Simplex and Social Change

This weeks challenge was certainly a beauty.  The word down constitutes so much these days in its meaning.  We can still  always get down about something.  That is the classic terminology.  If your down, you are kind of sad.  But as always the youth put a much different spin on it and “down” to them means so much more

To be “down” means to be “with it”.   Respected in the thug community.

“What do you mean, no? I thought you was down”.

You gettin’ down, boy!

Last Saturday night I was getting down with some great underground hip hop.  I was getting down with my friends having a great time.  So it is interesting to see how the youth have manipulated the meaning from being something sad to doing something that is lots of fun ie. going out to see rappers perform and being with all of your friends.

The word down can refer to having a full understanding of a circumstance or situation and in that case they would say that they have that down or they are down with that.

The first three images I submitted have been what ordinary folk may see as down,  usually going down a road or looking down from a height.  But really I was only touching the proverbial iceberg.

The Urban Dictionary,  http://www.urbandictionary.com/  which is an alternative dictionary with a data base of street language and the term DOWN is fully covered in some of the terminology below quoted therein:

 DOWN: To be ‘With It or in ‘the know how’, knowledgeable about something, or to give respect/recognition to something.

To be keen for something.

To be friends with someone or to spend time with them. ‘Gettin Down’ means to have sex with them.

To have something ‘Down Pat’ or well perfected.

To agree with someone or something.

“Oh yeah…I’m down with what yo talking.”
“I’m down for some Redman.”

 ”Are you down to get a feed?”

“I’m pretty down with her.”
“I was ‘gettin down’ with her the other night.”

“You gotta have your kickflips ‘down pat’.”

“Wanna go for a skate?” …  “Yeah, I’m

Image by Mezza – Simplex and Social Change, Australian Rap Artists

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I have lost count the amount of times that I have witnessed this scene as the waters go down again.  In the final year I was living not far from here and we were inundated with 6 quite large floods during that year.  These days we are on a hill and not a river bank and life is a lot sweeter.

Image by Mezza – Bellingen River post flood

Cathy looking down over the edge at Byron Lighthouse

My friend is caught here looking down to the sight below her.

I clearly love this shot not only for the fact that its satisfies the challenge parameters but for the fact that she is wearing two sets of glasses and a knitting needle in her hair!

Road tripping with your friends is always fun like this.  This was one of these occasions where my friend  were off on a road trip up the coast and I am so glad we stopped here and walked up the giant hill to this spectacle.

Image by Mezza – Cathy looking down at Cape Byron Lighthouse NSW

The walkway down to the fields

I love this walkway.  It’s not far from my place and so I see it regularly on my many wanderings.  The fields are quite a way down at the bottom and this walk way looks quite ancient to me.  Perhaps built around the seventies.  I will investigate this.  Did council place it or a Lions or Rotary or perhaps the sporting clubs themselves.  I am curious!

Image by Mezza – Going down to the fields in Urunga NSW

The levels must be acceptably down not too much in the red.

When I am on air broadcasting we have to be ever mindful of the levels and not to ever let them get to high!  One is always adjusting the levels down.  If you left them up it would sound rather distorted out there in radio land.

In this pic that I snapped last night they are acceptably down and could possible show a small patch of red, however for all intents and purposes these levels are down nicely.

Image by Mezza – The Volume window on the Radio panel at 2bbb

Looking down from up top of the rocky outcrop of Byron bay Lighthouse

I took this image a couple of weeks ago at Byron Bay.  I was looking straight down into the Pacific Ocean from a terrific height and the sight of the famous Byron Bay Lighthouse and its various out buildings.

It was indeed a sight to behold!  I could see turtles and manta rays swimming in the crystal clear waters below me because I was looking down from that great height.  It was more than impressive and well worth taking that vision into your eyes.  It was spectacular.

Image by Mezza – Looking Down at Byron Bay

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/regret

re·gret  (r-grt)
v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets
v.tr.
1. To feel sorry, disappointed, or distressed about.
2. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn.
v.intr.
To feel regret.n.
1. A sense of loss and longing for someone or something gone.
2. A feeling of disappointment or distress about something that one wishes could be different.
3. regrets…A courteous expression of regret, especially at having to decline an invitation.

A funny story.

So it goes that I remembered this funny moment of absolute regret.  One of our favorite bands were headlining at a local Outdoor Venue and we had tickets.  I had purchased three tickets and I had won two tickets.  As the time for the event drew around we were experiencing totally inclement weather and the concert was cancelled eventually on the day of the gig.However, Montana my daughter pictured here was adamant they would not call it off and made me get the tickets out and give her the ticket she was allotted as she was still going in with all of her friends regardless.  I was concerned she would lose her ticket and fussed a little.

I had fully prepared to go and had wet weather gear out in the bedroom to take etc.  I gave Montana her ticket and put the others on top of the clothing in the bedroom.  Something else was put on top of that and I forgot the tickets were there.  My partner put the wet weather gear away the next day not knowing the tickets were there and no one said anything.The day of the re scheduled concert comes around and we are getting ready to go and my partner said to me to get my tickets out and I joked and said to him, “No, you get my tickets out as you have them”.  He looked blankly at me and said No I don’t.  A mad panic ensued and the tickets could not be located.  We tore the house apart and didn’t find them.  Luckily though I had won 2 tickets and they were at the gate waiting for me and I gave my neighbor the money for his ticket I could not find and he bought a ticket at the gate.

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Reblogged from 2012 – ON THE BENCH:

The Stolen Generations’ Testimonies. via The Stolen Generations’ Testimonies.

Via both

Stolen Generations Testimonies

These stories are very tragic and it is not fair that people make assumptions about how life is today for some people when they have not read all of these. These accounts are very heart breaking.

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This is my daughter and she turns 21 in 12 days.   When she was born she was born very tiny but full term.  She was four pound six ounces.  She was born with the umbilical cord around her neck four times, upside down and back the front and I had “placenta-praevia”..  she was delivered by emergency caesarian being performed.

I regret that I did not stress to the various medical practitioners involved forceful enough when I did complain about various things during my pregnancy.

I regret not demanding a Caesar at eight months gestation.  Matilda would have had a better chance.  She is still tiny in stature but big on attitude and heart.   She would have picked up this trait In-Utero having to fight for her very breath.

At seven months she kicked for 48 hours plus, I went to the hospital but was told I was being a bit over reactive about it.  I could feel her inside me and I could feel her panicking.  I was trying as hard as I could to get them to understand what I was feeling.  They were not prepared to listen to me.    I had a clear visual picture in my head what was going on inside of me.

Even until the moment of her birth they still disbelieved me.  There were a lot of people who were trying to save face after that nearly dire episode in my birth experience at Bellingen Hospital, these people played God with my motherhood.

I regret not suing the pants off them for the hardship that Matilda was to face in her life with learning and being tiny.  I regret that.

Placenta previa or abruptio  is where the placenta ruptures and comes away from the wall of the uterus, then internal bleeding occurs.  My placenta was growing over the neck of the cervix and had ruptured and the way out of the womb was completely blocked.  Matilda was never coming out that way.    Forty years ago we both would be dead.  We both would have died in childbirth.   I don’t regret that.

I regret that I ever trusted any of them.

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This is one of the things I regret.  I regret that I no longer have my great commodore station wagon.  It had a problem and it was getting on in years and we retired her to take up with a tiny little car that was astonishingly economical on fuel.

Although it is great on fuel, I regret not having my old car every time I want to collect the junk I usually collect along the way or to transport things.  Not much room inside my present vehicle for doing this sort of thing and so I have recently felt a level of frustration due to this.  When this happens, the next step is the fleeting sense of regret surfaces one more time.

Time will heal my temporary sadness around this regret.

Image by Mezza – Brice working on the commodore in Urunga

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