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H​ow to Learn a Language Pain-Free

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    F​or someone who wants to expand their horizons, learn about a different culture, or simply move like a local in their travels, acquiring some proficiency in a new language is a natural first step. When someone makes this bold leap they are taking on a difficult task: a foreign tongue is NOT just a collection of grammatical and syntactical rules used in that language; it is the collective wisdom of men and women that have existed for hundreds or even thousands of years which is given a voice. If this is you, congratulations! You have steeled yourself to undertake a wonderful labor and, when you have stuck to it, will come out enriched in so many ways. How do you even begin? There are millions of blogs, websites, videos, books, workshops, and classes designed to help you learn, and the best part is that none of them agree on a solid (note: not best) method to attain this goal swiftly and relatively pain-free. I have taught myself four languages and tried many different ways of learn

Rose-Window- An Article Published in WarKitchen

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οὐκ ἀπείρατοι δόμοι ἐντί: λέλογχε δὲ μεμφομένοις ἐσλοὺς ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν ἀντίον. τέχναι δ᾽ ἑτέρων ἕτεραι: χρὴ δ᾽ ἐν εὐθείαις ὁδοῖς στείχοντα μάρνασθαι φυᾷ. πράσσει γὰρ ἔργῳ μὲν σθένος, βουλαῖσι δὲ φρήν, ἐσσόμενον προϊδεῖν (Different men have different skills. One must take the straight path: fight with what one has by nature. Action is the way of strength; stratagem the way of council, in those endowed with the gift of foresight.) -Pindar, Nemean 1 22-27      Man is made by God to be a spiritual and physical representation of the divine, created in His image. How often is it that this image is darkened, degenerated, harmed, and otherwise polluted? It is too easy to see the body as disposable, something to take a person from point A to point B and terminate with no great Aesthetic or performative achievement. From this perspective the body, in all of its lines and graceful curves, is a chance and disorderly combination of flesh and blood, misfiring neurons, creaky joints, flab and phle

A New Old Way to Eat- An Article published in WarKitchen

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 Eating is an initiation, a ritual connecting one to the Earth and to distant memories. Every meal, every calorie eaten is a conscious choice and at this point in world-history, a battle. Many of us know that the information regarding the food we should eat has been buried under endless waves of propaganda. Ads that tout the NEWEST TASTY TREAT and their convenience for the “go go go modern worker” are everywhere, without mentioning the hormone-disrupting and health-ruining list of ingredients. Materials like seed oils, soy, corn syrup, and chemical dyes are inside these foods that occupy 80-90% of any grocery store. A lot of men and women, who, noticing the debilitating effects these foods have on their health and how they correlate with many diseases and disorders, have taken more ownership over their health and rejected these foods, in turn leading to the commodification of different “healthy choices” which become trendy for a time and then pass away, but subject still to the same