Legend of Beggar Vance - The Woods

The film is about a young man who went to war and lost his ‘authentic swing’ his soul.

...'Now play the game.
one that only you was meant to play.
The one given to you when you was born.' ...


‘You gonna be wanting a different club, Junuh?
I can't do this.
Just loose your grip up a smidge.
- A man's grip is like a... - That's not what I'm talking about.
- I know. - No, you don't.
What I'm talking about is a game...
...a game that can't be won...
...only played. - You don't understand.
I don't need to understand.
Ain't a soul who ain't got a burden to carry he don't understand.
You ain't alone in that.
But you've been carrying this one long enough.
Time to go on, lay it down.
I don't know how.
You got a choice.
You can stop...
...or you could start. - Start?
- Walking. - Where?
Back to where you've been and then stand there.
Still.
Real still, and remember.
- It was too long ago. - No, sir, it was just a moment ago.
Time to come on out the shadows, Junuh.
Time for you to choose.
- I can't. - You can.
You ain't alone.
I'm right here with you.
I've been here all along.
Now play the game.
one that only you was meant to play.
The one given to you when you was born.
You ready?
Come on, take your stance.
Strike that ball, Junuh. Don't hold nothing back.
Now's the time.
Let yourself remember.
Remember your swing.
That's right, Junuh. Settle yourself, that's good.
Now is the time, Junuh.
Let's go, Hardy.
Hey, Bagger.
- You are one hell of a caddy. - I do the best with what I got.’

From the script of Legend of Beggar Vance - The Woods scene.

War of course, could be used symbolically and substituted with any internal and external battle one may encounter in life, which could lead to loosing one’s ‘authentic swing’.

Jacqueline Du Pre

'The English cellist Jacqueline du Pre was one of the most stunningly gifted musicians of our time. Tall, blonde and ebullient, du Pre would wrap herself around her cello and play with an intimacy and intensity that transported her audiences. She was a musical lioness, ferocious and playful, uninhibited and passionate.'

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/May1999/BookReviewsduPre.html

'Jacqueline du Pré is arguably the greatest talent to ever play the cello. She combined mind, heart, body and soul to produce the most expressive tones ever to emanate from the instrument. Shy and at the same time bold, she was not only expressive, but played with precision, fullness and purity of tone.
She could not pinpoint the time when she started losing feeling in her fingers, and her arms, as she said, felt like lead. By the fall of 1973 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She continued to teach on occasion, but the deterioration of her health gained momentum and finally, on October 19, 1987, she died at the age of forty-two.'

http://www.jacquelinedupre.net/jdupre/whoisjdp.htm




Sorry for the poor quality ending of the clip, but it was the only suitable I could find.

I filed this posting under inspirational segment. You might wonder what is inspirational about it? Well, the inspiration could be found from several different angles. You find the one, which sounds true to you.

One of the angles could be that MS could affect almost anyone…

All individuals I worked with whose lives were affected by MS were talented and inspirational human beings in some way or another. Some managed to stand out from the crowd before diagnosis and some had talents and inspirations that are still to be recognised by themselves and by the people around them.

When we work with individuals using Petö’s exemplary ideas, concepts and practice we must remember his teaching, which clearly defines that we must have the highest respect for everyone we work with whether they are babies or grownups. Regardless of creed, age, colour, talent, social background, diagnosis or any identified criteria previously given and imposed upon them.


A poem which was recited by Paul H. one of our participants in the Multiple Sclerosis Group.

There is a young boy within us
which we would exclude from the pitiless
surfaces of the mirrors which life would hold up to us

'Grow up' which is what time would say to us.
The brow furrows, the mouth sets, the eyes which were made
for the reflection of first love have a hole in the centre
through which we may look down into the abyss of meaning,

and yet there is the crying within of the young boy who has fallen
and will not pick himself up knowing there is nobody to run to.

No Excuses.

What is your excuse today?






Matt Scott.






How will you change your thoughts and words today?

Would you?
Could you?
When?

Walking for Peace.

"One person spending
all of their time working for peace
makes the news.
Many people spending
some of their time working for peace
can make history"
Peace Pilgrim




Peace Pilgrim talked about peace among nations, peace among groups, peace with our environment, peace among individuals and the very important inner peace.
She believed in human potential, and that most people only scratch the surface of their potentials.

How did it feel like working at Petö at the beginning of the 1980's?

'It felt like the smell of freshly cut grass infused with a particular ray of sunshine that carried the light of simplicity, reassurance, calmness and clarity.
It felt like a clear sense of focus and determination merged with the gentle breeze of everyday life with its noises, textures and feelings.
Bringing this magical combination of peace (a kind of knowing), clarity and compassion into our distinctively perceivable three-dimensional world of time and space reality.

It felt like purpose with infinite bounds of possibilities and choices, combined with a sense of seriousness and awe-inspiring joyful responsibility'. J Szathmáry

Conductive Education in The Praeger handbook of special education By Alberto Bursztyn

'This book introduces readers to key concepts and issues in the evolving field of special education. Arguably, over the past thirty years, no other area of education has been as radically transformed as the provision of services to children with disabilities. Since the mid 1970s, special education has steadily grown to reach fully 12% of the U.S. student population in grades K-12, and millions of children from birth to age five. Despite its promise of equal access, special education has become a controversial field in many respects. Critics point to its high cost, questionable pedagogical effectiveness, and differential outcomes across localities, family income levels, and ethnicities. The more typical approach in the literature highlights the legal and procedural mandates that dominate the discourse on educating the disabled student, but fails to explore the underlying assumptions and inconsistencies that make this area of education a controversial and still unsettled enterprise. This handbook departs from the traditional books in this field by focusing on the ways that special education policies and practices are enacted, rather than highlighting only their intended outcomes. Contributors to this text focus on defining commonly used terms and professional jargon in order to give interested readers access and insight into the field of special education and its associated practices. Some of the subjects included in this volume are the history of special education, disability and society, law and special education, pedagogy, policies and practices, and research in special education.'
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Language: English
ISBN: 0313332622

Direct link to page 84 on Conductive Education:

http://books.google.com/books?id=BosLzxdIEdgC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=Conductive+Education&source=bl&ots=xqsaLlAurj&sig=Rx6S7244w9RHbRl8IMtEus-FHWk&hl=en&ei=FglMSuyBHN-hjAeS9on8Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3

A new paradigm of your choice.

The truth is that there are multiple levels of activity behind what appears to be a play of incredible magnitude. Would you be surprised to learn that you are writing the lines and until you can figure out a point to the script, there is none?

The search for answers to this question intrigues the mind. Cooperation is a natural phenomenon as long as the need to control is absent. The need to control is a learned activity that becomes habitual through the experience of it.

If you accept responsibility by making a personal commitment between you and the creative energy that focused you through thought into this existence you may enjoy taking yourself to the edge of extinction for the fun of the adventure…

Purity of response to this outweighs educational degrees. Those who know the least of what is going on will hear first. If you are serious in attempting to understand this then if you dare, look at the events that you have already experienced and you will see that this has been the case many times. Now you must decide whether to take back your power, remove the blindfold of your own volition or wait until it’s removed for you. Where do you stand at this pivotal point? You must ask yourself and you must answer yourself!

The greatest good for the greatest number.

I managed to retrieve my soursesense blog for future reference and for new readers interest.

The original sourcesense blog can be found at http://sourcesense0.blogspot.com/


Kind Wishes

Judit