Tomorrow I turn 25. Being on the other side of the world, the turnage will happen 12 hours sooner than previous Birthdays. This year I smuggled U.S. organic compost into Tijuana and SC peaches into California,  fell in love with farm life, made some lifelong friends, said ‘Goodbye’ on an almost monthly basis (Goodbyes don’t get easier), and moved to Shanghai.

25 lessons from my 25th year:

1. Drive cross-country at least once, preferably with a best friend or two.

2. If you date a foreigner and things are askew, it’s difficult to tell if something’s wrong or if it’s just cultural.

3. If you need some extra gas money to make it home for Christmas, part-timing it at TJMaxx ain’t a bad gig (particularly if you have slight OCD and therefore actually enjoy organizing racks of shoes).

4. Never underestimate the power of a Saturn VUE.

5. Beyond all question, the mystery of Godliness is great… -1 Timothy 3:16

6. It’s a small world after all. (The tune stating the same streams up through my window from the Chinese elementary school below on a fairly regular basis.)

7. Functioning public transportation is the jam.

8. Don’t lend Tin Roof Columbia your favorite Star Wars poster unless you’re willing for it to go missing.

9. There’s a decently large group of native Californians that enjoy and participate in Civil War reenactments.

10. Banjos don’t learn to play themselves.

11. Grad school would be worth it. Grad school wouldn’t be worth it. <- maybe ’twill be a lesson for the 26th year .

12. Some people need Google maps to survive. I am one of them.

13. The Peoples Republic of China contains not one ounce of Bud Light Lime. Not even in the expat bars, foreign hotels, import grocery stores, or on TauBau. I’ve checked.

14. If you pray for God to soften your heart, you’ll cry more—–but it will good.

15. Asparagus seedlings require 3 years of tending to before you can harvest a crop. Such patience!

16. There’s no place like home.

17. China’s like the wild west. Anything can happen and everything’s negotiable. There are SO many rules—but so many ways around the rules. You’re not awarded for trying to do everything correctly.

18. Not sure if there’s a quicker way to authentically know others besides farming together (& maybe war-but I wouldn’t know).

19. Heading West in a covered wagon probably wouldn’t be worth the hustle and potential death (Donner party)….unless of course you were headed to San Diego! Then it’d be totally worth it.

20. Milking goats isn’t that difficult, but I’m not very good at it.

21. If you hardly make time to stretch or be quiet, yoga will be awesome for you.

22. Aphids still find their way to 31st floor apartment window gardens.

23. In some places things like love and clean air are luxuries.  People are just surviving.

24. God is faithful. His mercies are new every morning. His love never fails.

25. If you’re a sucker for culture shock, move farm-fresh from Cali to Shanghai. It won’t be easy.

By Lisa Mulcahy & Tula Karras

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Maybe, when I’m retired, divorced, have kids who are divorced and have enough time on my hands to try tantric sex for nine hours without thinking ‘I must hang up the washing’ , things that mean everything now, will mean nothing then.

Maybe, in my Tenna Lady years, I’ll breeze over the fact my partner has just shagged his ex and prolifically fallen off the wagon in a scotch-stenched exhibition at our daughter’s wedding.  And, when the true love of my lover’s life has come to stay in our lake house I won’t get jealous. I’ll sit among the empty Dom P bottles swilling a champagne flute and raise a toast to her arrival, but not before getting caught being fellated on the kitchen table. If The Big Wedding’s depiction of retired life is true, I want a time machine to get me there quicker.

In that gluttonous, glossy lifestyle that looks like a centre park brochure, this preppy, starch-ironed family gear up to see the marriage of an adopted son who is marrying the Barbie-esque daughter despite the bristles from her parents who are trying, and failing, to accept their darling daughter marrying a ‘beige’ boy.They’re one step away from calling him a half-breed.

Boy gets his ‘exotic’ genes from his long lost Spanish mother who gave him up for adoption when she got pregnant too young with a bean farmer (yes really). When it is announced that the long-lost mother is attend the wedding, the boy’s adopted family put on a charade to prove to her they’re  ’normal’, when of course they are as batty as a cricket match.

Meet the Fookers, it ain’t. This is a vanilla family doing their best to be dysfunctional, because life’s so much more interesting when you’re dysfunctional – ask Channel 5. It’s a polite ‘romp’-com and another of Hollywood’s attempts to prove that retired people still have sex and that Robert Di Nero has a mortgage to pay.

It may boast a promising cast, but the film falls flat. The clumsy racial stereotypes felt uncomfortable (racism’s only acceptable if it’s funny, right?) punchlines were met with bemused silence and the hasty finale felt clobbered. Give The Big Wedding a big miss.

Released: UK – 29th May 2013

Director: Justin Zackham

Σας περιμένουμε στις 18 του Μάη στο Γραμμικό Πάρκο Εθελοντών Καϊμακλίου να μάθουμε να φυτεύουμε σπόρους, να φτιάχνουμε ψωμί και μαρμελάδες, κομποστοποίηση, ράψιμο, πώς φροντίζουμε την υγεία μας και για μια ενδιαφέρουσα συζήτηση με θέμα τη μέθοδο ενυδρειοπονίας.

* Σε περίπτωση βροχής η εκδήλωση θα μεταφερθεί το Σάββατο 18 Μαΐου

* In case of rain the event will be moved to Saturday 18th of May

Schedule

11:00 – 13:00
How to make bread
12:00 – 13:00
How to compost & use micro-organisms
13:00 – 16:00
Collective vegetarian kitchen
14:00 – 16:00
15minute (one to one ) Naturopathy Consultations
16:00 – 18:00
How to sew and how to make marmelades
17:00 – 18:00
How to compost & use micro-organisms
19:00 – 20:00
Discussion on Aquaponics

During the day you can join the
various tasks that will be executed in
the Garden.

All the activities are open to everyone and free of charge, you can bring containers for your bread and marmelades and
clothes to amend.

Πρόγραμμα

11:00 – 13:00
Πώς φτιάχνουμε ψωμί
12:00 – 13:00
Κομποστοποίηση και χρήση μικροοργανισμών
13:00 – 16:00
Συλλογική χορτοφαγική κουζίνα
14:00 – 16:00
15λεπτες συμβουλευτικές περιόδοι Φυσικοπαθητικής
16:00 – 18:00
Πώς ράβουμε και πώς φτιάχνουμε μαρμελάδα
17:00 – 18:00
Κομποστοποίηση και χρήση μικροοργανισμών
19:00 – 20:00
Συζήτηση για την ενυδρειοπονία

Κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας θα μπορείτε να λάβετε μέρος στις εργασίες και κατασκευές στον Κήπο.

Όλες οι δραστηριότητες είναι ανοικτές και χωρίς χρέωση, μπορείτε να φέρετε δοχεία για τη μαρμελάδα και το ψωμί σας και ρούχα για να τα επιδιορθώσετε.

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The beginning of the story has a heavy emphasis on Rachel’s relationship with God.  It opens with Rachel as a devout follower and believer in God, but as soon as there’s a bump in the road, she immediately starts to question God and His role in her life.  It made me wonder how fragile and superficial people’s relationships are with God.

Of course I don’t view my relationship with God as fragile and superficial, and I don’t think I’ve ever questioned it, but I have questioned Him.  I have asked Him why things happened, why other things couldn’t happen, and why He could give me a sign, any sign, as proof of his existence.  I guess that was when my relationship with God was most fragile, but I was 12, doubted most of what I was told, and mostly, just missed my dad and wanted one more moment with him more than anything in the world.

For the most part, however, I haven’t turned to God to make things better.  I’ve turned to Him to help me get through things.  I think that’s what God’s role is, which is why I don’t understand why people think God is to blame for travesties and tragedies.  If you’re a believer, you know that God’s gift to man is free will, not protection from all the bad things.  Each of us has the ability to turn to Him for strength.  It is summed up best in The Song of Bernadette, which opens with the following:

For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible.

I said all of that to say this:  God’s gift to me is peace.  For as much as I’ve hurt and cried, my relationship with him as brought me moments of peace that came just when I needed them so that I was strong enough to face the next challenge.

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I just bought the Let It Be cd last night, but this song seems appropriate to remember my dad, whose funeral was exactly 25 years ago today:

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My favourite local bakery is celebrating two years in business! When you stop by and make a purchase at Jean’s Cakes and Pastries (8346 112 Street, Delta) from now until May 25th, you can enter your name in a draw to win $25 in product from them.

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I might have partied a little too hard this weekend. I’m still trying to recover a bit today. But that’s me. I’m not perfect. I certainly try to be a lot of the time, and it usually backfires. Because not one of us is perfect. There is no such thing. We make mistakes, we fuck up, we hurt people we love…we are human. It sounds depressing, but it should be refreshing really. Of course, we should always try to learn from mistakes and less-than-great choices we might make in life, but we should be kind to ourselves too. Know that, hey, it’s okay.

I was thinking about how I’m 25 now. I know, it’s not old and it’s not a huge deal. But to me, I try to take meaning out of most things in life. Just because I can. And to me, 25 means I get another year. Another year of living life, learning about myself, and finding out who I am. Another year to strive to be my best self, to love myself, to enjoy life and to live in this moment, because the next one is not guaranteed.

If anyone needs me–I’ll be living life, making mistakes, learning faster from some than from others, and trying to find myself in this 25 year…

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