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Enjoy the Silence

LimerickTango — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:36:57 +0000

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence

embrace

LimerickTango — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:30:02 +0000

v. em·braced, em·brac·ing, em·brac·es

v.tr.

1. To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.

a. To surround; enclose: We allowed the warm water to embrace us.

b. To twine around: a trellis that was embraced by vines.

3. To include as part of something broader.

4. To take up willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.

5. To avail oneself of: “I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace” (Henry James).

v.intr.

To join in an embrace.

1. An act of holding close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection; a hug.

2. An enclosure or encirclement: caught in the jungle’s embrace.

3. Eager acceptance: your embrace of Catholicism.

On the Embrace

LimerickTango — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:31 +0000

Hold on tight and let go.

Slaughter House 9: Part 1

LimerickTango — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:04:38 +0000

In and around 1963 Dr Temple Grandin discovered one of the key therapies in reducing anxiety in people with autism. A therapy that is still being used in clinics today. The therapy is know as the squeeze box and is based on a piece of cattle handling equipment. Temple Grandin was 16 at the time and suffering from the severe symptoms of autism.

She had been sent to her aunts farm for the summer where she discovered her fascination with animals. She was particularly fascinated with watching the cattle in the squeeze chute, a device for holding the animal still while being vaccinated. It operates by first closing in around the animals neck to stop it backing out and then by the sides of the chute closing in and holding, and raising slightly, the animal by its flanks. She noticed that while this distressed some animals others completely relaxed. The next day she asked her aunt if she could be placed in the squeeze chute. She stayed in the squeeze chute for around a half hour and for the hour afterwards felt extremely relaxed which for someone who lived in a constant state of anxiety was extremely rare. On returning home at the end of the summer she missed the effects of the treatment and so had her own squeeze box built which she still uses about once a week.

Narrator: “How long do you stay in for?”
Temple: “About twenty minutes… Kinda relaxed feeling of being held… Helps you have nicer thoughts.”
Narrator: “Do you mean that it helps you feel more affection towards others?”
Temple: “Yes, that’s right. When I was a kid I always wanted the nice feeling of being held but it was always too much overwhelming stimulation.” [1]

Dr Dougal Hare, University of Manchester: “Light pressure touch, say a stroking of the skin, excites the sympathetic nervous system which raises heart rate and raises respiration whereas deep pressure touch actually lowers heart rate and lowers respiration.”[1]

[1] Transcribed from ‘The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow’, BBC Horizon, 2006.

Tango: a crowded marriage

LimerickTango — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:10:00 +0000

This time the polygamy theme is inspired by the famous “There were three of us in this marriage” quote.

An unattributed quote states that “There are three of you in the tango: you, your partner and the music. If it’s just you and your partner, this is not tango. You may as well go home and go to bed together”(1).

So that’s ok. You, your partner, the music. Then some people insist that you adopt a relationship with the floor not to mention the crowd that you are dancing with.

At the end of it, it is one crowded marriage.

(1) www.list.co.uk/article/6145-valentines-day-tango-classes/
Source: The List (Issue 595)
Date: 31 January 2008
Written by: Kirstin Innes