Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - FTT Voices for Creative Nonviolence Polyamory for the Practical This morning I wake up next to The Prince. This means I am waking up too early because of that unspeakable invention, the alarm clock. I open a bleary eye to see that he is getting ready for work, but don't really register anything coherent. The whole family was up late the night before Ï no, not what you think. We were eating ice cream and heckling some TV show. I forget what. The Prince, being the first up most weekdays, feeds the children some breakfast and turns on the electronic babysitter, calling out that he is leaving the house and that somebody better get his lazy butt up to keep an eye on the kids. I do not in fact get up, but laze in bed keeping an ear out for the little monsters. I snatch the toy out of the hands of a child and say, without quite snarling, "If you can't play nicely with it, neither of you can have it." I put the toy on a high shelf, ignore shrieks and go off to make my coffee. The children beg me to sit down with them and watch The Wild Thornberrys .
Triangle Theory of Love: Poly Style On the evening that we would be studying the Triangle Theory of Love in my Development Psychology class, I got pretty excited. I thought "Wow, are we actually going to learn that most people get attracted to multiple people and this forms triangles of love??". I really must learn to leave my sicko poly mind out of the classroom, y'know? No, what we actually were introduced to was a theory by Robert Sternberg, in which he sees three components of what we refer to as 'loving relationships'. These three components make up a triangle of interactions. Intimacy: The specialness of the relationship that promotes closeness, bondedness and connectedness. And that there are different combinations of these three components that makes up different kinds of loving relationships. Infatuation is defined as a superficial type of love that is usually one-sided. Liking is defined as a type of typical friendship (not a best friendship, however). (Above information from Braun, J. All the boxes checked?
The 2010 Internet Censorship Report infographic From Antonio Lupetti at WoorkUp.com, The 2010 Internet Censorship Report looks at how many people in the world population are effected by government censorship. It is one of the tools used by governments to filter out unwanted information and to prevent the spread through the World Wide Web. It is a phenomenon of staggering proportions that affects over 25% of the global population. My suggestion for improvement is that I think the the white circles representing the countries should be sized in accordance the population numbers. Thanks to Antonio for sending in the link. Relationship Health Relationship Checkup by Spring Cascade Originally published in Loving More #21 in 2000 For the past month or so I've been asking people how they would identify a healthy relationship. What is a healthy way of relating? Here are some of the elements of a healthy relationship that came up in my discussions: Good communication. What would you add to this list? I've listed the ideas the sound good to me, omitting some suggestions that I disagree with. Zhahai and I have been together for some 24 years with a philosophy that is not widely accepted, but which we think is very healthy. What does this mean in a practical sense? One aspect is the way we've handled other relationships. Our guidelines for other relationships have changed a lot over the years. Zhahai and I both feel a strong need to have integrity in our other relationships. Having integrity in our other relationships also means that neither of us will suddenly ask the other to cut off another person. Is that healthy or unhealthy?
Most Amazing Miniature Food Artworks by Shay Aaron Shay Aaron is a brilliant artist from Israel who makes the most astonishing miniature food jewelry. These foodstuffs look so beautiful that we would desire to eat them. Actually, there’s a whole market out there for miniature food. Not actual stuff you can eat, but beautifully hand made designs of steaks, burgers, pies, vegetables, eggs and pretty much food artworks you can think of. Comments comments anonymouz on Myspace Daytrotter: The source for new music discovery and free MP3 downloads from the best emerging bands.
Graduate Internship Program (Getty Foundation) Part 3: Recommendation letters via e-mail. Applicants must have two confidential letters of recommendation forwarded by their recommenders via e-mail to InternRecLetters@getty.edu. Letters must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. PST December 3, 2012. Typically, the most appropriate recommenders are university faculty members who can address your academic performance. Recommenders should be sure to state how long s/he has known the applicant and in what capacity.
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