact, Kerouac himself perpetuated the myth that it had been accidentally dropped over the side of Gerd Stern's houseboat in Sausalito after being rejected for publication. In reality, it had been safely tucked away within the archives of the Golden Goose Press, a leading poetry publisher of its day.
In a 1968 interview for the Paris Review, Kerouac cited the breathless confessional letter as the inspiration for the spontaneous style of On the Road. Kerouac's actual response to Cassady says it best:
I thought it ranked among the best things ever written in America… it was almost as good as the unbelievably good 'Notes from the Underground' of Dostoevsky… You gather together all the best styles… of Joyce, Celine, Dosy… and utilize them in the muscular rush of your own narrative style & excitement. I say truly, no Dreiser, no Wolfe has come close to it; Melville was never truer.
While Cassady's influence on the 1960's counterculture is hard to ignore, his papers are scarce and have never before gone to auction. For those of us bidders expecting to come in below the $600,000 mark, the Cassady family is hatching a plan to publish the material someday.
Ryan Harrington is a senior editor at Melville House.
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