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I have collected this beautiful American Folklore - under the form of aphorisms - from car plates, from various anonymous postings, from expressions heard in my discussions, from e-mails received, etc. Computer jokes, life taken upside-down, job related reflections, family connections, inside-out clichés of language, and so on. They are in a paradoxist style, or close, and full of humor… Some of them are cascading Murphy’s Laws (pessimistically), others are opposite - like Peter’s Laws (optimistically). Their sweetness smiles in the face of adversity, full of irony and auto-irony. I hope readers will enjoy them....

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See a few nice examples from the book text: “I think, therefore I’m single”, “Life is short, break some rules”, or “Black Holes are Where God Divided by Zero”!...

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This booklet from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences reveals how structural biology provides insight into health and disease and is useful in developing new medications. It is available in e-pub (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/epubs/StructuresofLife.epub) and PDF (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/structlife/structlife.pdf) formats....

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This booklet from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences makes cell biology come alive through vivid descriptions and stunning images. It is available in e-pub (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/epubs/InsidetheCell.epub) and PDF (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidethecell/insidethecell.pdf) formats....

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This publication from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences showcases the exciting ways that scientists are using the power of computers to expand our knowledge of biology and medicine. It is available in e-pub (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/epubs/ComputingLife.epub) and PDF (http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/computing_life.pdf) formats....

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Analogies entre histoires de prairiens et histoires d'hommes

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Prologue: Il était une fois le Prairien. C'était un être évolué de la classe des insectes qui vivait depuis des millénaires dans la prairie, un endroit qu'il appelait affectueusement la planète verte. Le prairien se croyait depuis toujours au centre du monde et de l'univers. Les dieux avaient créé pour lui, un monde à son image dans lequel il devait régner au détriment des autres espèces créées pour le satisfaire. ...

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Bu çalışmada sosyoloji, metodoloji ve felsefeden yararlanılarak sosyolojik olarak düşünmenin tekniği araştırılmaktadır. Amaç, düşünme veya araştırma yapma gibi entelektüel bir çalışma esnasında bilimsel dogmalar, düşünce kalıpları veya diğer metodolojik hatalara düşmeden ya da engellere takılmadan sosyal olayların anlaşılmasını sağlayacak pratik bir düşünme metodu oluşturmaktır. Böylece araştırmacının herhangi bir sosyal olgu hakkındaki bilgisi, sadece başkalarının o konuyla ilgili daha önceki anlayışlarıyla sınırlı kalmayarak olayın hakikatine başka yönleriyle de nüfuz edebilecektir. Çalışmada düşünme ve metodolojinin önemli noktaları birleştirilerek sosyolojik düşünmenin temel çerçevesi kurulmaya çalışılmaktadır. Araştırmadaki teori ve pratik bağını koparmamak için konular mümkün olduğu kadar birlikte ele alınmakta ve uygulama örnekleriyle açıklanmaktadır. Bu amaçla sık kullanılan bazı araştırma tekniklerine de yer verilmiştir. Vurgulanması gereken bir husus da metodolojinin araştırma tekniklerinden çok daha ötede ve en az araştırmanın kendisi kadar önemli olduğudur. Bilimsel bir çalışmada her adımın düşünülerek atılması gerekmekt...

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Sosyoloji biliminin tahsili, sosyologlara zaman içinde sosyolojik bir düşünme tarzını sağlamakla birlikte, mevcut standartların ötesine geçecek bakış tarzlarını geliştirme mecburiyeti vardır. Öte yandan, sosyal bilimler sahasındaki diğer araştırmacıların kendi disiplinlerindeki çalışmalarına katkı sağlaması bakımından sosyolojik düşünmeyi dikkate almaları gerekmektedir. Sosyolojik düşünebilmenin yararlı olacağı bir başka kesim de sosyal politikalarla uğraşan veya karar verme görevindeki yöneticiler, yetkililer ve siyasilerdir. Doğru kararların alınması sadece mevcut teknik imkanların en uygun kombinasyonunu sağlamakla değil, mevcut olan tüm faktörler karar verme sürecine dahil edilmesiyle gerçekleşmektedir. Özellikle sosyal determinantlar esas faktör olarak değerlendirmeye katılmalıdır. Bir toplumun kendine has şartları ihmal edilerek yapılan faaliyetler hem eksik hem de bilimsellikten uzaktır. Bu nedenle günümüz insanı için mümkün olduğu kadar geniş bir yelpazeyi dikkate alan ve sürekli geliştirilen sosyolojik bir düşünce biçimi sağlanmalıdır....

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Sunuş 1 I. Düşünme ve Sosyoloji 4 A. Bilimsel ve Eleştirel Düşünme 9 B. Realisttik ve İdealisttik Düşünme 10 C. Bilgi Kaynakları ve Objektivite Problemi 11 D. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Bilgi Kaynakları 15 E. Sosyolojik Düşünme 18 F. Niçin Sosyolojik Düşünme? 20 G. Sosyolojik Alan 25 H. Sosyoloji ve Yakın Bilimler 29 II. Perspektif ve Metot 36 A. Sosyolojik Bakış 36 B. Mikro ve Makro Açılar 39 C. Sosyolojide Araştırma 44 D. Sayısal ve Niteliksel Araştırmalar 48 E. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Metodolojik Özellikleri 50 F. Sosyolojik Düşünme ve Metot Problemleri 52 III. Düşünme ve Araştırma 55 A. Soru Sorma 55 B. Kavram Tanımlama 60 C. Araştırma Problemi 65 1. Tespiti 66 2. Çözümü 68 D. Beyin Fırtınası 74 E. Konsept Haritası 76 F. Konu Seçimi ve Gerekçelendirme 78 G. Teori Kurma 82 H. Problemden Tebliğe Bir Sosyolojik Düşünme Örneği 85 I. Okuma 94 J. Not Alma 98 K. Yazım 99 L. Sözlü İletişim 109 IV. Bilimsel Metnin Yapısı 113 A. Başlık 114 B. Önsöz 118 C. Giriş 118 D. Problem 119 E. Kaynakların Değerlendirilmesi 120 F. Metodoloji 120 1. Sörvey ve Anket Araştırması 121 2. Gözlem Araştırması 123 3. İçerik A...

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The Catcher in the Rye and a .44 Magnum prove to be a volatile mix for 16-year-old Jerome who believes that he is the famous author reincarnated.

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A month ago, I was hanging with my friends at the uni and they were all going on about this book they all read. They were all charged and revving and everybody got something different out of it, but they were all redlining, valve bouncing. The book was Catcher in the Rye....

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Non-infectious uveitis comprehends a heterogeneous group of intraocular inflammatory diseases that arise without a known infectious trigger. This complex group of disorders is often associated with immunological responses to retinal proteins, as experimental models of autoimmune uveoretinitis have shown. Herein we are going to discuss the biology of ocular immune privilege and the immunologic mechanisms that sustain non-infectious uveitis pathophysiology....

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This is an amazing little volume and a paradox all of its own. It is published in the United States, in a French translation of a compilation of essays from the original Romanian made jointly by Paul Georgelin and the man it is all about: Smarandache....

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POEMATIO LUDENS A1. En bas d’en haut Rien n’est plus beau En haut d’en bas… Quel bla bla bla : Règnent Ne et Pas !

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C.M.Popa – Le mouvement littéraire paradoxiste -------- 7 F.Smarandache – Neutrosophic degree of a paradoxicity 9 L.Kuciuk, M.Antholy – Paradoxism in geometry -------- 13 Un paradox aritmetic ----------------------------------------- 18 Lediana Paja – Paradoksizmi – rryma më e fundit… ---- 19 A.Balog – Viaţa şi opera scriitorului F. Smarandache --- 24 Paradoxurile bogăţiei ----------------------------------------- 33 Azulejo colgado en muro de Sevilla ------------------------ 34 Quantum Smarandache quasi paradoxes and quantum Smarandache sorites paradoxes --------- 34 T.Negoescu – În miezul paradoxismului ------------------- 39 Folclor românesc din America – Balada lui… ------------ 40 Taifasuri – chat: J.Nică – M. Monu – F.Smarandache --- 43 Folclor paradoxist România – Decalog -------------------- 62 Alt paradox aritmetic ----------------------------------------- 62 Mirifica Românie în imagini -------------------------------- 63 Folklore English ----------------------------------------------- 65 Auzite din popor ---------------------------------------------- 65 Constituţia României revizuită în 2010 (pamflet) ---...

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The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bible, Marvell, Buddha, and the folklore of the Holy Grail, among other sources, the poem emphasizes the fundamental fragmentation and lack of connection that characterizes modern life and relationships. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his Merry Men. Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws....

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Adventure, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Myths/Legends, Teen/Young adult

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volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he paints an evocative picture of a beautiful brush with the supernatural. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 12, 2006. (Summary by Fox in the Stars)...

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Cindee Grace has written a treasure trove of healing wisdom, inventive, user-friendly technique and mind-body-spirit methodology for people wrestling with posttraumatic stress and dissociative identity. An intimately written insider’s healing memoir, as well as a brainy, professionally grounded self-help manual, this book will be a godsend to scores of survivors of even the worst kinds of trauma and abuse. Belleruth Naparstek, LISW author of Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal Holistic care provider and survivor of childhood abuse and life-threatening illness, Cindee Grace offers holistic healing solutions that have served her and thousands of her clients and students through trauma recovery, as well as serious imbalances in body and spirit. This book is a compendium of priceless information and a must-read for anyone who has survived trauma and those who love and treat them. Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression Holistic Self-Care for Post-Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Identity is an excellent resource for patients, no matter when they were diagnosed with these dissociative conditions...

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Getting Started Congratulations on your courage to open this book! No matter when you were diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), you’ll find remarkable information within these pages. You can use it to start feeling better today – as I have done. Not sure you have PTSD or DID? Please read this entire chapter. It has definitions for PTSD/DID – and much more. Then decide if you’d like to read further. If you don’t have PTSD or DID but survived or witnessed a trauma (serious illness, violence, significant loss, etc.), you’re welcome here, too. This book is geared to assist anyone with the aftershocks of surviving or witnessing trauma - whether the person has diagnostic labels or not. If you’re a person of color or in an oppressed group, (gay, non-Christian, etc.), this book can be valuable. Even if your group’s most obvious oppression occurred generations before you were born, that oppression can traumatize you. For example, Drs. Eduardo and Bonnie Duran investigated “multi-generational PTSD” affecting present-day Native Americans that originates from the g...

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Chapter One: Getting Started p.1 Chapter Two: Nutrition p.16 Chapter Three: Bilateral Body-Mind-Spirit Weaving p.49 Chapter Four: Herbs, Sleep, Homeopathy and Aromatherapy p.72 Chapter Five: BBMSW for Deeper Emotional Healing p.103 Chapter Six: Breath, Exercise, and a Great Hiccup Cure p.120 Chapter Seven: Holistic Self-Hypnosis and More – Part 1 p.146 Chapter Eight: Holistic Self-Hypnosis and More – Part 2 p.173 Chapter Nine: Acupressure, Massage and Intimacy p.190 Chapter Ten: Spirituality – Part 1 p.212 Chapter Eleven: Spirituality – Part 2 p.239 Resources p.262-273 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Yin (front) view Figure 2. Yang (back) view Figure 3. Chakras Figure 4. Self-Hypnosis Pendulum Figure 5. Heart 7 Figure 6. Shenmen ear point (Heart 7 section) Figure 7. Heart 9 Figure 8. Large Intestine 4 Figure 9. Lung 10 Figure 10. Pericardium 6 Figure 11. Conception Vessel 24, Governing Vessel 26 Figure 12. Governing Vessel 20 Figure 13. Kidney 1 Figure 14. Stomach 44 Figure 15. Spleen 3 Figure 16. Blood Pressure Groove (ear) Figure 17. Reflex 4, Reflex 5 Figure 18. Animal-Human Heart-Based C...

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Unknown to most people, Diabetes is not just a single disease but rather a group of complex diseases which have stemmed from various causes resulting in people having an above average blood glucose count or more commonly know as hyperglycemia. Diabetes affects all gender and age groups and is very common among people with a prolonged medical history of high blood pressure, heart ailments and kidney problems among others. Besides adults, children are also affected with this disease which clearly states that Diabetes itself may not only be a matter of eating the wrong diet, but may even be caused by hereditary genes that may be a sign of receive genetically traits passed on from one generation to the next and being triggered by the simple reason as indulging in a bad dietary habit or even an onset of some diseases....

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Sometimes, over complacency may get the best of most of us, particularly those who resolve themselves for not feeling anything that may give them the urge to visit a doctor unless they feel that there is something wrong with them, which in most cases may be a little bit too late for preventive medications. Over time, high blood glucose level damages nerves and blood vessels, leading to complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, dental disease, and amputations. Other complications of diabetes may include increased susceptibility to other diseases, loss of mobility with aging, depression, and pregnancy problems. No one is certain what starts the processes that cause diabetes, but scientists believe genes and environmental factors interact to cause diabetes in most cases. There are two types of Diabetes that are prevalent among people today, which is type 1 and type 2 Diabetes along with a third type which is called gestational diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Other uncategorized Diabetes are usually caused through genetic inheritance, diseases that cause the pancreas to produce an insufficient supply...

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Chapter 1: Causes of Diabetes: Maintaining a Well Balanced Diet Chapter 2: Sweet Temptations: How to Balance Your Blood Sugar Chapter 3: It's All in the Mind: Self Realization and Self Denial Chapter 4: The Beginning of Something New Chapter 5: Beating the Odds: Winning Over Your Fear Chapter 6: Controlling Diabetes the Natural Way...

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Henrik Ibsen told his readers if they were to understand his work, they should read all his dramas and live them in their person experience. Little has been published about his first plays. This book covers dramas from "Cataline" to "Peer Gynt," and demonstrates how "The Master Builder," "Hedda Gabler" and "The Lady from the Sea" are related to archetypal themes of his youthful work. The thesis is that Ibsen was a creator of myths. Using the psychology of Carl Jung, the book emphasizes Ibsen's awareness of the bipolar, archetypal nature of masculinity and femininity, the difference between falling in love and true love, and the importance of following one's calling. It is written for a general audience, presupposes no knowledge of Ibsen, and could be of literary interest to anyone....

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Fifty years ago I began my graduate studies in order to become a professor of English. Among the requirements for the master's degree was the necessity of writing a thesis. I chose as a topic "Henrik Ibsen and Nordic Myth." There were several reasons for choosing that topic. As an undergraduate I had taken a course with Philip Wheelwright based upon his manuscript of "The Burning Fountain" and became interested in mythology. I subsequently spent a year at a Danish folk college, whose headmaster gave daily lectures on the pagan mythology of the Nordic folk. Until the 1950s not much had been done on the relationship between Ibsen and Nordic myth. In the words of Pavel Frænkl: From the myth and legend [of his early works] to the "domestic" subjects [of his later dramas] Ibsen's death imagery is consistently determined by Nordic mythology and rite. Even where the material is "contemporary" and the theme "modern," Ibsen's dramatic thought functions myth logically and myth creatively. I cannot see in the great body of literature on Ibsen, either in Norway or abroad, that there has ever been pointed...

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Myth Nationalism, Romanticism and Folklore (Denmark) Nationalism, Romanticism and Folklore (Norway) Catiline (1850) The Warrior's Barrow (1850) and Other Poetry St. John's Eve The Master Builder Lady Inger of Østråt (1855) The Feast at Solhaug (1856) The Vikings at Helgeland (1857) Hedda Gabler (1890) On the Heroic Ballad (1857) and Other Writings Olaf Liljekrans (1857) The Lady from the Sea (1888) Love's Comedy (1862) The Pretenders (1863) Brand (1867) Peer Gynt (1867) Ibsen as the Creator of Myths Endnotes Works Cited...

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The book recalls previously developed approaches toward history based on correlation of words, astrological aspects and periodicity defined by the Chinese horoscope and the Lunar Nodes. They are illustrated by new examples. Astonishing correlations are found among the astral signs of the French presidents, the German chancellors and the generals of the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The strange form of some states such as Mali, Somalia, India and others is associated to inter-ethnic conflicts taking place in these countries. The astral themes of certain historical events and of their participants are also analyzed (such as the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Berlin Congress, the putsch of 1991 in Moscow). Astrological, historical and geographical coincidences are found between the Arab revolutions of 2011 on the one side and the revolutions of 1848, the independence movements in the Spanish colonies, the social movements of 1968 and World War II on the other. The book is addressed to persons interested in History and/or astrology....

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Preface Chapter 1. The already developed methods Chapter 2. Astral sign and history Chapter 3. Geography, history and astrology Chapter 4. Different examples from history Appendix 1. Beginnings and ends of years of the Chinese horoscope Appendix 2. The Cyrillic alphabet....

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The scholastic psychunlogy is the part of psychunlogy that studies the multiple aspects of the influence of the disorganized education practiced in schools, of the misprocesses resulted from the educational intervention with the psychological laws of the children’s education and instruction, of unlearning, of lifestyle deformation, and students’ personalities in the misprocess of educational instruction. Along with the child psychunlogy, the scholastic psychunlogy constitutes the principal source of misinformation and fundament of the science of parapedagogy. With this booklet, this unauthor introduces a new literary-scientific genre called psychological science fiction as part of the PARADOXISM movement in literature and science....

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The separation of psychunlogy from philosophy and its deformation as an autonomous science takes place, especially as a result of the great regresses registered in some of the unnatural sciences such as biology (the anatomy and biology of the nervous system, the neuronvegetative and endocrine systems, senses organs), and physics (the science that proved the possibility of mess-experimentations and non-objective and relative exact measurements)....

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Psychological Science Fiction (Unpreface) ................. 3 Table of Contents .................................. 4 Chapter 1 – The non-object and the psychunlogy’s problems .......... 7 The science of psychunlogy .............................. 7 The psychic, brain’s malfunction, non‐objective reflection of the non‐objective world ....... 7 The psychic misprocess of cognition .......................... 11 The psychic characteristics .............................. 12 The object of the scholastic psychunlogy ........................ 12 Chapter 2 – The unconscious psychic activity ............... 14 The conscienceless notion .............................. 14 The principal malfunctions of the conscienceless ..................... 15 The conscienceless dimensions ............................ 15 Self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) ....................... 16 The collective self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) .................. 16 The levels of disorganization of the psychic inhuman activities ................ 16 The psychic development in autogenesis ........................ 17 The factors of psychic’s non‐develop...

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Find out what happened when the other Bushmen tried to kill him and how they finally managed to get rid of him.

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Certain times of the year the “Watersnake” would move far away and the land of the Bushmen would get very dry. During those times the children have to walk long distances to fetch water for the household. The bigger and stronger of the children could carry a whole springbok stomach full of water but the younger ones only two ostrich eggs filled with water. Tatsie was too lazy to go and fetch water, for himself. He would wait for the children to come back and take one of the eggs and drink the water from it. If the child protested or cried he would simply break the egg on the ground and they would get into trouble with their parents. When he was very thirsty or wanted to wash his hands he would grab the springbok “pens” or stomach from one of the bigger children and use all of that water just for himself. If the child protested or tried to run away he would cut a hole in it with his knife and drink from the water pouring out of the hole....

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A descriptive book about areas of Argentina, specifically Patagonia and Sarmiento.

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Reductio Circuits Vision Wordless Light Frost at Night Garden The Silent What We Have Given Tale Passing Seethe, Flow, Fire England Back Then No Easy Words So Vast, So Small Dark Light Long-Exploited That Place Rehearsing All Things Human Over All the Planet Attending to World This Alien Tongue Sky All This Society Pacific Coast Pillow Talk It Took a While Scroll Elsewhere East Again This Place Back Where We Began Happening Those People At Dead Of Night O Universe Mutualisms The Silent Not Simply Self Night-Piece Too Much Mount Lu Meditating, Mountain Moment The Other Side of Silence Fall Bright Bird Her Sensitivities Nothing Returns The Un-opening Gate You, Futures Clear Creek White Sky Ash All of it Bodiless Think, Meditate, Contemplate Pine, Yew Entering Leaving Capital Given It Shines Where We Are Now Beaches not Buildings Not Blind Harsh Days High Cliffs Cormorant Flows Through, Not Seen ‘In every pebble there is a jewel’ Hanging in the Void Heroes What We Hear on the Hill They Sit Quietly Unborn Mind Atheist’s Song Seeking Echoes Civilisation Oh, You K...