Anita Kapoor

Wow, Ipoh.

How you held me in this simple, soaring cradle discovering your literal stone age, now inset with Buddha statues and Buddhist goddesses and spots to give thanks or just sit and breathe, amidst all the wild grace and texture and wonder of limestone and light and soft, clear energy. Thank you 🫶🏾

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resistance always terrifies the terrorisers for it is the antidote to the acceptance of the open drugging and numbing of humanity

it is quickly met with a rip upon rip of violent cruelty and a degradation psychological and physical in response, for resistance shocks with its powerful, visible, visceral, beautiful, honest, glorious scream of freedom

the ones who withstand, who defy, who refuse to break, who stand with eyes wide open, who place their bodies and souls in the line of fire, who trust their will and the will of one another are always despised

because they represent what the cowardice in the crowd could never dream to achieve

the true love of self determination made fully, roaringly, courageously visible

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This is what happened in Rafah yesterday.

In his book The Myth of Normal, Dr. Gabor Maté shares some of the ways in which “trauma fosters a shame-based view of the self”.

Shame can stem from believing that we are not good enough, and it shows up differently in each of us. It may look like relentless overachieving in our professional careers, inability to recognize and communicate our needs or adopting compulsive or addictive behaviours to suppress feelings of discomfort.

As a therapist, creating safety in your interactions with a client can help them recognize when and how shame began to occupy a greater space in their self-appreciation.

We invite you to share with us:
What helps you feel safe and connected to others?

In 1886, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy published a short story called “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” Its protagonist, a poor farmer named Pahóm, dreams of becoming a landowner. He thinks, “If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself!” The Devil is listening, and decides to orchestrate a series of events. The story ends as Pahóm collapses on a fatal quest to gain more land, a stream of blood flowing from his mouth.

Tolstoy wasn’t an economist; in fact, he was so profligate with money that he once lost his family’s rural estate in a card game. But “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” contains many insights about money and psychology. Read about the moral dimension Tolstoy saw in economic thinking—and what economists could learn from him today: http://nyer.cm/qL0yD28

Yesterday was vindication, hearing South Africa deliver their case to the International Court of Justice, broadcasted on multiple platforms, live.

South Africa supporting Palestine in this most important carriage of justice, proving with truth, dignity, integrity and solidarity what it is as a country once ravaged by apartheid to understand and demonstrate what ‘never again’ truly means.

After three months witnessing the Israeli govt and army bloated from a toxic cocktail of psychosis, self righteousness and arrogance release mass targetted destruction, murder, despair and now disease and starvation upon Gaza, and the shame of media censorship and cowardly govts, for everyone to freely hear in words and see in images on the biggest stage the toxic genocidal rage and depravity that the 🇮🇱 govt and army and all their global supporters and abetters has unleashed onto Gaza and her people, is vindication for months of this collective attempt at invalidating, gaslighting, mocking and abuse.

Free Palestine is not a slogan or a hashtag. It is a carriage of justice.

Do not look away

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January 23, 2024: Gabor in conversation on Israel/Palestine with Rabbi David Wolpe, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles.

You can register via the QR code on the graphic, or here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScubabjwJXM3_wLXvIi8iZu8nRQ6QD-zAG1tHOYUEa0EYlUiw/viewform?pli=1

An endangered river dolphin finds an unlikely savior: fisherfolk In Pakistan, illiterate fishermen have become citizen scientists, helping to revive the fortunes of the endangered Indus River dolphin.

Blink and you may miss it

In 1990, Nasa's Voyager space probe captured this famous photo of Earth from six billion kilometres away.

Caught in a sun beam, our planet is a tiny blue speck, giving a sense of our small place in the Universe.
🎧 https://bbc.in/47iVJNF

Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbench

“I have lived in Gaza for almost all my life, and these are the first Israeli soldiers I have ever seen. I am not afraid of them, but I will be soon.” The poet Mosab Abu Toha recounts what happened when he and his family tried to flee his homeland. http://nyer.cm/5GQJFNO

Sharing this again x

Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow,” Henry David Thoreau penned in his journal. What is it about walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to thinking and writing? The answer begins with changes to our chemistry. Read about the curious link between mind and feet: http://nyer.cm/9xbFT0J

Do you see it?

Friends, deeply talented and heart led. Come have a look see at their work

Unloaded yet another kiln full of lovely ceramics for next Sunday's sale. It will be our last event of 2023 for Mud Rock! Come join us for some of our traditional mulled wine on the house, or get a nice cuppa coffee with some fresh bakes, shop for some handmade gifts either by us at Mud Rock, or our friends!! , and .co will be joining us next Sunday too! Yes! There will also be our usual seconds discounted items and extra rezzo stock.
Some things to take note of!
🎁 Wrapping for ceramics will be complimentary but pls be patient w us.
💵 Payment can be in cash, credit card, paywave, paynow or grabpay.
🍺🫕🍷 There will be mulled wine, coffee and craft beer. Sorry, I ain't doing lemonade again cus boy was that insane. Lolol
🐕🐒🦝: Pets are allowed!

Thank you .life for allowing me to repost your words which capture the times we are in and the offering towards and through us into the earth and ether of this word

Very grateful to have been included; to meet so many open minds and hearts. Thank you for making visible what should be and inviting us to participate and share. Diversity, inclusion and equity is nothing without a diversity of experiences being recognised, given voice to being respected heard and, actioned.

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Amidst the shock and horror that sits in my lungs as grief that does not go away of finding out in blood and torn flesh and broken bones that there are people who have learnt to want and need other people to be wiped off this earth, I dare an offering to their brokenness.

Naive stupidity you may say, who are you, small person, in the face of the language, practice, perversions and depravity of violence, abuse and hate.

Still I offer it, to the brokenness that postures as your power, you who raise your voices, arms and weapons to finish others off, in a finale of grand relief, of blood tainted joy.

As a remembrance of an innocence once felt in your human body now tucked away and forgotten, replaced with the ever metastasizing belief and desire of greed to right old wrongs and feed shame.

Here is your innocence.

May you remember it.

May you remember the innocence of your own ancestors.

May you understand how the act of removing the innocence of others is a debt you will never be able to escape, there will always be a need to repay.

I offer you your innocence, as an end and a beginning ✊🏾🍉

Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow,” Henry David Thoreau penned in his journal. What is it about walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to thinking and writing? The answer begins with changes to our chemistry. Read about the curious link between mind and feet: http://nyer.cm/LBsZA1H

Announcing my new boo.

He’s gorgeously talkative, colourful, pecks my head and copies all my swear words.

It’s love.

(In a gruelling helpless, horrifying week for the world, I hope this makes you smile, that your shoulders drop a little and you exhale)

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