Monday, 31 December 2007
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Priceless things
I was thinking about some stuff that I supposedly needed; material goods.
Then I reminded myself that I have some priceless things that, in spite we live in the 21st Century, many women on this planet, though they may have those material goods, don’t have, like freedom to be myself, empowerment…
And I felt, and still feel, grateful for those invaluable possessions.
So I pray and hope that those women can, one day, accomplish them.
Feeling blue
(picture found on the web)Mother wasn’t that good today.
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease.
”Life happens,” someone has said. No matter how hard we try, there are “down” times.
These may not be full of depression, simply what we call “the blues,” when it is difficult to be enthusiastic.
Perhaps this is a lesson…value the people in our life and don’t take them for granted.
Saturday, 29 December 2007
A god treat
Me and my husband, we habitually don’t lunch at home on working days. We usually go to a place where they have a buffet and we can choose, from several things, what to eat.Some of you probably know that I’m vegetarian, which is something that, in our little community, isn’t easy to carry on.
It’s not easy because it’s complicated to get the goods vegetarians need to make the food taste good, and to give the body the nutrients required.
And if at home one can manage things, it’s more problematical out. It’s a small market, and the places owners aren’t open to take risks in something they can’t put up for sale.
Been back to the issue, generally I choose some salads and something more among what’s there. But it can be boring, eating almost the same every day, and I complain to the lady owner.
Yesterday we went there, and as soon as she saw me she told, “-Today I’ve something especially for you.”; “-Oh yeah?”
Well, she ordered the cooker to make a Soya recipe just for me, and it tasted so good.
Besides the good food taste I felt so incredibly treated.
That’s the duality of small communities.
Though it can have some limitation, there are the people efforts to make things to others.
Friday, 28 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/28
My black Levi's pair of jeans my sister has given me
Detail of my italian medallion, my hubby bought me at Firenze (Florence) on our italian trip
Thursday, 27 December 2007
The Flickr wardrobe_remix
All of you probably know the Flickr wardrobe_remix group. I’m not presenting a new.But I love those Flickr girls. They do their mix and remix with clothes and all look great.
I don’t have much time to check them as often as I would like, but now and then I stop by and look at several of them.
So I leave you with a few photos of some of them, from different places.
*franca*----------- persephassa-------------zubra4ka
(If any of you didn’t want to be in this post, just tell me and I’ll remove the photo)
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated
Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide bombing.
At age 35, Benazir Bhutto was one of the youngest chiefs of state in the world. More than that, she was the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of an Islamic country, but the road that brought her to power had already led through exile, imprisonment and devastating personal tragedy.
After more than eight years in exile, Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 2007, weeks before a national election.
A Great Woman has died.
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
Todays's Outfit - 12/26
I just will be at my office on January, until then I'm wearing comfortable clothes.
Dressing over 40
I have been recently reading some post and articles, like this, (and this and here and there, and so one…), regarding age-appropriate dressing for women over 40.The recommendation is usually you can wear today’s trends, but just toned down. And, of course, the age-old piece of advice: If you don’t feel comfortable wearing it, then no matter how age-appropriate it may or may not be, then don’t wear it.
So, should a woman over 40 dresses differently than a woman under 40?
A forty-plus woman is in the most unique position of any generation before her. She is living in unexplored territory where there is no precedent. Being in your forties, fifties or sixties is no longer what it once was. Forty is now tagged “the new thirty.” The forty-plus woman no longer fits the former labels of “mature, middle-aged or older.”
I think the truth is that dressing after 40 depends partly on ones body, partly on ones attitude, and ones good sense.
The whole package counts - your personality, hair, make-up, and lifestyle.
I understand this isn’t a new issue, but what do you think about it??
Quote of the Day
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. "- Voltaire
Tuesday, 25 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/25
I was prepared to wear a dress today, but I loved so much the tunic my husband gave me for Xmas that I had to redo it.
Monday, 24 December 2007
Coca Cola Christmas Advert (2007) - Northern Ireland Version
Coca Cola Christmas advert as shown on UTV and Channel 4 in Northern Ireland. This advert was originally shown in 2006 and differs from the rest of the UK in that it uses a variation of the 'Holidays are Coming' music instead of the original soundtrack.
(This post is thinking only in the loveliness of the message, and has no commercial purpose or advertising.)
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Friday, 21 December 2007
Winter Solstice
Tonight brings the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere .
Solstice means "standing still sun."
Such precision we have about it now! Winter solstice is when...
...because of the earth's tilt, your hemisphere is leaning farthest away from the sun, and therefore:
The daylight is the shortest.
The daylight is the shortest.
The sun has its lowest arc in the sky.
No one's really sure how long ago humans recognized the winter solstice and began heralding it as a turning point -- the day that marks the return of the sun. One delightful little book written in 1948, 4,000 Years of Christmas, puts its theory right up in the title. The Mesopotamians were first, it claims, with a 12-day festival of renewal, designed to help the god Marduk tame the monsters of chaos for one more year.
It's a charming theory. But who knows how accurate it is? Cultural anthropology has advanced a lot in the last 50 years!
Many, many cultures the world over perform solstice ceremonies. At their root: an ancient fear that the failing light would never return unless humans intervened with anxious vigil or antic celebration.
An utterly astounding array of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures -- tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories -- so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. Many of us know that Stonehenge is a perfect marker of both solstices.
Winter solstice was overlaid with Christmas, and the observance of Christmas spread throughout the globe. Along the way, we lost some of the deep connection of our celebrations to a fundamental seasonal, hemispheric event. Many people--of many beliefs--are looking to regain that connection now.
Winter solstice celebrations aren't just an invention of the ancient Europeans. Native Americans had winter solstice rites.
In Iran, there is the observance of Yalda, in which families kept vigil through the night and fires burned brightly to help the sun (and Goodness) battle darkness (thought evil).
Winter solstice celebrations are also part of the cultural heritage of Pakistan and Tibet. And in China, even though the calendar is based on the moon, the day of winter solstice is called Dong Zhi, "The Arrival of Winter." The cold of winter made an excellent excuse for a feast, so that's how the Chinese observed it, with Ju Dong, "doing the winter."
Winter solstice celebrations are also part of the cultural heritage of Pakistan and Tibet. And in China, even though the calendar is based on the moon, the day of winter solstice is called Dong Zhi, "The Arrival of Winter." The cold of winter made an excellent excuse for a feast, so that's how the Chinese observed it, with Ju Dong, "doing the winter."
And what of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights that occurs around this time every year? Is it related to other celebrations of the season?
The form of this celebration, a Festival of Lights (with candles at the heart of the ritual), makes Hanukkah wonderfully compatible with other celebrations at this time of year. As a symbolic celebration of growing light and as a commemoration of spiritual rebirth, it also seems closely related to other observances.
There is a whole series of medieval English carols on the subject of the rivalry between the holly and the ivy. In many of them, the holly and ivy symbolized male and female, and the songs narrated their often rowdy vying for mastery in the forest or in the house.
And the next time you find yourself in a store, getting annoyed at incessant repetitions of "the Carol of the Bells," consider this: it's a remnant of the pre-Christian winter solstice celebration in the Ukraine. The Ukrainian carol called "Shchedryk" has the same melody as the Carol of the Bells, but different English words. The word "Shchedryk" means the "Generous One". It refers to the god of generosity, the Dazh Boh - the Giver God, which is the sun
In many cultures, customs practiced at Christmas go back to pre-Christian times. Many involve divination--foretelling the future at a magic time: the season turning of solstice.
And in many, many cultures, it's considered bad luck for a fire or a candle to go out on Christmas Day. So keep those candles burning!
And in many, many cultures, it's considered bad luck for a fire or a candle to go out on Christmas Day. So keep those candles burning!
The Winter of Listening
No one but me by the fire, my hands burning red in the palms while the night wind carries everything away outside.
All this petty worry while the great cloak of the sky grows dark and intenseround every living thing.
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire,what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
What we hate in ourselves is what we cannot know in ourselves but what is true to the pattern does not need to be explained.
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
Even with summer so far off I feel it grown in me now and ready to arrive in the world.
All those years listening to those who had nothing to say.
All those years forgetting how everything has it own voice to make itself heard.
All those years forgetting how easily you can belong to everything simply by listening.
And the slow difficulty of remembering how everything is born from an opposite and miraculous otherness.
So let this winter of listening be enough for the new life I must call my own. Every sound has a home from which it has come to us and door through which it is going again out into the world to make another home.
We speak only with the voices of those we can hear ourselves and the body has a voice only for that portion of the body of the world it has learned to perceive.
It becomes a world itself by listening hard for the way it belongs.
There it can learn how it must be and what it must do.
And here in the tumult of the night I hear the walnut above the child’s swing swaying its dark limbs in the wind and the rain now come to beat against my window and somewhere in this cold night of wind and stars the first whispered opening of those hidden and invisible springs that uncoil in the still summer air each yet to be imagined rose.
All this petty worry while the great cloak of the sky grows dark and intenseround every living thing.
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire,what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
What we hate in ourselves is what we cannot know in ourselves but what is true to the pattern does not need to be explained.
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
Even with summer so far off I feel it grown in me now and ready to arrive in the world.
All those years listening to those who had nothing to say.
All those years forgetting how everything has it own voice to make itself heard.
All those years forgetting how easily you can belong to everything simply by listening.
And the slow difficulty of remembering how everything is born from an opposite and miraculous otherness.
So let this winter of listening be enough for the new life I must call my own. Every sound has a home from which it has come to us and door through which it is going again out into the world to make another home.
We speak only with the voices of those we can hear ourselves and the body has a voice only for that portion of the body of the world it has learned to perceive.
It becomes a world itself by listening hard for the way it belongs.
There it can learn how it must be and what it must do.
And here in the tumult of the night I hear the walnut above the child’s swing swaying its dark limbs in the wind and the rain now come to beat against my window and somewhere in this cold night of wind and stars the first whispered opening of those hidden and invisible springs that uncoil in the still summer air each yet to be imagined rose.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/19
Black coat, pants, boots, mustard scarf, green "something" cardigan and a graphics printed shirt in blue, purple, white, and that green.
When it comes to "jewellery", I'm more a necklace "girl", but today I putted my mustard earrings (the picture doesn't show it... sorry)
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/18
Today the cold didn't catch me up!! I had so many clothes layers that I looked fatter. I even wore my beret and gloves. My overcoat it's at the cleaner.
Monday, 17 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/17
Suddenly the weather has change. Saturday was a sunny warm day. Today when I left my office it was 11º C. No, I was not prepared, my coat was thin and I felt chilly. Tomorrow I must wear something hotter.
My Husband’s Spanish Last Name
My husband is from the Main Land but my grandfather’s husband was Spanish (from his father’s side), therefore my husband’s last name is Spanish. In our community it’s an unusual name. So he/we frequently get problems when it’s needed to write his last name.
Thus, when one asks us with a sort of dummy face “How do you spell it?” we say “It’s like the Spanish city!!!”
Generally we laugh, occasionally he gives my name.
Thus, when one asks us with a sort of dummy face “How do you spell it?” we say “It’s like the Spanish city!!!”
Generally we laugh, occasionally he gives my name.
Basílica del Pilar and river Ebro
At that Spanish city
Sunday, 16 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/16
This is a weekend look, because in spite of some crazy things I ware at the office, I'm not seeing me wearing this.... yet :)
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Introducing to Reiki
Some of you probably have heard about Reiki, for those who didn’t just a few words about it.
The word Reiki comes from two Japanese words, Rei and Ki. Rei may be interpreted as supernatural knowledge or spiritual consciousness. This is the Wisdom that comes from God or the Higher Self. This Wisdom knows the cause of all problems and how to heal them.Ki is the life force, the non-physical energy that animates all living things. Reiki may, therefore, be defined as spiritually guided life force energy.A Reiki healer acts as a channel between the Wisdom and the other person. The healer has no influence on the degree of healing but simply facilitates the flow of energy to where it is best needed. Reiki touches on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.
Reiki healing is transferred to the student by a Reiki Master where the student is connected to the Reiki source.
There are three degrees which are taken in order and it is best to allow a period of time and practice between each degree.
Reiki is not a religion. It can be defined as a spiritual path.
When I first came in contact with Reiki in 2004 it was by one of those coincidences that sometimes seem to lead our lives in new directions, (despite I don't belive in coincidences). And it did.
Now I’m a second degree practitioner.
Important, one must do not use Reiki as a replacement for conventional care or to delay the time it takes to see a doctor about a medical problem.
Namasté
Friday, 14 December 2007
Today's Outfit - 12/14
My LBD
Today was the Xmas lunch from work, I choose a more classic look
The shoes
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