We just spent a week in Kansas and since there really isn't a whole lot to do in Kansas, I had some time to reflect back on the time we have spent on the road.
One of the things I love best about this life is the constantly changing scenery, seeing new places that I would otherwise never have seen. I have a serious case of wanderlust, but I'm also an introverted homebody. That probably sounds a little contradictory, but taking my home everywhere we go helps to bridge that gap. It means I am always at home, yet able to travel and see the country like I really want to do. I can always retreat into my cozy little tiny home when I need some downtime, or go for a nature walk, or just sit outside by the campfire. I also love that I don't have to pack and unpack to go on a trip. I don't have to worry about forgetting something I might need since everything we own is always with us on the road.
And that brings up another point, less really is more. I realized I don't need as much as I thought I did. Downsizing from our house to an RV was hard and it was hard deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. Since we've been living in the RV I realized I don't even need all the stuff I took with us and I'm still getting rid of more stuff as we go. We haven't been in many houses since we hit the road, but the couple of times we have visited someone in a "sticks and bricks", I am amazed at how much space they have. It's amazing how quickly I have become accustomed to living in a small space. By the way, "sticks and bricks" is what full-time RV'ers call the homes we used to live in.
I've realized that having the whole country for our backyard is better than having a big house. I know it's not for everyone, and I'm sure many people would never want to live this way, but for us it's working.
Being an introvert though, I have really had to get out of my comfort zone. I have met many new people on the road, RV parks are great for getting to know your neighbors. Some RV parks have spots that are so close together you can't help but get to know your neighbors really well! For the most part I have really enjoyed getting to know so many new people. Strangers aren't really as scary as I thought they were. Most people are really nice, normal people and I have enjoyed getting to know them. We have met people from all walks of life — from other families traveling like we are to older couples that are retired and living their dreams. Everybody we meet has their own unique stories to tell, and I'm enjoying having the time to slow down and listen and get to know people.
One thing I have learned since we started traveling is that we need to slow down. We have been traveling at a pretty fast pace this year, moving every week or two which doesn't leave us a lot of time to fully explore an area. Next year I'm hoping to slow down our travels a little and have more time at some locations. I have also learned that living on the road is a lot more expensive that I expected it to be. It's still cheaper than living in our sticks and bricks with a mortgage payment and all, but campgrounds are not cheap. I'm trying to learn from some other Fulltime Families how to find cheaper campgrounds and state parks. We haven't been brave enough to try it yet, but some families do a lot of boondocking which means they camp at free or cheap public lands. They don't have any electric or water hookups so they need to be self-sufficient, but some of the locations they find are truly breathtaking.
One of the hardest and most time-consuming things has been trip planning. I had no idea how hard that would be! It takes me hours to figure out where we're going, where we're going to stay and what we'll do when we get there. Maybe if we didn't move so often I wouldn't have to spend quite so much time doing this.
A real benefit of this life is spending so much more quality time together as a family. Back in the sticks and bricks we used to spend most weekends cleaning the house and doing yard work. With no yard work and a much smaller house to clean, weekends have become a lot more fun. We are usually out hiking and exploring a beautiful national park on the weekends now. I love that we are getting out and seeing amazing places, rather than just reading about them in a book. We are experiencing life now while we have it. There are no guarantees in life and we are not even guaranteed tomorrow. So, I would like to encourage you. What is it that you want to do? You may not have a dream to travel and see the world, but what is it you want to do? Get out and do it! Don't wait, do it now while you can.
My sister Cheryl and her husband Chris have been living in Burbank, CA and we had plans to spend some time with them while we're out on the west coast. A few months ago they made the decision to move back east to Georgia so we knew we needed to get out here before they moved. We spent some time at Wilderness Lakes Thousand Trails in Menifee, CA which wasn't too far from Cheryl and Chris so they were able to come out and visit us there for a few days. Wilderness Lakes was lots of fun and we met 3 other Fulltime Families staying there. It's a very kid-friendly park with train rides, candy bar bingo and Jesse's favorite — mini golf.
After that we moved to another RV resort in Acton, CA which was a little closer to Burbank. Fat Cat really liked this campsite where she learned to climb trees. Chris had to rescue her once she got up there and didn't know what to do.
My parents flew out from NC to visit for a couple of weeks while we were there. The timing worked out that they were here at the same time that Chris & Cheryl were moving out of their apartment in Burbank so we were all available to help them move. That was an interesting fiasco, but I won't bore you with those details. 🙂 Besides helping them move we all did some sightseeing together.
The last time I visited Cheryl in CA was 12 years ago and one of my favorite things we did back then was visiting Santa Monica and rollerblading on the bike path along the beach. This time Santa Monica was not nearly as fun as it was 12 years ago. It was so much more crowded than I remember and some of the people just seem really rude. We locked up our bikes and sat on the beach for a while and walked out on the pier. Then we were ready to go for a bike ride but when we got back to our bikes we found one of the locks had been cut and Chris's bike had been stolen. We just bought this bike a couple of months ago in Texas and it was a really nice bike so it was very disappointing to find it had been stolen. So we never did end up going for a bike ride that day. We tried to make the best of it and enjoy our day there, but after that happened it really wasn't that much fun. On a positive note I found out later that our credit card that we used to purchase the bike has purchase protection against theft and damage. I filed a claim and it turns out we might be able to get the money back that we spent for the bike. I sure hope so!
Riding the ferris wheel was really cool!
After helping Chris and Cheryl move, we all went back to spend some relaxing days at the campground. It was a very refreshing change from the busyness and un-friendliness of L.A. Now that my sister doesn't live there anymore, I'm not sure we'll ever go back there again. I'm definitely not a city girl — I much prefer the wide open spaces and friendliness of some of the other states we have been to.
Playing Mexican Train Dominoes one night by the pool. Our family loves game nights!
Time with family is time well spent. We were so blessed to have this time together. I wish they all lived in RVs so we could travel together more often.


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Fanboy Smileys From T-Shirts, Mugs & Phone Cases!
If you don't have them yet, now's your chance to get the Fanboy Smileys!
If you don't own either of the Fanboy smileys, the only way you can now get both is if you're such a big fan that you purchase two different EE T-shirts, and take photos of yourself wearing both of them!
Whether you'd like to keep the photo private, or allow us to potentially post it in public in future.
Update: You can also take a picture of yourself holding the mug, or somehow get a photo of you using a phone with the phone case on it!
too bad i clicked checkout so now you have to give me 2. I was rightfully promised 2 smileys I'm not taking my money back either..
You're not forced to show your face, I'm planning to blur it out.
I find this is actually better since the community, as well as new players actually have a chance to get this. Instead of locking it away cause a few people are crying about a stupid smiley.
Which is why just introducing a new variation or giving out the 2nd variation would be the best of both worlds, like I said. Old players get to keep their recognition for staying with the game through thick and thin for years, and new players get their recognition as fans who support the game. I also gave multiple other options that would still convey the smiley's value whilst making it available to newer players. That "meaningless number" is still a symbol of almost 7 years of my life.
The Ultimate Fan smiley was described as a symbol of people who love the game and stayed with it, and that's why it came back in new iterations rather than giving out the same thing over and over again. According to what you are saying, people who buy the shirts should also get their yonom stats changed to say they've played for 8 years because 'it's a meaningless number' whilst apparently simultaneously describing your importance (it doesn't at all, but it is meaningful to the people that went through the trouble of getting it the first or second time).
Why are innocent pictures an issue now?
$22 for a t-shirt! Holy ****. I'll just be naked thx.
We don't need more fanboy designs, this would only clutter the game with dozens of different fanboy designs. This will hopefully change in the Reboot(tm).
You would have to keep introducing new fanboys with this system, and I don't think we need 20+ different fanboy smileys eventually. The second one was a mistake, it should've just been the first one again, available for FANS.
you also compared this to a contest which this wasn't.. no one had to compete for anything. they're not giving out pumpkin smileys here, just the fanboys.
It's not a rip off because you're getting a shirt with it. 20 bucks for 220 gems, or 22 bucks for 200 gems and a shirt. So consider the shirt costing 20 gems or 2 bucks I guess.
There are solutions to this, like dedicating the 2nd fanboy (literally being about giving it instead of the original to people) to this.
I'm bringing up a related event.
Old players get to keep their recognition for staying with the game through thick and thin for years, and new players get their recognition as fans who support the game. I also gave multiple other options that would still convey the smiley's value whilst making it available to newer players. That "meaningless number" is still a symbol of almost 7 years of my life.
One of the points you've made is to suggest giving out the 2nd variation, but people who own only the 2nd variation mostly have very similar opinions to yourself as you do with the 1st variation. We decided in the end that we didn't want to compound the problem further by adding a 3rd variation.
But we also have to accept that it is relatively unfair on the members of wider community that have arrived since the Fanboys came out that they just didn't happen to be around at the time both Fanboys were made available. For a long time, we considered the possibility of allowing people to earn Fanboy again in the exact same ways people got them in the past, but decided that would make it too easy (considering both of them had the opportunity to be gained by emailing fanart, and not only by delivering postcards). So basically, we decided this was the best compromise we could come up with that still keeps it relatively exclusive, whilst rewarding the people supporting us by purchasing and wearing T-shirts.
" I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me"
srs why are you complaining about the rewards, the shirt is if you want it and like to support by wearing a smiley on you all the time. not about the fanboys or gems, those are just extra's for buying merch which are likely thanking you.
How much for a Tee? I'll cop a black one my G!
glad to support the game, and good to see it's still got someone working hard to keep it alive!!
Uh?? But why purposely lock the first one away, and only allow the second to return? You want the first kept for "vets" but the second one not to be? If you are arguing it would be unfair for fanboy 1 owners, then how is this not "unfair" to fanboy 2 owners? It sounds like you just want a special smiley to yourself, that you do care who gets the first but not the second.
Don't know why people can be so protective over these smileys, I bet you most won't even wear it, but those who will, those who ARE fans of the game, those who bought merch even.. why is it unfair for them to get to enjoy something alongside you?
It's still not a contest. You are comparing scenarios where you have to win and beat everyone else for a smiley, to one where you complete a task to earn a smiley that hundreds of others also earned.
I'm fine with that, I own both of the fanboys.
You guys need to stop making a big deal out of everything, really.
$44 Dollars for a smiley? Now that's being a fanboy. More than sending a simple letter!


This day was a total disaster. We were on our way to the west part of the lakes (towards Devoke Water and Muncaster) when we had a flat tire about 10 km from Coniston (on the road to Broughton in Furness), literally in the middle of nowhere but a few sheep to keep us company.
I was almost 5 PM when we finally got everything fixed, and in order to make something out of such a dreadful day we decided to visit Keswick on our way down to Coniston.
Keswick is a lovely little town, it can be a bit crowded during the day but at the end of the afternoon it was just peaceful enough for us to enjoy it.


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This Ugly Painting Made by a Robot Just Sold for $432,500
By Helen Holmes • 10/25/18 2:59pm
"Portrait of Edmond de Belamy" in New York. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
The Portrait of Edmond Belamy, a painting of a blurry, portly gentleman that was generated via algorithm by an artificially intelligent system, has just sold at Christie's Auction House for $432,500, far surpassing its high estimate of $10,000. The creation of the painting was supervised by the Paris-based art collective Obvious, who are humans, but the painting itself was produced entirely by a "generative adversarial network," an AI program that uses machine learning to survey and subsequently generate original imagery.
According to BBC, "The AI system compares its own portraits against ones made by humans and keeps working on them until it is unable to tell the difference between the two." In other words, the impetus behind the creation of Edmond Belamy was to create an image of a face that doesn't actually exist, but is rather an approximation or an aggregate of hundreds of thousands of actual human faces. Belamy therefore looks like a smudge because he is a smudge, in the theoretical sense.
Selling an AI-generated work at auction seems like mostly a cheap gimmick to make art sales relevant and interesting to the vast majority who have no need or ability to attend one. The sale had the added bonus of enticing novelty-loving, non-art-world-types with cash to burn. To the credit of the French collective Obvious (could that name be any better), it totally worked.
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The painting was projected to sell for $7,000 to $10,000. That it was purchased for 43 times the high estimate suggests that rather that being bought by an institution or established collection, it did indeed go to a single individual with considerable assets.
Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier of the Obvious collective are, to be frank, exactly what their name suggests. "Men are blinded by fame, power and money," reads the caption on another one of their AI-generated paintings. And together, they've certainly figured out how art can capitalize on that truth.
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Remodeling your home on the interior or exterior can bring increased property value. Whether you're affecting a DIY deck remodel, repapering walls, putting a new roof on, knocking a wall down to make a room larger, or installing partitions to divide up a space, there is much that can be done to maximize your property's potential. Be creative. If you've had pet projects or dreams in mind, pursue them.
Provided you are careful to finish what you start, and do the proper "footwork" beforehand, you will likely see some level of value for the changes you effect. This is direct and indirect. Directly, you should see your property increase in utility as well as market price. Indirectly, a job well done brings requisite satisfaction.
In 2019, means of remodel which you can affect on a DIY basis allow you greater maneuverability than perhaps ever. It's possible to exactly replicate natural coloring schemes in 2019, and to any shade you desire. You can make your property perfectly complement the surrounding area, and you don't have to limit yourself simply to the interior and exterior paint job.
Consider Ready To Assemble (RTA) cabinetry from this site, as an example: https://www.bestonlinecabinets.com/rta-kitchen-cabinets-shaker-style/. In 2019, you can find just the sort of colors which best match the character and location of your home. Additionally, you can conform the furniture itself to fit your property's architecture. At least, you can do so better through RTA than most other ways.
Furniture isn't generally built with a specific property in mind—though this does sometimes happen. More likely, furniture is produced with a sort of "template" home in mind. RTA offers greater customization in terms of coloring, size, and shape.
Other coloring considerations may include rooms that aren't often used in your home. Too often, possessions become cluttered over time. Most properties have one or a couple rooms that go underutilized for varying reasons. Do you have an unfinished basement filled with clutter, or a similar attic? Perhaps now is the time to clean things up, paint the walls, and make such rooms livable.
An attic and a basement represent good-sized living spaces in your home. If your attic isn't strong enough to support people walking, you might work with a company to reinforce it so that it becomes usable. Do it right, and the upgraded attic can be listed as an additional bedroom. However, you'll want to stage things properly.
Also, consider landscaping realities. The color scheme of your home may not necessarily need to exactly match the flora you've husbanded on your property. However, you do want to take care of such vegetation as best you can. Keep the lawn watered and mowed. If you have no lawn, but use something like wood chips surrounding a stone pathway, ensure you keep everything even and neat.
Part of the appeal of your exterior space is its natural appearance. Color plays a big part of the overall effect the outdoors will ultimately end up having on you. Most of the time this is going to be peaceful, it will be enervating, and it can help to restore psychological homeostasis to you, which allows for more clear thought.
Imagine entering the premises of a property which has bushes, trees, or flowers that either compliment or match the tones of the home itself. Remember how pleasant the quirky little Hobbit Holes of the Lord of the Rings films looked? You don't have to build an underground burrow decked out in English trends to achieve a similar balanced effect.
The truth is, remodel may not even be totally necessary if you can get color schemes properly aligned. At the end of the day, it all depends on you, and the property you own. Even if you're not staging a home for real estate listing in the near future, getting your house looking its best can be good for you, good for the neighborhood, and conducive generally.
If you haven't done any color alterations, you might want to look into them. If your home is already properly appointed in colors matching your environment, going forward in 2019 you want to ensure additional furniture items or decorative motifs you pursue are likewise in color agreement.
RTA cabinets provide such potentiality, as do many other modern solutions like computerized paint mixing. So seek that perfect color balance! In the technological zenith which is our present time, you can achieve the vision of your mind.
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Home📡 Media🤳 Social MediaResearch proposal on Negative effects of social media on the young generation
Research proposal on Negative effects of social media on the young generation
Type: Proposal Essay
Topics: 🤳 Social Media, Social Networking
The popularity of social networking grows daily. This has made the planet Earth to appear as a global village. The needs of sharing knowledge, recognition, friendship, employment, and general communication, among the youths, have been transformed in a single pack of social media. Some of the platforms for social networking include Myspace, Hike, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter among others. The reason for this research is to assist in monitoring the trend and rate of the negative effects generated by the social media on the young generation. Specifically, youths between the age of 14 to 30 years, living in urban setups will be considered for the research. The research is based on a year's time-frame to cope up with the speedily growing technological world. The audience for research includes ENG 1020 students and instructors in this semester. The main importance of this topic relates to the fact; its outcome will assist in speculating kinds of evils that will be experienced in the future. For instance, thieves shall have innovated an online mode of stealing, or employees will have developed means of boycotting their job without the employer's knowledge. This in return will avail an opportunity for the relevant authorities to generate appropriate mitigations in advance to counteract such evils.
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The main concern for the research is that online evils are growing at a higher rate, as the rate of the platforms grows. If not controlled at this level, it will be overwhelming in the periods to come. Statistics that will be relied on about research will be the average number of friends that most youths, on Facebook have. Besides, an average number of groups in which youths on WhatsApp belong to will also be of help for the research. The speculated opposition is expected from the owners of these platforms of socializing. This would be generated by the fear of the need to close down some of the platforms which will be noted as the core contributors to the negativity. The opposition will not be a hindrance for the research because, there is no intention of making the relevant owners of the platforms aware of the research; the users of these platforms (youths), are to be of use to generate the aim of the research. The main achievement of the research is to avail an accurate proof, to the relevant authorities, of the need to control the rate of the invention and innovation of the social medias. This will eventually control the rate of the negative effects.
In Social Media: Positive vs. Negative Effect on Young Generation, Sinha, and the fellow authors claim that the rapid growth in technological connectivity is the causes of the invention of social media, which is motivated by the high rate of usage. This they proved statistically over the past years to the time of this documentation. The general implication of the source is an enhancement of positive impacts of the social media, by the media managers through innovation (Sinha 490). The source will assist in availing statistics for comparison between the positive and negative impacts.
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In Social Media its Impact on Positive and Negative Aspects, the authors claim that social media avails a platform for discussion of individual opinions and issues. This has been supported by analysis of the use of social media on formal organizations relating to education and business among others (Siddiqui & Singh 72), which was confirmed minimal. The authors have suggested a limited use of social media to avoid addiction. This source provides information relating to negative effects informal set ups, hence will be of good for the research.
Ramirez in The Impact of Social Media on Younger Generation, claims a common use of the social media, specifically Facebook, in the current young generation. This is used for entertainment and communication mainly. The author suggests that the negativity or positivity of the impacts of social media depends on how they use the media (Rameez 312). This source narrows doing the social media platforms to Facebook, which is the highly used. This will be add-up on the content of the research heavily, due to the huge number of users of Facebook.
The impact of Social Media on Youth: A case Study of Bahawalpur City, is authored by scholars from various universities. They claim that social networking is a medium of discussing burning issues that have not been addressed in the scenarios of today. The implication of this source relates to specific measures that should be used rightly in the utilization of the social media favorably and appropriately. These measures relate to ethical, social and religious responsibility among others (Shabir et al. 149). This source focusses its findings from an urban setup, which provides a relevant geographical region for the research.
Rameez, A. "The Impact of Social Media on Younger Generation: The use of Facebook among the undergraduates of south Eastern university of Sri Lanka." International Symposium 2015 (2015): 312. Document.
Shabir, G., Y.M.Y. Hameed and G & Gilani, S.M.F.S Safdar. "The impact of Social <edia on Youth: A case Study of Bahawalpur City." Asian Journal off social sciences & Humanities (2014): 149. Document.
Siddiqui, S & Singh, T. "Social Media its Impact with Positive and Negative Aspects." International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research (2016): 72.
Sinha, A. and R. K & Kanodia, R Yadav. "Social Media: Positive Vs Negative Effect on Young Generation." International Journal of Science Technology and Management (2016): 487.
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What are the best Music Colleges in Selinsgrove, PA?
Selinsgrove has a general population of 5,383 and an overall student population of 2,231. Approximately 2,231 of Selinsgrove's students are enrolled in schools that offer music programs.
Selinsgrove's largest music school is Susquehanna University. In 2010, Susquehanna University graduated approximately 7 students from its music program.
A reported 11 students graduated with credentials in music in Selinsgrove in 2010. If you decide to attend a music school in Selinsgrove, you can expect to pay an average yearly tuition of $32,450.
You should also anticipate spending about $850 for music related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $8,800 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $34,600.
If you plan on staying in Selinsgrove after graduating from music school, you should know that job prospects for musicians in Selinsgrove, which is the most popular music profession, are not very good. The government projects that the number of musicians in Selinsgrove will decrease by -7% by the year 2018. This projected change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for musicians.


It has been a while since I have posted a sweet treat. Things have been busy, so I haven't had a lot of time to bake. In case you didn't already know, I love chocolate. I'm addicted to it. Therefore, we interact at least once a day. Last weekend, I had a little date with chocolate. I made a chocolate souffle- one of my favorite desserts. Click here for the recipe.
In the event that you have not had it before, let me tell you what it's like. Simply put, it's like a big, fluffy cloud of chocolate. It has a spongy texture that is moist and delectable. My favorite part of the souffle is the top and the bottom. The bottom is a layer of sugar that caramelizes in the oven, so its has a bit of crunch. The top of the souffle also has a slight crunch and I love anything that's crunchy.
Be generous with the butter when preparing the ramekins, especially if you want to take them out of the ramekins after they bake. I personally like to serve them in the ramekins- better presentation.
Souffles involve very few ingredients. So use REALLY good REAL ingredients. No shortcuts. The chocolate should contain at least 60% cacao. I use the Ghirardelli chocolate bars. I also use organic eggs. They just taste better.
All of the ingredients must be room temperature. No exceptions. The souffle won't bake evenly if the ingredients are cold. If you forget to take the eggs out of the refrigerator, put them in a bowl and place them in a microwave for 10 seconds. They won't cook- I promise.
Use a little TLC when folding the egg whites into the chocolate. Click here for a video on how to do this. This is a flourless recipe, so the egg whites are what make the souffle rise. Air is slowly being incorporated into the mixture as they are folded. Stirring the egg whites will deflate the egg whites and the souffle will not rise.
They must be served immediately after taking them out of the oven. They will eventually fall, so you want to serve them when they are warm and at their best.
Powdered sugar and a side of vanilla ice cream are an absolute must! Enjoy!
Your chocolate souffle looks wonderful! I love, love, love anything chocolate!


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We just got back from a ten day trip to Israel. I love using this space as a place to share the trips we take and the things we learn. If you're interested, you can read recaps of our previous international trips like France, Iceland, Italy, Mexico and England.
My parents arranged for my entire family (Me and Jeremy, Mom, Dad, two sisters, and my brother-in-law) to join my Dad's church (where he is an associate pastor) in Tampa, Florida on a trip to the Holy Land. I knew the trip would be wonderful, but I really did not know much about modern day Israel or what to expect. With nearly every other trip Jeremy and I have taken, I have enthusiastically assumed the role of travel agent; researching and planning the trips has been a huge part of the experience for me. For this trip, however, everything was arranged and planned for us in advance, so it allowed me to go in with an open mind.
I feel forever altered for the better by my experiences in Israel. A lot of the things I saw and learned were personal and hard to relay in blog format, but I will do my best to give you a little taste of our trip.
Israel is a small country. It is only slightly larger than the state of New Jersey. Its position at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe has centralized its cultural significance over the course of history. That small piece of land which is pivotal to Christian, Jewish, and Islamic history has seen countless wars, invasions, and occupations. It is steeped in rich historical narrative and cultural significance.
As a Christian, the trip almost felt like visiting an old friend--one I have often met in scripture study and Sunday school classes since I was young. But as an American, the cultural paradigm of Israel could hardly be more foreign to our postmodern, Western way of thinking. It's hard to imagine Americans accepting government mandated Kosher law enforced at restaurants and hotels, Palestinian border control restricting Israelis from entering certain areas within their own country, and the Old City of Jerusalem sectioned off into quarters based on religion.
The faith of Israel's people not only informs their daily life but is the sole reason that Israel exists as a modern nation. It is a refuge for the world's Jews--after two thousand years of waiting and persecution, the people of Israel were able to return to their homeland in 1948. The significance of that is palpable.
But let's back up...I want to tell you about our trip partially because I hope you'll find it interesting, but partially also because I love to be able to read back my impressions years later.
Because, as previously stated, Israel is a small country, we were able to see so much of it in our 8 days on the ground. I am going to give a brief description of everything we did, but if you're short on time, just scroll past all the pretty pictures and skip the descriptions :-) Next week, I will be posting a highlights post with tips for travel to Israel and our top favorite things!
We started the trip in Tel Aviv where we stayed on Night 1. From there, we made our way to the Galilee region. We visited Caesarea in the morning, viewed the Valley of Armageddon, and then made our way to Nazareth where we had a lunch that was meant to be reminiscent of meals during the time of Jesus. We finished off the day with a visit to Cana and a vow renewal for many of the couples on the trip.
The next day was spent in the Galilee region, and it's no wonder Jesus spent most of his ministry in that area. It's beautiful! We started the day with a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee which was probably one of my top favorite experiences of the trip. I sat quietly on the edge of the boat and envisioned Jesus preaching there, calming storms, walking on water. The sun was bursting through the clouds on the still water, and I may or may not have gotten a little emotional.
We continued our day with visits to Capernaeum, the Mount of Beatitudes, Caesarea Phillipi, the Palestinian city of Jericho, and baptisms in the Jordan River where my sister was able to be baptized by my dad.
We rang in the New Year at our hotel in Tiberias and watched fireworks over the Sea of Galilee, and then on January 1st, we woke up to rain and cloudy skies. We first visited the ancient ruins of Beit Shean, a city that dates back to 6000 B.C., visited the Jordan River at the border of Jordan, and ended our day with a swim in the Dead Sea.
Perhaps one of my favorite sites was the next day at Masada--an ancient fortress town atop a mountain which was built by Herod the Great. The architecture and infrastructure is amazing, and the views overlooking the desert were breathtaking. From there, we went to Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. We also visited Ein Gedi and the Valley of the Shadow of Death before making our way to Jerusalem. I still get chills thinking about the first sight we caught of the Old City of Jerusalem from the highway as we drove in. We took it all in from an overlook point and then made a beeline for the Friends of Zion Museum -- one of the best museums I have ever visited.
Our first day in Jerusalem was eye opening and incredible. I watched the sunrise from our hotel balcony, and then we headed straight for the Western Wall where we toured the Wall Excavation Tunnels. Our tour guide was a devout Jew (from Canada!) and her passion for her faith and for Jerusalem set the tone for the city we had just entered. That day, we also saw the Mount of Olives before heading to Bethlehem where we saw the Church of the Nativity (NOT a highlight for me! It's crazy to see the mayhem that now surrounds the sight that we believe to be Jesus' birthplace), an amazing Palestinian lunch, and a visit to a cave that gave me more of an understanding of what Jesus' birth actually would have been like.
We finished our sightseeing early and were able to leave the group at the hotel and go into the city again on our own (me, Jeremy, my siblings, and our friend Zac). This was a highlight of the whole trip to me! It was great to get away from the tour group and see the city at night. We found an Israeli friend that we had made the day before at the Friends of Zion museum and asked him to point us to the best Falafel, and we had our favorite meal of the trip! Then we explored the Old City of Jerusalem as the shopkeepers closed up for the night and prepared for the next market day.
Our next full day in Jerusalem was jam packed with historical significance. We visited the Palestinian controlled Temple Mount where the guards singled out all the young women and made us put skirts on over our pants. It was quite the fashion statement! We walked around the temple walls and visited the Wailing Wall on Bar-mitzvah day where we witnessed dozens of Jewish families throwing big parties for their newly teenage boys.
Our final day was spent visiting the sites of Jesus' final days on earth. The Garden of Gethsemane, the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, the home of Caiaphas where Jesus was most likely held before his trial, and the Garden Tomb. In the midst of that, we also had time to walk the streets of Old Jerusalem and shop at the markets. My sister Raegan received a marriage proposal from a Palestinian shopkeeper, and Jeremy received a Middle Eastern head scarf from a very nice man named Muhammad.
WOW! If you made it through that VERY LONG play-by-play of our trip, LORD BLESS YOU!
Next week I will try to summarize in bullet points the things we loved the most and the things you should know if you're going on a tour of the Holy Land!
Thanks for coming on our journey with us.


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Meena Kumari: The last song of melancholy
There was something mystical about Mehjabeen Bano, which told you many tales at once of her tragedy and yet, it seems she still refuses to reveal her real self. She eludes everyone like an enigma and yet engages you with her nuanced performances. There isn't much known, even today, about Meena Kumari, except for many tell tales which her aides have delivered before gossip-hungry reporters. She left a major part of her life unsaid.
She made her debut in 1939 as Baby Meena in Vijay Bhatt's Leather face and did many costume dramas like Veer Ghatotkach and Aladdin and his wonderful lamp in the late 1940s. It was a career leading to nowhere, until Vijay Bhatt cast her in Baiju Bawra (1952). As Gauri, the muse of musician Baiju willing to annihilate herself for his advancement, Meena Kumari broke into popular consciousness and won her first Filmfare award in the inaugural awards held in 1953. During the shooting of the song Tu Ganga ki mauj main Jamuna ka dhaara, Meena Kumari escaped a major accident as she was rowing furiously, lost in her role and unaware of a major diversion that lay ahead in the river. Luckily, the boat hit a rock and a few spot boys leapt into the river to save her. The very next year, she played Lalita in Bimal Roy's Parineeta and won the hearts of the audience and another Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
Meena Kumari with Ashok Kumar in Parineeta in the scene where Lalita exchanges a garland with Shekhar
Even before the release of Baiju Bawra, she had got married to the already married Kamal Amrohi and in 1953, she acted in his home production Daera. The film, which talked about the frustrations of a young woman wedded to an old man failed at the box office but established her talent once again. Through the decade, she did numerous comedies like Azaad, Miss Mary and Kohinoor, where she took on the might of Dilip Kumar and matched the comical timing of Kishore Kumar. In 1957, she starred opposite Raj Kapoor in Sharada, playing a woman who is forced to marry her lover's father. Towards the late 1950s, Kamal Amrohi launched his most ambitious project about the life of a courtesan Pakeezah, with Meena playing the lead. The film was reshot many times, with every new technology that hit the market.
The decade of 1960s belonged to Meena Kumari. Every great actor has one film which defines his or her career and his image is preserved for posterity by that one role. Nargis had that role in Mother India, Madhubala had it in Mughal-e-azam and Meena Kumari's film was Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam. She looked stunning in this film, with brilliant shots by V K Murthy, in an interplay of lights and shadows. The performance did not come from a rehearsed actor, but emanated from a suffering soul, which was looking for an utterance. As the alcoholic Choti Bahu trying desperately to win over her man, Meena Kumari delivered the performance of a lifetime, becoming the greatest ever tragedienne of Hindi cinema. In 1963, at the Filmfare awards, she created history by winning all the nominations in the Best Actress category for Aarti, Main Chup Rahoongi and Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam. She finally won the award for Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam.
Kamal Amrohi had a huge say in the choice of her films and she looked up to him in every respect. There is no doubt that Meena Kumari was in awe of her husband. But she also ended up foregoing some plum roles when things did not go well between Kamal and the filmmakers who were dying to cast her in their movies. In 1955, Bimal Roy wanted to cast her in the role of Paro in Devdas. But since Kamal had issues with Bimal da, Meena Kumari lost the role to the Bengali sesnsation Suchitra Sen. Similarly, she could not travel to Berlin for the screening of Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam due to reservations from her husband. There was also supposedly an increasing insecurity in Kamal owing to the popularity of his wife. People say Kamal Amrohi felt that some cronies were poisoning Meena's ears against him and one day, she walked out of his home, without informing anyone and tried to make a picture out of the broken pieces that lay in her hand. Pakeezah was shelved (refer to the post on Pakeezah). One of her poems express the anguish of this separation….
Talaaq to de rahe ho nazar-e-qehar ke saath
Jawani bhi meri lauta do mujhe mehar ke saath
(You have divorced me with rage in your eyes,
Return my lost youth also along with the alimony)
Playing the lonely Choti Bahu in Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam
A pose of seduction in her swansong Pakeezah
Meanwhile, she continued to take huge strides in her career. Meena famously played the temptress and philosophical Chitralekha in Kidar Sharma's 1963 classic. In 1966, she won another Filmfare award for Kaajal.
But Meena Kumari soon was caught in an image trap. She seemed to gain some masochistic joy in the idea of tragedy. Dil ek mandir, Phool aur Patthar, Bahu Begum and Majhli Didi reinforced her histrionics. In all these movies, she played the central character and mostly ran the entire show on her shoulders.
Meanwhile, alcohol had taken a heavy toll on her health and she started playing character roles to sustain herself. She hopeless fell for the charms of Dharmendra and the relationship left her in a deeper pit. Towards the late 1960s, Nargis and Sunil Dutt, who watched the rushes of Pakeezah, asked Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi to forget their differences and complete the movie. Given her deteriorating health, Meena too knew that her days in the film industry were numbered. Pakeezah was re-launched, now in colour. Meena even took keen interest in the production and designed the costumes for the movie. But she was diagnosed with cirrhosis of liver and was unable to do some of the mujras in the movie. The team located a budding newcomer Padma Khanna to complete the songs Chalo Dildar Chalo and Teer-e-nazar dekhenge. Pakeezah, set in the background of a Nawabi culture in the last days of its glory, was in many ways, symbolic of her own life. Like the protagonist Sahibjaan, she was also seeking a final vindication in a world where she had been wronged time and again.
The movie was released in February 1972, and Meena was congratulated for her stupendous performance. Yet, things were not to last for long. She was admitted to a hospital and on March 31, she breathed her last. Even her death is mired in myths and no one knows how she spent her last moments. However, Pakeezah was declared a superhit and became a cult classic, perhaps, the finest courtesan film ever made. Theatres replayed Baiju Bawra and her fans flooded cinema halls across the country. Baiju's Gauri seemed to live again. Her death was as dramatic as her life.
It has been four decades and yet, Meena Kumari's voice, laden with coquetry and a hint of melancholy, refuses to fade out. In 1971, she did Mere Apne with Gulzar, for whom she had taken a liking. Encouraged by him, she even released an album of her songs under the pen name Naaz. Meena Kumari was a neighbour of Kaifi Azmi and often went to his place to get her poems corrected by him. Gulzar released her poems in the book titled Tanha Chaand.
Chaand tanha hai aasmaan tanha, dil mila hai kahaan kahaan tanha
Chup gayi aas, bujh gaya taara, thartharata raha dhuaan tanha
Zindagi kya isi ko kehte hai, jism tanha hai aur jaan tanha
Humsafar gar koi mile bhi kahin, dono chalte chale tanha tanha
Raah dekha karenge sadiyon tak, chod jayenge ye jahaan tanha
Literary critics might complain that her poetry has nothing to offer but pain and sorrow. Perhaps that is what she herself got. She was a lonely moon in the Bombay film industry.
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3 thoughts on "Meena Kumari: The last song of melancholy"
Vinitha Valsalan says:
Wonderful post Arju- sensitive and informative. A true enigma, if I may say so – married to melancholy and ironically, it gave her joy. Got to know a lot of trivia too!
To me, Meena Kumari evokes two images:
Yeh roshni ke saath kyun, dhuan utha chiraag se,
Yeh khwaab dekhti hoon main, ke jag padi hoon khwaab se…
Her in a white saree, singing the lilting song Ajeeb dastaan hai yeh.
Jo kahi gayi na mujhse,
Woh zamaana keh raha hai;
Ke fasaana ban gayi hai,
Mere baat chalte chalte…
Quite apt songs for her life too, isn't it?
Oh yes, you mentioned a very important film Dil apna aur preet parayi, which I had missed out. Yes… her songs very in many ways prophetic. Songs like the ones you mentioned and others like Duniya kare sawal toh hum kya jawaab den, Yeh chiraag bujh rahe hain mere saath jalte jalte were tales of her own life
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by Dan Van Veen on October 10, 2019
The youth group at Cedar Rapids First has what Nate Roeder, their youth pastor, calls a scary-big dream — also known as a "God-sized goal." Their goal is to raise $100,000 through Speed the Light for Project Rescue this year.
Nate and Krisha Roeder have been serving at the Iowa church for about two years. Prior to their arrival, the Cedar Rapids First youth group of about 50 kids had been raising around $2,500 a year for Speed the Light (STL), the Assemblies of God youth missions ministry that helps meet transportation and communication needs of missionaries.
"We changed that right away, creating 10K Day — trying to raise $10,000 in one day by completing projects for church and community members," Nate Roeder explains. "We raised about $11,000 for Speed the Light. Then last year, we raised just a little over $20,000 for Speed the Light."
But this year's six-digit goal is 40 times the amount the youth group was accomplishing just two years ago.
On Oct. 5, the youth group, which now averages about 110 and has already raised $22,000 through its 10K Day earlier in the year, put on an event called Speed the Light Hustle. At the event, students exhibited some of their skills and sold items in vendor booths, including artwork, baked goods, farm-fresh eggs, a selfie-booth with puppies, a dunk tank, home good crafts, and more for STL in the church's gym.
A couple students raised funds getting pledges for every strike they could pitch in 10 minutes. Another student, who takes karate lessons, raised funds in the same manner, only she chose to see how many boards she could break in 10 minutes.
"God gave our students everything they need to succeed," Roeder says. "He doesn't ask us to give something we don't have, but what we do have. If it's skill, like throwing a baseball or breaking boards, then throw a baseball or break boards."
Austin Lynn and Ethan McManus, both 12, threw baseballs, while Jayden McManus, 13, threw softballs at a strike zone to raise money to "strikeout slavery."
"This event has grown me spiritually closer to God because it showed me that no matter what you have or what you give, God can always multiply it," Lynn says. Together the trio more than doubled their goal of $400, raising $860.
Twelve-year-old Aubrey Bade offered homemade cinnamon rolls and other items for sale at the event.
"I participated because I wanted to support people coming out of human trafficking," she says. "I felt like it was my responsibility to help women and even girls my age."
Isabella Roberts, 16, offered her original painting, representing freedom, for sale at the fundraiser.
"I decided to participate in the STL Hustle because of the simple phrase 'why not?'" Roberts says. "If I have the opportunity to change the lives of girls I will never meet, and make room for God to move in a big way, then why not? This was a huge opportunity for us to be stewards of what God has given us and impact our world."
Roeder, 29, who played basketball for North Central University, says he never asks students to do more than he would do. He joined in by raising pledges for every free throw he could make in a 10-minute span, sinking 155 shots and raising more than $8,000.
Project Rescue has been an inspiration for his youth, Roeder says. The program not only rescues women and children from sex trafficking, but also provides opportunity for mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual healing — a "rescue to restoration" approach.
With the pledges and other funds students are raising due to be turned in next week, Roeder believes they are approaching $40,000, with a little more than 10 weeks remaining to attain their overall goal.
"We may be chasing failure," he admits, "but we believe God shows up in God-sized ways when we live out God-sized dreams."
Whether or not the Cedar Rapids Youth make the $100,000 goal or not, what Roeder has been amazed to see is the attitude and personality changes in the students. He explains that as these Gen Z students take their eyes off themselves, ignore their insecurities, and no longer worry about what people think, they're coming to believe Why not me? Why can't I be the one God works through to change lives?
"It was a huge win, overall, for the night," Roeder says. "It was a big win for our students, using their God-given gifts and doing what they could do to help women and children get out of human trafficking."
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