Norway Surfing, There Future of Masks, Albania and Flamingos, Geography Quiz, Regenerative Farming to Fashion, The Future of Masks, Universal Analogy, Therapy and 3 Motivating practices
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Edgar Degas
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/degas-and-his-dancers-79455990/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/degas-and-his-dancers-79455990/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas
Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot. The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colors, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy. They wanted to express their visual experience in that exact moment.[32]
Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air.[33]
Degas, and Vogue, Designers interpretations over time
Field Trip Norway for Icy Surfing
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Brrrrr! Arctic surfer Aline Bock takes to the water off Norway’s Lofoten Islands. “In normal life, you’re always thinking about something,” Bock says. “But when you’re surfing, you don’t think about anything. You’re reading the water, totally in the here and now. And when the perfect wave comes and you catch it really well, it’s absolute happiness.” Thick wetsuits with hoods, booties, and gloves help her stay for nearly two hours in water that’s only around 37.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Photo by @andrea_frazzetta | Arctic surfer Aline Bock takes to the water off Norway’s Lofoten Islands. “In normal life, you’re always thinking about something,” Bock says. “But when you’re surfing, you don’t think about anything. You’re reading the water, totally in the here and now. And when the perfect wave comes and you catch it really well, it’s absolute happiness.” Thick wetsuits with hoods, booties, and gloves help her stay in water that’s only around 37.5ºF (3ºC) for between one and two hours. Lofoten's Unstad Bay has some of the world’s best conditions for cold-water surfing.
To see more photos from my travels, follow me @andrea_frazzetta. #arcticsurf #lofoten #norway
Virtual Australian Vacation
DESPITE ALL THE talk of science and politics, Peter Gash feels that the power to save the Great Barrier Reef rests with ordinary people the world over. Peter is the owner-operator of the tourist facilities on Lady Elliot Island, which he’s set up as an exemplar of a reef-saving lifestyle. It runs almost entirely on renewable energy and any waste that can’t be recycled is reduced to a minimum. Peter recalls his days as a cash-strapped kid in the 1980s when he first fell in love with the reef. Now a successful businessman with an ever-watchful eye on company finances, he says it made clear economic sense to run Lady Elliot sustainably. Peter is also now a member of the tourism reef advisory committee that advises GBRMPA and was involved in the Managing for Resilience Reef Summit held by scientists and managers in Townsville in May 2017. His love and enthusiasm for the Great Barrier Reef is infectious, and he sees himself as one of many privileged caretakers of a global asset, which is how he believes all Australians should feel about the reef. While he’s not a scientist, his perspective does draw on a lifetime of experience and observations to provide an insightful, accessible overview of a complex crisis; an overview that’s becoming increasingly sought after.
Starting more than a century ago, “We were doing things here that we shouldn’t have been, although we didn’t know any better,” Peter says, explaining that agricultural, urban and industrial developments within the catchments of the rivers leading into the reef have all played a role. These have been the “death of a thousand cuts – farming, roads, buildings, cities, developments, ploughing up land, cutting down mangroves,” he says. “It’s not one person’s fault or one thing. It was not one killer punch that led the Barrier Reef to where it is now.”
From Fast Company.
A Teacher kept her classroom from spreading a virus last fall with a new Thermometer.
In November 2019, school nurse Alisha Palmer watched as a virus spread throughout the third grade at Jackson Park Elementary in North Carolina. But because she had access to a digital portal provided by a smart-thermometer company called Kinsa, Palmer was able to temperature-test every kid and slow the spread of the flu-like virus.
Kinsa’s school program, called FLUency, was originally developed to help schools track flu transmission in classrooms by providing every family with a smart thermometer that was hooked up to the digital portal.
But the program’s approach could also provide a blueprint for how schools might approach reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Though experts caution it’s still too early to reopen schools, a program such as FLUency could equip school nurses and parents to make informed decisions about when kids should stay home once class is in session again. Read more here. |
36 better home made snacks.
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FIELD TRIP Albania and Flamingos
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Plants that repel bugs.
Scientists are racing to engineer a high-tech face mask that can rip the coronavirus apart.
Geography Quiz and other fun stuff from National Geographic
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fun things to do when you are bored!
Regenerative fashion
“It’s really mimicking what nature does already. You never see just one crop in nature, you see a vast diversity. There’s a reason for that.”
“It’s really mimicking what nature does already. You never see just one crop in nature, you see a vast diversity. There’s a reason for that.”
Regenerative farming is essentially the new organic or sustainable farming, but it goes a few steps further. In addition to omitting chemicals, regenerative agriculture actually replenishes and strengthens the plants, the soil, and the nature surrounding it. And because most of our clothes started as plants, “regenerative ag” is becoming a shiny new buzzword in the sustainable fashion conversation. Richard Malone picked up the International Woolmark Prize for his collaboration with a regenerative farm in India, and Eileen Fisher spoke at length about her new passion for regenerative farming in a recent Vogue interview. “I love this [topic] because this is one of the places where we can make a positive impact,” she said. “Rather than just pollute less or do less harm, we can actually kind of revive the earth through the process of making clothes.”
The easiest way to understand regenerative agriculture is to first picture what you think of as a “typical farm”: It’s probably hundreds of acres of a single crop, like corn or cotton. It probably looks normal to your eye, though not entirely natural, because it isn’t: Most of those farms use pesticides and other conventional methods, like deep tilling. A regenerative farm is the complete inverse of that: Imagine acre upon acre of various different crops, many of them strategically planted to help each other grow and flourish. On a cotton farm, there might be rows of snap peas planted as “cover crops” to shade the soil so it stays cool, absorbs more water, and thus grows more microbiomes. Regenerative farms also implement “pollinator strips” of crops that attract bees and butterflies to the area, or they’ll add “trap crops” to divert pests from their hero crops in lieu of chemical pesticides. “It’s really mimicking what nature does already,” Baskauskas says. “You never see just one crop in nature, you see a vast diversity. There’s a reason for that.”
Analogy of God/Greater Being, Nature, or Universe and Life.
"Feel what you need to feel and then let it go. Do not let it consume you."
-Dhiman
Care-
The Story of the Butterfly
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it would go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly, he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man expected that, at any moment the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened. The butterfly spent the rest of his life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the struggle required the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was God's way of forcing the fluid from the body of the butterfly to its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allows us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been, we could never fly.
I asked for Strength- And God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom- And God gave me a problem to solve.
I asked for Prosperity- And God gave me a Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage- And God gave me danger to overcome.
I asked for Love- And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for Favors- And God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted- I received everything I needed.
-Author Unknown
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EASY AS PIE
Imagine all of world suffering as a gigantic blueberry pie. (If you feel any emotional or physical pain, you are a part of this pie!) However, if you find inner peace by bringing light to the shadows within yourself, you immediately will be eating away a bite of that pie. And I guarantee that this light is infectious. When you do not struggle with mental battles yourself, you bring a sense of calmness to those around you. This leaves space for them to feel more at ease– an ideal environment for self-reflection and personal growth. They will think to themselves Wow, that person seems to feel pretty good about themself, and they make me feel good about myself. Maybe I’ll try some of that pie too! And, before you know it, a pie-eating ripple effect has been catalyzed because you decided to take that first leap in choosing peace within yourself.
Now, you may say that I’m a dreamer (I had to add a John Lennon lyric during International Peace Week!): If I knew how to take away my own suffering, I would have never had these problems in the first place! Life doesn’t work that way!
To which, I respond:
To which, I respond:
- Life does work that way! In no way am I saying that it’s easy: It requires facing your deepest, darkest fears. But it is possible to overcome them because you are a strong, powerful individual.
- You cannot even begin to tackle world peace without mastering the art of inner peace. Society is the macrocosm; the human mind is the microcosm. Learn the universal truths behind your own suffering, and you will see how it directly mirrors international suffering.
Good on 3 Motivating Practices
When tested in national surveys against such seemingly crucial factors as intelligence, ability, and salary, level of motivation proves to be a more significant component in predicting career success. While level of motivation is highly correlated with success, importantly, the source of motivation varies greatly among individuals and is unrelated to success. – Bashaw and Grant 1994
https://time.com/4583438/how-to-become-motivated/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=time-health&utm_content=20200511
Indonesian Study
I've been in the midst of a painting project and am tired.
Have a restful day.
Thanks for Stopping By.
Eliza
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