And it was Beautiful: Marcelo Bielsa and the Rebirth of Leeds United

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Firstly, I’m a big Leeds United fan and have been for many, many years. I can recall Don Revie, Howard Wilkinson, David O’Leary and the many other managers that have run the team at Elland Road over the years, brilliantly or badly. Perhaps only Revie comes close to Bielsa for his determination and commitment to the club, and that was in the days when managers and players were far more likely to stay with the same club. Imgflip supports all fonts installed on your device including the default Windows, Mac, and web fonts, Going to bed hungry. Scrounging for scraps. Your planet was on the brink of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. You know what’s happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It's a paradise." This book deserves a lot. For one, it deserves a reviewer that is not just an older angry queer teen sitting in their bed below a 'Pits and Perverts' poster they printed at an Office Depot 3 towns over, desperately trying to cover their face the whole time. But since I inexplicably am the way I am I'll give it a decent shot. Because for years, the Reality Stone has been safely stored there with a man we call the Collector."

Kara blogged regularly throughout her cancer journey, and her readership grew steadily. She wrote honestly about the battle she was fighting, how it affected her not only physically, but spiritually as well. One of Kara's goals was to find God's goodness in the midst of her suffering, and He was faithful to help her find it. Kara wrote beautifully about this in her first book, The Hardest Peace. In her last months, she also coauthored Just Show Up, a book about living in community and walking through times of suffering with others. This book is excellent in its recounting of not only history but the people behind the history as well. We follow the history of Gran Fury and related art/propagandist organizations. As time passes, the reader follows as members branch away and form new groups, as groups morph into something new, and as people die of the same disease they fight to make seen. This author has taken extreme care to show the person behind each movement/action. I loved hearing some of the jokes these larger-than-life people had between each other because they are so similar to the jokes I share with my queer friends. But random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a madman, and what I predicted came to pass." really incredible in its scope. holds both the political factors as well as the interpersonal ones as vital and weighty. its ability to create context—within US politics, within ACT UP, within a friend group—helps the whole thing cohere magnificently.From "Always Move Toward" (105+): "Jason and I are very simple in our practices when it comes to parenting. Through the little years, we lived with a basic philosophy: love is kind. That has been the filter through which we look at all of our parenting. If love is kind, then discipline is kind. If love is kind, then even at our most irritated we don't have permission to leave the realm of kindness. This is definitely no small feat, no easy thing to accomplish. But it has served us well. Those three simple words have marked our young years raising children and loving one another. When we have gone outside the boundaries of kindness, it has been our humble opportunity to apologize and ask for forgiveness. Now our children are getting older and the struggles they face are more complex. The principle of kindness will never be outgrown...but I have a new extension of that, simply a variation on the theme of kindness: always move toward. The best picture I have of this is that of Jesus continually moving toward me. His face is always toward me, always gently pursuing, always desiring nearness. Even when I turn away, act out, or move toward my own ends, He stays ever focused on moving toward me, not away. And while this has been my approach to the kids, it has spilled over into my relationship with Jason. My heart's desire is to always be moving toward those people in my life I love so very much. I will fight against the distance, always." As the one year marker of Kara's "[flying] away to the land of no more tears" (p. 246) approaches, reading this book has been a fresh reminder to me of the ways Kara inspired us to look for the grace in every situation. How very blessed I was by her words, and how very much I miss her voice here on earth. At the same time, your cultural moment won't last forever. Be efficient and use your window while you can, because eventually you won't be making headlines anymore. The remarkable success of the gay liberation movement has always highlighted visibility. Slogans like ‘ love is love’ , ‘Gay pride’ or ‘born this way’ are anthemic clarion calls to love’s universality. Rainbow flags and boisterous artwork is displayed proudly; all of which would be unthinkable with the activism Stonewall and Supreme Court’s Obergefell V Hodges (2015) decision. I became aware of Kara Tippetts' story and her blog, Mundane Faithfulness, shortly before her death last March. Like most people (I assume, anyway), I don't like thinking about death—especially death we would consider "untimely." I didn't read much of Kara's blog for that reason. But recently I learned about And It Was Beautiful, which is mainly a collection of writings from Kara's blog, and something told me to read it. I'm glad I did.

In her final book, And It Was Beautiful: Celebrating Life in the Midst of the Long Goodbye, Kara shows us that as we turn toward this truth of suffering, Christ's Love pours out more freely both into and then out of us. For in drawing near to the truth, we draw near to Him: our Way, our Truth and our beautiful Life. This is a history of public art (mainly posters with some window displays and performance pieces) used to fight AIDS, with most of the work done by a subgroup of ACT UP New York called Gran Fury, although the piece I was most familiar with, SILENCE = DEATH, predates that collective. Then he told them what they could expect for themselves: “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat—I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how." For those who have had cancer touch their lives or the lives of loved ones, the notion that any part of it could be a gift sounds offensive and insensitive. Yet it was this that drew me to And It Was Beautiful and author Kara Tippetts. Kara was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2012 and passed away in March 2015 at 38, leaving behind a husband and four children. And It Was Beautiful is a posthumous collection of writings from her blog Mundane Faithfulness.

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Where this book comes into its own though is through the chapters exploring the recent history of the club. Some startling revelations such as Ashley Barnes not being signed because Luke Varney who was already at Leeds was rated on Football Manager or Massimo Cellino dismissing the catering staff and leaving nobody to replace the milk in the fridge at the training ground. But once we faced it honestly, something happened. Peace ran through the nooks of avoidance. The stress lessened and the grace to face the new hard entered the crevices of unbelief. We are kept, closely kept near to Jesus in the midst of our story." Phil Hay is a fantastic football journalist as evidenced through his work for both the Yorkshire Evening Post and more recently the Athletic. He has levels of access to the inner workings of Leeds United than most journalists and gives an incredible insight into the inner workings of Leeds United both past and present.

I understand that for some people seeing a coffin is really confronting and they might not want to do that, so I didn’t want mine to be in the main space of the party – I really didn’t want anyone to feel like they’re being pressured into facing something that they weren’t ready to face. So it was off to the side, in a little covered balcony area. People could take the time to go there if they wanted, or not, if they didn’t. It was. And it was beautiful. Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."I finally rest. And watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills." For the author, the hardest part about dying was that she would not be there for the family she loved so much. She wanted to be there to see her husband as a grandfather and her children as grown-ups. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. The outdoor light trail will be closed on November 20, 21, 27 and 28, as well as December 4, 11 and 25. First entry to the outdoor light trail is 4.30pm and last entry is 8.30pm - but times may vary throughout the event.

Yeah, but that's just it. It wasn't. For me, it was five hours. See, the rules of the Quantum Realm aren't like they are up here. Everything is unpredictable. Is that anybody's sandwich? I'm starving." To call the book moving is to fail to do it proper justice. Of course, dealing with the topics of death, grief and the suffering that comes with a debilitating disease is going to be emotional. For Kara however, along with the anger and frustration there is also an incredible opportunity to see grace revealed in the midst of this great pain. It is here that Kara finds the gift of cancer such as how she and her family have found an incredible love and compassion, from family and friends who have disrupted their own comfortable lives to enter into and join in their suffering. She writes that they have: It was at a tiny little community hall and up on stage there was a bed and sort of altar my friends had made, where I sat for most of the proceedings: we called it my throne altar. Because I’m in a lot of pain and don’t have heaps of energy, I knew I needed a space where I could just lie down and people could just come up on to the stage and sit with me or whatever. As a Leeds United fan I had been looking forward to reading 'And it was Beautiful' since I heard about it. always move toward. The best picture I have of this is that of Jesus continually moving toward me, always gently pursuing, always desiring nearness. Even when I turn away, act out, or move toward my own ends, He stays forever focused on moving toward me, not away."

With all six Stones, I could simply snap my fingers. They would all cease to exist. I call that... mercy." sunglasses, speech bubbles, and more. Opacity and resizing are supported, and you can copy/paste images The Lord is [indeed] near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth."