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In Living Color: India’s Holi Festival
The “Festival of Colors” in India teaches us about life, death and letting go.When the moon waxes full in the first days of March, it’s an sign for Indians that Springtime is coming. And the days following this first full moon mark the arrival of one the India’s most colorful festivals: Holi. Otherwise known as the Festival of Colors, today Holi is known as India’s time of celebration,…
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Suicide Rates are on the Rise
Recent high profile suicide L’Wren Scott makes us wonder about the growing rates of suicide.With at least two high-profile suicides this month, the growing rates of suicide demands our attention. Last week fashion designer L’Wren Scott ended her life in her Manhattan apartment, and Kenneth Bellando, a 28 year-old JP Morgan banker, was found on the sidewalk outside his six-story apartment building. The latter marks the 12th suicide of…
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“Orpheo” by Andrew Bird
A folk song that channels Greek myth to explore music and lossAndrew Bird’s “Orpheo” looks at untimely loss and the power of music through a famous Greek myth. Orpheus was the master musician among all men; he could influence trees, stones and streams. No one could resist his lyre and voice, not even the gods. However, even with such musical prowess, the musician could not overcome…
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Crowd Sourcing Helps Find Debris of Beijing-Bound Boeing 777-200 Flight That Departed Malaysia
A global volunteer network help scan satellite images and today loved ones were notified by text that all are deadSadly, we report that it has been confirmed that all passengers on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 are dead. Loved ones were notified by a text message this morning. One cannot help but ask – was a text message the proper way for families to receive such news? For many days now a global network of loved…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveIt’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with her.” The couple’s first meeting was…
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‘Exploding’ Cells? Swedish Scientists Discover Potential Cancer Treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme
The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm reverses cancerous cell growth with Vacquinol-1.Swedish scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have been conducting explosive cancer treatment with a new substance called Vacquinol-1. The research team published their findings in Cell last Thursday, which focused specifically on combatting one of the most common but unrelenting forms of brain cancer: glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). After a five-day period in which…
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As Time Goes By: Chinese Designers Zijina Li and Xueping Chen’s “43 Minutes With Grandma”
Designboom’s Design for Death competition features an interactive urn for cremated remains.Chinese designers Zijina li and Xueping Chen want to redesign the way we look at urns and cremated remains. Their design, “43 Minutes With Grandma,” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition last April and makes urns much more interactive objects of the home. Their concept is simple: take the cremated remains of a…
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What is Expressive Arts Therapy? (Interview)
Adriana Marchione discusses how expressive arts therapy can help people coping with loss and griefToday, SevenPonds speaks with Adriana Marchione, MA, REAT, RSMT, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. Currently based in San Francisco, California, she is the founder of a well-established arts and healing practice called Creative Source and a core faculty member at Tamalpa Institute in San Rafael, California, a training center for…
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“Gilead“
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on aging, Christianity and the mysteries of life and deathThere’s too much to praise in Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. Such luminous beauty and spiritual verve, as always sought but rarely seen, rewards the reader who opens this story based in Gilead, a small, fictional town in Iowa. A novel about aging, Christianity, genealogy, beauty and the unsolvable mysteries of life, Robinson’s masterpiece presents a…
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