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A highlight from LST1 Introduction The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast
"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual of exercises Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you, Chris. Always good to be here. Talk to us about Saint Therese. What is the little flower to you? One thing I've noticed if you look at the writings of most people when they write or speak about Therese, they always start with how they first encountered Therese. If you look at Dorothy Day's book on Therese, for example, that's the way she begins, but you see this as kind of a pattern. In my own case it's very simple. This was before I entered the seminary and at a certain point, I'm a reader, I love to read, and resolved that I probably should do some spiritual reading, a little reluctantly because what I really like are stories and those sorts of things. Maybe it was Lent, I don't recall, but I remember going to a shelf bookcase with spiritual books, going through them, not really being drawn to anything, and then I saw this title that said, Story of a Soul, and it was the word story that caught my attention because I love stories. So I thought, well, maybe that'll be a little easier to read than some of the others. I began reading it and immediately fell in since then, very much at the origins of the process that led to entering the seminary. After theological studies, perhaps having read the basic sources, it felt like something done and kind of there, but more recently has opened up in a wonderful way again that leads to what we're doing now, and a rereading of the sources and amplifying that reading, and just coming to see in a new way the remarkable figure that she is. And so that's what leads us to do this now. You know, it was Pope Saint Pius X who called her the greatest saint of modern times, and I think we can easily not agreement at that now, declared a doctor. There's so much there. So I have the feeling that as we dive into this huge sea that is the life and teaching and writings of Saint Therese, that you can't go wrong. You know, wherever you enter, there's always going to be richness. You know, it strikes me that some of our listeners may be thinking, what's Father Gallagher? And he's an expert on Ignatian spirituality, and yet they may not realize that there's a heavy Carmelite influence in the Oblates of the Virgin Mary through the spirituality and the life of their father. But it's not a real push to see where in the charism of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, this calling, as it were, to also come to a ability to be able to communicate aspects of that Carmelite living. Does that make sense? Sure. Yeah. I mean, as I mentioned, I initially came to her before I even knew Venerable Bruno. But once I entered and got to know him well, I discovered, exactly as you said, that he was essentially Ignatian but not exclusively Ignatian. And you do see a lovely Carmelite component. For example, as he is approaching his ordination to the priesthood, you see amongst his spiritual proposals the plan to read in its entirety the writings of Saint Teresa of Avila. Also familiar with Saint John of the Cross, of course, Saint Therese comes after his lifetime. So that component is very much there. What is contemplative, what involves growth in prayer and deep prayer, and the kind of things that lie at the heart of the Carmelite vocation, all of that is very real in him, not only in his learning but very much in his own experience as well in his own prayer. It's so fascinating that, as you said, Pope Saint Pius X would say that she is, again, one of the most significant, one of the most important saints of the 20th century that she would be. At a time and era where the family has been so much under attack, the fact that this little flower can bloom in a garden of a family, as it were, that they themselves have become saints, not only her mother and father, but it looks as though her sisters are on their way in this area of the cause of canonization. Well, the cause of her sister Leonie, who would have seemed a very unlikely candidate of all the sisters, the most unlikely candidate for sanctity, that cause is underway now. She's the servant of God, Leonie Martin. And yes, there is a movement to try to promote the cause of the other sisters as well. In God's time, we'll see where all of that goes. But you have a family which is very much built on faith, on the search for holiness, on love for the church, on the desire to respond to God's vocation, in which all the members strengthen each other. And you see that in the letters that we'll be looking at. And of course, you see it in Therese's deep gratitude to her parents and her love for her sisters. Their family is simply a remarkable witness to a family as a family. It's the kind of family everyone would hope for, where there's a deep unity and bond and love between the members, and not only the immediate family, but also with the more extended family, very specifically Therese's aunt and uncle and their two daughters. And you see the great love there amongst all of them. You can go through all of the letters, and that's two volumes, 1 ,300 pages. And all you will see is there are times when there are some disagreements about this decision or that decision. You see some of that. But enveloping everything and underlying everything and above everything, what you see is a deeply united and loving family. It's a beautiful witness to the family, very much. The letters of Saint Therese are absolutely remarkable. If you are a devotee of the story of the soul, that in itself can sustain you for a lifetime. But letters the give us a fullness, a beautiful, rich imagery. And I say this in all reverence, but a more complete picture of Therese, doesn't it? Well, as you've said, Chris, I think it's obvious that the real center to get to know Therese is the story of the soul. That's the real heart of it. And then around that, there are other primary sources as well. What's called her last conversations, where her sisters and some of the others in the convent recorded her sayings and doings in her last months. The book entitled Therese by those who knew her, which is a large extract of the witnesses that were given on the diocesan level as her cause for canonization was begun. So these were people speaking out of their own personal recollections of Therese, about Therese. If you want to have there a real richness as well. But our initial focus will be the letters, probably because they don't get cited all that much, you know. We may have the feeling that looking at passages in the story of the soul, which we'll get to, that this is familiar territory. The letters might be less so. It does take a little bit of energy and persistence, I'd say, to read them because it is fairly lengthy, but they are remarkably well done, amply annotated with very helpful footnotes, with introductions. So they are a very rich resource to take the next step. The first step would be the story of a soul, but if a person wants to take the next step, then the letters would be the next step. There is a remarkable heritage that we've received from the lives of the saints through their letters. I think of the letters of, of course, Teresa of Avilot, Ignatius of Loyola, but we've seen through the letters of Venerable Bruno Lanteri, the letters of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. The list could go on and on, and I have to say the letters of Catherine of Siena. When you read those, you get a real sense of the friendships, the, the family relationships, their interaction with those around them and with the world, don't you? Soon -to -be Saint John Henry Newman says at one point in his writings that his sense of the best way to get to know a person is not through a biography, but through reading the person's letters. And I think, as is generally true, he is right on the mark, and generally true of what, I'll call him, St. John Henry Newman says he is, I think, right on the mark. Today, I suppose, we do this more digitally, but if you were to take a selection of 30, 50 emails of a correspondence between two friends or two family members or two people who love the Lord and whom, you know, sanctity is evident, you would get, with a great immediacy, you would get a feel for the person. And that's what you get here with Therese. Now, there are qualities about her letters that I'll just mention one now. As I read through them over a number of months, it dawned on me after a while, all of these letters are other -centered. Just, it's remarkable. This is not a woman who is writing because she needs to write for her own sake. But you look at all of these letters, commemorations of family members' birthdays, encouragement to her father after she's left home, and she knows he's suffering her loss, and her sister, Celine, who is caring for her father and his illness. It's remarkable that we think of her as the one who practiced love, a very loving person, which she certainly is. If you want to get a concrete feel for that, of course, after the story of the soul, you can just read these letters. You know, most of us, when we write emails or letters, there'll be something that's a bit self -centered. I don't want to criticize that too much. Our friends, family members do want to know. But we may have some complaints here or there or be unhappy about something here or there, be angry about something here or there. In Therese, the one thing that you see is love. And after you go through this, after a while, a vision arises of, if this woman who is writing this way so consistently in every relationship that you see portrayed in the letters, lived this way within her community, her presence must have been a very beautiful thing. If she lived, there's no question that she did, but what you see when she spontaneously expresses what's in her heart in the letters, if that's what was in her heart as she actually interacted with the people with whom she shared life day by day, for us, we can think of our families or workplaces or parishes, then you get the image of what love can really mean in very ordinary, humble, concrete ways, as we'll see.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Fresh update on "catherine f" discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will Nash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes. And this puppet of Putin is only the first. Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down and justice will be served as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty and complete liberation. So interesting headline here from Axios, Zelensky's frosty welcome. I'm going to read from Axios and tie this together. And Blake, I want your comment on this. OK, nine months ago, somebody's phone is buzzing a lot. So nine months ago, Zelensky received a two minute standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans. This looks like a distant dream compared to what Zelensky has faced on his second wartime trip to Washington. Some lawmakers are openly mocking Zelensky privately. Coalition is building against Zelensky in both parties. Driving the news, Senator J.D. Vance and Chip Roy, six Republican senators and 22 House members sent an open letter saying no more money to Ukraine. Blake, is it possible that our tweet reached five million people? We talked about in our program that the CIA, Ukraine, let's just say access or coalition. They said, look, not a great idea to have a trans spokesperson who's threatening Westerners in English if we're trying to get more money out of Americans. I think it is a very real possibility. I would be stunned if there was not a phone call that happened somewhere along the line that just says, like, dude, you guys like you're not helping the cause to make this to make this work, to keep the funding going. They need a bipartisan thing. They have to make this a nonpartisan issue by having people on blank checks. Just got to get this becomes a Democrat versus Republican issue. Ukraine stops getting funding. And the fastest way for that to happen is if Ukraine's like English speaking mascot is this like do some American passport, an American passport holder who's grown breasts due to the hormones that he's taking and makes these bizarre videos where he's like faking some voice to sound like, you know, we will. But are we supposed to bully this? What's interesting to me? Are we supposed to believe that nobody in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian military proofread this speech that no, that was just the spokesperson. They're putting this person aside spokesman. Spokesman. Yeah. Spokesman to be firm on this chart. OK, got it. Spokesman, dude, stewardess, trans. But Andrew, Andrew, I think you're the best at this brag on our show. And Jack, a little bit. We were just kind of a ragtag remnant with no Tucker Carlson because Tucker would have done this himself. Tucker would have handled this in 10 minutes. Yeah. But hey, there's a little bit of fight left. This is an interesting little another wrinkle of the power of our audience. No, this was a 100 percent takedown. I said that Jack and Charlie single handedly took this down, but it would be like double handedly took this dude down. Yeah. And by the way, one of the things that Jack, sorry, I'm having a little trouble with my FBI. One of the things, Jack, maybe, you know, the details on this. Sarah Ashton or Sarah Ashton Cirillo is actually a registered Republican. They are his bio is like from the state of Nevada, was active in politics as a Republican, which, you know, should tell you something about the state of Republican politics often at the state level. But what's crazy is I think you actually flagged the tweet. You found the video and like it was posted by someone of those like hardcore Ukraine watchers. Like who probably is like a Russian propaganda section. And actually the original narrative was like, look at this trans Ukrainian or American that's now in Ukraine going viral on the Internet. And we're like, that's not viral. That's disgusting and like terrifying gnashing of teeth foaming. So it was like we got we got to blow this up. You you blew it up and instantly we get this actually was three steps, blew it up. Everybody starts posting about it. Jack, you were definitely like in the mix that you might have posted before Charlie posted about. But but I didn't see that. But then Sarah Ashton comes to the United States, gets honored by the Las Vegas City Hall, gets a certificate of recognition from Dina Titus, from Catherine Cortez Masto, from former Governor Sisolak, that then the Smithsonian says we want one of your uniforms, your Ukrainian military uniforms for the Smithsonian. And then the next day, the very next day, we hear this second recording. I don't know if we have it, but it was like completely changed in tone.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Courts Hand SEC Half an L in Binance US Case
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 19th, and today we are talking about Binance and their SEC court decision yesterday. Is it significant? And is it just kicking the can down the road? We will go through all of that. Before we do, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, it is a day that ends in Y, so there is, of course, another Binance story. Binance had a fairly big day in court on Monday in their legal battle with the SEC. Leading into the hearing, the allegations and speculation had started to reach a fever pitch. The SEC had begun to hone in on the theory that Binance U .S. did not and never had exclusive control over customer assets. That if true would be a big deal as Binance had always maintained that U .S. customer assets were strictly segregated from the international exchange. Indeed, they used this argument to defend an SEC injunction shortly after the legal proceedings commenced in June. If granted, the injunction would have frozen assets at Binance U .S., which would have functionally been a death sentence for the domestic exchange. In deciding that injunction, the court ordered the parties to come back with an agreement that they could both live with rather than making a decision on their own. As part of those consent orders, Binance agreed that they would ensure that only local U .S. staff would have access to customer assets. However, as the SEC dug further into their investigation, they claimed that Binance U .S. which they viewed as intimately linked to Binance International. Cefu was launched under the name Binance Custody in December 2021. It was renamed in February of this year, around the same time that rumors of an in -depth government investigation into Binance first emerged. On Friday, Cefu asserted in a press release that they were entirely separate from Binance International and that they don't even service BAM Trading, which is the company that operates Binance U .S. They wrote, We strongly reject this claim. As a custody technology services provider under Cefu Holdings, we are committed to servicing institutional clients with digital asset custody solutions in select jurisdictions, excluding the United States, among others. Furthermore, Cefu's operations and services are distinctly separate from BAM and Binance Holdings Limited." A Cefu spokesperson added that, Unfortunately, earlier in the week, Binance U .S. had contradicted parts of that claim in a legal filing. Rather than denying the use of Cefu in their operations, Binance U .S. acknowledged that the service was developed by Binance International and licensed to the U .S. entity. And while the specific origin of the Binance U .S. custody system might seem like a minor detail, this is the main focus of the lawsuit at the moment. The SEC is claiming that Binance International had de facto control over customer funds at the U .S. exchange. If that's the case, then Binance could be viewed as deliberately misleading the court surrounding this issue. It would also advance the SEC's argument that Binance U .S. was nothing more than a front to allow U .S. customers to access the international exchange and provide a veneer of domestic regulatory compliance. So that's a bit of the background. Now on Monday morning, the SEC filed additional material to support their order, which asked the court to compel Binance to cooperate with the discovery process. They said, quote, Indeed, in earlier filings, the regulator had raised issues surrounding the lack of disclosure. They noted that Binance had only produced 220 documents, many of them characterized as quote, unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures. Further, according to the SEC, Binance U .S. were resisting the deposition of a number of key executives. In a court filing in August, Binance claimed that the deposition of CEO Brian Schroeder would be, quote, You'll remember that Schroeder was confirmed to have left the company in early September, although his lack of social media presence has led some to speculate that his departure was closer to the beginning of the year. The SEC appears to have been informed of Schroeder's departure only recently and clearly haven't recruited him yet as a cooperating witness. They said that this strange turn of events and Binance's continued resistance to producing Schroeder, quote, Now, the SEC was primarily concerned that Binance U .S. was continuing to use SEFU for its custody, which could be used to shift customer assets offshore. They said that Binance U .S. had failed to convince the regulator that they had control over customer assets, adding that these claims were, quote, Binance U .S. had provided, quote, They said that, quote, BAM insists that this court, like the SEC, should accept packaged counsel narratives, carefully drafted declarations, and small curated sets of documents regarding control of BAM's customer assets, and that any lingering concerns are much ado about nothing. To top it all off, the SEC warned that Binance CEO CZ is, quote, The SEC claimed that they have demonstrated that, quote, Binance has a long history of controlling BAM to serve Binance's own unlawful purpose. Ultimately, the regulator asked the court for an order, quote, Now, in their opposing court filing placed on the record on Monday morning, Binance U .S. reiterated their claim that SEC demands were unreasonable. They called the documents requested overbroad and too much of an inconvenience. Binance U .S. further alleged that many of the documents requested are either not in the exchange's possession or fall outside the scope of the lawsuit. At 3 p .m., the parties entered the courtroom for what would be a tense hearing. Binance U .S. called the demand for documents so broad they would be impossible to produce. A lawyer representing the exchange said that, quote, The judge indicated that Binance U .S. really would need to provide a bit more documentation of their custody arrangements. They said, adding that they weren't, quote, The SEC lawyer, meanwhile, explained that the problem at the moment was that, quote, They argued that the SEC needed much more information about the wallet set up at Binance U .S. than they currently have. At one stage, the attorney for Binance exclaimed, They said that the exchange had responded to every targeted request from the regulator. The lawyer added that, quote, So what came out of all of this? Well, ultimately, the judge declined to make any orders to compel discovery from Binance, but it was made clear that the exchange would need to increase its cooperation, let's say. The judge said that they were not, adding that, quote, I'm not going to order from the bench right now that they produce or not produce things. Let's continue to try to work this out. I just want to keep things moving. The judge also noted that, quote, As investor Adam Cochran summed it up, the judge did deny the inspection but also said they needed Binance U .S. to comply and produce more documentation as the judge was not convinced of the asset backing. This is saying the inspection is overkill for now and giving Binance the chance to comply. Now, ultimately, these issues around Sifu are largely still about litigating whether the assets of Binance U .S. should be frozen to prevent customer funds from being sent offshore. However, given that volumes on the exchange have collapsed by more than 99 percent over the past six months, it seems likely that users have largely taken that issue off the table already. The matter is scheduled to return to court on October 12th for a follow -up hearing. Now, outside of the hearing, the court docket continues to bloat with additional evidence gleaned by the SEC. Much of this evidence was originally filed under seal or in a heavily redacted form, but the regulator is currently in the process of unsealing documents. Earlier this month, the SEC obtained the cooperation of the former auditor for Binance U .S., which produced in excess of 6 ,500 pages on the accounting at the exchange. The document was unredacted on Monday, revealing the auditor's conclusion that it was, quote, very difficult to ensure the company was fully collateralized at specific points in time. One of the SEC's requests for further information filed in June related to a 250 million dollar intercompany loan given to Binance U .S. by the international exchange in December of last year. The convertible note was funded using BUSD, 183 million of which was sent to Paxos to convert into dollars. The SEC wanted some additional details about the reason for this transaction. The topic was initially flagged as confidential by Binance, but that designation was apparently successfully rebutted by the SEC. Now, there was a lot of chatter on this on Twitter. With many people taking it as evidence of some smoking gun, Binance had been less than honest about their dealings with Binance U .S. Perhaps the most intriguing tidbit, however, filed recently was a declaration given by J. Emmett Murphy of the SEC's trial division. The document, again filed on Monday, introduced into evidence three additional depositions. All three were filed under seal, but were used to support the need for further examination of the SEFU system. The declaration identified one witness as Eric Kellogg, BAM's chief information security officer, but the other two identities were redacted. All three depositions occurred over the last month, with the latest taking place last Wednesday. So here's the way that Adam Cochrane summed this all up, which I think is a pretty good TLDR. He tweets, SEC seeks court order for inspection of Binance U .S., now expressly calling out that SEFU is indeed a Binance -related entity and that Binance U .S. has been misleading the court. The SEC calls out that this violates the consent decree that required new wallets expressly away from Binance International Control and Access, but interestingly specifically notes this is important as Binance has controlled BAM for its quote, own unlawful purposes. That's a claim we've not seen the SEC lobby here before, at least not outside of anything sealed or redacted. We also learned for the first time that the SEC sought the testimony of Brian Schroeder, U .S. CEO, and Jasmine Lee, U .S. CFO, but have been denied and fought on that and only just got told that Schroeder is no longer CEO, despite Schroeder being missing for eight plus months. They had argued that Schroeder's testimony would be too disruptive to business and now got told he isn't on the job, which is wild, as I think we all assumed he pulled a Catherine Coley Brian Brooks and gave testimony. Seems he's just disappeared and gone silent? Either way, the SEC here is suggesting, one, there is evidence of crimes, two, there is indeed evidence that SEFU is Binance International, three, SEFU is not simply a wallet provider, and four, BAM executives themselves lack insight on Binance U .S. assets and tooling. Now, for completeness, Adam Cochran also tweeted about the deposition from the auditor that said that it was impossible to tell whether Binance U .S. had been fully collateralized at specific points in time. He said, if your own external auditor can't say you are fully collateralized when you are supposed to be a 100 % reserves exchange and have your own proof of reserves that claim you're over collateralized, that is a problem. Binance uses the SEFU wallet custody system, previously Binance Custody, for both Binance International and Binance U .S., as noted in their filings. If this system is not capable of managing the small Binance U .S. numbers, how could it keep track of International? And if Binance U .S., its more compliant exchange, never commingled or misused client funds and was isolated from International as they claim, then it would be literally impossible to have a gap. The only way this is possible is the misuse of customer funds resulting in losses. I believe at some point in their scaling, they had material losses when misusing customer funds and exposing themselves to leverage via BNB. They've continued to misuse customer funds to try and cover this hole, but a declining market has made that an ongoing shell game. Whether you think that is a fair assessment or not, there should at this point be absolutely no doubt that the correct risk model is to move your assets off of Binance. Now, for the sake of a counterpoint, Bruce Fenton tweeted this morning, Binance is perhaps the most scrutinized and attacked company in modern history. The United States has investigated them and thrown everything they can at them. Yet, despite all this, we don't have a single accusation, let alone evidence, that Binance has lost customer funds. Now, trying to wrap this all up, a lot of the commentary around this is trying to figure out if the SEC won or lost this court trip. Will Clemente from Reflexivity Research tweeted, courts have been handing the SEC L after L lately, but others aren't so sure. CZ certainly didn't think so, retweeting someone who wrote, seems like they can't find anything but they want to continue making headlines. Maybe the most middle of the road interpretation came from the headline from Bloomberg, which read, SEC fails to win immediate inspection of Binance US software, and I think that that fails to win is probably a better representation at this point than actually getting the loss. But my friends, as you can tell, we are well in the minutia of this, but the details matter. There certainly is a feeling of crescendo to this story. And either way, it's hard for me to imagine that the industry isn't better on the other side of it. Better because Binance has vindicated, or better, unfortunately, because the last giant has fallen, and we can finally move on, largely rid of what came before. In either case, I will be sure to keep you updated. So until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Big Take
Fresh update on "catherine f" discussed on The Big Take
"To get the gavel was the fact that it would only take essentially one person saying that they that he needs to vacate that position right now you've got the likes of like matt gates you've got some others in the freedom caucus the freedom caucus for our listeners who aren't aware are essentially the far right part of the republican party they want to use this as a way to extract their demands border walls tighter immigration uh... we mentioned earlier the program about funding for ukraine all those things that are dear to them then when the rest of the world is looking what's happening washington they certainly seen this show before but is there any concern about the government shutting down for some period of time does it have not had affects in the rest of the world i'm sure that if you are trying to trade this situation you can't void about thinking what sort of hedges you want to put on but i think the broader reaction europe is just a bit of a rolling it seems to be every six or nine months or so we have like a debt ceiling standoff or a government shutdown or some kind of partisan good luck but threatens to obstruct the u .s. government but the u .s. economy the state keeps rolling on the u .s. did lose its triple -a rating recently book i think that markets in general shrug that off and i don't think they're too worried about this either ben mario ross great to see you nice to see you too was thank you things worse thanks for listening to us here at the big take it's the daily podcast from bloomberg i heart radio for more shows from i heart radio visit the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen and we'd love to hear from you email us questions or comments to big take at bloomberg net the supervising producer of the big take his biggie burger lina our senior producer is catherine frederica roman yellow is our producer our associate producer is zen obsidiki hilda sia is our engineer original music was composed by leo sidrin i'm wes kasova we'll be back on monday with another the business news so we hope there is a wilder practices his act in the metaverse with forge fx's virtual training platform he says virtual welding lets me train as much as i want increasing my skills and access to opportunity through tulsa welding school zoe and other welders can use forge fx's platform to up level their expertise and answer the need for skilled workers in today's economy these are the ways skilled professionals are using the metaverse today learn at more meta .com slash metaverse impact it's football season so grab your lucky jersey put on your face paint and order lido pizzas football
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A highlight from DC28-Hildegarde-pt1
"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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Monitor Show 12:00 09-08-2023 12:00
"It says it was developed by Saul Kurtzner, who is apparently a storied South African hotelier, and has hosted New Year's Eve events headlined by performers including Fergie and Sting. Nice. I mean, the water park looks awesome. It's got a casino. It's got a gajillion hotels. So I would think people can continue going to this place no matter what, because it looks like a one -of -a -kind property in the Bahamas. What could go wrong in the Bahamas? This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. We got a lot of green on the screen here, but the volume is light. We constantly underestimate the strength of the US consumer. This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe central bankers are. Breaking market news and insight from Bloomberg experts. There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the US. This is Bloomberg Markets. With Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. On Bloomberg Radio. All right, coming up in this hour, we're going to check in with Catherine Lim, senior analyst. She covers consumer and technology with Bloomberg Intelligence, because I want to talk to her about this company that's coming public, AMER Sports. They make Wilson tennis rackets and Solomon ski boots. Those are my favorite ski boots. Like that stuff. And plus, we're going to talk about Matt Miller. What is Matt Miller driving these days? You know who we got? Michael Dean. He covers all the Euro autos. Yeah. So he's like one of your favorite guys. We'll get him in there. We'll talk about Matt, what he's driving, because he's always driving something. And he's a total car guy himself. Total car guy. He loves cars. Yeah, he loves cars. Michael, Kevin.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Who Is Worse? Blackrock Or The Catholic Church (Biggest Money Cartel In History)
"Are you ready to wage a war without end against you? Are you ready to wage that war armed with nothing but bottomless poverty? I didn't think so. In that case, stop talking bullshit. And get yourself some shoes, because the air in here is unbreathable. Money corrupts, and that's not news. Today, it's Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street. But not too long ago, there's an entity that held even more power than those multinational conglomerates. We're going to take a step back in time to the Catholic Church of the Renaissance and learn how it basically controlled everything it touched and how the game has stayed pretty much the same through the 21st century. We may just find similarities to how banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite wield political power today. Let's get it. Now, before you get your commenting fingers twitching about how I'm being mean to Catholics, know that I'm just talking about a political institution 500 years ago. I'm not talking about Catholicism as a religious practice or the church today. You do you when it comes to religion. This is America. Okay, now let's get back to the Renaissance. One big similarity the old school church has with our tradfi overlords is the emphasis on secrecy. Both institutions are shrouded in mystery. No one really knows their entire net worth or their intentions. Well, other than maintaining the status quo so they can rake in as much money as possible, both the Catholic Church and the banks have covered up scandal and corruption time after time so they can continue business as usual. Back in Da Vinci's time, there are all sorts of rumors of popes and other church officials not exactly keeping up with the Christian morals they were preaching. There is abuses of all kinds, incest, orgies, mistresses, bribery. We're not even talking about the polycule. You name the sin, the Renaissance popes were probably doing it. There is even a pope who supposedly drank children's blood. And that same corruption seems to be rampant within the banks and hedge funds in modern times. JP Morgan was found to be handling the payments between Epstein and the people he was trafficking with. In fact, the number of billionaires with connections to Epstein are startling. What were you doing on the island? And we'd probably hear more about similar corruption and scandals within Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street if they didn't own basically every news organization in the US. But we'll get to that a bit later. For now, the big boys just pay a lot of fines for doing bad things. And that brings us to the first tool you need if you want to control everything. Here's a hint. It's all about the money. Have you ever heard the phrase, money is power? Well, I'm pretty sure the Renaissance Church invented that concept. Most economists reckon the wealth of the modern day Catholic Church is actually immeasurable due to all the priceless artwork, artifacts and the money laundering going on. And the reported $30 billion net worth is still high despite countries going through a Protestant Reformation during the Renaissance and subsequently reclaiming church lands. So just imagine how much land and property the church owned back when Catholicism was the only thing on the Christian menu. Although it's really hard to know for sure just how much cash the pope was raking in during the Renaissance, economists estimate it would be a little over $40 million annually in today's terms. And remember, this income doesn't include the land or artwork they're receiving as gifts or claiming by force. This gave the pope the kind of capital countries are usually playing with. And thus, the church had the same power as monarchs. Some would argue even more. And folks, we may have ditched the funny tights and corsets or maybe you have, but we have the same kind of issue today. Vanguard, Black Creek and State Street manage almost $20 trillion, which is almost more than the U .S.'s GDP. And not only do they control more wealth than most countries in the world, those hedge funds are also managing wealth for countries, which creates a vicious, incestual cycle of corruption. Back in 2016, Forbes reported that the wealth gap is worse today than it was in the Middle Ages. And that's not very hard to believe when we know the top 1 % holds 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50 % of America. And during the COVID lockdown, the 10 richest billionaires doubled their fortunes, while 160 million people fell into poverty. So how did both the uber wealthy of the modern day and the ancient Catholic Church amass this kind of wealth? Well, the church had millions of people tithing 10 % of their income. Doesn't this sound a bit like the interest we pay banks on loans and banking fees? And 10 % is nothing in comparison to the types of interest we pay just to exist in the modern world. The highest credit card is over 30%, and most of us are paying somewhere in the 20s. And because the Fed is raising rates, other borrowing is getting more expensive, too. Student loan rates have increased, and taking out a loan to buy a home is nearly impossible these days because rates have almost tripled. mortgage rates haven't been above 6 % since the housing crisis in 2008. And yet, somehow, it's only us plebs who are paying these kinds of rates to borrow money. The corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan take out loans with nearly 0 % interest. In fact, the wealthier you are, the less banks deem you as a risk. So you get the best rates. But in reality, this turns into a vicious cycle where the hyper wealthy hoard more money and the poor can't afford to borrow. Right now, the average interest for a personal loan is between 6 % and 36%, where the average interest for businesses is 2 % to 13%. Interest is leveraged against the average American the same way the Catholic Church used to leverage Ursary Usury is the practice of charging interest, and it used to be the biggest sin you could commit. But the church got creative with how it weaponized usury. It didn't go after wealthy banking families like the Medicis, who supplied the church with gifts and managed church money for free. The church conveniently cracked down on the practice so that the lower classes wouldn't have access to the extra capital that would give them the opportunity for upward mobility. It's wild how the past is so similar to our present. Why do you think day traders and TradFi have to keep at least $25 ,000 in their accounts? Supposedly, it's to protect the poor from the volatility of the market. But the way I see it, it's just another method of keeping smart people from changing their economic circumstances. And who do you think pressured the SEC to create that law in the first place? I'm willing to bet it was a giant money manager like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock. They would like to have a monopoly on trading and hand all of us regular Joes a measly little 0 .01 % or whatever the bank interest is these days. I say no. And I want more than a toaster. And speaking of monopolies, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on salvation during the Renaissance, so people couldn't exactly go around negotiating that 10 % tithing rule or what exactly counted as a sin. It's really similar to how we can't really negotiate modern prices in this supposedly free market. The monopoly aspect is something the church and our wealthiest modern day corporations have in common. Look at the bank failures recently. Despite Jamie Dimon claiming the smaller banks are good for our financial ecosystem, Chase was very quick to gobble up the banks that went under. If we weren't there already, we're scarily close to a bank monopoly. Another way the Catholic Church made money was selling indulgences to rid the nobility of their sins. The Renaissance nobility were up to some shady things too and needed to be seen as moral so they could stay in power. The most corrupt nobles could buy a spot in heaven by donating land or commissioning artwork. Doesn't this feel a lot like government subsidies and contracts for major corporations? Hey, you want to look like you support green energy? Give Elon Musk millions to play with. Oh sure, Blackstone, we'll subsidize your billion dollar debt with taxpayer money because it makes us look like we're stimulating the economy. No problem. Another modern means of absolution is corporations using carbon credits to pay off their climate sins. This is how companies like Exxon have a higher ESG score than Tesla. They know who's palm to grease. Another great way to amass incomparable wealth is to be able to claim yourself as tax -free. If you can pull that off, it's an amazing feat. Just ask the NFL. Throughout history, the Catholic Church found ways to skirt taxation by the state and that practice is alive and well today. Do you think Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are paying income taxes? I hate taxes. You hate taxes. We all hate taxes. But in our current society, we pay them. And it's a little more than unfair that the wealthiest among us are acting like they're tax exempt. Both the mega wealthy and the Catholic Church of the Renaissance controlled education and access to information. So kind of like mind control. The church kept their religious texts in Latin to keep the masses from being able to access it themselves. We already talked about how they also chose a lot of their sins to maintain the status quo in social hierarchy. It's a sin if you don't hit the like button. Similarly, corporate lobbyists have forced the government to slash education funding. That combined with other factors have made tuition exorbitantly high. We already talked about the student loan issue. Most people can't even afford college anymore. And if you take your education into your own hands by trying to stay up to date on news and media, you'll quickly realize almost every media company is owned by major corporations who have BlackRock and Vanguard as their primary investors. So you can't always trust what they're telling you because they have an agenda to stay in power. That's why it's hard to find information on the full extent of the corruption of the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard. I'm sure many reporters have pitched stories that have been shut down by the shady higher -ups. But here at BitBoy Crypto, we're proud to bring you the content that can't be bought by dark Wall Street money. Finally, that brings us to the third way the church and finance sectors control the world. It's not what you know, but who you know. And you know me. And I know you know that I know you. Political wheeling and dealing. And if that doesn't work, position your family members in places of power. Every royal court and government had pupil ambassadors that would ride back and forth through the Vatican and other church lands negotiating with church officials. That sounds a lot like a very early version of a lobbyist to me. And because as the head of the church, the pope had immense power, he was able to recommend marriages, which usually involved installing a member of his family at a high position. Pope Alexander VI married his daughter, Lucretia Borgia, off three different times. He simply annulled her first marriage when her husband was no longer politically advantageous and the Borgias may or may not have been responsible for murdering Lucretia's second husband. Pope Clement VII married one of his family members, Catherine de Medici, to the future king of France, which was a helpful political alliance during a time fraught with Protestant uprisings. This should all sound very familiar because the majority of our politicians, no matter the political party, have familial or social ties to banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite. There are so many examples of this, we can't list them all, but here are a few to sink your teeth into. George W. Bush had an uncle who provided discreet banking services for people in Washington, DC, and his brother Jeb also worked in banking before politics. Then you have the Clintons, whose son -in -law is an investor at a Texas private equity firm. Trump is friends with all sorts of sketchy billionaires across the globe. And look at Jared Kushner. And then you have Biden, whose son Hunter has been a hedge fund principal, venture capitalist, private equity fund investor, and painter. And now we have even more of Jamie Dimon's shenanigans. He doesn't have enough power running the largest bank of America. He's thinking of going into politics? And remember, guys, political corruption is like an iceberg. The evidence we have is just the tip due to how good they are at covering their tracks. And the Renaissance pope's habit of just making princes is exactly what our financial overlords do today. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere, and Pope Alexander VI made one of the sons he had with his official mistress, a prince who supposedly inspired Machiavelli's The Prince. I don't think he inspired the artist, though. BlackRock and the likes are making princes, too. This is where we get into the modern day campaign financing, where it costs millions to be democratically elected prince. In 2016, only 158 families controlled 50 % of campaign financing. Our biggest banks spend millions on campaign financing for Republicans and Democrats every year, and that's just the money they actually report. There's a bigger, more illicit pool of dark money that controls politics. And if you think they're spending billions on these politicians just to be nice, think again. Nobody spends something for nothing. Billionaire Bernard Schwartz is quoted as saying, I don't ask politicians to do what I say. I want them to hear me when I have a problem. And according to Vanity Fair, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink loved to go around saying that he told Washington what to do. Doesn't all this sound a bit like the Catholic Church saying, Well, you technically can do what you want, but if you don't do what I say, your soul will spend eternity in a very hot, not -so -nice place. You don't want to know where that poker goes. And now we get to number four on our list. It is better to be feared than to be loved. Also known as scare tactics. If the immense wealth, information control, and political corruption wasn't enough to scare the living daylights out of you, the Renaissance Catholic Church took it to a whole other level. The way the church portrayed hell through artwork and story was absolutely terrifying. Of course you're going to do whatever the Pope says to save yourself from eternal damnation. And the banks and hedge funds do this too. Make sure you have an IRA because if you aren't getting our measly 5 % every year, how will you possibly be able to retire? Don't worry, that number barely covers inflation on a good year. And if you don't buy things with credit cards or open a car loan and pay his interest, you won't have credit to buy a house later. And finally, this one's my favorite, guys. If you don't bail us out, the entire world will explode. We're too big to fail. And now we get to the final element you will need to succeed at controlling everything. Drum roll, please. Military power. Plato said, All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. And folks, he was probably right. The Pope would also deem certain wars holy and approve military actions. When Henry VIII left the church, the Pope excommunicated him and told his people that rising up against him was holy because he'd gone against God. Pope Alexander VI issued the Enter Saterra, which authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert and enslave the Americas. And sometimes the Pope would even command armies himself. Did you know the Pope raised and commanded the army that was responsible for the Crusades? So I guess that we can be thankful that the hedge funds and banks haven't started raising their own armies. But then again, why would they when they have the entire government under their thumb and they could spend the free time bathing in gold? Today, massive corporate institutions lobby in favor of warfare because it benefits them financially. Corporations have made billions from the war in Ukraine and the Iraq war was conceived to financially benefit oil companies and their investors. Just look how much BlackRock has invested in military weapons. $56 .74 billion. And you can't tell me they don't have a financial interest in the military industrial complex. That was a lot of info, guys. And I'm impressed you stuck with us for this trip down History Lane. I don't want to leave you on a gloom and doom note, however. Here's the bright side, folks. The Protestant Reformation did come as a reaction to the Catholic Church's corruption and power. And hundreds of years later, the church is still powerful. Nowhere near as powerful as they were during the Renaissance. We have the same opportunity to throw off the yoke of the banks and hedge funds that control our current financial system and government. That's where crypto comes in. No matter how much they try to manipulate the market, they can't control our gains, especially when we think long term. Do your research. Find out who the biggest investors are in the companies you buy from and patronize smaller businesses. Take your business or credit unions instead of feeding the pockets of the giant banks. Really question what politicians are telling you and push for campaign finance reform. This is a potential future where we all are free. That's all I have for you guys. DZ out.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-04-2023 14:00
"Or comments to Big Take at Bloomberg .net. The supervising producer of The Big Take is Vicky Bergalina. Our senior producer is Catherine Fink. Our producers are Michael Folero and Mo Berra. Hilda Garcia is our engineer. Our original music was composed by Leo Sidrin. I'm Wes Kosova. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The problems of evil
"In today's episode I'll be speaking to Raphael Cohen -Algamal about the problems of evil. How can you reconcile individualism and collectivism? Has multiculturalism failed? And what happens when the rights of the state are in conflict with the rights of culture? Raphael discusses his book and provides an academic viewpoint on these tricky dilemmas. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Raphael Cohen -Almagor. How are you doing? Good, how are you Judith? I am doing great, thank you. Tell me what sort of things make you giggle or laugh out loud? What makes me giggle? Good, cynical, sharp, statement jokes. Things that make me think and then see the irony behind them. And yeah, make me giggle. Tell us a little bit about you. I'm an academic, I've been in academia all my life. I did my bachelor degree at Tel Aviv University in political science, sociology and anthropology and then continued to do my masters in political science at Tel Aviv University. I pursued a doctorate at Oxford University at St. Catherine's College. I'm very patriotic about my Oxford College and then started to research and teach at the Hebrew University, went to the and Institute then I moved to University of Haifa. I spent a year at UCLA, I spent a year at Charles Hopkins University. I spent some time at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Studies, then moved to the UK, been to of course Oxford and then University of Hull and then University College London and presently I'm the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Besides academia, I am sort of a public person. I established some organization in my life. So back in 1983 I established a second -generation Holocaust Remembrance Organization in Israel and later I established a Centre for Democratic Studies and then I established the Palme Jews Institute and I established the Middle Eastern Studies Centre at the University of Hull. So I like to do practical things. I'm not the usual academic because I have many many interests. You told me that today we're going to speak about the contrast between group rights and individual rights which is subject of my two last books. One of them is Just Visible Multiculturalism, maybe you can see that, published in 2021 and I consider this as one of my major works. Took me 10 years to write this book and then the other one is my most recent book which is called the Republic Security and Secularism which is on the fight of France against how women dress, especially Muslim women dress. In France I was fascinated by the fact that in France people are so preoccupied by the fact that women dress. I mean why should you be? There are people that can think that the government should be preoccupied by rather than how a woman dresses. She does it every day. So I went to France to study that and that's a subject of my most recent book but other than that I'm interested in problems of evil.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-01-2023 07:00
"59 on Wall Street stay with us Bloomberg surveillance with Tom Kean Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Bromwich starts right now Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg radio If you look at the economic data, I mean it just keeps coming in showing a tight labor market We keep getting these numbers drawing spending in essence We're seeing the economy is genuinely slowing some but it's not falling off the cliff I think the equity market is focused on earnings We are in sort of a lull waiting for the labor market to catch cold so that we can actually yes Stop this acceleration in wages at the end of the day The question going forward is can the consumer continue to live beyond means this is Bloomberg surveillance with Tom Kean Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz a Good morning Everyone Jonathan Farrow Lisa Ramos and Tom Kean Jobs Day Farrow off Bramo off Catherine Greif old in she'll be doing the real yield at some point here Recorded after the jobs report you'll look for that through the weekend as well and out of jobs a great set of guests We'll get to that in a moment here What we've got is an equity celebration and continues the bears in retreat in August features up 15 Dow futures up 119 the VIX a bull market 13 .47 we don't have the banner, but as I mentioned yesterday coming off the lows the VIX from 31 Flip the numbers down to a 13 Handle that shows a shock that we've seen here Katie Greif felt.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
What Is the HeadBed? Creator Catherine Randabel Explains
"We got so much to talk about. First of all, Catherine, technically I should welcome you back to the Hair Radio Morning Show. You have been with us many times, in the past, and one of the major reasons, I should say, is because of what you have done, and who you are. As the creator of Headbed, you've done just an enormous contribution to the hair and beauty industry, so first of all, let's have you tell everybody, officially, what Headbed is. Well, thank you, Gary. My clients used to come see me with neck pain, shoulder pain, headaches, after having been to a hair salon. It got me thinking about the position of a person's head and neck when they are at the shampoo basin, and research from the medical literature shows, and I was not surprised to find, that there's medical evidence of neck injury, and even, in the worst case scenario, stroke. So I designed the Headbed to have a support placed under the head of the person, and therefore, it takes all the weight off the head, and the neck, therefore, can relax. There's a lot less pressure on the neck, and it delicate blood vessels and nerves, when the head is properly supported at the basin. The neck can take up to 40 pounds of pressure on the vertebrae, if the head is reclined backwards and not supported at the shampoo basin. So this is what really motivated me, nearly, yeah, seven years ago now, to design and research and make a Headbed. Well, I'm just blown away, because first of all, for our listeners out there, you know, the folks who are in and around the hair and beauty industry, this may be the very first time they're really ever hearing of a syndrome such as this. Can you talk to us a little bit about this, and how it's, you know, this has kind of come to light? I mean, you really have been sharing this for quite a bit of time, so kind of bring everybody up to speed on what this beauty parlor syndrome, stroke syndrome, is all about. Yes, well, it was actually published by a New York doctor, a neurologist, who started looking at a pattern of injury and strokes that happened particularly to women, middle -aged women in particular, as they'd come back from hair salon. So whether the same day or a few days later, they develop symptoms of slurred speech or pain down the arm or headaches, and then eventually ended up with strokes. And these would be ladies in their 40s and 50s. So he published an article in a very prestigious medical journal to say, look, there is a very definite problem there. So beauty parlor stroke syndrome, as it's called, or salon sync radiculopathy, which is a very fancy name to say that pain travels down the nerve branches of the neck from too much pressure on the neck. And that all happens because a human head weighs anything between four to five kilos, which is about eight to 10 pounds.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IDL79 Part 3 Chapter 35 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners -supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax -deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener -supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit discerninghearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. Part 3, Chapter 35 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 35, We Must Be Faithful in Things Great and Small. The bridegroom of the canticle says that the bride has ravished his heart with one of her eyes, one lock of her hair. In all the human body no part is nobler either in mechanism or activity than the eye, none more important than the hair. And so the divine bridegroom makes us to know that he accepts not only the great works of out people, but every poor and lowly offering too, and that they who would serve him acceptably must give heed not only to lofty and important matters, but to things mean and little, since by both alike we may win his heart and love. Be ready then, my child, to bear great afflictions for your lord, even to martyrdom itself. Resolve to give up to him all that you hold most precious, if he should require it of you. Father, mother, husband, wife, or child, the light of your eyes, your very life, for all such offerings your heart should be ready. But so long as God's providence does not send you these great and heavy afflictions, so long as he does not ask your eyes, at least give him your hair. I mean, take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily, for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give him your whole heart and win his. I mean the acts of daily forbearance, the headache or toothache or heavy cold, the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass, the loss of a ring, a handkerchief, a glove, the sneer of a neighbor, the effort of going to bed early in order to rise early for prayer or communion, the little shyness some people feel in openly performing religious duties, and be sure that all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's goodness, which has promised a whole ocean of happiness to his children in return for one cup of cold water. And moreover, inasmuch as these occasions are forever arising, they give us a fertile field for gathering in spiritual riches, if only we will use them rightly. When I read in the life of Saint Catherine of Siena, of her ecstasies and visions, her wise sayings and teaching, I do not doubt but that she ravished her bridegroom's heart with this eye of contemplation, but I must own that I behold her with no less delight in her father's kitchen, kindling the fire, turning the spit, baking the bread, cooking the dinner, and doing all the most menial offices in a loving spirit, which looked through all things straight to God. Nor do I prize the lowly meditation she was wont to make, while so humbly employed, less than the ecstasies with which she was favored at other times, probably as a reward for this very humility and lowliness. Her meditations would take the shape of imagining that all she prepared for her father was prepared for our Lord, as by Martha, her mother, was a symbol to her of Our Lady, her brothers of the apostles, and thus she mentally ministered to all the heavenly courts, fulfilling her humble ministrations, with an exceeding sweetness, because she saw God's will in each. Let this example, my daughter, teach you how important it is to dedicate all we do, however trifling to His service, and to this end I earnestly counsel you to imitate that virtuous woman, whom King Solomon lauds, who lay her hands to all that is good and noble, and yet at the same time to the spindle and the staff. Do you seek the higher things such as prayer and meditation, the sacraments leading souls to God and kindling good thoughts in them, in a word by all manner of good works according to your vocation, but meanwhile do not neglect your spindle and the staff? I mean, cultivate those lowly virtues which spring like flowers round the foot of the cross, such as ministering to the poor and sick, family cares and the duties arising therefrom, and practical diligence and activity, and amid all these things cultivate such spiritual thought as Saint Catherine intermingled with her work. Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily, and our Lord Himself has told us that, He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. If you do all in God's name, all you do will be well done, whether you eat, drink or sleep, whether you amuse yourself or turn the spit, so long as you do all wisely you will gain greatly as in God's sight, doing all because He would have you do it. Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks, and God bless.
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The Dan Bongino Show
John Durham Dunks on Rep. Adam Schiff About Russia-Clinton Ties
"Cut for it. Yes. Here's Adam Schiff talking to Durham yesterday up at Capitol Hill. And Bill, what do you mean? I'm junior. Got information from Russians. You think this is normal? The Russians were working with Hillary Clinton. Here, take a listen anywhere. Mr. Durham at Mueller and congressional investigations also revealed that Don Junior was informed that a Russian official was offering the Trump campaign, quote, very high level and sensitive information, unquote, that would be incriminating if Hillary Clinton was part of, quote, Russia and its government's support of Mr. Trump. Are you aware of that? Sure. People get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that. Really, the son of a presidential candidate gets calls all the time from a foreign government offering dirt on their important opponent. Is that what you're saying? I don't think this is unique in your experience. Oh, we'll get to that part in a second. Adam Schiff, clown joker, zero human dignity life loser. We'll get to that in a second. But notice how Adam Schiff characterizes the person Don Jr. was meeting with as a Russian government official. Who was that person really? Fox News Catherine Harrods 2017 2017 folks six years ago. Fusion GPS official met with Russian operative before and after Trump Jr. sit down, the co -founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had with Trump's son. Fox News has learned the contact shed new light on how closely the firm was tied to Russian interests at a time when it was financing research to discredit then candidate Donald Trump. So, just to be clear, if you slob, disgusting pile of human waste, you're upset that Don Jr. met with a Russian connected to
AP News Radio
House debt ceiling vote nears to avert default with Biden and McCarthy both confident of passage
"President Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy are both confident that debt ceiling and budget cuts package they negotiated will pass while working to shore up support. McCarthy's facing strong conservative pushback but insists he has enough votes to pass the bill. Everybody has a right to their own opinion, but on history, I'd want to be here with this bill today. Number two house Democrat Catherine Clark says it's unclear how many Republicans will be there with him. And the fact that it is still an open question. Clark says Democrats are unified, but some progressives are unhappy with new work requirements for older Americans receiving food aid. Still. I think things are going as planned. Hours before leaving for Colorado, the president sent top officials to capital hill to boost support before the vote. By the time I land, the Congress will have acted the hospital of actin, and when we want step closer. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Experiencing the Mystery of Christian Faith With Stephen Strang
"Talking to Stephen strang, founder of charisma magazine, who has a new book out called spirit led living in an upside down world, and I'm glad Stephen that we're talking about this because as I just said, we went to the break so many people, they have a very bleached kind of desiccated intellectualized, rationalistic view of the Christian faith. They don't understand that there's mystery that there is the life of the Holy Spirit. They've not experienced that. Maybe they've not experienced miracles or they've only seen weird people experience that. But you and I know that this is God's will for us as Christians. Absolutely. My book is practical, it's experiential. It is not really theological, although I will stand behind the theology. You know, I'm a journalist. I'm not a theologian. I'm not never been a pastor. But I've lived a long time now, and I've seen God work. I've had my own set of problems and trials. I've had to reach out to God. I've had to get victory over things. I've had to believe God, you mentioned charisma magazine. It's just started as a dream. I had to believe it into existence in a way. The gift of faith, I write a light in there about Kenneth Copeland and we call him papa Hagan. And I interview a lot of people. I interviewed Catherine Coleman back in the day, but that's amazing. You must have just been a kid. Seriously, that's quite a while ago. It was. And I think I did the last. I did it for the Orlando sentinel where I worked at the time. Can you believe a secular paper sent me to cover a Catherine Coleman rally? She was a big, big cultural figure, I know, become friends with Mario Morello. He was telling me stories about her. And you know, she obviously lived into the 1970s, but still I interviewed her about 9 months before she died. And I think it was probably the last major interview she had before she died.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"catherine f" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"See what had happened to the former president, who had not been seen in public for weeks, and his family didn't know where he was. I often say to people who do you think we got hold of first stuff do we left? And it's interesting because of course it was his family because I thought they should hear it. He was okay, and well, before it was put out on a Twitter feed. That does bring us to the question of British diplomacy generally. And I guess Britain's status in the world now, we probably don't need to dwell too long on your thoughts on Brexit. We can probably take a rough guess as to what they were, but do you feel that Britain is diminished as a diplomatic force by no longer being a member of the EU because of course one of the Brexit ideas was that it will liberate Britain to once again destroy the global stage like the colossus of your, et cetera Iowa's felt that Britain and the foreign affairs council because I chaired that for 5 years. Had used the opportunity really well. And this is under different foreign ministers of different political persuasions to engage on Britain's agenda on foreign policy. So, for example, we were very engaged on Afghanistan. And would try and push really hard on making sure that all EU member states were engaged as well. Or on issues to do with relationships with the U.S. or indeed in other parts of the world where Britain had real interests. So I would argue that Britain was able to amplify its diplomacy in its foreign policy, because it could get the echo chamber and it could get 27 other countries, supporting it, and of course the hierarchy of the establishment of the institutions of Brussels, and of course me, because I had to go with whatever the policy was of all countries knitted together in what we call conclusions which were kind of statements, but gave me my brief.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"catherine f" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"It is a perpetually intriguing question to what extent can the affairs of nations be guided by relationships between individuals? If anyone can answer that, it is this week's special guest. Catherine Ashton, the baroness Ashton of up Holland, was from 2009 to 2014, the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, effectively the EU's foreign minister. She was, indeed, the inaugural holder of that office, and therefore presented with the responsibility and the freedom to define the role Ashton's tenure as H R VP, she was also vice president of the European Commission, placed her at the center of several diplomatic crises, anxious negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, the colossal upheavals of the Arab Spring, the astonishing cat herding that brought the Iran nuclear deal into being and the Ukrainian revolution, which Russia would eventually monstrously and absurdly perceive as reason for launching Europe's biggest war for 80 years. Along the way, Ashton dealt personally with prime minister's president and other potentates very much including the current president of Russia. Ashton recalls these encounters in the memoir and then what inside stories of 21st century diplomacy. How much of human history still gets decided by whether a couple of individuals happen to get on. How can the diplomat encourage clenched fists to shake hands? And what does one discuss at dinner with Vladimir Putin? This is the foreign desk.
Mark Levin
New Revelations About Hunter Biden's Romania Deal Payments
"Hunter Biden remember him Well there's new information out right now Hunter Biden and ex-wife Kathleen bull's Bo yes Their divorce attorneys were aware of Romania deal payments The wise side important divorce lawyers for a hundred Biden you'll tell you in a second As ex-wife Catherine gooley where where money hitting hunters bank account from a Romania deal emails show appearing to contradict Buell's previous claims she had her head buried in the sand quote unquote when it came to hunter's finances During a press conference Wednesday House oversight committee chairman James comer revealed buley was one of several Biden family members to get money According to a 2016 and 2017 emails from hunters abandoned laptop divorce lawyers for a hundred and Buell were aware of payments from a Romania deal quote unquote and discussed how it should be divided among the two parties
The Dan Bongino Show
Was Jeffrey Epstein Gathering Foreign Intel, Blackmailing Others?
"Story is simple The Epstein story is not so simple You know I don't like getting out ahead of my skis because it's unfair to you For me to sit here and speculate about a thousand different reasons Epstein may or may not have been involved with this person or that person It's unfair to you But I think the evidence is pointing in a pretty critical direction right now It appears to me at this point that Epstein may have had connections to these foreign intelligence outfits and they may have been using him to gather information to blackmail people And the people that they may have been gathering information about were very very powerful people And what I'm what I think they're worried about is the foreign entities that may have control of some of these tapes Epstein produced or may have produced at his house and on the plane Or they may have produced for him if you know what I mean That they can't control it anymore And ladies and gentlemen there's nothing more devastating that an information bomb where you don't have the timer or control of it Nothing more devastating So you're wondering why you're not hearing more about the Jeffrey Epstein case so let's start from the beginning here Cover this a little bit on Monday He's obviously dead Died under suspicious circumstances in a jail cell in Manhattan Facility I'm familiar with Be very hard to get in that facility Very hard There have been some indications that the death was strange I believe Michael Baden said some had something to say about that But what I found most fascinating about this recent release of information from Epstein's communications is the connections to Obama's fixer Her name is Catherine rumbler She's a White House lawyer under Clinton and Obama
AP News Radio
Ed Sheeran testifies in "Let's Get It On" copyright suit
"Testimony continues Wednesday in a New York courtroom in a case involving musician Ed Sheeran and the estate of a co writer of a Marvin Gaye song. I'm marching a letter with the latest. Ed Sheeran testified yesterday he would be an idiot to stand in front of 20,000 people and admit he ripped off a song at issues whether Sheeran song thinking out loud copies the Marvin Gaye song, let's get it on, co written by late songwriter Ed Townsend. Lawyers for the Townsend estates say video showing sheer and flipping between the two songs and concert are tantamount to a confession. Sheeran says it's easy to weave the songs because they're in the same key, townshend's daughter, Catherine Townsend Griffin, told reporters outside court she wants to protect her father. All I'm expecting is his name to be honored and his work and his legacy
Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"catherine f" Discussed on Rebecca Sounds Reveille
"The freedoms are going to be taken away the since of loss of control that they don't want to give up so So that it's just it's very volatile situation not only prolong horsemen because oftentimes were seeing things. Now where the victim is harmed the children the harm are harmed in home and so is the person that is making the The issue to begin with so I i don't even like going there but we're seeing this on the rise just unbelievably and so I really like that. Your you're going to be doing this. And i think one of the things i want to really point out for anybody who's listening one find a mentor. Somebody has been through this and make sure that you are. That's what do i had. Mental off was telling me everything i did was great. It's amazing you did this on your mind. She said like with the bulk at accusation. Everything else that. I'll adri and like nobody can believe they will that. Actually i may day. They still talk about the how i'm still he today. And hal. i've got a smile on my face. l. I say things positively and don't let anything get me down. I'm actually a mole ave personnel. The in our like the pasta. Yes and you're able to see things. I think the perspective is so different and it really allows you to bring joy in once you can kind of break that chain and say. I don't need to be tied to those emotions anymore and i'm getting healthy and you're doing it and i wanna share with the audience also because you've been through the joy and the inspiration and the beauty from all of these things that you've experienced as coming up your writing and your work will definitely bring a new perspective to people as they are going through the situation and trying to maneuver through it just reading your work as it poetry and things like that. It's this is just incredible. Let me ask you a question. To what direction are you going to be going over the next year. Are you're going to do any speaking engagements or even virtually or Any any other things that might be going on the next saturday Twenty eight. i'm gonna be on check skin. Radio the interviewing me again. This'll be my time. Excellent them it'll be live international broadcast And they're in the uk. That'll be exciting. I think that that's going to be exciting. So you're gonna end up continuing to get interview after interview and you're going to continue to release more work and i really want audience to connect with you on so many levels. Do you want the audience to connect with you on facebook or instagram. And if so can gonna go. I have facebook which is undermine catherine vasily and my instagram page is also a turn the silica What else. I've got twitter. Which is from vessel cada. And if they want to your book. They can head on over to amazon amazon kindle and yet is going to be so much media exposure surrounding it. Such as interest My publishers only so many So many things that. I did not have to talk with him on dry because we can get the audience to connect with you on your social media feeds. You'll be posting things as you go and they'll be able to connect with the links that you post and things like that so That's totally okay. Yeah but also have an email addresses. They want to though any updates instance. Yes yes. let's hear it okay. Told say by the way up until say I to a capital b. a. s. i. Lic at j. mile dot com excellent one would catcher vessel An excellent. I wanna thank you so much for sharing your story for giving me inspiration. I know that those are the reading. Eds are inspired. And there's so much in your work that is changing Respective and habits and will also provide at least one person to change the direction that they're going in their life and it's gonna be a lot better and i'm excited to see about what you're doing. I want to thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for inviting. Like i can't wait to see more. I just so jazzed. And i wanna thank all of you for tuning into another episode of rebecca. Sounds reveille. I really would like you to connect with catherine because there's so many of you who have unspoken needs in this area that we talked about just on the domestic violence level definitely connects. Because i think that the things that you're going to find that you might need to make some changes this is going to give them to you so do connect plus wanna connect in. You've got to read her work. I'm telling you there's just so much joy in it so much creativity and you're going to game a lot. Share this with everybody. You know on social media all of your friends and family and those even co workers or someone that you might suspect needs a little bit of a boost. Tell him hey. I've got something that you've got to read or this is author. You've got to connect with. you're gonna. you're gonna be glad that you dead. Thanks for tuning in another episode..
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"It's designed with outreach. You know and whole foods is whole. Paycheck wholefoods is hall paycheck. So this idea that we could live this kind of utopic notion of what modernism was going to give us. This was also formed in relationship to devastation culturally and terms of world. War two it. Oh it's like when you think of who moved here and who was designing houses from schindler on it was really a even a brecht writing for hollywood films like that is so interesting to me as also as a as a place of loss angeles in what is iconic about the idea of a better healthier in. La is no longer affordable to live in the city. We have over fifty thousand people on house right now in the city. It's it's really quite astonishing to see what's happening in the parks and on the sides of highways in los angeles. It's just completely inconceivable that as a culture and a community we allow. This is devastating. And i needed to speak about that. And i didn't i you know. We all assumed that hillary would get rain. But i actually didn't have those assumptions. I actually saw all the percolation of what we went through in the last four years and i felt an incredible need to talk about the times that we are living in. You were recently appointed the departmental chair of the ucla department of art. Congratulations thank you. This comes after your appointment as the university's inaugural endowed chair in the art department observed. That was underwritten by a two million dollar gift from the philanthropists. Linda and stewart resnick. And i was really struck by the goals that you've outlined as department chair which include raising scholarship funds to ensure arts education is actually accessible to all students. Which seems like the real center of of what you hope to be able to do. Can you talk a little bit about what changes you're hoping to make to create more accessible education for students in the arts. Yeah no absolutely. I mean one of the greatest things bhai. Ucla has historically amazing art department. we are a public university being a public university. We do not have the same kind of funding opportunities in relationship to getting students. And it's getting harder and harder to get our top choices because we have places like yale who also then not only do full scholarships but then they actually do a stipend to live upon as well. I think that those who can afford an education should actually pay for an education but i am completely opposed to going into debt for education so i was very careful about my words in my interview in the la times where. I laid out my goals because my goal is that art students are able to leave with a degree debt. Free and in order to do that. I need to raise money for a scholarship to create a larger endowment so that we can accomplish that for both undergraduate and graduate students we need to further endow more positions in the art department and that is specifically for adjunct it is also unsustainable for adjuncts to be living in the way that they live now and i was adjunct for a long time. it is it is not sustainable not to have medical insurance and it is not sustainable for somebody to potentially live on twenty thousand dollars a year here in los angeles. That's not sustainable. So i'm really interested in sustainability in terms of also how much the adjunct community brings to the overall amazing education opportunity for both graduate undergraduate students and we need to celebrate that versus. Make it a detriment for them. And so by endowing more positions we can create an ability to potentially give two to three year contracts that include medical insurance and then we're allowing pool of really amazing young artists to be able to have their first opportunities to teach at a university like ucla. And then hopefully be able to gain employment in other places so it's a it's a two tiered thing in relationship to students leaving in debt but that also that we are kinder and more responsible to those who give us so much within the department held you manage your of pedological life with your art and life as an artist there. Are those clauses again right. I mean at this point it all seems like it just flows together. You know it really does. And i think i'm pretty good at time management. I have a really good assistant. Who really helps me. Extraordinarily and at this point the experience of making the work and the knowledge in relationship to what. I wanna make the experiences that i try to put forth to figure out what i'm making all feel incredibly fluid. They're not fraught. You know. I think that i would say that in the nineties and in my thirties i had more anxiety. And at this point i am beyond mid career artists. Because i'm sixty. And i've been making work in the art world for now thirty years and i think that i'm really just excited about the continuation of being able to talk about what i see around me during my lifetime and live out my life with the love of my beautiful family and friends. And i'm really. Hokey gonna cry about that right now because it is I worked really really hard. And that is the hard thing about having multiple closet so to speak as sometimes there were too many clothes and And i feel that. I'm i've been able to pivot and move and be aware in continued to feel that i'm tied into the things that are interesting for me and i have the incredible support of being able to have the longevity that i've had and relationship to being an artist and i wish that everybody had those kinds of experiences catherine. I have one last question for you. It's not particularly profound. But it is one that i'm highly curious curiosity. Is it true that you've been watching the soap opera days of our lives since you were sending sip of water. Sorry yeah yeah. I can tell you everything that's happening right now up to date with days of our lives. But it's like i am really have i can tell you about all the characters all the history of the characters. I'm a walking encyclopedia of days of our lives. And why what. Is it a diesel. We're lives you know something that i watched with my mom. I guess that they. I don't know they became another place of a dysfunctional family for me. Like all the drama. Like if that drama was the drama than do i have to think about my own dramas so to speak and then you just get tied up in a really dumb hokey way like and it's something that i could talk about with my mom. I guess today. I called her but this literally a conversation i had yesterday. Okay mom okay if lonnie is really the daughter of this character and abe is. The father does that mean that. They had sex when she was going out with when abe was going out with a sister like like that's like literally a conversation i will have with my mom. And she's like. I don't know elgible just have to see laugh to unravel so it gives a little touching point for my mom and i in this shared history of these characters in the life of salem and then i've run into the characters and l. a. And i even had one of the characters. Come to my studio first studio visit. And i've always wanted to make still lives. I'm putting it out there on design matters. Maybe.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"Forty six times from the shoulder down to the wrist with two inch needles twelve gauge needles. But i remember. We wanted the gauge. To be big enough that it would create like appearance of body armor and a certain and that i wanted the cutting and the needles to be completely precise because i was thinking about whole binds kind of henry the eighth portrait in a certain way and i was thinking about. What the word pervert man in nineteen ninety four and my community especially when there was a beginning of a divide within our own community. And this is very specific. It's not just for what pervert means from jesse helms the holding mapplethorpe photographs on the senate floor. But it also came from internal homophobia of our own community of again the workers. The you know people who practice were also perverts and that there are portions of the gay and lesbian community are quote unquote normal. And i didn't like the notion of normal. I've never liked the binary of normal or abnormal. I'm more interested in the complexity of sexuality and desire and so was Yeah was that moment. Where in the same. My friend steak tattooed dyke on the back of her neck. That i was going to have rail. And do this cutting and that was done in san francisco in a studio. Why was making a portrait series. It was attended by an enormous amount of my friends including the incredible trans historian. Susan stryker was there and it was you know there were The needles were done first. And then i sat in the chair and roelant did the cutting and then we. I put the hood on and we. We made some without the hood and some with hood. But i didn't want my face. Because i wanted the notion of visibility to be placed on language. So what does the word pervert mean. How do we deal with language you know. Is this enough of a pervert for you and it's also really beautiful and then you actually have to deal with the beauty of it as well because it's not dripping blood it's not it's don in such a way that it just looks like almost a red tattoo but it is blood coming to the surface. There is a real elegance to the photo of the way it's constructed. Had you been very involved in body modification at that time as well. How hard was it for you to have forty six to gauge needles. Put through your skin. Not that difficult actually because when you prepare yourself. It's totally different. If i'm walking through the house. And i stubbed my toe on a furniture. I sit there and i weep. I'm like really angry. I can't believe i've heard myself but when you've already been kind of in the leather community and you are doing this in the dungeons on your own you. You know what you're kind of doing and so you. Your mindset is different. I mean if if something goes to the doctor and get gets a shot. The only thing that is hurting is actually the fear of getting the shop. So are kind of relationship to fear is so complicated as human beings. And i was never afraid because i knew that my friends were professionals and railing was a professional and that they had done this time and time again and i had done a lot of play piercing in a lot of cutting out in a private setting and so i wasn't I was very definitive. And knowing what i wanted to do and and had the mindset to go through it did you experience any of the fauria. You that sometimes occurs during body modification. Oh absolutely now your endorphins. Erc going off the rockers at it was funny because if you watch the video tape. There's one moment where it i have. The the group dead can dance playing in the background. Because i love that kind of meditative music and you know you're breathing and you're going through it and then rail and decided to stop for a moment. Try to pop a pimple on my chest. That was driving her crazy. And at that moment i lost my focus and then i started moaning a little bit more once. She went back into the cutting The cutting as much harder than the needles to go through needles are fairly quick. You know but but definitely cuttings are taken enormous amount of concentration. And your and that's partly. Why didn't want my face in. The picture is because i the endorphins are going off with my glasses off. My eyes are slightly crossed and the first thing that people look at in portraits is people's faces usually and it again had to remain on the body and about the body image was first shown to the public in nineteen. Ninety five at the whitney biennial. And you've said that since then you struggle to look at that photo now. How come well. It's not necessarily struggle. It's i haven't set a struggle. It's it's it's a photograph that i don't need to live with. It's a photograph that i made that. I'm proud of and that represented that moment in time. You know i had. I had several collectors at different moments. Say how powerful that peace is live with and that it's in their bedroom and they wake up every morning and i guess i started thinking. Could i wake up every morning but one of the things that i love about photography it defines the sense of time and within the defined sense of time of that you know going back to that geeky kind of cardiac persona notion of the decisive moment. Like pervert is a decisive moment on my part but that doesn't necessarily define me as a sixty year old woman now so the frozenness this of my time in my community. I'm so profoundly. Honored that my friends and i myself chose to use ourselves in relationship to community to make and work on a body of work that created a certain history in a certain idea visibility. But that doesn't mean that were held in that time in the same way that were held in the time in terms of the making of the work. Before i ask you about the third self-portrait self portrait nursing. I want to ask you about your thoughts on domesticity in your work and you said that self portrait cutting was about the relationship between queer nece and domesticity. I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit. More about what that notion between squareness domesticity is or was well throughout history. People fall in love and throughout history and relationship to homophobia especially after say the you know the roaring twenties so to speak and when kind of the puritanical notion of homosexuality ended up entering the kind of religious indoctrination of not being acceptable and so forth and the bible misinterpreted as so forth When you fall in love you often wanna live with the person that you fall in love with and so domestic day was always literally a part of the notion of having a relationship and being in love and and opening up one's home of cohabitation and to then be denied that both on legal fronts as well as just rhetorically within our society is incredibly fraught. And so this notion of coming out of the closet always made me laugh. Because it's a closet is a domestic space closet is where one another's close co. Mingle if you don't have your own walk and 'cause has which i don't but a closet is where a co mingling of the every day happens and so yeah so it's you know. Domestic has always been a part of love and relationship and trying to build a life a home with another person after cutting pervert. You drove across the us in your rv photographing lesbian families. Women who had children who lived in groups couples engaging in everyday household activities across the country and you titled the portfolio domestic. You looking for something specific in that body of work. Well that body of work also was. I had been in a relationship then for three to four years with another amazing queer photographer. Important lesbian artists on historical level. Who should be. She's in books like stolen glances. But it's Her name is co. Sheila brooke and we are worried by us together. We were gonna do. We have been in three year relationship where she ironically was living on. Sanborn have where. I ironically lived with pam. My first domestic relationship and i was still in custody..
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"The original version of the alward. What did you think when you were asked about their using your photos of women in drag for the titles. I was funny. Because i there's another photograph that you probably know because you. You've really researched man. You know my work but for our listeners is a photograph of from the series domestic of two women in a swimming pool Mickey and eileen eileen was the producer of the l word i- chacon. I lean chicken so for my first show at regan projects. Her in maguy hosted my opening dinner party at their house and so when she approached me we had already forged a friendship in the art world. And i just thought yeah. Go for it. you're making a show. Let's like us lesbians with mustaches. And the title and i think that is also a different kind of radic -ality of los angeles because of the kind of lipstick lesbian Positioning of los angeles as a city. That i thought it was actually pretty brave that she wanted to do that. And it can noted also another part of the community in l. a. that might not be actually represented within the series. Yeah i love those. I love those opening credits What do you think of the reboot. Have you been watching. you know. i haven't yet. I have to. I have to get on that. I haven't watched the reboot and it's just because there's so much to stream during the pandemic there was a lot extreme and i'm just not caught up on the ellwood yet but i will. It's it's fine. yeah. I'm loving it. I'm absolutely loving and just seeing bentini together. Not as a couple but to seeing them in the same room on the same sofa makes me happy. Catherine you created three portraits in less than a decade three self-portraits in less than a decade that propelled you to even greater awareness and fame in the art world. Then beyond and like to talk to you about all three if that's okay. Yeah the. I is titled self-portrait cutting you created this piece in one thousand nine hundred ninety three and a photograph of you from behind facing away from the camera your shirtless. There's a drawing carved into the skin of your back featuring stick figure women smiling and holding hands and behind them as a house with some birds flying and it looks like it could be a child's drying. You're standing in front of what looks like a baroque type wallpaper. What did this photograph represent. At the time. The time it was something that i actually was is a photograph out of morning My first domestic relationship. And the only one i had ever had before of being with my current partner and wife. Julie burley was with a woman. Pam greg and i was utterly in love and we built a house and we got two puppies and we were living the domestic dream. I imagined in my mind that it would go on for a long period of time. That the two puppies would potentially turn into children. And all of all of that which was still hard in nineteen ninety-three to imagine you know very difficult nineteen ninety-three to imagine and then blood as a substances the substance that was feared. And you know one of the things that i did say in the quote that sm was never sexual wasn't actually completely true. because pam. and i met in a leather context and ended up being lovers. I've had other lovers within the leather community in that context so there is a bit of Kind of pleasure in terms of sexuality mixed into it in terms of my history of relationships but pam broke up with me and i was devastated and for year spent Doodling on a pad. And i would doodle these tick figure girls with the house with the sun coming out of the cloud. Says the sense of optimism. Right that i will find love again. And then i decided to go ahead and make it a cutting and make it a portrait and i was in the process of making the other portraits at that time and that it was just a profound sense of loss and longing not just for me personally and losing my first domestic relationship but the notion of loss overall in terms of the aids epidemic and watching it decimate all of these couples in communities. So even though there's to stick figure girls with skirts but it was yeah. I wanted to make a very complicated universal peace that went beyond my own personal sadness of the loss of my domestic relationship. And that is what i came up with. Can you talk about. How the artist. Judie bamber carved the illustration into your back. What was it like for her. I think she was really nervous. I mean it's actually on videotape. We have both on documented on videotape We don't have self portrait nursing. But we have the cutting my back. End pervert documented self-portrait cutting happened in los angeles in my new living room and what we called custody estrogen which was predominantly a lesbian Apartment building in korea town on catalina street as they're lean amazing history. Jenny shimizu lived above me and there was just incredible group of of of dikes in their motorcycles. That had all live together in this apartment building and then my good friends. Mike and sky. Who had photographed. Were there to support judy. And my other good friend. Who was the photographer. Connie samaras took the dark sides out of the camera and operated the four-by-five camera because there wasn't a you know it's a self portrait but it couldn't be done like on a tripod with a cable release because it was four by five so judy practice on chicken thighs before she brackets on my body. I hope they're photos documenting. What's amazing is one woman the most precise painters ever. I mean her work as unbelievable if you don't know her work her work and were born on the same day in the same year so we both are share april fourteenth nineteen sixty one. She was one of my best friends. And i wanted an apprehension in the cutting i wanted it to not be done by. Somebody like microscope. I would have been able to do it perfectly. I wanted the blood to kind of like almost like as if the surface of the skin was scratched but at moments like you know the scalpel would actually make mark. That was more definitive and it was never meant to be a permanent cutting. I guess you know it became obviously a pretty iconic portrait and then in nineteen ninety-four. You created self portrait pervert. This time. you're sitting in front of a black and gold brocade. Your hands are folded in your lap. You're facing the camera. Your head is completely covered in a black leather gimped mask your wearing leather chaps in the word pervert is carved in bloody kinda losing very ornate letters across your chest and the body modifier ray lynn. Galina cut the word into your skin and then to of your friends from piercing shop. Line your.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"As a collaboration with my good friend. From collards richard hawkins. Who's a fellow artist where we started making portraits of our mutual friends at that point and then he realized that it was my body of work and he just said this is. This is yours. Go with it But he he introduced me really thinking about holbein. And what nobility is and what that is within our community. And we had amazing extensive conversations about that. And richard as a very brilliant person who i felt just helped lead of a pathway for me in terms of continuing to photograph the community after being in having understand that the title of the show being in having was a play on psychoanalyst jacques locations idea that men have the phallus while women as the embodiment of erotic. Desire and art are the fellas and when i was reading this. I'm like is this deep serious so this is serious and i have to tell you that. A title came from the woman with her arms crossed over her chest. Peeing in on our backs. So she is an amazing philosopher from toronto canada by the name of annemarie smith and she was one of the head kind of political philosophers and teachers at cornell but she was my lover at the time and Met her in canada at a bar. You know and she had been making postcards with a friend That were really awesome. Roddick postcards from this collective in canada. And i'm sorry. I don't remember the collective's name anymore. But i was in the bar going. Hey do you. Who made these. And then the woman. I was talking to said. Yeah my myself and my next door neighbor did and then it started a very long friendship and love affair with amery smith including the portrait. That's on the bed the self-portraits on our bed when she came to visit me in california while i was in grad school that was a student's installation in their studio and they let us have it as a little of private palace so to speak during her visit august wrapped together. That's the beautiful thing about community right. Is you meet people. And you're in this kind of you know in the eighty s. You're you're going through so much as a community especially in relationship to politics aids and and visibility and just all of these inner weavings are really also part of my ability to thank.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"And there's a beautiful image of a woman standing while urinating and in one thousand nine hundred seventy created a self portrait titled kathy which is a black and white image of yourself wearing a strap on dressed in a negligee astride a bed and at that time. You vowed you'd never be a voyeur within your own community. But i'm wondering. Do you ever feel shy about sharing this part of yourself in such a public way. Not anymore did you. At that point or i think that i did. I think that i was still protecting my parents and my family. Yeah i think that it takes a long time to figure out how you should be as a person what is okay to be out in the world in relationship to also this kind of weird protective bubble one puts around their their biological family and at a certain point i just realized that my family has my chosen family that even though i have a profound sense of love for my parents that i it was also not going to remain in the closet and that that was not a healthy position for me and so i just decided to go for but i didn't put that image out actually until the two thousands. I mean that's the thing is like i went back into the archive. And i also probably thought that some of the black and white work from girlfriends. That i did was maybe too close to mapplethorpe and i needed to create my own identity within the leather community as a woman that was separate from mapplethorpe. Because we both also have similar as statics right like we really liked to highly. Is that assize our material in a visual kind of Classical way and so that work in the two thousand was fine to pull out where in the eighties. When you know robertson. Pass away from aids until nineteen eighty nine. It was too close. Is that why you stayed away from using a square format well used to square format a lot and all that private work. I mean it was all shot. Hasselblad and Yeah no but in the archive has that. Because it's a camera that i really enjoyed using including in the new five book you'll see an image of me with my grandfather's roller flexes. His self portrait on one of the beginning stages where it was like nine thousand nine hundred eighty three or eighty four. And i'm in new york city in self portrait with my grandfather's fedora. With a big yeah overcoat holding twin reflex so that work existed and it was going on and i was making it but when i decided to make work of my own community i felt that i needed to create a different way of thinking about documentary and so with being in having which was the first studio photographs of mind with the with the women. Fake mustaches my friends with fake mustaches and looking straight into the camera using that yellow background consistently with the consistent framing created a conceptual positioning to portraiture. That i felt was a way to shift from on necessarily a comparison to maple for work being and having really shot you defame. What made you decide to shoot them on a golden yellow background. Well was in my living room. In silverlake i lived on sanborn. Have and i. You know higher made all my early. Portraits was in my living room. I didn't have a studio. Like yellow is kind of a hard color in relationship to skin tone but the other thing is is in terms of diversity of skin tone of my friends in relationship to inclusion yellow. Was the best to kind of make it pop and i would often have all my friends get their mustaches. And we would kind of make portraits out shooting with a four by five camera and we'd make the portraits and then we'd just hang out afterwards so was also i didn't in a small living room in silverlake. I didn't have the ability to change over all different colors of seamless. Nor was i thinking about seamless. In that way at that point it wasn't until i started making the portraits the year after which began first.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"catherine f" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"Model homes plots of land and billboards advertising united states where the children are apple cheeked in tow headed and the parents are as straight as ken and barbie unquote. What what provoked this particular direction of your work. Well at first. I didn't have a car. Because i was moving from san francisco and my car had been totaled and i just decided to walk with my camera and so i was also a you know a street trained as more or less a street photographer in san francisco so in southern california. There's very little street. And so you just start wandering. And i'm a big proponent of wandering. I talk about wandering quite a bit and i recognized what was being built was actually what i watched being built in my Teen years and decided that it was something that i could try to talk about. In the meantime you began to contribute photographs to lesbian magazine mentioned on our backs whose name was response to the anti pornography feminist journal off our back. Yes how did you. How did you first discover the magazine. Living in san francisco. You're basically embedded in that point. Valencia street in san francisco was the kind of lesbian Area the castor was for the boys. Valencia street was for the women. We had artem est cafe. We had a center bath house. We had a meal. Yes which was the seven day a week lesbian bar. So you had all of this happening all at once. And i'll tell you like the women who would go to meal. Yes we're also the women who were being photographed by wonderful photographers. Joe pose ner and susie bright and all of the kind of sex positive in terms of starting on. Our backs was right there at that time and so i just decided like why want a picture and on our backs. I'm a photographer. i'm. I'm a lesbian. Why why it. Shouldn't i try to actually do that as well. Those magazines introduced me to my own sort of private realization. That i was gay at the time although it was another twenty five years before i publicly came out but other magazines that have in my collection that i thought you'd enjoy sure you know this one. Yeah and then caught looking which droid inari publication. At the time you also joined a women's as an society called the outcasts co founded by the activist and academic gayle rubin. But you've said that. Sm was never sexual for you and have described it as the scariest. Most violent secret impulses that could be followed invalidated and made almost cozy in an atmosphere. Where you could always say no and you go on to say that you needed to push yourself to get over the enormous amount of fear you had around your body. Where do you think that fear came from. What was that fear about. Well it's it's personal and it's it's not on the record in terms of personal but there was some childhood trauma my part and i think that there was an enormous amount of healing that this community brought to me relationship to trauma. And you've never read this in an interview. So i'm saying right now for the first time but and you know it's been very hard in a certain way to be quiet about this during the hashtag metoo movement but there's reasons and the reasons are as when you make self-portraits that i made people easily equate that to. Oh well that's why. She made that. She was traumatized as a child. And i try very hard again. Though that kind of compartments that i put things in the in this society were very easily to connote things and to take things and blow them out of proportion in a way that's not authentic to one's own experience so my authenticity to my own experience in my childhood was definitely Worked out on an emotional level very much so through the leather community but at the same time the public -ness of that is not necessarily something that i feel. I need to have completely spelled out in the world. I completely understand for years. I was in the closet and also would not disclose my own early childhood trauma in with sexual abuse primarily. Because i never wanted anybody to say that anything i did was because of that were that i was damaged in some way. Because of it. Or that i would be judged because of my own inner homophobia in in those decades now but i know that the king community essentially saved the life of my wife. Roxanne gay she. She's very public about the fact that if it weren't for the community she wouldn't be alive today. Yeah i feel very very much the same without having to lay out all the details of my past. But what a an amazing place to be able to work out So much thank you for for feeling that you could trust me with with this That sense of community that both you talk about that that roxanne is experienced. That seems to be the most important aspect of being involved in the dsm seen and that it was also political. It was his political as much as it was sexual as much as it was community. And i read that. You often talked philosophy in the dungeon. Kale ruben has great to talk to. I mean i remember at one point. You know Asking gail for coffee and just wanting to talk about the kind of amazing experiences of the transition of so many. Butch dykes transitioning to mail like in the beginning. And i wanted to have like a real philosophical conversation with her in relationship to aids and the kind of work that she did in relationship to the gay male leather sex club south of market. And so when you when you have actual role models and brilliant people that were surrounded me at that time period and various sects positive people. Yes it was really interesting. Deep discourse in relationship to what we were doing and what we were holding and also consensuality and i mean. I wish everybody had that education in some ways. Yes yes some of your early work for arnold bax included photos of your sex toy and leather collection..
Inspiration and Spiritual Awakening from Live. Love. Engage. with Gloria Grace Rand
"catherine f" Discussed on Inspiration and Spiritual Awakening from Live. Love. Engage. with Gloria Grace Rand
"Who is an expert in this area and her name is catherine watkins. So first off. Welcome to live Engage catherine oh hello and thank you so much for inviting me to be on your podcast. We are delighted to have you and let me share with all of our listeners. In yours on youtube why She is the founder of selling from the heart and She is a sales expert. Who works with heart center business owners who are gifted and passionate about what they do but struggle in business because they feel awkward when it comes to selling their services. I've been there done that. But she teaches them how to have effective sales conversations that feel authentic uncomfortable and more importantly get great results and she is also an authentic in inspiring speaker with an important message and a role model for how it is possible to create a successful business without resorting to those sleazy manipulative sales and marketing tactics. That's so many of us don't make so. I'm i love the subject because i recently changed are actually changed my tagline to messages from the heart because i do believe it is important for us to be authentic so Before we get into specifics of how you can do that. Tell me why or intel our listeners. Actually really why you got interested in this subject yourself. Why why do you have a passion for for teaching people about how does sell from the heart. well i'll chore. Let's make sure long story. But it goes back so away. Because i actually prior to sending out in business for myself. I had a career in sales. So i accidentally finds when i was twenty. Three years old had no intention of being in silos. A toll on any sales has never does. And by the time i came. This didn't have about twenty years behind scenes siles So you know i. I've been very successful. I'd in the charlie industry for many years the my thumb quite a few years in the recruitment industry which in particular was very target driven competitive failed working in sales unwell. I didn't realize because i didn't have the language then. Is that even though. I would get central sales training courses and i'd be to be nlp techniques the manipulative techniques in the closing techniques. I used to come back with a not in my stomach at the idea of treating people in that way and not just used when when manager wasn't listening. I just think genoa. Just gonna sit here and do it. My way and as my way turned out to be really effective. I worked for Priests way big companies in one in the charm industry to the recruitment industry on an all of them. I was in the talk. Chills recyles people in the company. My wife worked. And then eventually less that world i was desperate to find work felt meaningful to me. I was very unsuccessful. I will i did. I loved working sale. I always used to say that. I was blessed to get paid sports people all day long but there was a lot about it didn't feel meaningful ended fill- fulfilling i embarked on his spivey journey. Figure out what it was meant to doing well thinking but none of it would have anything to do with styles and us all of that. I try we tried to a number of different things only to discover that none of them felt by rights that they included training coach as a hypnotherapist yoga teacher p. practitioner nutritional therapist amongst other things. Why started to ninety. Expose the although my heart was really in those things while i started my business. I would get kinds very quick to go this reputation with people trying to hate cats. He you have all these clients. How do you do it. I'm what i realized. It wasn't obvious smith. I was because of my background in sales. Yes i had everything. Chiller along thing i had a averaging about pricing and how to start my business but i didn't have any hangups or why co star around sales and i saw all of these heart center business owners people who really cared deeply and wanted to make a difference to other people through that work and so many her notes by sales at men's and how that somehow meant being bad person that they were not doing anything to try and reach out clients. They were not doing anything to couch bookings conversation and so that's where it was born. I started running a one day. Workshop for coaches initially. I'm announce such as safir that expounded not That was about ten years ago. I've been doing this on before that. I never did anything. I really enjoyed ever. I've done without folks continues in amazing. Well i love how you had to experiment and try all these different things. I think in order to be able to figure it out and your background is what helped you to be successful in this and i i i think the one of the things. I've learned my life to as we as we really have to. I think the universe has helps us along in kind of giving us some ideas of what to do in the and helps to lay the foundation. Sometimes we don't realize it at the time until later and then we're like. oh yeah. So that's that makes perfect sense. That why i went through that because now i can do this so i think that's great but able to do that. How tell me what is What have you found. Actually because i i kind of have an idea but why do In your experience in working with clients why do so many people I have like this misconception about sales and an end his why resist and they don't make follow up calls and things like that. What have you found to be maybe slim the common denominators not i think the two common reasons are festival. We have all experienced sales. That just does not feel good to us. We have being backed into corners. We've been spelled that we haven't been listened to. We felt that the salesperson is just out narrowed agenda respect for us Some of us certainly in my own experience. I've had more than one occasion where i would actually needs say that. I was bullied and shamed I when i decided not to go ahead and sunday and left me feeding upset for quite a few. I've taken sense but it left me feeling clips that by shaking. Because i showed him passenger nationwide these people in good faith.
The Guilty Feminist
"catherine f" Discussed on The Guilty Feminist
"When i was young wearing my person and sex can be a valid entry that you engage in. I was like this is yeah. It's just so cool and it feels next level doesn't videos like for longtime popstars have been in some way writhing for us and listen. That writhing was an important period. Not on the right thing. Love the word writhing. It's great isn't it. I listen. I love a bit of writing. Nothing wrong with arrive is needed. I mean who doesn't enjoy arrive box. It feels like your in your exploring sexual space without pandering to us. All titillating us. It feels like you're in a box of power and again being invited in. And we're bringing writer to challenge our own as you said catherine our fears and shaimaa stories around sex giggly or yes. Sex can't get enough of it and just it being something. You're exploring all academic in some way of going. Yeah here all is and here. I am and here. I am interacting with it but it feels like another thing like a move along the chessboard. And just before. I ask you more about. I'm just gonna read a couple of your lyrics that really struck me from a song called deal with it and the lyrics are. i don't need a man. I need a puppy allergic to you. Every time you touch me emotional maturity for dummies. I don't have the time to pretend you're funny which really speaks to comedians. And the men to deal with on back and i'm better. I put the teddy you gave me in a blender druidic on all your sweat shirts. I hate you so much. Right now. And i was like why. It's so like confrontational in a good way. It so Always been confrontational. Yeah the other one. That really struck me was from christmas. Musical it goes. It's like an arcade game. Your hand is the claw the teddy plasma or that falls. You've been rubbing the same spot on my leg for ten minutes. You haven't hit.
The Guilty Feminist
"catherine f" Discussed on The Guilty Feminist
"So few perry girlfriend. I mean they might have just met and really hit it off Who am i to judge an age gap matthew berry girlfriend molly. hurwitz engaged now fiance. Okay a. k. And molly. Her wits is twenty nine and fifty one. So you know it's not too bad. She's not twenty two now she seven years but yeah that's fine which he got with matthew perry. I mean i go out with matthew berry just for the stories. Could you be anymore excited about matthew perry no because of monica and chandler. I wanted to be chandler and mary monica. Not unfortunately i am. Monica and i don't wanna marry chandler now the high into stunned that that's absolutely fact. He may be different from his character but then also make difficult and his character if you had to marry one of the friends. Which one would you mary. Monica monica all day. Long because she she likes me. Luckily every event would be delightful and never mess up my cupboards. I mean genetics. She's highly strong but she brings the energy to the road. she's great. she's very despicable. Who'll are ridden drawer. The best time. Okay good to know. Good to know who i go full. I think i would go for one of the goals is what i feel like looking back. The men were quite problematic in different ways like joey would like into up or for flatmates and be like oh like also salacious questions and like there was naked those days and stuff like that. Take the shower curtain down stuff like that. He was no that was like harassing and then a really terrifying stuff. I mean i know it was a sitcom in the nineteen. We competition prize. But no and david schwimmer's character ross was very controlling and cia. What is it you. And i like the idea of you and rachel because like she could bring you home from work to just like. Oh i got you an amazing pair of shoes. And i feel like you'd show her the world and you have. I think you're right to be amazing. She is the most fanciable friend. Let's be honest if i would be to know and i could i. I like the idea. But i think phoebe would be the most phone. You'd have really everyday will be a surprise. you would be the most. She's kinky as well. There's so many references to have been kinky. Yeah that's true. I was just thinking that maybe you could get phoebe as like the add on friend like the benefit of dating right will be that you get to hang out with phoebe but ultimately you also get days off from aby. It'd be full on the whole time. A senior rights. You probably be the best bed. I think she is. There's so many references to it. I think she's she's wild in bed. Grades should be more interesting. I feel like right. She'll be she's not political enough. May rachel agreed. But i think you could open rachel's mind you know. I think you you'd be good for her in that way. But you're right. I think phoebe would. More readily protests or on the. I will date both rachel and phoebe and we'll see where we land. We'll come visit you and monica please. In our perfect perfect tax. Take off your shoes. Variety bedrooms and kitchens via zoom.
Whores Talk Horror
"catherine f" Discussed on Whores Talk Horror
"In austin and catherine meant husband number. One matt quinlan in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and the two quickly married When quinlan who is Abby lieutenant was given an assignment overseas catherine went with him all the way to japan in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine a loss. The love affair were short. Lived and nineteen seventy. Catherine was divorced back home in houston and had found her calling. She wanted to be a lawyer. Says fast Catherine attended law school at the university of houston during which time she briefly dated fellow law student fairest bond ferris bond. I know bond ferris bond. I know if like ferris buehler's dream come true name. Probably wow the Characteristics of bueller mix with james bond would make for like that's like the ultimate superhero like hunting charming and can sing donka shane. I need to see that movie yesterday. Okay paris paris bonds. Day off all right. Oh i'm sorry. I need to stop interrupting with students finance. Actually it takes the pressure off a little bit. So i mean maybe not for sponsor just love to edit it. But i'm living at in while. The romance may have been brief. The break-up was long and unpleasant so much so that immediately upon graduation harris bond said that he took his law degree joined the us marine corps and quietly relocated to another state. glad to be out of catherine's life. Catherine herself passed the bar exam in june of one thousand. Nine hundred seventy seven now. Don't worry we'll come back to matt quinlan and ferris bond. Please hold all questions for now. So in one thousand nine hundred ninety six. The unlucky in love catherine met anesthesiologist. George tedesco and the two quickly became exclusive I'm sensing a pattern here. Sure enough by late. Nineteen seventy six. Catherine was sharing to dust goes townhouse in south west. Houston so fyi everybody. George tedesco and the events of nineteen seventy seven through seventy-nine most pretty much solidified catherine mahaffy's name in all of the houston papers and press. So i'm going to start getting into a little bit more detail here but i just. I thought it was important to lay down a very very basic backstory. Before we really start getting to know our friend katherine hear the payoff will be worth it. Trust me so back to late..
KCRW
"catherine f" Discussed on KCRW
"Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, supporting creative people, ineffective institutions committed to building a more just verdant and peaceful world. More information is that Mac found daughter work. It's 5 45. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep, and I'm Rachel Martin in Congress. Populists are in power on the committees that oversee the big banks. And as NPR's David Girl reports, that means Washington is a tougher environment for the CEO is running those banks. Senator Sherrod Brown has not forgotten the housing crisis. He says that in the first half of 2007, there were more foreclosures in his hometown than anywhere else in the country. Not more than a decade later, after another recession, Brown believes too many Americans are still getting the short end of the stick. They never get bailed out. They never get a second chance. Just not in a position in an economy like this one. Wall Street writes the rules that they could get ahead that has shaped browns approach to oversight and the country's largest financial firms. They did very well during the pandemic. We've seen stratospheric compensation levels. You see stock buybacks and dividend distribution yet wages throughout our economy or essentially flat. In fact, banks did better at the beginning of this year than ever before. Round is now the chairman of what's known as the Senate Banking Committee, a group that also includes Senator Elizabeth Warren. You know, most people think about Congress in terms of passing legislation and, yeah, that's part of the job. But the other part of the job is oversight. At a hearing this week, Warren asked Jamie Diamond, the CEO of J. P. Morgan, to tell her how much money his bank made off of overdraft fees during the pandemic. Do you know the number? I don't know the number in front of me, but I actually have the number in front of me Request $1.463 billion later, she asked Diamond if he'd volunteer then and there to give that money back. He didn't with Democrats in control of both houses of Congress and the White House. There's a push for the country's largest financial institutions to be agents of social change. They want banks to expand access to loans. They want fewer fees, and they want banks to invest more in green energy. Also want to see more diversity and better outreach to underserved communities across the United States. They have a responsibility to execute on making their banks part of the solution. Who are economic and racial problems across this nation, and firms have started to confront their role in American society to whom they lend money, their investments where they stand on immigration and climate change. Mike Mayo is a bank's analyst at Wells Fargo. Securities. Banks have no choice but to address these issues because it impacts their communities, their customers and their employees. But Republican lawmakers strongly disagree with that. Criticized executives for comments they've made about voting rights, for instance, and their critical of companies making business decisions based on environmental considerations. Senator Pat Toomey is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee that ought to be left to elected lawmakers. Bankers aren't naive to the politics it play of the Democrats small majority in the House. They're razor thin majority in the Senate and the 2022 midterms. The House of Representatives. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, chairs the Financial Services Committee. Well, you know what I've discovered about the banking community is that they have had a way of operating traditionally, historically, and they don't change easily. But water says that community knows her and they know she's going to push for change. I think that many of them have come to understand that I can't be dealt with, but I cannot be tricked. I cannot be fooled and I don't accept.
Breakfast Leadership
"catherine f" Discussed on Breakfast Leadership
"This is my system that you're buying from me and the do it no. It's it's their system what he wanted to do. And when you when you flip the switch on that that's when they start feeling control it's okay. Yeah it it cuts a lot of hurdles out of the when out of the way. Actually there's another process. The five wise in i use that a lot and For those of anybody not familiar with it. You know when you go in. And you're listening to the client or the prospect of what they need. I often like to ask why you know. Tell me a little bit more about what this is going to day for you. One of my favorite stories is when a person went into a hardware store and said they needed a drill bit. And you know the drill bit. Well why do you need a drill bit. Why need to drill this hole in a table. And why do you need a hole in the table. And it's for a lamp that has accord. Because i don't wanna look at the cord and all this other stuff and then you get all the way down to asking you. Tell me a little bit more about why they need the slam. We'll start at night when i'm in bed and i'm reading this this book and they're like oh so you bought a drill bit because you wanna be able to read a book at night in bed and what comes out of that is actually the the creation of the kindle and we're not looking for drill bits a lot of times when we're out solving the struggle if we can get deep enough and understand what the true needs are we can actually create a product like a kendall that changes the industry or does even have to change the industry but the true root of the problem was they needed a kindle. They didn't need a drill bit and when we can take time to ask the question. We'll tell me why do you need that We're gonna learn so much more about our client and our prospect than our competition. Is that then again at separates us and allows us to serve in a new way for our client base. It's asking those deeper questions society in the information. We consume out of the questions. We ask our level one service level. We don't dig in to see you know what the truth thing is and the kindle analogies amazing because that person could have it basically drilled a hole assuming they're good at it otherwise they could have ruined a desk Get the lamp. They realized the lamp is too big. Further nightstands go with a different lamp and all of a sudden. That lamp has cord hiding capability so the court isn't visible and all sudden. They've got this new lamp with hole in their table that they'll never use. And instead you go buy a kindle and and and completely have you know the ability to read a book not only in your bed but anywhere you happen to be. You even read their kindle while they're waiting in line at the grocery store the bank. There's catching up on some things or lunchtime. It's there are wonderful device..
Breakfast Leadership
"catherine f" Discussed on Breakfast Leadership
"Welcome back i've got katherine online katherine. How are you. I am doing great. I really appreciate your time this morning. Michael thank you appreciate yours. Thank you so much for being on the show your fellow escapee of the corporate world and It's when people see us and we're smiling a lot there going okay. Are they drinking some weird kool-aid or something or is there something else to it. So share a little bit about Your backstory and the escape from the corporate world in some of the stuff. You're doing now okay. When you say escape makes me. Think of shawshank redemption. And how every day we would take a little bit of dirt out to the yard and slowly plot our plan to get out. So there's a little bit of andy and all of us. Yeah yeah yeah you know. Put a little hole in the pocket and drop little dirt on the ground and we're going to be one day closer to freedom and i think there's some similarities. You gotta have a plan Corporate america it's not prison but it it afforded a lot of opportunity for me that i would not have received otherwise and But you gotta have a plan to get out so About the past twenty years. I spent in corporate america in banking and i travel the country about sixty percent of the time and helped other people grow their business and It it was just a great way to meet people. And when you're in banking everybody needs money. And it opens up doors to all kinds of industries. That probably wouldn't have seen if i were in one particular industry that that wasn't banking so the opportunity to do that and to listen to what the client and the prospect challenges were and to be able to come back and problem solve with the team and actually develop products and develops sales materials and implement and learn how to negotiate within corporate environment has proved to be helpful not just in corporate but outside in thrill whirlwind when we break out it's critical skills to be able to negotiate and go through all of those those things and of course we joked about escaping corporate. But there's so many lessons that i learned in my corporate career and even working in nonprofit which the biggest less sit on that is it's nonprofit. It's not corporate so a lot of the tools you bring to the shad. You're like wait a minute everything's in metric here. Why is none of this stuff working but there are some things you can do to to it but you know what are some common things you run into when when you're talking with people in corporate in the works you do That seems to be a big hurdle for them at first even though when you first glance at it you wouldn't think would be a big challenge for them. I think in a leadership position whether you're incorporate urine a nonprofit you're trying to navigate a homelife once we get home from work. We're still trying to lead a family To be productive so throughout all of that we're trying to create very small amounts of change and change is hard change is scary but changes constant. So what can we do in a corporate environment to help drive change. And i've found that when we can create small wins along the way and celebrate. Those wins no matter how small they are in create momentum. We're going to have people that are going to back us up and support us. And i've been able to apply that same. Sounds like such a simple idea but just that simple idea of let's create a small win. Let's celebrate it. Let's be curious. See where it takes us but it also applies the nonprofits. It applies at home and It it truly can apply anywhere if you can..
Sci-Fi Talk Byte
"catherine f" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk Byte
"Hi welcome to season two of bite. This is tony tiller parenting an apocalypse. It's it's not the same way that you know how it works. Any of us usually two to four minutes long but sometimes they can be a little longer only when you when you live long enough all kinds of strange things very right in saying that the greek heroes the original superheroes in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion catherine taber voices senator amidala on star wars the wars watching the clone wars. Now have you gotten any hint at all on the coming season. It's coming up especially for a doll. Well we've completed season three. So i i know what's coming. What's kind of fun as a fan. I watched the show every friday. To and if i'm not in episode necessarily know what's going on so it's fun to see everything unfold as a fan as a part of the show as well so Yes but i know what's coming up for. I'm a dollar for this season. I can't wait to see what's coming up season poor which we're about to start working on very cool to do you know how many seasons the show is going to go on for i really don't i think you know that they have an idea of how many episodes they've liked to do but we're just right now going with it and i'm fine for its going for ten seasons or more but we'll see we'll see how far we can get i i think the highlights from the previous season was the beginning of the season when they were all held hostage in the senate. I thought that was a really good episode for i am i love sci-fi and i also like political intrigue film. No our stuff so it's really cool for me to get to play pat because day brings a lot of that to her episodes so we have you know espionage and political intrigue and. There's a really fun episodes. I liked the episodes where things blow up to. But i like the smart episodes where they're smooth. Some storyline there to really to really sink your teeth into if i had a second favorite it was when they were on that planet and they were like quarantine visit at play with. Yeah that one's from season one and we had michael york day at that record and but that's one of those days where you go into work and you're like standing next to michael york this kind of cool and he was so funny. I was trying not to like laugh in the middle of takes. Now do you get to record with the other cast members or or do you actually send it in. We have a couple of cast members who unfortunately don't live in los angeles but most of us are los angeles-based so retry with each episode to have as many characters there who are in town able to read so it really feels like we're doing a radio play you know you're going around and go through the whole script and it's a lotta fun that way and i think it always for actors for me at least the mortgage interact with my comb. Cast mates even though it's just voice. We still are looking at each other. And i really think it brings a lot. More magic develop a chemistry with matt because he because of who you both are. We feel like we had that right away. We have a couple of things in common. Just in our background to voted for keats. Lived in georgia. I'm from georgia. Both love the atlanta braves. So that's a big one. But yeah and it was really nice. Because the fans reaction to our chemistry as pad mannequin was really really positive. So really. Appreciated that. A lot and of course. He's a real cutie pie. So it's it's not too hard to have you know have that chemistry in in the actual in the recording. I i think you know if obviously if you look ahead. And and we all know what happens at their love actually very tragically. Is it hard to kind of state you have to kind of stay within boundaries. Is that kind of hard for both actors. What's interesting for me as that head may is actually of all the characters played. She's really very close to me. And i just think that she's you know she's kind of a. She's an optimist about people and i think even if you could ask her later which you couldn't because she's no longer there if she still thought that there was good mannequin. I think she always would so. It's not that hard for me to play it. Because i know she really believes in the good of him she probably you know she's heartbroken about what happens but i think she even still understands and you know and always believe that he was at the core a good person so i just play off of that. I don't think i'm married to darth vader. You know. I just don't think she would ever see it that way and so i don't either i it is It the the really cool thing about the star. Wars story is really shows you. How essentially a person with the best intentions can go back. And that's that's what's interesting about saying you know the the more recent movies is that you really do see that and you really you really build on it. I mean especially you know. It's not just the character had made the stuff with his mother and you. You really can feel that. He's just tortured soul inside trying trying to do what's right and how many of us might make that same decision. You know to to try to save someone that you really really loved. A lot of people probably would so it it makes the whole thing that much more interesting and it makes you know something that people really i think can identify with these are. These are decisions that he has to make. A much grander scale. But i think that's why people really identify with star wars. I have a a wishlist for paddy. May two is. I mean i saw a little bit of it in in the last in the episode. Three between her. And obi wan and i'd like to see the seeds. Vat kind of like a building of trust between the two of them. You and me both and it's funny. Because i become really good friends with james taylor And we we both agree and we both really approach it from actress perspective. We're not just coming and saying lines. We think about our characters and their history. And i think that you know when you see obi wan had later they really have a strong strong bond and i would love to see more to the development of that and also there's the sense that anikin of forces perhaps jealous and suspicious at that that end point to and what is become. How did they become so close that it all leads to that. I think it would be so interesting. So i do hope that we develop more of that too and i. I always think that hadman. Obi wan or are similar characters in a lot of ways. They're two of the characters who are just essentially good and they're always trying to do what's right and so i think that really brings them together to. I think what happened was panicking. One thing he lacked was having a father figure really and actually. I thought quite gone would have been that. Of course you didn't make any king was really young you know. And that's the thing too. I mean how many guys at at that age aren't extremely cocky. Don't think think that they can rule the world think that they're invincible. And i think that that's really something else. That was very true to nature you know. He's not he's not a forty year old. Who's lived life and had like experience can sort of restrain himself. He's a young. he's a young guy you know. Thinks he thinks he can do at all so and for may i love the political stuff that she's in and her place.