tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30811953317895042492024-03-05T11:13:24.340-08:00iAgingWhat started in 2011 as a blog recording a six-month sabbatical to Australia, Doha, London, Malta and Turkey...ended up recording my own personal views of aging as I travel through my aging process.
Followed by my second sabbatical in 2018-2019 that takes me to Malta, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, S Korea, Japan continues around the world to Canada and back to San Diego. An eight-month odyessy.Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-47862196599731634722019-02-22T02:09:00.001-08:002022-09-16T20:43:21.389-07:00Religion<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UKwDKF5GUCf0SZSfAfPDseRF8Uwie4JzkvXLiSOG5xsX6youZ1IU0mnP1TlI6NtzySHPHz43K3qooQiQTKdlZ-didXcCwbKiiE2d6X1mTZ5YeLEpZwnZ5qdaOQYRknrTJjgWC9rWduVu/s1600/20190116_170624.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1600" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UKwDKF5GUCf0SZSfAfPDseRF8Uwie4JzkvXLiSOG5xsX6youZ1IU0mnP1TlI6NtzySHPHz43K3qooQiQTKdlZ-didXcCwbKiiE2d6X1mTZ5YeLEpZwnZ5qdaOQYRknrTJjgWC9rWduVu/s320/20190116_170624.jpg" width="320" /></a>Why do people feel a need to believe in religion? Walking around South East Asia there are temples everywhere. In small communities of less then 150 residents that I visited, a village that does not have running water, electricity, internet or paved roads there is a buddhist enclave and a modest temple. Around Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, any corner that has some significance to someone you will find a little offering left over for the gods. There are prayer niches everywhere. Small peaked wooden columns, some only inches high while others are about 5 feet tall adorn the side of streets.<br />
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Sometimes painted in garish colors, these spirit houses are dotted all over the landscape. Companies have them outside their offices to protect their business. They are prevalent in Asia and also in Africa. While in Europe there are effigies of saints dotted all around sometimes in street corners fulfilling the same promise of protection. People leave offerings of food and sometimes briefly pray in front of them.<br />
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There is a human need to relate to an external entity that resides close to us. In our geography. When Carl Jung discussed religion he assumed that it was collective unconscious. Sigmund Freud on the other hand believed that religion was a collective neurosis. Freud was strongly anti-religious. But Jung, as the only son of a Protestant pastor with eight of his uncles being pastors, his interpretation was less flippant than Freud's. Jung believed that religion gave us an ideal, an archetype. Jung argued that this helps us in individuation--trying to become who we truly are. The archetype is an ideal that we aim to become. We honor the dead with a tomb, head stones or a stupa (below) as a way of remembering those that passed.<br />
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Some of us need to remind ourselves of the legacy that they left behind. Some of these remembrance might be hubris, the fear of death and finality, or erecting an edifices for your continued immortality. All of these reasons for erecting reminders of dead people are valid. There are also other reasons. Some want to promote a cause, to promote a religion as with the legacy of Indian Emperor Ashoka (273—232 BCE). In Ashoka's example he wanted to promote Buddhism and he did this by erecting such reminders of the prophet.<br />
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Initially the body of Buddha was cremated in the Indian town of Kushinagar and the ashes divided and buried under eight mounds (stupas) with two further stupas built to encase the urn and the embers. According to Buddhist tradition, Ashoka recovered the relics of the Buddha from these stupas (except for one), and erected 84.000 stupas across Asia including Laos. The national stupa in Laos the Pha That Luang whose image can be found on all government emblems and also represented on its money is so revered that it signifies the Laotian national identity. It is believed to house the breastbone of Lord Buddha despite historical evidence that Buddha was cremated.<br />
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Philip Sherrard wrote about Jung's interpretation of religious symbols and concluded that all of religion is within the psychology of people, that there is no higher truth. As a psychologist he sees religion as a result of psychology. Theologians on the other hand contest this since they are used to thinking in ultimate truths. Both views are relative to their discipline. An undeniable fact emerges that most people around the world need to have this ideal. A god of some sort. Someone or something that we look up to as an ideal. In the process we also revere those that remind us of attaining or persevering to reach this ideal.<br />
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In the Buddha Park in Vientiane, Laos, there is a statue of a four-faced buddha with four outreached arms signifying the basis for life: earth, wind, water and fire. Around the sculpture arranged in a circle are statues of men in all walks of life, from an frail older man bent over his walking stick, to generals and important statesman in their fineries.The message is that this life is transient that we are temporarily in passage through this life to another life. This is the state of Samsara an unenlightened state (the opposite of Nirvana that state of being enlightened.) We can decide to go through it in one form, but eventually we will all die. On top of the heads of the Buddha are other layers, an abbreviated Buddhist wheel of life with five or six realms. The skulls depicting the pain of hell (yama) and the eternal suffering of the those who experience greed, ignorance and hatred. The second tier is crowned by regular faces depicting life on earth and of all the animals with humans have the best chance for enlightenment. The third tier is toped by monsters as gods, or devas, or as angry gods, called Titans or asuras.These live longer than humans but are not immortal. Atop of these are snakes that lack the awareness to be enlightened. Right at the top are the angelic faces of enlightenment.<br />
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One can easily see the influence on psychoanalysis, especially Freudian analyses. The angry ghosts, normally depicted by having small mouths and big bellies, whose desires cannot be satiated, easily fits into Freudian repressed desires that created the need for the id, ego, and superego as dynamic forces. Although religions mix and match among each other, there is a certain consistency to them that Jung grappled with. For him it was easy, he believed in a god. For Freud, it was difficult to address it intellectually as he found it to be below intellect, but more in the realm of primitive desires and needs. But both are right...there is a primal need to aim for an ideal. Not perhaps we are spiritual or higher beings, but perhaps that is how our brain works. We develop a perfect model of the world inside our heads. In this model, everything is perfectly balanced and is accumulated from a lifelong interaction we have with the world, with our environment. From the very first moment of our birth to the last moments of our death we interact with the world and we adjust and modify this model. Within this perfect Xbox we have a role for perfect things because they fit nicely into our scheme of things. Religion and deities fit in perfectly. We yearn such perfect entities as they are easily accommodated in how we view the world, how the world should be: just and orderly. Even in towns without running water, electricity or cellular networks, the need to honor this perfect world that we have inside our brain is great enough for people to represent it in their small community by creating a representation of what is in their mind. Every time I see these spirit houses or niches adoring some deity I think about the perfect world that each of us carries with us in our head.Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-23357252461650914732019-02-22T00:29:00.000-08:002019-03-02T23:00:27.501-08:00Banality <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;">Visiting the S21 killing fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is sobering. A holocaust that the West was complicit in and silent about to this day. Between 1975 to 1979, 1.7 to 3 million Cambodians were executed, some 25% of the population were wiped out by a paranoid and delusional cabal headed by Pol Pot. A name Saloth Sar gave himself as a <i>nom de guerre, </i> similar to the rites of passage of buddhist monks when they are given a new name. Saloth Sar gave himself this name and renamed all those in his cadre of the Khmer Rouge. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">After visiting the killing fields, which originally was a peaceful ancient Buddhist Chinese cemetery,</span><span style="text-align: center;"> I went on to tour the interrogation compound at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. The structure is eerily still reminiscent of the high school it once was. Rows of classrooms along a corridor with metal guard rails for windows. The yellow and white ceramic floor tiles reminiscent of my early schools in Malta, perhaps the same French tiles. Of course now the only vestige remaining is of the time when it was used as an interrogation prison under the Khmer Rouge (1875-1979). Photographs of faces of the detained and later to be executed prisoners lining rows upon rows of the walls of the compound. All staring with disbelief that their life has taken such a quick turn. Some young, some old, men, women, children. An equitable selection, no discrimination. And the thought that kept cropping up is how can this have happened out in the open? The compound is smack in the center of Phnom Penh, the largest city (then and now) in Cambodia. And not just the locals who turned a blind eye, the Khmer Rouge held United Nations status even after being overthrown (by the Vietnamese). Khmer Rouge even received funding from the U.N. after this known holocaust. Where is the indignation? And then I learned a little bit more of the history and the pieces started coming together.</span><br />
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Pol Pot and his cadre gained prominence because the population were desperate, angry, frightened and starving. The illegal and unauthorized (by Congress) USA bombing of Cambodia, the social and economic fabric was further destabilized, following decades of brutal and corrupt governance. An impoverished populace become desperate. The US had dropped more than 500,000 tons of bombs on Cambodian, while propping up the corrupt and incompetent anti-communist regime of Marshal Lon Nol who in a <i>coup d'etat</i> eventually stole power from absent Prince Sihanouk (whose son is now King of Cambodia). Within this fertile anger rose a timid and shy teacher. Pol Pot rose from being a simple teacher to a savor of the Cambodian people. He promised hope for the mostly illiterate farming community, who have been left out of what little progress was made in the cities. He promised a time of greatness when the Khmer nation was strong. When Khmer was a sovereign power that at the peak of its power in the thirteenth century had ruled an empire stretching from Malaysia to Laos from Vietnam to Burma. He promised Khmer to be first and only. He wanted Cambodia to be self sufficient and independent. He promised to shake up the system and bring equity and make the system fair. Does that sound familiar? And if it does then you can empathize with me when I realized why we have also been complicit in our silence. We are again going through this cycle of history. We are afraid to admit it because we are again so close to it. This must be the peak (trough?) of the banality of humanity and we are all responsible in our silence.<br />
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There is a film that says this better. The 2015 <i>Look Who's Back</i>, a German film by the director David Wnendt that explores the possibility of Hitler coming back today. The comedy quickly changes into a lesson in history when the character playing Hitler admits that it is not him that brings about change but the people that ask for it. He is simply a product of what the public wants. We are ultimately responsible for the people we elect to govern us. They, the individuals we revere or detest, are simply a catalyst. Willing catalysts.<br />
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Which brings us back to the Pol Pot regime and our silence and what it tells us about our current governments. I saw a contraption for waterboarding and immediately was reminded of how the U.S. president Trump approves of this illegal torture and how he spews this opinion not just with impunity but with nonchalance.<br />
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As I touched the contraption I had a visceral feeling of how I would react to its torture, and that possibility become real. How easy for someone to put me through that inhumanity, publicly and without remorse. I realized that for some, under my government, they already have experienced this, we are already there. The line between doing and pontificating hatred is being erased. And we sit there complicit in our silence in our fear that at least it was not us. The banality of humankind is a mirror of the depravity that we have the potential to degrade into. It seems so easy. And everyone can be a victim. Cambodia was a homogenous society made up of nearly exclusive Khmer ethnic groups. But the Khmer Rouge found enemies in everyone. People with education were a prime target, people who spoke foreign languages, teachers, doctors, politicians educators, professors, technicians. and journalists (still sounding familiar). They were murdered and all their family as well so there is no option for retribution. Those that were performing the murders were not spared or given special treatment. They also had their families wiped out so that there is no option for them to go back to. The foot soldiers who themselves were mostly illiterate children as young as 9, were left with only one option, to obey. Once we define a group as "the other" we deny them their full humanity.We lose our humanity when someone labels us as an"other. " Then they find it easier to follow through, we are already less (non) human.<br />
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There is a tree that summarizes to me the humanity that we lost. Its a big sturdy Chankiri tree indigenous to Cambodia. When they discovered this killing field and examined the tree, they found hair, brain, bone fragments, blood and sinews, and skin still embedded in the cracks of the bark.<br />
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The feast day of Immaculate Conception was yesterday, it also happens to be by birthday which I was named Mario (for Maria.) There is a lot of rituals around this feast day. It is a popular feast because it is the only one in winter. Most feasts take place in summer when they can predict balmy dry evenings. At the height of the feast, at 6pm, the statue of the icon is carried on the shoulders of men out of the alcove in the church and they take a tour of the city. The statue although sculptured from a carob tree, was in 1905 encased in 30 kilograms of silver and other precious metals and gems. Originally sculptured in 1680 by Suor Maria de Domenicis a Carmelite nun (buried int he chapel of Santa Katerina in San Lawrenz church in the neighboring city of Birgu.)</div>
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The hierarchy of the church are there in their fineries, together with the sceptre bearer. The sceptre (known more commonly as a Mace and more accurately as a Stave) defines the authority of the church. It usually rests high on a cabinet in the sacristy where the priests and the altar boys prepare for mass. I love the sacristy. I used to help with early morning mass before heading out to school. I do not remember much, but I loved my time helping with mass. I even entertained becoming a priest, but that is for another time and a much sillier story.<br />
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Together with fireworks, a band and a singing couple (a tenor and soprano singing Ave Maria) all to herald the emergence of the statue. With great pomp and circumstances the statue slowly makes it way around the city. Four hours later it re-enters the church and is cocooned again into its resting alcove on the right hand side of the church for another year. Somehow this ritual has been going on for centuries. An annual feast to honor the Immaculate Conception, the patron of the church, was recorded as early as the seventeenth century. </div>
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For the locals, this is a time to visit relatives and have a drink or two. When I was younger this was an excuse to drink beer and buy hotdogs from the many kiosks that line the streets of the city. For me yesterday, the highlight was doing laundry on the roof with the view of the Grand Harbor. This never gets old.<br />
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<br />Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-71310985150551678862018-12-05T20:26:00.000-08:002018-12-06T08:42:37.989-08:00My Home Town /Bormla<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is the feast of my home town Bormla on Saturday. The 8th of December which is the feast of the Holy Immaculate Mary aka Virgin Mary aka Jesus's mother. It also happens to be my birthday. Growing up I viewed the celebrations purely solipsist--about me--supporting my misguided belief that everyone was acknowledging my birthday. And a remnant of that hubris still exist today as I walk around the city looking at all the decorations for my birthday.<br />
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My family home faces the main church, the parocca (par-oh-cha). A tall narrow house that sports a banner across the street during the feast. They renamed the street from Santa Theresa to the Street of the Pilgrimage after the Pope came through the street in his popemobile.<br />
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But there are many changes to the city that have nothing to do with the locals. We have multi-million dollar boats moored on the quay of the harbor. Boats that look like multi-storied building on their side. Some are just beyond ostentatious. Take the 6711 Geo. That is the name of the 28 million Euro Netherland-built boat that sits at the end of the dock in Bormla (technically this is part of Birgu). This boat hosts a helicopter, a submarine and all the toys needed to enjoy the sea. It holds all the toys for rich people who are on another yacht at sea. A 28 million Euro toy storage.</div>
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There are many incongruities in Bormla and surrounding areas. The three cities that make up part of the Grand Harbou (Bormla, Birgu and l'Isla) share in this character. But we have always been places of contrasts. The fortifications and palaces that are dotted across the three cities are quiet reminders of past expressions of wealth. Now we have very expensive deluxe apartments, hundreds of multi-million Euro boats and restaurants that cater for the rich.<br />
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<br />Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-56435176334078070252018-12-03T06:15:00.000-08:002018-12-03T06:15:16.771-08:00PassportI went to renew my Maltese passport today. Needing a witness to verify my renewal my father and I walked across Valletta to another city Floriana to see the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and the Property Market Chris Agius. Without an appointment he saw us straight away and visited with us for 45 minutes before signing as a witness to my passport application. Only in Malta. We walked back to the passport office with all the documents, signed in less than two hours, including a ferry trip across the harbor and back.<br />
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Returning back to Cospicua passing by my apartment in Senglea, a stone throw across the creek (top right hand apartment).<br />
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As I left my dad to rest and have an early sample of mum's vegetable soup, I headed out for a walk to get some running shoes from the town of Rahal Gdid. The ostentatious Baroque architecture becomes background noise once you live her long enough. But for visitors, this is a cornucopia of artistic wonders.</div>
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Malta is truly an island of Baroque architectural heritage. The influx of both European Union funds to restore older buildings matched with the astronomical inflation of realty prices have converged to revitalize this heritage. There are two stark omissions in the benefits to this growth. House prices have started to become unattainable for the average person and because of all the density and lack of pedestrian walkways it is impossible to get around in a wheelchair. I have seen people in wheelchairs in every city around the world. I have never seen one on the streets in Malta, ever. Even in Mexico City in the underground railway system, although there are no elevators those that use a wheelchair balance on the escalators. No such options exist in Malta as even the escalators tend to be too narrow for such acrobatic proficiencies.<br />
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In Alighieri Dante’s Divine Comedy we find the intrepid adventurer Ulysses (Inferno XXVI, 90-142) burning in hell while being questioned by Virgil on how he met his death. Ulysses replies that after escaping the clutches of Circe who held him captive in Gaeta, neither the love of his son nor his love for Penelope nor the reverence for his father Laertes could stop him from exploring the world and "to gain experience of the world and of the vices and the worth of men". Ulysses eventually arrives at his destination an old man. Searching for an answer to what is our humanity, Ulysses risked everything including his life.<br />
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Unlike Ulysses I start this journey as an old man (I will reach my 59th in a few days) but I share his quest. To explore the magnificence and banality of humans. What better way to start from at the beginning, with my family in Malta.<br />
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<!--EndFragment-->I left Malta when I was thirteen. We moved to England as a family. My father as part of his duties with the Royal Air Force was "posted" to Hullavington in the heart of the West Country. Five kids ranging in age from 7 to 14 years shepherded by a mother who never flew before. As a motley caravan of immigrants we moved everything of importance in numerous small luggage. We also brought our own food, mainly Maltese bread. The immigration officer was perplexed by the amount of food we each were consciously smugly smuggling in and sneered at my mum as though to insinuate that they also have food in England, only to receive the wrath of my mum's maternal instinct. He was informed by my mother that Princess Anne, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was marrying Mark Phillips and the grocery shops might be closed in response to the great celebration that such an occasion demands. Which is how I remember the date...I can google this royal event since our exodus was not otherwise recorded in the annals of history. We each had two bags that we lugged from the airplane onto the minivan that our dad commandeered to drive us to our military camp house stocked full of freshly bought food from the 24/7 supermarket.<br />
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Ever since my family moved back to Malta, and I stayed behind in England and I have been returning every few years to visit. First visiting friends, then visiting home, then visiting family, now visiting parents. For 46 years I have witnessed evolutions not just of geography but also of biology. Increasingly the world of my parents drifts away from the world of the present. This is a good way to start my quest to explore the magnificence and banality of humans.<br />
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Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-79969386323855653142017-01-23T20:16:00.004-08:002017-01-23T20:16:50.284-08:00Extraordinary “Make American Great” Circus<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The
Greatest Show on Earth."</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have moved to
the White House<o:p></o:p></div>
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This has been a very difficult decision for me and for the
entire family<o:p></o:p></div>
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From gold toilet seats and swoosh elevators to blue carpets
and glass windows<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
White house staff adopted quickly, as attendance has been
dropping for 10 years<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sean Spicer brought the figures up, small hands bore no
reality in a 12-minute segment<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This event was the longest segment—a tiger act—modified with
CGI and alternate facts<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A magician and a tiger, a new act with a roar and a growl to
make attendance grow and grow<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ringling Bros. has two touring circuses this season and will
perform 30 shows <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Representatives for 126 scheduled days while the Senate for three
weeks out of each month<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But “days” may be half-days while weeks may be three, four
or more rarely five days long<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
No animal cruelty, rest days are for their down time devoted
to back handers and lobby gruel<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But dark clouds emerge as Los Angeles and Oakland prohibited
the use of bullhooks<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hooks that grab elephants by the mouth inflict pain and instill
fear on its largest animals<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
No more oversight committees, ethics challenges and real
facts to inflict pain and instill fear<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dipping dots cooling tempers by diverting attention away
from the worries of the day<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Owners say their existing animals will go to suitable homes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lions, tigers, camels, donkeys, alpacas, kangaroos and llamas<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
White House agrees as their aging lawmakers will also go to
a home<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lions, tigers, camels, donkeys, alpacas, kangaroos and
llamas<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ringling Bros. tried to remain relevant, hiring its first
African American ringmaster<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then its first female ringmaster, and also launching an
interactive app.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But it was not meant to be, the first female ringmaster did
not fit into the White House <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They jumped a step, and went straight into the interactive
application on Twitter<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Exotic animals, flashy costumes and death-defying acrobats,
a staple since the mid-1800s<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A continuation of the circus tradition with exotic breeds Ryan,
Cruz, Rubio, and McConnell<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Death-defy feats in front of their peers, some by age some
by arrogance, all by ignorance.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Come and see the greatest show on earth, facts optional,
memory limited, but its gonna' cost you<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Extraordinary plagiarism from Los Angeles times <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ringling-bros-closing-20170114-story.html<o:p></o:p></div>
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At 2am in the morning, the muezzin sang the prayer for the
dead and implored men to go out on the streets to challenge the coup. I did not
know this at the time. I had no clue what he was saying. All I could hear, in
my groggy disturbed moment of waking, was shouting on the loudspeakers, honking
of car horns down the street and the occasional gunfire. My dream state tried to
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was given a book of poems, the Rubiayat written by Omar
Khayyam, when I was 8 or 9 years old. An illustrated copy. That early morning
in a humid Istanbul suburb I remembered that phrase and looked out to catch the
Tower of Darkness. Leaning out of the window, I could not see where the noise was coming from, but it was very close in the valley below where I was staying. Neither
was I preparing for TO-DAY nor was I staring at TO-MORROW. I just wanted to
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I ended going back to bed and catching up on
the cacophony of news on the internet. Sailing on a sea of information, the
internet is a modern day song of the Lorelei, luring wondering sailors to their
death. From one inaccurate news item to another, only the most outrageous news
seems befitting my fear. Until reading the news on the monitor invaded my own world and it became all too real. An F-16 was doing fly-bys around the neighborhood. The second time
round the fly-by was immediately followed by a sonic boom. At the time I
thought we were hit, a mortar attack. Shaking
the building and rattling the closed windows. My body shook with fear....my
daughter. Shit, we need to find a safer place. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Running into my daughter’s unlit bedroom I could see the
whites of her eyes. She was startled awake.</div>
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We have to evacuate, there’s a coup going on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She remained lying down in bed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s a coup? <o:p></o:p></div>
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And that’s when I realized that if we are being bombed I had
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I think I will make some tea. Things are always better after
a cup of tea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Repeating part of the narrative of a movie, a chick flick,
that she made me watch earlier that evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She fell asleep quickly after. I stayed up listening to the song
of the Lorelei a bit longer until the caffeine and the adrenaline cleared
through my system and I fell into a deep sleep. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A week later, just before I was starting my lecture I
noticed that all my students were still looking very tired and I was asking
them, again, about their experiences. They all had a common theme. That the
trauma of that early morning assault was still reverberating with them. They
were living their own personal fear. Each one had a different interpretation. They
were seeing the event through very different lenses. Some wrote to me excusing
themselves from class; anxiety attacks, stomach pain, headaches, not getting
enough sleep, all the effects of trauma. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Late at night, in my little dorm room, my daughter safely
out of the country, just before I welcome the lulling of sleep, I start thinking
of all the Istanbulites, all 22 million of them. I picture them all, looking up
at the ceiling from their bed. Eventually sleeping and going through their own
personal trauma again and again every night. Recurring nightmares. And falling asleep,
I realize that I am one of them tonight. We share a common experience. Even a spiritual
one. I will awaken with another nightmare but this time realizing that for the
first time I share some of the same experiences with my hosts, there will be 22 million nightmares—and mine--that connect us
closer together tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-56484184940611525822013-12-19T10:25:00.002-08:002015-10-09T04:41:10.090-07:00Listen Here Young ManI am already following my advice. Lie.<br />
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Never tell the truth. The truth will get you in trouble. Never, ever tell the truth. Only drunks and children tell the truth. At work, at home, in a court of law, anywhere, ever. The truth is a commodity. You never give that commodity out completely. You present it to the outside world as it benefits you. Present the truth. Never ever present it raw for the benefit of people. People cannot digest raw truth anymore. We are too civilized. Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Julian Assange. All the way back to Socrates who could not deal with lying to the Athenian jury and made himself drink the hemlock poison that killed him. You cannot tell the truth. Our communities do not teach us how to accept raw truth. When is the last time you heard a raw truth and thought that they are not crazy? Never tell the whole truth.<br />
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Whereas lying will get you, and your family promoted. Lying is a process of making truth palatable. All you have to do is look at successful people and how their story of ascent is littered with so many lies, deceit, and political holes. Such consistency indicates that this is not a failure but a rite of passage. You have to show that you are competent enough to make truth palatable. The list of liars is infinitely longer than that for those who shove raw truth at use. James Frey, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Janet Cooke, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Baron Manchhausen…The list seems infinite.<br />
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I must come clean after that list. I am not an old fart. I am just 54, and aging is my business. I write about it, I teach it, I research it and I am living it. So, before I too, become “past it” what advice do I have? And “past it” does not refer to being too old to think, or too old to verbalize and write my thoughts down. No. Because I could probably do that till my last day on earth. By “past it “ I mean giving a shit. Caring about other people’s livelihood, happiness and wellbeing. I am getting there. Every day I see the world through rose-colored barbs. People's consistent little selfish behaviors amount to a rejection of our social shared space. I am becoming more understanding that no one cares about what I have to say, and I am becoming less motivated to say it.<br />
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So Lie. Lie to everyone but not to yourself. Nobody loves you as much as you do. If you do not love yourself, no one will love you more. Congratulations. Build up the equity in your self worth. Learn about who you are, about the incredible capacity of your body and mind. And start loving yourself. Start now. Stop reading and thank your body and mind for being there for you when, in all honesty, your body and your mind should just give up. So far your body and mind have tried to comply to beliefs about what you should be doing. Things that you were impregnated with (MTV, Facebook, Twitter etc). Close all your accounts. Lets see who you really are. Naked. Stop that digital masturbation. Stop it. Listen to your body, listen your brain. Keep the narration in your head quiet. Can you hear me now?<br />
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Listen. There are two parts to listening. First listen to yourself. That incessant narration in the background? That is you. Do not fight it, it is you and it will be there until you die. And the last words you hear will be that narration saying “I told you so.” Accept it. It will always be there. But you do not react. Think of it as shitting. Yes. Unpleasant as it is, but you have to do it. You do not look at your produce and mull over the experience. You do it, produce, flush. Same with the narration. It is going to be there, so accept it, and flush it away by tuning it out. It will be there, but now, muted. You can always go to the bathroom and let it flow out of you. Come out and leave it behind (please flush.)<br />
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Listen. The more difficult part of listening is to listen to others. People communicate through words. They want to fuck you, help you, tell you about themselves, express their love, desire and faults, and fuck you some more. Learn to distinguish what they are trying to communicate. This is difficult. When you are young you think you are brilliant. You are not. You might become brilliant, but right now you are fresh meat.<br />
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Remember. Most people come with an agenda. Similar to what you think you are but are not. They are hurt, dysfunctional, abused, and hurt some more. Listen to their plea. It is not about you it is about them. Listen and be aware that you do not have to accept them. You can move away. "Yes, I am aware of what happened to you, I understand what you need. I do not want to change you. You are perfect the way you are. I do not need to be part of this. Goodbye." Move away. No drama, no lectures. You do not know any better to lecture, except that they are not for you. So do not lecture. Listen.<br />
Lie, Listen, Learn.<br />
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You will die. Your passage is longer than you anticipate, but by the time you get to go, it will seem short. Talk to an older person. Ask them how it feels. They were your age and know—know—the question. Your brain is the best organ you have. It is better than any science, science fiction, porn, avatar, digital game, love. It is the mother of all creation. It created god. Your brain is a product of millennium of development. An X-box of the future, provided without instructions. Learn to use it. It will give you infinite pleasure. Infinite joy. Do not try and control it. Let it be, learn from it. Use any technique to learn. Listen and learn to distinguish the nuances the subtleties. Like any class. You will always learn something even if it is that this is not for you. You will always learn something if you try to learn. Do something. Engage. Do not listen to your peers. They are in the same position as you. Learn from those that have survived. Learn from older adults. Learn from people who have been there. Lived it. Ask questions about what people have done, and not what they think. Look at outcomes. What have you done? Do not judge. Ask.<br />
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And lastly, be gentle.<br />
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You will live longer than you think you will. You will likely die in pain. Most will die in an institution. It seems like a long time from now, but think about when you left high school/college. How long ago was that? Time is moving faster the older you get. Remember your physics class. Yes it comes back. Everything comes back. Postmodernist physics. Time is relative. Well it is not longer in the classroom. It is in real life. The older you get the faster time goes by. You are still growing and developing. Your brain right now is mush. But think about this: you will never be younger than now, and your family and friends will never be younger than now. Love them. Whatever you feel, let it out. You have a short lease on life. Use it well. Be gentle on yourself. You are not perfect. Neither is everyone else. Don't hurt yourself, no drugs, protect yourself from head trauma, sleep as much as you can, enjoy the company of people, have intimate and loving sex with people you care for, eat quality not quantity, earn your food, put yourself in new situations everyday, do not do repetitive things, find an exercise you enjoy and do it as often as you can, be active, use your body and most important of all, be gentle with yourself. You will fail and fuck up. Move on.<br />
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Lie, Listen, Learn and Be Gentle.<br />
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By the time you get to be an old fart you might have some stories to tell. But by then will younger generations listen to you? Pass it on.<br />
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© USA Copyrighted 2013 Mario D. GarrettMario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-88990262850173020222013-11-06T17:09:00.002-08:002013-11-06T18:19:01.396-08:00Wisdom of Older Adults : From Teacher to Master--Pedagogues to Hegemon.<div class="MsoNormal">
Older people as teachers and mentors misses the true meaning of accumulated experience...wisdom.<br />
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Pedagogues and teachers in ancient Greek society were slaves–often foreigners and the ‘spoils of war’. Pedagogues were trusted members of rich households who accompanied the children of their ‘masters’ everywhere, including sitting beside them at school and helping them with their homework. These pedagogues were seen as ‘tenders’ of children (pais plus agögos, a ‘child-tender’). Prepubescent children were often put in their charge until late adolescence.<br />
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Basically a pedagogue is a child minder. And not just any child, but minders of the children of the rich. Friere’s (1972) notion of the ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’–the education of the privileged by the oppressed is an apt interpretation. Especially in line with policy makers low regard for teachers. Teachers are treated as lowly oppressed child minders for the rich.<br />
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But older adults teach not only children but adults. Malcolm Knowles (1970) was so convinced that adults learned differently to children that he created a new term–andragogy, as the art and science of helping adults learn–against pedagogy. But andragogy does not help the definition of wisdom of older adults.<br />
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Within ancient Greek society there was a strong distinction between the activities of pedagogues (paidagögus) and subject teachers (didáskalos). Didactic, the aim to instruct and teach morals or subject content. The Swedish researcher David Hamilton observes that United States usage of ‘pedagogy’ mirrors the mainland European use of ‘didactic’. The implicit meaning in the USA is that pedagogy is teaching and didactic is the method of teaching. But this does not define older adults as teachers.<br />
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Plato talks about pedagogues as ‘men who by age and experience are qualified to serve as both leaders (hëgemonas) and custodians (paidagögous)’ of children. Hegemony-derived from the Greek egemon, meaning “leader, ruler, often in the sense of a state other than his own” Although hegemony has been commonly used to indicate political predominance, where one ideology associated with one country, takes over the aspirations of the citizens of another country, little has been written on the hegemon, the individual that starts the idea rolling. A lot has been written in sociological literature on hegemony. The Italian political analysts, Gramsci comes to mind. But what about the individual who influences whole societies and the creation of new societies. There is truly one such man and it is not whom you are thinking of.</div>
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Only a few fragments of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. But what has been salvaged has some pertinence to gerontologists. They are subversive and radical. For Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC) the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—and aponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught in "gardens", that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil; death is the end of both body and soul and should therefore not be feared; the gods do not reward or punish humans; the universe is infinite and eternal; and events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space. Epicurus explicitly warned against overindulgence because it often leads to pain. He was against the ego, which is why he was not interested in politics and argued for people to "live in obscurity", "get through life without drawing attention to yourself".<br />
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But Epicurus influence was more than his followers, he influence the creation of new societies. He is a hegemon who influence the dominant hegemony of today, the United States. Thomas Jefferson who considered himself an Epicurean established that "all men are created equal" and endowed with certain "inalienable rights," such as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." His emphasis on minimizing harm and maximizing happiness in his formulation of the Ethic of Reciprocity "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself" was later picked up most religious doctrine. Epicurus influenced the French Revolution, and other philosophers like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to "life, liberty, and property." Even Karl Marx's doctoral thesis was on "The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature." Epicurus influenced many other philosophers who themselves become hegemons in their own right. Friedrich Nietzsche cites affinities to Epicurus in a number of his works. Epicurus contribution was subversive. He unacknowledged that fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.<br />
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In our modern world where we the fear of terrorist as our daily fodder, where we are told to aspire to be the 1% and yet behave as though we are gangsters--tattoos and guns--and a supreme court that is unwilling to discuss our right for assistance at end-of-life--to end our fear of pain at the end of life--the message that Epicurus has is radical. He is a true hegemon.<br />
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Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-42231130970088626912013-09-11T20:35:00.000-07:002013-09-11T20:35:00.667-07:00Turn on, tune in, drop outI was too young to hear Timothy Leary's rallying call "Turn on, tune in, drop out." I was born at the tail end of the baby boom, and my experience of the hippy period was bell bottoms and a t-shirt with the two finger peace sign imposed on an American Flag. I was too tall for platform shoes.But I had the afro hair.<br />
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Like most of my cohort I envied hippies. Who wouldn't? Sex drugs and rock & roll. So it is with some feeling of loss when I see that some of those who turned on, tuned in, and dropped out are now looking for another meaning to their life while shopping for cheap incontinence pads at Walmart.<br />
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As with most of the tail-end baby boomers, I ignored that period. Oh I loved the music, but not much else. Could never get into the literature of the time; the Jack Kerouac, Robert A. Heinlein, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Marvin Harris, Truman Capote. Too anarchic and unstructured. But on the other hand I loved the storytelling of John Updike, Harper Lee, Anthony Burgess, Ken Kesey, Nikolas Schreck, Gabriel García Márquez, Frank Herbert, Sylvia Plath, and Kurt Vonnegut (Vonnegut mainly because he was American, I loved everything American.) I loved reading Hermann Hesse, a German author who did much of his writing in the 1920s but was read in the 60s.<br />
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So wind forward half a century and that mantra still haunts me."Turn on, tune in, drop out" Until this year. I never understood the existential meaning of that phrase. Now with the National Security Agency not only spying on everything we do both in the privacy of our emails, phone calls and letters, but also everything online, and then sharing this information with other alien countries, I have a strong feeling that we need to re-energize the mantra again. Except this time lets make it digital "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Turn on, make sure that you know what is happening, tune into the movement with like minded individuals, and drop out of Facebook, Twitter. LinkedIn and blogger....Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-77226290908826860902013-09-11T20:28:00.001-07:002013-09-11T20:28:08.806-07:00catsI am in a boutique hotel on the mediterranean coast in Southern Turkey in the old Walled City of Antalya. Alone in the courtyard of the hotel. Three in the morning, I cannot sleep. The only place I can get internet. The courtyard is within an old building in the old city. Narrow paved windy roads fenced in by exclusive hotels developed from old rich properties. The night revelry still lingering outside (which is why I am awake.) But I am in a quiet bubble inside this cocoon. Surrounding me are feral cats. They own the city and they are everywhere. Well-fed it seems. Sometimes meeoing, but mostly quiet and observant. We are alike in many respects. Well-fed definitely her in Turkey.<br />
Two blazoned tanned older men in their underwear. Their stomach hanging proud come into the courtyard smoking and talking German. I leave to the cleaner air of my room and losing my internet.<br />
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Back in my room, I read residue of my opened web pages. There are new reports that show that sunscreen helps the skin look younger. I want my skin to look its age. I want my smile lines to be permanent fixture. I want to be reminded of all the happy times I have had on this earth before I die. A testament to the fact that I lived my life, risked everything and not given a damn about the consequences. That my ego need not know whether I won or lost, but that I tried my damnest. A testament that my lease on life was well used. Perhaps that is the point. Perhaps it is hiding a life not lived well that others are trying to hide. I smile more creases on my face and realize that I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow. I am renting a car for the first time in Turkey and I will drive to Termossos. I know I will create some good wrinkles tomorrow. I already started as I smirk falling asleep.Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-34663440929708708592013-09-11T20:15:00.001-07:002013-09-11T20:15:52.420-07:00Aging HandsReturning home on the plane after three months away I sit in the cramped space looking at my hands. I am comfortable with my hands. They are the only part of my body that I see all the time. I have watched them age. I have watched them write, type, touch, hold, caress, hit and work. They are my view of myself. As I age so do they. Started getting liver spots, more wrinkles, less hair, less muscle tone. And I have no issue with this, I like how my hands look. I am comfortable with my hands. Unlike watching my face in the mirror, which is always a reflection, my hands are in front of me. On the other hand, I have difficulty accepting my face. My face is not my image of who I am.<br />
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Sometime I accept my face, but at other times I feel an uneasiness. I would like to know how people who have had facial reconstructive surgery deal with their new look. It feels that my face goes through a reconstruction every time I stop looking at it. There is a separation between me and my face. A time lapse of memory. As though the person looking back at me is exactly that, looking back at me.<br />
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But with my hands, the relationship is much more direct. I have direct contact. It is how I see myself as I function in the world. It is how I see myself interacting, how I manipulate and move objects around me. I am always looking at my hands, directing them, observing them. My hands are my physical extension that I can see.They provide a carpet that open up inviting me to the world. Whatever I am doing my hands are there as an extension that I see. And as I age this very visual part of me is also visibly changing. They have more character. I am very comfortable with my hands and how they are growing to be what I see everyday. I am happy to see my hands age and reflect what they have been through. I only wish that I can do the same with my face.Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-61960780718406637332013-08-25T04:11:00.002-07:002013-10-29T02:21:06.622-07:00Crying for Humanity<div class="article-content-top" style="background-color: white; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cried yesterday. I was listening to a news report driving up to Home Depot to buy some yellow jacket repellant spray. How mundane a task can you get to end up crying my eyes out. A grown man, alone, in a Home Depot car park.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was finishing off a news story on the radio. The news was about a young man armed with an assault rifle--had to be an AK-47-you have to hate them--who goes into an elementary school near Atlanta threatening staff and students. The receptionists at the school acted as a go-between, relaying demands between the young man and the police. This was the news report on National Public Radio. And I was listening to this development. The receptionist communicated with the young men and then relayed his demands to the police (all of this was taped). Throughout this process, the young man started to self-disclose to the receptionist. At one point he reported that he has not taken his medications and he feels suicidal. And this is when I parked in the car park at HomeDepot and sat listening.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The receptionist at the school, acting as the de facto mediator was obviously a Black woman by her accent and demeanor. Upon hearing this admission of weakness that he was suicidal, she tells the (obviously) White man “That's OK…We all feel like that. Look at me. When my husband left me I felt like killing myself. Now look at me.” Home Depot never looked so far away.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was Antoinette Tuff. The humanity of that simple admission of great weakness. The young man “felt” that humanity. This was not a strategy, a protocol, a gambit. This was a “connection”. A love episode. That connection must have lessened his aloneness in the world and he surrendered to the police. I cried because the woman had the courage to see him as a human being. Not a fucked-up-White-privileged-man-with-a-fucking-gun-that-we-should-ban. Which was my position listening as a passive recipient of the news. It made me think about how we have lost that courage to see people as human beings rather than as consumers, liability, collateral, entitled, responsibilities, privileged, angry, fucked-up. If we see the humanity in people how much the world would change. And that is why I cried.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cried for the courage that we have lost. As a culture, as a people, as individuals, we are diminished and when eruptions of such courage are shown by individuals, as Antoinette Tuff did, I feel the loss. This is how we should be but we have become so categorical. So judgmental and we alienate everyone from us. We separate ourselves to such an extent that we stop being human. We become elements in a machine. Antoinette Tuff-</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">perhaps because she has lost everything and reached into that existential loneliness—has shown what it takes to reclaim that unique attribute of humans. You have to lose everything to be human again.</span></span><br />
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Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-66805852471610489012013-08-02T23:21:00.001-07:002013-08-03T10:08:06.332-07:00Taksim II<div style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; width: 500px;">
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/sets/72157634911694458/">Taksim II</a>, a set on Flickr.</div>
Going for drinks at the Marmaras Pesa Hotel to take photos of the sunset over beautiful Istanbul and on the way, walking down Istiklal avenue I came across four squadrons of police, one of which was all women!! I had to go behind and then infront of the police to get to my hotel. The police are young neophytes (with machine guns, pistols, bullet proof suits, riot gear and lots of heavy machinery for backup). A show of strength that did not even raise an eyebrow from the local revelers. Viva Taksim!Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-68150147113826719592013-07-27T03:49:00.001-07:002013-08-03T12:04:14.031-07:00Istenye<div style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; width: 500px;">
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/sets/72157634814869234/">Istenye</a>, a set on Flickr.</div>
My neighborhood (north this time.) There is a very steep hill that I walk down to get to the board walk. Steep and short. It feels like a gateway, a portal from Etiler to Bebek. Once on the boardwalk it is a piece of heaven. The fresh breeze off the clear fast flowing Bosphorus brushes you cool while you parade the wide pedestrian walkway. Enjoying the cacophony of water activity from the big tourist boats and vessels, to the frenzy of fisherman with their fibre glass rods constantly reeling in their catch of small sardines. And in between are the swimmers who mostly sunbath and are exclusively men. A couple of miles up the road, where the pavement stops, is the demarcation between Bebek and Istenye. There are a group of tanned kids jostling in the water. Attentively supervised by grandfathers.<br />
<br />Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-90397789714579471372013-07-24T11:11:00.001-07:002013-07-24T11:11:48.280-07:00Bebek<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360737806/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7295/9360737806_fab3cbcb39_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360738562/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7459/9360738562_63bcfed8f0_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360739254/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; 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padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/9360744660_338d4b45af_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9357967327/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3741/9357967327_8c5642980a_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360745912/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/9360745912_e6d2df1ed0_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360746640/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5501/9360746640_eb504e53f4_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9360747244/in/set-72157634782423154/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5530/9360747244_95b95ff21e_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/sets/72157634782423154/">Bebek</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div><p>My neighborhood, Bebek between the two Bosphorus bridges on the European side.</p>Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-41573923453630688162013-07-20T08:59:00.001-07:002013-07-20T08:59:51.333-07:00Bursa<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328959284/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3697/9328959284_8424c9f3cd_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9326165815/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7343/9326165815_cb7396731c_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328960556/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/9328960556_7dda71742c_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328961184/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2815/9328961184_868a46fb25_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328962050/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; 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padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2816/9326173927_a09d585a30_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328968806/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3771/9328968806_7303c83bc2_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9328969408/in/set-72157634721397932/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7344/9328969408_ac4ef8d6c0_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/sets/72157634721397932/">Bursa</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div><p>Bursa at the end of the the silk road is nondescript except if you go shopping for silk. It is located to the south of Istanbul across the Marmara sea. A 90 minute super fast ferry ride gets you there. The town itself livens up with a vegetable market. I like vegetables but....and then the oral market promised much and returned little. The gods are telling me to work.</p>Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-21506692683621864752013-07-13T08:03:00.001-07:002013-07-13T08:03:31.294-07:00Archaelogoy Museum Istanbul<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9274726289/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/9274726289_40fa2b1f37_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9274724947/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/9274724947_ca141e7842_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277511824/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7434/9277511824_91d3131090_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277513530/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5506/9277513530_ec2034f031_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277514418/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/9277514418_867095cb78_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277515148/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2879/9277515148_00c1ca7005_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9274729527/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2878/9274729527_39b1c16c3f_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277516520/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2854/9277516520_0c356714a6_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9277517406/in/set-72157634617085773/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7394/9277517406_7251cc2034_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/sets/72157634617085773/">Archaelogoy Museum Istanbul</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div>Mario Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16447719011664536580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081195331789504249.post-61146458370058654522013-07-07T06:14:00.001-07:002013-07-07T06:14:38.310-07:00Amasra<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9228371259/in/set-72157634523320669/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7430/9228371259_418a909acb_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9228372109/in/set-72157634523320669/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5543/9228372109_6535863773_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; 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margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9231160812/in/set-72157634523320669/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3680/9231160812_0043e46cf8_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariogarrett/9231141852/in/set-72157634523280945/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2843/9231141852_9eb44c2492_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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