Louis Tomlinson during Faith In The Future promo at Rough Trade East, London [5.12.2022] via arymikys3 on TikTok

The last two days have been good to us!

5.12.2022: friseur

December 5, 2022 - Day 169

I'm enjoying all the teas I picked out for the tea calendar this year.

MARGIN

Date: 5 December 2022

Duration: 19 minutes at 10:44 AM & 48 minutes at 10:34 PM

Depth:

Both the sessions revealed to me something about life energy that I haven’t known before. No matter how deep your bad habits are and no matter how unsuited the bad habit is to meditation, the good in meditation will win the battle against the bad habit hands down.

In the battle between good and evil, we all know that good wins. We have been told that, in the end, good wins. I have grossly underestimated the margin by which good wins against evil. My ignorance regarding the margin has lasted my entire life of 47 years and 11 months.

It has taken me 20 plus years to arrive at meditation. Thereafter it has taken me 20 plus years of meditation to be blessed with a stirred Kundalini. It has taken me 2 years and 8 months of shaking involuntarily with spinal life forces to know that the good force is so strong that it can override all bad habits.

No bad habit stands a chance before the blessed force. Once you have set dot energies free from body-mind knots, more and more such dots of energy will find residence in your spine. Once in the spine, them energies will gather and carve a way up to the head. Once they enter the head, them energies will gather in even larger forces to occupy the bulb shaped head.

Once in the head, them blessed energies will keep gathering in greater numbers irrespective of your lifestyle, race, religion, gender, and age. You could be a very old dog who can’t be taught new tricks. The Energy that runs us humans doesn’t care about the oldest most unforgettable trick we know.

In the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata, Lord God Bhagwan Krishna didn’t have to take up arms. He knew that He didn’t have to.

DCO Etzion, 5.12.2022

Shlomit Steinitz, Natanya Ginsburg

Most of our shift was devoted to handing out details of Sylvia  to the many people who arrived as having been prevented either from the security point of view or criminal offenses, including traffic fines.

A man arrived who says that  his child suffers from Sotos, a rare genetic disorder of which there are very few cases in Israel. I think he has approached us before. The child and his mother live in Israel. The child is very handicapped but he is only allowed to accompany them six times in three months.  A contractor from Zur Hadassah  arrived with one of his workers who had been suddenly sent back at the checkpoint.    This happens more and more.

A man arrived for had lived in Israel for many years and evidently had had problems with his wife who had complained to the police and kicked him out. We advised him to speak to the people at Leap but he did not want to do so. It is frustrating though it does not happen often that we are approached about problems and, when we try to advise the person for some reason they are not prepared to try to help themselves. But one also feels sympathy. As Israelis we sometimes have problems trying to deal with bureaucracy and just give up. How much worse for  Palestinians.

It is heartbreaking to hear how often these people go to lawyers who take their money and do nothing for them.Heartbreaking to see the despair of these people and the way they adapt themselves to this existence which can not be called a way of life

--p.

‏" أسألك أن تلهمني مكانًا أدسُ فيه قلبي، أنا يا الله يهزمني كل هذا القلق. "

شوية صور

5.12.2022

12.11 am

Louis Tomlinson singing along to The Bucket by Kings of Leon, during Faith In The Future promo at Rough Trade East, London [5.12.2022] via luiology

5.12.2022

Ivan and Mateo Kovacic celebrate after the team's qualification to the quarterfinals 🇭🇷💙

Pic: Mateo Kovacic

Samy's acoustic gig in a bar downtown Jyväskylä, 5.12.2022 - gig report by me ✨

First of all, anyone who saw me panicking about going to this gig last night and tried to calm me down, I want you to know that your support meant the world to me and that thanks to all of you sweet people who told me it's gonna be alright and that I should totally give it a try, I had the most fun Monday night I've had in a long long while, possibly years 💖

And HUGE thanks to @thesunsetisgone for coming with me, I would've been absolutely lost without you there with me 😭 it was so great meeting you, see you again soon!! 💕

The bar was crowded as FUCK and the music (the bar's music I mean) was so loud that it was hard to hear anything. It was kinda uncomfortable and I don't see the appeal, so I don't think I'll be going to a bar again any time soon unless it's for another amazing acoustic gig 😅

This is no news to anyone who knows Samy at all but oh my god he was so smiley and happy and relaxed and cute and 😭😭😭 he was in his element, and although there were quite a few songs I didn't recognize (until later watching the videos I filmed lol), I had the time of my life just looking at him. He is such a charismatic performer, not at all diva-like, quite the contrary; he seems super down to earth and just the sweetest person 🥺

His Samy-like humour included his typical "I don't actually know how to play this" jokes (especially when he played LS songs lol), and at one point when he got too hot and took his jacket off, revealing his beautiful red silk shirt he was like (roughly translated) "I'm supposed to be this trashmetal dude, but instead I look like some fucking magic carpet" 😂💞

Songs that he covered included You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi (lol who else), The Kill (Bury Me) by 30 Seconds to Mars, a BMTH song I didn't recognize because I don't listen to BMTH but I was told it's Joonas' favourite song (Drown), the beginning of Stan by Eminem (until he went "I'm not actually gonna play this" just before the rap part 😆 I have this on video, probably gonna post later!), and Alone by Heart

Out of LS songs he played Awake (😭😭😭😭😭😭) and 112. During the latter he made us do a fun dialogue kinda singing where he sang some parts of the chorus and we had to sing the next line 🥺

My personal highlight was when he 😭😭😭😭 he played 😭😭😭💘💘💘 he played I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie and 😭😭😭😭 I don't think you understand, this is one of my favourite songs in the entire world and I was this 🤏 close to elbowing my way through the crowd to snog him directly on the mouth for playing it 💞

Out of context: he looked me in the eyes and told me I was beautiful

In context: he sang a Finnish song (!!!!!!!!!!!!! a rare occasion, he told us) in which the chorus goes "you are beautiful, and the world is yours" (Maailma on sun by Tehosekoitin) and I SWEAR he looked right at me one time when he sang that line, I REFUSE to believe otherwise 😤

Actually I feel like we made eyecontact quite a few times, but that might as well have been an optical illusion (or wishful thinking 😔)

He also began to sang Wonderwall like the troll he is, but then he was like "fuck no am I gonna play that song" 😆 and @thesunsetisgone may correct me if I'm wrong but it was then when he started playing The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day and...I don't have video material of what happened next because ????? 😂

He hadn't gotten too far into the song when this 60-year-old guy (I know this because the man himself said he was soon turning 60), somewhat drunk, assumably a friend of Samy's, got on the "stage" (there was no stage) and wanted to duet the song with him, but then neither of them could remember any more lyrics, so the random man took out his phone and googled the lyrics, and when Samy looked at his phone he cracked up because apparently the man had googled the lyrics to Basket Case instead 🤣 the man was insistent on singing this song instead though, but Samy was like "I don't know how to play that?!" and then he pointed at someone in the front row like "you come up here and play this!" and suddenly a wild Mirko appeared! 😃 and then they played Basket Case with Mirko on the guitar and the whole bar sang along ✨

I would also like to thank Samy for making me cross one thing off my bucket list: the last song he performed was Livin' On a Prayer and I've ALWAYS wanted to sing along to that song in a crowd of people singing along with me, so Mr. Elbanna you really made this dream of mine reality 🙏

Damn, I really wish I had told him all this 😔 I mean, I did get the opportunity, because after the gig was over, we went to the restaurant side of the place to put on our outerwear, and Samy was there?? Right next to us???? And first we were like "omg he's right there" but just continued putting on our jackets, but then we were like "no, let's go take pictures with him!"

And so, yeah, we did 🥰 and he was so sweet 😭💕

Thank you kind sir, this evening gave me so much joy you have no idea 🥺💖

When we got out of the bar we had a minor fangirling moment ("OMG WE JUST MET SAMY!!!")...and then a couple of shabby-looking dudes came to ask if we sell speed 🤡 because apparently your average speed-salesperson looks like this:

To conclude, I had the best time and I'm so happy I went and all the panic and nervousness was SO worth it <3

I will post more videos in the LS/Samy tag later today!

"Спокойной ночи скрепышы!" Семён Скрепецкий, живопись, масло, холст, 60/40см 5.12.2022

5.12.2022 TOR @ TBL

Noted cat dad Jack Campbell with the “cat-bats-toy-out-of-midair” save

Sabah Abu Sroor, as she was attacked by three soldiers.  5.12.2022

--- דיווח של עמיתנו מחברון, חאמד קוואסמה על אלימות של מתנחלים וצבא לפני כמה ימים בג'בל  ג'ליס ליד חברון It is no lie that when it rains, it pours ..... usually in the bad sense of the proverb !!! The devastation that we have felt due to the demolition of the two houses in Khillet Al Eyadeh was followed by the concern that we felt for our colleague in Kisan, Sabah Abu Sroor, as she was attacked by three soldiers. The emotional roller-coaster continued yesterday as the community of Jabal Jalis (where we tried to provide them with a park that was stopped by the Israeli soldiers due to settler pressure) has come under a HUGE settler attack under the protection of the Army and the Police. The saga continued for almost six hours and was broadcasted live as settlers (both males and females) came into the community protected by the Army and used physical violence and pepper spray against community members. The calls for help and the attack itself are reflected in the attached videos as the standoff continued until the early morning hours. According to the Red Crescent, ten injuries were reported of which six were treated on location and four had to be transported to the hospital.   What hurt the most was the fact that we had heard their call for assistance, yet we still could not do anything about it !!!!! .... Very frustrating.    We visited the family today. They were still reeling from the experience of yesterday as they were coughing and aching from the body bruises they have sustained during the attack. The kids, however, were all smiles as they played the outside games that HIRN has provided during the summer. They asked for a trampoline ......  We WILL get them the trampoline.

لا تركب القطار الخطأ لمجرد أن الإنتظار مزعج.

#نصيحة

5.12.2022

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