Red Salmon Run "Nomoȟon" peace in Nanai a northern land where children are pulled on sleds not wagons or strollers spring comes late yet life thrives in the Russian Far East the Amur River can be three feet thick still ice fishermen find success on the coldest days everyone comes to the river in September when the red salmon run beside vast birch forests filled with "nomoȟon" (c) 2020 Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) oroginally published in The Year of the Poet June 2020 Volume Peace Dictionary, The Meaning of Peace and Calm in 4000 languages Looking for grant money to complete this peace project author of Awakenings: Peace Dictionary Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program and the upcoming On Seeing and Being Human Nomoȟon (peace) in Nanai Nanai: Nanai (gld), Gold, нанайэ, Нанай, Nanaj, Nanay, нанай хэсэни, Nanaj ȟėsėni, Goldi, Hezhen, a Tungusic, Altaic, Nostratic language—"Nomoȟon" номохон (peace), мир "Mir" (peace), "ul@n" (good) "Duŋgirien", "Duŋgu" (to become silent, calm, quiet, peaceful) from the Proto-Tungus-Manchu "Duŋk" (dark, sullen, to bow the head, to knit the brows, to bow the head and slumber, to become silent, calm, quiet, peaceful), "Elke" (peaceful, silent), "Bae"(body), "Dyoan" (ten), "giandin" (blue), "Hegden" (blue), "Herbor" (blue), "Nengian" (blue), "Saxarin" (black), "Isala" (eye), "Nasal" (eye), "IC3" (see), "iCi" (see), "Sugdiun" (brown), "Dwjgirien" (to become silent, calm), "Duijgu" (quite, peaceful)(from the Proto-Altaic) "Tium(k)u" (silent, calm)—Russian Federation, (Siberia), China (Heilongjiang). https://www.geonames.de/peace.html https://archive.org/stream/BomhardComprehensiveIntroduction2ndEdition/Bomhard%20-%20A%20Comprehensive%20Introduction%20to%20Nostratic%20Comparative%20Linguistics%20%283rd%20edition%29_djvu.txt Nanai: Nanai—Udhr Education "Образование найва улэн, маси, гой най правосалбани, свободасалбани кидуривэ тачиочигини. Образование диа диавари, гой голосалба дэрэлэми, аличами биуривэ, Объединённай Нациясал Организацияни мирбэ кандёйвани бэлэчиуривэ тачиочигини." (Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace). https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/gld.pdf
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In an article on "How do children learn to write letters?" Researchers said, "during writing acquisition, some letters may be more difficult to produce than others because certain movement sequences require more precise motor control (e.g., the rotation that produces curved lines like in letter O or the pointing movement to trace the horizontal bar of a T). Children of ages 6-10 (N=108) wrote sequences of upper-case letters on a digitizer. They varied in the number of pointing and rotation movements. The data revealed that these movements required compensatory strategies in specific kinematic variables. For pointing movements there was a duration decrease that was compensated by an increase in in-air movement time. Rotation movements were produced with low maximal velocity but high minimal velocity. At all ages there was a global tendency to keep stability in the tempo of writing: pointing movements exhibited a duration trade-off whereas rotation movements required a trade-off on maximal and minimal velocity. The acquisition of letter writing took place between ages 6 and 7. At age 8 the children shifted focus to improving movement control. Writing automation was achieved around age 10 when the children controlled movement duration and fluency. This led to a significant increase in writing speed." - Seraphin Thibon, L., et al. (2019). "Investigating how children produce rotation and pointing movements when they learn to write letters." Hum Mov Sci 65. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731149
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hülya n. yılmaz editor, William S. Peters, Sr. introduction, Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) Foreword, Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy, INDIA, Poet, Writer, Reviewer & Editor Gail Weston Shazor, Asoke Kumar Mitra 7 Kimberly Burnham 8 Anwer Ghani 10 Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy 11 Hussein Habasch 12 Menduh Leka 14 Irene Marks 15 Solomon C. Jatta 16 Clelia Volonteri 17 Muniam Alfaker 18 Shernaz Wadia 20 Rafael Jesús González 21 Francisco José Casado Pérez 22 Jeton Kelmendi 23 Kamani Jayasekera 25 Demetrios Trifiatis 26 Rita Stanzione 28 Welkin Siskin 29 Hema Ravi 30 Rohini Kumar Behera 31 Ernesto P. Santiago 32 Brenda C. Mohammed 33 Ameedah Mawalin 34 Khalid Imam 36 Pankajam Kottarath 37 Ranjana Sharan Sinha 38 Anord Sichinsambwe 40 Xavier J. Frazer 41 Luzviminda G. Rivera 42 Othmen Mahdi 44 Anna Nicole D. Velez 45 Ketaki Datta 47 De’Andre Hawthorne 49 Tianju 52 Noreen Ann Snyder 53 Vijaya Bhamidi 54 Alicja Maria Kuberska 55 Anthony Arnold 57 Olfa Philo Drid 58 Ashok Bhargava 65 Hayim Abramson 66 Geeta Varma 67 Jaydeep Sarangi 68 Gita Bharath 69 Brindha Vinodh 70 Zaldy Carreon De Leon, Jr. 71 Iwu Jeff 73 Venom M 74 Izza Fartmis 76 Santosh Magazine 77 H. W. Bryce 79 Ratan Ghosh 81 Chijioke Ogbuike 82 Omar Godling 84 Iram Fatima ‘Ashi’ 87 Paramananda Mahanta 88 Eden Soriano Trinidad 90 F. M. Ciocea 91 Joan McNerney 92 Otteri Selvakumar 93 Fahredin Shehu 94 Sayeed Abubakar 95 Pragya Suman 96 Sudarsan Sahu 97 John Eliot 99 Alan Summers 100 Tyran Prizren Spahiu 102 [ix] Table of Contents . . . continued Thryaksha Ashok Garla 103 Sangeeta Sharma 104 Antonia Valaire 105 Shareef Abdur-Rasheed 108 Aneek Chatterjee 109 Rahim Karim 111 Dragan Dragojlovic 112 Debbi Brody 113 Josep Juárez 114 Kairat Duissenov Parman 115 Ahila 117 Himasri Barman 118 Lilla Latus 119 Mandour Saleh Hikel 120 Manisha Joshi 122 Diego Bello 123 Eliza Segiet 124 Dilip Mohapatra 125 Pratishta Pandya 127 Willie Jones 129 Sahaj Sabharwal 131 Sridevi Selvaraj 132 Loretta Hawkins 133 Steve C. Sikora 134 Bob McNeil 137 [x] Table of Contents . . . continued Smruti Ranjan Mohanty 138 Louise Hudon 140 Kevin A. Boens 141 Ibrahim Honjo 143 Tom Higgins 144 Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo 145 Norbert Góra 146 Supratik Sen 147 JoAnn Smith 149 Sujata Dash 151 Chad Norman 152 Hong Ngoc Chau 153 Tali Cohen Shabtai 158 Elena S. Eyheremendy 159 S. Pathmanathan 160 Milagros Sefair 161 George Kurian 162 Saroj Mahobe 163 Varanasi Ramabrahmam 165 Adyasha Das 167 Stephanie Alaine Brown 168 Kamala Wijeratne 170 Aditi Roy 171 Zanka Zana Boskovic Coven 172 Anju Kishore 174 [xi] Table of Contents . . . continued Lizzy Anthony 175 Sumita Dutta Shoam 176 Sunil Sharma 177 Christopher Stewart 178 Mohammed Nurul Huda 179 Raja Rajeswari Seetha Raman 180 Valerie Ames Middlebrook 181 Vidya Shankar 184 Warda Zerguine 185 De Vincent Miles 186 Lakshani Willarachchi 187 Mohamed Bourhanem 190 Awatef El Idrissi Boukhris 191 Varsha Das 193 Antoinette Coleman 195 Keith Alan Hamilton 196 A. Annapurna Sharma 198 Suma K. Gopal 200 Siti Ruqaiyah Hashim 201 Kalyna Temertey-Canta 203 Dr. Sigma 204 Gino Leineweber 205 Safia Hayat 206 Jyoti Kanetkar 207 Monalisa Dash Dwibedy 208 [xii] Table of Contents . . . continued Jodel E. Agbayani 209 Mario C. Lucero 210 Md. Khalilur Rahman 211 Shruti Goswami 212 Monica Gray 213 Lana Joseph 214 Nataša Sardžoska 217 S. Sundar Rajan 219 Preety Sengupta 220 Gurdev Chauhan 221 JuNe BuGG 223 Orbindu Ganga 226 Christeen Saparamadu 228 Najma Mansoor 229 Sidra Sahar Imran 231 Vasuprada Kartic 232 K. V. Dominic 235 Aakash Sagar Chouhan 237 Anuradha Bhattacharyya 238 Piyankara Ganegoda & Lakshani Willarachchi 239 Teresa E. Gallion 240 Setaluri Padmavathi 241 Edna Garcia 242 Queen Sarkar 243 Mallika Chari 244 [xiii] Table of Contents . . . continued Tangirala Sree Latha 245 Caroline N. Gabis 247 Gopal Lahiri 248 Pushmaotee Subrun 249 Takatoshi Goto 251 Christine Von Lossberg 252 Avijit Roy 253 Akshaya Kumar Das 254 Shubha Khandekar 255 Nutan Sarawagi 256 Colombe Mimi Leland 257 Elizabeth Kurian Mona 258 Avril Meallem 260 Hiranya Aditi Godavarthy 262 Usha Sridhar 264 Marcelo Sanchez 266 Sylwia K. Malinowska 270 B. V. Siva Prasad 271 Sujatha Warrier 272 Ayo Ayoola-Amale 273 Maria do Sameiro Barroso 274 Rubab Abdullah 275 Muhammad Azram 276 hülya n. yılmaz 277 William S. Peters, Sr. 279
Expressive Writing:
How Writing About Bad Things Is Good "Expressive writing about past negative events has been shown to lead to a slew of positive outcomes. However, little is known about why writing about something negative would have positive effects. While some have posited that telling a narrative of a past negative event or current anxiety "frees up" cognitive resources, allowing individuals to focus more on the task at hand, there is little neural evidence suggesting that expressive writing has an effect on cognitive load. Moreover, little is known about how individual differences in the content of expressive writing could affect neural processing and the cognitive benefits writing confers. In our experiment, we compared brain activity in a group that had engaged in expressive writing vs. a control group, during performance on a feedback-based paired-associate word-learning task. We found that across groups, differential activation in the dorsal striatum in response to positive vs. negative feedback significantly predicted better later memory. Moreover, writing about a past failure resulted in more activation relative to the control group during the learning task in the mid-cingulate cortex (MCC), an area of the brain crucial to processing negative emotion. While our results do not provide support for the assertion that expressive writing alters attentional processing, our findings suggest that choosing to write about particularly intense past negative experiences like a difficult past failure may have resulted in changes in neural activation during task processing." - DiMenichi, B. C., et al. (2019). "Effects of Expressive Writing on Neural Processing During Learning." Front Hum Neurosci 13: 389.
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Writing About Stressful Events Doesn't Impair Working Memory
"Acute stress impairs working memory (i.e., the ability to update and keep information in mind). Although that effect is well established, the boundaries around it are not. In particular, little is known about how recalling an unresolved stressor might influence working memory, or about how stress-or recalling a stressful event-influences the processes underlying working memory task performance (e.g., sustained/controlled attention vs. capacity). We addressed these issues in the present study (N = 171) by randomly assigning participants to write about an unresolved, extremely stressful experience (stressful writing condition; n = 85) or the events of the prior day (control condition; n = 86), and, subsequently, both measured change detection task performance and used computational cognitive modeling to estimate the processes underlying it-namely, attention, capacity, and bias. We found that, relative to the control task, writing about a stressful experience neither impaired performance on the change detection task nor altered any of the processes underlying performance on that task. These results show that the effects of writing about an unresolved, stressful episode do not parallel effects of acute stress on working memory, indicating that experiencing a stressor may have very different cognitive effects than recalling it at a later time." Shields, G. S., et al. (2020). "Feel free to write this down: Writing about a stressful experience does not impair change detection task performance." Emotion 20(2): 317-322.
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Life is messy chaotic after the death the death of two sons too close to God Aaron taught how to come close safely what to do to be safe and close in the presence for himself, his family, his people we are called through ritual to further the survival of our community -Kimberly Burnham Seeing and Thinking Half As Well As an Elderly Person
kids can at 2 months eat, sleep, poop and be loved expectations should be low lift her head fixate on faces follow people with her eyes recognize them a short distance away babies see light and shades of gray can’t yet tell objects apart field of vision is small a foot from their faces greater depth of vision comes with time about 2 months color vision comes later around 4 or 5 months can’t test how well babies see color developing about one million neural connections a second grow dramatic about 1 percent every day by 3 months baby’s brain is roughly half the size of an elderly person’s Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 29 April 29 a Found Poem from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/parenting/milestones/your-2-month-old.html Arithmetic By Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if you know how many you had before you lost or won. Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven-- or five six bundle of sticks. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky-- or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again and see how it comes out this time. If you take a number and double it and double it again and then double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you what the number is when you decide to quit doubling. Arithmetic is where you have to multiply – and you carry the multiplication table in your head and hope you won’t lose it. If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix? If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, you or your mother? Plant Vision
Plants, fungi and bacteria response to light constantly adapt to changes in light phytochromes light detection in all vegetation allows organisms to distinguish between two colors of light a primitive two-color vision light causes reorganization in protein release of a water molecule response to light highly collective enabling phytochrome proteins to translate light into structural signals guiding growth and development of plants fungi and bacteria on Earth by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 26 April 26, 2020 A Found Poem, Words from https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/plants-respond-to-light-within-a-fraction-of-a-second/127766 Color-Word Stroop Task
Do well on the Color-Word Stroop Task indicates cognitive function more importantly cognitive flexibility brain health You know the test the one where the word "purple is written in red and "red" is written in blue ink How fast are you? by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge See the Colors Around You
Look around in Eastern James Bay Cree there are colors all around ᐹᔅᒎᓵᐧᐋᓈᑯᓲ "Paaschuusaawaanaakusuu" it is purple the color of jam ᐸᐦᑖᐅᓈᑯᓲ "Pahtaaunaakusuu" it is brown it looks like the color of a singed beaver ᐅᔖᐅᔑᔔ "Ushaaushishuu" it is yellow it is a little bit yellow ᐧᐄᓴᓱᒥᐦᑯᓲ "Wiisasumihkusuu" it is a flashy, bright red ᒥᐦᐧᑳᐱᔅᑳᐤ "Mihkwaapiskaau" it is stone or metal red ᒥᐦᐧᑳᔅᑯᓐ "mihkwaaskun" it is stick-like red ᐹᔅᒎᓵᐧᐋᓈᑯᓐ "Paaschuusaawaanaakun" it is purple the colour of jam ᐱᒋᔅᑲᓈᑯᓐ "Pichiskanaakun" it is sky blue ᒥᐦᑯᔔ "Mihkushuu" it is pinky-red it is a little red thing ᔑᑯᑌᐅᓈᑯᓲ "Shikuteunaakusuu" it looks orange the colour of a bakeapple berry ᐅᑑᒋᒥᐦᑰᓲ "Utuuchimihkuusuu" it is burgundy-coloured purple the colour of a bruise ᐧᐋᐸᔅᒎᒋᓲ "Waapaschuuchisuu" it is white mud ᐧᐋᐱᑯᓀᐤ "Waapikuneu" it has white feathers ᐧᐋᐱᑌᐅᓲ "Waapiteusuu" it is faded it is greyish like a dog ᐧᐋᓭᒋᓲ "Waasechisuu" it is white and can be seen from afar when the sun shines on it ᐧᐋᓭᔅᑯᓈᑯᓲ "Waaseskunaakusuu" it is turquoise the colour of a clear blue sky by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 21 April 21, 2020 Words from http://dict.eastcree.org/Words Jam and Bruises
"It is purple" in Chisasibi Cree of the Eastern Shore of James Bay, Quebec "Paaschuusaawaanaakusuu" also means "the color of jam" and "Paaschuusaawaanaakun" or "ᐹᔅᒎᓵᐧᐋᓈᑯᓐ" "Utuuchimihkuusuu" or "ᐅᑑᒋᒥᐦᑰᓲ" means "it is burgundy-coloured purple" "the color of a bruise" and ᐅᑑᒋᒥᐦᐧᑳᐤ or "utuuchimihkwaau" by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 20 April 20, 2020 Words from http://dict.eastcree.org/Words Arbitrary Colors
English splits hues into distinct colors according to lightness red and pink orange and brown objectively no more different from one another than light green and dark green or light blue and dark blue A Russian makes the same red and pink and orange & brown distinctions and a further distinction between blue sinii (dark blue) and goluboi (light blue) The Name of Shades of Green
Unnamable colors just beyond the consciousness see anew relax the rigid perspective color a visual perception of the observer not a property of electromagnetic radiation how we divide and name the colors more to do with thinking than seeing The Ova-Himba of Angola or Himba of Northern Namibia use five color names "serandu" reds, browns, oranges and some yellows "dambu" or "ndumbu" a variety of greens, reds, beige, brown and yellows the term used for a Caucasian person "zuzu" or "zoozu" describes most dark shades black, dark red, dark purple, dark blue, etc. the colors of the falling dusk or a dark green butterfly "vapa" is white and some shades of yellow the light colors of the sunrise or a yellow cat "buru" or "mburau" is vivid shades of green and blue like a blue falcon it is thought only naming a few colors increases the time it takes to distinguish between two similar colors compared to people whose language separates the colors like Western languages into eleven or twelve colour or color categories black, white, red, blue (light blue, dark blue), green, yellow, orange, brown, pink, gray, and purple Language influences perception of color imagine 12 tiles 11 the same color and one is a different color choose the one that looks different 11 one shade of green one tile slightly lighter or darker to the Western eye very similar but easy for the Himba who have two completely different words for different kinds of green A second test is harder eleven green tiles and one blue tile all were "buru" shades of green and blue not as easy to distinguish for the Himba eye Other Ovaherero speaking people with more contact with the West use other names of colors "oserandu" (red) "ongara" (yellow) "ombambi" (brown) "ondrondu" (black) "ombapa" (white) "otjihoni" (orange/brownish and maybe check-patterned or irregularly dotted) "omblou" (blue) from the Afrikaans word “blou” "ongrien" (green) from the English “green” for shades of color the word ondumbe (meaning very or strong or dark) or the word "ondjere" (meaning light, not so very) is put behind the name of the color by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 18 April 18, 2020 Words from https://www.gondwana-collection.com/blog/how-do-namibian-himbas-see-colour/ and refuted at https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237 https://www.artsy.net/show/hakgojae-gallery-hakgojae-design-project-space-kang-han-byul-body-eats-colour Color Myth https://prezi.com/p/je6_jzrblmqx/legend-of-the-colors/ Blue Asian Apples
In Chinese 青 pronounced qīng in Mandarin and “ao” in Japanese means both blue and green blue and green shades of 青 藍 “lán” is blue in Mandarin 綠 “lǜ” is green both shades of “qīng” In Japanese 緑 “midori” green from the verb “midoru” “to be in leaf, to flourish” グリーン pronounced “guriin” derived from the English word green In Japan traffic lights the same as everywhere the green light is described as “aoi” blue because green is a shade of aoi green apples are 青リンゴ [Ao ringo] no different than what in English is a green apple by Kimberly Burnham Color and Healing Poetry Challenge Day 17 April 17, 2020 |
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