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Photograph by Adriana Sassoon 

  

   

 Architects: Anmahian Winton Architects
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Principal in Charge: Alex Anmahian
Project Managers: Nick Winton, Todd Thiel
Project Architect: Sydney Schremser
Project Team: Joel Lamere, Makoto Abe, Aaron Stavert, AIA, Mazen Sakr, Garth Goldstein, Andrew Plumb, AIA, Julia Davis, AIA, LEED AP
Civil Engineering: Stantec
Marine Structural Engineering: Childs Engineering Corp.
Structural Engineering: Richmond So Engineering
MEP/FP Engineering: RW Sullivan Inc.
Landscape Architects: Stantec
Lighting: LAM Partners
Project Area: 30,000 sq ft
Budget: $11.45 M
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Mike Champion, Peter Vanderwarker, Jane Messinger/Anmahian Winton Architects, Sydney Schremser/Anmahian Winton Architects
         

Photograph by Adriana Sassoon 

Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI) changes lives and communities by providing access to the sport of rowing and its profound social benefits. “Rowing for All” is our mission, and we are especially committed to delivering rowing to groups who can benefit from the social and health outcomes of our unique sport.

  

http://www.communityrowing.org



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  The Mothers’ Walk is a gently curving pathway in the Greenway’s Wharf District Parks that consists of pavers inscribed with names and personal messages. For a $500 fully tax-deductible donation, you can dedicate one of these pavers to your loved one and become part of Boston’s history on the Greenway.

   

     Parent, mentor or friend, female or male, celebrate your loved one by inscribing her or his name on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway’s Mothers’ Walk today.

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy has brought to Boston a monumental sculpture, As If It Were Already Here, from internationally renowned local artist, Janet Echelman. This incredible installation will create a must-see art experience for visitors from near and far from early May – early October 2015. 

The Conservancy is the designated steward of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a mile-and-a-half of contemporary parks in the heart of Boston that connect people and the city with beauty and fun. The non-profit Conservancy maintains, programs, and improves the Greenway on behalf of the public and in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Organic Park Care

The Conservancy uses organic and sustainable landscape management programs to maintain the parks and features of the Greenway. The Greenway is Boston’s only organically maintained public park and one of a handful of organically maintained urban parks in the United States. Organic maintenance means no expenditures for toxic chemicals, and lower water consumption. Plants are healthier, more resilient, and better able to withstand the wear of public use. Children and pets can freely and safely play on our park lawns without the worry of pesticides.

Janet Echelman’s Aerial Sculpture over the Rose Kennedy Greenway 

  

       

DESCRIPTION

A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.

The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park. 

The sculpture’s form echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.

The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.

In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.

“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.” 

The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us. 

By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
​- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft​
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre

http://www.echelman.com/project/boston-greenway/
http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/visit/public-art/janet-echelman


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The world we live in expect us humans to move  super fast! 

Living in a World where maximum results are expected with minimal effort given. Yes, That’s right! There is no way we can ever grab a hold of our lives completely when we are too caught up in the awful habit of playing the blame game.So let’s begin by making the firm decision that no single event or person is going to dictate your level of achievement.Start by forcing  yourself to stop looking outside of yourself for things you are in control of.No single event or person is going to dictate your level of achievement therefore you can be who you want to be. 

“To be or not to be, this is the big question!” Adriana Sassoon 

Procrastination

  

Excuses

  

Blame

  



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 Never to late to see the Documentary.

   
             

THE FILM

Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director—a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure- filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand’s past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons’ vision.


  

Frédéric Tcheng is a French-born filmmaker. Originally trained in civil engineering, he moved to New York City in 2002 to attend Columbia University’s film school, from which he obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in 2007. He co- produced, co-edited and co-shot Valentino: The Last Emperor (directed by Matt Tyrnauer), the 2009 hit documentary shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar. He is the co-director (with Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt) of DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL, a Samuel Goldwyn release. His collaborations include such varied personalities as the poet Sarah Riggs and the fashion photographer Mikael Jansson. He works as an editor on commercials for brands such as H&M, Jimmy Choo and Ferragamo. He is currently developing a fictional screenplay. @frederictcheng

 

Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995.

 In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. 

Languages spoken Belgium has three official languages: French, Dutch and German.

 

 

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Se Apaixone Por Um Grande Homem

  

Por: Arnaldo Jabor

Nós homens nos caracterizamos por ser o sexo forte, embora muitas vezes caiamos por debilidade. Um dia, minha irmã chorava em sua casa… Com muita saudade, observei que meu pai chegou perto dela e perguntou o motivo de sua tristeza. Escutei-os conversando por horas, mas houve uma frase tão especial que meu pai disse naquela tarde, que até o dia de hoje ainda me recordo a cada manhã e que me enche de força. Meu pai acariciou o rosto dela e disse:

 “Minha filha, apaixone-se por Um Grande Homem e nunca mais voltará a chorar”. 

Perguntei-me tantas vezes, qual era a fórmula exata para chegar a ser esse grande homem e não deixar-me vencer pelas coisas pequenas… Com o passar dos anos, descobri que se tão somente todos nós homens lutássemos por ser grandes de espírito, grandes de alma e grandes de coração, O mundo seria completamente diferente!

Aprendi que um Grande Homem não é aquele que compra tudo o que deseja, porque muitos de nós compramos com presentes a afeição e o respeito daqueles que nos cercam.

Meu pai lhe dizia:

“Não se apaixone por um homem que só fale de si mesmo, de seus problemas, sem preocupar-se com você… Enamore-se de um homem que se interesse por você, que conheça suas forças, suas ilusões, suas tristezas e que a ajude a superá-las.”

 Não creia nas palavras de um homem quando seus atos dizem o oposto. Afaste de sua vida um homem que não constrói com você um mundo melhor. Ele jamais sairá do seu lado, pois você é a sua fonte de energia… Foge de um homem enfermo espiritual e emocionalmente, é como um câncer matará tudo o que há em você (emocional, mental, física, social e economicamente)

“Não dê atenção a um homem que não seja capaz de expressar seus sentimentos, que não queira lhe dar amor.”

Não se agarre a um homem que não seja capaz de reconhecer sua beleza interior e exterior e suas qualidades morais. Não deixe entrar em sua vida um homem a quem tenha que adivinhar o que quer, porque não é capaz de se expressar abertamente. 
“Não se enamore de um homem que ao conhecê-lo, sua vida tenha se transformado em um problema a resolver e não em algo para desfrutar”. 

Não se apaixone por um homem que demonstre frieza, insensibilidade, falta de atenção com você, corra léguas dele. Não creia em um homem que tenha carências afetivas de infância e que trata de preenchê-las com a infidelidade, culpando-a, quando o problema não está em você, e sim nele, porque não sabe o que quer da vida, nem quais são suas prioridades. Por que querer um homem que a abandonará se você não for como ele pretendia, ou se já não é mais útil? 

Por que querer um homem que a trocará por um cabelo ou uma cor de pele diferente, ou por uns olhos claros, ou por um corpo mais esbelto? 

Por que querer um homem que não saiba admirar a beleza que há em você, a verdadeira beleza… a do coração? 

Quantas vezes me deixei levar pela superficialidade das coisas, deixando de lado aqueles que realmente me ofereciam sua sinceridade e integridade e dando mais importância a quem não valorizava meu esforço? 

 

Custou-me muito compreender que GRANDE HOMEM não é aquele que chega no topo, nem o que tem mais dinheiro, casa, automóvel, nem quem vive rodeado de mulheres, nem muito menos o mais bonito. Um grande homem é aquele ser humano transparente, que não se refugia atrás de cortinas de fumaça, é o que abre seu CORAÇÃO sem rejeitar a realidade, é quem admira uma mulher por seus alicerces morais e grandeza interior. 

Um grande homem é o que cai e tem suficiente força para levantar-se e seguir lutando… Hoje minha irmã está casada e feliz, e esse Grande Homem com quem se casou, não era nem o mais popular, nem o mais solicitado pelas mulheres, nem o mais rico ou o mais bonito. 

Esse Grande Homem é simplesmente aquele que nunca a fez chorar… É QUEM NO LUGAR DE LÁGRIMAS LHE ROUBOU SORRISOS… Sorrisos por tudo que viveram e conquistaram juntos, pelos triunfos alcançados, por suas lindas recordações e por aquelas tristes lembranças que souberam superar, por cada alegria que repartem e pelos 3 filhos que preenchem suas vidas. 

Esse Grande Homem ama tanto a minha irmã que daria o que fosse por ela sem pedir nada em troca… Esse Grande Homem a quer pelo que ela é, por seu coração e pelo que são quando estão juntos.

Aprendamos a ser um desses Grandes Homens, para vivenciar os anos junto de uma Grande Mulher e NADA NEM NINGUÉM NOS PODERÁ VENCER!

  

www.davialactea.wordpress.com

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Adriana Sassoon, Angenita Grande & Terry Mascolo

    
Adriana Sassoon, Alina Klatte, Carly Muma & Petra Hofmann
Sergio Neuppmann Jr & Alina Klatte  

    
Carly Muma, Alina Klatte, Adriana Sassoon 

  
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Alina Klatte , Adriana Sassoon & Petra Rofmann  
Sergio Neuppmann Jr, Adriana Sassoon & Otaviano Tata Reis   
Pedro Andrade, Sergio Neuppmann Jr & Alina Klatte  
Harrie Smolders & Adriana Sassoon     

Angenita Grande & Axel Verlooy     
Britta Klatte & Adriana Sassoon  
Brandon Phillips & Adriana Sassoon                    

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http://youtu.be/hwphmzJEg3A

21 Day Meditation Your success begins within.

  

True success is a joyful creative process that you can access and build upon each day to bring more brilliance, abundance, and innate prosperity into every aspect of your life. In this illuminating three-week journey, we will be your guides, every day, as you travel a path from limiting beliefs to discovering within yourself that your successes can be infinite. 

  www.chopracentermeditation.com

Week One-Starting Within

In week one, the aim is to begin creating success from the inside out.  Lessons include how to define your own success, align with your inspired path, make it an everyday reality, increase the feeling of love and creativity around your goal, and harness your emotions to work for you and open up infinite possibilities. 

Week Two- Making Every Decision A Success

In week two, the focus is on making dynamic choices.  Lessons include how to avoid static decisions, expand your comfort zone, measure your goals, record your progress, embrace your innate wisdom, identify what really matters the most, and pay attention to the gift of inspiration when it strikes.

Week Three- Putting It All Together

In week three, the intention is to establish order in our busy lives, move away from judgment and put all of these qualities together to manifest true success. Lessons include mastering how to map out your time, turn fear of unpredictability into a welcoming attitude, develop trust, fall into a non-judgmental state of self and others, and release defensiveness.

http://www.chopra.com/ccl-meditation/21dmc/free-stream.html

Your transformation begins on Monday, March 16th in our all-new 21-Day Meditation Experience, Manifesting True Success.

It’s free and fulfilling. Embark on your life-changing journey! Register now!

Blessings,

  http://www.choprafoundation.org/consciousness/oprah-winfrey-deepak-chopra-launch-seventh-all-new-meditation-experience-manifesting-true-success/

ENERGY OF ATTRACTION

Mantra explanations from Energy of Attraction

Deepak shares more about the mantras for manifesting your best life

 Eecha Shakti Namah – Day 1

This mantra helps you connect with Nature’s primal impulse of creative desire. Iccha means will, desire, or intention. Shakti is the creative power within. Iccha Shakti is the inherent power of consciousness to manifest what we desire or will. As we honor our creative power, we awaken our full ability to manifest our desires.

 

Rasa Hum – Day 2

This mantra connects you with the vital energy or feeling of life itself. Rasa is the passion and flavor of being alive. It conveys the juicy essence of existence, the taste and sentiment of living. Rasa Hum is affirming that your core self is that essential quality of life.

 

Ananta Swa Bhava – Day 3

This mantra awakens your truth to the infinite potentiality of your higher self. Ananta means that which is infinite and unending. Ananta Swa Bhava means I know my own state of being is infinite and unbounded.

 

Ahrah Kahrah – Day 4

This mantra awakens the energy of creativity, transformation, and materialization. These primordial sounds stir the forces of creativity into action.

 

Shreem Kleem Namah – Day 5

This mantra affirms that you deserve the fulfillment of all your deepest desires. Shreem is the mantra associated with Nature’s beauty, love, and abundance. Kleem is the sound that attracts those qualities to you.

 

Hum Sa – Day 6

This mantra activates the transformative attention of pure awareness. It affirms the essential truth “I am.”

 

Ananda Hum – Day 7

This mantra awakens the state of fulfillment that is your true self. Ananda is the inherent bliss, joy, and fulfillment of existence. Ananda Hum aligns your Being to this reality.

 

Chit Sankalpa – Day 8

This mantra awakens consciousness within your desires or intentions. Chit is the nonlocal field of personal consciousness. Sankalpa is the seed of intention that contains all the information for that desire to manifest.

 

Om Hreem – Day 9

This mantra dissolves the illusion between the Self and the object of experience or thought. Hreem is the fundamental sound of Nature that helps individual awareness overcome limitations, and recognize its unity and universality through the power of love and attraction.

 

Ksham Hoom – Day 10

This mantra easily collects the diverse tendencies of the mind into a single impulse or point of focus. Hoom is the primal energy of spiritual transformation, purification and vitality. With the focusing influence of Ksham, this mantra opens a two-way flow of energy between the individual and the universe.

 

Yoyatah Hum – Day 11

This mantra awakens the quality of infinite flexibility and fluidity of pure awareness. This sound identifies one’s awareness with the frictionless movement of consciousness.

 

Samyama Hum – Day 12

This mantra activates the manifesting properties of your true self in meditation. Samyama is the awareness that integrates silent, focused, and fluid awareness into one’s state of consciousness, and that is your true self.

 

Sharavana Bhava – Day 13

This mantra attunes your intentions with the intentions of the cosmos. This activates the purposeful force of intention to transform present circumstances into favorable opportunities.

 

Shreem Namah – Day 14

This mantra helps to manifest divine abundance to bring us closer to spiritual fulfillment. Shreem is the mantra associated with Nature’s beauty, love and abundance. As we magnify this aspect of our awareness, we open our life to receive unlimited blessings and fulfillment.

 

Brahm Ananda – Day 15

This mantra expands the happiness or bliss of your true self to others. Ananda is bliss, and Brahman is the totality of the universe. When we use this mantra, we share our bliss with the all existence.

 

Gum Namah – Day 16

This mantra removes obstacles by creating a larger wholeness that includes everyone. The seed mantra Gum is the energetic force of Nature that overcomes difficulties and hindrances – not through opposition, but by expanding one’s consciousness large enough that it can include the obstacle.

 

Aieem Namah – Day 17

This mantra activates the creativity within pure awareness. Aieem is the mantra associated with Nature’s creativity and knowledge. As we use this mantra, we entrain our consciousness to create with wisdom and balance.

 

Hoom Namah – Day 18

This mantra invokes divine grace and support. The sound Hoom is a transformative energy, like a spiritual fire, in which old patterns of belief and thought are cleared away so that positive, life-affirming patterns can take their place.

 

Om Brahma Namah – Day 19

This mantra engages your true self with the creative power of the universe. Brahma is the divine force of creation. When we use this mantra, we are harnessing the force of creation in our life.

 

Parameshwari Namah – Day 20

This mantra invokes the sum total of the creative potential of creation. Parameshwari is cosmic creativity as the divine feminine. As we honor Mother Nature at the core of our consciousness, we instill the qualities of love, care and affection into all we manifest.

 

Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu – Day 21

This mantra is a desire for peace for all beings. The meaning of this mantra is, “Let there be peace, health, and wellbeing for all beings, for everything in creation.” With this mantra, we create an influence of harmony and tranquility for all those around us.

 

Aham Brahmasmi – Day 22

This mantra affirms the universality of your individuality. It means, “I am the wholeness of existence – my consciousness is the same as the consciousness of the universe.”

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Socrates said that the only life worth living is a well-examined life.

The reality is that human beings are complete spiritual beings.

Love and sex and other aspects of Humans.Sex is just one small part of our being.

Love and Sex are a very important part, and it’s definitely a gateway to other higher states of being that make up the human experience so great, but you have to look at Human beings as a whole and any talk of sexual compatibility but also involve emotional compatibility, mental needs, intellectual stimulation, and spiritual fulfillment and completion.

So take time to examine yourself well, do a lot of self-introspection, and in all things be true to yourself.  Try to keep it real.

   

           

Living fully means exploring and being happy with who you are, how you feel and who you are emotionally drawn to. 

What does knowing yourself have to do with maximizing sexuality compatibility, enjoyment, and fulfillment?

Mostly Everything 🙂