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  • Know Thyself #159

    Know Thyself through RESISTANCE

    Per Wikipedia: Toi Derricotte (pronounced DARE-ah-cot ) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet. She is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. From 2012–2017, Derricotte served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Derricotte is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.

     

    Joy is an act of resistance.

    -Toi Derricotte

     

    I wholeheartedly agree. In Wikipedia the  1st definition for the word Resistance is as follows:

    the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.

    4th definition for the word Resistance is as follows:

    opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness.

     

    To me, the word Resistance was chosen for a mashup of these two definitions.

    withstanding an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness.

    I think the poet likens the welcomed feeling of Joy to an act or resistance because Joy has become an unnatural feeling that we must fight to bring to our own notice.

    What do YOU think?

    … more “Know Thyself #159”

  • WIBCI Post #158

    WIBCI we IMPROVED in a year?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If I looked back and felt BETTER about something I posted?

     

    On May 17, 2025 I posted my second in the Wouldn’t It Be Cool If vein…. here it is:

    • WIBCI Post #2

      Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from LITERATURE?:

      WIBCI: AI only did things AI is better than humans at?

      AI should be doing computation and calculation, but that’s about it in my opinion.

      AI could be compared to Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984, no? When all creativity and individuality was sucked out of human existence and everything was grey, how did that work out?

      I think it would be Better for the Most if we left some things to the humans, forever:

      • Art: REALLY? Art is pain, sweat, tears and emotions. It is the way someone screamed out what was going on inside them. Computers can not do this. If AI creating anything that ‘represents’ you, please replace it with something that came from the mind/fingers/soul of a person. AI will definitely end up charging you down the line, just wait and see….
      • Music: I can’t even.
      • Writing Books: Kill me. Books are the only thing out there uninterrupted by the rest of the world’s opinions, that you can start and stop at any time without commercial interruption. Where YOU picture the characters, admire who YOU want and learn more about yourself, unabated. Can you imagine what a world would be like if only computers wrote books?!
      • Communicating FOR YOU?: Are you, for real, so lazy that you can’t write emails by yourself, take notes in a meeting, or write your own resume/paper/blog post? It is YOU that you are offering the world, correct? Aren’t YOU the best representative of you? If AI is writing/reading/taking notes on anything FOR you, how do you get better at these essential life skills? Do you have to act like and become ‘AI You’ more and more…..that sounds sucky.
      • Customer Service: Humans BARELY do this job well, bots BLOW.
        • COMPANIES, I’m speaking directly to you: I believe it would be Better for the Most, that, if you provide the public a service, you use a human to support that service. AI is very terrible at customer service. It is like companies have a new toy….’AI! Wow, I have no idea really what it is, nor understand the repercussions to humanity and it actually makes my company’s customer experience worse….WOO HOO….sign me up!’

      Please stop, or at least show on your website the % of your customer service that is represented by AI.

      AI is Stupid.

      What do YOU think?

       

    Well one year + and I still think AI is Stupid, but in 2026 I now have even more reason.

    I wish to add a bullet to the above list. One that honestly, didn’t occur to me. An art form that to me IS human. It is someone’s words, emotions, and physical existence that they molded into a visual story so you may consider your words, emotions and physical existence. I never thought AI would create MOVIES?!

    The trailer for the ‘World’s First Fully AI-Generated film dropped, and per Petapixel.com:

    TCLtv+ Studios is a brand new production team and its first release will be a short AI-generated romcom featuring professional voice actors and an original script but the imagery will be generated with AI tools.

    The studio is a brand of TCL ( which stands for Technology Group Corp.), a partially state-owned Chinese company that predominantly sells consumer electronics including televisions, mobile phones, air conditioners, and more.

    Next Stop Paris appears to be a romantic story between a woman called Claire who meets a man while on a train to the City of Light and is described as an “AI-powered love story.” 

    Ick. I tried to successfully watch the 1min trailer but could only make it through 43 seconds. I couldn’t continue after the robot girl in the fuzzy lighting with the dead emotion-free mask was sitting as her ‘man’ recklessly rides off into the blurry Champs-Elysees traffic when he is clearly 4 times the size of the other ‘humans’ and their vehicles. She ‘yells’

    “Wait! Don’t Go!“

    It isn’t said like a first time brokenhearted white girl losing the love of her life would say. It is said like a HauseWife ordering a latte. Ugh.

    This can be no kids first movie…. I like movies just the way they were, can we just leave this quadrant alone?

    The fakey fakey atmosphere, the thoughtless dialogue, the pandering narrator telling you what to think, the lifeless ‘actors’….. you have to suffer through all this to hear a story that computers created?! Why would I give a flying fig about what metal, wires, chips, and electricity creates? How would a machines take on story telling ever have anything to do with the life I’m living?

    Not to mention MAKING A LIVING! Look at this from AcademicJobs.com:

    ASPECT HUMAN PRODUCTION AI PRODUCTION (NEXT STOP PARIS)
    Cost $50M+ $100K
    Time 2-3 years 3 months
    Team Size 200+ 5 engineers
    Creativity Human intuition Prompt engineering

    I’m cool with 200+ people having a job creating art from a human’s life experiences. I’m cool with all the locations that were compensated for, all the extras, the caterers, the make-up artists, interns, and best boy grips that were or were not accounted for in that 200+. I’m cool with restaurants and hotels at off studio locations making some money.

    And that final row in the above chart:

    ASPECT HUMAN PRODUCTION AI PRODUCTION (NEXT STOP PARIS)
    Creativity Human intuition Prompt engineering

    Maybe from a business aspect ‘Prompt engineering’ is a plus over ‘Human Intuition’, but the ASPECT for this row is: CREATIVITY.

    Where does CREATIVITY come from when Humans produce the film? It sprouts from Human Intuition.

    Where does CREATIVITY come from when AI produces a film? Well….it lists ‘Prompt Engineering’ which is less like a where and more like … more “WIBCI Post #158”

  • Know Thyself #158

    Know Thyself though SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

    Know Thyself flashback repost from 5/21/2025.

    I wouldn’t change a thing…..

    • Know Thyself Post #5

      Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY:

      Try this:

      Go outside into the analog world with no electronics.

      Stand on the closest thing to the Earth as possible.

      Look around until the voices in your head stop telling you about what you have to do. This could take awhile. Be patient.

      Look at the sky…..watch it.

      Stay outside until you notice something beautiful.

      What did YOU notice?

      Rinse and Repeat tomorrow. Maybe for longer.… more “Know Thyself Post #5”

    … more “Know Thyself #158”

  • WIBCI Post #157

    WIBCI we learned from Death of Hypatia® moments?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from our mistakes?

    The documentary The American Experiment, per Netflick’s website is described as :  the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, a five-part historical documentary, released on June 24, reexamines the improbable achievement that was the nation’s founding, and the radical question at the center of the American Revolution: Can a people govern themselves? The American Experiment, now streaming, features a wide range of voices, including former vice presidents and cabinet officials, current and former members of Congress, a former Supreme Court justice, leading historians, tribal chiefs, military experts, and thought leaders across the political spectrum to present uniquely bipartisan and deeply informed conversations about the origins and future of American democracy.

    In one part Jelani Cobb the Dean of Columbia’s School of Journalism says:

    History is interred in the shallowest of graves. It is always closer to the surface than we recognize.

    What do YOU think he means by this? If true, what should we do about it, how do we learn from what is just under what is outward facing, waiting to bubble up again? Shouldn’t we analyze, anticipate, and proactively engage with the recurring mold, or ignore, cover it with a rug, and let it be someone else’s problem?… more “WIBCI Post #157”

  • Know Thyself #157

    Know Thyself AT REST:

    (per Dictionary.com):

    at rest / adj / as in comfortable

    1. In a state of inactivity or repose, either physical or mental. For example; The doctor’s clear explanation put her mind at rest . Chaucer used this idiom in Troilus and Cressida (c. 1374): “I mine heart set at rest upon this point.” Also see lay at rest .
    2. Dead, as in His soul is now at rest with his forebearers. This usage, employing rest to refer to death’s repose, is less common today. [1300s]

    Besides the dead part, being At Rest seems to be what I have longed for most in the world. I do not wish for the inactivity aspects, or the death part…. more along the lines of the as in comfortable part. Look at the following list of synonyms from Thesaurus.com for At Rest:

    Strongest matches: appropriate, complacent, convenient, cozy, easy, enjoyable, happy, healthy, loose, pleasant, pleased, relaxed, satisfying, serene, snug, soft, useful, and warm.

    I mean besides complacent, I’m on board to feel all those things as often as this world will allow. Serene? When was the last time you described anything in YOUR life as Serene. I mean I stumble into cozy, enjoyable and pleasant quite often, but I have only brushed against Serene for a few fleeting moments in the total of my existence.

    I would like it if people used any of the words above to describe me….. except in association with death and minus the word ‘complacent‘ no matter how misunderstood it claims to be

    After some thought I came up with some things that allow me to feel at least in the ballpark of the synonyms above: listening to records, cocktails on the dock, all things hygge (If you don’t know what hygge means see Know Thyself Post #85), anything French, playing the drums, Leonardo Da Vinci, old friends, traveling, Bill Murray, laugh attacks, dancing without wanting to impress, the smell of lilacs, pintxos, Mr. Darcy walking through the mist, Mozart, orgasms, chocolate, the color blue, the number 3, Charles Dickens, and spooning with my dog.

    What did/does/would make YOU feel At Rest?… more “Know Thyself #157”

  • WIBCI Post #156

    WIBCI if you knew what YOU thought?

    WOULDN’T IT BE COOL IF you knew YOU?

    With over 300 blog posts, I thought occasionally it might be good to go back to the beginning.

    I thought maybe I could re-state what the point of this site is. Therefore below you will find my definition as it appears on this Home Page:

    Death of Hypatia®

    This is not a platform for my opinions.

    If I was desirous of attention I would be on Social Media and I would not be anonymous.

    I believe it is difficult to express oneself without leaning in one direction or another. It is also difficult to listen to differing opinions openly, without the prejudice of others’ opinions previously heard. The point of this site is to make YOU think. Once you are able to think purely FOR YOURSELF you may absorb any information that is presented to you, be able to truly listen to others, and base the amount of absorption and energy expelled entirely on what YOU believe and nothing more.

    Although I there are Comment Sections and I’m frequently directing readers to think about things from their point of view; this does not mean I want to know what you think. If you wish to correct something inaccurate, or add thoughts……killer! It would/will be appreciated as I’m still learning too.

    I do not care what it is you think, I care that you think. FOR YOURSELF. I do not care if you agree or disagree with what I think, I care that you thought about it. BASED ON YOU AND ONLY YOU.  If you are looking for a site where you are told what to think so you can get warm and fuzzy feels for being in agreement with other’s opinions….this is not the place for you. If you are looking to be a part of a community that only exposes you to one way of thinking, where you are praised for acquiescing, where anything other than like-minded thoughts are not tolerated, please go elsewhere.

    All I want YOU to do is THINK, for yourself, without life’s distractions influencing YOU.

    Think of this site as the annoying kid on the playground, or a younger sibling who is constantly running up aggressively, cocking back as if to punch you, but pulls up at the last second. But instead of irritatingly chanting…‘made you blink!’, I’m ceaselessly reciting ‘made YOU THINK!‘

    This point stays true today. Read and spend time with yourself and learn what it is that you believe and think. It is my hope that people stop giving opinions or commenting on the opinions of others until they have done work to know who it is they are.

    When you speak is it YOU that is represented in the words and tone, or are the vapors of others present?

     

     … more “WIBCI Post #156”

  • Know Thyself #156

    Know Thyself though EXCESS

    The three best known Delphic maxims – “Know thyself”, “Nothing in excess”, and “Give a pledge and trouble is at hand” – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been authored by the legendary Seven Sages of Greece, or even by Apollo. In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs.

    I do not want to discuss Delphic Maxims, I’ll get to that eventually, but I would like to talk about ‘nothing INXS‘. Per Wikipedia, the expression ‘Nothing in excess’ was:

    The maxim has been said to have received its “ultimate expression” inAristotle’s theory of ethics, according to which every classical virtue occupies a middle place between the two extremes of excess and deficiency.

    So this has been a problem for awhile….

    In 1987 the INXS released the Kick album, on which keyboardist Andrew Farriss wrote the lyrics to the song “Mediate.”

    According to grokipedia.com the lyrics: ‘revolve around themes of emotional mediation, interpersonal compromise, and achieving balance in relationships and society through wordplay and rhythmic repetition.’

    I suggest you read the words with Andrew’s goals in mind when you watch/listen along with the song, you definitely need the beat. Then decide what you think about his cures and/or what YOU could do to achieve balance in your relationships and the current society. I highlighted words I particularly like…

    Mediate Video

    Mediate by Andres Farriss from INXS:

    Hallucinate, desegregate
    Mediate, alleviate
    Try not to hate, love your mate
    Don’t suffocate on your own hate
    Designate your love as fate
    A one-world state as human freight
    The number eight, a white-black state
    A gentle trait, the broken crate
    A heavy weight or just too late
    Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
    Now devastate, appreciate
    Depreciate, fabricate
    Emulate, the truth dilate
    Special date, the animals we ate
    Guilt debate, the edge serrate
    A better rate, the youth irate
    Deliberate, fascinate
    Deviate, reinstate

    Liberate to moderate
    Recreate or detonate
    Annihilate, atomic fate
    Mediate, clear the slate
    Activate, now radiate
    A perfect state, food on plate
    Gravitate, the Earth’s own weight
    Designate your love as fate
    At ninety-eight we all rotate

    Hallucinate, desegregate
    Mediate, alleviate
    Try not to hate, love your mate
    Don’t suffocate on your own hate
    Designate your love as fate
    A one-world state as human freight
    The number eight, a white-black state
    A gentle trait, the broken crate
    A heavy weight or just too late
    Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
    Now devastate, appreciate
    Depreciate, fabricate
    Emulate, the truth dilate
    Special date, the animals we ate
    Guilt debate, the edge serrate
    A better rate, the youth irate
    Deliberate, fascinate
    Deviate and reinstate

    Liberate, to liberate…

    … more “Know Thyself #156”

  • WIBCI Post #155

    WIBCI if we could do MATH?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If there were more PROOFREADERS?

    I found myself recently baffled by a Lunchaballs commercial. Picture a middle school cafeteria, a boy takes out one of the aforementioned Lunchaballs and makes an offer,

    ‘I’ll give you 1/5 of my cookies for 1/3 of your pizza.’

    The obviously hard-nosed girl at his table counters with a jab,

    ‘Don’t lowball me Harold, 2/10.’

    Harold looks to a nerdy kid with glasses across the cafeteria, whom, apparently, is good enough to get advice from, but not cool enough to sit with. Friendless Poindexter shakes his head in an emphatic ‘No’ advising his client to counter the counter.

    ‘3/10.’

    Without hesitation, sassy girl in the overhauls accepts with a handshake and one word:

    ‘deal.’

    The commercial’s tagline is:

    ‘Willingly doing fractions, that’s the Lunchaballs effect.’

     

    Now I have some issue with this commercial. Let’s start with the fact the math is wrong.

    Harold offered her 1/5 of his cookies and she countered with 2/10…which IS 1/5, a fact that eluded Harold’s brilliant phone-a-friend. Then she accepts 3/10ths?! Show me 3/10ths of cookies please. Now let’s play devils advocate and say that overhauls was countering 1/3 of her pizza down to 2/10ths. But that doesn’t work either because after some intense bargaining, she accepts 3/10ths, which is basically the same as 1/3rd, which is where they started.

    What I’m most mad at is that this commercial totes that eating their processed food will promote doing math at lunch. Do we not care that the math is wrong? Did none of the many adults that this copy passed in front of notice or question the maths? AI probably would have actually caught this one. I tried to watch it thinking that they knew the math was wrong, but was going an ironical, quirky route, but gave up on this as they never took the opportunity to do the wink-wink they would never pass up on. So did just no one think to think about the math? This failure failed to be noticed by anyone in pre, production, or post?

    huh. I feel It Would Be Cooler If someone noticed and stopped airing this one.… more “WIBCI Post #155”

  • Know Thyself #155

    Know Thyself through CLASSY ACTS

    As I have mentioned previously, 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of this independent nation of immigrants. The land where democracy flourishes, freedom reigns, and the pursuit of happiness is in full vigor. How better to celebrate the sustaining of those morals and edicts of our founding fathers and all those that perished in the name of this great republic?…..

    Why Ultimate Fighting of course.

    UFC Freedom 250, as it is coined….ick, will celebrate our country’s heritage, grit, and resilience will conveniently landing on the Pressie’s bday, and nauseatingly happening on the grounds of the White House.

    There is already an expensive, secure, and unnecessary ballroom being installed, a restaurant in the rose garden, and now an outdoor auditorium for men to hurt each other with less rules than boxing.

    Nothing like commercializing and cheapening our historic governmental landmarks.

    What’s next dunk tanks in the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, lighting spliffs off of JFK’s eternal flame at Arlington, monster truck rally’s along the National Mall? The Pressie’s sexist comments stopped Olympians from visiting the White House, but put on your wife beaters and bust out some oppressive flags, cause we have Ultimate Fighters performing! Ugh. When the spectators need to piss will they go in the actual White House or will they just dig a trench around the roses?

    Classy… more “Know Thyself #155”

  • WIBCI Post #154

    WIBCI we learned from HISTORY?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If today were more like 1975?

    Netflicks is airing a Documentary called: Breakdown: 1975 ‘ Wikipedia which has a disturbing lack of info describes that it: explores the year 1975 through the lens of American arts and culture, directed and produced by (Oscar winner) Morgan Neville.’  In IMDB’s snippet it describes the documentary as: ‘America, 1975. An era of social and political upheaval inspires a wave of groundbreaking movies in this documentary from Oscar winner Morgan Neville.’

    Weirdly neither site really talked about the movie, not the guts of it. It is as if all the copy was written by AI, whom of course could not be expected to get the point of the movie. You need blood flowing through your veins to be able to feel the vibe of what 1975 blood must have felt like through 1975 veins.

    This was a crazy bananas time for the United States. 1975 included a recession involving the worst financial slump and the highest unemployment of the post‐World War II era and April 30th marked the end of American involvement in Vietnam due to the humiliating collapse of South Vietnam as the North Vietnamese captured Saigon.

    10 years of war and over 58,000 lives….for what?

    But in the bi-centennial of our country, when it came to the movies, the post-war-happy-ending-escape was no longer palatable or profitable. It was a time for renegades and mavericks to be let loose behind and infant of cameras. A time when the studios released reigns to filmmakers like Spielberg, Lumet and Scorsese, people who might not have expressed themselves so bluntly otherwise. But, to me, what was even better was that the people wanted to be told the ugly truth and wanted to think about it, discuss it, and rail against it. I find the vibe of the people of 1975 to mirror the melancholy of today, but we don’t quite have the awareness, the focus, and the willingness to be uncomfortable enough to work at changing it.

    In one part the Senator Frank Church, the Chairman of the of the Senate Select Committee says:

    ‘If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge of this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny.’

    This was in 1975….eeesh

    … more “WIBCI Post #154”

  • Know Thyself #154

    Know Thyself through SKATEBOARDERS:

    I said I would occasionally resurface posts from last year, if I still found them relevant.

    I still believe in this one from 5/18/2025:

    Know Thyself Post #3

    Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY:

    Skateboarders…..

    I think kids that learned/are learning to skateboard are Better.

    They spend hours trying, watching, learning, and most importantly failing.

    Just because they want to.

    I’m impressed by the focus and fearlessness that is necessary to get good at something that physically hurts and takes a LOT of time.

    If I were ever interviewing someone, I would ask them to name something they spent a lot of time doing when they were young. Points would go to the skateboarders.

    You have proven focus and aren’t afraid of failing.

    I’d hire you.

    Makes me think of the things I really focused on throughout my life. Like go-to-bed-waking-up-obsessed-with kind of focus. When I remember feeling in these moments, I don’t recall anxiety. I remember being happy.

    What have YOU really focused on or willing to fail at throughout your life?

    Skateboarders Rule

    … more “Know Thyself #154”

  • WIBCI Post #153

    WIBCI women weren’t historically persecuted for their CUNNING?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If people were celebrated equally independent of sexual organs?

    Throughout history successful, intelligent, and ingenious women have been oppressed for being better than men.

    If a woman uses the resources available to her to stand out, help others, earn excessive amounts of money, to have (dare I say it?) power = she must be destroyed. If this powerhouse also imbibes empathy and/or inspires the underprivileged to improve their lot in life = she and her memory must be annihilated.

    According to one website I found: “In the Bible, “cunning women” typically refers to those who use deception or manipulative skills to achieve their ends, often found in contexts highlighting moral corruption or societal decay. For example, in Ezekiel 13:17-23, they are depicted as false prophets leading others astray through their enchanting but deceitful practices.”

    So women who achieve ends must be considered, I mean, they can’t have just used their brains, there must be evil magic involved.

    This website is called Death of Hypatia® and is based on the coverup of her murder, one of the biggest snow jobs in history.

    Hypatia of Alexandria

    Her ideas of inclusion and equality got her killed, and killed in the most horrible of fashion because her ideas flew in the face of the end goal of Christianity. Cyril, the man most believe responsible for her assassination, became a saint. They said she was a witch. If you want to learn more about Hypatia, you are at the right website….

    A common practice for white men throughout history. The native Americans celebrated the healers and truth sayers of their tribes, they did not think they produced or were propelled by evil. It wasn’t until the Colonists came that ‘witches’ were burned at the stake on this continent.

    Leonora Dori of France was deemed a witch when this once courtier fell out of favor with the new man on the throne and was executed. She had way too much power and epilepsy and therefore ruined and killed.

    Joan of Arc:  ‘is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years’ War. Stating that she acted under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France.’

    later she:

    ‘was put on trial by Bishop Pierre Cauchon on accusations of heresy, which included blaspheming by wearing men’s clothes, acting upon visions that were demonic, and refusing to submit her words and deeds to the judgment of the church. She was declared guilty and burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, aged about nineteen.’

    When she worked for the government, she was invincible, when she proved mortal, she was expendable.

    Think of all the women murdered throughout history for being better.

    Imagine all the better women who stayed in the shadows.

    Think of all we lost since we have yet to learn the lesson provided by the Death of Hypatia®

    WIBCI if the concept of Better For the Most was taken up by the ladies? Imagine allowing these glorious beasts off the bridal, of the places we would go.

     

     … more “WIBCI Post #153”

  • Know Thyself #153

    Know Thyself #153

    Know Thyself through your Sixth Sense:

    Many people believe that horses have a Sixth Sense, intuition. Apparently we have this sense too, but our world, our forms of communication, have overrun our ability to hone this sense and it has atrophied over time. Per SAMcef.org:

    Therefore, they (horses) listen a lot more, pay more attention, and are more aware of their surroundings.  They are more attuned to the energy around them and what’s happening around them.

    In the wild, that helps them tell if a predator is near or if the weather’s about to change. In our midst, it helps them assess our relationships with and attitudes towards them.

    In fact horses are so good at this that for the past 30+ years horses have been used in Equine-assisted therapy or EAT which has been known to help:

    Wikipedia: neurological diseases or disorders such as cerebral palsy, movement disorders, or balance problems. It is believed the rhythmical gait of a horse acts to move the rider’s pelvis in the same rotation and side-to-side movement that occurs when walking; the horse’s adjustable gait promotes riders to constantly adjust to encourage pelvic motion while promoting strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, posture, and mobility.

    EAT has also been used to treat other disabilities, such as autism, behavioral disorders and psychiatric disorders.

    EAT: Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) encompasses a range of treatments that involve activities with horses and other equines to promote human physical and mental health. Modern use of horses for mental health treatment dates to the 1990s. Systematic review of studies of EAT as applied to physical health date only to about 2007, and a lack of common terminology and standardization has caused problems with meta-analysis. 

    Horses have sixth sense just like we do.

    However, it’s normally a lot more intense than it is in humans. I believe this is because they don’t talk like we do — they aren’t always busy chit-chatting as we are.  Therefore, they listen a lot more, pay more attention, and are more aware of their surroundings.  They are more attuned to the energy around them and what’s happening around them.

    In the wild, that helps them tell if a predator is near or if the weather’s about to change. In our midst, it helps them assess our relationships with and attitudes towards them.

    In this post, I’ll be talking about a horse’s intuitiveness and how horses respond to humans’ emotions and energies. This should help you get an idea of how to build better relationships with the equines you work with.

    Isn’t that amazing? An animal, arguably simpler neurologically speaking than ourselves, but with the ability to read a room and  our feelings can get us humans to slow down, listen ourselves, and heal a bit?

    Why don’t YOU take a moment today to slow down and listen to yourself?… more “Know Thyself #153”

  • WIBCI Post #152

    WIBCI our Country STOOD FOR its EMBLEMS?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If our SYMBOLS gave the RIGHT impression?

    Per Wikipedia: The Great Seal of the United States: 

    is the seal of the United States of America. The phrase is used both for the impression device itself, which is kept by the United States secretary of state, and more generally for the impression it produces. The obverse of the Great Seal depicts the national coat of arms of the United States while the reverse features a truncated pyramid topped by an Eye of Providence. The year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid. The seal contains three Latin phrases: E Pluribus Unum (“Out of many, one“), Annuit cœptis (“He has favored our undertakings”), and Novus ordo seclorum (“A new order of the ages”).

    Largely designed by Charles Thomson, then secretary of the Continental Congress, and William Barton, and first used in 1782, the seal is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government of the United States. Since 1935, both sides of the Great Seal have appeared on the reverse of the one-dollar bill. The coat of arms is used on official documents—including United States passports—military insignia, embassy placards, and various flags. The seal of the president is directly based on the Great Seal, and its elements are used in numerous government agency and state seals.

    ‘Out of many, one’, this is in direct reference to our basis in immigration. The fact that this symbol that should represent what is best about us is what the seal of the Pressie is based off of.

    We are this symbol and the impression it gave, gives, and will continue to give in the future. Think about the words, symbol, emblem, and impression. What does this seal embody? Does our current administration embody these traits?

    We should be accountable when we stray from this keystone of our country, at least that’s how I feel. YOU?… more “WIBCI Post #152”

  • Know Thyself #152

    Know Thyself through REM

    This amazing song written by Michael Stipe in 1987 and to me, rings true today.

    Please listen to the song and read the lyrics as you go, and think what YOU think: It’s The End of The World

     

    “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”

    That’s great! It starts with an earthquake
    Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
    and Lenny Bruce is not afraid

    Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
    World serves its own needs, don’t mis-serve your own needs
    Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no strength
    The ladder starts to clatter with fear of height, down height
    Wire in a fire, representing seven games
    In a government for hire and a combat site
    Left of west and coming in a hurry
    With the furies breathing down your neck

    Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop
    Look at that low plane! Fine, then
    Uh oh, overflow, population, Common Food
    But it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself
    World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
    Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right
    You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
    Feeling pretty psyched

    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

    Six o’clock. TV hour
    Don’t get caught in foreign tower
    Slash and burn, return
    Listen to yourself churn
    Lock him in uniform and book burning, bloodletting
    Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate
    Light a candle, light a votive
    Step down, step down
    Watch a heel crush, crush
    Uh oh, this means no fear; cavalier
    Renegade and steer clear!
    A tournament, a tournament
    A tournament of lies
    Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
    And I decline

    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    I feel fine

    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
    (It’s time I had some time alone)

    The other night I tripped a nice
    Continental drift divide
    Mountains sit in a line
    Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev
    Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
    Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom!
    You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? (Right!)

    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    It’s the end of the world as we know it
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
    (It’s time I had some time alone)
    REPEAT THREE MORE TIMES

     … more “Know Thyself #152”

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