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La Maison Rose, Montmartre, Paris | France (by Bee.girl)

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Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Douglas Smith

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Two.

I LOVE tea, especially Wulongs, Pu Ers, and Japanese Green Teas. This Wulong, the Dong Ding (cooked with charcoal), is excellent. This is the description of the tea. ”From the famous mountain Ding Dong and cooked in the traditional way on charcoal, this tea has a nice mix of dark leaves. Its fragrance is rich and diverse and evokes the typical aromatic complexity of wulong, having notes that span toasted grains to flowers. Its liquor is full and soft, and the fruity finish (plum) is sweet and spicy.” The Gaiwan (zhong), is the accessory (in white on the picture) used to prepare delicate teas such as wulongs, white teas and chinese green teas.  For more information, visit www.camellia-sinensis.com , my favourite tea house in Montreal.

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18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W

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18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W

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Gil Scott Heron

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What do you see? I see love.

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Luksong Tinik Traditional Filipino Games

Luksong tinik (\ “jumping over thorns”) is a popular game in the Philippines, played by two teams with equal numbers of players. Each team designates a leader, the nanay (mother), while the rest of the players are called anak (children). The players chosen to be nanay are usually the ones who can jump the highest. The game involves players sitting on the ground and other players jumping over parts of their body.

Players decide on which team to play first. Two players serve as the base of the tinik by putting their right/left feet together (soles touching gradually building tinik). A starting point is set by all the players giving enough runway for the players. Players of the other team start jumping the tinik followed by the other team members.

If they all successfully jump without touching any of the feet of the base players, the next degree of difficulty is done next. The base players then extend their right/left hands one on top of the other (fingers spread apart to symbolize thorns). The other team continues the same jumping process until the base players have used all their feet and hands and as long as none of the jumping team member’s clothes, foot or any part of the body touch the tinik. Should this happen, the jumping team’s leader or mother gets to jump to redeem the other player who missed the earlier jump. If the leader misses that jump, the teams exchange places and the game starts anew.

VARIATION: A piece of straight stick may be used instead of building up the tinik with the hands and feet. In this case, the stick is held by two players from the other team. As each jumping member successfully jumps over the stick, the height of the stick is rasied to increase the difficulty. If a member misses or fails to clear the stick’s height, the two teams exchange places.

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Recent landscape paintings by Maja Wrońska.

(Rome, Prague, Venice, Kraków).