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कल हाई वे जाते हुए एक कार हमारे आगे निकली और कुछ ही देर में हमारे देखते ही देखते सीधा सडक से नीचे उतरती चली गई. अचानक उसके ब्रेक की आवाज से हमारा ध्यान गया. ना कार का टायर फटा न सामने से कोई पशु आया और न ही चालक ने शराब पी रखी थी… शुक्र है कि बहुत बचाव हो गया पर हुआ क्या ??? पूछने पर उसने झेपते हुए बताया कि दो चार दिन से आफिस में बहुत काम था और दिल्ली जाना भी जरुरी था.

थकावट बहुत थी और नींद भी पूरी नही हुई थी शायद अचानक कार चलाते झपकी आ गई थी.अरे बाप रे..बेशक वाहन चलाते हुए मोबाईल पर बात करना खतरनाक है पर बिना नींद पूरी हुए वाहन चलाना भी कम खतरनाक नही …

वैसे बस पर भी लिखा होता है कि यात्री का 1 , 2 और 3 सीट पर सोना मना है वो इसलिए लिखा होता है कि  अक्सर यात्री को सोता देख कर वाहन चालक को भी नींद आ जाती है…

पलक झपकते ही कोई बहुत बडी दुर्धटना न हो जाए. इसलिए घर से तरोताजा होकर ही निकलिए …वैसे आप तो ऐसा नही करते होंगें और अगर करते हैं तो जरा नही बहुत सोचने की दरकार है.. आपकी जिंदगी की यात्रा शुभ रहे

short nap बेशक फायदे बहुत है पर अगर आप किसीकार्यक्रम में मंच पर ही झपकी लेने लग जाएगें तो हंसी का पात्र बन जाएगें और ड्राईव करते झपकी लेंगें तो  जान लेवा हो जाएगी … क्योकि भी चीज जिंदगी से बढी नही इसलिए अगर जिंदगी से सच्चा प्यार है तो टेंशन, झपकी थकावट सब घर पर  छोड कर ही निकलना बेहतर है….

Hints From Heloise: Power up with a nap! – The Washington Post

Dear Readers: Are you fully awake? Are you TIRED? Are you functioning, but sort of on 3/4 power? You could be one of the millions and millions of folks who are sleep-deprived! We work many hours, do errands on the way home, fight traffic and worry about late buses and trains. Then we come home and there is more to do. If you can find 20-30 minutes for a power nap, it could help tremendously.

Try to find a quiet spot (or wear earplugs), keep light to a minimum (or cover your eyes with something) and find the coolest (temperature) place you can.

If you can’t nap (especially at work), try for a short break — walk around the office or outside. Even go into a bathroom stall and close your eyes, block out noise and quiet your mind — yes, I’ve done this! — Heloise See more…

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Muza Ulasowski, my wonderful collaborator, has created a fabulous FB page for our picture book, “The Sea Cat Dreams”! Muza’s wonderfully life like illustrations have perfectly captured  the story in a way I could never have envisaged! She has truly captured the story’s essence!  Here are some samples:

The story is about coping with life impacting change something that can happen planned [as in a house move] or completely unplanned [as with a natural disaster, accident, death etc]. Coping with change, as child/family psychologists and counselors all say, is something that has a profound impact, especially on the young. As with grief, adults are often too preoccupied with the change and its ramifications to be able to take in how the children, who are being impacted by change, are managing or not managing in the new setting/situation.

The cat in the story moves, accidently, from one environment & family on a farm, to another very different one, aboard a fishing boat.  He is then impacted further by the loss of a master he has come to love. But this is not the end. He moves through his life’s dramatic changes; firstly, by grieving, something we need to encourage each other and especially children, to do. He then reaches out to, shares with and cares for others also affected by loss, in this case, the fisherman’s widow. He gradually accepts his new life situation, not for a moment forgetting what has happened, but treasuring the wonderful memories he has.

The process of grieving must be acknowledged and the grieving child/adult be allowed to express their grief or sense of loss at the change in their lives and encouraged to do so.  Let them talk, let them share as much as they need to. Highlight the  constructive aspects, positive elements, e.g, wonderful memories of a dead friend, relative or pet. If the impacting change has involved a move – be it to a different school, to another suburb, another state, another country – encourage  the keeping of contacts where possible, assist with the making of new contacts and the sharing of the process of moving and resettling, especially any humorous incidents.

The hope in writing this book, was to help children talk about their own stories of life changing events and to recognise, that whilst change is not always pleasant, we can become stronger for it and be better able to reach out and empathise with others experiencing its many faceted impact on their own lives.

See it here: http://utales.com/books/the-sea-cat-dreams

Nature has ways of providing us with sick entertainment. Everyone who has had a garden has at one time or another dug up a uniquely formed carrot or potato. We find these abnormal growths entertaining and interesting, abnormally formed animals and humans draw our eyes even more so.

The most famous deformities are Siamese Twins. Most do not survive.  Undoubtedly without medical aid none could be born naturally and the mother too, would die.  For more information (and freaky pictures) on Siamese twins click here!

Another deformity can be caused later in life, as the result of the polio virus.  The virus travels through the bloodstream and into the brain.  Although it has been halted in many areas thanks to vaccinations, it should be noted that the below photo was taken as recently as 1995.  It primarily strikes young people and can leave them paralyzed. 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polio_sequelle.jpg

Hypertelorism is a genetic deformity that causes body parts to be placed farther apart.  Most often the eyes are abnormally wide set, as we see in the seven year old girl below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertelorism

Another famous freak is the freak accident, as when a skier crashes into a tree.  Particularly funny to witness, not too funny to be involved in.  A free accident is typically one that nobody could  have predicted, or something that happens very rarely, and should have been easily avoided. 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freak_accident_-_entire_photo.JPG

Freak storms are an other freak event we just love to watch, over and over.  As long at it is not happening to us.  Below we see a tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004-tsunami.jpg

Some people are noted for being freaks.  For some this is a good thing, while others are bullied or teased, shunned by society for having the guts to be different and live their life the way they would want.  Obviously some people are freaks because of natural physical deformities, as mentioned above, but these are the people who have the stigma of being freaks only because their behavior is different than what is the cultural norm.  Below we see a man who even calls himself a freak, this is John the freak at Hempfest in Seattle.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Hempfest_2007_-_John_the_Freak_01A.jpg

Because it is today considered socially unacceptable to put freaks on display, the once common “Freak Show” in circuses and fairs is getting harder and harder to find.  While some freaks in the past were probably real, others may have been faked.  If today we saw this picture (below) we would question if the remainder of the person was simply hidden under the sand.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FreaksPoster2.jpg

None the less there is something in the human psyche that longs to look at freaks for one reason or another.  We need to watch train wrecks, disasters, and to look at deformities.  This is nothing new, we can look back to older renderings showing freaks, sometimes in tasteful ways.  Below we see Lazarus and Joannes Baptista.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lazarus_and_Joannes_Baptista_Colloredo.jpg

Finally I leave you with Jo-Jo the dog faced boy.  Not a very nice name for this lad who served in side shows due to his abmornal hair growth on his face.  The problem is actually known as Hypertrichosis.  In minor forms it causes single abnormal hair growth on people even so that a person may have one abnormally long hair on their arm or leg, or a patch of long hairs. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jeftichew-14.jpg

submission for monday artday theme: "yecchh!"
i cheated and used an old artwork.......hope its okay? its yecchh enough no? ^_^



dont you ladies hate it when you're in your favourite heels and the path is littered with potential hazards.... i've always secretly feared this (or something less tragic) might happen to me and my heel-lovin feet one day.

for more girls-in-dilemmas illustrations, looky at my blog here!

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