After 50 years, the International Societies of teh Red C ross and Red Crescent have finally deigned to allow the Magen David Adom (Red Magen David) to be recognized as a part of their organization.  50 years, and pestering by all sorts of public figures, and a multi-million dollar protest (the American Red Cross has withheld something like $45 ( Read more... )

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Peace is a lie: there is only Passion.

Through Passion, I gain Strength.
Through Strength, I gain Power.
Through Power, I gain Victory.

Through Victory, my chains are broken:
The Force shall free me.

From Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I must not fear:
Fear is the mind killer -
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration;
I will face my fear -
I will permit it to pass over me, and through me;
And when it has gone past,
I will turn the Inner Eye to see its path...
Where the fear has gone,
There will be nothing...
Only I will remain.

from Dune, by Frank Herbert

"No longer will the pain wear me.  I will wear my pain, become friends with it.  I will learn from it, and then I will depart form it, whole again."

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"The only sin is mediocrity."

Martha Graham

"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising each time you fail."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare

Tape, that is - miles and miles of shiny, bright (and, undoubtedly, petroleum-product derived) red tape (or maybe it's crimson - and these things matter, because, if you use the wrong terminology you have to wad it all up, throw it away, and start over again - thank you for playing the home version of our game), artfully configured in a torturous ( Read more... )

You gotta check this out:   Catharsis Comic

Thought of you immediately when I read it :)

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