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Clairepeek is a Clark

I am a proud member of the Wakefield Doctrine, which is the theory of Clark, Roger and Scott. Today, I have been honored as a proud wearer of THE hat, check this out: ———————————————->

Anyhow, what I meant to say was for you to have a look it at the post “Hallå! Bonjour! Hidy! 3 greetings, 3 personality types…still just one Wakefield Doctrine” directly… or read the quote first to have a clue to where I am sending you… yes, yes, uncharted territories for sure but big waves of interesting and fun matter: I promise ^_^

“As our regular Readers know, the Wakefield Doctrine is not just about learning  to understand the inner drives and personalities of the people of our lives, it is also not limited to having access to techniques and tools that make the intractable problems and the most obdurate of bad habits in our personal lives seem like passing fancies, (the Doctrine) is not even just about knowing  more about how the ‘other person’ is perceiving a situation than they, themselves know…no! the Wakefield Doctrine is about community, frate-sorority, and…hats!

So! May we present newest FOTD and DownSpring-in-Waiting… Claire Peek!  (We ‘met’ Claire through):”

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Clark, I thank you for this post… you made me as proud as when I wear the hat on my (damned) head. Seriously!

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The Optimist: Beauty Stared Back

Sometimes, it happens that one takes Beauty straight in the face without any warning. Our planet offers us so many wonders that it is difficult to name them all; however, when one expects it the least, one can be allowed to witness such majesty that one forgets to breathe for a few seconds.

[Read more on The Optimist]

2008 Ends: December 17th – More than 1000 new species discovered

Chiromantis samkosensis 2007 from Phnom Samkos in the Northwestern Cardomom Mountains Cambodia © L Lee Grismer

In the decade of 1997-2007, over a thousand new species were discovered in Greater Mekong (Southeast Asia). Such biodiversity was identified mostly in jungles and wetlands… WWF’s Final Report catalogued the species, which would give us approximately 1 toad, 2 salamanders, 88 frogs, 4 turtles, 46 lizards, 22 snakes, 519 plants, 279 fish, 88 spiders, 15 mammals, 4 birds… The Director of WWF’s Greater Mekong Programme Stuart Chapman says: “We thought discoveries of this scale were confined to the history books. It doesn’t get better than this.“

Now, I don’t know you, but I find this bit of news quite extraordinary. I mean, we are complaining about Global Warming and Endangered species, which are true and deep issues… then, one gets such a report. Indeed, somewhere on this planet, some places remain untouched by mankind!

Today, despite all our technology, our blue planet can still surprising us and is still showing us who’s the master… We knew that, didn’t we. Yet, we always managed to be astonished and amazed by it!

Laotian rock rat Laonastes aenigmamus 2005 © David Redfield

Can you imagine, the laotian rock rat was spotted in a food market… nothing great about this, you’d say… well, it was said to be extinct 11 million years ago.

Though, now what? The unexplored territories are now found (at least some of them)… we made these discoveries, however are they really safe in our hands… They are ours to protect, that’s for sure, but in the long run, will we…

This scares me actually, maybe I have trust issues and yet, I have faith!

2008 Ends: December, 8th – Let us smile back

As I looked everywhere for some good news to give to you, I remembered one amazing picture I saw on December 1st. I am sure you have seen it too: the sky smiling at us down on Earth. Since I was not fortunate enough to see it myself nor take the picture, either because I was on the wrong side of the planet or on the wrong side of the clouds ^_^ 

I found out however that the sky was having a little bit of fun quite regularly as I opened my e-mail this morning… indeed, I was sent a phenomenal… yet another one… photograph that comes from Mighty Optical Illusions. The sky sure likes to smile a lot, but to whom I wonder?

Well, if you want my thoughts on that, let me share them with you.
I think that it is a sign from nature… to whom?
It could be address to anyone who takes the time to look up and appreciate every little bit of scenery that our wonderful planet is offering us, a sort of thankful greeting, if you will…
On the other hand, those who forgot how to look might need a wake up call now and then… What about those who don’t know how to take the time, or who just cannot manage to see further than the tip of their nose, in their cases, it might even be a little bit of mocking from the sky.

All in all, it is good to remember that we are not necessarily the best creation on this planet… and it might be highly time for many to consider the beauty of our home! So, admire every colour around you and if you haven’t seen Wall-E, just hurry up, you might learn a thing or two.

So let us smile back to the sky shall we… ^_^

2008 Ends: December 7th – Christmas Lunch

In my neighbourhood yesterday, there was a traditional Swedish Christmas lunch offered by the residence’s personnel. It was a nice thing to do, and it has been done so, for twenty years now (if I understood the Swedish speech right).

We got to eat some traditional Swedish Christmas food in the company of our neighbours: Christer and his wife, Sylvia and her husband. They are fine people and I do enjoy spending time listening to and chatting with them… even though my Swedish is limited.

We arrived in the “common room” and were welcomed by the staff who offered us a cup of glögg (warm wine, with or without alcohol). When we were feeling a bit warmer, we headed towards the room where tables were set in the Christmas fashion. We helped ourselves to the Christmas buffet, where was the typical Christmas food. One could find herring salad, boiled eggs with mayonnaise and small shrimps, beetroot salad, liver pâté, meatballs, prince sausages, boiled potatoes, Jansson’s temptation (Janssons frestelse), Christmas ham, Christmas loaf, Christmas cider… we finished with a nice cup of coffee and gingerbread biscuits.

On a personal note, since we had one traditional Christmas meal, our Christmas table will probably look more like the one on the picture bellow (last year’s new year’s eve)… that was the starter of course…

The other day, we had a coffee at Sylvia’s place and we brought some home baked bread… She and her husband are retired and somehow “adopted” me the first time we met. So I have an extra pair of grandparents… mostly, an extra pair of friends!

Christer is also retired and he is very much into history. He puts together very old pictures of Grängesberg… I find it very interesting indeed! Since the legend to the pictures are written in Swedish, you should use Google Translate to get an idea of what it is all about.

It is not much news I’m afraid, however, I find it very comforting to meet such wonderful people now and then…
It makes me very happy!