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| User: | ewtikins (804119)  |
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| Name: | A series of load-bearing errors | |
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| Website: | Ewt's Kitchen | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Birthdate: | 1890-10-27 | |
| Bio: | Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls ... if thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee. Grey and grey and grey and grey, grey and grey and grey, I can sing a woodlouse... There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word. It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party. It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other planets, this may be the first message received from us. -- The Realist, November, 1964. Walk softly and carry a megawatt laser. It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. -- Sydney J. Harris
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) Q: Why do ducks have flat feet? A: To stamp out forest fires. Q: Why do elephants have flat feet? A: To stamp out flaming ducks. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. , 1 Corinthians 13 NIV Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. -- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned. Song of Solomon Chapter 8: 6-7 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." -- Aaron Copland Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. -- Albert Einstein Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. -- Arnold Toynbee In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein Foo. What, you actually scrolled through all those quotes? Or did you read them all? Impressive. I'm part hippie, part musician. I moved from Canada to England in May 2000 and London is home now for me, though I still miss the vast plains of my youth. I have two wonderful boyfriends. I love to dance. I like to dress up. I write music - send me a poem and I'll see if I can set it. No, really. I really enjoy composition but have been out of it for so long that I find it's often easier to do with a text or theme to help focus my thoughts. I've been teaching piano on and off since I was fourteen. I also teach a bit of theory, which I quite love. Most of my teaching at the moment is in the Hendon area of London on Sundays, so if you're there and you want lessons, give me a shout. I'm also willing to teach at other times and locations but cannot generalise here about when I am available. I grow things to eat in my garden, and forage in local parks. Yes, really. I'm very lucky to be renting a room in a house that has a garden. The landlady doesn't mind too much if I dig things up and cause rampant chaos, which is good, because chaos is what inevitably results. The local parks contain some things I couldn't grow myself, some things I don't have time for, some things I don't have space for, and some things that are plain delicious. I have a Yellow Belt in Ki-Aikido. This doesn't make me particularly dangerous. I have many interests. This is a constant source of conflict for me as I only have time to pursue a select few of them. Now for the not-so-positive bits. Lots is wrong with me, and I try not to define myself by it, but it is stuff that affects how I live my life, so it's useful to mark it down here for the curious or context-deprived. I am clinically depressed, and have been on and off for years. I am seeing a brainhacker and taking medication under the supervision of my GP. It is a great struggle for me to motivate myself to do things. Other things that help me are exercise, fish oil capsules, getting enough protein and not too much sugar, and writing three pages of brain-drain text every morning. On top of this, I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, which makes my mood even lower in the winter. Using a lightbox every day from about September to April does help me, but it is not the same as real sunlight would be. I'm trying to learn to take on fewer responsibilities in the winter to account for this. I "probably" have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS - this means I have several of the hormonal symptoms, except for those which would be masked by the drugs I'm taking, and I don't really want to bother with an ultrasound because there is no current cure for PCOS, just lifestyle treatment and some drug-based symptom management. I have extremely sensitive skin, to the point that I cannot use shampoo because it irritates my scalp too much. Please don't give me nickel jewellery, or any sort of bath or beauty product; there are a surprising number of commercial things I can use but I prefer to choose when I will use them. Recently, I've been diagnosed with joint hypermobility syndrome. This explains a lot of the aches and pains I've been having, and while I'm annoyed to have yet another uncurable thing wrong with me, it's really good to know what's going on and how to treat it in order to minimise pain and further damage. At the moment I've had to take time off from going to university in order to regain some strength and fitness, so that I can play the horn without damaging myself. I'm also unable to do any heavy lifting at all, and have had to give up busking on the London Underground for the time being. Gardening will be an interesting challenge this summer. Heavy groceries are ordered online. I'm not allowed to do yoga because I might easily overstretch something. I'm not allowed to do high-impact exercise that would put repetitive pressure or strain on my joints, so no marathon running for me. I can probably get away with Ki-Aikido but have had to take quite a bit of time off. Osteopathic treatment is helping, as are the exercises I do every day, but at this point carrying a bag of books and a bag of groceries for two hours is enough to leave me incapacitated for the next day. Happily none of my health problems appear to be contagious. If you want to know any more you'll have to read the actual journal. Sorry. | |
| Memories: | 15 entries | |
| Pictures: | over 10 public | |
| Interests: | 150: a cappella, abandoned places, abandoned tube stations, acoustic music, almond milk, alternative energy, alternative shelter, anarres, appropriate technology, art from trash, avebury, bach cello suites, being tall, better living through technology, blinkenlichten, brainwashing myself, breast cancer, breathing, busking, chainsaws of natural selection, chop endurance, choral music, co-parenting, cognitive therapy, complex systems breaking down, composing music, composting, crochet, cybergoth, darwin awards, diabetes, duct tape, dumpster diving, ecosystems, edible mushrooms, education, ehlers danlos syndrome, ehlers-danlos syndrome, electronics, emergency preparedness, endorphin regulation, ethical consumption, exploring, extreme urban gardening, fake hair, falsifying statistics, family of choice, fictional plants, film scoring, fixing things, flanders and swann, food for free, food not lawns, food preservation, foraging, frankenjunky art, free form crochet, free market environmentalism, french horn, fresh air, frugal living, gadgets, getting lost in london, getting things done, ginger beer, glitter, glow in the dark, glycaemic index, glycaemic load, grok, growing my own food, habit, hairyears, healing through joy, hemp, herb gardens, herbal medicine, hiking, home schooling, hot water bottles, human factors, hypoglycaemia, i'm not afraid, intarweb, intelligent conversation, intensive snuggles, intentional communities, interconnectedness, intimacy, joint hypermobility syndrome, ki-aikido, klein bottles, kopprasch, light boxes, light emitting diodes, light pipes, lilypond, london parks, making clothes, mental health, mind like water, natural horn, not having a map, nutrition, off-the-grid, open source, organic gardening, pain management, passive solar heating, people watching, people who think, permaculture, pfy, photovoltaics, plastic hair, poi, polycystic ovarian syndrome, positive thinking, poverty noodles, pretty lights, procrastibation, procrastination, recycling, renewable energy, seasonal affective disorder, self-defense, self-employment, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, sewing, shiny things, silent kimbly, sloe gin, solar power, sustainability, teaching piano, terry pratchett, the tube, theremins, they might be giants, transcription, treehouses, ursula leguin, uv reactive, value, vnv nation, volunteering, wild food, wind power, yarn | |
| Schools: | Summerhill Elementary School - Oromocto, NB, Canada (1985 - 1988) Major General Griesbach School - Edmonton, AB, Canada (1988 - 1991) York Academic Elementary School - Edmonton, AB, Canada (1991 - 1992) Palliser Heights Elementary School - Moose Jaw, SK, Canada (1992 - 1994) Branton High School - Calgary, AB, Canada (1994 - 1995) William Aberhart High School - Calgary, AB, Canada (1995 - 1998) University of Lethbridge - Lethbridge, AB, Canada (1998 - 2000) Trinity College of Music - London, England - Greater London, United Kingdom (2004 - present) | |
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