Enjoying the simple things in life with my little family. Herman the German Friendship Cake. The rays of the sun. Thunder storm and raindrops on roses.

To what you want to endure. Broken spirit, broken toe. Can all have the same. Ripped apart heart, ripped apart knee. The only way to get. Through the anguish is to realize. A force unnoticed until now,.

Jenny Arntzen, BFA, MA, PhD. I just finished listening to Dr. Virginia Campbell Brain Science podcast. Replay of her 2012 interview with Dr. My argument is that our human consciousness, what we are capable of imagining, is an expression of these macroscopic distributed complex systems of cognition that are e.

She is both exactly the same and completely different from her sister, G. There are moments when I look at her and she reminds me so much of her big sis. Then there are times when she is just E.

We Are Survivors, Not Yet Thrivers. They do it because for most of human history, defying authority got you killed. We are the timid survivors of a genocide of free spirits. Everyone always wants things to stay the same, and they never do. Life is about changing gracefully.

I write what I feel and when that fails me, I paint it. Or play it on my Violin or Piano. I have a lot of spare time.

No, my greatest emotional trauma related to this pregnancy is that I am fairly sure that the baby I am carrying is a girl. This would be wonderful news for many parents, but not for me. Because I know what it is to be a girl and a woman in South Africa.