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Thanks for the support! We need more Ø in the middle east! :)
Cheers!
I like how hope reaches outward. :)
Honestly, I hadn't even thought about the picture movement! Must have been more of an unconscious gesture. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers
I love your task Lincøln! I was trying to think of how I have contributed to love not only recently, but in general. I decided it is through massage. I have probably been more useful as a trained massage therapist than another other career or academic endeavor I have pursued precisely because it is a way of spreading love. In this case it is by way of touch.
I found a story I want to share....
In ancient Japan a recently married young woman had, according to custom, moved into her husband's home where his parents also resided. After a while she visited a Buddhist monk, and, with tears in her eyes, expressed her frustration with her mother-in-law who was constantly bullying her. She was so desperate that she asked the monk to teach her a way by which she could gradually kill her mother- in-law without arousing any suspicion. The monk replied that he knew the perfect way for her to achieve her aim, and set about teaching her a form of massage through which she could gradually kill the old woman. A few weeks later the same young woman returned to the monk in a state of great agitation. The monk inquired whether his method was working, and the woman immediately begged him to show her how to undo the harm that she might have done. The monk feigned surprise and asked what had brought about this change of heart and mind. She answered that, after a few weeks of regularly massaging her mother-in-law in the way that he had taught her, she had grown very fond of her and now they both loved each other very much. The monk then smilingly explained that it had never been his intention to show her a way to hurt anybody, quite the contrary. He had taught her massage to bring them both together, thus creating love and harmony in her family life.
Points for planting human seeds and literally growing a group of humans from your seedlings :)
Since becoming party of SFØ and starting ØMN I have been trying to galvanize the troops to let the fun begin. It's been slow going, but I think the key is to organize a task for all interested newbies.
While there isn't an actual labyrinth in Oman, many of the forts and souks are described as "labyrinth like". However a maze is just a place you can get lost in, a labyrinth as indicated from my research says they are "Ancient Paths of Wisdom and Peace". I want to try to incorporate Wisdom and Peace into our exploration somehow.
So I'm thinking of combining two tasks, 1) Make a public art installation (which will be a labyrinth and 2) Play in the labyrinth.
We have a lot of artists in this little enclave of the world..... perhaps we could make an labyrinth art installation with their input. Is the desert a public place when you live on a one strip of road of desert in the middle of Arabia? :)
Good point about these countries not really telling the genetic or cultural heritage. I'm actually one of the set of eyes and I'm such an Anglo mut which was the case of nearly all the people from these countries. I wasn't sure it was really worth documenting all the mixtures.
However, I work with most of these people so I could add in the actual heritage. Thanks for the feedback! :) This was a fun task. :)
Thanks for this comment. It's true, recognition (or beauty) could be a recognition of emotion from the pictures of the eyes rather than just ascetics limited to color, shape etc. Since eyes are said to be the window to the soul, I like this observation very much. Thanks for taking it to the next level!
2- American- Irish/English
8- Canadian Jewish
24-Omani female
18- Iraqi female
35- Ukrainian female
Meelar, did you find this to be more or less similar to own ethnic background and or cultural conditioning?
Hey do you have any pics from your Vegas trip with me in them? That would be cool to see them.
By the way, too bad "getting married by elvis" wasn't a task! hehe