I stood in my father's garden one late summer evening, watching my three kids dig in the dirt with toy bulldozers (推土机). I had driven up to my parents' house that afternoon in a fit of desperation. My husband was working a double shift, my twins hadn't napped, and I was one misstep away from a complete breakdown.
"Come up," my mom said, "Let's rest for a while."
As the day of temporary relaxation drew to a close, I wandered along Dad's once-neat garden rows and noticed the tomato plants Dad had planted.
"Roma tomatoes, the kind for sauce. Remember when your mom used to make sauce?" my father said.
I hadn't thought of it in years actually. It was a recipe passed from my Italian immigrant great-grandmother down to my grandmother and then my mother. And that's where it had stopped. Though I liked cooking, I didn't want to waste much time on the dish. Why should I simmer tomato sauce all day when I could make different kinds of dishes?
Dad gave me an idea. "I'm going to make sauce," I said. My father raised a skeptical eyebrow but grabbed some boxes and told the kids to start picking. The twins threw tomatoes like softballs to each other as the youngest begged to join me. Everyone was crying at one point, and I almost gave up on my grand scheme. Yet something inside me fought back, a deep-seated fancy for finding the link between the recipe's owner and me.
As last, I successfully finished my sauce and it was approved by my parents. The efforts I made with those boxes of tomatoes gave me a sense of accomplishment. Each crank of the handle each slice of the knife, each stir of the stockpot was a prayer for comfort and confidence. Like most things that are worthwhile, the mess was part of the process.
A Russian natural gas tanker has completed an experimental round trip along the Northern Sea Route (NSR)— the first time the path across the Arctic has been made at this time of year. It returned to the Russian gas station at Sabetta on February 19. The voyage by the Christophe de Margerie tanker through the ice is the latest visual indicator of climate change in the cold region.
The tanker set out from a Chinese port on January 27 after delivering its cargo. It entered the Northern Sea Route, which traverses(横越) Russia's north coast. A few days later near Cape Dezhnev, it was met by the Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory). Together they completed the 2, 500-nautical-mile voyage through the ice in l I days and 10 hours.
The ship managed-to complete the first leg of the trip from Russia to China without an icebreaker. Both of the journeys broke records for winter navigation(航行) due to the changing climate in the Arctic allowing passage through thinner ice. Using the Northern Sea Route lets shippers in Russia and other countries avoid a much longer southern journey around Europe, the Middle East and all of southern Asia, saving millions of dollars.
The ships chanced upon no multi-year buildup of old ice on the route, and the deepest ice was about 5 feet thick. However, meteorologist and journalist Eric Holthaus called that a clear indicator of "a climate emergency".
Last May, Christophe de Margerie became the first large-capacity cargo ship to complete an eastbound transit of the Northern Sea Route, two months earlier in the year than the journey traditionally made.
"As a result of the early Northern Sea Route voyage completed by Christophe de Margerie in May 2020, as well as the current NSR voyage, the navigation in the Eastern part of the Arctic was practically doubled," Eric Holthaus said. He noted that for decades the transit route along that part of the NSR had typically remained closed by ice from November until July.
Researchers have watched Asian honey bees hunt for animal feces（粪便）, carry it home, and then apply it around the entrance to their nests. Their findings document the behavior for the first time.
"It turns out that by applying animal feces around colony entrances, Asian honey bees are able to stop giant hornets（大黄蜂）from their nest entrances. The hornets are less likely to try to break into the colonies by landing and chewing at their entrances in a multiple-hornet attack, which is the most deadly kind of hornet attack that honey bees experience," lead researcher Heather Mattila said.
Called "fecal spotting", what the bees are doing is using a tool, researchers suggest. "Tool use is a controversial topic and the criteria to identify it have been defined and redefined many times over," Mattila says. "Across the majority of definitions, we look for an animal holding something, placing it with intentionality, and using it in a way that improves the function of the thing that the tool was applied to. This behavior of honey bees meets all of these criteria. "
Mattila and her fellows have been studying Asian honey bees in Vietnam since 2013. They've done fieldwork watching colonies in wooden hives（蜂房）managed by local beekeepers. They cleaned the front of the hives and then tracked how the bees looked for animal feces to build up defenses against their hornet enemies.
They found that giant hornets were much less likely to land on hive entrances or chew their way into the hives when there were more fecal spots around the entrances.
Attacks by groups of giant hornets can sometimes wipe out entire colonies of honey bees so protective measures like these are key to survival. Interestingly, the animal feces keeps away the hornets, but the bees don't have a problem picking it up or toting it around.
"At this point, we don't know why animal feces disgusts hornets but is attractive to bees," Matilla says. "It is definitely something that needs to be studied further."
You are given many opportunities in life to choose to be a victim or creator. When you choose to be a victim, the world is a cold and difficult place. "They" are wrong and bad, and life is terrible as long as "they" are around. Or you may blame yourself for all your problems, thus internalizing(内化)your victimization. The truth is, your life is likely to stay that way as long as you feel a need to blame yourself or others.
They know there are individuals who might like to control their lives, but they don't let this get in the way. They know they have their weaknesses, yet they don't blame themselves when they fail. They believe their dance with each sacred(神圣的) moment of life is a gift and that storms are a natural part of life which can bring the rain needed for emotional and spiritual growth.
Victims and creators live in the same physical world and deal with many of the same physical realities, yet their experience of life is worlds apart. Victims relish (沉溺)in anger, guilt, and other emotions that cause others—and even themselves—to feel like victims, too. Creators consciously choose love, inspiration, and other qualities which inspire not only themselves, but all around them.
In reality, all of us play the victim or the creator at various points in our lives. One person, on losing a job or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, years, or even a lifetime. He may choose to first experience the grief, then accept the loss and soon move on to be a powerful creative force in his life.
In every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have fuller, richer life by setting a clear intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are.
A. Another with the same experience may choose to be a creator
B. Both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives.
C. Whatever happens, they have choice in the matter.
D. One's experiences determine his attitude toward life.
E. Those who choose to be creators look at life quite differently.
F. Compared with victim, creators are more emotional.
G. "They" did things to you which caused all of your pain and suffering.
I had gone from being a daughter in my parents' home to marrying and being a wife. Within a year of marrying, I had a child and a new1—mother. It seemed that I was 2defined in relation to someone else. I was somebody's daughter, somebody's wife, somebody's mother. So, where was Jane? More 3 who was Jane?
In between having four more children, 4 my husband as he started a business, and serving in our community, I 5 Jane. Sometimes, I wondered if there was anyone to seek. Did I6 outside my relationship to others? I didn't 7
And then I wrote a short story aimed at children. I typed it and sent it out. To my great 8, it was accepted. I wrote more stories. Many of them were 9, but I still kept writing. And, in writing, I found my _10 I also found that people listened. I wrote of mothering. I wrote of living with depression. I wrote of living on a 11 budget while my husband's new business struggled to survive. And thus I became an 12person, looking for and finding the words inside me. I shared those words with others. I knew that I could make a 13 through those words. Shy by nature, I'm 14 to speak in public. However, through my writing, I can 15 those words. I can touch others by sharing my thoughts and feelings, as well as my experiences and struggles.
"I didn't know you 16depression," one friend said after reading my article on living with depression. That opened a(n)17 between us on how depression can be as weakening as any physical disease. We laughed and cried together as she shared her own experiences. Our friendship 18_ . At the same time, with my newfound independence increasing I became more 19_ . Additionally, I had a sense of 20 when I knew I was helping someone else.
These days we can often see students doing morning exercises to stay(health). Most of you probably do the same kind of exercises. But some school exercises have gained (popular) because of their local special designs.
Students at a middle school in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, combines Sichuan Opera with their exercise. Shen Junhua, is in charge of organizing the school's exercises, said, "Sichuan Opera is local opera, but now it is facing a problem because few young want to learn it. So we invited some local artists (create) a simple and easy-to-learn Sichuan Opera exercise. " According to Shen, this new type of exercise(practice) since 2017 and is now popular among students. (learn) the exercise is not easy, so new students have to spend weeks practicing it until they can do it well. Some students have also joined the school's Sichuan Opera club due their own interest, although they had hardly heard of Sichuan Opera before. They found very difficult but meaningful to learn Sichuan Opera.
By combining opera with daily exercise, the activity allows students to take part in the development of Sichuan Opera's culture. (hope), the seed of traditional cultural can be spread in this way.
Ada looked through the observation window at the kids below, all waiting in line to get into the pool. She turned to her mother with a furious frown on her face. "Mom, they're all little kids! I'm 15 already! This is ridiculous!"
"I know, Ada," replied her mother, "but you're a beginner, too, and you have to start somewhere!"
Ada had never been to a swimming lesson in her life. Between schoolwork and helping on her grandfather's farm, she hadn't had time for lessons. The closest swimming pool Ada had been to was the inflatable(充气的）alligator pool her mother bought her when she was five. Now that Ada was older, her mother had found a new job in the city, and Ada faced a new challenge—school field trips to the local pool.
The first day that Ada went with her class to the pool, she had no idea what she was in for. What could be so difficult about swimming? Ada confidently slipped into the water and held onto the side of the pool, expecting to be able to touch the bottom with her feet. But when Ada let go of the side of the pool, she slipped under the water—the whole pool was one big deep end! Ada threw her arm toward the side of the pool and grabbed the ledge (池壁), out of breath. "I really can't swim! Everyone's going to laugh at me!" she thought to herself in a panic.
On the next field trip to the pool, Ada sat on the side on a bench, paralyzed with fear. She huddled with a towel over her shoulders, too embarrassed to try again. When she came home, her mother noticed right away that Ada was upset. "Honey, I've signed you up for Angela's swimming lessons at the local pool. Soon you'll learn how to swim just like everyone else," she assured Ada, showing photos of Bella with her prize-winning students. Ada felt doubtful that lessons would help, but she had to overcome her fear.
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Still, when the time came to take her first lesson, Ada was even more embarrassed than before.
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Soon Bella came over to where Ada sat and introduced herself.
