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Review of The Little Father by Gelett Burgess

I decided to read a few more works by Gelett Burgess who wrote the People Cow poem. I put The Little Father on hold at the library and later found out that it was a children’s book. No problem, I thought, I could review it for this blog. I read The Little Father in less than 15 minutes. My initial impressions were that I had wasted my time, and that it did not make any sense for me to review it since there was not much substance to the book.

Several hours later while reflecting, I wondered if I was being fair so I made a commitment to read the book again since it is so short. The following morning when I awoke, many issues danced around in my consciousness, and I realized these were issues that the book could have been raising. Have you been in a situation where you changed your mind after a good night’s sleep? I reread The Little Father and wrote the review.

Mr. Masters, a very obese man, had a four year son Michael. There was no Mrs. Masters but we were not told what happened to her, whether she had died or just simply left. Mr. Masters had the habit of drinking Indian ink, which is presumed to make him shrink. The more he drank his Indian ink the more he shrank. And soon he was the size of Michael. At this point Mr. Masters stopped more or less being a father to his son and was more of a pal. They played with Michael’s  toys and shared clothes since Mr. Masters had been a frequent visitor to his tailor having to constantly have his clothes adjusted to fit his shrinking frame.

Mr. Masters was the topic of conversation among his neighbours and the neighbourhood children often ridiculed and made fun of him about his small size. But, Mr. Masters did not stop there, he kept on drinking the Indian ink until Michael had to use a microscope to see him. Michael is now taking care of his father and has been doing so for a while now.

The Little Father made me very angry. What would possess a father to do something so dumb, I thought. But the more I processed the information, the less angry I became. In life we have role reversals, where the child takes care of the parent as in eldercare. Except that this does not apply here because the child is only four years old and the parent is 42 years old.

So what other issue is at play? Should we speculate since the story is a bit scanty when it comes to information? Is it our responsibility to fill in the gaps? In life, we never have enough information, and often have to fill in the gaps based on “intelligent” assumptions. Did Mrs. Master leave Mr. Masters because he was obese? Did his neighbours and coworkers ridicule him because of his size? Obese people are often discriminated against, so this is a plausible assumption.

Was Mr. Masters often ignored by society, made to feel like he was insignificant and invisible, so now he works hard at becoming invisible, until he is indeed invisible to the naked eyes. Is this fair to his four year old son who now has to fend for himself? I am a deep thinker, have I gone off the deep end? Am I making too much out of this story, after all it is a children’s book. Should I take The Little Father at face value? If I do this book does not work for me.

• How do our actions make others feel diminished?
• Do we discriminate against others because they do not look like or behave in a manner that society expects?
• How can we be in harmony with others?

I recommend that you read The Little Father because I would really like to know what you think and how you interpret the book.

Further Reading

Culture, Obesity Stereotypes, Self-Esteem, and the “Thin Ideal”: A Social Identity Perspective, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2004, pp. 307–317 ( C
2004), Paul A. Klaczynski, Kristen W. Goold, and Jeffrey J. Mudry

Obesity, Self Esteem and Wages, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2009

Weight Discrimination: A Socially Acceptable Injustice By Rebecca Puhl, PhD

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Interview With Alison Duke, Writer, Producer & Director, Goldelox Productions

This interview was first presented in the October 2006 issue of my newsletter Ambeck Edge

 Challenge: The business of filmmaking is very subjective. My clients are community-based organizations, government agencies and corporate businesses. They hire me to make films and videos for their companies in the form of short documentaries, Public Services Announcements and/or corporate videos. When I’m offered a contract to make “something,” usually there isn’t a script attached. Usually it’s just a concept. The only concrete things attached to it are the budget for the film and a delivery date. They may or may not have a research file on the subject available for me, or know the precise audience who the film is for. In addition to not having a script readily available, most of my clients didn’t go to film school so they don’t have the appropriate film grammar to explain what they want in the film or the film’s look or style.

A major problem working this way was that most people did not understand how much time and effort goes into producing films. Because TV, and Hollywood make moviemaking look easy, people have skewed ideas what things really cost. Yet when it comes to visuals, everyone has this uncanny way of knowing what they like (and what they don’t like) when they see it. An obvious business challenge working this way, was knowing what the client really wants, which means getting into the client’s head and figuring out what they want me to deliver without spending too much time and money so the production can arrive on budget and on schedule.

 Resolution: I educate the client about what it will take to make their film. Once attached to the job, I book a show and tell with the client. A show and tell is a creative meeting where I show segments from my previous work that may represent the feel and style of their project. For completely new ideas or concept, I present sketches, animations samples and even audio clips of what I have in mind for this new work. I’ll go over the cost of producing these audio/visuals and also talk about the overall challenges of creating particular visuals or audio for our timelines. Once the client approves the ideas they want, I give them a production contract. In this contract, I incorporate as much details about the creative, including responsibilities and timelines. I also affix a budget and payment schedule so that payments are released as we achieve creative milestones such as script approval, subject selection and so on. I go off and write the script.

 I don’t start the actual filming until they sign off on the script. When the production is in progress, things always change and it is very easy to get sidetracked in creative conversations. When the situation is clearly defined on paper people are more able to anchor back to the overall objective and director of the job.

 Lessons Learned

1.  Establishing a creative work environment with my client takes work. I can’t assume that it is just going to happen, I have to nurture it. The environment must have balance though, with a clearly defined hierarchy of who has the final say because it is easy to give in to ideas and try to satisfy the whims of everyone involved in the project
2. Creating this type of work environment enhances the overall execution and workflow of the project.
3. You can actually do more damage to your reputation as a creative person by working on projects, which lack overall vision, execution strategies or adequate support systems to help you deliver. When I started out doing this I did a lot of different things. I am very selective in what I do now

Formula for Success

Understanding my client’s needs, providing good service and being passionate about what I am doing is key. I love filming and I try as hard as I can to keep abreast with technology and trends. I read a lot of film books, magazines and web sites, and I also do a lot of research for each job so I am as prepared as possible. The bottom line is that I love learning about what I do. I feel that when I know more I am better able to give my clients products they can use for a long time.

Excerpt: Ambeck Edge October 2006

Further Readings

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Alison Duke
Hear the Story

While I was writing an article about the importance of reading, Building Intellectual Power One Book at a Time, I wanted the perfect quote to sum up what I felt, and I found the perfect one by Francis Bacon, author, philosopher and the father of inductive reasoning.

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention” says Francis Bacon.

A Video of Creative Quotations from Francis Bacon

(CreativeQuotations.com)

From the quotes in the video, which one is your favourite, and why?

Note: As is the case with all the posts so far in the series 10 People Who Would Have Been Great Bloggers, based on research, I attempt to get into the head of these great thinkers and project what I think they would say. And, most importantly, I have fun with what I discover. I find the theory that Bacon was Shakespeare to be quite fascinating.

Baconisms

1. You may not know this, but I am the originator of the phrase “Knowledge is power.” I am so delighted that the phrase is so widespread
2. Reading gives me pleasure and gardening is one of life’s simple pleasures
3. Have planned procedures to investigate everything
4. I believe in practical knowledge so it is important to restructure traditional learning methods
5. Though I revered Aristotle, I hated his philosophy, what the heck is Aristotelianism anyway?
6. My life is the classic case of a Greek tragedy, read my next point and you will know why
7. Be weary of power and do not let it go to your head, operate with integrity, I know what I am talking about. I was on the fast track and lost my way, I was charged and arrested for bribery. Though the king later pardoned me, I was banished from public life
8. If you make a mistake, own up to it, and learn from it
9. Good can come from adversity: After I was charged and arrested, I focused on my writing
10. Am I, or Am I Not William Shakespeare? Now That’s the Question!

Sources:

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
Biographies: Francis Bacon “The Secretary of Nature (1561 – 1626)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Francis Bacon

Of Francis Bacon by Max Patrick

Photo credit: Wikipedia

Interesting Information

Bacon is Shakespeare Slideshow
Baconian Theory

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What do you do when you want to clear your mind, when you you want to let go of all that “stuff” that gets in the way? To be the best that I can be, and unleash my inner genius, I reflect on my life a lot to make adjustments when necessary. And, I also read and write. Last summer I wrote a series of poems, and I would like to share one with you. Let me know what  you think.

A Daughter’s Farewell by Avil Beckford

I can’t remember you ever hugging me.

I can’t remember you telling me you loved me.

I can’t remember you kissing me.

But I clearly remember you criticizing me,

Leaving me, even when I was scared.

You weren’t there, even when you were there.

You were emotionally distant.

Sometimes I wonder if you were a figment of my imagination.

You must have been real, because you were my father.

The battle within me rages because I was invisible to you.

I no longer want to be invisible.

I want to be a real person to you.

Just once I would like you to tell me how you feel about me.

Just once, I would like to hear you say “I love you”.

Just once, I would like to feel your arms around me.

But you can’t really do that, can you?

You died before I got to know you.

You died without asking for my forgiveness.

You died before I forgave you.

I try to make sense of it all,

All the wasted moments, all the wasted years,

Both of us waiting for the other to extend a hand, a forgiving hand.

Our stubbornness got in the way, and now you’re gone.

If I got one more chance to see you again, what would I do?

Would I hug you?

If I got one more chance to see you again, what would I say?

Would I tell you I love you?

If I got one more chance to see you again, could I forget past hurts?

Could I forgive you?

Since I do not have the chance to see you again, I say,

“Farewell my father, rest in peace knowing that I love you.

Farewell my father, your daughter has finally found peace.”

What are your thoughts about forgiveness? What kind of relationship do you or did you have with your father?

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Review of On Natural Selection by Charles Darwin

I have been researching great thinkers and how they have shaped the world. I have also been trying to prove that the act of reading helps to generate or even stimulate great ideas. Great thinkers do not operate within a vacuum, they rely on the works of others, and often expand the original thought and take the world further. Charles Darwin and British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace independently arrived at similar theories of Natural Selection in the mid-1800s after reading Essay on the Principle of Population by British pastor Thomas Malthus.

I wrote this book review four years ago for my newsletter, Ambeck Edge and thought I would share it with you since it makes a great Invisible Mentor.

Darwin defines natural selection as the “preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variation.” So what does this all mean? Darwin further adds, “Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection, and would be left a fluctuating element, as perhaps we see in the species called polymorphic… Natural selection can act only by taking advantage of slight variations; she can never take a leap, but must advance by the shortest steps.”

This book wasn’t the easiest to read, and I found it quite “dry”. But, in my quest to find out where really good ideas come from, I made the sacrifice and slogged through it. I have selected fives ideas from On Natural Selection. For the five ideas below, how can you use them in different contexts to resolve/understand modern day problems?

Five Good Ideas

1. When a plant or animal is placed in a new country amongst new competitors, though the climate may be exactly the same as its former home, yet the conditions of its life will generally be changed in an essential manner. If we wished to increase its average numbers in its new home, we should have to modify it in a different way to what we should have done in its native country; for we should have to give it some advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies.
2. Individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind
3. When a species, owing to highly favourable circumstances, increases inordinately in numbers in a small tract, epidemics often ensue
4. The more diversified the descendants from any one species become in structure, constitution, and habits, by so much will they be better enabled to seize on many and widely diversified places in the polity of nature, and so be enabled to increase in numbers
5. Natural selection is working behind the scenes all the time throughout the world whenever the opportunity arises. It works to improve each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. You cannot see these slow changes taking place, until after a long period of time has elapsed, we see that the forms of life are now different from what they formerly were

We could take idea number two and look at it in the context of education. It’s a reasonable assumption to make that people who are more educated have a better chance of succeeding than those who have less education. Or, for that same idea, we could say, someone who has an idea and knows how to take action, will be more successful than someone who has ideas but do nothing about them. Success in this context is not restricted to financial success. Why don’t you take one of the above five ideas and see what new ideas you can generate?

I recommend On Natural Selection because I am sure that you will come up with your own five ideas. This is not a book that you would read for entertainment, but it will certainly stretch you.

Excerpt Ambeck Edge May 2005

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There are times when we feel out of sync, like our life does not fit us, like nothing is working for us. For us to live a fulfilled life, all aspects of ourselves have to be in sync with each other. So, Have you ever been in a situation where nothing worked for you? You tried many different things but to no avail, now what do you do?

A few years ago,  I asked Lydia Danner and Lea Chambers to share their techniques when all else fails.

Lydia Danner who teaches high-speed learning shares her process with us. “Quiet your mind and go to the place where the true solutions lie…to the alpha state of your brain. It is in this state that we can access our higher power. But, it’s usually the last place we want to go in our frenzied quest to get things done. If we could train ourselves to go to this state first, that is our best solution, for everything…yes, absolutely everything.

So, how do we access our higher power whenever we want or need to? By slowing down our brain. By living an alpha life. According to scientists, there are four known (and possibly more) brain wave states…beta, alpha, theta and delta. Our general state of being is the beta brain state which oscillates at 14 to 25 cycles per second. This is where stress, anger and disease reside. Then there is alpha (7 to 13 cycles per second), where all creativity resides and where all things are conceived before they become reality. This is also where learning takes place.

The next time you find yourself in a situation where nothing is working, it is because you are in a highly agitated beta state and you are preventing solutions from coming to you. Sit in a comfortable chair and relax. Breathe deeply. Close your eyes and count backwards (in your head), slowly, from 10 to 1. While you are counting, roll your eyes upward toward the space between your eyebrows. This effectively puts a brake on your beta frenzy and slows your brain down to alpha. You can actually feel this happening. In this state of well being answers will flow to you. In other cultures this is called the state of surrender. Try it. Your life will be the better for it.”

Lea Chambers, a marketing professional responded, “I believe that when we are on the right path in life and moving in the right direction, the results we want come to us, seemingly without effort or struggle. However, sometimes our conscious mind just doesn’t have the capacity to understand what that might be. This causes fear and stress for us, but we can overcome those feelings if we believe in synchronicity and the power of Being in the Now.

I’ve just recently come through a period where I wasn’t getting the results I wanted right away. At first I struggled with this, becoming emotional, fretting over why things weren’t working, wondering what I was doing wrong, looking backwards at the decisions I had made to get me to this point and beating myself up about them.

Then, one day, I surrendered to all of that frustration and struggling and just TRUSTED that I was in exactly the right place at the right time. I looked at my situation differently and saw all the positive things that were happening all around me and enjoyed each day, rather than fighting against the way the path was leading me. I relaxed, just focused on doing what brought me pure joy and didn’t worry about the results I was getting. I just decided to breathe and “BE” and exist in the moment and not be connected to any outcome whatsoever. I took time to “clean my space”, get exercise, eat better, call people I hadn’t spoken to for a while, read some good books, slept a lot, went for slow walks in the woods and felt love and joy.

Then, one day, without me having to do much at all, the result that I had wanted all along virtually came to me and was absolutely better and bigger and more wonderful than anything I had imagined. And I had to do almost nothing to make it happen.

Believe in synchronicity and ignore the mind’s tendency to trouble over what “isn’t”. Focus on what is and let your Being breathe within that space, where time and money and all your daily troubles are irrelevant. There is something bigger out there waiting for you that is larger and more wonderful than what you could ever imagine.”

Are you willing to try something that’s different?

Excerpt Ambeck Edge November 2005

I wanted to do a slideshow blog post but did not have a clue how and where to begin. I knew that I would have to figure it out someday, but kept putting it off. Have you ever done that?

Joanna Young at Confident Writing is having a Mission Im(Possible): Group Writing Project where she asks individuals to write a post in a format that they are unaccustomed to, and I thought that someday has come. I used my close friend Google to figure out the technology that would allow me to create a slideshow that is compatible with a WordPress blog. This post is my entry into the Mission Im(Possible): Group Writing Project. I created the slideshow using the tools at Slide.com.

If a picture is really worth a thousand words, what is your story now that you have watched the slideshow? Mine would go something like this. As I journey through life, I take different paths because I stumble, but always pick myself up. Some paths are easier than others, sometimes they are steep, cloudy, crowded, or busy. I reflect on the experiences that I have on my journey so that I can course correct if necessary. I look up and see the beauty in all things, and I try to laugh and not take myself too seriously. There are lessons all around me, I learn, move on, but most importantly I remember that though the destination is important, the journey is the key and so I smile because all is well.

Exercise

Select photos that have a special meaning to you and write a cohesive story based on what you see and feel. The Invisible Mentor is about peeling off layers and getting to the real you.

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WRITER, PHILOSOPHER, AND FEMINIST, Mary Wollstonecraft best known for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein . Born in 1759, she was truly ahead of her time, and during her short life (she died in 1797) she advocated and argued for the rights of women.  According to Wikipedia, in her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women “she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.” Wollstonecraft could be considered the “Mother of Feminism.”

Note: As is the case with all the posts so far in the series 10 People Who Would Have Been Great Bloggers, based on research, I attempt to get into the head of these great thinkers and project what I think they would say.

There are many troubling aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft’s life as you will discover while reading about her, but focus on the positives. Like us, she too was human.

Mentor: Fanny Blood

Pioneering Way: Became an author, though it was uncommon for women to support themselves by writing

Big Break: Publisher, Joseph Johnson commissioned Wollstonecraft to write Thoughts on the Education of Girls, which was published in 1786, and two years later they founded the journal Analytical Review

Circle of Influence: Tom Paine, John Cartwright, John Horne Tooke, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake

Works Studied: The Bible, Milton, Shakespeare

Wollstonecraftisms

1. Do not accept things because they have always been that way, challenge social norms
2. Read books and attend lectures to expand your intellectual universe
3. Seek intellectual stimulation from those around you
4. Do not be afraid to test your ideas
5. Teach your children how to reason
6. Well educated women make good wives and mothers while making contributions to society
7. Women deserve the same rights as men
8. We all have a social responsibility to the poor
9. Where you start out in life is not an indication of where you will end up
10. Invest in your mind to reap big rewards

Further Reading

The History Guide Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History: Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797

Mary Wollstonecraft Legacy

Spartacus Educational Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft on Education

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Book Review

The Vowels of Personal Power: 5 + 1 Ways to Liberate Your Creativity

by Bob McCulloch & Julia Gluck

I have been reflecting a lot on my life, and with reflections you revisit things you did and how you did them. So, I have looked at my newsletter to see if some of the work that I did is still relevant today. You will notice that I have been splattering this blog with book reviews and interviews that I conducted a few years go. The review of  The Vowels of Personal Power is still relevant today.

Even though The Vowels of Personal Power contains a lot of information that I have been exposed to before, I liked it because it was presented in a “fresh” manner. It’s taking old ideas and giving them a new spin. The book is filled with many examples to help you grasp the concepts. One criticism that I have, and it’s just my personal preference and may not be the same for you, is that there were too many examples, and the majority of them were about the authors’ personal experiences. Is it possible to have too many examples? I would have preferred it if there were less examples and more of them about other people.

According to the authors, the premise of the book is that “we are all born bundles of creative energy… We’re born with the capacity for awareness, engagement, openness and understanding.” The “I” from the vowels is for Integrity and what McCulloch and Gluck refer to as the “Thoughtful I,” which integrates all the other practices in the vowels.

Below are listed the five vowels of personal power and the 12 practice areas – presented in the book -to unleash your creativity.

1. I: Integrity and the Thoughtful I
2. A: Awareness
   i. Stay Mindfully Aware
   ii. Capture and Cherish Your Lightness
   iii. Be Thoughtfully Authentic
3. E: Engagement
   i. Get and Stay Engaged
   ii. Stay Resolved Without Attachment
   iii. Accept and Support Your Mutuality
4. O: Openness
   i. Accept Every Idea’s Inevitable Relevance
   ii. Allow and Fully Appreciate Fresh Associations
   iii. Perceive the Positives
5. U: Understanding
   i. Acknowledge and Suspend Judgment
   ii. Confirm Your Understanding
   iii. Embrace the Power of the Both/And

Glancing at the list you may think that “oh I already know this,” but knowing something and practicing it are two very different things. This book is a good reminder to be positive, appreciative, focused, fully engaged in whatever it is you’re doing, not be attached to how you get to your destination (outcome), and to give things a chance before you decide to “nix” them. The book helps you to integrate the 12 practices into your life.

Five + 1 Great Ideas

You have lots of things standing in the way of the flow of your personal creative energy, all anchored in your thoughts and beliefs about the way the world works. So to get out of the rut of automatic thoughts, you need to mobilize your conscious thinking

Equilibrium seems safe to us. It is still, unchanging, knowable, and predictable. However, it stops us from growing. It stops us from being open to new possibilities

What happens to you, what you achieve in your life, is dictated less by your abilities than by the choices you make, including choices to do nothing

By not becoming attached to one particular way of doing things, you liberate people’s creative energy. You liberate them to use whatever talents they have in order to achieve the desired outcome – even a difficult one

Carry a notebook and pen at all times… Whenever an interesting thought comes to you – even one with no apparent application in the present – write it down. When you find your energy blocked regarding an idea or a situation, consulting your ideas book may just give you the inspiration to move forward

Solutions will not always present themselves to you right away. Sometimes they need to be coaxed out, and sometimes you need to sneak up on them from behind

I recommend this book, and it’s one that you should read more than once, just to remind yourself about what you already know.

Application

1. How can you apply the concepts from The Vowels of Personal Power to your life?
2. What techniques do you use to ensure that you stay in the moment?
3. How do you capture ideas when they come to you?

Excerpt Ambeck Edge November 2006

One of the things I discovered about myself is that the more I read, the more creative I am, and the more great ideas I generate. I thought I would have some fun with this blog post and create tweets (less than or equal to 140 characters) for some great people who died. Click on the links to learn more. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

@Einstein I was surprised when Time magazine named me Person of the Century, thx to Max Talmud 4 exposing me 2 key texts in science & math

@FlorenceNightingale Thx 2 Charles Villiers for supporting me when I advocated for improved healthcare in infirmaries

@RolloMay I’m convinced I got it right “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is conformity” Man’s Search for Himself

@Archimedes I was so excited when I figured out how 2 measure the volume of an irregular object I ran down the street naked shouting Eureka

@Gutenberg I had no idea that inventing the printing press would so profoundly impact info dissemination, of course the Internet helped

@TheWrightBrothers No one succeeds alone, we’re gr8ful to Otto Lilienthal, whose research was instrumental in assisting us to invent the airplane

@Confucius I’m both teacher and student, learn more by reading the Analects of Confucius online

@MarieAntoinette Things u may not know abt me, I am fond of music, I cld barely read or write at age 12, and I believe in giving to charity

@LadyGodiva I’m not an exhibitionist, I rode naked on a horse to protest the oppressive taxes my husband imposed on his tenants

@MartinLutherKingJr We are our brother’s keeper, what affects one of us affects all of us

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech

Rollo May Existential Psychotherapy Video

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