2014 in review – Blogs by Baha’is

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Crunchy numbers

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 23 trips to carry that many people.

There were 337 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 168 MB. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 48 views. The most popular post that day was Reblog:
Time.

Attractions in 2014

These are the posts that got the most views in 2014.

• 1About
• 2Reblog: The Singer
• 3Reblog: People
• 4Reblog: Islands and Dolls – the Aunties of my childhood
• 5Reblog: History in the Building at the National Museum of Singapore

The blog currently has 30 followers.

A big thank you to the following supporters:

 1BookOfPain

• Following
• 2writersdream9
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• 3BookOfBokeh2
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• 4Joshua M Swenson1 
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• 5perkinsy1

Golden Rule – And A Bit About Differentiation

Last week we opened our classroom to first graders, making our class 1st-5th grade. It has me thinking about multi-age classrooms, as well as differentiated learning in a religious education setting. While my brain has only begun to get a grasp on these contents, I’d love to have a conversation with anyone interested in these topics, if that’s you let me know!

Last week, our class learned about the Golden Rule. And more importantly, we learned that the Golden Rule can be found in every world religion! After we investigated their similarities and differences, we decorated puzzle pieces with the different Golden Rules.

At the end, we put it together to make a heart! All religions teach us to love one another.
We talked about how we try to treat others as we wish to be treated, and heard a folk tale about a family that treated their neighbors with…

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En route

the Book of Bokeh

I travel from my home town of Putnam, Connecticut to Cranston, Rhode Island each day, generally along rural roads. The drive is about an hour long each way and I am trying to do a better job of carrying my camera with me more often, in an attempt to catch the interplay of light on the scenes that I pass. All these photos were shot en route to or from work over a series of days. In the future, I am hoping to do more posts like this—much like the Miscellaneous series—to maintain a commentary on the changing of the seasons. I hope you like these.

Before viewing the photographs, I would also like to invite you to visit the poetry blog, the Book of Pain. As always, special thanks to my dearest Lyn, who does most of the photo selection. Thank you for dropping by the Book of Bokeh.

All photographs and comments…

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Audrey Cameron (1923 – 1994)

Abide

WritersDream9

“…Thou the abiding; O Thou Abiding One”-Baha’u’llah.
Thanks dollarphotoclub.

God abides with me daily and always

Through all the arduous journeys

My life takes me around all emotional byways

He stays by my ofttimes broken abilities

~*~

How many times I have veered off the line

The path of my own humanity for humanitys’ sake

Being present to all He offers as sacred wine

The divine Elixer of the holy Now to partake

~*~

In order to abide with you in this life

Sitting with you when you suffer

I will follow His example and be by your side

Giving you all that I have to offer.

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A Chamber of a Different Kind

Everybody Means Something

This was my attempt to capture in verse the ideas of instinct versus the deeper promptings of the heart discussed in Monday’s blog post.

For the source of the image see link.

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The Poet Sings of a Poet’s Tree

Ripple Poetry

What kind of tree is your
poet’s tree?

Is it boab or oak
paperbark or willow?

Does it dance with Mandela
mediate with Mahatma?

Is it a haven for
Maya Angelou’s caged birds?

Does your tree sing
of how to
make a walking stick
through pain
with words to make the feet
lighter?

Does it encase your feet in
shoe bark
to travel on the heated ground
of despair
through the cold of ignorance’s
ice
help you to slide to the leaves of
peace?

How many in your poet’s family
tree went to war and
created odes to soldier’s
who bloodied lay
at the base of this tree
– lost?

Will the nightingale
sing from the branches
of your poet’s tree
guide you
into the heart of things
-take you out beyond this side
of a worm hole
into the galaxy where peace
birds fly?

What kind of tree is…

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Why being flexible in the holiday season matters

Nourish Me Simply

With only 10 days to go until Christmas (and counting), the festive season can be challenging when it comes to making healthy food choices. Every year at this time, recipes and tips for eating nutritiously over Christmas pop up all over the web. While I admire the efforts of many of these authors, often I can’t help but think that:

a) Many of these recipes really don’t look particularly appetising. Enjoyment of food and feasting is important to all cultures, and we all need a “free pass” every now and again.

b) What you eat on one day of the year (1/365th of what you eat overall) doesn’t really make any difference to your overall nutrition. It’s what you eat on the remaining 364 days that counts.

Image courtesy of nuchylee at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Orthorexia is a word that has entered popular vernacular in the past few years. The ‘condition’ is about as legit as other nebulous…

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Jan Fussell