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Learning to Thrive After Life Behind Bars
Criminal justice graduate is honored for overseeing a county program that provides a career path for people released from incarceration.
By Amy Floyd | November 1, 2019
"A large percentage of people struggled to get a job prior to their incarceration. And if they had a job, many didn't make enough to live on," says UCF criminal justice graduate Robert Barnett '09 '11MS, who recently won the 2019 National #Catalyst4Change Award. "Oftentimes, these are not inherently bad people. I think many do what they do because they are just trying to survive."
Barnett, who is a community corrections officer in the Orange County Corrections Department, was honored for overseeing the county's Inmate Construction Program, an innovative and successful re-entry program that teaches employable skills in construction and provides a long-term career path for people who are released from incarceration. The award was created by cFive, a community-supervision software company as a way to recognize dynamic individuals in community supervision.
During the program, students gain construction experience working on a wide range of large-and small-scale construction projects, from house framing to bookshelves. In addition to providing resources to the jail, each class selects a service project as a form of reparation for the community. The project helps students recognize the value of supporting their community. This past December, Barnett says students built bunk beds for children in support of The Mustard Seed of Central Florida, which helps families who suffered disaster or personal tragedy, by providing furniture and clothing.
"Many of our students are familiar with this experience and making this connection has a big impact on their understanding of need and how they can help."
Working with Valencia College, Barnett and his team at the corrections department created a six-week construction curriculum that includes the development of valuable skills and hands-on construction experience along with several certifications that give them an advantage in the job market. The program continues work with the students after release, helping to create a resume and contact employers all the way up to securing an interview.
"We often say it doesn't do me any good to educate you if I can't help you get the job," he says.
Since the launch of the Inmate Construction Program, almost 300 students have graduated with nearly 70 percent securing full-time employment.
Barnett tells students their paths could go either way. At some point within the six-week program, an entire class is dedicated to reflecting on the difficulties that their peers faced after their release. With this awareness, the new class might be better equipped to thrive in those more difficult moments. More often after the program, students do.
One student came to the program after 12½ years in prison for armed carjacking. When he got out, he was homeless and on probation for the next 18 months. But he had a car and a license, so the program connected him with a potential employer. After his interview, he got the job and made about $13 an hour while he lived in his car. Sixteen months later, he was making $18 an hour.
"He emailed us recently to say he went back to school at UCF," Barnett says. "He wrote that he spent his whole life in prison but now he has his own house, a fiancée, a kid and a job — all because of this program. He said we changed his life."
Another student from the Dominican Republic, who was about to be released, was flagged by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and detained for three months, Barnett says. He moved here when he was a child, didn't know anyone in the Dominican Republic, and his wife and 1-year-old child were U.S. citizens living here in America. They wrote a letter from the department and so did Valencia College, which he presented to a judge who ruled that he could stay. He got a construction job making $15 an hour, a raise two months later and now he's living with his family and working in North Dakota with a good salary and benefits.
Barnett says the criminal justice master's degree program allowed him to be creative, which gave him the tools to think of innovative ways to reduce recidivism.
In a graduate course with Ross Wolf, professor of criminal justice, Barnett remembers discussions on topics not everyone in class agreed on.
"But you could discuss it, if you could defend it," he says. "It inspired me to explore creative ways to approach complex issues in criminal justice."
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Can you tell that Annelise was excited?
I don't know if it was eating lunch in her classroom instead of the cafeteria or the fact that there was cake.
My money is on the cake.
Since time was in a bit of a crunch we didn't do a craft but they did play Easter bingo with jelly beans for markers. Instead of numbers there were words related to Easter which was neat.
Earlier that morning they went on something of a Resurrection hunt. Their teachers hid items around the school that had to to with Jesus' death and resurrection that they had made earlier in the week. Cool, huh?
Annelise also made her own set of Resurrection Eggs and got to bring them home. I loved listening to her explain what was in her basket and tell me what each egg represented!
After that, the wheels kind of came off of our traditional Easter-ing.
Instead of our annual local egg hunt, that's over in approximately 3.5 minutes, she went to a friend's birthday party. She was so over-the-top excited about Z.'s party that she didn't even ask about the egg hunt. Whew! We had tentative plans to dye eggs that evening, but that fell apart as soon as I broke out in goosebumps and aches. And stomach cramps.
Later that evening, Scott fell victim too.
His constitution recovered by Easter morning. Sadly, mine had not. For most of the day I felt like demons were playing sinister tether ball with my intestines.
And...I'll leave it at that.
I did manage to take a few pictures of Annelise Sunday morning during a brief tether ball timeout.
She was thrilled with her basket (thankfully I had gotten all that together before Potty Party 2010) which was filled with treats from the $ spot at JoAnn's and the 100 Bible Heroes storybook.
However, I can only imagine.


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Q: Deciphering DataKind type promotion in Servant library I am trying to gork the tutorial for the servant library, a type-level web DSL. The library makes extensive use of the DataKind language extension.
Early in that that tutorial we find the following line which defines a web service end point:
type UserAPI = "users" :> QueryParam "sortby" SortBy :> Get '[JSON] [User]

I don't understand what it means to have string and arrays in a type signature.  I am also unclear what the tick mark (') means in front of '[JSON].
So my questions boil down to what is the type/kind of the string and arrays, and how is this later interpreted when it is turned into a WAI end point?

As a side note, the consistent use of Nat and Vect when describing DataKinds leave us with a frustratingly limited set of examples to look at when trying to understand this stuff. I think I've read through that example at least a dozen times at different places and I still don't feel like I understand what is going on.

A: With DataKinds turned on, you get new types that are automatically created based on regular data type definitions:

*

*If you have data A = B T | C U, you now get a new kind A and new types 'B :: T -> A and 'C :: U -> A, where T and U are the new kinds of the similarly lifted T and U types

*If there is no ambiguity, you can write B for 'B etc.

*Type-level strings all share the same kind Symbol, so you have e.g. "foo" :: Symbol and "bar" :: Symbol as valid types.

In your example, "users" and "sortby" are both types at kind Symbol, JSON is an (old-fashioned) type at kind * (defined here), and '[JSON] is a type at kind [*], i.e. it is a singleton type-level list (it is equivalent to JSON ': '[] the same way [x] is equivalent to x:[] in general).
The [User] type is a regular type at kind *; it is simply the type of lists of Users. It is not a singleton type-level list.

A: Let's build a Servant
Goals
Our goals will be Servant's goals:

*

*Specify our REST API as a single type API

*Implement the service as one single side-effectful (read: monadic)
function

*Use real types to model resources, only serializing to a lesser type
at the very end e.g. JSON or Bytestring

*Obey the common WAI (Web Application Interface) interface that most
Haskell HTTP frameworks use

Crossing the threshold
Our initial service will simply be a / that returns a list of
Users in JSON.
-- Since we do not support HTTP verbs yet we will go with a Be
data User = ...
data Be a
type API = Be [User]

Though we have yet to write a single line of value-level code, we have
already sufficiently represented our REST service – we have simply
cheated and done it at the type level. This feels exciting to us and,
for the first time in a long time, we are hopeful about web
programming again.
We will need a way to convert this to a WAI type Application =
Request -> (Response -> IO ResponseReceived) -> IO ResponseReceived.
There is not enough room to describe how WAI works. The basics: we are
given a request object and a way to construct response objects, and we
are expected to return a response object. There are lots of ways of
doing this, but a simple choice is this.
imp :: IO [User]
imp =
  return [ User { hopes = ["ketchup", "eggs"], fears = ["xenophobia", "reactionaries"] }
         , User { hopes = ["oldies", "punk"], fears = ["half-tries", "equivocation"] }
         ]

serve :: ToJSON a => Be a -> IO a -> Application
serve _ contentIO = \request respond -> do
  content <- contentIO
  respond (responseLBS status200 [] (encode content))

main :: IO ()
main = run 2016 (serve undefined imp)

And this actually works. We can run this and curl it and get the
expected response back.
% curl 'http://localhost:2016/'
[{"fears":["xenophobia","reactionaries"],"hopes":["ketchup","eggs"]},{"fears":["half-tries","equivocation"],"hopes":["oldies","punk"]}]%

Notice that we never constructed a value of type Be a. We used
undefined. The function itself ignores the parameter altogether.
There actually is no way of constructing a value of type Be a since
we never defined any data constructors.
Why even have Be a parameter? The poor simple truth is that we need
that a variable. It tells us what our content type will be, and it
lets us set up that sweet Aeson constraint.
Code: 0Main.hs.
:<|>s in the road
Now we challenge ourselves to devise a routing system, where we can
have separate resources at separate places in the fake URL folder
hierachy. Our goal will be to support this type of service:
type API =
       "users" :> Be [User]
  :<|> "temperature" :> Int

To do this, we will first need to turn on the TypeOperators and the
DataKinds extensions. As detailed in @Cactus's answer, data kinds
allows us to store data at the type level and GHC comes built-in with
type-level string literals. (Which is great since defining strings at
type level is not my idea of fun.)
(We will also need PolyKinds so GHC can kind-infer this type. Yes we
are deep in the heart of extensions jungle now.)
Then, we need to conjure clever definitions for :> (the subdirectory
operator) and :<|> (the disjunction operator).
data path :> rest
data left :<|> right =
  left :<|> right

infixr 9 :>
infixr 8 :<|>

Did I say clever? I meant dead simple. Notice that we have given
:<|> a type constructor. This is because we will glue our monadic
functions together to implement a disjunction and ... oh it's just
easier to given an example.
imp :: IO [User] :<|> IO Int
imp =
  users :<|> temperature
  where
    users =
      return [ User ["ketchup", "eggs"] ["xenophobia", "reactionaries"]
             , User ["oldies", "punk"] ["half-tries", "equivocation"]
             ]
    temperature =
      return 72

Now let us turn our attention to the special problem of serve. No
longer can we write a function serve that relies on the API being a
Be a. Now that we have a little DSL at the type level for RESTful
services, it would be nice if we could somehow pattern match on the
types and implement a different serve for Be a, path :> rest,
and left :<|> right. And there is!
class ToApplication api where
  type Content api
  serve :: api -> Content api -> Application

instance ToJSON a => ToApplication (Be a) where
  type Content (Be a) = IO a
  serve _ contentM = \request respond -> do
    content <- contentM
    respond . responseLBS status200 [] . encode $ content

Note the usage of associated data types here (which in turn require us
to turn on either TypeFamilies or GADTs). Though a Be a endpoint
has an implementation with type IO a, this will not be sufficient to
implement disjunction. As underpaid and lazy functional programmers we
will simply throw another layer of abstraction and define a type-level
function called Content that takes a type api and returns a type
Content api.
instance Exception RoutingFailure where

data RoutingFailure =
  RoutingFailure
  deriving (Show)

instance (KnownSymbol path, ToApplication rest) => ToApplication (path :> rest) where
  type Content (path :> rest) = Content rest
  serve _ contentM = \request respond -> do
    case pathInfo request of
      (first:pathInfoTail)
        | view unpacked first == symbolVal (Proxy :: Proxy path) -> do
            let subrequest = request { pathInfo = pathInfoTail }
            serve (undefined :: rest) contentM subrequest respond
      _ ->
        throwM RoutingFailure

We can break down the lines of code here:

*

*We guarantee a ToApplication instance for path :> rest if the
compiler can guarantee that path is a type-level symbol (meaning
it can [among other things] be mapped down to a String with
symbolVal) and that ToApplication rest exists.

*When the request arrives, we pattern match on pathInfos to to
determine success. On failure, we will do the lazy thing and throw
an unchecked exception in IO.

*On success, we will recurse at the type level (cue laser noises
and fog machine) with serve (undefined :: rest). Note that rest
is a "smaller" type than path :> rest, much like how when you
pattern match on a data constructor you end up with a "smaller"
value.

*Before recursing we whittle down the HTTP request with a convenient
record update.
Note that:

*

*type Content function maps path :> rest to Content rest.
Another form of recursion at the type level! Also note that this
implies that an extra path in the route does not change the type of
the resource. This matches our intuition.

*Throwing an exception in IO is not Great Library Design™, but I will
leave it up to you to fix that problem. (Hint:
ExceptT/throwError.)

*Hopefully we are slowly motivating the usage of DataKinds here
with string symbols. Being able to represent strings at the type
level has enabled us to use types to pattern match routing at the
type level.

*I use lenses to pack and unpack. It is just faster for me to hack up
these SO answers with lenses, but of course you could just use
pack from the Data.Text library.
All right. One more instance. Breathe. Take a break.
instance (ToApplication left, ToApplication right) => ToApplication (left :<|> right) where
  type Content (left :<|> right) = Content left :<|> Content right
  serve _ (leftM :<|> rightM) = \request respond -> do
    let handler (_ :: RoutingFailure) =
          serve (undefined :: right) rightM request respond
    catch (serve (undefined :: left) leftM request respond) handler

In this instance we

*

*Guarantee ToApplication (left :<|> right) if the compiler can
guarantee blah blah blah you get it.

*Introduce another entry in the type Content function. Here is the
line of code that lets us build up to a type of IO [User] :<|> IO
Int and have the compiler successfully break it up in the course of
instance resolution.

*Catch the exception we threw above! When an exception happens on the
left, we go to the right. Again, this is not Great Library Design™.
Run 1Main.hs and you should be able to curl like this.
% curl 'http://localhost:2016/users'
[{"fears":["xenophobia","reactionaries"],"hopes":["ketchup","eggs"]},{"fears":["half-tries","equivocation"],"hopes":["oldies","punk"]}]%

% curl 'http://localhost:2016/temperature'
72%

Give and take
Now let us demo a usage for type-level lists, another feature of
DataKinds. We will augment our data Be to store a list of types
that the endpoint can give out.
data Be (gives :: [*]) a

data English
data Haskell
data JSON

-- | The type of our RESTful service
type API =
       "users" :> Be [JSON, Haskell] [User]
  :<|> "temperature" :> Be [JSON, English] Int

Let us also define a typeclass that matches the list of what types an
endpoint can give with the list of MIME types that the HTTP request
can accept. We will use Maybe to denote failure here. Again, not
Great Library Design™.
class ToBody (gives :: [*]) a where
  toBody :: Proxy gives -> [ByteString] -> a -> Maybe ByteString

class Give give a where
  give :: Proxy give -> [ByteString] -> a -> Maybe ByteString

Why two separate typeclasses? Well, we need one for the kind [*],
which is the kind for a list of types, and one for the kind *, which
is the kind of just a single type. Just like you cannot define a
function that takes for an argument something that is both a list and
a non-list (as it will not type-check), we cannot define a typeclass
that takes for an argument something that is both a type-level list
and a type-level non-list (as it will not kind-check). If only we had
kindclasses...
Let's see this typeclass in action:
instance (ToBody gives a) => ToApplication (Be gives a) where
  type Content (Be gives a) = IO a
  serve _ contentM = \request respond -> do
    content <- contentM
    let accepts = [value | ("accept", value) <- requestHeaders request]
    case toBody (Proxy :: Proxy gives) accepts content of
      Just bytes ->
        respond (responseLBS status200 [] (view lazy bytes))
      Nothing ->
        respond (responseLBS status406 [] "bad accept header")

Very nice. We use toBody as a way of abstracting out the computation
of converting the value of type a into the underlying bytes that WAI
wants. On failure we will simply error out with 406, one of the more
esoteric (and therefore more fun to use) status codes.
But wait, why use type-level lists in the first place at all? Because
as we did before we are going to pattern-match on its two
constructors: nil and cons.
instance ToBody '[] a where
  toBody Proxy _ _ = Nothing

instance (Give first a, ToBody rest a) => ToBody (first ': rest) a where
  toBody Proxy accepted value =
    give (Proxy :: Proxy first) accepted value
      <|> toBody (Proxy :: Proxy rest) accepted value

Hopefully this sort of makes sense. Failure occurs when the list runs
empty before we find a match; <|> guarantees we will short-circuit
on success; toBody (Proxy :: Proxy rest) is the recursive case.
We will need some fun Give instances to play with.
instance ToJSON a => Give JSON a where
  give Proxy accepted value =
    if elem "application/json" accepted then
      Just (view strict (encode value))
    else
      Nothing

instance (a ~ Int) => Give English a where
  give Proxy accepted value =
    if elem "text/english" accepted then
      Just (toEnglish value)
    else
      Nothing
    where
      toEnglish 0 = "zero"
      toEnglish 1 = "one"
      toEnglish 2 = "two"
      toEnglish 72 = "seventy two"
      toEnglish _ = "lots"

instance Show a => Give Haskell a where
  give Proxy accepted value =
    if elem "text/haskell" accepted then
      Just (view (packed . re utf8) (show value))
    else
      Nothing

Run the server again and you should be able to curl like this:
% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/users' -H 'Accept: application/json'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:10 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

[{"fears":["xenophobia","reactionaries"],"hopes":["ketchup","eggs"]},{"fears":["half-tries","equivocation"],"hopes":["oldies","punk"]}]%

% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/users' -H 'Accept: text/plain'
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:11 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

bad accept header%

% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/users' -H 'Accept: text/haskell'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:14 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

[User {hopes = ["ketchup","eggs"], fears = ["xenophobia","reactionaries"]},User {hopes = ["oldies","punk"], fears = ["half-tries","equivocation"]}]%

% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/temperature' -H 'Accept: application/json'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:26 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

72%

% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/temperature' -H 'Accept: text/plain'
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:29 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

bad accept header%

% curl -i 'http://localhost:2016/temperature' -H 'Accept: text/english'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 06:56:31 GMT
Server: Warp/3.2.2

seventy two%

Hooray!
Note that we have stop using undefined :: t and switched to Proxy
:: Proxy t. Both are hacks. Calling functions in Haskell lets us
specify values for value parameters but not types for type parameters.
A sad asymmetry. Both undefined and Proxy are ways of encoding
type parameters at the value level. Proxy is able to do it with no
runtime cost and the t in Proxy t is poly-kinded. (undefined
has type * so undefined :: rest would not even kind-check here.)
Remaining work
How can we get all the way to a full Servant competitor?

*

*We need to break Be up into Get, Post, Put, Delete. Note that
some of these verbs also now take in data in the form of a request
body. Modeling content types and request bodies at the type level
requires similar type-level machinery.

*What if the user wants to model her functions as something besides
IO, such as a stack of monad transformers?

*A more precise, yet more complicated, routing algorithm.

*Hey, now that we have a type for our API, would it be possible to
generate a client of the service? Something that makes HTTP
requests to a service obeying the API description rather than
creating the HTTP service itself?

*Documentation. Making sure everybody understands what all these
type-level hijinks are. ;)
That tick mark

I am also unclear what the tick mark (') means in front of '[JSON].

The answer is obscure and stuck in GHC's manual in section 7.9.

Since constructors and types share the same namespace, with promotion you can get ambiguous type names. In these cases, if you want to refer to the promoted constructor, you should prefix its name with a quote.
With -XDataKinds, Haskell's list and tuple types are natively promoted to kinds, and enjoy the same convenient syntax at the type level, albeit prefixed with a quote. For type-level lists of two or more elements, such as the signature of foo2 above, the quote may be omitted because the meaning is unambiguous. But for lists of one or zero elements (as in foo0 and foo1), the quote is required, because the types [] and [Int] have existing meanings in Haskell.

This, how verbose all the code we had to write above was, and much else besides is due to how type-level programming is still a second-class citizen in Haskell unlike in dependently-typed languages (Agda, Idris, Coq). The syntax is weird, the extensions are many, the documentation is sparse, the errors are nonsense, but boy oh boy type-level programming is fun.

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Nutrition and Malnutrition
We are deeply grateful to her. And grateful, too, for the organization and friendly warm spoiling by the Wenner-Gren staff in residence at Burg Wartenstein. Our nutritional status was high.
Author: Alex Roche
The Burg Wartenstein Symposia have become rightly celebrated for achieving their original purpose: to be of service and interest to the anthropological profes sion as a whole and to contribute to related sciences. We are specially grateful to the Board of Directors of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for the award of a symposium on Physical Anthropology and Nutritional Status. We had considered that such a subject was timely and that an inter-disciplinary approach would contribute useful knowledge in a most important area--particularly in the field of child health. This pUblication of the proceedings will show the degree of success of these aims. Mrs. Lita Osmundsen, Director of Research at the Wenner-Gren Foundation, not only steered us in the early stages but, during our delightful time at Burg Wartenstein, and subsequently, she has been that most charming of crosses--den mother and first class science administrator. We are deeply grateful to her. And grateful, too, for the organization and friendly warm spoiling by the Wenner-Gren staff in residence at Burg Wartenstein. Our nutritional status was high. Nothing was too much trouble for them and it was a wrench to leave and say goodbye to them. The Foundation has since supported our efforts towards this publication. Here we owe a very special debt of gratitide to the cooperation and friendly exper tise of Mr. Seymour Weingarten, Senior Editor of the Plenum Publishing Corporation, aided by Mr. John Matzka, Managing Editor of this Corporation.
The Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition
Details strategies and practical approaches designed to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in a new era where technological change, markets, patterns of governance, and social programs have an increasingly global dimension.
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The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is a political action committee in Michigan that focuses on energy, water, climate, and other issues affecting the state. The organization says that they "aim to engage and inform the public" by holding "grassroots" meetings and organizing "grassroots" events so that "conservation voters" can "have a voice.
The LCV has a website that was recently updated with information on how to register to vote. In 2012 they met with the state's governor and state auditor to discuss the need to address climate change.
The LCV's website also contains articles regarding voting, as well as a section on climate change and voting. The LCV is a member of the Sierra Club of Michigan, which is a large environmental group that has a strong conservation message. It also works closely with the Sierra Club of Wisconsin, a Wisconsin group that is an advocacy group for a more equitable society and a cleaner environment.
The LCVs are a group of individuals who are both environmentalists and citizens of Michigan. They are a group that is committed to conserving and restoring the environment for future generations. There is also a Michigan chapter in the League of Conservation Voters, which is made up of 5,000 individuals. These LCVs are involved in everything from environmental issues to voting, and the LCVs website has a whole section devoted to conservation issues.
The League of Conservation Voters has been involved in environmental issues since 1968 and is on the ballot in Michigan right now. They have four local chapters and more than 250,000 members. The LCV website has a lot of information about the local chapter, its members, and the organization.
As I've said before, I tend to believe LCVs are simply people who are interested in making the world a better place. It seems like a lot of LCV members have a passion for sustainability, conservation, and environmental issues. I think they're just interested in making the world a better place, and they're good at it. It's a perfect example of what the word "self-awareness" means.
I think that there are two important things about LCVs. One, they're a community of people who care about what happens to the world. And two, they're a group of people who care about local values. Of course, those two things are not mutually exclusive, so if you are a member of the LCV you do have an impact on the world, but you're not a part of the world.
I could say that I have some responsibility to the world. But the only thing I have to do is vote for conservation issues. I can, with my vote, do nothing.
The League of Conservation Voters is a not-for-profit organization that aims to make a difference for people and the planet. What this organization does is ask people to vote on issues that are important to them. This includes those environmental issues that may be important to you, but you believe should be handled locally. Since I am a member of the LCV I have voted for many conservation issues that have important local impacts.
The League of Conservation Voters is a relatively small organization who tend to be focused on a few issues. The LCV has been around long enough that it has established a reputation for doing something about these issues, which is why I'm so excited to see them support this ballot initiative.


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Returning to the present, Piper walks in to Healy's office after being summoned. Healy grumpily informs Piper, "We do not choose roommates around here. This type of hanky-panky is against prison regulations. I warned you about this when you first came in." I presume the "type" of hanky-panky he's referring to is of the lesbian variety, considering that is always Healy's scapegoat when
bad things occur.
Unsure of what Healy is alluding to, Piper replies, "I...I don't know what you're talking about."
Healy clarifies that Crazy Eyes has put in a request for her and Piper to bunk together. Reciting the title of this episode, Healy announces, "Lesbian request denied."
Horrified by the misinformation, Piper quickly tries to correct Healy's understanding of the events, staunchly denying any wish on her part to bunk with Crazy Eyes. Upon hearing this, a satisfied Healy relaxes. He tells Piper that he's had similar issues with Crazy Eyes before, and he goes on to tell her that Crazy Eyes is "what we call a 'stud,' which is very confusing for a nice girl like you because, let's be honest, she looks like a man. If it were up to me, I'd take all the butch ones and I'd put them in a 'little boy's wing,' and I'd separate them from the general community." Would this wing involve shock therapy and sterilization? As soon as I think
Not the reaction you want when someone says your name
you can't be any worse, Healy, you prove me wrong.
Piper's eyes narrow at these statements, but she can do nothing but listen at this point. Lesbian expert Healy proceeds to dole out wisdom to Piper: "Lesbians can be very dangerous. It's the testosterone." Well, he's got me there. I can't argue with science.
Flashing away from the nightmare that is Healy, we find a younger and long-haired Piper entering a bar with her résumé in hand. Sitting at a table with some friends is Alex, drinking a beer like a good lesbian should. Alex almost immediately spots Piper and yells out towards her, "Hey you, Laura Ingalls Wilder. We're escaping America before the apocalypse. Wanna come?" Wow, her pickup line involves an offer to change countries along with a Little House on the Prairie reference. Who could resist?
Piper, not understanding Alex's proposal, innocently asks, "Sorry?" but the bartender of the establishment interrupts them before it can go further. Piper tries to talk her way into getting a job at the bar, but is summarily rejected. Turning lemons into lemonade,
And in this photo, we see the lesbian predator locking on to her next target: a "questioning" graduate of an all women's college - the perfect prey
Piper rebounds from the denial by requesting a margarita instead. Ah, alcohol - always a good answer.
Showing that Alex had some major ovaries from the start, she walks right up to Piper, questioning her drink of choice. Piper can only gawk back at her in silence, already in awe. Alex, without hesitation, picks up Piper's résumé, and immediately calls her out on her fraudulent entries. When Piper asks her whether she works at the bar, Alex scoffs, "Are you fucking kidding me?" What a charming young lady she is.
As Alex goes on to pick apart her résumé, Piper's eyes are glued to her, attentively taking her all in. Alex notes that Piper's CV says she's a Smith grad (how very lesbian of you, Piper) who is "passionate about making diners feel good," to which Alex quips, "Mmm...that sounds kind of dirty." When Piper's margarita appears, Alex smoothly tells the bartender
to put Piper's drink on her tab, while she effortlessly continues to tease Piper. Man, Alex has game for sure.
Piper finally grabs her résumé from Alex's hands in embarrassment, as the two of them laugh together. Alex compliments, "I like that in a woman." You like what? Her ability to lie? Red flag!
Becoming more serious, Alex asks Piper, "What else do I need to know about you?"
Piper, mesmerized by the sight of the woman before her, offers up a question of her own in response: "Who are you?"
Confidently, Alex tells Piper her name, causing a follow up question: "And what do you do, Alex? Besides make fun of strangers in bars?"
Without hesitation or apology, Alex replies, "I work for an international drug cartel." Piper's eyebrows raise in shock, which leads to Alex releasing a throaty laugh that is soon joined in with Piper's own giggles. One thing is very apparent - both women were intensely attracted to one another from the start, as their conversation/flirting is dripping with chemistry.
The moment when Piper's toaster oven was placed in the mail
Throughout the entire scene, Piper acts like the coolest kid in school just started chatting her up at a party. She never stood a chance.
We then take a side trip out to see Larry visiting another member of the Chapman family, Cal, who openly declares, "I'm not into people. I'm more into beans." I hear ya, bro. The two of them discuss the wonders of edging ("Your jizz is your power, man.") and eventually get on the topic of their shared connection, Piper. Larry asks Cal, "Did you see this coming [with Piper]?"
Cal: "No, no, not jail...but something, yeah. She wants to feel like she's different. Likes the whole 'I'm risky' thing. My sister's a
I liked Alex way better than this tool
complicated cat." Larry responds to this by admitting, "So, I'm learning." Dude, you have a ring on her finger. This is not the time to be learning the true nature of your fiancée.
After detailing how his parents' focus is now shining brightly on him as opposed to the imprisoned Piper, Creative Cal summarizes, "Piper going to jail might be, like, the worst thing that has ever happened to me." Yes, it's highly self-centered, but God, there's something about Cal that I love. This guy just wants to smoke a bowl and "fuck off." I can't fault him for that.
Back in the hallways of LCF, Piper runs into Sophia, giving her the opportunity to gift Sophia with some powder foundation, presumably as a way to express her gratitude for Sophia's kindness. Sophia sincerely thanks Piper, and it appears that, for the first time, Piper has made a real friend in prison. Awwww.
Piper continues her rounds as Father Christmas, handing out purchases from commissary to all of those who have helped her out in LCF so far. During her gift-giving, she is alerted to the presence of a visitor in her doorway. Who is this
visitor? Crazy Eyes, holding a bouquet of dandelions, with an alarmingly bright smile pasted on her face. She greets Piper, "Hello, baby." When Piper turns around to discover the visitor, she lets out a small frightened gasp, but then realizes it's time to shut this shiz down. She asks her, "Can I talk to you?" Crazy Eyes responds with an even wider grin, excitedly squeezing the dandelions in her hands to within inches of their lives.
When the two of them find a space in the hallway to speak, Piper opens, "Listen, Suzanne, I, um...I know that you like me."
Laughing at this understatement, Crazy Eyes interrupts, "I don't just like you, Piper. I got feelings...love feelings." Oh my.
I'm sorry, but vanilla's out of the picture
Please don't make me swirl alone. That makes it a...well, it's not a swirl at all!
"Yeah, I got that. Um...you know, maybe I was unclear, and I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, but I cannot be your wife," enunciates Piper slowly and clearly, to make sure Crazy Eyes grasps her meaning. She continues, "I've already promised to be someone else's wife. Larry, whom I love very much, and I'm just not interested in anybody else. This is nothing personal, but you and I? Not gonna happen."
Appearing to take this in stride, Crazy Eyes silently and disconcertingly stares back at Piper for a longer-than-comfortable moment, before abruptly saying, "I feel you." Oh, okay. With that, Crazy Eyes does an about-face and departs, leaving a stunned Piper to wonder if that was all it took to be free of Crazy Eyes. I guess so.
In the LCF visiting room, another uncomfortable conversation is taking place between Sophia and Crystal. When Sophia tells Crystal about the prison's unfair denial of her hormones, Crystal comforts her, "Oh, I'm sorry, baby." Sophia then tells Crystal that she's freaking out without them and she reluctantly asks Crystal to sneak some hormones in to her. Leaning away and pulling her
arms back from Sophia, it appears that the proverbial straw has broken the camel's back for Crystal. She angrily asks, "Have you lost your fucking mind?"
When Sophia admits that the idea is crazy, Crystal gives her an earful: "You want me to get locked up, too? Oh that's perfect. Yeah, Michael can go live with my mother, who won't speak to me anymore at all. But you? Well, you'll have your smooth skin and your lady curves, so it'll all be worth it." All right, that's not fair. Sophia should never have asked Crystal to put herself at risk like that, but her need for hormones also is not a vanity issue for Sophia either. Yikes, this is not pretty.
What do you mean you went to Denita?
I had a groupon...
When Sophia tries to take back the request, Crystal continues, "I'm working two jobs. I'm trying to raise our son. You know they trying to seize the house? I can't even show my face in church anymore. How fucking selfish can you be?" When the two of them reach an impasse, Crystal softly comments, "I married a man named Marcus. I cry for him all the time, but I stayed and supported you because I could see how much pain you were in. I know it was saving your life. I figured better my kid had two moms than a dead dad, right? At least, he'd be around, which is more than my father was. At least, he'd be at his baseball games, even if it was in a dress. So, I put up with you becoming a woman, but I never signed on for a life with a criminal."
Sophia, with tears in her eyes, vows, "I'm gonna get my shit together. I promise. I'm gonna make it up to you."
Crystal orders, "Do your time. Get the fuck out of here, so you can be a father to your son. Man up." This last direction is particularly hurtful to Sophia. That being said, I'm going to have claim to be Switzerland again in this matter. Neither of them is 100% right, and both of them are struggling with difficult situations. No judgment on my end; only sympathy for what they're going through. Sigh.
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Banca Etica is a cooperative and community bank. There are many of them in Italy like the "Cooperative Credit" ones, which operate in small regions. In 1997, when Banca Etica was founded, the idea was to work on a national scale, therefore overcoming the regional divisions of the cooperative credit banks. Banca Etica was indeed born as a community bank based on the principles of a cooperative, in which the associates purchase the bank's shares, and in the general assembly, no matter the number of shares owned, the vote works with the 'one person one vote' system.
Moreover the shareholders obtain a small economic advantage as they are offered lower interests on some of the services offered by the bank.
The GIT, territorial initiative groups, can be created in every province where more than 200 shareholders are registered. These are groups formed by active shareholders who are willing to promote our ethically oriented finance, our projects and our principles. Unfortunately, the lack of knowledge of economic concepts and the risks and opportunities that derive from financial activities have led to terrible international economic crisis. Our shareholders are different because they value the quality of their investments over the quantity of money they could potentially gain. They think of money as a mean to develop tangible projects and not as an end in itself.
The GIT are therefore groups composed of voluntary members, who have the chance to participate in specific classes offered by the bank and acquire the professional skills needed to do marketing. Members also participate in the bank functioning by attending the local assemblies and the members coordination committees. Among the active members, the so-called "social evaluators" are in charge of carrying out a thorough analysis of the social and environmental characteristics of the projects to be financed. As a matter of fact, Banca Etica does not only apply the traditional economic evaluation procedures – mandatory according to Bank of Italy's regulations – it also evaluates social and environmental standards thanks to the questionnaires and interviews conducted by its members. This means that we are very aware of the persons we finance and we seldom engage with dishonest clients.
Banca Etica's default rates are only one fifth of the Italian banking system even if we are on average more willing to finance those people that 10 years ago wouldn't even have been considered financeable.
What are some examples of local projects that you have financed?
This is a field in which we don't have a lot of experience. We indeed have very limited resources and we are forced to prioritize certain activities over others. However, we always try to take into account the historical and societal context in which we are moving. For instance, 15 years ago we refused to finance for profit projects. Nowadays, considering the issues of unemployment, we value any working activity more. Hence, we discovered a world of profit realities that meet the criteria of corporate social responsibility. In particular, we are supporting a new phenomenon known as the "Workers Buy-Out" is gradually inspiring more and more people, encouraging workers to gather in a cooperative and buy out their business after a bankruptcy.
We have financially supported the project of a group of workers from the city of Pomezia, who bought back the company they worked for. They produce office furniture and 80% of their business is made abroad. After the failure of the company, due to some events unrelated to the market of reference, 40 workers were left without a job. A group of 18 workers came into contact with the cooperatives working in the region and Banca Etica, achieving a record-time funding of 3-400.000 Euros. The cooperative is now called Ora Office. The number of workers involved increased from 19 to 22. Starting off was not an easy task. A simple payment of the electricity bill was problematic at first.
It is indeed a risky business sector, this for sure. There are several unsuccessful examples of similar projects, but this was a big investment that we decided to get involved in and we are happy we could play a role in the success of this project.
Coop Magazzino is another example. We visited the cooperative during the event Funding the Cooperative City that took place in the neighbourhood of Prima Valle, in Rome. Coop Magazzino is a social cooperative that deals with the rehabilitation of disadvantaged personnel and the production of work through diverse activities such as mosaic, typography and furniture renovation. They mainly work with cases of psychological distress and they are really good at what they do. We decided to visit this cooperative during the event organized by Eutropian in order to show the example of a successful social project that relied on the financial assistance of Banca Etica.
How did the launch of Banca Etica in Spain happen?
Spain has witnessed the birth of a movement very similar to the one that brought to the funding of Banca Etica in Italy during the '90s. This movement is called Fiare and they started questioning the use and management of the funds for the development of the common good. Through common international contacts, Fiare has decided to become a partner of Banca Etica. As a consequence, all the members of Fiare have joined Banca Etica. Both Spain and Italy being part of the EU we had the chance to obtain the permission to operate in Spain without too many efforts. Also, what facilitated this manoeuvre was that Fiare has totally embraced our territorial organizational model. Hence they are also organized in GIT. We started off with a first branch in Bilbao, for the heart of the Fiare movement was in the Basque region, but we also dispose of representative and promotional offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
How do the assemblies work after the launch of Banca Etica in Spain?
We all work together. The principles on which Banca Etica is based are those of efficiency and sobriety. Through the help of regulations set by the administration of the bank, we found a way to organize two separate assemblies with a system of remote online voting. The two assemblies recently happened in Madrid and Padua and we were connected via videoconference with a system of simultaneous translation. We hope this experience in Spain will attract new partners, in Spain and in Europe.
What are the parameters for the selection of the projects to support?
There is a survey designed for each of the realities that ask for financial aid. There is one for associations, which is necessarily different from the one dedicated to cooperatives and companies. So, for each kind of organization we provide a survey that analyses major issues such as the system of governance (number of partners, number of meetings, governing body, gender representation and rotation in office), the environmental impact, the protection of labour (employment contracts) and eventual partnerships with third parties. Next to this general survey, every reality is then analysed according to its particular features. The final evaluation of the parameters analysed is made by the joint work of Banca Etica's partners and the competences of specialized professionals.
What are the future challenges that Banca Etica will face?
On the whole, we are putting a lot of efforts in promoting Banca Etica, in order to get more members to join, especially among the younger generations. We are thus working in high schools and universities, so as to promote the Bank and to raise awareness on the need for financial education. More often than not, banks are not seen as positive actors and people tend to avoid them. The main problem is the continuous research for social capital and a low rate of participation.
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#mindful experiment with #poetry #autumn
poem-of-the-week-john-clare (click on this link)
This is a watchful, noticing, self-aware reflection on a watchful, noticing self-aware poet. Read both John Clare's Autumn, but also Carol Rumens's reflections on it.
Daniel Siegel says of poetry…'Hearing poetry feels integrative. The science of language and the brain reveals that while the left hemisphere specializes in linguistic language, the right takes a dominant role in words with ambiguous meaning. Also, the imagery evoked by poetry seems to more directly activate the primary visuospatial processes of our brains…' (The Mindful Brain, p. 161)…poetry creates a mindful state.
Now speak the poem out loud, or get someone to read it to you…hearing may be different to reading…is there a new receptive awareness?
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#ash trees, coracles and #otters in their sleep-knots
the otter sleeps in the coracle of the ash-tree roots
'The wild otter I saw would no doubt be out of the water and making tracks to its own musky holt, to curl belly upward, in a home of roots, peat and rocks. I imagine him enfolded in his fur, dreaming of water; a tight sleep-knot, enjoying the deep sleep of one who exists totally in the moment.' ( Miriam Darlington, Otter Country, pp.40-41)
'Up and down the banks are the complex root systems of ash trees, which otters particularly love to use as holts as they provide hidden shelter and easy access to water.' (Otter Country, p.175)
As I read these words I imagined the roots of the ash tree making a coracle, floating the otter to sleep in its hidden shelter. So I drew this as a coracle sleep-knot.
The ash tree root
coracle
for the otter
fragile oracle
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not going meek and mild.
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Maps to mindfulness – some definitions of #mindfulness in psychology
The tree of mindfulness research and therapies is growing rapidly. It is hard to keep up-to-date with all the developments as they happen. But we can start somewhere. Important work is being done to arrive at consensus on such matters as defining mindfulness, and I'll come back to that another time. In the meantime here are some definitions.
Mindfulness means different things. It is only fully understood by examining its historical situatedness. Mindfulness within most Western clinical practice has Buddhist roots, although it is not exclusive to Buddhist thought. Mindfulness in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) has a different topography deriving from Christian contemplative practices and Zen Buddhism (Lynch & Bronner, 2006).
Kabat-Zinn pioneered the use of mindfulness through Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) defining it as "the way of awareness" (2008, p. 19). Brantley, also an MBSR practitioner, calls mindfulness a "basic human quality" (2007, p. 4). It is a human quality based on inner capacities for relaxation, paying attention, awareness, and insight (Brantley, 2007). Brantley further defines mindfulness as "paying attention on purpose, nonjudgmentally, and with a welcoming and allowing attitude. It means turning towards present-moment experience rather than away from it" (2007, p. 5).
Mindfulness meditation is different from other meditative techniques (Brantley, 2007). Brantley states that "Mindfulness is an awareness that is not thinking" (2007, p. 52). This is underlined by meditation teacher Larry Rosenberg who says "Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought".
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) talks about shifting mental gears from Doing to Being: 'Mindful awareness -or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are' (Mark Williams & Danny Penman, Mindfulness: a practical guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World (p.35).
Mindfulness in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is defined as "learning to see your thoughts in a new way" (Hayes, 2005, p. 6). Mindfulness in DBT is defined as "a state or quality of awareness that involves keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality" (Lynch & Bronner, 2006, p. 218).
Mindfulness as a universal human capacity needs to be distinguished from the meditative or mindful awareness practices that cultivate mindfulness, like paying attention to your breath, eating a raisin (or chocolate) mindfully etc. Most of these mindful awareness practices are 'reality-focused', they have no religous or spiritual component.
In the Being mode we learn to see differently, 'It's a different way of knowing that allows you to see how your mind tends to distort 'reality' ' (Williams & Penman, p. 35). These four treatments, MBSR, MBCT, ACT and DBT are the four main therapies out of many that are now incorporating mindfulness or are based on mindfulness.
I am also interested in mindfulness as it appears in Christianity, as well as in Buddhism. A very good introduction to mindfulness within psychology is Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. This is especially true because if mindfulness is to be truly understood, I think it needs to be practiced – and this book helps you do that, as well as understand your mind.
Mindfulness needs to be understood and practiced and reflected upon. Christians need to engage with it as they have some important distinctives to talk about, including mindfulness of God.
Here are some other books that I have referred to, or will refer to.
Baer, R. A., (2006). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches. Burlington: Academic Press.
Baer, R. A., & Krietemeyer, J. (2006). Overview of mindfulness and acceptance-based treatment approaches. In R. A. Baer (Ed.), Mindfulness-based treatment approaches (pp. 3–27). Burlington: Academic Press.
Brantley, J. (2007). Calming your anxious mind. California: Harbinger Publications Inc.
Dahl, J., & Lundgren, T. (2006). Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in the treatment of chronic pain. In R. A. Baer (Ed.), Mindfulness-based treatment approaches (pp. 285–305). Burlington: Academic Press.
Hayes, S.C. (2005) Get out of your mind and into your life: The new acceptance and commitment therapy. Oakland: Harbinger Publications Inc.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (2008). Full catastrophe living. London: Piatkus Books.
Lynch, T. R., & Bronner, L. L. (2006). Mindfulness and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT): application with depressed older adults with personality disorders. In R. A. Baer (Ed.), Mindfulness-based treatment approaches (pp. 217–236). Burlington: Academic Press.
Segal, Z., Williams, M., & Teasdale, J., (2002). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression. London, The Guilford Press.
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One-Minute Icon – the owls in our head #fear
Are the owls in our mind that we hide from real?
Step out of clocktime for one minute. Take a good look at this owl. What does it bring to mind?
This owl is not real. It is a fake owl at a tube station there to scare the pigeons. We too have fake owls in our minds, that we take for real. We might imagine them in our own head, or imagine them out there somewhere waiting to pounce.
Maybe each time we see on our phone that we have an email, we fear it might be a critical one. Whenever the phone rings our first thought is it must be bad news.
We need to notice these owls in our heads, name them for the fears they are, and let them go. Perhaps it is the owl of rejection. What else might they be?
These owls keep us from taking risks, or believing in , or seeing the good things around us. Just try to identify the main one that keeps you in fearful watching. When you name the owl and its unreal nature, it begins to fade and lose its power.
Stop hiding, and come out into the light.
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the happy tree can lead us out of the sad garden
I came across these words of Michael Katakis, a photographer who puts words and pictures together.
I thought it to be a sad garden whose only harvest was regret.
Those words made me think of our minds which can become a sad garden, when we become totally identified with our self-preoccupied narratives which are often negative and automatic. However, things outside of ourselves can spring us out of our minds and into life.
In his book Holiness Donald Nicholl tells the story of how a face saved the life of Olivier Clement, the Orthodox theologian.
Olivier was at the time an atheist, although so unhappy he was considering suicide. As he walked along depressed, 'his attention was riveted by the face of someone who was passing by. The person's face was so radiant with meaning, full of such goodness as can only come from years of cultivating a loving heart. In a twinkling Clement's suicidal thoughts were dispelled and a seed sown in his heart that was eventually to transform him into an ardent believer…' (p.49)
This photo is of an ordinary humble tree. But whenever I see it it always glows with colour. If I am in the sad garden, this happy tree pulls me out of it. It has been an epiphany.
It doesn't shout, or clap its hands, but it radiates joy. But in a twinkling it takes me out of myself.
Step out of clocktime for one minute. Look at the tree and notice your feelings. Are you in the sad garden or with the happy tree? What is the theology of your face today? Olivier Clement says there is a 'theology of faces'.
Maps to mindfulness – brief overview some main treatments #mindfulness
Literature on mindfulness within psychotherapy is increasing dramatically. Germer (2005) lists connections with cognitive behavioural therapy, psychodynamic psychology, humanistic psychology, brain science, ethics, spirituality, health psychology and positive psychology.
Williams and Zylowska in their Mindfulness Bibliography on the website of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre, UCLA Semel Institute, list six main clinical mindfulness treatments: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Meditation and Training, Psychotherapy Integration (2009). They categorize MBSR and MBCT as mindfulness-based, using "formal mindfulness training (meditation) as a primary treatment modality" (Williams & Zylowska, 2009, p. 54). They categorize ACT and DBT as mindfulness-incorporating treatments (Williams & Zylowska, 2009, p. 31). These two treatments "include mindful awareness as a treatment goal and may or may not include formal mindfulness training" (Williams & Zylowska, 2009, p. 54).
Baer and Krietemeyer, in their overview of mindfulness-based approaches, list Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) as the four main approaches (2006).
Link to Mindful Awareness Research Centre: http://marc.ucla.edu/default.cfm
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#mindful skiing – feeling #flow and #contemplation
mindful skiing, feeling flow
Skiing is a doorway into the present moment and present-moment awareness. When you stand on top of that mountain with the sun in your face, the wind tugging at your jacket, the sound of silence following you, the smell of Alpine clean air, able to see the valley below you, and feeling the snow beneath your skiis, you are taken out of auto-pilot, out of ruminating about the past or the future.
You ski into the present moment, out of thinking and into awareness. It is like a wardrobe into a beautiful new land that has always been there, but we just couldn't find the door.
There might be no visibility one day and you have to feel your way down the mountain with the soles (souls) of your feet – you are skiing on pure awareness. This is a mindful awareness practice. Your soul can express itself and feel through the soles of your feet.
I was talking about this to a group of skiers who also believe in God, and believe skiing brings them closer to God. Skiing is gloriously reality-focused like most mindful awareness practices (attending to your breath, your walking, what you eat). It enables us to experience what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls 'flow', 'the sense of gratification that we enter when we feel completely engaged in what we are doing.' (Martin E.P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness, p.113)
Flow as a concept is related to mindfulness. Apparently Mihaly's surname is pronounced 'cheeks sent me high.' Flow involves 'deep, effortless involvement…our sense of self vanishes…time stops…'(Martin E.P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness, p.116) It sends us naturally high.
Skiing is intensely physical as is truly incarnated Christianity. Both pay attention to the body. Mindfulness also pays attention to the body.
The body is intelligent. The latest thinking is cognitive science of an embodied mind (Andy Clark, Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again, MIT Press). As Christians we would agree with that, we would just want to put Brain, Body, World and God together again.
It was Pope John Paul II who said, 'The body, in fact, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine…'(quoted in Christopher West, Theology of the Body for Beginners). As we ski in embodied minds in the mountains we begin to see the invisible, the spiritual and divine. We are present to a deeper Presence that has always been there.
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