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Victoria sits down with the one and only YiaYia for a heartwarming and deeply personal conversation about life, love, loss, and legacy. YiaYia shares the incredible journey that shaped her resilience, wisdom, and faith from her parents' arranged marriage in Greece to building a family in Chicago. She opens up about meeting Papou, their timeless love story, and why she never sought another partner after his passing. Plus, she reflects on grief, the power of keeping life simple, and the most important lessons she hopes to pass down to future generations. Get ready to laugh, cry, and cherish every word of this beautiful conversation with the matriarch who's seen it all.Sponsors: AG1: AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You'll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3K2 and 5 free travel packs in your first box! So make sure to check out drinkag1.com/realpod to get this offer! The Knot: Let The Knot be your partner in all thing wedding planning. Get started at theknot.com/audio.Premier Protein: Visit premierprotein.com and go to Where To Buy to find a retailer near you or to find where to buy online. NO BULL: Visit nobullproject.com/realpod for 30% off your entire order.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nous jetons l'ancre au large de Chios en Grèce, chez Dimitris Giannodis retourné sur la terre insulaire de son grand-père et Nikolas Koulepis, arrivé à Bruxelles par amour... Né à Bruxelles, Dimitris Giannodis est anthropologue de la musique et de la danse. Pour renouer avec l'histoire familiale, il décide de faire le chemin inverse de son Papou venu travailler dans les mines à La Louvière. Depuis une dizaine d'années, passionné des chants et des danses du Dodécanèse, il est retourné vivre sur l'île de ses ancêtres Nikolas Koulepis grandit à Rhodes, élevé par sa mère. Il commence à travailler vers douze ans enchainant les petits boulots pour subvenir au besoin de la famille. A l'âge de seize ans, il décroche un boulot dans un hôtel et découvre la pâtisserie. Sur son île, il rencontre Pauline qui étudie à Bruxelles. Arrivé pour des vacances dans notre capitale, ses plans sont chamboulés. Secondé par celle qui est devenue son épouse, ce grand travailleur monte un atelier où la tradition française côtoie avec raffinement les saveurs grecques Chaque dimanche, Adrien Joveneau jette des ponts entre les cultures à la rencontre de ceux qui ont osé le changement. A 9 heures sur La Première et en podcast parmi des centaines de destinations sur RTBF Auvio.be Grèce - 16/02/25 Merci pour votre écoute Les Belges du bout du Monde, c'est également en direct tous les dimanches de 9h à 10h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes des Belges du bout du Monde sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/432Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

In this episode of The Connector, host Arielle Leavitt brings together Dee Keller, a strategic advisor, Papou Koliopoulos, an artist and fashion collaborator, and Maya Sharfi, a career and executive coach, to explore the intersection of creativity, strategy, and personal growth. They discuss the balance between logic and artistry, the importance of trusting yourself in both business and creative pursuits, and how meaningful connections shape careers and communities. Tune in for an inspiring conversation on embracing the unknown, redefining success, and the unexpected paths that lead to opportunity. Connect with them on Instagram: @dee.keller @papou____ @maya.sharfi

Senátorem za Brno-město se stal už v prvním kole doplňovacích voleb bývalý senátor Zdeněk Papoušek. „Oslovil mě předseda Senátu Miloš Vystrčil,“ vysvětluje své rozhodnutí usilovat o mandát po zesnulém senátorovi Romanu Krausovi (ODS). „Zároveň se ukázalo, že tato věc má podporu mnoha stran, takže vznikla neobvykle široká koalice, která mě podpořila,“ dodává. Proč změnil stranu, kterou v parlamentu zastupuje? A co bude prosazovat? Poslechněte si rozhovor.

Senátorem za Brno-město se stal už v prvním kole doplňovacích voleb bývalý senátor Zdeněk Papoušek. „Oslovil mě předseda Senátu Miloš Vystrčil,“ vysvětluje své rozhodnutí usilovat o mandát po zesnulém senátorovi Romanu Krausovi (ODS). „Zároveň se ukázalo, že tato věc má podporu mnoha stran, takže vznikla neobvykle široká koalice, která mě podpořila,“ dodává. Proč změnil stranu, kterou v parlamentu zastupuje? A co bude prosazovat? Poslechněte si rozhovor.Všechny díly podcastu Dvacet minut Radiožurnálu můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because Gods love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous personthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Rom 5:1-11 ESV) As we begin a new year, many of us are filled with hope and expectation. We set resolutions and goals in anticipation of making even more of the year ahead. However, we dont really have control over the actual outcomes. Illness can beset us. We may experience the sudden loss of someone close to us. National or global events beyond our control can intrude upon our lives, affecting our businesses, jobs, or financial situations. On top of the uncertainty of life, we are constantly bombarded with stories of what could potentially go wrong. Will the stock market crash and take your retirement fund along with it? Will the economy enter a recession and cause my company or department to downsize? What if this country goes to war with that country? Now, the question that I want to address today is: how do we, as Christians, think about and address the uncertainty of this world and suffering when it happens to us and those close to us? When contemplating this passage in Romans, I thought of a story and what it means to rejoice in suffering as a believer in the risen Messiah. This story is about a Chicago lawyer and businessman named Horatio Spafford. Now, Horatio had invested much of his wealth in real estate in the city. Unfortunately, most of these properties, and thus much of his investment, were reduced to ash during the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871. The fallout from this loss and the work that he and other property owners in Chicago had to undertake to rebuild and restore would take years. The scale of this tragedy cannot be overstated. Over 17,000 buildings were destroyed, and more than 100,000 people (1/3 of Chicagos population) were homeless. If this were not enough, the Spaffords young son died of scarlet fever at the age of four not long after the fire. A couple of years after the fire, Horatio decided to take his family on a trip to Europe to escape the constant work and stress of rebuilding. Who wouldnt want to get away after all that had happened? He and his family were also going to meet up with and help the famous evangelist D.L. Moody, who was working on the continent at the time. However, some urgent business came up that needed his attention as the trip neared, so Horatio sent his wife and four daughters ahead of him. One week after the ship set sail, it was violently struck in an accident by another boat at two in the morning. Because of how the ships collided, the vessel the Spafford family was on sank within 12 minutes. Of the 313 people on board, 226 perished. All four of Horatios daughters perished that night. His wife, Anna, was found unconscious, held up by floating debris. Nine days after the accident, Anna landed in Europe and sent a telegram. It read, Saved alone. What shall I do? Upon receiving the message, Horatio booked the first passage he could find. However, this was during the 1800s, so this was far from a rapid process. One night, the captain called Horatio aside and informed him that they were currently sailing over the location where the ship carrying his family had sunk. As I contemplate this situation, I cant help but ask myself how I would have responded. Would I be overcome by anguish or anger? Would I have broken down and wept or shouted out words of rage at God for allowing such a thing to happen? Instead of either of these things, Horatio returned to his cabin to attempt to try to sleep and felt a sense of comfort and hope overcome him. He wrote down these words, It is well; the will of God be done. These words would soon become his timeless hymn that resounds with so many gospel truths. The name of that hymn is It Is Well with My Soul. It is worth reflecting on that there is a similar story in the Bible. Job, the man God Himself called blameless and upright, lost everything he owned in a single day. Additionally, his sons and daughters all died that very same day. Job responded to these events with the statement, Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD (Job 1:21). Notice the similarities? These are not words of quiet resignation or defeat. The LORD may give, and He may take away. In the words of Horatio, the will of God will be done. However, regardless of what happened to these two men, their response is instructive and encouraging beyond belief. Despite what comes, the believer can say, Blessed be the name of the LORD, and It is well with my soul. Now, these stories may be inspiring, but youd be right in asking, How do I develop that kind of abiding faith and trust in God? It is so easy to marvel at the faith of others. But the reality is that knowing the stories is not enough. These same types of tragedies, and many more besides, can happen in our lives. Thankfully, as in all things, God does not leave us alone. And I know this because the verses we are looking at today have been my anchor through the most challenging times in my life. They acted as my north star, the way that God guided me through trials and kept me traveling on the path that leads to Him. So, lets dive in. 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. The chapter opens with the word, therefore. This means that what Paul, the apostle who wrote this letter, is about to say directly follows what he has already said. It is essential to keep this at the forefront of our minds as we read scripture; what is the context? Uncountable numbers of irresponsible teachings have come through taking verses out of context and misapplying them. So, lets take a high-level view of what was said in the letter before our passage today. Paul was writing to the believers in Rome in anticipation of him traveling there, something he had long wanted to do. He wanted to accomplish several things. The letter to the Romans primarily concerns the gospel; Paul wanted to unify the church in Rome around the good news of Christ. Romans is a great place to start if you want a comprehensive understanding of the gospel message. Additionally, Paul wanted to prepare for the missionary journey he was planning to Spain; he wanted the Roman believers to help him on his way after he was able to visit them. Finally, Paul wanted to get in front of a growing division in the church between Jewish and Gentile believers. The focus for our study today aligns with the primary purpose for which Paul was writing: the good news of what Jesus has done. Or, as we more commonly call it, the gospel. Paul starts his letter by pointing to the grandeur of the universe as proof of Gods existence and that we can even learn some things about Him through creation. However, many, instead of worshiping the God who created everything, worshiped the things He made. 20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature,have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but theybecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22Claiming to be wise, they became fools,23andexchanged the glory ofthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24ThereforeGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, tothe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,25because they exchanged the truth about God fora lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,who is blessed forever! Amen. (Rom 1:20-25) Paul addressed this because pagan worship was the norm in the Roman Empire. It is important to note here that the people Paul is talking about were the ones who exchanged God for created things in nature. God allowed them to choose and gave them up to what they wanted. N.T. Wright perhaps sums up this concept best. You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship. N.T. Wright This is a critical point that Paul made. It spoke directly to the heart of Roman culture and society. And it speaks directly to ours as well. The Romans, like the Greeks, worshipped a pantheon of gods who were very human in nature. They were spiteful, filled with lust, and sought their own pleasure above the good of others. Paul was saying that if you venerate that type of activity, you will act the same way. Now, consider our culture today; we may not wrap it up in religious language and ritual, but it is the same. Think about the lyrics of many of the most popular songs today. Consider the lives and actions of celebrities and others that our society lifts up and puts on a pedestal. Reflect on how often we are told in advertising by the rich, powerful, and famous how if we only buy this item or consume this service, we will be as happy and fulfilled as they are, or supposedly are. Think about how society as a whole treats marriage as trivial or that it is entirely ok to objectify other human beings, especially with what is deemed acceptable to view on the internet for our own pleasure. Paul then addresses those who did know about the one true God, namely the Jewish nation. However, instead of commending them, Paul has a very different message. What he said was precisely what Jesus did. It doesnt matter that you come from the line of Abraham or how well you know the Old Testament Law. God cares about and judges people based on what we actually do. 12For all who have sinnedwithout the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.13Forit is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. (Rom 2:12-13) And if we stop for a minute and honestly look at our own lives, this is what we see. We know at our core that there is an absolute standard for good and evil. We know that saying one thing and then doing another is both hypocritical and wrong. We have all, myself included, done things that genuinely hurt other people, damaged relationships, and were contrary to what we know in the deepest parts of ouor being are good and right and holy. Paul quoted the Psalms to sum up this point. 10None is righteous, no, not one;11no one understands;no one seeks for God.12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;no one does good,not even one. (Rom 3:10b-12) Now, this is a pretty bleak letter so far. This is not something that you read at the beginning of a year to feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Were left with all of these questions that seem pretty important and rather urgent. What if there is a creator of the universe? Spoiler alert: there is. And what if He genuinely cares about right and wrong and how we treat each other? Another spoiler alert: He does. If weve all fallen short, and there are consequences for that, is there something that can be done to restore ourselves to God? And here is the best spoiler alert: There is. Paul tells us how this happens. 21But now apart from the law the righteousness of Godhas been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.22This righteousnessis given through faithinJesus Christto all who believe.There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,23for all have sinnedand fall short of the glory of God,24and all are justifiedfreely by his gracethrough the redemptionthat came by Christ Jesus.25God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,through the shedding of his blood (Rom 3:21-25a, NIV) And there it is, the gospel, the good news that Paul based his entire letter around. There is a God who created both us and the universe we live in. He is perfectly good and, therefore, has made a moral law that we all are to live by. However, all of us fall short and sin. This causes a separation between us and God. However, God did not see fit to leave us as we are. He sent Jesus to live the life we never could and die the death we deserved so that we could be reconciled to Him. This is the good news that Paul was proclaiming. So, we return to the opening verses of our passage today. 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. We now see what the therefore is there for. We were separated from God, but we can now be justified before him by faith. And because of this good news, that we have been justified by faith, certain things happen in the believer's life. First, we have peace with God. You see, it wasnt that we were just separated from God. We were, in fact, working against Him and were enemies. In another letter, Paul said, 21Once you were alienated from God and were enemiesin your mindsbecause ofyour evil behavior. But now he has reconciledyou by Christs physical bodythrough death to present youholy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation (Col 1:21-22, NIV). We just wrapped up an extremely deep study of the book of Ephesians here at Meadowbrooke. Remember what we were told in that letter about the state we were in before being saved? And you weredead in the trespasses and sins2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, followingthe prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work inthe sons of disobedience3among whom we all once lived inthe passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the bodyand the mind, andwere by naturechildren of wrath, like the rest of mankind. (Eph 2:1-3) When Paul says that we now have peace with God, he doesnt mean that we have a tranquil state of mind or something like that. Instead, when we become followers of Jesus, we go from being against God or an enemy of God to having peace with Him. Remember what Paul said earlier in the letter. Nobody is righteous; nobody does good. But it doesnt stop there. We arent just in some truce or ceasefire with God. What has happened is so much more glorious and incredible than that. We also, through Jesus, have obtained grace. Now, grace can be a mysterious-sounding religious word. All it means is that somebody has received unmerited or unearned favor. It means we dont deserve the favor or good things God freely bestows on us. Remember, we all sin and fall short of the glory of God; we all were, by nature, children of wrath. The Greek word that is translated here as access literally means to approach or to bring into. We are brought into Gods grace and can actually have a personal relationship with Him. How much has changed because of what Jesus has done for us. We who were enemies not only have peace with God but also can draw near to Him and have a personal relationship with our Creator. Finally, we can rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And given what we have just read, there is so much to rejoice in. But again, there is something even more glorious behind these words. We rejoice not just in our newfound peace with God or our ability to be brought into His grace. We rejoice in the hope of something else. The word hope in our English language is quite weak. Typically, it means something like, I hope this year is better than the last or I hope my team wins the Super Bowl this year. It expresses the desire for something to be true, but with the realization that it may not turn out that way. However, the Greek word employed here means something more like joyful and confident expectation. Our hope is in something that we are confident and sure of. Tim Keller remarked on this passage that, Christian hope is not a hopeful wish it is a hope-filled certainty. But what is it that we are hopeful for? If we were to poll random people about what they most hoped for or were most looking forward to regarding the promises of God, we would likely get a broad range of answers. Many would almost certainly revolve around seeing loved ones again or being eternally happy and without pain or suffering. However, notice what Paul says here. His focus is on the glory of God. More than his own happiness or desires, the reason for Pauls rejoicing is in the hope of being in the presence of Gods glory. John Murray remarked on this passage, [Believers] are interested in the manifestation of the glory of God for its own sake. The glory of God is their chief end and they long for and hasten unto that day when with undimmed vision they will behold the glory of God in its fullest exhibition and vindication. What this means is that the hope of the Christian is not in the hope of our wants, desires, and comfort. Instead, our hope is in being with and living within the glory of God. The focus is on God, not on us. John Piper put this better than anybody else I have heard. He said, The critical question for our generationand for every generation is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there? Pauls answer would be a resounding no. What makes the restored heaven and earth what they will be is that we will finally be with God in all His infinite glory. Everything else pales in comparison to that. And any heaven without that is no real heaven at all. Now, Paul has covered a lot of ground in his letter so far. The people listening to this being read for the first time would have been on a real rollercoaster of a ride. First, they heard about this God who is powerful and mighty enough to create the entire universe in which we live. But then they heard that this God is also perfectly good and, therefore, has a moral law. They, just like all of us, broke that law. And they, just like us, broke it repeatedly. They heard about how this created a separation between humanity and God, a chasm we could not overcome ourselves. However, when everything seemed lost and without hope, they heard about how God, through Jesus, redeemed them, and they were now justified. This justification was not through anything they had done but what Jesus had done for them. They heard that they did not have to try to earn Gods merit, and in fact, they never could. They heard that what God really sought after was their hearts and faith in Him. Finally, because of that faith, the believer has peace with God, access to Gods grace, and the hope-filled certainty of witnessing God in His full glory one day. What an experience it must have been to be the first people to hear this letter being read. Can you imagine hearing this fantastic news? Then, the church in Rome would have heard the words, Not only that Wait! There is more!?! What more could there be after being told this fantastic news? I can only imagine sitting there and anticipating new promises and hopes the apostle was about to relay. Instead, the audience heard, Not only that, but werejoice in our sufferings. Wait what? We rejoice in our suffering? Werent we talking about drawing close to God and witnessing His glory? But this is reality, isnt it? When we decide to follow Jesus, all the hardships and suffering weve experienced dont magically disappear. We still get sick. Our finances dont magically improve; we all dont suddenly receive private jets and mansions. We still lose loved ones, and we all certainly still experience getting older and all the wear and tear that comes from that. As I reflect upon this past year, the single word that comes most to mind is difficult. This was a challenging year for our church family, and we had to go through things, including church discipline and the termination of a staff person in a pastoral role. Individuals and families in our church have also been going through extremely difficult things. There have been cancer diagnoses, losses of family members, struggles with chronic illnesses, sudden visits to the ER, heart issues, urgent and completely unexpected surgeries, and many, many more things besides. Personally, this last year, especially the past six months, has, if Im being completely honest, been extremely difficult. Due to an autoimmune disease, my health spiraled to a place I have not experienced in over a decade. This resulted in a 10-day stay in a hospital after losing 15% of my body weight and a substantial amount of internal bleeding. But, more importantly, it put a lot of strain on my marriage and meant I was less present as a father than I should be. The stark reality is that suffering is still a part of our lives. It has real impacts on us and those around us. But, as well see, faith in Jesus is not about the cessation of pain and suffering but instead giving that suffering over to God in faith that He will use it for good. Paul lays out how this looks for us: 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because Gods love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Notice here that Paul says we rejoice in our sufferings, not because of our sufferings. Paul does not say that suffering suddenly becomes pleasurable for us or trivially easy to endure. He does not say that God is giving us a way to prove ourselves to Him or earn His favor by persevering through hardship. Instead, we rejoice in our sufferings because of something we know. We know that suffering can produce something within us. That something is endurance. For most of my life, and by that, I mean since I was eight, I have participated in endurance sports. This has included distance running, cycling over 100 miles in a day over multiple mountain passes, and summiting 20,000 ft peaks. I bring this up because I have learned a lot about myself and quite a bit about endurance through these activities. The first is that endurance is not something magical you hope to have on the day of your event. It is something that you train for diligently. It may take months or even years in some cases to train your body and mind to accomplish the goal you have set before yourself. It is possible to train and not reach the goals you set. However, if you dont train, the goals will forever remain out of reach. And the thing about training is that a substantial amount of suffering can be involved. Mile repeats hurt. Hill training on a bike can be painful. Interval sessions have left me draped over the handlebars of my indoor trainer like a rag doll. Watching cyclists or other endurance athletes achieve the incredible can be awe-inspiring, often making it look easy. However, it isnt. What we witness when we watch world-class athletes is the outcome of a lifetime of training and preparation. And I can tell you from experience, every day Ive had where Ive looked like this, cycling up mountain passes feeling in great shape and like I could tackle the biggest of obstacles, Ive had many more days where Ive looked a bit more like this. The key here is that, like in athletics, in life, endurance is not something that happens automatically or magically. It is something that is produced. And often, the production of endurance happens through the crucible of suffering. But, unlike endurance training for sports, the type of endurance Paul talks about is not the end goal. It serves a greater purpose. You see, our character is also changing when we develop spiritual endurance. Now, this word in Greek doesnt just mean something like, He is a really good person and has good character. Instead, it is about something proven, or something tested and found to be approved. An example of this can be seen in Pauls letter to the Philippians concerning his protg, Timothy. 22But you know Timothy'sproven worth, howas a sonwith a fatherhe has served with me in the gospel.(Phil 2:22) The phrase proven worth is the same word that is translated as character. And to some extent, weve all experienced this. If we have endured something before, when we have to endure it again, there is a confidence we didnt have before. Or, thought of in a different way, if you had to go into battle with somebody, would you rather go with a special forces soldier who had been on multiple deployments or somebody who has never been through military training but plays their fair share of Tom Clancy video games? The choice is easy, right? What Paul is saying here is that when we go through suffering, endurance is produced. And when we endure our trials and tribulations, we are tested successfully or, as Paul says, our worth is proven. But Paul does not stop there. He says that this testedness produces something else: hope. And here we return to this idea of hope. Remember, this idea Paul is talking about can be best thought of as a hope-filled certainty. As we go through suffering, the endurance and character that result produces an ever-greater certainty that God is exactly who He has said He is and that His promises are sure. Paul then offers a proof of this. He states that hope will never put us to shame because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. In fact, the relationship between the believer and the Holy Spirit is so close that he has been poured into our hearts. I had mentioned earlier that these verses have been my anchor verses through suffering. That is not an understatement in any way. I had grown up in the church. In fact, I heard hymns and the words of the Bible before I was born. As I grew up, I did all the church things, camps, and confirmation; I even started participating in lay-level leadership roles in my church. If any of those things sound a bit foreign, it is because I grew up in the Episcopal tradition. Ultimately, instead of letting God into my heart and being the Lord of my entire life, I was going through the motions. Especially in college, my life looked no different than anybody elses. Remember those verses from Ephesians about living in the passions of our flesh and carrying out the desires of the body and the mind? That was me. Until that is, God got ahold of my heart. A group of us in ROTC decided that we wanted to start getting serious about our faith and started going to church together. We formed our own Bible study and as a small community of college-aged believers, we began trying to figure out what it meant to be Jesus followers. To make a long story very short, one of the members of this group would ultimately become my wife. As we deepened in our faith together as a group, I was drawn to what God was doing in her life. However, two weeks after we started dating, I started noticing an immense amount of pain in my abdomen and, even more concerning, evidence of internal bleeding. I started losing weight at an alarming rate and was ultimately diagnosed with an autoimmune condition called ulcerative colitis. Effectively, my immune system goes into overdrive and starts attacking and causing ulcers and a crazy amount of inflammation in my large intestine. Unfortunately, I have a rather severe form of the disease that affects not just a part of the intestine, but the entire thing. As is common with autoimmune diseases, finding the therapy that worked for me took a long time. Because of the severity of my diagnosis, this ultimately led me to being hospitalized seven times in the first 18 months following the onset of my symptoms. In addition to the pain, frustration, and confusion over what was happening, other things also started falling apart. A military career was now no longer an option for me. Because of the impact the disease was having on my body, I was sleeping 12-16 hours a day and was unable to continue pursuing my master's program. What is more, because of how the insurance I had purchased through the university was structured, it did not cover costs from chronic illnesses beyond $20,000. But through it all, God was working on my heart and my mind. He was showing me things about himself that I would likely never have learned had it not been for this. He was teaching me that my future job was not what defined me. Who I am in Jesus is what defines me. He was teaching me that the highest goal in life is not academic or professional achievement (Im a bit of an A-type personality and struggle with making my life about accomplishments). Instead, He showed me that following Him is the highest purpose in life. Now, perhaps the most incredible thing about this entire story is that Michaela stayed by my side throughout all of it. We had only recently started dating, but she was there for everything. I can still remember her voice as I was coming out of anesthesia after the scoping procedure that resulted in the diagnosis of the disease. I was insanely sick, my planned career was completely shattered, treatments werent working, and I had a sum of medical debt that was growing increasingly large. There were so many times when I felt absolutely lost and without hope. Yet, because of this community of people, especially Michaela, I was constantly reminded of God's goodness and how He works all things for the good of those who love Him, even if we dont see it in the moment. The Bible was my source of refuge, reminding me of the eternal promises of God that transcend our momentary afflictions. Things ultimately improved for me, and through a lot of help from my doctors and a lot of prayer, my condition was able to be controlled. There were still some rough points, and I experienced the occasional flare-up, but things returned to normal. Michaela and I got married, we found a way to pay off the medical debt, and life seemed to be going just fine. But what I didnt know at the time was that as I was going through all my medical issues and seeing Michaelas character displayed, God was showing me what it means to stand beside somebody as they are suffering. About two years after we got married, Michaela started showing symptoms of something, but the doctors couldnt figure out what it was. Finally, they had her stay on a heart monitor for an extended time, and the results were so concerning that the hospital in Laramie told us that we needed to come to the hospital here in Cheyenne because they were not prepared to deal with whatever the issue was. When Michaela arrived here, they took an Xray, and they found out that there was a mass about 12cm in diameter in her chest next to her heart. We were once again told that she needed to go to another hospital because the one here had no idea what was going on. However, this time, she had to travel via ambulance. We had come in the same vehicle, but as she was leaving in an ambulance, I followed in the car we brought over. It was such a good thing that it was the middle of the night because I was an absolute mess. If there had been any traffic whatsoever, I probably would have crashed. On that drive, I was confronted with an absolutely petrifying truth. There was nothing I could do for my wife but pray. I was helpless in the face of whatever it was that she had to face. I could not protect her, and I could not save her. And this was an earth-shattering realization for me. Of course, we all intellectually know that our time here is limited and that when it is time for us to leave this world, there is nothing we can do to stop it for ourselves or those we love. However, facing that reality directly is an entirely different notion. The radical realization that I had was that in this situation, she was entirely in the Lords hands. The even more radical realization I would only have reflecting later on, was that this is true every moment of every day. I just dont live like it. To capture this idea in his book The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis wrote, God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. This has been precisely my experience. The eternal truths that God exists, that we desperately need Him, and that He alone is sufficient for all our needs are sometimes most clearly heard when we are in our most desperate times of need. Upon arriving at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, we learned that the mass was a tumor, and it was an advanced stage of lymphoma. The doctors recommended that she start an aggressive form of chemotherapy immediately. We didnt have time to go home and talk about it. We didnt have time to prepare in case the therapy made it difficult or impossible to have kids. It was almost as if everything had been put onto tracks, and we were just along for the ride. Now, soon after all of this happened a good friend of mine who has been a mentor in many ways to me came by and prayed with us. Her prayers included pleas for healing, comfort, and everything else we typically lift up to God during these types of events. However, she prayed something else as well. She prayed that our hearts and minds would be open to what God had to teach us during this time of trial. It literally felt like a physical switch turned in my head. Despite all that I had been through, and all God had done in my own heart during my battles with illness, I had not stopped to consider that God may have something to teach us here as well. And teach He did. I learned how incredibly strong of a woman He made when He created my wife. I learned that I am not sufficient for her; only Jesus is. I learned that life can be extraordinarily fleeting and what we consider normal and act like will go on forever can end in an instant. Michaela spent the following months going to Denver for a week of treatment every three weeks. I tagged along and slept on the pullout bed on the couch in her room. That was our lives for almost four months: two weeks at home and one in the hospital. When I had to travel for work, her mom took my place. Now, you may be wondering who the better caretaker in our relationship is when the other is undergoing adversity. The answer is Michaela. You may also be wondering who deals with suffering better. The answer is also Michaela. Ultimately, Michaela completed the chemo regimen and has been in full remission for almost 10 years. Despite not being able to make alternative preparations, we have two incredible boys who are miracles in the fullest sense of the word. It can be easy to praise God and extol His greatness when things work out the way we hope and pray they will. However, there will come a day when I and everybody else whom I love will draw in their last breath. And in those moments, God still deserves all the glory and all the praise. I want to relay one more story before I wrap up about one of those times. My stepmoms father, my grandfather, or as we called him, Papou (that part of my family is Greek), had been extremely sick for a long time. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His wife, my Yaiyia, was a missionary in Kenya when he proposed to her in a letter. After starting their young family, they moved to Athens so he could pastor a church while they served as missionaries. When they moved back to the States, their home was always a place of love where all were welcome. Toward the end of his life, he was unable to care for or even feed himself and had to be placed in a home to receive the care he needed. As the end of his life was drawing ever closer, he came down with a severe infection that left him almost entirely incapacitated. One day, some of our dearest family friends were visiting him. As they prepared to leave, everybody gathered to pray, potentially for the last time, over this man who had lived his life faithfully for God. However, before anybody else had a chance to speak, this saint (by the way, if you are a follower of Jesus, you are a saint as well) who could not feed himself or even sit up started to pray. I was not there to hear these words, but they still reverberate in the deepest part of my being more than a decade later. Our precious heavenly father, he said, we just cant thank you enough. You have been so good to us. That is the strength that a life lived in the service and love of God bestows upon a person. The Christian lives not in quiet resignation in the face of a world that can be so cruel and cause so much suffering. Instead, the Christian can raise a triumphant cry that in our weakness, the strength of the Lord will be made perfect, and that is enough. We can, as Job did, bless the name of the Lord, come whatever may. We see this in the letter to the Corinthians: 9But he [God] said to me [Paul],My grace is sufficient for you, formy power is made perfect in weakness.Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so thatthe power of Christ may rest upon me.10For the sake of Christ, then,I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. Forwhen I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor 12:9-11) This is why Paul ends this passage with a reiteration of the gospel message. Even though each of us who follow Jesus has the real experience of having the Holy Spirit residing within us, there also is an objective truth for all to see. Christ came and died for us while we were still sinners. And this point is even more important than the point that we are physically broken and endure sufferings in this world. That point is that we are spiritually broken and separated from God, desperately in need of a Savior. Reflect with me on these closing verses. 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous personthough perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Jesus did not wait until we were perfect and had everything figured out before he came to die in our place. Instead, he came when we were still in sin, weak, and enemies of God. Unlike us, who so often act out of self-regard or do something because we view somebody as good and deserving, Jesus came to save us while we were still standing in complete opposition to God. This is the incredible news of the gospel. As much pain and suffering, as much physical brokenness that we may experience in this world, it is nothing compared to the spiritual sickness we suffer because of our separation from God. We all were far from God before coming to Christ, but he died in our place regardless and rose again, conquering death. We are justified, reconciled, and saved by what he did. And if you dont know Jesus yet, all you must do is accept him as your Lord and Savior and begin walking with him. Before we leave, I wanted to review some of the things I have learned from other believers and scripture about how to endure times of suffering. None of this is groundbreaking, but it works. Dont wait until you are in suffering to prepare If you wait until the morning of a marathon to train, it wont go well for you. The same is true here. If you wait until the moment of your trial to prepare, you are too late. Be in your Bible daily The stories of those who suffer in scripture are incredibly instructive and helpful. The principles you will learn from this book will help you in your time of need. But I never would have had these verses constantly in my mind and nourishing my soul if I had not read them. God uses scripture to help His followers in their time of need. Build relationships with fellow believersWhen Michaela and I have experienced times of suffering, it is the people of God, the Church, who have helped us more than anybody else. I have experienced the benefit of having somebody just come sit with you. Recently, while I was in the hospital, several friends visited throughout my stay. Mostly, we talked about the goodness of God. It helped me raise my eyes above my situation and stay focused on my Lord and Savior. Pray without ceasing Pray for those who are going through trials. Ask others to pray for you as you endure suffering. The Church was designed so that each member could help one another. And as you pray, follow Gods Spirit in how you can help. If you feel drawn to visit somebody who is ailing, go. If you feel called to cook them a meal, do it. Look for what God is trying to teach you Until our dying breath, we are running our race. As believers, we are walking down that narrow path that leads to Jesus. That path can be difficult and filled with obstacles sometimes. But even in our worst suffering, God is faithful, and He works all things for the good of those who love Him. If you let Him, He will develop in you: endurance, character, and a hope which will never be put to shame. Even in our greatest trials, He is still so incredibly good.

Papouška Báru máme od jara. Je to Senegalec a v popisu tohohle druhu jsem našel, že je známý svou specifickou povahou. Autor těch slov by se uplatnil v diplomatických službách, protože decentněji se to napsat nedalo.Všechny díly podcastu Rozhlasový sloupek můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

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Mezinárodní výzkum, na němž se podílí také čeští vědci, identifikoval v papouščím peří dva typy chemických látek odpovědné za jejich zbarvení. První je aldehyd a druhá se mění na karboxylovou kyselinu. Rozdíl mezi červenou a žlutou barvou peří pak závisí na tom, kolik těchto látek peří obsahuje. Za tím, jakou barvu peří papoušků má, stojí ale i fyzika. Studie vyšla v jednom z nejprestižnějších vědeckých časopisů Science.

Mezinárodní výzkum, na němž se podílí také čeští vědci, identifikoval v papouščím peří dva typy chemických látek odpovědné za jejich zbarvení. První je aldehyd a druhá se mění na karboxylovou kyselinu. Rozdíl mezi červenou a žlutou barvou peří pak závisí na tom, kolik těchto látek peří obsahuje. Za tím, jakou barvu peří papoušků má, stojí ale i fyzika. Studie vyšla v jednom z nejprestižnějších vědeckých časopisů Science.Všechny díly podcastu Magazín Experiment můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

00:00 témata Magazínu Experiment00:33 biosenzor k odhalení selhání ledvin04:29 správná funkce ledvin a kreatinin08:44 výzkum betonu11:06 umělá inteligence a spotřeba energie14:54 etické využití umělé inteligence18:08 tajemství barev peří papoušků

00:00 témata Magazínu Experiment00:33 biosenzor k odhalení selhání ledvin04:29 správná funkce ledvin a kreatinin08:44 výzkum betonu11:06 umělá inteligence a spotřeba energie14:54 etické využití umělé inteligence18:08 tajemství barev peří papouškůVšechny díly podcastu Magazín Experiment můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Do polštiny přeložil scénáře Formanových, Passerových i Papouškových filmů, Havelkovy „Vlastníky“ i libreto k Janáčkově opeře „Z mrtvého domu“. Mluví plynně česky a zazářil v hlavní roli Cieslarova filmu „Pramen života“. Česká kultura ho velmi inspiruje, v Polsku je jejím ambasadorem. Připadá si někdy v Polsku jako Čech? A co má rád na naší rozhlasové tvorbě? Ptá se Michal Bureš.Všechny díly podcastu Vizitka můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Do polštiny přeložil scénáře Formanových, Passerových i Papouškových filmů, Havelkovy „Vlastníky“ i libreto k Janáčkově opeře „Z mrtvého domu“. Mluví plynně česky a zazářil v hlavní roli Cieslarova filmu „Pramen života“. Česká kultura ho velmi inspiruje, v Polsku je jejím ambasadorem. Připadá si někdy v Polsku jako Čech? A co má rád na naší rozhlasové tvorbě? Ptá se Michal Bureš.

Končí prázdniny, v pondělí začíná školní rok, a přesně o půlnoci na zítřek se má na internetu objevit vládní návrh státního rozpočtu na příští rok, nejdéle utajovaný návrh rozpočtu od pádu komunismu. Důvodem oněch tajností mělo být, aby se ministři napřed dohodli na tom, kolik mohou pro své resorty získat, a nevedli o to boj na veřejnosti, a výsledek této snahy je napjatě očekáván.

Končí prázdniny, v pondělí začíná školní rok, a přesně o půlnoci na zítřek se má na internetu objevit vládní návrh státního rozpočtu na příští rok, nejdéle utajovaný návrh rozpočtu od pádu komunismu. Důvodem oněch tajností mělo být, aby se ministři napřed dohodli na tom, kolik mohou pro své resorty získat, a nevedli o to boj na veřejnosti, a výsledek této snahy je napjatě očekáván.Všechny díly podcastu Názory a argumenty můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Voliéru s kmeny, provazy, ptačími budkami i úkryty z trávy, která je navíc dostatečně velká, aby se ptáci mohli proletět, vybudoval Pavel Maslák z Jezdovic u Třeště.

Empate com o San Lorenzo encaminhou a vaga para as quartas da Libertadores? Deyverson terá lugar permanente no time ou é reserva do Hulk? Qual competição o time deve priorizar? Quais são os grandes líderes do time atual? Com Henrique Fernandes, Carol Leandro, André Ribas e Rogério Corrêa.

Má za sebou praxi v několika přírodních rezervacích, hlavně u slonů. Ale životním osudem veterinářky Heleny Vaidlové se stali papoušci. „Papoušek je společenský tvor, není žádný solitér, žije v páru nebo v hejnech. A když žije doma sám, tak doporučuji, aby měl ptačího kamaráda,“ vysvětluje veterinářka, kterou moderátorka Lucie Výborná navštívila doma v Kralupech nad Vltavou.Všechny díly podcastu Host Lucie Výborné můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Má za sebou praxi v několika přírodních rezervacích, hlavně u slonů. Ale životním osudem veterinářky Heleny Vaidlové se stali papoušci. „Papoušek je společenský tvor, není žádný solitér, žije v páru nebo v hejnech. A když žije doma sám, tak doporučuji, aby měl ptačího kamaráda,“ vysvětluje veterinářka, kterou moderátorka Lucie Výborná navštívila doma v Kralupech nad Vltavou.

Magazín Máme rádi zvířata zavede za chovatelem novozélandských papoušků nestor kea, nabídne informace o onemocnění kloubů osteochondróza a také vysvětlí původ přirovnání „mokrý jako myš“. K poslechu zve Jitka Cibulová Vokatá.Všechny díly podcastu Máme rádi zvířata můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Retrouvez Aldrick, qui s'est immiscé dans l'enceinte de l'Université Le Havre Normandie, pour rencontrer Mundiya Kepanga, et son traducteur Marc Dozier, un chef papou qui devient Docteur Honoris Causa... crédits : Marc Dozier

Jaké úrazy si dokáží přivodit křečci nebo osmáci degu a je pravdivé přirovnání hloupá jako ovce? Na tyto otázky vám dnes odpovíme v pořadu Máme rádi zvířata.Všechny díly podcastu Máme rádi zvířata můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Papoušci jsou naším zrcadlem. Napodobují nás, ztvárňují naše emoce. Tím nám mohou pomoci zorientovat se sami v sobě. Na tomto principu vystavěli Romana Bočková a Michal Vaniš obor, jehož jsou průkopníky: ornitoterapii. Všechny díly podcastu Dopolední host můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

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Záchranná stanice Sunny days z Králík u Nového Bydžova přijala pod svá záchranná křídla už přes 70 papoušků, kteří se ocitli v nouzi. Tady opravdu každý papoušek najde své místo. Každý z nich má svůj jedinečný hlas i osobnost, která také obohacuje tento speciální domov.Všechny díly podcastu Host ve studiu můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Záchranná stanice Sunny days z Králík u Nového Bydžova přijala pod svá záchranná křídla už přes 70 papoušků, kteří se ocitli v nouzi. Tady opravdu každý papoušek najde své místo. Každý z nich má svůj jedinečný hlas i osobnost, která také obohacuje tento speciální domov.

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Kakapo soví, novozélandský papoušek který nelétá (4:26) – Procházka květnovou oblohou (21:01) – Sopka Komorní hůrka, dějiny geologie a Johann Wolfgang Goethe (26:52) Všechny díly podcastu Planetárium můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Kakapo soví, novozélandský papoušek který nelétá (4:26) – Procházka květnovou oblohou (21:01) – Sopka Komorní hůrka, dějiny geologie a Johann Wolfgang Goethe (26:52)

Mluvící papoušek

Aktuální dění očima Jana Krause každé ráno 5:00 – 9:00 vždy po zprávách v celou a v půl exkluzivně na Frekvenci 1. Vtipně, originálně a s nadhledem, tak to umí jenom Jan Kraus. Blondýna Miluška Bittnerová se ptá na vše, o čem se mluví, a Jan Kraus jí to vysvětlí.

I papoušek může mít plnou hlavu starostí. Když je utrápený na duši, ztrácí peříčka i dobrou náladu. Majitelé si s ním potom nevědí rady. O papoušky v nouzi se už řadu let stará společnost Laguna, která sídlí v malebné vesničce Luka pod Medníkem. Velkou voliéru s jejich handicapovanými papoušky najdete i v pražské Botanické zahradě Na Slupi.

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“Papou a disparu en mer. Malheureuse, Max ne décroche pas de la plage où elle garde espoir de le voir revenir. Durant l'interminable attente, Max rencontre une nouvelle amie. Ensemble pourront-elles retrouver papou?”

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Hace diez años, Francia se convertía en el decimocuarto país en legalizar el matrimonio igualitario así como la adopción por parejas del mismo sexo estableciendo también un marco protector legal para la filiación de esas familias. Un combate álgido tanto en la calle como en la Asamblea Nacional que ha dejado huellas. Diez años más tarde, los avances para las parejas del mismo sexo y sus familias son tangibles. Pero queda trabajo en el camino hacia la igualdad.   Un día de primavera en la pequeña ciudad de Flers, en Normandía, a dos horas de París. Ojos brillantes, pelo recogido y manos pequeñitas, la máxima ilusión de Margaux en esta tarde nublada es subir a su nuevo trampolín en el jardín amplio y florido.Al entrar en la casa de piedra típica de la arquitectura normanda, lo primero que destaca es la pared de la escalera llena de fotos de la familia: de la más pequeña de la casa, de Papou –Yamisel Santana-  y de Papa – David Boisjot Santa.Con la aprobación de la ley y su confirmación definitiva por el Consejo constitucional el 17 de mayo del 2013, las parejas del mismo sexo que desearan casarse obtuvieron los mismos derechos sociales, fiscales, de sucesión y de filiación que las parejas heterosexuales, respondiendo así a un clamor de varias décadas del movimiento LGBTQ+ en Francia. Yamisel y David Boisjot Santana se casaron en 2015, dos años tras la aprobación y varios más de vida común: “Decidimos casarnos para poder seguir avanzando en la vida que queríamos”, recuerda Yamisel."Queríamos proteger nuestra pareja porque el Pacs, el pacto civil de solidaridad que podía contraer cualquier pareja desde 1999, no ofrecía la misma cosa que el matrimonio -también nos casamos porque nos queremos -pero también teníamos ganas de adoptar y también queríamos reivindicar el derecho de casarnos y tener los mismos derechos que los demás", agrega David.Al principio, la adopción, que la ley votada en el 2013 permitió, no era prioridad, “eso vino poco a poco, con el tiempo, con la estabilidad que teníamos en la pareja. Lo primero era instalar las condiciones socio económicas para estabilizar nuestra familia”.Entre todos los requisitos psicológicos y sociales que hay que reunir, la estabilidad financiera es capital sobre todo si se opta por una adopción en el extranjero porque, además de los trámites y los abogados, hay que contemplar viajes, estadías y periodos largos sin trabajar.Un proyecto en ColombiaCuando Yamisel y David comienzan su camino de adopción, acuden a Colombia, por la buena reputación del país en esa materia, por su transparencia, siendo tan tortuoso y largo el camino de la adopción en Francia para cualquier pareja. Yamisel recuerda que tras la primera reunión de información a la que asistieron en el 2017 se desanimaron mucho y decidieron no continuar “porque nos pintaron el mundo de la adopción en Francia, sobre todo para las parejas del mismo sexo, como misión imposible”Luego retomaron en otra localización donde el panorama se despejó: “Las personas nos recibieron bien. Lo primero que planteamos fue que somos pareja del mismo sexo y como vimos que no había problemas, entonces seguimos”.Una serie de procesos que se tramitan en las instituciones departamentales les permite obtener un valioso documento que indica que la pareja está apta para adoptar en Francia y luego en el extranjero. "Habíamos empezado en Colombia, habíamos censurado la idea de tener un bebé porque a las parejas homosexuales les dan en adopción a los niños más grandes, a hermanos y hermanas. Habíamos avanzado bastante con nuestro proyecto colombiano. También habíamos hablado mucho de lo que sería adoptar niños más grandes... Y un día que estaba trabajando, recibí una llamada del Consejo departamental que maneja las adopciones. Me dijeron que nos querían ver al día siguiente”, sonríe David.“Sabíamos que era para anunciarnos algo. Nos recibieron de manera muy formal, nos mostraron una foto de Margaux y nos dijeron, 'esta es su hijita' y la van a conocer el martes. Era viernes. Y ahí....o sea  caímos en cuenta que tendríamos un bebé y empezó un fin de semana frenético. Estábamos locos de alegría y al mismo tiempo con mucho estrés porque teníamos que preparar la casa. Nos reusábamos a preparar un cuarto sin niño porque teníamos que seguir con nuestra vida y si nunca llegaba ese momento....Nuestras amigas nos regalaron todo lo que necesitábamos. No hicimos baby shower. Y el martes 16 de febrero del 2021 conocimos a Margaux que acababa de cumplir tres meses, y una semana después estaba con nosotros. Alcanzamos a tener su cuarto listo y Papou había preparado una linda decoración.”La llegada de MargauxEn menos de dos años, Yamisel y David se convirtieron en padres y fueron la primera pareja de dos hombres, en el departamento de l'Essonne en Isla de Francia, que consiguió adoptar. En tiempo récord. Eso fue en gran parte posible gracias a una nueva psicóloga que acababa de integrar los procesos oficiales de la adopción y venía con la misión de “hacer cambiar las cosas”.“Cueste lo que cueste, iba a presentar proyectos de familias del mismo sexo para ver lo que lograba. Nos dijo que éramos los primeros y que no seríamos los últimos”. Es difícil trasladar cómo brillan los ojos de Papou y Papa cuando cuentan la llegada de Margaux. La pequeñita fue abandonada por su madre biológica a su nacimiento de manera anónima bajo una figura legal llamada "bajo X". La chiquita que pronto entrará a la escuela maternal sabe que la cigüeña no tiene nada que ver en esta aventura y que su familia es diversa. Los padres primerizosAl llegar Margaux a casa, se abre un nuevo capítulo con los temores y los tanteos de los padres primerizos. Al principio, para estar a la altura, los padres se imponían estándares casi inalcanzables. Pero poco a poco se dieron cuenta de que “no queríamos ser la pareja de padres perfecto para la sociedad ni para nosotros. Queríamos simplemente ser padres, tener todos los problemas que tienen todos los padres y madres de este mundo, un niño que llora a las 06:00 de la mañana, ser igual que los otros, tener un niño, que llena la casa de alegría”.Y también los desafíos que enfrenta una pareja homoparental. Pero más allá de algunas anécdotas desagradables o de miradas curiosas o inquisitivas, Yamisel y David están serenos con el lugar que ocupan como familia en la sociedad. Hace menos de un año, una oportunidad laboral los llevó a Normandía. La región los ha recibido con los brazos abiertos, con facilidades administrativas e incluso libros sobre la adopción y las familias como la suya para su hija."No tenemos un comportamiento ostentatorio, pero nos ven aquí, dos hombres con una niña, se sabe que somos dos papás, la sociedad ha evolucionado en el sentido correcto, muchas veces mejor y más rápido que las instituciones", afirma David.Hace diez años, un horizonte lejanoUna evolución palpable sin duda. Pero el casi cuento de hadas de la familia Santana Bouasjot no es representativo. En diez años de matrimonio igualitario, de 23000 expedientes de adopción solo 250 parejas han podido adoptar. Yamisel y David adoptaron en 20 meses. Los que no han logrado adoptar llevan esperando siete o diez años.Estadísticamente, las parejas pasan entre cinco y siete años antes de que les propongan un hijo o una hija.  La asociación de padres y futuros padres y madres gay precisa, sin embargo,  que miembros de su asociación han logrado en menos de tres años, y muchas veces pequeñitos de menos de 2 años en buena salud y no “con particularidades”. Lo que es poco, pero hace una década cuando el gobierno socialista de François Hollande promovió la ley, este horizonte parecía más que lejano. Al proponer el matrimonio igualitario, la adopción y la filiación, se prendió una chispa en la sociedad francesa que dejó huellas sociales y políticas.La "inesperada" Manif pour tous“Un papá, una mamá”, gritaban los opositores a la ley para quienes un niño o una niña solo podían ser criados en el marco de la familia tradicional. Entre el otoño boreal del 2012 y la primavera del 2013, manifestaciones similares con miles de personas venidas de todo el país y de todos los ámbitos ocuparon las primeras planas de los diarios. El movimiento “La manif pour tous”, en eco al nombre propuesto por la ministra de la justicia Christiane Taubira, “le mariage pour tous” - el matrimonio para todos - tomó un auge político inaudito. Un movimiento más que todo de corte religioso, pero no solamente.“Esta reacción la esperaba muy poca gente. Cabe decir que en Francia ya existía el Pacs entre personas tanto heterosexuales como homosexuales. Entonces Francia estaba como a distancia de otros países europeos como España, que habían legislado el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo desde 2005 y otros países como Países Bajos. Entonces el gobierno de Francia decide legislar sobre el tema que era una deuda de la izquierda francesa desde hace años. La ministra de Justicia, Christiane Taubira propone que se aborde el matrimonio como institución para personas del mismo sexo, el matrimonio igualitario, en español”, explica Victor Hugo Ramirez García, soy profesor investigador en la Universidad de París.Y agrega que comenzaron a surgir reacciones conservadoras en toda Francia contra ese “matrimonio para todos”.“También sorprendía del perfil de la población que estaba en contra, porque, en efecto, se esperaba que la población conservadora y seguidora de su fe estuviera en contra. Pero sorprendían personas de un perfil casi intelectual, ateo, también que se decían en contra por una razón que muchas personas decían antropológica. Es decir, que, a las infancias, a los niños y a las niñas les hacía falta la figura tanto materna como paterna. Ese era un argumento que se escuchaba de personas bastante, vamos a decir, de una escolaridad alta, sin religión. Entonces había diferentes argumentos que resaltaban de ciertos perfiles de población que no esperábamos que se dieran, al menos en un país como Francia”.Una postura minoritaria, cierto, pero que también se manifestó.... miembros de la comunidad LGBTQ+ rechazaban el matrimonio como institución y que no veían útil reproducir el esquema de la familia heterosexual. Los errores de gobierno HollandeA ese movimiento de la “Manif pour tous”, compuesto por ciudadanos, se aglutinaron figuras políticas de la derecha y de la ultraderecha por convicción, para algunos, y por oportunismo político, para otros. La masiva oposición dejó al descubierto las fragilidades de la propuesta de la ministra Taubira y su gobierno. “Hubo dos cosas en esa época, la primera tiene que ver con la infancia y que los lobbies religiosos sintieron exasperación, porque hasta hace poco controlaban la adopción. La segunda cosa es que el proyecto de la ley era introducir a las parejas homosexuales en la institución del matrimonio cuya base es religiosa. En nuestra comunidad se debatió sobre el termino de ‘matrimonio'. Decíamos evidentemente que no queríamos el matrimonio religioso pero algo que protegiera nuestras familias y nuestras parejas. Fueron los representantes políticos los que fueron a buscar la violencia de hace diez años cuando le dijeron a los religiosos que las parejas homosexuales iban a entrar en el esquema del matrimonio por que la unión en el código civil es una copia del matrimonio religioso. Volvimos a ver las mismas crispaciones cuando el debate por la reproducción medicamente asistida para mujeres porque se trata de la infancia”, recuerda La asociación de padres y futuros padres y madres gay.Fueron largos meses de debates en la calle, en los medios y en la asamblea nacional en donde las discusiones fueron más que álgidasLucas Forient, 39 años y pronto 8 años de casado, conoció a su marido durante las manifestaciones en favor del matrimonio igualitario. Recuerda sus motivaciones para abogar por esta ley : “Antes de esta ley no había posibilidades de tener una vida como los otros. No me casé por culpa de la ley, pero la ley me permitió casarme para tener una vida normal. La posibilidad de casarme, de comprar juntos, de jubilarnos juntos, de tener herencia juntos, poder adoptar, tener hijos reconocidos por el Estado, por la escuela. Cuando tu seguro de salud funciona, también para tu pareja, funciona también para tu niño o niña y eso es importante. Es algo que el PACS permitía, hasta cierto punto, pero el hecho de casarse te da más seguridad y así puedes vivir tu vida mucho más tranquilo”.Lucas y su marido no quieren tener hijos pero marcharon para que otros pudieran tenerlos. De la pugna de hace diez años recuerda también la violencia homófoba que se desató. El reporte anual de SOS homofobia indica un alza de un 78% de los actos homófobos durante el periodo del debate sobre el matrimonio igualitario. Violencia que se trasladó verbalmente a la cámara baja. Pero tras 136 horas de debate en el Parlamento, la ley Taubira fue adoptada el 23 de abril del 2013.  Al pasar la ley, el movimiento de la “Manif pour tous” no perdió ímpetu, llegó a alcanzar envergadura europea y se hace presente en cada debate de sociedad como la eutanasia. De hecho, la primera versión de la ley Taubira preveía un debate enseguida sobre la procreación medicamente asistida para todas las mujeres. Pero dio marcha atrás por temor a reactivar las tensiones.Casarse por elección y no por necesidadHabrá que esperar el 2 de agosto del 2021 para que el Parlamento abra la llamada PMA a todas las mujeres, incluyendo a las solteras. Y la ley de bioética de febrero del 2021 simplifica los trámites de filiación para las parejas de mujeres. “Para mí el matrimonio no protegía del todo a las familias, porque antes de la ley sobre la bioética se tenía que hacer una adopción intrafamiliar tras una PMA. Y durante un año, una de las dos mamás no era reconocida. Para mí, el matrimonio era una cuestión de igualdad” pero la ley del 2013 no resolvió todos los problemas, estima Hélène Avril.Aimée la pequeñita de Helene y su compañera fue concebida en Madrid. Antes de cruzar la frontera, la pareja hizo una declaración con un notario para que en el momento del nacimiento las dos madres sean reconocidas. Lo que la pareja percibió como una injusticia porque un hombre puede declarar a un recién nacido en la alcaldía sin probar nada y sin siquiera ser el padre biológico.A pesar de ese sin sabor, Hélène y su pareja aplauden la apertura de las instituciones: “Cuando fuimos ayuntamiento todo fue muy acogedor y todo estaba listo. En la maternidad también. Todo estaba listo para estas nuevas familias y eso que fuimos las primeras”.Según el Instituto nacional de la estadística, 70658 parejas se han unido gracias a la ley Taubira, o sea un 3% de todos los matrimonios civiles celebrados en una década. Por ahora, Hélene y su novia no tienen contemplado casarse, sobre todo, porque no necesitan el amparo de esa institución para garantizar la filiación. Pero “era un paso muy importante hace diez años, darle visibilidad a esas parejas. Culturalmente, la sociedad se ha hecho a la idea”.“Cuando uno busca un derecho no es para que el derecho sea explotable por todos, sino para que exista. No era por abogar un cierto tipo de relación institucionalizada, sino para que simplemente la sociedad fuera igual y otorgara los mismos derechos a todas las personas. Pero en efecto, hay muy pocas personas homosexuales, lesbianas, que se casan”, apunta Víctor Hugo Ramírez García.En una década el camino ha sido largo y empedrado. Muchos temas de igualdad quedan pendientes empezando simplemente por los formularios de algunas administraciones que siguen escribiendo "padre y madre". Y en cuanto a la adopción, una revisión se impone para disminuir el tiempo de espera, sin hablar de la GPA, los vientres de alquiler, que sigue estrictamente prohibida en Francia. Pero en 10 años, la familia homoparental y las uniones del mismo sexo se han vuelto una realidad y se han unido a un cambio mucho más amplio de la configuración de la familia o de lo que significa una familia.Un magazine de Florencia Valdés, realizado por Pierre ZanuttoGracias a Yamisel, David, Lucas, Hélène y a las más chiquitas, Margaux y Aimée.

Hace diez años, Francia se convertía en el decimocuarto país en legalizar el matrimonio igualitario así como la adopción por parejas del mismo sexo estableciendo también un marco protector legal para la filiación de esas familias. Un combate álgido tanto en la calle como en la Asamblea Nacional que ha dejado huellas. Diez años más tarde, los avances para las parejas del mismo sexo y sus familias son tangibles. Pero queda trabajo en el camino hacia la igualdad.   Un día de primavera en la pequeña ciudad de Flers, en Normandía, a dos horas de París. Ojos brillantes, pelo recogido y manos pequeñitas, la máxima ilusión de Margaux en esta tarde nublada es subir a su nuevo trampolín en el jardín amplio y florido.Al entrar en la casa de piedra típica de la arquitectura normanda, lo primero que destaca es la pared de la escalera llena de fotos de la familia: de la más pequeña de la casa, de Papou –Yamisel Santana-  y de Papa – David Boisjot Santa.Con la aprobación de la ley y su confirmación definitiva por el Consejo constitucional el 17 de mayo del 2013, las parejas del mismo sexo que desearan casarse obtuvieron los mismos derechos sociales, fiscales, de sucesión y de filiación que las parejas heterosexuales, respondiendo así a un clamor de varias décadas del movimiento LGBTQ+ en Francia. Yamisel y David Boisjot Santana se casaron en 2015, dos años tras la aprobación y varios más de vida común: “Decidimos casarnos para poder seguir avanzando en la vida que queríamos”, recuerda Yamisel."Queríamos proteger nuestra pareja porque el Pacs, el pacto civil de solidaridad que podía contraer cualquier pareja desde 1999, no ofrecía la misma cosa que el matrimonio -también nos casamos porque nos queremos -pero también teníamos ganas de adoptar y también queríamos reivindicar el derecho de casarnos y tener los mismos derechos que los demás", agrega David.Al principio, la adopción, que la ley votada en el 2013 permitió, no era prioridad, “eso vino poco a poco, con el tiempo, con la estabilidad que teníamos en la pareja. Lo primero era instalar las condiciones socio económicas para estabilizar nuestra familia”.Entre todos los requisitos psicológicos y sociales que hay que reunir, la estabilidad financiera es capital sobre todo si se opta por una adopción en el extranjero porque, además de los trámites y los abogados, hay que contemplar viajes, estadías y periodos largos sin trabajar.Un proyecto en ColombiaCuando Yamisel y David comienzan su camino de adopción, acuden a Colombia, por la buena reputación del país en esa materia, por su transparencia, siendo tan tortuoso y largo el camino de la adopción en Francia para cualquier pareja. Yamisel recuerda que tras la primera reunión de información a la que asistieron en el 2017 se desanimaron mucho y decidieron no continuar “porque nos pintaron el mundo de la adopción en Francia, sobre todo para las parejas del mismo sexo, como misión imposible”Luego retomaron en otra localización donde el panorama se despejó: “Las personas nos recibieron bien. Lo primero que planteamos fue que somos pareja del mismo sexo y como vimos que no había problemas, entonces seguimos”.Una serie de procesos que se tramitan en las instituciones departamentales les permite obtener un valioso documento que indica que la pareja está apta para adoptar en Francia y luego en el extranjero. "Habíamos empezado en Colombia, habíamos censurado la idea de tener un bebé porque a las parejas homosexuales les dan en adopción a los niños más grandes, a hermanos y hermanas. Habíamos avanzado bastante con nuestro proyecto colombiano. También habíamos hablado mucho de lo que sería adoptar niños más grandes... Y un día que estaba trabajando, recibí una llamada del Consejo departamental que maneja las adopciones. Me dijeron que nos querían ver al día siguiente”, sonríe David.“Sabíamos que era para anunciarnos algo. Nos recibieron de manera muy formal, nos mostraron una foto de Margaux y nos dijeron, 'esta es su hijita' y la van a conocer el martes. Era viernes. Y ahí....o sea  caímos en cuenta que tendríamos un bebé y empezó un fin de semana frenético. Estábamos locos de alegría y al mismo tiempo con mucho estrés porque teníamos que preparar la casa. Nos reusábamos a preparar un cuarto sin niño porque teníamos que seguir con nuestra vida y si nunca llegaba ese momento....Nuestras amigas nos regalaron todo lo que necesitábamos. No hicimos baby shower. Y el martes 16 de febrero del 2021 conocimos a Margaux que acababa de cumplir tres meses, y una semana después estaba con nosotros. Alcanzamos a tener su cuarto listo y Papou había preparado una linda decoración.”La llegada de MargauxEn menos de dos años, Yamisel y David se convirtieron en padres y fueron la primera pareja de dos hombres, en el departamento de l'Essonne en Isla de Francia, que consiguió adoptar. En tiempo récord. Eso fue en gran parte posible gracias a una nueva psicóloga que acababa de integrar los procesos oficiales de la adopción y venía con la misión de “hacer cambiar las cosas”.“Cueste lo que cueste, iba a presentar proyectos de familias del mismo sexo para ver lo que lograba. Nos dijo que éramos los primeros y que no seríamos los últimos”. Es difícil trasladar cómo brillan los ojos de Papou y Papa cuando cuentan la llegada de Margaux. La pequeñita fue abandonada por su madre biológica a su nacimiento de manera anónima bajo una figura legal llamada "bajo X". La chiquita que pronto entrará a la escuela maternal sabe que la cigüeña no tiene nada que ver en esta aventura y que su familia es diversa. Los padres primerizosAl llegar Margaux a casa, se abre un nuevo capítulo con los temores y los tanteos de los padres primerizos. Al principio, para estar a la altura, los padres se imponían estándares casi inalcanzables. Pero poco a poco se dieron cuenta de que “no queríamos ser la pareja de padres perfecto para la sociedad ni para nosotros. Queríamos simplemente ser padres, tener todos los problemas que tienen todos los padres y madres de este mundo, un niño que llora a las 06:00 de la mañana, ser igual que los otros, tener un niño, que llena la casa de alegría”.Y también los desafíos que enfrenta una pareja homoparental. Pero más allá de algunas anécdotas desagradables o de miradas curiosas o inquisitivas, Yamisel y David están serenos con el lugar que ocupan como familia en la sociedad. Hace menos de un año, una oportunidad laboral los llevó a Normandía. La región los ha recibido con los brazos abiertos, con facilidades administrativas e incluso libros sobre la adopción y las familias como la suya para su hija."No tenemos un comportamiento ostentatorio, pero nos ven aquí, dos hombres con una niña, se sabe que somos dos papás, la sociedad ha evolucionado en el sentido correcto, muchas veces mejor y más rápido que las instituciones", afirma David.Hace diez años, un horizonte lejanoUna evolución palpable sin duda. Pero el casi cuento de hadas de la familia Santana Bouasjot no es representativo. En diez años de matrimonio igualitario, de 23000 expedientes de adopción solo 250 parejas han podido adoptar. Yamisel y David adoptaron en 20 meses. Los que no han logrado adoptar llevan esperando siete o diez años.Estadísticamente, las parejas pasan entre cinco y siete años antes de que les propongan un hijo o una hija.  La asociación de padres y futuros padres y madres gay precisa, sin embargo,  que miembros de su asociación han logrado en menos de tres años, y muchas veces pequeñitos de menos de 2 años en buena salud y no “con particularidades”. Lo que es poco, pero hace una década cuando el gobierno socialista de François Hollande promovió la ley, este horizonte parecía más que lejano. Al proponer el matrimonio igualitario, la adopción y la filiación, se prendió una chispa en la sociedad francesa que dejó huellas sociales y políticas.La "inesperada" Manif pour tous“Un papá, una mamá”, gritaban los opositores a la ley para quienes un niño o una niña solo podían ser criados en el marco de la familia tradicional. Entre el otoño boreal del 2012 y la primavera del 2013, manifestaciones similares con miles de personas venidas de todo el país y de todos los ámbitos ocuparon las primeras planas de los diarios. El movimiento “La manif pour tous”, en eco al nombre propuesto por la ministra de la justicia Christiane Taubira, “le mariage pour tous” - el matrimonio para todos - tomó un auge político inaudito. Un movimiento más que todo de corte religioso, pero no solamente.“Esta reacción la esperaba muy poca gente. Cabe decir que en Francia ya existía el Pacs entre personas tanto heterosexuales como homosexuales. Entonces Francia estaba como a distancia de otros países europeos como España, que habían legislado el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo desde 2005 y otros países como Países Bajos. Entonces el gobierno de Francia decide legislar sobre el tema que era una deuda de la izquierda francesa desde hace años. La ministra de Justicia, Christiane Taubira propone que se aborde el matrimonio como institución para personas del mismo sexo, el matrimonio igualitario, en español”, explica Victor Hugo Ramirez García, soy profesor investigador en la Universidad de París.Y agrega que comenzaron a surgir reacciones conservadoras en toda Francia contra ese “matrimonio para todos”.“También sorprendía del perfil de la población que estaba en contra, porque, en efecto, se esperaba que la población conservadora y seguidora de su fe estuviera en contra. Pero sorprendían personas de un perfil casi intelectual, ateo, también que se decían en contra por una razón que muchas personas decían antropológica. Es decir, que, a las infancias, a los niños y a las niñas les hacía falta la figura tanto materna como paterna. Ese era un argumento que se escuchaba de personas bastante, vamos a decir, de una escolaridad alta, sin religión. Entonces había diferentes argumentos que resaltaban de ciertos perfiles de población que no esperábamos que se dieran, al menos en un país como Francia”.Una postura minoritaria, cierto, pero que también se manifestó.... miembros de la comunidad LGBTQ+ rechazaban el matrimonio como institución y que no veían útil reproducir el esquema de la familia heterosexual. Los errores de gobierno HollandeA ese movimiento de la “Manif pour tous”, compuesto por ciudadanos, se aglutinaron figuras políticas de la derecha y de la ultraderecha por convicción, para algunos, y por oportunismo político, para otros. La masiva oposición dejó al descubierto las fragilidades de la propuesta de la ministra Taubira y su gobierno. “Hubo dos cosas en esa época, la primera tiene que ver con la infancia y que los lobbies religiosos sintieron exasperación, porque hasta hace poco controlaban la adopción. La segunda cosa es que el proyecto de la ley era introducir a las parejas homosexuales en la institución del matrimonio cuya base es religiosa. En nuestra comunidad se debatió sobre el termino de ‘matrimonio'. Decíamos evidentemente que no queríamos el matrimonio religioso pero algo que protegiera nuestras familias y nuestras parejas. Fueron los representantes políticos los que fueron a buscar la violencia de hace diez años cuando le dijeron a los religiosos que las parejas homosexuales iban a entrar en el esquema del matrimonio por que la unión en el código civil es una copia del matrimonio religioso. Volvimos a ver las mismas crispaciones cuando el debate por la reproducción medicamente asistida para mujeres porque se trata de la infancia”, recuerda La asociación de padres y futuros padres y madres gay.Fueron largos meses de debates en la calle, en los medios y en la asamblea nacional en donde las discusiones fueron más que álgidasLucas Forient, 39 años y pronto 8 años de casado, conoció a su marido durante las manifestaciones en favor del matrimonio igualitario. Recuerda sus motivaciones para abogar por esta ley : “Antes de esta ley no había posibilidades de tener una vida como los otros. No me casé por culpa de la ley, pero la ley me permitió casarme para tener una vida normal. La posibilidad de casarme, de comprar juntos, de jubilarnos juntos, de tener herencia juntos, poder adoptar, tener hijos reconocidos por el Estado, por la escuela. Cuando tu seguro de salud funciona, también para tu pareja, funciona también para tu niño o niña y eso es importante. Es algo que el PACS permitía, hasta cierto punto, pero el hecho de casarse te da más seguridad y así puedes vivir tu vida mucho más tranquilo”.Lucas y su marido no quieren tener hijos pero marcharon para que otros pudieran tenerlos. De la pugna de hace diez años recuerda también la violencia homófoba que se desató. El reporte anual de SOS homofobia indica un alza de un 78% de los actos homófobos durante el periodo del debate sobre el matrimonio igualitario. Violencia que se trasladó verbalmente a la cámara baja. Pero tras 136 horas de debate en el Parlamento, la ley Taubira fue adoptada el 23 de abril del 2013.  Al pasar la ley, el movimiento de la “Manif pour tous” no perdió ímpetu, llegó a alcanzar envergadura europea y se hace presente en cada debate de sociedad como la eutanasia. De hecho, la primera versión de la ley Taubira preveía un debate enseguida sobre la procreación medicamente asistida para todas las mujeres. Pero dio marcha atrás por temor a reactivar las tensiones.Casarse por elección y no por necesidadHabrá que esperar el 2 de agosto del 2021 para que el Parlamento abra la llamada PMA a todas las mujeres, incluyendo a las solteras. Y la ley de bioética de febrero del 2021 simplifica los trámites de filiación para las parejas de mujeres. “Para mí el matrimonio no protegía del todo a las familias, porque antes de la ley sobre la bioética se tenía que hacer una adopción intrafamiliar tras una PMA. Y durante un año, una de las dos mamás no era reconocida. Para mí, el matrimonio era una cuestión de igualdad” pero la ley del 2013 no resolvió todos los problemas, estima Hélène Avril.Aimée la pequeñita de Helene y su compañera fue concebida en Madrid. Antes de cruzar la frontera, la pareja hizo una declaración con un notario para que en el momento del nacimiento las dos madres sean reconocidas. Lo que la pareja percibió como una injusticia porque un hombre puede declarar a un recién nacido en la alcaldía sin probar nada y sin siquiera ser el padre biológico.A pesar de ese sin sabor, Hélène y su pareja aplauden la apertura de las instituciones: “Cuando fuimos ayuntamiento todo fue muy acogedor y todo estaba listo. En la maternidad también. Todo estaba listo para estas nuevas familias y eso que fuimos las primeras”.Según el Instituto nacional de la estadística, 70658 parejas se han unido gracias a la ley Taubira, o sea un 3% de todos los matrimonios civiles celebrados en una década. Por ahora, Hélene y su novia no tienen contemplado casarse, sobre todo, porque no necesitan el amparo de esa institución para garantizar la filiación. Pero “era un paso muy importante hace diez años, darle visibilidad a esas parejas. Culturalmente, la sociedad se ha hecho a la idea”.“Cuando uno busca un derecho no es para que el derecho sea explotable por todos, sino para que exista. No era por abogar un cierto tipo de relación institucionalizada, sino para que simplemente la sociedad fuera igual y otorgara los mismos derechos a todas las personas. Pero en efecto, hay muy pocas personas homosexuales, lesbianas, que se casan”, apunta Víctor Hugo Ramírez García.En una década el camino ha sido largo y empedrado. Muchos temas de igualdad quedan pendientes empezando simplemente por los formularios de algunas administraciones que siguen escribiendo "padre y madre". Y en cuanto a la adopción, una revisión se impone para disminuir el tiempo de espera, sin hablar de la GPA, los vientres de alquiler, que sigue estrictamente prohibida en Francia. Pero en 10 años, la familia homoparental y las uniones del mismo sexo se han vuelto una realidad y se han unido a un cambio mucho más amplio de la configuración de la familia o de lo que significa una familia.Un magazine de Florencia Valdés, realizado por Pierre ZanuttoGracias a Yamisel, David, Lucas, Hélène y a las más chiquitas, Margaux y Aimée.

Profesor Vladimír Papoušek, proděkan Filosofické fakulty Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, je literární teoretik a historik, specialista na českou literaturu 20. století. Svou dizertační práci napsal o Egonu Hostovském. Zakázanými, exilovými a existenciálními autory se pak zaobíral častěji, lákala ho česká avantgarda. Za Dějiny nové moderny, pod nimiž je podepsán s dalšími sedmi spoluautory, získal už druhou Magnesii Literu.Všechny díly podcastu Dopolední host můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Poradce pro národní bezpečnost Pojar nezná definici dezinformace. Prý ji nezná nikdo. Ale to nevadí, protože ministerstva alespoň chystají robustní strategickou komunikaci, s páteřním systémem nástěnek. Komu je svěří? A bude na nich Gagarinův bratr?V USA běžel Discord Leak a Washington Post a Bellingcat ho rozkryli pěkně do hloubky.Na divoký rozvoj AI odpověděli odborníci otevřeným dopisem, který žádá zastavení dalšího vývoje na 6 měsíců, aby hlavní hráči vymysleli samoregulace. Velekněz longtermismu Yudkowsky chce jít ale ještě dále a navrhuje rovnou bombardovat datová centra, ve kterých se AI trénuje. Washington Post ho za to zařadil do skupiny "AI Doomers". My tomu říkáme "Kult Velkého Papouška".Běžní lidé mezitím na internetu pomocí LLM staví částečně autonomní agenty, kteří pro ně "dělají různé věci" a vědci podobné agenty používají na simulaci sociálních interakcí v herních světech.A společnost Goldman Sachs vydala studii, ve které předpovídá, že generativní AI v EU a USA ovlivní až 300miliónů jobů. Ale nebojte se, Vaši schopnost splácet hypotéku zachrání productivity paradox.Užitečné odkazy:Jak Pojar pojímá pojem dezinformaceStrategická komunikace pomocí nástěnekZačalo to na DiscorduJak Bellingcat rozkryl identitu OGOtevřený dopis FLIBombardování datových center podle YudkowskéhoAI frakce48% odborníků dává 10% šanci, že nás AI zničíStudie: Nebezpečí stochastických PapouškůUniveral LLM JailbreakAutoGPT na GithubuAutoGPT přímo v prohlížečiLLM Agenti ve hře SimsAnalýza Goldman Sachs o dopadecPodpořte nás na https://www.herohero.co/kanarcivsiti . A nebo si kupte naše trička na https://www.neverenough.shop/kanarci . Podcast pro Vás připravují @alexalvarova a @holyj . Hudba a sound engineering: Psyek a deafmutedrecords.com . Twitter Spaces moderuje @jiribulan .Najdete nás na www.kanarci.online

Papoušek kakadu Goffinův prokázal velkou šikovnost při používání nástrojů. Uměl si poradit velmi dobře v situaci, kdy se měl dostat ke kešu ořechům. Většina papoušků pochopila, že aby to zvládli, budou potřebovat víc nástrojů, které musí použít ve správném pořadí. Všechny díly podcastu Laboratoř můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Paní Jaroslava z domova v Krásné Lípě na Děčínsku má ráda zvířata a ze všeho nejvíc si přála setkat se s papoušky. To se jí rozhodla umožnit chovatelka exotického ptactva z Kladenska. „Každý rok vyberu dva tři domovy, kde by rádi viděli papoušky. Jezdíme po republice, abychom udělali radost,“ říká s úsměvem chovatelka Nikola Padalíková. Paní Jaroslava byla na papoušky zvědavá už od rána. „Byla nadšená, že to mohla sdílet i s manželem,“ popisuje instruktorka sociální péče.

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Betrayal! Just when you think you are doing some good in the world, someone has to go and stab you in the back. The Commandos embark on a journey to Rastalin to find Papou in an attempt to get Jerome some sweet clockwork legs. With Tortilla, Noodles, and Alabaster in tow, they head under the newly sprouted spiro tree to find the portal the gnomes came through before they were sucked into the Shadowfell. Things don't go as planned and a member of the team disappears. Are you ready to freeze your ass off? No? Well I hope you brought a boat.

65. Health Hacks in Your Kitchen and Garden Chef Mary Cuclis draws from her Greek heritage and culinary training in Hong Kong to show how food can support wellness and deliciousness at the same time.  Today's Lexi:  θρέψη — Threpsi (Nutrition )     In this episode:  Mary Cuclis was sown in Texas but grown overseas, where she first began to recognize cuisine as a cultural door. Growing up with her Greek family in London, Moscow, Hong Kong and Houston solidified a lifelong curiosity to open as many of these doors as possible. In her Papou's garden, which they tended together from childhood, she learned to cultivate local ingredients and to seek freshness in every dish. Her culinary career began in Alvin Leung's Bo Innovation, a 3 Michelin star Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong. After returning to Houston, Mary was one of the opening team members of Pondicheri, where she would spend the next 8 years exploring the breadth of Indian spices, acquiring new cooking techniques and planning events of all kinds. In 2020, Mary founded Kriti to begin her adventure as a private chef and caterer for the Houston area. Today on Kefi L!fe Mary shares her background and shares easy health hacks to support wellness and deliciousness.  LEARN: The five flavors of food How to make your own Tahini What's the starting point for cooking creatively for wellness What is the 6-year taste cycle? Is cooking seasonally the key to creating a delicious meal?   HEALTH HACKS that make you feel better.  The following spices heal various symptoms: Turmeric Fennel Cumin Peppercorn Clove Oregano   Today's Ola Kala Moment: Implement Pharma Nutrition for an Ola Kala All is Well life!    Resources: KritiCatering.com Efxaristo (eucharisto)! Thank you, Kefi Life listeners, for helping us reach the top 5% of podcasts worldwide! Kefi Life is now one of the top 5% most popular shows out of 2.7 million podcasts globally, as ranked by Listen Score's estimated popularity score! Credits: Music: Spiro Dussias Graphic Designer: Susan Jackson O'Leary   Please be sure to follow the Kefi L!fe podcast to ensure that you are Ola Kala in mind, body and soul.  Insta: kefilife365   For a natural and uplifting support with your health and wellness connect with Kiki to discover the beauty of essentials oils. My.doterra.com/kefilife   Eat and Enjoy the best Kefi L!fe Extra Virgin Olive Oil when you purchase at kefilife.shop.   This episode made possible in part by: The Law Offices of Liston & Tsantilis —  Ranked #1 https://www.ltlawchicago.com   This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. None of the information should be construed as medical advice. Users are encouraged to seek professional medical assistance for any significant health-related matters.

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"I wanted to write about how someone changes over the course of a life, and how a culture changes." Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For November that debut is Lucky's by Andrew Pippos, out now from Picador Australia. Lucky's is an exuberant, magical Australian saga about migration, mystery, tragedy and love spanning over 80 years. It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fire that changed everything. A New Yorker article which might save a career. The mystery of a missing father. An impostor who got the girl. An unthinkable tragedy. A roll of the dice. And a story of love—lost, sought and won again. Thanks for joining us for the KYD First Book Club this year. We'll be back in 2021 with more fabulous debut books! Our theme song is Broke for Free's ‘Something Elated'. Further reading: Read Ellen Cregan's review of Lucky's in our November Books Roundup. Read Andrew's Shelf Reflection on his reading habits and the writing that inspires him. Stream or subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Soundcloud / Google Podcasts / Spotify / Other (RSS) Let us know what you think by rating and reviewing in your app of choice! TRANSCRIPT (Music) Alice Cottrell: Welcome back to the Kill Your Darlings Podcast. I'm KYD publisher Alice Cottrell and today. I'll be bringing you our November First Book Club interview. Our pick this month is Lucky's by Andrew Pippos, out now from Pan Macmillan. Lucky's is an exuberant, magical Australian saga. A story of migration, mystery, tragedy and love. First Book Club host Ellen Cregan spoke with Andrew to ask him about the book. Ellen Cregan: Hi Andrew, thanks for joining me today. Andrew Pippos: Thank you for having me. EC: We're just going to start with a reading from the book. AP: He still had time to make changes. Not to his nickname, which he could never shake, and not to his appearance, and there was little prospect of changing the flaws in his character, since the time had passed for great internal transformations, but Vasilis ‘Lucky' Mallios supposed he could fix his own story—to be specific, how it ended. Lucky sat tucked at his kitchen table, newspaper spread across the surface, stripping rigani from the stalks. The herbs had hung inside a cupboard for a week-not long enough to properly dry, but he couldn't wait; this old ritual was necessary. It offered a moment's accord with the past. He placed the stalks to one side and picked through the heap of flower-heads, plucking out grey twigs, as the smell drifted up like the spirit of someone dead. The apartment now otherworldly, dense with human life. He told himself we all have missing people: Our dead parents, or the spouse who left too soon, or the lover who betrayed us, the sibling who deserted the family, the friend we never found, the friend who walked away, the child we didn't have, the person we couldn't become the life we should have led. Or the missing person might yet arrive: The child we still could have, the family we were about to find, the lover or destroyer coming to the door. Lucky could briefly accept that his world was incomplete, and he waited for this moment to end before he switched on his television. That afternoon he had rushed home from the bank appointment and straightaway cut down the rigani from the cupboard near the kitchen window. The expansive new apartment complex opposite looked like a tower with its pockets turned out. Lucky's own building reminded him of a motor inn. The Suncorp Bank loan officer had been kind when rejecting his application. The officer cited Lucky's lack of income in the past twenty-four months, without stating that he was too old anyway to take on substantial debt. He possessed no assets; there was no loan guarantor. The officer said she liked the idea of a person starting over. She couldn't be more sympathetic. Her parents, on special occasions, used to take the family to Lucky's former restaurant in Stanmore. She remembered the jukebox, the fat chips, the decor like the set of a TV show. And she acknowledged Lucky's later history, referring to the tragedy in your life'. If only Suncorp loaned on those grounds. At the end of their interview, Lucky admitted to the loan officer that her bank was the last in a list of lenders he'd approached. ‘What does that tell me?' he said as he thanked her for the appointment, feigning concession, not wanting to come across sore, but what the final stop on his unsuccessful circuit of loan applications told him was this: The banks in Sydney were too conservative. The light from his muted television faded and flared in the lounge room. An advertisement for a sports betting company ended and the middle segment of Wheel of Fortune began. They'd finished with the pointless speed rounds. The three contestants today all looked startled. They appeared miscast, thrown together behind the scoreboard. Lucky solved two puzzles before one of them even touched the wheel. Food: Bacon bits. Phrase: To go in pursuit. Lucky Mallios scooped the rigani into a spiral jar and balled up the newspapers, sending green dust into the air. He got up when the phone rang, his eyes not moving from the television screen. Five beeps and a delay: An international call. ‘Lucky's! He sang down the line. EC: Thanks Andrew, that was really great. AP: Thank you. EC: So, very first question would have to be for those listening who haven't yet read the book, could you give a brief summary of Lucky's and what happens and what it's about? AP: Okay, well, it's a novel that spans about 80-odd years, and there are several strands of narrative, but the main storyline focuses on a man called Lucky, or nicknamed Lucky, and we begin in his late teens and follow him through to his 70s. And in his 70s he has one last thing to accomplish. And the novel is also about the people whose lives he touches, and who in turn shape him.  The main milieu of the novel, I suppose, of course there are different storylines, there are different settings, but really the book centres around what might be called the Greek Australian cafe, a sort of obsolete institution that was once… you know, a, um… a sort of, kind of business that you would find on many suburban and city streets and in country towns. But no longer. EC: This is a lovely revival of that, though, because I personally have never heard of the Greek Australian diner, and I'm, I now feel quite versed in it, and I'm really glad that I am. Do you have a connection to that former institution? AP: Ah, yes. So the Pippos family, that was what we did, and my grandparents and my uncles and aunts, they were in, they were all in the cafe business, and you know, I used to visit those cafes as a child and, and it was a world that fascinated me from a very young age, and I always knew that my first novel would have something to do with the cafe. EC: So this has been an idea that's been in your head for quite a while in that sense. AP: Yeah, I think, I think it's been, it's really been there from the very start. I mean, from the time that I wanted to be a writer, I think that the cafes were, my grandparents' and uncle's cafe, that was a place that I would visit very, very frequently, and it was a place where I would hear stories about the world, and stories about migration, and it was the place where I would, my relatives would talk to me about the Greek myths and literature, you know—it was the place where my imagination was formed. And everybody has a place like that, and so for me, it just seem natural that I would write about that world in my first book. But of course it's not, Lucky's is not just about the Greek cafes. It's about all sorts of worlds and settings that intersect with the cafe. EC: Absolutely. Something I quite like to ask on this podcast is sort of about the journey of the book from, from that first idea to the beautiful product that I have in front of me right now, and I think you do too, ‘cause you just read. So from, from the kind of first spark of an idea to to now, how did that play out for you? AP: Well, it's a long, long story… EC: (Laughs) It's always a long story, and I always love them. AP: They're always long stories full of, full of mistakes and, um, yeah, but it it's always interesting, first novels are interesting and lots of, lots of reasons—just the struggle to, you know, this is someone who likes hearing about first novels, just the struggle to do it, and this, you know, the question ‘am I a writer, am I not a writer, will I ever be published, is this all for nothing…' And then first novels are often, you know, not the most refined piece of work that a writer produces in our lives, but they often have a certain energy and a heat that later novels don't have, that's, that's, I mean that's, that's a big generalisation to make, but I often notice that about debuts. Okay, so, it is true that a lot changed in this novel, and, like, I can talk about that, but some things did not change at all—certainly this desire to write about the Greek Australian cafe, this world that I knew as a child, that was my first experience of community, that was… like, it had a profound effect on me, and it was really the frame through which I saw the wider world. Um, and I also wanted to write a book about people… striving, how they responded to failure and success, that was very important to me. And I wanted to touch on, in certain chapters, the assimilation era in Australia, and I wanted to write about… like, how someone changes over the course of a life, and how a culture changes, and that would be strong along the whole trajectory of the Greek Australian cafe. Which, I dunno, I mean, there's so many ways to date it, but let's just say… from the late 20s to the 90s is really when they were, they were big, but they were disappearing by the early 90s at a rapid rate. And the heyday was probably the 50s and 60s, but I'm sure some historians would disagree with that. So look, that's basically in the book, all of that stuff. But there was so many different stages of the book, there was so many drafts, and the characters changed a lot—there are many characters in this book, and I think they all went through radical changes through the process. Certainly Lucky was a very different person in those early drafts, and probably the second most important character in the book, someone called Emily, did not appear until halfway through the writing process, so I knew that there was a sort of a point where I realised that someone was missing, and it was Emily. And then the other thing was narrative time, of course the early drafts finished in the 60s, and then forward to the early 70s, so this is all like before I was born, and there was probably missing, you know, my own feeling for an era, and I realised that the story wasn't quite long enough. So I, you know, I brought it, just expanded it by 30 odd years. So there were lots of drafts that involved… you know, just exactly how big this story is, and moving it around—the first draft was chronological, if you've read the book you know that the plot is scattered and not arranged chronologically. And it took a long time to get to know the characters. So I just persisted, and when there were times when I thought, this is not working, this is going to take months and months of work, or a year of work, you know, there was a point where I was just, you know, do I continue with this? You know, maybe I should just go write a novel about someone in their thirties living in the inner city of Sydney and you know, doing whatever I was doing in life at the time. But, you know, I always wanted to write about the cafe world. I always wanted to write a big book that had twists and turns and that covered a lot of time, and whenever I was at a sort of fork in the road, I just thought, ‘is there heat in this novel, is there something that's dear to me, even though it's a bit of a mess at the moment?' And the answer was always just yes, you know. Yes, this is the, this is a, this is a milieu that was really important to me as a child, and, and it's still important to me as a writer, so I'm going to just keep going. And well—the whole thing took about, the writing process took about 8 years. Now in that time I changed jobs, my father died, all sorts of family convulsions—I had a child, I did a doctorate, you know, lots of things happened. That list could, I could keep adding items to that list. Yeah, I mean. It was a, it was a long road, full of wrong turns, but also full of joy and these wonderful moments when you, you know, you sit down to write at 7 o'clock at night and the next thing you know, it's 4 in the morning, you know, those moments when you make connections between storylines or between characters, or when you realise this problem that you've had, this problem with the narrative that you've been thinking about and thinking about, you finally figure out what it is, you know, how to put the solution in it. These moments are just, it's just so blissful, like, writing is—writing is hard, but you have to love it's difficulty. But I think writers also need to remember, just also need to remind themselves sometimes, there are so many moments of joy in the process, and yeah. EC: That's really good advice, and this is a very joyful book. Even though bad things do happen in the plot, but I just wanted to to say as well, you know, when I finished reading this book. I was almost kind of shocked that it wasn't like a huge 800-page volume, because I felt like I read this massive, massive, really long book and I'd been immersed in this world for so long, and I was like, you know, I read that in three sittings, and it's a pretty standard length book. So it does have this incredible feeling of like world building and authenticity in that world, and I just loved that so much about it. AP: I think… Well, I had some good models for that. I also didn't want to write, like, an 800-page book—I mean, I've read a lot of those, and I like, I like some of them too, but…the, um… I also really love novels like Commonwealth by Ann Patchett and above all, the Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, which are similar kind of…stories, novels that take place over many decades, but they're only, you know, 300 pages, 350 pages. EC: Mmm. AP: And, so that was, you know, one of the things that I wanted to do about, I realised about halfway through was that I wanted to keep it as a certain size. And, you know, it's for other people to judge how well I did that, but often when I read Joseph Roth, the Radetzky March, I see that these chapters are like, they're just gems, like, his, his…even though he might move from one decade to another between chapters, you know, he's gone into the world so deeply that you understand what's happened, where a character is in their lives, and the sense of time passing, the effect of time is felt when you, when, when, when the chapter transitions from the one year to the next. So that was something that I thought of as a model, but, um… yeah. EC: I think that absolutely happens in the book, um, and sort of on that note, I wanted to ask you about keeping track of those shifts in time, because we do have, as you said, you know, I think the earliest that you're writing about is about 1913, and then you go all the way up to 2002, so how did you kind of manage the, the story moving through time so much? AP: Um, well, what I had at the beginning, and I sort of mentioned this, that the first draft was chronological. So what I had was actually, like a kind of a cause-and-effect relationship between all the events, that starts really in the Benny Goodman chapters and takes you through to what we might call the Wheel of Fortune chapters. And… But what I did was, so I had, I had this plot that was basically, ‘this happened, and then because of that, this happened', and so on and so forth. But because writing, ordering the novel that way would have emphasised the wrong things—like it would have been very Achilles heavy for example, Emily would not have turned up until halfway through the book, or two thirds of the way through the book. So what I did was scatter the plot, and the reader puts together the cause and effect. That's, that's something that they do as the story, the conversions between all the storylines becomes very clear, you know, some way into the book. EC: It was very satisfying to see them all come together as well. I do have to admit I was, you know, when, when you see those lines crossing in a book like this, it's just, it's such a great feeling and it's such a great reading experience as well. AP: Oh good, good. I mean, I do like books where, you know, the reader is putting it together, the reader knows more about the plot than the characters, and the, and how everything fits together, so that's what I tried to do here. EC: So there's also, as well as these multiple plots kind of running around, you've also got quite a bit of history in this book as you mentioned before as well. Did you do, as well as your recollections and the stories your family told you, did you do much formal research in the lead-up to writing this book? AP: Look, there was quite a bit of research. EC: Yeah. AP: I think that, that looking at this, you know, I mean, yeah, if you read the book you'll see that there's so much going on. There are, you know, I can, a lot of the recollections were the things that I saw and felt as a child. The most important research is what I experience as a grown-up, what I know about love and despair and grief and so on—but also, you know, the stories that my father to tell me about playing cards at, you know, illegal gaming rooms and so on and so forth, I mean, I love those stories. I'm not a gambler, but I love those stories. And then of course, you know, I used to read, I bought a stack of issues of this magazine called Yank Down Under, which was a really well-produced magazine for American servicemen stationed in Australia during World War II. I read as much as I could about the poet Bion of Smyrna, there's a, there's a subplot in this novel about a failed classicist, and he's working on the… the writing of a figure from the Hellenistic era called Bion of Smyrna, and so i read about that. I read a little bit about clarinet, and Benny Goodman, so yeah, I did, I go into these things, but who knows what I got wrong! (Laughs) EC: What I loved and that I'd never sort of thought about so much before was, you know, probably to my detriment, is the—so, there's the Achilles is the original Greek diner restaurant owner, and he's the generation above Lucky, he's Lucky's father-in-law, and he's kind of this like insane, violent person, but he's so interesting, and I'd never really read that much about that generation of migrants to Australia, and you know, for the reason that they, you know, because of assimilation, I guess—so I loved reading about that and learning about that, even through this kind of awful character. AP: Yeah, I mean they were…yeah, they were a different, they were a different type of, were a different type of person and, and, you know, in an island like Ithaca they all were, where they were, duelling was very common until quite late in the 19th century and vendettas were a thing. You know, they were, machismo was, sort of, a real curse on these men,  and they had ideas that were, ideas about masculinity that unfortunately were, in some cases disastrous for their families, and, I mean my grandfather, my Papou, he was, he's a bit like Achilles, but I mean—I can't, I shouldn't overstate that. I shouldn't overstate that. EC:  I don't think anyone could be properly like Achilles. (Both laugh) AP: No, no, no. EC: He's quite a character. AP: He was, he's the character that people have—look, the book is only 2 weeks old, which is a really strange age for a book, but he seems to be a character that people have a lot of strong opinions about, like they hate him, or they find him fascinating, or…you know, that… Yeah, he is.  I think what I wanted, I mean, what I wanted to do with that character is just examine a very old, very old form of, kind of patriarchal behaviour that I think is, you know, its time, if it hasn't come to an end already, it's coming to an end. EC: Mmm. AP: And that's what I wanted to follow with Achilles, I didn't want to kind of, you know, worry about my grandfather's so much, who was more complex, he was like, my grandfather was a more complex figure than Achilles but, you know, he did do some of the things that Achilles did. EC: Mmm. Um, and then to move to the other sort of, oh, not patriarchal, but, you know, the main event, Lucky himself—He is this amazing character who is just like larger than life, and like I don't think I will ever forget to him as a character, to be honest. When did you get the idea for Lucky? Like, where did he come from? AP: I was interested in… He, he developed a lot. I was interested in this idea that… so Lucky is not the only person who perpetrate a fraud in the book, and there is a scene earlier in the book where Lucky pretends to be someone else. And Lucky's a young man when he does it, this is not the sort of thing that a mature Lucky would do, but I definitely felt that when I was setting out to write the book, that I needed to become someone else in order to do this, that it would be that, the task seemed just enormous, and perhaps beyond me. And that was exciting, because I wanted to be someone else, you know, I wanted to be an author, I wanted to, to finally do the thing that I've been wanting to do since I was a kid. But yeah, I mean, that's, that's the sort of secret reason why that is in there. But I mean, who is he? And I mean, he's many things, and what I will say is a bit, that… Lucky was a lot quieter in the early drafts. And I realised at a point, you know, there's something missing from his character. You know, you reach these moments in the writing process where you have this problem, and it's like a problem that you might have in a friendship. You're thinking well, what's gone wrong, how do I fix it? And you can go around like this for days or weeks, months, but there was a moment when I got a phone call from my father, and my father doing the writing, during the process of writing this book, he was dying of pancreatic cancer. But he was given four months but he ended up living 6 years, and there was a—he was, even though he was being battered by chemo and he didn't know what the next scan was going to show, he had this incredible energy, and lust for life, you know, just as he was, just as he was leaving. And I remember getting this phone call from my father telling me about, like, he saw a drug deal go down at some park that he was walking through, and he was so excited to see this bizarre thing happening (Both laugh) that he'd never seen before, but he knew exactly what was going on, and he was describing all the way the people were moving and the things they were doing, and he would do this all the time, and you know, sometimes it would be something, something that he saw on sale at the shopping mall. And I remember putting down the phone and thinking Lucky needs to be a bit more like my father. He needs to have that energy. He needs to be, you know, really living—and that was the point where, that was the sort of breakthrough. There's a way of discussing, I think, this book, and perhaps many other books, is discussing it in terms of breakthroughs in the process. And that was, that was the major breakthrough within, with respect to Lucky. But a lot of writers say this about their main characters, and I think… this next thing that I want to say is, it's certainly true of this book, but it's also true of other books. And, you know, Lucky really wants to find a way to be a good person. He wants to be kind, and that's not always an easy thing to do. It's not always a simple thing to do, but that's, yeah, that is, that is one of his ambitions. And also, you know, part of that is finding family, finding the community that he never quite had in his life. That's what he wants, and this cafe that he wants to, you know, establish right at the end of his life, that's the vehicle for this… EC: I love that you've been able… AP: ..Family that he never quite had. EC: Oh, sorry. I love that you've been able to immortalise that attitude that your father had, and kind of meld it into this character, because it just works so incredibly well, and I'm really surprised to hear that that's something that got added in later, because that's just so, you know, as you say it's a breakthrough moment, but it just feels so integral to the character and to how the events play out around him. AP: Yeah, I know—it's funny when you talk about a book, and often when I listen to writers interviewed, they say ‘oh, you know, this element of the plot or this character didn't appear until, you know, I worked on, until 6 months before I handed in the book', and they'd spent ten years on the book or five years on the book or whatever. It's kind of a, it's mind-blowing in a way, and the (Laughs), it ruins the mystique around the writing process, you know, that everything is intentional, and everything is right there from the start, and it's just a matter of work to get it out. But, I mean, that's not how every book is written, and in the final product, everything is intentional, but… yeah, it's not… it would be amazing if someone, you know, had an idea for a book that was, spanned 80 years, and they knew every aspect of the plot, and they knew what every character was like, and they was pretty sure which seems that we're going to dramatise, and which they would summarise, which they would leave out. That would be amazing to have that kind of brain, but that's not the brain I have. EC: You'd need a lot of Post-it notes as well. (Both laugh) AP: Look, I love Post-it notes, I'm looking at about seven Post-it notes right now on my desk. But look, there's not enough Post-it notes in the world… EC: There's not, not in the world. (Laughs) So just to wrap up, I want to ask you about the book's reception. Because as you say, it's been out for about 2 weeks now at the time of our conversation, and it's had a huge, huge response from booksellers, and people reading already. How's that felt for your debut book to be received so lovingly? AP: Well, um… It's still, it's a funny thing, you know, every day I wake up and I don't read, I don't read anything that's written about me, unless someone, you know, someone would have to tag me on social media and then I would read it. But like, I've made this deal with my partner to read all the reviews before I read them, and only to, and then to just basically summarise the review. And if she thinks I really need to read it then I'll read it, but I don't want to! I just want to deal with this my own way and try to enjoy each day, so I'm enjoying, I'm enjoying the moment, and, and something interesting is happening, every day an interview or I'm getting an email from a reader or something like that. But when people tell me that they loved the book and it's touched them in this way, or they identify with that character or this character, or they like what I've done, you know, structurally or they like a particular passage, or… that is really, it's really moving. It really does touch me and it does… Makes me think, you know, wow, two years ago the whole idea that someone would be in this world I created and have any emotions to do with it at all, that was just a legendary concept. And so I'm still a bit shocked. I'm still a bit shocked that people are reading it, and that when someone expresses an opinion, you know, on Achilles or Sophia or Louis II, the pet snake at the end of the book, I'm just blown—I'm just, at first I'm just, what? Really? How do you know about that? But um, then it's, yeah, it's just hard to even say thank you and it's hard to say thank you enough, and it really is amazing. I wonder… I don't think I'll ever be, I'll stop being grateful and actually stop being surprised. EC: Well you should, because it's a really, really special book and I loved reading it so much, and I can't, like, I think I read it just a little bit before it was officially released, and I was reading it like oh my god, I need to be able to recommend this to people. Like it's one of those books that you can't wait to get out and start, like, shoving it into people's hands and telling them to go get it from the library or buy it or whatever, it's really wonderful. AP: Oh thank you, thank you. EC: Thank you so much for making the time to talk to me today, I really enjoyed our conversation. And also just loved this book, so thank you so much Andrew. AP: Oh, wonderful. Thanks, and look—thank you for supporting debut authors in this wild and crazy year. It's, it means a lot and and the books that you've recommended this year have just been, all been great books. So I'm really glad to be included. EC: It's been an honour to have all those books, and yours too. (Laughs) AC: That was the November First Book Club edition of the Kill Your Darlings Podcast. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the First Book Club this year. We'll be back with more great debut titles in 2021. If you're in a position to, please consider supporting KYD by becoming a member. If you subscribe before Christmas day, you'll automatically be entered into a draw to win one of five $100 gift vouchers for some of our favourite independent bookshops. (Music)