Sunday, December 31, 2017

I asked MrsBeautiful a question today...................







I asked MrsBeautiful a question today.

I am asking you the same question.
If you cant reply & tell me?
that’s OK
BUT can you tell someone else?
If you can’t -  thats ok too.
BUT if you write it out for your eyes only
that’s good because, I believe, it makes it more real/powerful !

Internalising the answer is not as good
but
it is better than not answering because 
my questions don’t have a right/wrong answer.
They are ::
Developmental questions.
Growth questions
BECOMING QUESTIONS

The question is::
What has been the most significant year in the whole of your life?
AND why?

MrsBeautiful answered beautifully.
Then I dug out mine from a whole collection of options.

I will not tell you mine today.
But I will.

Answers to me via email 
(see my www.pipwilson.com ‘CONTACT’ if you don’t know it)
or via Twitter or Facebook Text - anyway.

BHP





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Greetings to you & the NEW YEAR

iPhone loaded as usual but also my 2008 Selection box.





Every year I build a playlist through the year. 
Also I have added the 2008 playlist & so powerful. 

Part of it is here- starts with v short track building the vibe. Then it kicks in WOW. 

I will post this years v soon. 

#YouAreBeautiful 

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Blob Tree Book = Blob Dementia

Blob Dementia

Paperback, 60 Pages
 
Price: £15.00 (excl. VAT)
Prints in 3-5 business days
Dementia is impacting society in a way previous generations never experienced. 
One in three adults will be impacted by this health issue. 
This ripples through care services, the sufferer and upon their family. 
This book is a set of discussion tools to cover a wide range of topics - changes which will take place over the development of this disease, how a day might look, the signs of dementia, how a sufferer might see the world compared to our view, cards with a set of activities to be used with carers and families, anger issues, and a wide range of emotional problems which need to be dealt with. 
The illustrator of this book experienced these issues first hand and developed this resource to help others discuss them.


Keywords

Blob Tree Communication Tools ............. touching every heart ............



No Happy New Year from me to you - I don't believe in seeking 'HAPPY' - I believe in 'making Beautiful' and a sideline from this is feeling happy/satisfied/purposefull

 





Two Ways
Eberhard Arnold 


One goal is to seek the person of high position, 
the great person, the spiritual person, the clever person, the fine person, 
the person who because of his or her talents or achievements represents a peak, 
as it were, in the mountain range of humanity.
The other goal is to seek the minorities, the physically and mentally retarded, 
the prisoners, and the despised; the degraded, the enslaved, 
the exploited, the weak, and the poorest of the poor.

The first goal aims to exalt the individual. 
The other seeks the wonder and mystery of God becoming human 
by seeking the lowest place. 
Two completely opposite directions! 
One is the self-glorifying upward thrust.
The other is the downward movement to become human.
One is the way of self-love and self-exaltation. 
The other is the way of God's love and love of one's neighbour.




www.pipwilson.com

"work like you don't need the money
dance like no-one is watching
sing like no-one is listening
and
love like you have never been hurt"

Back in the day I always carried atounf my leather backed A5 Diary/Planner .......

 


It is an iPhone nowadays but then I loved my 'always with me'.
I could draw in it.
Doodle on my appointments.
Compose quotes which still live on - and within me.

It had many dividers made of thicker material than the pages.
Each divider had different poems/quotes/inspirational items.
Some - as the above , had Pipturesques.
I found it recently.
Scanned it for you.

Some of the humans I can't remember their names.
Others are welded into my soul.

That's what happens.
People enter my life and stay there.
I have learned from them.
Thier strengths
Their weaknesses ...............

I am certain they will have learned from mine too.

The roses & the thorns
make us 
beautiful
imperfection



Thats how I like it
IF we don't like it
we have to lump it!

Both are all about being human.



BHP

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Flawed &  🅱🅴🅰🆄🆃🅸🅵🆄🅻  .................... YOU


My wishes for you in 2018




This is part
of a tool
called
Blob New Year.


Your activity will be on here.
Your feelings will be on here
in non-verbal language,
understood world wide.

I wish you wonder
as you step into 2018.
I wish for you
all the beauty-full things
that you wish for yourself -
alongside those you wish
for others
known to yourself
unknown to yourself

unforgettable by yourself
forgettable by yourself.

I hope for you
love.
A love that will
not let you go.
A hope of new
Love discovered.
New views
new humans
new awareness
new commitments
new joys
new experiences
new sensitivities
new desires
new places
new challenges
new relaxants
new wisdom
as you step into the
unknown
untrodden
undiscovered


#YouAreBeautiful 

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

PIP WILSON BHP:: We have had a good Christmas day week-end with ........




We have had a good Christmas day week-end with our two beautiful daughters, their men and the beautiful BECOMING granddaughters .........
It was a joy to be with them.
Yet so tiring - for us as we get older.

The Shielas did some hard work to make the days eventful and special.
We all have memories of Christmas - some bad I know that - but many have really special events which become memories as we get older.

I have loved seeing photos online of big groups of families/friends together around a large table.
The little ones will remember these moment in years to come as I do mine. 

L⃣o⃣v⃣i⃣n⃣g⃣y⃣o⃣u⃣ whatever your circumstances - 

✅💲T🅰Y🅱eautiful✅   

We need you here

BHP
A post shared by Pip Wilson BHP (@beautifulhumanperson) on

POVERTY - NEGLECT ............... how is it we can live so apart ...........

Me and The Queen .........

Monday, December 25, 2017

ONE OF US



25/12/17

Twas the night before Christmas, we were all in the club,
Enjoying the meeting, instead of the pub;
The ashtrays were clean and the coffee was made,
The Big Books were out, and all had prayed.
When out in the lot, there arose such a clatter,
We jumped up from the table to see what was the matter.
The Chair with his Big Book, and I with my smokes,
Headed outside and found these two blokes.
They came on inside, and sat at the table;
Said that they'd chair, as soon as they're able.
To start with, they said, "It's more than not drinking.
It's doing your best to fix your wrong thinking."
"Think, Think, Think!" and those slogans we used,
Help keep the newcomer from getting confused.
Step 1 is a start, they said we should know,
But after Step 2, we'll be all aglow.
We make a decision when we get to Step 3;
Step 4 is real tough, we all could agree.
Step 5 is the one where we let it all out,
After Steps 6 and 7, we're left with no doubt.
We get to Step 8, and we make our list;
And then with Step 9, we have to persist.
After Step 9, our promises ring true;
We didn't just get that, out of the blue.
After that, it's on with the rest;
We must do each day, to be our best.
They put on their coats and got ready to leave;
A pretty good end, for this Christmas Eve.
As to their names, we only could guess;
I'm pretty sure it was Bill W. and Bob S.
The two men hopped into a '35 Ford,
And as they pulled out, one of them roared:
"We leave this message, for you our brothers:
Trust God, clean house, be of service to others.
And for all of you people, we just want to say:
Merry Christmas to all and don't drink & drug today ❤️🎄😇❤️🎄😇



Thank you Kevin for this. 
So full of feelings. 
Life. 
Reality for so many. 

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈Christmas🎅🎅🎄🎄🎉🎉🎈Day🎉🎉🎉🎄🎅🎄🎉🎄🎅🎄🎄EDITION🎈🎈🎈🎄🎄🎄🎉🎉🎉🎅🎅🎅of🎉🎉🎉🎉🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎄🎄🎄🎈🎅 You🎄🎄are🎅🎅🎅beautiful🎉🎉🎄🎅🎈🎉🎄🎅🎈🎁🎉🎄🎄 

Saturday, December 23, 2017

I read this yesterday - powerful article about the Palestinian / Israeli situation AND so relavent at this Christmas time. ‘The truth is simple, but unwelcome’




‘The truth is simple, but unwelcome’
The Jewish writer Robert Cohen tells Huw Spanner that solidarity with Palestinians will be costly for Christians


ROBERT COHEN is developing a reputation as one of the leading Jewish dissidents in Britain. He has been “writing from the edge”, as he puts it, since 2011, primarily about interfaith relations and Israel/Palestine, in a monthly blog, Micah’s Paradigm Shift. The reference is to Micah 6.8: “What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

So far, so uncontroversial. Many of the people whom he criticises implicitly, Christian and Jewish, would endorse that prophetic call. The conclusions that Cohen comes to, however, are sometimes very different from theirs. In particular, he is calling for Churches to commit to “costly solidarity” with the Palestinian people. Among his prescriptions is “refusing to allow your local Jewish communal leadership to set the boundaries of permissible debate on Israel”.

“Jewish-Christian dialogue is about to go through the wringer,” he warned, in a blog earlier this year. “Long-standing relationships with Jewish neighbours and clerical colleagues will deteriorate long before they can be rebuilt with new foundations. . . It means you will be branded Israel haters. You will be branded anti-Semitic.”

 WHEN I meet him in north London, in the new Café Palestina in Kentish Town, we begin by discussing Jewish-Christian relations. “The work of reconciliation since the Second World War, whether it’s high-end theological discussions or local communities’ getting to know each other on the ground, has revolutionised relations,” he says. “And it has been absolutely necessary — perhaps even more so for Christians than for Jews.”

Christians need to be reminded of the part that church teaching has played in the persecution of Jews over the past 2000 years, he says. “It’s almost impossible to understand the history of anti-Semitism without understanding the role of the Church; and Churches need to keep saying that, because it’s very easily forgotten.”

That shameful history makes it difficult for church leaders to challenge what is happening now in the Middle East, he says. “Zionism — and the state of Israel — has become so central to Jewish thinking and Jewish identity that it has merged into Judaism itself, right across the spectrum from Liberal to Orthodox. As a result, it is very hard to be critical of Israel, or critical of what was originally a 19th-century political ideology, without being accused of being anti-Semitic.”

No doubt, I suggest, that was why the Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 2015, spoke of “religiously sponsored violence” by Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu radicals, but made no mention of violence by Jews in the occupied West Bank. “There is a problem”, Cohen says, “when you take on too much responsibility for the history of Jewish oppression, that it prevents an honest, critical conversation about Israel.

“Meanwhile, the leadership of the Jewish community wants to close down debate. But that conversation urgently needs to take place.”

 IN JUNE this year, the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine wrote an open letter to the World Council of Churches, saying that, in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, “discrimination and inequality, military occupation and systematic oppression are the rule”. Quoting the call of Isaiah 1.17 to “seek justice [and] defend the oppressed”, it entreated the global Church to offer “costly solidarity” rather than “shallow diplomacy”.

Cohen’s own commitment to the cause of justice for Palestinians came by degrees, he says. His parents had grown up in the United Synagogue (“the mainstream movement of Jonathan Sacks and Ephraim Mirvis”), but had moved to the more liberal Reform movement when he was young. They were Zionists almost by default: “I don’t remember Israel being talked about very much at home. I didn’t know what happened to the Palestinian people in 1948 — I didn’t understand that there was an occupation.”

He spent about five months in Israel after leaving school, but still “had no idea about any of that” until 1987, his final year at Manchester University, when the First Intifada began. “I sat in the library when I was meant to be revising, and read all the articles I could find, in the New York Review of Books and Foreign Affairs, trying to find out who these Palestinians were. I suddenly realised  that they were a people with a culture and a history that they were just as proud of as my people were of theirs.”

Later, the Greenbelt Festival helped to develop his thinking. It was here that he heard the American Jewish theologian Marc Ellis, and the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé. “Ellis’s book Towards a Jewish Theology of Liberation became a key text for me. He argues that the Jews are now no longer an oppressed people but an empowered people, and asks: What are we doing with that empowerment?” Cohen’s own conclusion is that, in Israel/Palestine, “we’re making a terrible hash of it.”

 IT WAS after a trip organised by a small Christian NGO, the Amos Trust, to meet some Palestinians, that he began his blog. “It gave me the confidence to say what had been churning around in my head for years. Actually, the moment when I thought: ‘I’ve really had it with Zionism,’ came when I was talking to Palestinians not on the West Bank but in [the Israeli city of] Nazareth. I realised that, 70 years after the foundation of Israel, they were still second-class citizens. Yes, they can vote, and they can sit on the same park bench as Jews, but that doesn’t mean there is equality.”

During a trip to Israel-Palestine earlier this year (News, 5 May), the Archbishop of Canterbury described the situation as “complicated. . . Everything you say here has to be qualified with the comment ‘But it’s not as simple as that.’”

Cohen takes issue with this: “Certainly, it has a long history, and you could spend a lifetime reading books about it. But it’s much simpler than people want you to think. The fundamental issue is a massive power imbalance between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

“They aren’t two equal sides arguing over how to share a piece of land where they both feel they have national rights. The Palestinians aren’t occupying Israeli land, they aren’t denying Israelis freedom of movement, they aren’t controlling their water supplies, they aren’t arresting them in the middle of the night. Ultimately, it’s about who’s got power, and who hasn’t.”

 THE Archbishop also referred to complexity in an interview with The Jewish News in 2013, in which he said that he regretted not voting against a General Synod motion that endorsed the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (News, 28 March 2013). Later, at a dinner organised by the Board of Deputies of Britain’s Jews, he expressed regret about a tweet by the Revd Dr Stephen Sizer linking Israel to the 9/11 attacks in New York (News, 13 February 2015): he was sorry that it had happened, but went on: “We did seek to deal with it quickly and effectively” (News, 8 May 2015).

In a blog at the time, Cohen expressed his disappointment in Dr Sizer. The link was “deeply anti-Semitic”, and Dr Sizer “should have been smart enough to spot this immediately”. But “the work that he’s done in helping people to understand Christian Zionism has been incredibly valuable,” Cohen says, “and I find it frustrating that the Jewish community is happy to align itself with Christian Zionists — despite Christian Zionist theology, as far as I can see, being deeply anti-Semitic.

“But we don’t have a problem with them because they are supporters of Israel; but we do have a problem with Stephen Sizer, and that seems to be a double standard going on.”

He agrees that anti-Semitism “exists within all elements of society generally”. Speaking about the Labour Party, he says: “Jeremy Corbyn’s real problem is not anti-Semitism, but Palestinian solidarity.” Cohen believes that there is “a deep concern within the Jewish establishment that, if Mr Corbyn became Prime Minister, that would fundamentally change British foreign policy towards Israel.

“He looks at it in a very different way, and therefore I think there has been a concerted effort to make the Labour Party look toxic on that issue, and to make Jeremy Corbyn look toxic, by having all this focus on anti-Semitism being ‘out of control’ in the Labour Party.”

HE SPEAKS quietly, without obvious heat, but his blogs, although carefully written and nuanced, do not pull any punches. Although he “wanted to have a conversation with other Jews”, he has found that that is easier said than done. “Those who do read me tend to be those secular, left-wing Jews who would agree with me, and perhaps like the fact that I have a slightly more Jewish spin on things than them. I don’t think I’ve made any inroads into the mainstream, though I can’t believe that I’m not on their radar. I am very much an outsider in my own community.”

The unpopularity of his standpoint is exacerbated by his own biography. One pro-Israel activist who reads his posts “and then wades in” calls him a Jino: a “Jew In Name Only”. Cohen says: “He tells me I don’t have the right to talk about Israel because I’ve married out, my children are Christian, and my wife is a vicar.” All of which is true, and was made public in his blog.

He and his wife, Anne, met as students at university, where he was reading politics and philosophy. They married 25 years ago, in a ceremony hosted by the Quakers, and based on silence; so “there wasn’t any liturgy or hymns to make my family feel uncomfortable”.

Both of them, he says, have been “on a journey”, trying to understand their relationship to their respective faiths, but they have always been supportive of each other’s beliefs. “When we had children, we decided that we wanted to have the boys circumcised; but the older children have been baptised and confirmed as well. They would see themselves as Christian, but they know that they have this whole other heritage, and, as a family, we celebrate both faiths as well as we can.”

 CERTAINLY, he still considers himself a Jew. “I have faith, and, in terms of belief and outlook and attitude towards scripture, I would place myself in the Liberal Reform Jewish tradition I grew up in. I read the Bible, and, if I’m in a church service and the gospel is read, I remind myself that this is Jewish writing which is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, and particularly the Hebrew prophets.”

He clearly sees himself standing in the tradition of Isaiah, Amos, and Micah, and aspires to be “a prophetic Jewish voice” himself. Who he is married to, he says, is “really beside the point. Either what I’m saying is right, or it isn’t. Christians and Jews have got to talk about these things, and we’ve got to talk about them in an honest way.

“We Jews have got to acknowledge our culpability in what has happened to the Palestinian people, and that has to be the first step in trying to reach a just settlement.”