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Forgive us Ukraine

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  Arvo Pärt STATEMENT: Dear friends in Ukraine, dear colleagues, dear all fighting for your home at the price of your life, We bow before your bravery, bravery in the face of nearly unbearable suffering. We are with you as much as we are able to. All that is left to us is a lump in our throats and tears and prayers. Words have begun to lose their meaning. Forgive us! Forgive us for failing to protect you from a disaster unimaginable in our time. Long live Ukraine! Слава Україні! Pärt’s statement was shared in Estonian, English, Ukrainian and Russian. He was born in Estonia what then the Soviet Union. He was not allowed to set up his religious music, so he mowed to Berlin and is now again living in Estonia. As a mirror to another mirror the war in Ukraine is very living here.  Not just because many refugees from there is here now. Also because we are so near, both Russia and Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries. We are so interconnected. I used to play table tennis against a Russian m

Cancer and mindfulness

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Cancer is like a small fire in tn body. It will burn until nothing is there for the fire to eat. What starts the fire? It may be complicated,  may have many causes. Of course fires have always existed in forests. And it will be in the future.  If the temperature rises and rain doesn't come the fire will be worse. It may be the same with cancer, may father had it too, but it didn't kill him.  my cancer may be inherited, but the way I have lived my life may also have reflections in my body. And my first years, and my problems trying to live with women.  Now much is too late, by mindfulness is not, it can be practiced the whole life and it includes to listen to child in oneself.  My father had that kind of child in himself too. But he found ways to hide the child. Like the golfers in this photo seem to forget about the fire.        Photo ; Kristi McCluer/Reuters we have to distract our selves so we don't see the fire. I understood that something was wrong when I had to pee so