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Naming Miru
It is our invitation to the cultured realm of existence: giving her a name. It is the first "act" and symbolic gift we bestow upon her. Naming has played an important role in every religion, and newborns have almost always been named after something or someone. Naming preserved a lineage, honored the founding elders on ...
12 January, 2013
association, baby girl names, baby names, goddess, lineage, meaning, Miru, Naming, Polynesia, symbolic
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A sample meditation
I found this prepared on my computer today. Could you help me explain what it means?

meditation

You see the elements of your memory tumbling down in front of you, in a great column of swirling hot air. You can recognize people, scenes, ideas that have been important to you.See them all fall down. ...
20 June, 2011
grip, hot air, meaning, meditation, memory
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March 11. Santiago sweet.
I decide to meet someone today I call that person Sara because that's what first comes to my mind. She was not on our overnight bus to Santiago de Chile, I didn't meet her on the streets of this five million metropole with the 02 area code, neither was it the woman that sold me ...
18 March, 2009
meaning, Santiago, Sara
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March 11. Santiago sweet.
I decide to meet someone today I call that person Sara because that's what first comes to my mind. She was not on our overnight bus to Santiago de Chile, I didn't meet her on the streets of this five million metropole with the 02 area code, neither was it the woman that sold me ...
18 March, 2009
meaning, Santiago, Sara
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February 8,9. Pombal built this city.
Marquise de Pombal is the Hausmann of Lisbon. The streets of Rossio are laid out like a chessboard, like Barcelona or Manhattan. That's Pombal's work. They have Pombal-style houses that are made of wood in order to make them earthquake-proof. In the 1755 earthquake the city was almost completely distroyed by the tsunami and the ...
15 February, 2009
earthquake, meaning, Pombal
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February 6.

Consumption and religion. If you buy a cup of coffee or a Patéis de Lisboa, you just put your coins on the counter without any other emotion than the great taste of this combination. It's my reason (in fact, one of my reasons) to be here in Lisbon and write in the February sun. ...
15 February, 2009
hostel, meaning, product, truth
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TIKTAALIK

Dutch Poetry Book15 October, 2020
The Poetry Book "Tiktaalik" has been published. See "www.kaneelfabriek.nl" for more.

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We are Yeon and Kamiel Choi. Together, we are Creative Choice.

We like writing prose, polemics and poetry, taking photographs, drawing, traveling, playing the role of funky parents to our Miru, irony and silly wordplay. Check out our latest project Draw My City Contact us here: contact [at] creativechoice.org

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