Happy Xmas ❤😘❤

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I wish you all my dear appreciated friends a leisure and beautiful holidays 🤗😊❤

PS: here is a crap weather 🌨🌧☔🌧🌨 I wished better a snowy one 😉😁🙂❤

Also thank you so much for your wonderful support 🙏🙏👍

Shab-e Yalda (Yalda Night)

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Yes, tonight is another Yalda-Night, the longest night in the year. The Persians celebrate this night as their culture; ( A Person’s culture and nothing to do with the Arabic Islam!) that is an old Persian ceremony.

It has ever always been a family’s ceremony in a completely form; from grandfather-mother to the youngest being.

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Anyhow the oldest one of the family; mostly the grand mom, sits at the head of the community (Family) and as “she” scarf the skin of the nuts and pomegranates ( a hard work!) she began to narrate or recount the magnificent fairy tails, and it was always the best of my memories.

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The main Mather is not the nuts and not the warm place in which we, all the family, gather together to get warm, it is to spend the longest night together, with having our imaginations circulate and spread. The Fairy-tails are actually real?; “let’s put the question; what is really real!!”

That is a night for having fun, some experience, some excitement, and some nice imaginations, I love it although, I miss it as well 🙂 ❤

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Wishing all Persians, a happy Yalda- Night, in the hope of a free Persia ❤

Our “little” Brain and how it actually must work!

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It is surely a fascinating and simultaneously strangest part of the humans being ever. I have a memory, though rather a sad one, of this part of ours, which remind my brother’s sudden illness as they’ve found a tumor in his genius brain in the hospital as they took a probe one day after his paroxysm at home one day, and they said; it must get out!

They got it out and he was getting actually better but as he met his Doc, as regularly visiting; the doctor confessed to him that the human did have never known about this part of itself!

Anyway; I love to find the balance in everything in my life, and why not in the main of us all; the brain 😉

Let’s just to have a look at how the good researchers try to tell us something about it. enjoy 🙂 ❤

We must use both hemispheres to make a balance to understand things better.

Watch 21 Animated Ideas from Big Thinkers: Steven Pinker, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo, David Harvey & More Iain McGilchrist

via http://www.openculture.com/

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, better known as the Royal Society for the Arts, and best known simply as the RSA, was founded in 1754. At the time, nobody could have imagined a world in which the people of every land, no matter how far-flung, could hear the same talks by well-known scholars and speakers, let alone see them animated as if on a conference-room whiteboard. Yet even back then, in an era before the invention of animation and whiteboards, let alone computers and the internet, people had an appetite for strong, often counter-intuitive or even contrarian ideas to diagnose and potentially even solve social problems — an appetite for which the RSA Animate series of videos was made.

We can’t understand what goes right and what goes wrong in our societies without understanding how we think. To that end the RSA has commissioned animated videos based on talks by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist on our “divided brain,” former political strategist (and current RSA Chief Executive) Matthew Taylor on how our left and right brains shape our politics, psychologist Steven Pinker on language as a window into human nature, philosopher-sociologist Renata Salecl on the paradoxical downside of choice, psychologist Philip Zimbardo on our perception of time, “social and ethical prophet” Jeremy Rifkin on empathy, philosopher Roman Krznaric on “outrospection,” journalist Barbara Ehrenreich on “the darker side of positive thinking,” and behavioral-economics researcher Dan Ariely on drive and dishonesty.

Economics is another field that has provided the RSA with a surfeit of animatable material — even of the kind “economists don’t want you to see,” as the RSA promotes economist Ha-joon Chang’s talk on “why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics” and “how easily economic myths and assumptions become gospel.”

Freakonomics co-authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner make an appearance to break down altruism, and “economic geographer” David Harvey attempts to envision a system beyond capitalism. And on the parts of the intellectual map where economics overlaps politics, the RSA brings us figures like Slavoj Žižek, who “investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.”

As, in essence, an educational enterprise, RSA Animate videos also look into new ways to think about education itself. Educationalist Carol Dweck examines the issues of “why kids say they’re bored at school, or why they stop trying when the work gets harder” by looking at what kind of praise helps young students, and what kind harms them.

Education and creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson explains the need to change our very paradigms of education. And according to the RSA’s speakers, those aren’t the only paradigms we should change: Microsoft Chief Envisioning Officer Dave Coplin argues that we should re-imagine work, and technology critic Evgeny Morozov argues that we should rethink the “cyber-utopianism” that has exposed harmful side-effects of our digital world.

But it is in this world that the RSA promotes “21st-century enlightenment,” a concept further explored in another talk by Matthew Taylor — and one of which you can get a few doses, ten minutes at a time, on the full RSA Animate Youtube playlist. Watch the complete playlist of 21 videos, from start to finish, below.

Apple Woman

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A winged definition by words… poetry 🙏💖

RUSTY TINS & VIOLINS

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Altogether, we stand,
divided, we fall
WE SURVIVED
Don’t matter who or what you are
When we all eat and sleep on the same dying star
It’s no one else’s business if you’re a believer or you’re not
Face it – this abused planet is all that we’ve got… 🙏💖🙏

“Αγαπά μόνον αυτός που δεν φοβάται το αποτέλεσμα” ~Osho

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Love is fearless 🙏💖
“He only loves the one who is not afraid of the effect” ~ Osho
When two people meet, it means that two worlds meet. It’s not something simple, but something very complex, the most complex thing in the world. Within it, every human being is a whole world, a complex mystery with a long past and an eternal future.

At first, only thcentresns meet. But if the intimacy in centresationship grows and becomes deeper, then the centres are starting to centreWhen the centres meet, this is called love. Love is very rare.

To meet a man in his centre means to go through a revolution, because if you want to meet a man in his centre, you have to allow that man to reach your own centre as well, you have to become vulnerable, completely vulnerable, open. This is a risk.
Letting someone approach your centre is a risk, it is dangerous because you never know what this person will do to you. And once you know all your secrets, from the moment you discover what you have hidden, from the moment you are completely exposed, you never know what the other will do. There is fear. That’s why we never open.
There are two types of life. A life that is oriented to love and a life that is oriented to fear. Fear-oriented life can never lead you into a deep relationship. You remain scared and do not allow the other person to penetrate into your own core. You let the other get to some point and then a wall goes up and everything stops.
The man who is oriented on love is the religious man. A man, oriented in love, is one who is not afraid of the future, one who is not afraid of the result and consequence, one who lives in the here and now. Love is a very rare flowering. It is rare because it can only happen when there is no fear, never before.

This means that love can only happen to a deeply spiritual, religious person. Sex is possible for everyone. Physical familiarity is possible for everyone. Love is not. When you are not afraid, then there is nothing to hide, then you can be open, then you can remove all borders. And then you can invite the other to penetrate into the core itself.

And remember, if you let one person go deep into you, the other one will let you go in too because when you allow someone to penetrate you, trust is created. When you are not afraid, the other fearless becomes one too.

Excerpt from Osho’s book
“Man-woman, the dance of actions”
source: http://tantra-yoga-events.blogspot.gr /

“He only loves the one who is not afraid of the effect” ~ Osho
When two people meet, it means that two worlds meet. It’s not something simple, but something very complex, the most complex thing in the world. Within it, every human being is a whole world, a complex mystery with a long past and an eternal future.

At first, only the regions meet. But if the intimacy in the relationship grows and becomes deeper, then the centres are starting to meet. When the centres meet, this is called love. Love is very rare.

To meet a man in his centre means to go through a revolution, because if you want to meet a man in his centre, you have to allow that man to reach your own centre as well, you have to become vulnerable, completely vulnerable, open. This is a risk.
Letting someone approach your centre is a risk, it is dangerous because you never know what this person will do to you. And once you know all your secrets, from the moment you discover what you have hidden, from the moment you are completely exposed, you never know what the other will do. There is fear. That’s why we never open.
There are two types of life. A life that is oriented to love and a life that is oriented to fear. Fear-oriented life can never lead you into a deep relationship. You remain scared and do not allow the other person to penetrate into your own core. You let the other get to some point and then a wall goes up and everything stops.
The man who is oriented on love is the religious man. A man, oriented in love, is one who is not afraid of the future, one who is not afraid of the result and consequence, one who lives in the here and now. Love is a very rare flowering. It is rare because it can only happen when there is no fear, never before.

This means that love can only happen to a deeply spiritual, religious person. Sex is possible for everyone. Physical familiarity is possible for everyone. Love is not. When you are not afraid, then there is nothing to hide, then you can be open, then you can remove all borders. And then you can invite the other to penetrate into the core itself.

And remember, if you let one person go deep into you, the other one will let you go in too because when you allow someone to penetrate you, trust is created. When you are not afraid, the other fearless becomes one too.

Excerpt from Osho’s book
“Man-woman, the dance of actions”
source: http://tantra-yoga-events.blogspot.gr /

SearchingTheMeaningOfLife's avatarSearching The Meaning Of Life! (S.T.M.O.L)

Όταν συναντιούνται δύο άνθρωποι, αυτό σημαίνει ότι συναντιούνται δύο κόσμοι. Δεν είναι κάτι απλό, αλλά κάτι πολύ σύνθετο, το πιο σύνθετο πράγμα στον κόσμο. Μέσα του, κάθε άνθρωπος είναι ένας ολόκληρος κόσμος, ένα σύνθετο μυστήριο με μακρύ παρελθόν και με αιώνιο μέλλον.

Στην αρχή συναντιούνται μόνο οι περιφέρειες. Αν όμως μεγαλώσει η οικειότητα στη σχέση και γίνει βαθύτερη, τότε σιγά-σιγά αρχίζουν να συναντιούνται τα κέντρα. Όταν συναντιούνται τα κέντρα, αυτό ονομάζεται αγάπη. Η αγάπη είναι πολύ σπάνια. 

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#NewBook Launch: Thistledown – Midsummer Bedlam

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Keep reading and enjoy the life 🙏🙏❤❤🙏🤗

Teagan Riordain Geneviene's avatarTeagan's Books

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Thistledown — Midsummer Bedlam book is ready to fly your imagination to new heights!

Ruby-topaz_hummingbird_flying in TobagoThistledown — Midsummer Bedlam by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene (that’s me!) is a wildly whimsical tale of faeries.  However, lest you think you’re too old for that stuff, it also has a dark side.  For those who read the serial version here, I’ve added a little something to the ending that you haven’t seen.

To keep this book tour interesting, some of the bloggers helping share this launch will include individual character introductions for faeries named in their honor.  I hope you can visit them.  That said, let me tell you a little about the primary narrator of the story. (There are actually two, but if I tell you much about the other one, it could be a spoiler.)  Please allow me to introduce Bedlam Thunder. 

Bedlam Thunder

Bedlam Thunder is a…

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Fairy Tale Tuesday: East of The Sun West of The Moon

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Let’s have another wonderful fairytale by a genuine 🙏❤🙏🤗

Nifty Buckles Folklore's avatarNifty Buckles

The Beautiful Norwegian winter fairy tale collected and written by
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen 1812-1885 and Jørgen Moe.

East of the Sun west of the Moon shows a bridegroom who is in beast form much like the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast including similar tales that go way back to the Roman, Lucius Apuleius 124 CE – 170 CE Philosopher & author.

The story of Cupid and Psyche where the deity Cupid and Psyche wed, she immediately loses him and must tackle several trials and tribulations in order to become his goddess wife.

Kay Nielsen was a Danish artist 1886-1957 that illustrated lovely works of art for the story. His illustration below at Wikimedia Commons in Public Domain.

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Translated by Andrew Lang (1844-1912) in The Blue Fairy Book 1889.

Once upon a time there was a poor husbandman who had many children and little to give them in the way…

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Prologue to a marsh

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A wonderful word to the seasonal exchange 🙏❤

Happy birthday to you brother 💖

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Hi my lovely friends, that’s Al birthday; his birthday was in 12, 9th but as it was on Monday, I couldn’t write an anniversary for it at this time, though, I think it is not so important; it’s his birthday month and I can write down some of my heart-telling memories about our being together on this Earth 🙂

Centaur Archer Sagittarius Zodiac Sign

Oh yes! his birth-star-sign is Sagittarius, and as I know some people who are born in this time, they’re somehow special, very proud and self-confident, and very intelligent.

I really don’t want to exaggerate but he was a genius in compare to other genius people I know, as a child he was a thoughtful child; it began the day after our father died in the very night and mother kept it secret and didn’t tell us! I was seven in age in that time and Al was nine.

she’d known his strength

Oh yes, she made a great mistake. She was a young woman at that time and as expected, very unskilled, therefore, anxious to do the right decision.

As I look back on this day; can just see a gloomy scene that after we’d woke up in that morning, mother told us that our father had been travelled to Europe, as he’d down sometimes, and sent us to our uncle’s house to stay a while, it was in Summertime’s holiday as my vague memories show me the scene of us; my cousins, Al and me laughingly playing in the big uncle’s swimming-pool but I’d never mention that Al knew already what happened. we were just twenty months apart but he was much older than me to catch the circumstances.

Father very left & Mother very right

I found it all afterwards, I was really a kid, but forty days after father’s death, I’ve coincidentally read an article in the magazine about the anniversary of my father’s (at first because he was a famous writer and secondly, in Islam, they celebrate the seventh and the fortieth day of one’s death) at once, I got to mother and asked her the matter, she had scolded me and said I’d shut up all! There one can imagine how I’d felt, though, she came to me after I got to a corner to shed tears and shed tears with me.

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Yes, I’d a dramatic childhood but it’s another story!

Anyway, my brother Al was a genius no doubt, interestingly, after father’s leaving, he had begun to write, and became a writer, an unknown one, unfortunately, but he was an ingrained writer.

He’d helped me a lot to grow up, as I’m still doing it and thankful to have him all in my life.

his fortieth birthday
Just for fun 😉
Those days in 70th of state of euphoria
My 31th birthday in Iran

A long time ago, I shared one of his short stories in WordPress, and now I re-share it here if you’d like to have a read 😉

https://lampmagician.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/western-life-or-a-new-version-of-eves-story/