KaWoMeNan
Selected and Edited
by Beaulah P. Taguiwalo
Women and New Year
New Year’s resolutions that will make a difference"Does the phrase New Year’s Resolutions make you cringe? If you’ve
resolved—unsuccessfully—to start exercising before, you may be a victim of
New Year’s Resolution-itis. But you can achieve success if you realize what the
expert decision-makers know—that the road to health is marked by slipping and
sliding. I'm proof. As co-author of The Woman's Heart Book, I had to change my
couch-potato ways. And I did, losing 30 pounds in the process -- and keeping
them off. Here are my New Year's Resolutions with a Difference. What's the
difference? These resolutions can lead to success!" Read the whole article at
http://www.libov.com/info/self/Yoga as a New Year resolution
The early days of January is that period of time when many of us will be drawing
up our list of new year resolutions. Lose 10kg, give up smoking, eat more
brocolli. For better overall health in body and spirit, Manoj Kaimal recommends
practising yoga. * * * Yoga is a systematic science that entails step-by-step
methods categorised under eight aspects. Out of these eight, only one is
devoted to the body. The rest involve proper codes of living, breathing,
concentration and meditation practices. Sadly, people tend to think yoga is
synonymous with poses....This trend of excessive body focus only makes us
infatuated with looks. [A famous movie actress is believed to have] once said,
“I don’t want yoga to change my life, just my butt”. —From “Yoga as a new year
resolution” by Manoj Kaimal. Read the whole article at
http://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2004/1/3/features/7007626&sec=features
A New Year’s resolution leads to a lofty goal
Brady O’Mara’s New Year’s resolution is to make good on the one he made last
year—to climb the 19,340-foot peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, and to
raise $19,340 for Save the Children’s HIV/AIDS program. The Save the Children
HIV/AIDS program approach focuses on community mobilization through
activities such as identification and registration of orphans and other vulnerable
children, community-based child-care centers for children, support to meet basic
nutritional needs of affected children, and support for income-generating
efforts... It concentrates on supporting the affected people and their social
structures—renovating village schools or granting micro-finance loans to
women who wish to start small businesses. —From “A New Year’s resolution
leads to a lofty goal” by Alan Thomas. Read the whole article at
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10732251&BRD=1677&PAG=461&dept_id=82745&rfi=6
New Year’s levee at London’s oldest home
London’s oldest home opened its doors to guests [on January 1], ushering in
the new year in the same tradition its original owners would have in 1834. Eldon
House hosted its annual New Year’s Day levee, welcoming visitors with cider,
cookies and a big serving of the city’s history. A levee is a British tradition that
saw the women of the home prepare food and drinks for visitors who were
encouraged to drop in throughout the day as a way to celebrate the arrival of the
new year and bring luck to the home. —From “New Year's levee at Eldon House
an old tradition” by Shawn Jeffords. Read the whole article at
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/01/02/302172.html
New Year, city girls, country boys
Ange Newton always thought the blokes of Harrow were beaut; what she didn’t
predict was that so many other women from around Australia would agree with
her. When Ms Newton, the local publican, started “Beaut Blokes”, a fun-filled
weekend for city girls to meet country boys, she never imagined that the town of
just 90 people would become the breeding ground for so many romances. * * *
Last week the girls were back in town to see in the new year with their rural
mates, joining in the town’s festivities and camping out with locals. —From
“City girls break the drought” by Liz Gooch. Read the whole article at
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/03/1072908953396.html
A New Year poetry-reading party
The Reizei family traces itself back to a master Japanese classical poet and
courtier in the 12th century, and its residence just north of the Kyoto Imperial
Palace is often the scene of cultural events that evoke the atmosphere of the
ancient court. At the Reizei residence in Kyoto, a man and women in Heian
Period ceremonial costumes take part in the family’s annual new-year waka
composition party. Particularly gorgeous is a gathering it hosts for the annual
new year poetry-reading party, in which participants attired in court costumes
recite 31-syllable waka poems, also known as tanka. —From “Time travel the
Reizei way” by Jun Kamiya. Read the whole article at
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040101o2.htm
A lovely New Year painting
“Palace Women and Children Celebrating the New Year” is the title of a 16th
century painting from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It is in the Smithsonian’s
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a gift of Charles Lang Freer.
— At http://web4.si.edu/asia/collections/zoomObject.cfm?ObjectId=8214
Women and their own place, 2003
“After breaking up with the guy I had been living with, I’d had enough. I
decided I’d buy my own place and live by myself for the rest of my days.”
— Fumiko Tanaka, 30, one of a growing number of Japanese women shunning
marriage and opting for their own place. December 11, 2003 at
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