Invisible #Genocide Lurks

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Grandpa where's the oil?

Invisible Genocide Lurks in Empty Fields of Shame

Earth’s Children are silent …Grandpa why? WHY?

Insanity knocked on the door from arms of shallow remorse

Are you home?

The grime etched its presence into the mind near Jersey

Tomorrow forgot everything that it promised

These pockets have no dreams they were sold on

Fifth Avenue

Absurd, call Pacino tell him the dancers have broken legs

Luck was never in the cards when the ducks make bombs

A cat on a hot tin roof

The night festers in graveyards on the West Side guarded by the Walrus

I am the Walrus; I am the egg man... Goo goo g' joob

 

Mister you’re sitting on my toilet, his flowers long to sing Italian opera

Subways are my ballet in the summer, in the city

Just a cool cat looking for a kitty… in the city

Insanity wastes into grime and etches foul eternities of Warhol with Brando

They dance…Lennon just watches

A cat on a hot tin roof

Persuade me again liberty while we frolic with jewels of poets

Of true science found in the intestines of words …spill guts of souls

Contrast the dark with evil and then the stage caters to lost mortality

There is more sense in teacups whispers Tennessee’s script

Their words ushered by Popes and villains with keys to soured bliss

"There was no key held in existential dreams" said Toto

You can tell by my attitude… that I am most definitely from

 New York

Don’t answer the door, Goo goo g' joob
Call Pacino

There’s a cat on the hot tin roof…



Tell the unborn..."sorry we ate the apple"

T A McNeil

TIME...the Book

June 18,2011

"Strength" - Inspired, Heartfelt Guest's Poem

Strength

By Jennifer Hansford

You’re so strong, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, he said to me one day.

I know those words keep me standing tall, when nothing is going my way.

STRONG runs in my family, and I will make sure it carries on.

Because sometimes strength is all I have when everything else is gone.

The years pass by, but these words will remain in the front of my mind.

I think back to the day these words were spoken, when solace was hard to find.

These words melt away my heartache, and all my fears seem to disappear.

Forever there to remind myself, I’m so strong, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.

@HansfordJen 

WELCOME EVERYONE! 

We are thankful and honoured to receive creative writing works from our readers and followers from Canada, United States and around the world. Many works from our workshop sessions around Toronto are also posted here on a regular basis.

A special thanks to Jennifer Hansford for another wonderful, deeply personal, guest submission. 

Please feel free to send us your own craftings for  posting on this blog. Continuing our mission to educate, entertain, but most importantly - EMPOWER!

Supporting the global movement for the education, liberation and equality of women, worldwide.

The Woman in the Arena

The Woman in the 

Arena

(What Roosevelt should have said.)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the woman who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly...

... so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

T. McNeil

Toronto, 2015

Welcome All! 

We are thankful and honoured to receive creative writing works from our members, readers and followers from Canada, United States and around the world. Many works from our workshop sessions around Toronto are be posted here on a regular basis.

Please feel free to send us your own craftings for  posting on our blog. Continuing our mission to educate, entertain, but most importantly - 

EMPOWER!

Supporting the global movement for the education, liberation and equality of women, worldwide.

    

What I Need Her to Have - Member's Musing

What I Need Her to Have

Glamour, it may be, is an ancient mystical word for fairie magic.

Bigger than my fairie’s body are her wings, which are dragonfly-type due to maternal ancestry or genetic mutation, she can’t remember.

Glamour in this original sense refers not to the person, nor even to her broad filmy wings, but to the sunlight which shines through the film at dawn on misty days.

Such light is changed, passing through fairie wing-film.  The colour and shimmer and rays are not their old selves, but become as flashes -- green, red, gold -- inside a bright kalaidoscope.

Reubin Apple

Toronto, 2016

WELCOME ! 

We are thankful and honoured to receive creative writing works from our members, readers and followers from Canada, United States and around the world. Many works from our workshop sessions around Toronto are be posted here on a regular basis.

Please feel free to send us your own craftings for  posting on our blog. Continuing our mission to educate, entertain, but most importantly - 

EMPOWER!

Supporting the global movement for the education, liberation and equality of women, worldwide.

Creative Thoughts Are "Physiological Events" (SPECIAL SERIES - Part Three)

Neural Basis of Spontaneous Thought Processes

Abstract

Studies examining thought processes have focused upon the deliberate, goal-directed mental processes occurring during complex cognitive tasks. Spontaneously occurring thought processes have, on the other hand, received much less attention. Such spontaneous thought processes occur frequently when no task is present or when task demands are low. Although their existence has been recognised, their study has been difficult due to lack of direct behavioural measures. Nevertheless, a number of behavioural methods based on subjects' verbal reports have been developed. Findings derived using such behavioural methods suggest that spontaneous thought processes share common cognitive mechanisms with purposeful, task-related thought processes.

 Furthermore, evidence from neuroimaging observations is accumulating suggesting similar conclusions about the neural basis of spontaneous thought processes. These neuroimaging findings demonstrate an overlap in the pattern of activation between various cognitive tasks and rest, with a number of higher cortical regions activated in common, including visual areas, medial temporal lobe, and lateral cortical association areas. Many of these observations have, however, been based upon comparisons between rest and tasks posing relatively high cognitive demands. In contrast, here we report an fMRI study in which rest was compared to a simple left/right response task of minimal cognitive demands. 

Rest was associated with greater activation in temporopolar cortex, parahippocampus, rostrolateral prefrontal cortex, parietal and visual cortical areas. Activation of temporal lobe structures was particularly extensive and robust, suggesting that long-term memory processes may form the core of spontaneous thought. 



By considering such long-term memory processes as an essential part of thought mechanisms, it may be possible to gain better understanding into spontaneous thought phenomena that have remained unaccounted for until now!

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Waking Up the (Creative) Mind?

Sam Harris

TEDx Talks Seven Habits of Highly Happy People - (SPECIAL SERIES - Part Two)

Positive Psychology and the Science of Happiness - a.k.a.

 "Sustainable Optimal Cognitions"

On the internet and in bookstores, a thousand gurus tout different remedies for human misery. How can we find out which remedies work? We need to consult one of our greatest gurus, the scientific method. Recently we have seen a dramatic upsurge in scientific studies on Positive Psychology and the science of happiness or to put it simply, discovering what makes happy people happy. Fortunately, many of these studies point to specific ways of thinking and acting that can strongly impact our sense of well-being and happiness. The resulting discoveries are enriching the practices of counseling, clinical psychology, psychiatry and life coaching. In these pages, we review the most scientific studies and translate the results into non-technical English.

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Is your brain wired to sustain a state of optimal cognitions?

Here's A Happiness Test

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Also we should never forget the infinite poetic colours of happiness, as the power of linguistics acts to create and manifest the numerous biochemical energy events or processes lumped into the linguistic basket so oft termed as...  

"HAPPINESS"

Concepts of Happiness 

Across Time and Cultures

What is happiness? Although the scientific study of happiness and subjective well-being (SWB) has thrived over the last 30 years, the concept of happiness has been elusive. In fact, Ed Diener (1984) advocated the use of the scientific term SWB as opposed to happiness precisely because of the ambiguities associated with the term “happiness.” SWB has been frequently operationalized as the subjective evaluation of life as a whole, the presence of pleasant emotions, and the relative absence of unpleasant emotions (Diener, 1984). As SWB research became popular in psychological science, some researchers started using the term happiness (e.g., Lyubomirsky & Ross, 1997). However, the fundamental question regarding the meaning of happiness has been examined only rarely (see Wierzbicka, 2004 for this critique). The main goal of this article is to explore various concepts of happiness using current and historical dictionaries and speeches (cf. Morling & Lamoreaux, 2008; Simonton, 2003). Just as our understandings of action (Noguchi, Handley, & Albarracín, 2011), emotion (Pennebaker, 2011), cognition (Semin, 2000; Maass, Karasawa, Politi, & Suga, 2006) and culture (Kashima & Kashima, 1998) have been deepened by detailed linguistic analyses, we believe that the linguistic analysis of the term happiness is critical to advance psychological theory and the scientific understanding of well-being.

The second goal is to demonstrate the utility of a historical perspective on psychological science. Psychological scientists today are concerned almost exclusively with the latest developments and cutting-edge research (see Nisbett, 1990; Oishi, Kesebir, & Snyder, 2009). It is, however, important to document the history of our science and the role that history might play...

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Hope you enjoyed this post - now go forth and sustain your state of optimal cognitions.

@TOCreativeWrite

" the torch has been passed "

Creativity's REAL Brain Science - Scientific American (SPECIAL SERIES - Part One)

"Things You Really Need to Understand About Creativity’s Physiology" 

SPECIAL SERIES
Part One

The Real Neuroscience of Creativity

Network 3: The Salience Network

So yea, you know how the left brain is really realistic, analytical, practical, organized, and logical, and the right brain is so darn creative, passionate, sensual, tasteful, colorful, vivid, and poetic?

No.

Just no.

Stop it - Please!

Thoughtful cognitive neuroscientists such as Anna Abraham, Mark Beeman, Adam Bristol, Kalina Christoff, Andreas Fink, Jeremy Gray,Adam Green, Rex Jung, John Kounios, Hikaru Takeuchi, Oshin Vartanian, Darya Zabelina and others are on the forefront of investigating what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. And their findings are overturning conventional and overly simplistic notions surrounding the neuroscience of creativity.

The latest findings from the real neuroscience of creativity suggest that the right brain/left brain distinction does not offer us the full picture of how creativity is implemented in the brain.* Creativity does not involve a single brain region or single side of the brain.

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  How Much of Your Creativity Comes From FREE WILL? 

Sam Harris Debunks Conventional Wisdom