FRONTLINE PBS | Official • Jan 24, 2020 They were children during the Holocaust. Today, they’re among the last living survivors. Here, they share their stories, including what they want future generations to remember — and what’s at stake if we forget. FRONTLINE’s documentary offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have affected the daily lives and relationships of some of the Holocaust’s youngest victims — from survivor’s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.

The Diary Of A CEO • Nov 6, 2022 Gabor Mate is a multi-bestselling author and a world leading expert on trauma and how it effects us throughout our whole lives. A holocaust survivor and a first generation immigrant, Gabor’s knowledge and wisdom on the scars trauma leaves behind is deep and drawn from personal experience. Topics: 0:00 Intro 02:04 Early context 08:16 How does someone correct their traumatic events? 09:33 How did your traumatic event show shape you? 14:54 What did you focus on in your career? 16:40 What did working with patients towards the end of their life teach you? 20:34 The importance of following our passion 27:13 The Myth Of Normal 30:57 How would our approaches change if we took away the concept of normal? 41:06 How parents behaviour can impact a child 44:27 How do you define trauma? 46:57 Does everyone have trauma? 50:51 Why can two people with the same trauma turn out differently? 01:01:44 Being controlled by our trauma 01:04:20 Do we ever cut the putter master strings? 01:05:56 How does someone become more aware? 01:09:18 Additions and how we develop them 01:13:28 How do we find our sense of worth? 01:14:05 Why is authenticity so important 01:18:51 Taking personal responsibility 01:20:09 The 5 Rs to take control of your life 01:26:36 ADHD 01:40:40 Do you think society is getting more toxic? 01:50:27 What are you still struggling with? 01:54:25 The last guest’s question

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “To be free, you simply have to be so, without asking permission. You must have your own hypothesis about what you are called to do, and follow it, not giving in to circumstances or complying with them. But that sort of freedom demands powerful inner resources, a high degree of self-awareness, and a consciousness of your responsibility to yourself and therefore to other people.” That last element is where some freedom-seekers falter. They neglect their obligation to care for and serve their fellow humans. I want to make sure you don’t do that, Aries, as you launch a new phase of your liberation process. Authentic freedom is conscientious.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The term “neurodiversity” refers to the fact that the human brain functions in a wide variety of ways. There are not just a few versions of mental health and learning styles that are better than all the others. Taurus musician David Byrne believes he is neurodiverse because he is on the autism spectrum. That’s an advantage, he feels, giving him the power to focus with extra intensity on his creative pursuits. I consider myself neurodiverse because my life in the imaginal realm is just as important to me as my life in the material world. I suspect that most of us are neurodiverse in some sense—deviating from “normal” mental functioning. What about you, Taurus? The coming months will be an excellent time to explore and celebrate your own neurodiversity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Jane Hirshfield says that Zen Buddhism is built on three principles: 1. Everything changes. 2. Everything is connected. 3. Pay attention. Even if you are not a Zen practitioner, Gemini, I hope you will focus on the last two precepts in the coming weeks. If I had to summarize the formula that will bring you the most interesting experiences and feelings, it would be, “Pay attention to how everything is connected.” I hope you will intensify your intention to see how all the apparent fragments are interwoven. Here’s my secret agenda: I think it will help you register the truth that your life has a higher purpose than you’re usually aware of—and that the whole world is conspiring to help you fulfill that purpose.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Flannery O’Connor wrote, “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” I will add a further thought: “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it and strive to transform it into a better place.” Let’s make this one of your inspirational meditations in the coming months, Cancerian. I suspect you will have more power than usual to transform the world into a better place. Get started! (PS: Doing so will enhance your ability to endure and cherish.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many sports journalists will tell you that while they may root for their favorite teams, they also “root for the story.” They want a compelling tale to tell. They yearn for dramatic plot twists that reveal entertaining details about interesting characters performing unique feats. That’s how I’m going to be in the coming months Leo, at least in relation to you. I hope to see you engaged in epic sagas, creating yourself with verve as you weave your way through fun challenges and intriguing adventures. I predict my hope will be realized.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Venus is too hot and dry for humans to live on. But if travelers from Earth could figure out a way to feel comfortable there, they would enjoy a marvelous perk. The planet rotates very slowly. One complete day and night lasts for 243 Earth days and nights. That means you and a special friend could take a romantic stroll toward the sunset for as long as you wanted, and never see the sun go down. I invite you to dream up equally lyrical adventures in togetherness here on Earth during the coming months, Virgo. Your intimate alliances will thrive as you get imaginative and creative about nurturing togetherness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As far as I’m concerned, Libran Buddhist monk and author Thích Nhat Hanh was one of the finest humans who ever lived. “Where do you seek the spiritual?” he asked. His answer: “You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become sacred if mindfulness is there.” In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have exceptional power to live like this: to regard every event, however mundane or routine, as an opportunity to express your soulful love and gratitude for the privilege of being alive. Act as if the whole world is your precious sanctuary.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A reader named Elisa Jean tells me, “We Scorpio allies admire how Scorpios can be so solicitous and welcoming: the best party hosts. They know how to foster social situations that bring out the best in everyone and provide convivial entertainment. Yet Scorpios also know everyone’s secrets. They are connoisseurs of the skeletons in the closets. So they have the power to spawn discordant commotions and wreak havoc on people’s reputations. But they rarely do. Instead, they keep the secrets. They use their covert knowledge to weave deep connections.” Everything Elisa Jean described will be your specialties in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are least likely to stay in one location for extended periods. Many of you enjoy the need to move around from place to place. Doing so may be crucial in satisfying your quest for ever-fresh knowledge and stimulation. You understand that it’s risky to get too fixed in your habits and too dogmatic in your beliefs. So you feel an imperative to keep disrupting routines before they become deadening. When you are successful in this endeavor, it’s often due to a special talent you have: your capacity for creating an inner sense of home that enables you to feel stable and grounded as you ramble free. I believe this superpower will be extra strong during the coming months.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Edgar Allan Poe made this mysterious statement: “We can, at any time, double the true beauty of an actual landscape by half closing our eyes as we look at it.” What did he mean? He was referring to how crucial it is to see life “through the veil of the soul.” Merely using our physical vision gives us only half the story. To be receptive to the full glory of the world, our deepest self must also participate in the vision. Of course, this is always true. But it’s even more extra especially true than usual for you right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian theologian Henri Nouwen wrote, “I have discovered that the gifts of life are often hidden in the places that hurt most.” Yikes! Really? I don’t like that idea. But I will say this: If Nouwen’s theory has a grain of truth, you will capitalize on that fact in the coming weeks. Amazingly enough, a wound or pain you experienced in the past could reveal a redemptive possibility that inspires and heals you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen says it’s wise to talk to yourself. No other conversational partner is more fascinating. No one else listens as well. I offer you his advice in the hope of encouraging you to upgrade the intensity and frequency of your dialogs with yourself. It’s an excellent astrological time to go deeper with the questions you pose and to be braver in formulating your responses. Make the coming weeks be the time when you find out much more about what you truly think and feel.

Homework: What action could you take to rouse unexpected joy in a person you care about? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

António Guterres calls for end to destruction of nature as Canada pushes proposal to protect 30% of Earth

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@pgreenfieldukTue 6 Dec 2022 17.24 EST (TheGuardian.com)

Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction and governments must end the “orgy of destruction”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said at the beginning of the biodiversity Cop15.

“We are out of harmony with nature. In fact, we are playing an entirely different song. Around the world, for hundreds of years, we have conducted a cacophony of chaos, played with instruments of destruction. Deforestation and desertification are creating wastelands of once-thriving ecosystems,” he said.

“Our land, water and air are poisoned by chemicals and pesticides, and choked with plastics … The most important lesson we impart to children is to take responsibility for their actions. What example are we setting when we ourselves are failing this basic test?

“The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B,” Guterres told the opening ceremony of the conference in Montreal, Canada, where governments will begin formal negotiations for this decade’s UN biodiversity targets on Wednesday.

At the ceremony, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, urged countries to agree a target to conserve 30% of Earth for nature in the final agreement.

“We have not chosen that 30% number at random. It is the critical threshold according to the greatest scientists to avoid the risk of extinction and also to ensure our food and economic security. Thirty percent, that is quite feasible,” he said in a speech that was interrupted by protesters holding up a sign about the murder of Indigenous peoples.

Trudeau’s speech echoed the comments of Canada’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, a former environmental activist, who said the 30% aim would be equivalent to the 1.5C climate target, although this is strongly disputed by some scientists and activists.

The target, known as “30×30”, is the most high-profile proposal under consideration by governments for this decade’s agreement to protect biodiversity. Led by the UK, Costa Rica and France, it has the backing of a coalition of more than 100 countries but faces significant concerns from some Indigenous peoples and human rights campaigners, who warn it could legitimise further land grabs and violence against communities shown to best protect nature.

“We’re a big country with big ambitions,” said Guilbeault. “We’ve committed as a country to protect 30% of land and waters by 2030. We’re working in full partnership with Indigenous peoples, as well as provinces and territories.

“One might argue, and I guess I am, that our 1.5 degrees is protecting 30% of lands and oceans by 2030. It is the biodiversity equivalent of the 1.5 degrees on climate change. And I think that’s one of our collective goals [for this summit].”

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Guilbeault made the comments at the opening press conference of the biodiversity summit today, where he appeared alongside the Cop15 president and China’s environment minister, Huang Runqiu; the UN’s biodiversity head, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema; and Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN environment programme.

Mrema and Andersen said the summit could have big consequences for tackling emissions from land, the second-largest human source of greenhouse gases after burning fossil fuels.

“If we look at the recent disasters – floods, drought, heatwaves, wildfires – yes, we always say it’s because of climate change,” said Mrema. “But where are these disasters that happen? They all happen in ecosystems. It is clear that unless we protect and restore biodiversity, climate warming will continue to rise. And we may fail to reach the 1.5 degrees.”

Ahead of formal negotiations for the agreement at Cop15, which begin tomorrow, talks received a significant boost from the EU as the bloc agreed a ban on all products judged to have contributed to deforestation. The world’s second-largest importer of agricultural product made the rules, which will affect the trade in cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soya and wood products, all linked to the loss of tropical forests.

“This legislation is a gamechanger for the world’s forests,” said the Mighty Earth CEO Glenn Hurowitz. “For the first time, European governments are telling companies selling agricultural goods, ‘If you or your suppliers destroy forests, you can’t sell your products here.’ With this law, Europe is putting real action for wildlife on the table.”

However, Hurowitz cautioned that there were gaps in the legislation, including a failure to protect Indigenous rights and other important non-forest ecosystems such as peatlands.

Talks in Canada are scheduled to conclude on 19 December but are likely to overrun, with significant divisions between governments already evident at pre-Cop negotiations, which took place over the weekend.

At the opening press conference on Tuesday, Huang said China took its role in helping countries forge a final agreement seriously, noting that it had been a hard decision to move the talks from Kunming, China, due to the pandemic.

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From 80s sitcom Cheers to semi-autobiographical series Fat Actress, the actor brought unscripted intimacy to both her best roles and her life

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Wed 7 Dec 2022 01.27 EST (TheGuardian.com)

It was an impressively shocking moment in the hit sitcom Cheers when actor Kirstie Alley opened her mouth to reveal her tongue gripping a lit cigarette – in one short, catlike movement, she expertly flipped it over, caught it between her teeth and sunk in to a satisfied puff of smoke. In the scene, Alley is wearing a pink turtleneck beneath a pink coat sporting big, 80s shoulders, the whole moment conjuring the feeling of the alpha bad girl taking a surreptitious smoke break in the ladies’ room.

That moment sums up a lot about the unique personality that Alley brought to Cheers and the decades of acting and celebrity that would follow as she hewed out a persona that was compelling in its complexity.

Although by the time Alley arrived at Cheers in 1987 she had already developed a reputation with roles in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Runaway, it was in the hit Boston sitcom that Alley reached stardom, winning an Emmy for her portrayal of neurotic businesswoman Rebecca Howe. She boldly stepped into the absence made by the departure of lead actress Shelley Long, establishing herself as a force in her own right and giving the show a new lease on life.

Alley’s Howe emanated a roughness and wildness beneath the surface of a highly polished, if undeniably maladjusted femininity – in that, it very much resembled Alley’s infamous Emmys speech, where she offered a disjointed, bawdy series of remarks that felt as sincere and joyful as they did boundary-pushing and inappropriate.

As her career grew, Alley moved beyond Cheers to star in popular movies like the Look Who’s Talking trilogy, as well as becoming the lead character in the the sitcom Veronica’s Closet, where she played the owner of a company selling racy lingerie and other things to be enjoyed in the bedroom. Projects such as these continued building her trajectory as an actor willing to push her sex appeal into edgy territory, while also letting her shine as an anxiety-ridden everywoman who just wants to find a good man and fall in love.

Much as with the fictional characters she depicted, in her personal life Alley very publicly went her own way. She credited her affiliation with the Church of Scientology for helping her overcome a serious cocaine addiction, and in the church she ultimately reached the status of Operating Thetan Level 8, an extremely high rank costing millions of dollars to obtain. She also courted controversy in her affiliation with candidate Donald Trump, pledging then retracting her support for him in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately declaring in October 2020 that she had voted for him once and planned to do so again. Amid all the scrutiny of her Trump ties, it was less remembered that Alley also voted for Barack Obama twice.

Alley had a similarly on-again, off-again relationship with the weight loss company Jenny Craig, first operating as a spokesperson, then departing from the company and starting her own weight-loss enterprise, Organic Liaison, then eventually selling that company to Jenny Craig and resuming spokesperson duties. Just as her relationship with Jenny Craig went back and forth, so did her weight: on Oprah in 2005, she very publicly castigated herself for weighing too much, then returned to that show a year later modelling a bikini, her weight continuing to very publicly yo-yo for a decade afterwards.

Along the way Alley turned her calorie angst into a mordant, unscripted, semi-autobiographical Showtime series called Fat Actress, a very prototypical move for her. Alley’s shoot-from-the-hip stance and high-profile battles with her demons were things that resonated with fans, as was her reputation for having a big heart and not putting on airs. While Alley’s support for Trump or her many incendiary, expletive-laden tweets were often divisive (Alley claimed that her Trump votes got her blackballed by Hollywood), it’s telling that Jenny Craig never pulled her back as a spokesperson and that her death occasioned an outpouring of fond remembrances, even from those she had feuded with.

Alley was so widely celebrated not because she was flawless but because her flaws were so visible – she was among those celebrities who are compelling because they eschew the carefully managed image of the famous in favour of offering something that feels completely unfiltered and thus far more intimate.

It was this sense of unscripted intimacy that she brought to her best roles and that defined her as an actor, letting her inhabit her characters with a forcefulness bordering on swagger. Alley achieved prominence at a time when actors like Roseanne Barr and Rosie O’Donnell courted controversy in large part by defying sexist expectations of how a female celebrity should come off in public life, and how she should portray characters in film and TV.

If some of Alley’s stances now feel retrograde or even cringe-inducing, they are reflective of the degree to which the forces that forged her as an actor swallowed her up. Right till the end, Alley presented a picture of an individual actively working to heal herself amid a painful, difficult search for peace.

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The photographer Ryan Pfluger celebrates L.G.B.T.Q. couples in a collection of portraits, “Holding Space.”

By Nicole Dennis-Benn

Dec. 2, 2022 (NYTimes.com)

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In HOLDING SPACE: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens (Princeton Architectural Press, 223 pp., $29.95), Ryan Pfluger captures the beauty and essence of queer love in all its complexity and spectrums. When I first saw the images, I was drawn to the bold, unapologetic displays of love — love that is often stereotyped or kept secret. This is the kind of book that I would have wanted as a young queer woman who had to find my own way, navigating not only what it means to be a Black Jamaican lesbian, but what it means to exist as beloved. To see joy sparkle in the eyes, around the corners of the mouth; to see bodies fused together in postures of love; to see the tenderness and the vulnerability between couples who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans. It is as wonderful to behold as it is to be held: the pleasure of seeing such love, believing in it. A love so complete that it transcends race, ethnicity, gender, and defies the heteronormative gaze. This book not only forces us to look at the realness of love, captured brilliantly by Pfluger’s lens, but removes the hinges from the door that separates the observed and the observer. Pfluger brings us closer to each couple, delicately depicting their mutual affection: how they love in defiance, out of necessity. The images are powerful, revolutionary, challenging us to transcend our own perceptions of what love looks like and the many ways of defining it.

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Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens

by Ryan Pfluger

Featuring 100 stunning color photographs of queer, interracial couples taken by a renowned photographer for the New York Times Magazine, Time, Rolling Stone, and more, this incredible photo and story collection depicts modern love and relationships in all their joy, vulnerability, and affection.

Throughout 2020 and 2021, during a time of intense personal and political upheaval, artist, advocate, and photographer Ryan Pfluger set out to capture intimate images of queer, interracial couples, along with personal insight into their relationships in today’s world. Featured together for the first time in Holding Space, this unique collection of modern love in its many forms across the spectrum of race, sexuality, and gender identity and gives space to these couples to share short, revealing stories about their relationships.

The photos in this collection, and the people in them, can be startling in their openness, playful in their poses, and tender to their core. Pfluger has captured the magic, honesty, and beauty of love in today’s queer culture.

With a Foreword by Janicza Bravo and an essay by Brandon Kyle Goodman

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From her stirring poetry to her timeless wisdom on love, loss, and creativity, beloved poet and feminist Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929–March 27, 2012) endures as one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century, a remarkable woman of equal parts literary flair and political might. In a monumental manifestation of both, when Rich was awarded prestigious National Medal of Arts in 1997 — the highest honor bestowed upon an individual artist on behalf of the people of the United States — she famously became the first (and still only) person to decline the honor in a protest against the monopoly of power and the government’s proposed plan to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Adrienne Rich

But Rich was also a masterful writer of prose at the intersection of the philosophical, the political, and the deeply personal. In her essay titled “Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying,” originally read at the Hartwick Women Writers’ Workshop in June of 1975 and eventually included in the altogether fantastic anthology On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (public library), Rich adds to history’s finest definitions of love with eloquence that resonates with particularly poignant beauty in these days of historic change for the freedom and dignity of love:

An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.

It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.

It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

How beautifully this lends itself to paraphrasing Rich’s memorable words from two decades later — “I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope” — to “I don’t think we can separate love from overall human dignity and hope.”

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is indispensable in its entirety. Complement it with Rich on what “truth” really means and her spectacular convocation address on claiming your education.

The Aeon

The Aeon (or Judgement, Last Judgement, Atonement, Resurrection) is numbered twenty and often shows figures arising from graves in answer to the clarion call of an angel. The Thoth deck veers away from the Christian overtones and instead we see the goddess Nuit, a primal sky goddess from the beginning of creation. Her body is arched above our heads and curves to imply the ankh cross, a symbol of immortality and life. A child-like male figure stands within the ankh’s loop with his finger to his lips in the traditional mystical gesture of silence. A seated regal figure is behind him. Both figures are said to represent Horus, first as child and then as ruler.

Horus was the son of Osiris and Isis. When his father was murdered by his brother Set, Horus was protected and raised by Isis. Horus’ ascension to manhood triggered a series of battles with Set, culminating in his assumption to the throne of Egypt. Set was sent away defeated and thus Horus is seen as a god of redemption.

The Aeon forces us to acknowledge that our actions set up a chain of cause-and-effect for which we are solely responsible. Here we pass through the fire of purification, shedding dead and dying wood as we go. We judge ourselves frankly, forgive, and leave the past behind. And then we are free to step into the light.

This is a card of healing, especially on an emotional level. It promises hope and happiness, along with a new sense of safeness, protection and recovery. We are at the place where miracles happen.

(via angelpaths.com and Alan Blackman)

YaleCourses Dec 7, 2022 How does all this tie together? Class 23 brings the effects of the past century of imperialism into sharp focus. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist? Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both? Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy? In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish self-understanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine? Just how and when did a modern Ukrainian nation emerge? For that matter, how does any modern nation emerge? Why some and not others? Can nations be chosen, and can choices be decisive? If so, whose, and how? Ukraine was the country most touched by Soviet and Nazi terror: what can we learn about those systems, then, from Ukraine? Is the post-colonial, multilingual Ukrainian nation a holdover from the past, or does it hold some promise for the future? Course reading list: https://snyder.substack.com/p/syllabu… To see other videos in this course, please click on this playlist link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…