This command will define a data frame or return the contents and metadata of a defined frame. To define a new frame you need to provide a collection name, a frame name followed by a list of dotpath/label pairs. The labels are used as object attribute names and the dot paths as the source of data. You also need a list of keys.
By default the keys are read from standard input. With options you can include a specific file or even indicate to use all the keys in a collection. In this example we are creating a frame called “title-authors-year” based on the titles, authors and publication year from a dataset collection called pubs.ds
. Note the labels of “Title”, “Authors”, “PubYear” are on the right side the an equal sign and the dot paths to the left.
dataset keys pubs.ds |\
dataset frame pubs.ds "title-authors-year" \
".title=Title" \
".authors=Authors" \
".publication_year=PubYear"
The objects in the frame’s object list will look like
This allows you to create convient names for otherwise deep dot paths.
In python we use a Dict to map the dotpaths to labels rather than an embedded equal sign. Doing the same task as before would look like this in Python.
keys = dataset.keys("pubs.ds")
(frame, err) = dataset.frame("pubs.ds", "title-authors-year",
keys, {
".title": "Title",
".authors": "Authors",
".publication_year": "PubYear"
})
Related topics: frames, frame-objects, frame-grid, frame-types, reframe, delete-frame


bulkyitems
Bulky Items Pickup Day: 3rd WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Information about Bulky Item pickups:
Monthly pickup in your area is conducted over a 3-4 day period. All your items must be placed at the curb by 6:00 am on the first day only. Bulky items must not be placed at the curb any earlier than the day before your collection day. If you have questions regarding acceptable items for pick-up or pick-up schedules, please call the collection yard servicing your area.
The benefits of regular bulky item pickup are huge for our communities. Oahu's streets and sidewalks can be clutter-free and safe, and we believe this will significantly reduce illegal dumping. But only if you do your part as well – everyone must responsibly adhere to the schedule and place items at the curb only on designated days.
There’s no excuse to dump on Hawaii.
Collection services are readily available. Our refuse and recyclables are collected curbside weekly, bulky items monthly and drop-off centers are available around the island. Please take the time to know the schedules and dispose of items properly.
It is illegal to place items at the curb on any days other than the specified collection day or in area(s) other than that fronting your property. Property owners are subject to fines up to $250 per offense, individuals are subject to fines up to $2,500 per offense. Your cooperation will avoid penalties and help keep the neighborhood safe and clean.
If you witness someone illegaly dumping items on your property, call 911 immediately and file a police report. This is our home, our island, our responsibility to care for its health and beauty.
The City provides for free collection of bulky items, such as furniture, appliances, and mattresses. Most appliances are recycled. If your items are still in good, useable condition, contact organizations such as Goodwill and Salvation Army first.
Your bulky items are collected in two different types of trucks. Large metal appliances are collected separately and taken to a metal recycling company. Those containing freon, such as refrigerators, are first taken to Refrigerant Recycling to remove and recycle the freon. Other items, such as televisions, mattresses, and furniture, are collected in a rear loading packer truck and taken to H-POWER for disposal. So, if those are still usable, don't put them out for bulky item pickup.
Rules for bulky item pickup
To help the City provide efficient service and to keep your neighborhood safe and attractive, you must follow these rules:
Put items out for collection no earlier than the evening before your scheduled pickup day or period. Bulky items sitting at the curbside for long periods are unattractive in your neighborhood, can be unsafe (especially for children) and can attract illegal dumping at that site.
Remove or secure doors for refrigerators or place the doors against the ground or a wall to prevent them from opening.
Do not block sidewalks, driveways or roadways.
What types of items are collected
Whose bulky items will be collected?
All households except those in dwellings owned by the State or Federal governments.
What will be collected as bulky items?
Furniture, mattresses, bed frames and box springs, rolled up and fastened carpeting, appliances, minor home repairs/remodeling materials not to exceed one cubic yard. Tree branches or stumps larger than 9 inches in diameter; must be cut to lengths less than 3 feet.
What will not be collected as bulky items?
Construction materials such as tile and drywall, demolition debris, dirt, rock, concrete: (take to City Landfill). Large automobile parts and any refuse or recycling suitable for regular collection.
What if I can’t wait for my scheduled collection period?
If the schedule is not convenient for you, you are welcome to drop off your bulky items at any of the City’s Convenience Centers. There are nine locations; most are open seven days a week.
What if I miss the collection crew?
Your bulky items must be stored on your property until the next month’s scheduled collection.
*Information from http://www.opala.org/solid_waste/bulky_item_pickup.html*


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Chris FarleyChristopher Crosby Farley (Feb 15, 1964 -- Dec 17, 1997)The comic portfolio of Chris Farley is not everybody's cup of tea. His characterizations often consisted of bellowing blowhards or perspiring ne'er-do-wells who exploited their larger-than-life carriages with a histrionic, physical intensity not seen since John Belushi, John Candy, or Jackie Gleason. After studying acting and communications at Marquette University, Farley joined the Second City Theater group, where he was discovered by producer Lorne Michaels. He would soon be developing sketch comedy and characters for Saturday Night Live: motivational speaker Matt Foley (thrice divorced, living in a van down by the river), the fanatical Chicago Bears enthusiast-- even a blonde bobbed Gap girl who enjoys seasoned curly fries at a strip mall food court. One of his best loved characters was that of a nervous talk show host with low self-esteem:
Y-you remember? when? y-you were with The Beatles? PAUL MCCARTNEY Yeah. FARLEY That was awesome! Then a pause, after which Farley hits himself in the head and pulls out his hair for asking such an inane series of questions.  He could imitate nearly any celebrity of oversized stature: Mama Cass, Jerry Garcia, Meat Loaf, Tom Arnold. He even performed an impersonation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Capitol Hill-- with Gingrich himself looking on. In another bit he played a restaurant customer who's just been informed the coffee he's drinking is actually Folgers Crystals. He pauses, flips over a table and screams, "You lied to me!" and proceeds to destroy furniture. Comparisons to John Belushi were commonplace. Both performers shared a love of drugs, alcohol, overeating and indulgence. Farley loved humor, and he enjoyed the company of people who loved to laugh. He needed acceptance, and he found exactly that sort of audience by making friends with people capable of nursing his drug habit. Stories of Farley's substance abuse and party lifestyle are well known. Drug counselor Dallas Taylor says Farley was one of the worst addicts he'd ever met. "There was a big part of him that believed in God, but unfortunately he believed he wasn't going to be forgiven for all the things he did." Eventually it came time for Lorne Michaels to give Farley an ultimatum: leave the show and go into rehab. Farley had a year left on his contract with Saturday Night Live, but was let go as the show's cast underwent a series of rapid cast shuffles. In his brief movie career that was to follow SNL, he continued to bellow and fall down a lot. Seven years later, Farley returned to Saturday Night Live as a host. His voice was unbearably hoarse, his face shined with perspiration, and his massive size was visually alarming. Entertainment Weekly remembers: "there he was, wrestling with his demons for all of America to see. The result was a eerily prescient and morbidly ominous train wreck played for laughs." A tabloid reported that Farley had been drinking heavily during the week of rehearsals. He needed an oxygen tank. On the set of Almost Heros, he required almost constant hands-on caretaking. Farley was enthusiastically selected as the voice of Dreamworks' Shrek-- but the studio was unable to secure an insurance company willing to bond him. This news hurt. Saturday Night Live alumnus David Spade was respectfully regarded as the Stan Laurel half of their oft-paired comic duo. They wrote and developed material together, and they were great friends. He often tried talking Farley into slowing down:
"I'm not being callous, but I knew I was helpless.  Half the time he partied with fans he'd meet at a bar because they were the only ones who would stay up until 4 am on a workday. I much preferred hanging with Chris alone. I tried to give him the old it's not worth it and come on, you shouldn't be partying so much. He would always sit and listen to the lectures. He'd nod and agree. I thought I was so smart and that I'd articulated my case well, then he'd turn around and do whatever he wanted. I realize he played me." Farley had grown depressed and uncomfortable inside his body, but he was afraid to lose weight. He thought his largeness was expected of him by those wanting to see the "funny fat guy." Unfortunately, he couldn't attract members of the opposite sex, and he spent a great deal of money on hookers and escorts. Women didn't want to be with Farley when the lights were on-- and this more than anything else made him grow tired of being the buffoon. "You know, I've experienced Fatty Falls Down three times in movies now, and I know people come to see my movies for that; I'm very grateful, but I would like to explore a little bit more. I'd like to do something a bit more subtle, something more dramatic." For a long time, he'd been researching the life and times of Fatty Arbuckle an overweight celebrity from days gone by who'd led a remarkably similar life of partying, comedy, and tragedy. He began to develop a screenplay rich with humor and pathos, but nothing came to fruition. At age 33, Farley weighed two hundred and ninety pounds. He was found dead of a drug overdose in an apartment unit of the John Hancock building in Chicago, clad only in pajama bottoms. A white froth had gathered around his mouth, and blood-tinged fluid seeped from his nose. |


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UNN Witchcraft Conference: PFN Declares Two-day Prayer
by Donatus AnichukwuezeThe Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has called for a two-day “prayer of warfare” against the conference on witchcraft being organised by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).
Godwin Madu, chairman of PFN in a statement on Sunday in Enugu, also demanded the cancellation of the conference which he described as “sponsoring evil”.
Concise News reported that the event being organised by the B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy and Research in UNN, will take place between November 26 and November 27.
However, Madu said it does not “give God glory,” urging Christians to pray against it.
“We cannot fold our arms and watch our future dragged into what will not give God glory,” he said in the statement.
“To this end, the Church in Enugu has declared a two-day prayer of warfare. We must not allow this at a time like this, as we have had enough of ungodly activities in the country already. The Church should pray against those sponsoring evil in the state.”
He said Enugu state is “in the hands of God,” adding: “We will not hand it over to witches.”
“So, all Christians should, without further delay, call on the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the awesome God of David to fight for his name,” he said.


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if base_point is None:
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variance = 0
for i in range(n_points):
weight_i = weights[i]
point_i = points[i]
sq_dist = self.squared_dist(base_point, point_i)
variance += weight_i * sq_dist
variance /= sum_weights
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n_points = gs.shape(points)[0]
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weights = gs.vstack(weights)
if weights is None:
weights = gs.ones(n_points)
weights = gs.array(weights)
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sum_weights = gs.sum(weights)
if base_point is None:
base_point = self.mean(points, weights)
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âTMª I'll live in AJ's podcast for your Monday âTMª
âTMª Most wonderful show is âTMª
âTMª Keeping up with the Joneses âTMª
- Hey everybody, welcome back.
We're so glad that you're here.
- Hey, did Jones?
- Yes sir.
- How was your week?
- It was good, lots of meetings and Zoom calls.
- Did we do anything fun?
Nobody wants to hear about Zoom calls.
- No, did we do anything fun?
We're building our island on Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing, sorry about that.
Oh wait, although I'm not because I saw this great tweet yesterday.
So Animal Crossing is a game where it's basically
Playhouse for grownups.
And so the idea--
Yes, it's totally Playhouse for grownups.

And you plant bushes and put up fences and decorate rooms.
Catch butterflies.
Catch butterflies.
Yeah, catch and sell.
And complete distraction from reality.
However, yesterday I saw somebody
tweet using the hashtag Animal Crossing thing.
Yeah.
And in the game, you can buy and sell things.
And one of the things you want to buy and sell is turnips.
And so everybody wants to know what and the price changes
on everybody's eye on.
I promise the story is going somewhere.
We hope.
You're like, what do I tune into?
I thought this was going to be on feelings.
Yeah.
And somebody tweeted out, oh, like my turnip price is whatever
the price was.
And Elijah Wood, the actor, reached out to the person who
said, can I come to your island?
I've got a lot of turnips to sell.
So this person was like, sure.
So Elijah would came to her island and they hung out for like half an hour an hour.
And I was like, oh, I love it.
So funny.
Yeah, it's, it's fine.
Actually, Abigail has her own island now.
And so I go to her island and bring her stuff that she needs.
And she brings us stuff that, you know, well, she doesn't have that much at the moment.
But I saw a Twitter post by somebody who was like, yeah, they're doing math.

And then they were like, yeah, they're learning stuff
and doing science.
All you have to do is read about all the little plants
and things that they pick up.
So it's like, oh, okay, then my kids are doing great.
- We're not playing Nintendo, we're homeschooling.
- Yeah, we're homeschooling via Animal Crossing.
- Yeah, well that's our Animal Crossing update.
I'm sure that's the part that you tuned in for.
- That is definitely what you wanted to hear.
- We've been talking about feelings.
- We have.
- And we want to give a very big thank you
to everybody who's been tuning in.
Thank you to those of you who've watched,
who've been listening, who've sent in encouraging messages.
There's one group of people,
Adrian, I want to do an extended thank you to though.
And that is our patrons.
They are beautiful people just like you,
who support the show financially.
So they give about a dollar, well, from as little as a dollar,
up to whatever they want to give per episode.
And traditionally, one of the perks of being a patron
is that we released the video.
They get video access to it.
And so really, they've been helping us get video working.
Yes, because video is really hard and expensive.
Yeah. And so they've been super super helpful.
So I want to just say a very big thank you on behalf of aging.
I to all our patron supporters.
They have really made the video available to everybody in this season.
We made a decision when we started podcasting again, especially in this COVID season.
Excuse me.
Somebody's watch is not on silent.
I forgot to mute my watch.
I say that with judgment, but I'll need to check mine now.
We really want to extend a big thank you to our patrons.
When we started podcasting again,
it was at the start of the COVID, what do you call it?
- 19.
- The stay at home thing.
- Yes.
- And really we wanted to be with people
and videos such a compelling medium.
And we just made the patron privilege
of having videos available to everyone.
So thank you to our patrons for helping us
get up and run with video.
- Yes, thank you very, very much.
- Thank you to everybody watching.
If you would like to become a patron, super simple.
just go to allen and AJ.com/patron
and you can support the show from as little
as a dollar an episode
and you'll have access to all the videos as well
when we eventually return back to post COVID normality.
- Yes, but they'll also have access to outtakes
and stuff that the normal people will have.
- The normal people, whatever that means.
I don't know who the normal people are.
- Let's talk about normality.
- If you find the normal people,
please let us know, we'd like to meet them.
We've been talking about eight feelings.
It's the work of Dr. Chip Dodd.
He's written a brilliant book called The Voice of the Heart.
We've been encouraging everybody to read it
as we're doing the podcast.
We learned about it through Chip's organization
called Sage Hill.
We've done some of their training.
We've just found them to be an incredibly life-giving
organization.
We have really appreciated the Sage Hill people,
their staff.
We've just had tremendous experiences with them.
And so we're deeply, deeply appreciative of them.
We've been talking about the eight core feelings.
- EJ, can you memorize them?
Have you memorized them?
- I don't know if I have them in order.
I think, okay, you ready?
- I'm ready.
- Are you gonna, here's my question.
Are you gonna put a slide up on the screen
so they can't tell that I'm reading it off of a slide?

- So they would be hurt, lonely, sad.
Maybe we should play feeling charades.
Where I, you can't necessarily say what the charades should be.
Okay, you ready?
- Okay.
- So you got hurt, lonely, sad, the next one is.
- Matt, angry.
- Yes.
- Oh, fear.
That's not when.
- That's shame, clearly.
That's shame.
- I'm just gonna be shy.
(laughing)
- Maybe you should just read the list.
- Okay.
- Shame. - Keep going, this is good.
- Okay.
- Shame.
- Yeah.
- Pensive.
- Guilt.
- Pensive.
Was pensive ever on the list?
And then the last one is.
- It glides.
- Okay, well that was torture.
Okay, we got hurt, lonely, sad, angry,
fear, shame, guilt and glad.

- I really can't.
I still like, if Alan's like, how are you feeling?
I need to pull up this stinking chart on my phone.
- Me too.
- But I was looking at it every week for a while anyway.
- Yeah.
Well, we talked about these eight core feelings.
We've already talked about why there's only eight.
And here's the beauty of them only being eight.
Some people are like, "Ah, but that's super limiting.
"It isn't limiting, it's beautiful."
Because it forces you to A, have a common language,
which is really good.
But B, also helps you distill what you are feeling
made out of those eight core ingredients.
And the danger is, if we've been taught not to trust
our feelings, not to value them,
we end up with these kind of meta feelings
where we say appropriate things
that might not actually be true to what we're feeling.
So we don't say I'm feeling fear.
We're like, I have a little bit of anxiety.
I've got butterflies in my tummy.
We don't say that.
- I feel a little off.
- I feel a little off.
You know, these kind of vague,
that doesn't build into Missy or connection at all.
And our challenge to you last week was,
whenever you have something going on inside of you,
do the work of stopping and going,
okay, I'm feeling X.
What is X made up of if I had to put my finger
on one of those eight things?
And our encouragement is try using these eight things
'cause it moves you towards the truth
of what's going on in your heart
rather than the appeasement of what's going on in your head
that makes it slightly more appropriate to be with people.
- That's what I was gonna say is I have realized
as a contemplative person who often,
I'm thinking about something for ages
before it ever makes it out of my face.
It's helped me move from my head to my heart
to have only eight.
And then I can actually figure out what's going on with me,
where all of the other words that I want to throw at how I'm feeling
don't have a whole bunch of definitions,
so they didn't help me very much.
- Sure. - Yeah.
- And it serves you to be really truthful with yourself,
with God and with other people.
- Yeah. - And these feelings,
as restrictive as they initially felt,
have actually become incredibly freeing for me.
- Yeah, so good.
- Last week, we all also introduced the concept
that every feeling comes with two things.
It comes with a--
- An impairment. - Yes.
and a gift.
- And how do you get to the gift
and how do you get to the impairment?
- You get to the gift by feeling your feelings
and you end up in the impairment
by trying to avoid feeling your feelings
or just shoving it down.
- Yeah, so it's this amazing thing
that all of these gifts are actually blessings from God.
If you accept your human,
if you realize I'm feeling this feeling,
if you sit with the feeling,
if you don't run away from it,
if you sit with it, if you talk about it,
if you begin a process and get in touch
with what you're feeling,
eventually you find the gift that's inherent with that feeling. And as AJ said, if you
refuse to feel your feelings, if you're just, if you deny that that's what you're feeling,
what ends up is you end up with an impairment that begins to like, eat out of the side and
really begins to wreak havoc in your relationships.
Yeah. So last week we talked about hurt. And this week we're going to talk about lonely.
I was just thinking you didn't have to act out lonely. What would you have done for lonely?
I didn't have to act out lonely. Why don't I have to act out lonely?
Because I had already said, yeah.
I don't know. I would probably have done an interpretive dance.
Yeah.
Too bad you missed out on my own in the background.
Patrons look out for my interpretive dance coming later this week.
Beautiful.
Wait, now I feel like I have to do something.
Okay, give me my Lycra body set we're going for.
Oh dear.
Okay.
Loneliness. Before we can talk about loneliness, we have to talk about the two great needs
that every human being faces and that's the need to belong and the need to matter. And loneliness
speaks to both of those needs simultaneously. You're welcome. I lost the power of speech.
You know, it's all right. I'm here for you. When we're aware of our loneliness, when we're
feeling lonely, what it does is it actually motivates us toward getting both those needs
met, belonging and mattering. So the important thing to understand about loneliness is it's not a curse.
loneliness is actually a gift from God and you're like, Alan, how the heck does that make sense?
Yeah. Like, I don't like feeling lonely. Where is the gift in that?
Well, the gift in that is the Lord gave us loneliness so that we would be fuel to find relationship.
Because we're built. We're built for relationship.
So we'll move out of where we don't belong, which is feeling lonely. We experience this gift and
it motivates us to connection and to friendship. It's interesting in Chip's book, he actually brings
up the three different areas of loneliness that we can feel.
So you can feel lonely with God.
You can feel lonely with yourself and you can feel lonely with other people.
And I think when I read that, I was like, wow, yeah, I can relate to all of those things.

Do you know that when I'm talking about there's some like catchy thing, we'll make it up later.
Is that ancient Chinese proverb?
- Yeah, we'll edit him when the dance gets added in.
- Yeah, it's easy to see how you could be lonely
with other people,
'cause that's probably the one we're most aware of.

- Oh, yes.
- But this whole notion of being lonely with yourself
is something I never, never considered
until doing some group work,
until reading Chip's book.
Chip explains it as when we're lonely with ourself,
we actually begin to feel our feelings,
begin to feel what it's like to be with us,
we get an understanding of our heart
and appreciation for our heart,
which in turn gives us fluency with other people's hearts
and appreciation of other people's hearts.
And I thought that was beautiful.
The other thing he talks about is being lonely with God.

How could you possibly be lonely with God?
Well, think about it, like in my journey with the Lord,
it's always been the Lord pursuing me,
me getting more of God, me delighting in the abundance
of God, and then me realizing as much as I have,
I still want more.
- Yes.
- And that's because we're living on this side of eternity.
So we're, you know, eternal spirits
having a temporary human experience.
We long to be with God.
It says in scripture that God's set eternity
in the hearts of man, that hunger, that longing,
that desiring to be with the Lord is the loneliness that we feel.
And it started right after the fall.
The first game of hide and seek mentioned in the Bible is where Adam and Eve have sinned
and the Lord's going like, "Where are you?"
He doesn't already know.
Right.
It's like a child when you're playing hide and seek with a toddler, right?
The adult absolutely knows where the child is.
Adam and Eve, they laughed.
They were deeply lonely with the Lord and he went pursue them.
I had that this week.
I realized that I was, I don't know if I was angry at God.
I think I had feelings I didn't want to feel and a lot of them were about the Lord and I realized I was just hiding from the Lord
Like I'm like that's insane and what I didn't do was I didn't feel my loneliness
With the Lord I tried to avoid it by Netflix and by food and by video games
And eventually in the patience of the Lord actually what happened was I had a deadline for work
And I was like Lord you and I both know I can't accomplish this deadline without you
But it seems churchless with me sit down and just say could you give me answers for this test?
I actually need to be with you first of all and then suddenly being with the Lord course corrected all this
ungodly thinking I had about you know being with the Lord and yeah
You know all that sort of stuff, but that was my loneliness with the Lord being met with the Lord
Did any of that make any sense? Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was cute. You're so cute that it's distracting at times
I have to say I should just look this way
But there's a monitor where you can just see me. I know but I'm trying not to look at that. Okay
How's that working? It's looking it's working okay right now. What about if I take my shirt off? Oh dear
Back I've got her like that. So we know what it's like to be lonely with other people
I've tried to describe I don't know if I butchered it being lonely with God being lonely with ourselves
AJ Jones, what is the gift of feeling lonely?
The gift of feeling lonely
So if we choose to feel lonely then we ultimately end up with intimacy and connection and we saw a little bit of that last week
Didn't we?
Remember we were talking about feelings?
- Yeah.
- And you were talking about feeling lonely.
Remember we had, this is kind of like pillow talk.
You were like, I feel sad, I feel lonely.
And then I asked like, hey, what does it feel like,
processing?
You're like, I feel less lonely.
- Better, I feel less lonely.
- Here's the thing that I'm really angry about,
like passionate about is all of this stuff
that we're talking about,
if you only buy the book and read the book
or only listen to the podcast, it's not enough.
Because somehow it doesn't make sense.
So I sit with my Lola and suddenly I feel connected.
That does not make sense.
Yeah, it doesn't.
But it's like the best things in life.
I could describe how good chocolate is
or how sweet strawberries are.
But it's better if you eat the strawberries
and eat the chocolate yourself to get an understanding.
Right.
Feelings work in theory only is just,
it's gonna be empty.
So it's crazy.
You've--
You have to do the work.
You have to actually try.

One of the things we notice in group, when we do group work,
well, I might share and then the group facilitator might be like,
"Hey, who has feedback for Alan and what it's like to be with him?"
And just that process of being vulnerable with other people in a group,
even though they can't fix your problem,
even though they can't change the things that you might feel hurt, sad, lonely,
or whatever about, just actually doing the work of bringing your feelings,
making them visible to the outside, giving the gift of yourself to other people.
It's amazing how connected, how not lonely.
We joke because the gift of lonely is intimacy,
but it feels weird to say, well,
how do you feel being without it?
I feel really intimate.
So we find words to not sound like it's intimate.
I feel less lonely.
You mean intimate?
Yes.
But the--
- Known?
- Yeah, I feel known, feel understood, feel connected,
feel like a belong, feel like a matter.
- Yeah.
- Intimacy.
Connection.
Super important.
What about the impairment?
If we refuse to feel our loneliness,
which by the way, Chip says that loneliness is the feeling
that we as humans work the hardest to not feel,
which is a bold statement.
So if we're doing all that work to not feel lonely,
to deny our hearts, needs of connection,
what do we end up with?
- We end up with apathy.
- Oh, apathy.
- Yeah.
- And apathy is this impaired attempt to pretend
we don't care that we are lonely.
- Yeah.
- Which is really denying how we're made.
Right. So it never works. It really, you have to basically stunt everything to stay in apathy and not, you know, and not feel other things you're trying to avoid feeling.
Right. So think about it. With all the eight feelings, this is the one that human race is desperately trying not to feel.
Yeah.
And, you know, apathy is just this best attempt to deny how we're made. Like, I don't, I don't need people. I don't need connection.
And ironically, the thing that we most often run to is TV shows about other people who are not lonely.
So the reason we love friends and the reason we love, you know, all these TV shows is we get to sit on the edges of other people doing intimacy.
That's so funny.
It's true. Yeah.
Yeah.
But we try and hide or mask our our loneliness.
Yeah.
So I'm refusing to feel lonely because, you know what, like, I'm a dude.
I don't need all this intimate nonsense. Like I'm fine. You know what mean Jesus. We're best friends
I don't even need people. Yeah, I've got the me plus the Trinity has the majority
I'm totally fine. I don't even need connection don't need people right the religious line
Trinity so what is that how am I gonna be experienced like what's the type of stuff an apathetic person says
Stuff like I don't even care about that does it that doesn't matter to me right?
Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, the mayor it's fine
And we and we deride anybody else who's having legitimate connections. Yeah. Oh my god. Look at that person. They're so needy. They're weak
Oh my gosh. Look at them. Oh, you see you need people like I don't need people. I'm totally fine
It's like no you do you absolutely do you're built to need people yeah
And here's the other crazy thing is the Holy Spirit
Jesus the father they want to be in relationship with you like they want to have intimacy
They want to have connection. So if we haven't practiced the skills the same place in our heart where we connect with other people
It's the same place in our heart where we connect with the Father
So if we're like God is okay, but people will only let me down
So I'm not gonna be intimate with them. We're having a substandard connection with the Father
Well, it doesn't work because I think once you build walls against feeling your emotions
You can't just choose who gets to go on what side of it
I think you end up walling out God in the process of walling out people
Well, it says like, you know, you can't say that you love God whom you can't see but hate your brother whom you can
Like you're in total denial if that's your situation, which by the way was absolutely my whole life
So I'm preaching to the choir. You don't have a brother
I'm just kidding. Sorry
Let's go back and talk about sadness
Sarcaste on there somewhere yes
We'll get to sad sarcasm and chips at this in his book in his book the voice of the heart says this
This apathy is the opposite of love.
Loneliness acknowledges the need for love.
Apathy attempts to negate it.
Onack knowledge loneliness makes orphans of us all.
Chip.
I know it's brutal.
Why you gotta go there, Chip?
Oh, but it's so true.
David, King David, so good at feeling his feelings.
Like you read the book of Psalms, it's one big feelings journal.
All right.
He's having lots of feelings.
Feeling festival.
But one of the things about David was he was so good at feeling his feelings
And you can actually chart the path of his feelings and him finding the gifts. Let me read you this
This is Psalm 25 verse 16 and David said this he says turn to me and be gracious to me
For I am lonely and afflicted here. We're saying that his loneliness
Leads him to the Lord him feeling his feelings takes him to be with the Lord right he finds his need by feeling his feelings
He's basically like, "I am so lonely.
Would you come, please come be with me?"
Right. And he knows that God actually isn't threatened by us feeling our feelings.
Right.
We're allowed to feel our feelings.
We're built to have feelings.
God built us that way.
And that's one of the things I actually love about the Psalms is for those that want to argue that,
you know, we're not supposed to be emotional people.
Well, David certainly was.
And God said he was a man after God's own heart.
So it seems like feeling your feelings is actually maybe a really good thing.
Right.
The solution to our loneliness is to embrace the loneliness and find out where it
leads us, not deny it and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Right.
Which you can't anyway.

Right.
So pretending you're not lonely.
Yeah.
Like pushing that beach ball under the water.
Yeah.
It's going to, you know, come back up with spectacular results.
And the other thing is all you're doing when you're denying your loneliness is pretending you're not lonely.
Like you become inauthentic.
You actually move yourself further from the authentic relationships that you're built to have.
Yeah.
So we're talking about David.
That is Psalm 25.
By the time we get to Psalm 68, David says this, God sets the lonely in families.
Ah, wow.
I love that.
See, David has the revelation that this is what the Father wants to do for us.
In our loneliness, he wants to put us where we belong and where we matter.
That might not be your family of origin, by the way, the family you grew up in
might not be the place where you're going to feel like you belong in matter.
Like for me, our culture at Grace Center, I feel like I belong in matter at Grace Center.
I feel like I have a community of people who love me and celebrate me, even in all
my weaknesses and all my quirks.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful, beautiful thing when you find your tribe and you find the place where you belong.
And it's God's heart for you to experience that.
And if you're like, I haven't found that yet, it could be because you haven't been feeling your feelings of loneliness.
Yeah.
I think too, if in just thinking about the role of parents and their role is to call their children to life,
if we didn't have that in our families of origin, the Lord is so good that He puts other people around us
that will actually be the people that call us to life.
And those end up being usually like lifetime relationships.
But honestly, like when I think about who my family are,
they're all over the world in many ways.
And there are certainly, you know, plenty of them here
but there's plenty of them still in Toronto and whatever,
you know, that are, they are my family,
but they're not my blood,
but God put me in a family to heal my heart
and to teach me about trusting others and community and health.
- And it's beautiful to be able to go home,
so to speak, to be with the people that love you
and feel like you belong, feel like you matter.
- Absolutely.
- So what do you do?
We wanna leave you with this.
I mean, this is our third feeling
that we've been talking about,
your loneliness, if you feel your loneliness,
it leads to connection, leads to intimacy.
If you refuse to feel your loneliness
and you end up in apathy, which is this impaired attempt
to deny that you're human and you don't need other people.
So if in listening to this, if in watching these videos,
you're like, okay, it sounds like I need to do
some feelings work around lonely.
Where is the best place to start?
- I would start by journaling about it.
- Right.
- I would start by sitting with the Lord
and just being like, "Wow, I think maybe I am running
"from my lonely."
God, can we have a conversation about this?
- Do a lonely inventory.
Where do I feel lonely in life?
- Yeah.
- Do I feel lonely at work?
Who do I feel lonely with?
You know, do a little chart, okay, sorry,
left brainer wants to make a chart. But like examine, like just do this inventory of where
do I feel lonely? Where do I feel less lonely? Who do I feel less lonely with? Just begin to talk
to the Lord when we talk about journaling, we're just talking about writing out your prayers to the
Lord and listening for what he might want to have to say about that. We'll put a link in our show
notes where we teach four steps to journaling to hear in God's voice. But really, really powerful
first step of actually talking about your lonely. If you're in a community of people who are listening
to this podcast altogether and you've got some historical friendships with these people,
begin talking about like what does it feel like for you to be lonely. I want to jump in a little
bit with a personal testimony. I mean, I am very, very acquainted with lonely. I didn't realize
I was but in doing group work, I began to realize, wow, I am so familiar with the feeling of lonely
and I've built really elaborate systems to try and get the needs of lonely met without having to
feel lonely, which is by the way, disaster. But one of the things, Aj and I commented on,
since doing this healing work, I would say pre doing the feelings work, I realized that a lot
of the men, especially that I really esteemed that I really looked up to all had one thing in common.
Now, I didn't know this before doing this, where I didn't have the vocabulary for it,
but they were all very smart people, but they were all people who had excelled at being okay
with being lonely and not feeling lonely. Yeah. I mean, that's a clunky way of saying it.
So there were people, leaders, men who, you know, when I was around, I'm like, oh, they validate
my approach to life, which is, you know, fortress of solitude. I'm fine. Just me and Jesus and I've
I've got a wife and that's great.
And then the more and more work I did around feelings
when I would be around these people,
I would be like, what has happened?
Like, what's wrong?
What's happened to them?
And it's just like, there's nothing wrong with them.
Like, nothing has changed since the last time you saw them.
What's changed is your appetite for connection.
And I'm like, oh, and I had this realization
that actually I'd built my connection, my identity,
around not needing people.
And now that I'm a needy person who desires connection,
I'm realizing where previously these people
was scintillating conversation for me now
when I'm with them, I'm just like,
I feel really lonely with them
because we're talking all about abstract stuff up here
and never going near the heart.
And so it's so funny what that does.
And I'm realizing, gosh,
how many people have felt lonely with me over the years?
I had a dear friend, I have a dear friend
and we were talking a couple of months ago
about this feelings work
And he said, Alan, my experience of being with you prior to you doing this healing work was me constantly thinking of interesting things to keep your attention.
Because if you weren't interested, it felt lonely being with you.
And I was like, I am so that sounds lonely being with me.
And he said, and now like being, you know, having you haven't done this feelings work, I feel like I can connect and be with you.
And I'm not trying to think of complex things that might interest you.
And I'm like, Oh, and that that what he was
describing was such a familiar feeling for me.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, that's so sad so lonely.
Yeah.
I think my lonely manifested a little bit differently.
Like we were talking before the show about, you know, can I remember seasons of
loneliness?
I can remember years and years of loneliness.
Uh, you know, particularly teenage late, late teenage, early twenties, you know,
uh, before I started going to the church in Toronto and started, uh,
experiencing healthy family. Right. But I would say I had as a survivor. Apathy was a great tool for
me. Oh, of course. Because as long as I didn't care, then it didn't matter what had been done to me.
It didn't matter how much more was going to be done. It didn't matter about anything really.
If I could shove that thing down and just survive it, survive everything. And I remember coming in
contact with like John and Carol and other people that are safe people for me in Toronto.
And they did feel things and they did show real emotion and they did, you know, cry and
all the things that I didn't allow myself to cry.
You know, like just feelings were something I wanted as far from me as humanly possible.
But I knew I was so lonely.
- Yes.
- And I sort of got affronted by that
'cause I couldn't choose God
and choose the Holy Spirit and choose lonely.
And so I remember just feeling like everything was sort of,
wow, this is all new and scary.
- Right.
- 'Cause now I have this choice of,
wow, do I live life the way I'm created to live?
Or do I continue surviving life?
- Right.
which was working for me, but it wasn't working for me.
You know?
- What about now, like, in starting all of this feelings
work and having new language, what have you noticed
in our relationship and your relationship
for other people and our appetites for connection?
Like, what do you notice is shifted?
- I would say, oh gosh, what shifted?
I cry more.
I feel things more and let myself feel things more.
I really only want authentic and real relationship.
I don't want to do shallow.
I don't want to do surface.
I never really liked shallower surface before,
but I use that as an excuse to back away from everybody.
So I think there's probably a lot different.
That's a good question.
I probably want to contemplate it a little bit more.
What have you seen?
- I was just thinking, I went for some ministry
many years ago, like three, maybe three and a half,
four years ago, I went for some ministry.
because the most, and this is before I'd done
any feelings work, the largest presenting issue
in my life at that time was boredom.
And my boredom was leading me to sabotage
my personal and professional relationships
'cause I was just bored.
And so I booked some ministry with some really skilled
ministers and I go in to see them and it's Denise and Ginger.

And I'm like, well, you know, the kind of the biggest presenting issue for me is in my personal and professional life, I am constantly bored.
And I'm worried that in my boredom, I'm beginning to sabotage relationships because I want something more.

And they said, we found that boredom is just loneliness with a touch of anger.
Now, I hadn't done any of this feelings work at all.
So I, you know, and I'm not even sure if they were using this terminology.
I didn't know.
I was like, yes, a lot of my life like that apathy.
If you think about a teenager, you know, who doesn't want to feel their feelings like,
"Hey, you having a fun time?" like, "Oh, I'm just so bored."
You know, we're going to move to this, to interest me.
I'm not engaging.
For the bulk of my adult life, I have been bored.
Yeah.
And in today's parlance, I would say that I was feeling lonely with anger, anger for connection.
And so I remember, I don't know when it was maybe six months ago,
A.G. and I were out for dinner. Being bored is a terrible thing for a pastor to be,
because I'm paid to care and sit and be with people. And if I'm all of a sudden bored,
like, you know, people are going to feel that boredom. You cannot hide what you're feeling.
It's going to come out. And we've had a couple of those
Confidentions, one time, A.G. and I had to do an interview, one time, A.G. and I had to do an interview for a
position at Grace and we're interviewing a staff position. And I was having a, I was having a really bad
attitude. And so, A.G. and I went out for dinner with this person who's being interviewed for this
position. And it became fairly clear, fairly early on that this was probably not going to work out
position. So now I've got to the end of the point of why I'm here. Like within about five minutes,
I'm like, this is probably not going to work. And so in my head, I'm like, well, we're done,
you know, like there's no point, you know, but we've just ordered our starters, we still have the
main course and dessert. So I am struggling to maintain connection. Now, please, please understand,
this is me being dishonoring. This is me being immature. This is me not on my best behavior. This
this is not kind to the person we're with,
but I'm thinking they probably don't even notice, right?
I'm thinking I'm hiding how bored I am.
- Well, yeah, I think we were both struggling
and I just used the kids to help me check out.
Like they were there and I needed, you know what I mean?
Like, so I think we both checked out of the conversation
but we didn't think it was that obvious that we had.
- I thought we were super skilled at hiding how we're feeling.
- Yeah.
- Well, this person rightly so is so dishonored
that they actually send an email to our HR person at the time
and just saying, hey, thank you for the weekend.
It feels like this is not going to be a good fit.
We really enjoyed meeting you.
Can we be honest though?
We had a really negative experience with Alan and AJ.
They just felt really bored.
They felt really disconnected.
And so, you know--
And they were right.
And they were right.
And I was like shocked.
But I'm so good at hiding what I'm feeling.
Nobody's good at hiding what you're feeling.
Everybody is experiencing what you're experiencing
of the time. And I mean, I tell that story with chagrin, with sorrow, with deep sadness,
I wrote to that person and I apologize to them. I said, Hey, you called it correctly.
I, you know, I can't apologize enough. I was unprofessional of me. It was un-Christlike of me.
It was not kind of me. But that was me refusing to feel that I am lonely in this situation. And
I'm just thinking the problem was them. I tell that story as a contrast to say, that wasn't an
uncommon feeling for me to be to be bored. Yeah, I mean, I would say I've noticed the more that
I've been willing to feel emotion, actually, the more I feel connected to people. And so I enjoy,
I enjoy the stories more. I really want to get to know people. Where before I probably really
wanted to get to know some people, right? Where now I really enjoy everybody. Like, I'm enjoying
people's stories. I'm enjoying people because I'm actually willing to feel stuff.
That was the crescendo I was reaching to. Oh, like now, what's fine. Now what I've realized is,
and you've, you know, I've said to you, we've gone out for dinner with people as, you know,
we're in pastoral, we're meeting with people, and we won't be having a meeting. And I'm like,
I'm loving their story. I'm wanting to be with them. I'm feeling way less lonely. I'm, you know,
want to ask questions because my curiosity is leading me to want to connect with people.
And that sadly is like a new feeling for me.
Yeah, in the last couple of years.
Yeah.
But I love it.
So good.
So there you go.
Feeling lonely is a gift from God.
It will lead you to connection.
I highly encourage you doing it.
One of the things that everybody needs to know.
We're talking about places to belong and matter.
We have the glorious opportunity of working at Grace Center,
which as a culture as a church, places a high value
on the healing of the heart and on connection
and wholehearted living.
And we have a school of, really, of transformation.

- Right. - It's called
The School of Supernatural Life.
It starts in September, runs through to April.
Our applications for the school are open.
You would come here, you would do the school
in gorgeous Franklin, Tennessee.
And it's gonna be the 11th year
that we're running the school, is that right?
- It is, yeah, this is. - 11 years
we've been running it. - Yeah.
The school now has three years.
They're all optional.
So year one is the main year that most people do.
And then if you wanted to continue,
you could do year two or year three.
And the applications closed June 15th.
So yeah, we're excited about this year
and I'm super excited about some of the speakers
we already have booked for this year.
So yeah, it's really exciting.
- We'll put a link in the show notes.
You can watch videos and test mains
of people who've absolutely had their life transformed just in eight months.
It's amazing.
A.G. and I have the privilege of doing a large amount of teaching on the school.
We bring in just experts in their fields from all over the world to come and
minister and it's open to everybody as long as you've finished high school.
Our youngest student has been 17.
Our oldest student has been 77 full range.
I don't know.
Yeah, 70 some runs on Mondays and Tuesdays will put a link in the show.
would really encourage you if you're looking for a change,
if you're looking for something more full living
than come to our school of supernatural life,
would love to have you.
If you're listening to our dulcet tones in your ears,
you might be interested to know
that you can watch the video version of this podcast
on our YouTube channel, which half of us didn't know we had.
- I didn't know we had a YouTube channel until this week.
Alan was like, I was trying to watch the podcast
and I was watching it on Instagram.
And the one that he does for Instagram,
it goes back and forth between our faces, you know?
And I was like, oh, okay.
He like, where's the full video?

And I was like, we have a YouTube channel.
So--
- So we do, we have a YouTube channel.
If you go to youtube.com/allen and AJ,
you can watch these videos in all their high definition glory.
We are posting these videos to Instagram TV too.
If you are a person who likes Instagram
and you wanna watch videos in a vertical mode,
We edit them to fit that format too.
So you can listen to them in your ears
and in a podcast client, you can watch them on video.
And I can't think of anything else to say.


Cheryl Spriggs
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Current employer: Fusion Academy Denver, Current Occupation: Teacher
Undergraduate studies in Human Performance and Sport, Post-graduate studies in Elementary Education
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Though I have been quite active on many parent boards and organizations over the past 10 years, my most significant contribution was to the CCA Foundation. I served on the 5-member board of the Cherry Creek Academy Foundation about 6 years ago. We made financial decisions for school upgrades and equipment based on the needs of the school, desire of the parents and the budget. We carefully reviewed the results of parent surveys to address the greatest needs impacting the greatest number of students.
I have donated to the Colorado Children's Campaign in recent years. This organization advocates for legislation to support education for children in Colorado. I did purchase a book and hat from Dan Crenshaw, which may have been considered a contribution to his campaign for Congress in Texas this year.
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It is essential that this commission include the perspective of the average Colorado mother who is not tied to one political party or the other. Most of us in Colorado are moderate and the people of Colorado deserve someone like myself who will stand nothing to gain from redistricting except the opportunity to serve her community. It came to my attention recently that this work needs to be done. I have been considering ways that I can serve my community and this seems like the right way to use my energy.
As a long time practitioner of yoga and meditation, I strive to find a state of equanimity in everything. I do not get attached to candidates, elections or the outcomes. I simply live my life to the best of my ability. This has been an extraordinary year to listen to people with conservative and liberal ideologies and to look for the ways we can connect and support each other. I tend to be a mediator. I know that independent of your political allegiance, deep down as humans we all have the same basic desires, we simply have different ideas about the right path. We are complex and our conversations should be nuanced. Politics should not be "us versus them" but rather, we should always be seeking ways to find common ground and working together to accomplish great feats. I frequently have conversations with people who I may not agree with, but my mindset is to seek for understanding.
As a teacher and mother, I am constantly challenged to analyze and strategize. When I am faced with a difficult decision, I often seek mentors, have conversations about it and also take alone time to reflect and analyze. I know that better decisions are made from a place of care and grace and I strive to be in that place. My meditation practice allows me to reset and refocus myself on a task when stuck. This practices also allows me to engage in critical thinking because of the impact on the parasympathetic nervous system. Overall, I would say anybody who knows me would agree that I am reasonable, logical and level-headed. I will seek to understand all sides of an issue to unite people.
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