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HI HI TO ALL MY HAPPY ‘TAP” FAMILYYYY ❣️❣️❣️

I haven’t written to you all for such a long time and I do apologize so much for this. I don’t know how TIME FLIES the way it does!

I wanted to share some thoughts on this very momentous and memorable DAY in my life.. I am strolling into the BIG 6 ❤️ today!!! My BRAIN IS EMPTY!!

All I can think of is HOW GRATEFUL I am to the Universe, and to all of YOU, to my LOVING FAMILY, my INCREDIBLE FRIENDS… all this life has brought to me.. that our Planet is so beautiful and there is so much to be thankful and OPEN to.

After 60 years, chasing so many things, experiencing the excitement, ups and downs of almost all of life, months, weeks, days, minutes, seconds… and I realize, all I really desire and want, is a SIMPLE SMILE, WARMTH, UNDERSTANDING, A Heartwarming HUG, A phone call, or now, text to say HI… A Healthy and strong Body, LOTS & LOTS of LAUGHTER, CONNECTION, COMMUNICATION, LOVE, LOVE & LOVE. No matter what circumstances we run into, Rain, Thunder, Protests, Covid, it is absolutely possible to realize that ALL THINGS MUST PASS, and through the most difficult or most ravishing times, we can find comfort in holding the hands of those loving people around us. I know there is still so much more to learn while we are so BLESSED to be a VALUED GUEST on this Earth for such a fleeting moment. I feel I must keep on learning and evolving to be the BEST person I can be.

I realize that when we are born, we need so much love, feeding, nurturing, understanding, and a lot of HELP! When we get old, we need so much love, feeding, tolerance, patience, understanding, and a lot of HELP! There is no difference in the VALUE of each end of the stick. Just what we can do in between that will make ALL the difference and we all have a CHOICE in how we want to write our own, unique, wonderful, heartfelt STORY.

LIFE can be, and IS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL. The Beauty I used to understand doesn’t hold any meaning for me anymore.. The BEAUTY I HOLD TRUE is the LOVE & BEAUTY inside of ME and all the surroundings of the amazing Mother Nature. Each of us, is handcrafted so very intricately, to have all the same physical features, yet not a single one of us is a duplicate of another. We all have a brain to think, yet every single one of us does not think like any other. We ALL have a PATH, yet every one of our paths is different from each other. But we are ALL meticulously woven together, our lives, our actions are all intertwined. Every action we take, affects another. Every tree, every flower, mountain, sea, sky, clouds, animals, and all beloved creatures. We are the unique creatures, blessed with thinking, speaking & doing. I feel I must do everything I can to HONOR this special GIFT from Mother Nature. Beauty is DEEP & ROOTED & everywhere we look. I’m going to embrace everything PapaGOD & the Universe has given me.

I’m SO GRATEFUL for making it this far, in GOOD HEALTH, GOOD SPIRITS, GOOD MIND & BODY. Every day is a SURPRISE to me. Every moment is truly a BLESSING and ever so sacred. I will continue to live each BLESSED day with an open heart, open mind, and open SPIRIT. I will live each day as HIGH as I can go, no matter how low I feel. I will enjoy growing old GRACEFULLY, and make a conscious effort to do and BE the BEST I can be EACH SINGLE DAY, CHERISH & take care of it like a RARE and Beautiful JEWEL, which LIFE & our EARTH IS.

Today I spend with my LOVING FAMILY & MY FRIENDS. Well.. one loving Family is missing and in Mainland, now resting, but working VERY HARD! I’m so proud of Lam because we are so happy that he gets to SHARE his music with a WHOLE NEW GENERATION of wonderful, talented singers. It’s a GREAT BLESSING to sing with these enthusiastic Artists who can make a great difference in the world with their bellowing voices. I watch every episode with great anticipation and I hope you will too! All the Artists create their own Magic with each song & emotions!

I also would like to share with you my real and Authentic physical & Spiritual SELF!!! I just want to BE TOTALLY and ALL OF what is TRULY ME! I hope you all can accept me as I AM, white hair with my cutey wrinkles! Lam really enjoys it cos now I can keep him COMPANY & look like TWINS! I don’t know where my WHOLE self will go from here.. but I’m really going to look forward to all the natural progressions my mind and body will be taking.. just like Mother Nature.. she accepts all that comes to her and embraces it all…just as it is!

I wonder if I can remotely understand the meaning of life by now? I want to TAP (THINK ACTPOSITVE) at all times making others HAPPY & be HAPPY to see others HAPPY! I understand there is NO RIGHT or WRONG in any of our actions whether positive or negative, but only the divine consequences of those actions we choose. I feel we are BLESSED to be here with a DIVINE PURPOSE which is to help ourselves & each other. To preserve and maintain this amazing PLANET & EARTH. To evolve ourselves, & each generation, so they can pass the baton and also evolve the Earth! I also feel we are definitely NOT ALONE! NEVER! We are always in the SOOTHING, EMBRACING arms of the Divine Source Universe, and when we feel we don’t know where to turn, PapaGOD is ALWAYS there for us, ready to give us whatever we want in the deepest of our hearts with the utmost sincerity. Everything we receive is in its Divine Timing, and Divine Perfection.

With that.. HAPPYNESS & GREAT HEALTH TO ALL OF YOU FOREVER AND ALWAYS and LOVE YOURSELF as well as LOVE ALL THOSE and EVERYTHING AROUND YOU! BELIEVE ME.. ALL WE HAVE and NEED IS LOVE!!!!

MUAH MUAH MUAH with 60 YEARS OF BLESSINGS! YEHHHHHH!!!!
ALL MY LOVE!! SALLY!!!

PS. I had a great wonderful party with best of FRIENDS TONITE❣️❣️ Came home and took some selfies to shock all of U❣️❣️ My HAPPY DECADE HAPPY 6💜 GIRL (⁉️) look❣️❣️ CHEERS EVERYONE❣️❣️❣️🌹🌹🧚🏽‍♀️🧚🏽‍♀️🧚🏽‍♀️

HI HI 快樂的 “TAP” 大家庭 ❣️❣️

已經很久沒有給大家寫信了，對此我深表歉意。不知道時間怎麼就這樣過去了!

我想在生命中這個非常重要和難忘的日子和大家分享一些想法和感觸 —— 今天我悠然邁入了以6字開頭的歲月!! ❤️ 大腦一片空白!!

我所能想到的是對上天，對你們每一位，對親愛的家人，對不可思議的朋友們 —— 對生命所贈與我的這一切 —— 所懷有的深深感激。我們所生活的星球如此美麗，實在有太多太多需要去感謝、感激，去敞開心扉擁抱。

60年過去了，我也曾經追逐過很多，在每月每週每日每分每秒中，經歷了生命可能賦予的幾乎所有激動和起落，而如今我意識到，自己真正渴望和想要的，只是一個簡單的微笑，溫暖，理解，一個暖心的擁抱，一通電話，或者現在更流行的，問好的一條短信.. 一個健康強壯的身體，很多很多笑聲，連結，交流，愛，愛，以及，愛。無論我們遇到怎樣的狀況 —— 下雨、雷電、抗議、疫情，一直要謹記於心的是，無論如何，這一切終將過去；在最困難或最開心的時刻，我們都能握住身邊人的手，並從中找到最大的安慰或共鳴。能得此幸運，在如此短暫的一剎，來到地球做她的尊貴旅客，我知道還有太多東西需要學習，感覺自己必須不斷學習成長，才能成為最好的自己。

我也意識到，出生的時候，我們需要很多愛，需要被餵食物，需要關懷、滋養、理解，需要很多幫助！變老後，我們也需要很多愛，需要被餵食物，需要寬容、耐心、理解，需要很多幫助！人生兩端的價值，並沒有任何分別。只有在中間段，我們能選擇如何去書寫屬於自己的，獨特的，精彩的，發自內心的故事；而也正是在中間段所做的選擇，決定了我們會有怎樣的人生。

生活可以，也確實是非常美麗的。我曾經所理解的美，對於現時的我而言，已經沒有了當初的意義。現在，我所抱持的真正的美，是內心的愛與美，以及令人驚嘆的大自然所賦予的，環繞著我們的一切。每個人都好似複雜精緻的手工藝品，雖然有著相同的身體特徵，但沒有一個人是另一個人的複製品。我們都有大腦可以思考，但每個人和其他人想的都不同。我們都有要走的人生之路，但每個人的道路各不相同。然而，大家又被如此精心地連結在一起，彼此的生活和行為交織在一起。我們採取的每一個行動，都不可避免地影響著他人，甚至影響著每一棵樹，每一朵花；影響著山、海、天空、雲朵、動物，和所有其他可愛生靈。我們是獨一無二的存在，有福氣擁有思考、講話和行動的能力。所以我感覺自己必須盡所能去致敬和珍視這份來自自然的特殊禮物。美深深根植於我們目光所及的每處。我將擁抱上天和世界贈與我的一切。

我很感激人生走到了這裡，健康，精神，頭腦和身體都很好。每一天對我來說都是驚喜。每一刻都是充滿祝福和神聖的。我將繼續以開放的心靈、開放的思想和開放的精神去過好每一天。我會盡力去把每天過到最好，儘管有時候也會感覺低落。我將享受優雅地變老，有意識地努力在每天做到自己的最好，也成為最好的自己，珍惜和照顧匆匆而過的每日，好似它們是稀有又美麗的珠寶；而其實，生命和地球也的確如此。

今天我會和我愛的家人們和朋友們一起度過。對的，一位有愛家人不在這裡，他在內地，現在有空休息一下，但一直都在非常努力地工作! 我為Lam 感到驕傲，因為大家都非常開心他有機會同新一代如此出色、才華橫溢的年輕歌手們分享他的音樂。與這些富有激情的藝術家們一起唱歌是一種巨大的幸福；年輕一代的歌聲將給這個世界帶來改變。每一期節目我都有充滿期待地觀看，希望你們也會看！所有的藝術家們都在用每首歌和感情創造著自己的魔法！

我也想和你們分享真實的自我——外在與內在，容貌及心靈!!! 我只想做完完全全的，真正的自己！希望你們能夠接受這樣的我，白頭髮，和可愛的皺紋! Lam 很喜歡我這樣，因為現在我可以和他作伴，我們看上去像雙胞胎! 我不知道我的整個自我會從這裡走向何方，但對接下來身心將會經歷的所有自然旅程，我真心期待… 就好像大自然一樣，她接受並擁抱一切如它們本初的樣子！

我好奇自己現在是否可以算作大概開始理解人生的意義呢？我想做TAP (THINK ACTPOSITVE)，隨時通過正面積極的思考和行動為他人帶去開心，而看到他人開心也會令我感到開心！我明白我們的任何行為，無論是積極或是消極的，都無關對錯；只是，不可避免的，選擇的行為都會帶來相應的結果。我感覺帶著神聖的目的來到這裡是一份福祉，而這個目的就是助人助己，是保護和維繫這個不可思議的星球，是持續進化發展自己和每一代人，這樣他們就可以繼續把進化地球的接力棒傳遞下去! 我也感覺到我們絕對不是孤獨的！從來都不是！我們一直都被上天撫慰著，擁抱在臂膀中。當感覺不知道如何走下去，上天總會在我們身邊，以最大的誠意給予我們內心深處最渴望的所有。我們得到的一切都有它神聖的時間表，都遵循著神聖的完美安排。

以上… 祝愿大家永遠幸福開心健康，愛自己，愛周圍的所有人，愛周圍的一切！相信我… 我們所擁有的和需要的一切，就是愛!!!!

MUAH MUAH MUAH with 60 YEARS OF BLESSINGS! YEHHHHH!!!!
ALL MY LOVE!! SALLY!!!

PS. 今晚我和最好的朋友們開了最棒的Party ❣️❣️❣️ 回到家後拍了幾張自拍，肯定會驚到你們 ❣️❣️❣️ 我的快樂第6個10年 💜 GIRL (⁉️) look❣️❣️❣️ 大家乾杯 ❣️❣️❣️🌹🌹🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️

對於阿富汗我十分陌生，但對於一樣來自電影工作者的呼喊，我願意為他們發聲。

轉自 Weichen Chou

來自阿富汗女導演薩赫熱·卡里米Sahraa Karimi 的親筆信
A Letter From An Afghan Film Maker to Save Afghanistan from Taliban（The original English text is below）

致世界範圍內所有電影團體和熱愛電影的人們！我叫薩赫熱 · 卡里米Sahraa Karimi，是一名電影導演，目前是 「阿富汗電影」的總導演，這是於 1968 年成立的唯一一家國有電影公司。

我懷著一顆破碎的心給您寫下這封信，並且深深地希望您能夠與我一起保護我的可愛的同胞們，尤其是電影製作者們，不會遭受塔利班的侵害。在過去的數週時間裡，塔利班已經攫取了許多省份的控制權。他們屠殺我們的百姓，他們綁架許多孩子，他們將女孩賣給男人們當作童養媳，他們殺了一名婦女因為她的服飾穿著，他們測量一名婦女的眼睛（筆者猜測此處是指塔利班對穿著罩袍的女性進行測量，除了眼睛的其他身體部位不能暴露，以此判定女性穿著是否合規），他們折磨和殺害一位我們鍾愛的喜劇演員，他們謀殺一位我們的史詩學家，他們是扼殺政府中主管文化與媒體的一把手，他們一直在暗殺與政府有關聯的人，他們在大庭廣眾之下絞死我們的人，他們已經迫使成千上萬的家庭流離失所。

這些家庭從被塔利班佔領的省份逃離之後，目前居住在喀布爾（阿富汗首都）的難民營裡，他們處於不衛生的環境裡面。在難民營裡時有搶劫行為，同時出現嬰兒沒有牛奶喝而天折的情況。這是一場人道主義危機，然而世界對此嗓若寒蟬。我們已經習慣了這種沉默，然而我們清楚這不公平。我們知道，政府拋棄我們的人民的決定是錯誤的，倉促撤軍是對我們人民的背叛，是對阿富汗人為西方贏得冷戰時我們所做的一切的背叛。彼時我們的人民被遺忘，導致了塔利班的黑暗統治，而此刻，在我們國家中特別是年輕一代在隨後的 20 年裡取得巨大成就之後，一切都可能在這種拋棄中再次化為烏有。我們急需你的聲音。

媒體、政府和世界人道主義組織都在保持沉默，彷彿他們與塔利班的「和平協議」是合法的。這從來都不是合法的。塔利班認識到政府給了他們重新掌權上台的信心。在整個談判過程中，塔利班一直在殘忍地對待我們的百姓。我作為一名電影製作者，我在我的國家所努力創作的一切都將毀於一旦。假若塔利班上台，他們將嚴禁所有藝術。我和其他電影製作者們可能成為他們暗殺名單中的下一個人選。他們將會剝奪婦女的權利，我們將會被推到家庭的陰影之中，我們的聲音、我們的表達將被彈壓製到沉默之中。當塔利班掌權的時候，學校將不再會有女孩子。而此時，阿富汗有 900 多萬的女孩在上學。難以想像的是在剛剛陷入塔利班手中的赫拉特省，它是阿富汗第三大城市，在當地大學裡面有將近 50 ％的女學生。全世界幾乎不知道這些難以置信的事實。就在這幾週之內，塔利班摧毀了多所學校，目前有 200 萬的女孩被迫輟學。

我不了解這個世界。我不明白這種沉默。我會留在阿富汗並為我的國家而戰鬥，但是我一個人獨木難支。我需要像你這樣的支持者。請幫助我們，讓這個世界關註一下發生在我們身上的遭遇。請幫助我們，告訴你們國家最重要的媒體此時此刻阿富汗的現狀。在阿富汗之外發出我們的聲音。

如果塔利班佔領喀布爾，我們可能無法上網，也無法進使用任何通訊工具。請讓你們的電影製作者和藝術家們支持我們，發出我們的聲音。這場戰爭不是內戰，這是一場傀儡戰爭，這是一場強加的戰爭，這是美國與塔利班靖和的結果。請盡可能多地在你的媒體上分享這一事實，並請在您的社交媒體上為我們寫些東西。世界不應該對我們置之不理。我們需要你們的支持，需要你們代表阿富汗的婦女、兒童、藝術家和電影製作者發聲。這種支持是我們目前最需要的幫助。

請幫助我們讓這個世界不要拋棄阿富汗。請在塔利班佔領喀布爾之前幫助我們。我們的時間所剩不多，也許幾天。十分感謝。我非常感激您純潔的心。

致上問候
薩赫熱 · 卡里米砂巴

原文：
To All the Film Communities in The World and Who Loves Film and Cinema!
My name is Sahraa Karimi, a film director and the current general director of Afghan Film, the only stated-owned film company established in 1968.
I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire, they gauged the eyes of a woman, they tortured and murdered one of our beloved comedians, they murdered one of our historian poets, they murdered the head of culture and media for the government, they have been assassinating people affiliated with the government, they hung some of our men publicly, they have displaced hundreds of thousands of families. The families are in camps in Kabul after fleeing these provinces, and they are in unsanitary condition. There is looting in the camps and babies dying because they don’t have milk. It is a humanitarian crisis, and yet the world is silent.
We have grown accustomed to this silence, yet we know it is not fair. We know that this decision to abandon our people is wrong, that this hasty troop withdrawal is a betrayal of our people and all that we did when Afghans won the Cold War for the west. Our people were forgotten then, leading up to the Taliban’s dark rule, and now, after twenty years of immense gains for our country and especially our younger generations, all could be lost again in this abandonment.
We need your voice. The media, governments, and the world humanitarian organizations are conveniently silent as if this “Peace deal” with the Taliban was ever legitimate. It was never legitimate. Recognizing them gave them the confidence to come back to power. The
Taliban have been brutalizing our people throughout the entire process of the talks. Everything that I have worked so hard to build as a filmmaker in my country is at risk of falling. If the Taliban take over they will ban all art. I and other filmmakers could be next on their hit list. They will strip women’s rights, we will be pushed into the shadows of our homes and our voices, our expression will be stifled into silence. When the Taliban were in power, zero girls were in school. Since then there are over 9 million Afghan girls in school. This is incredible Herat, the third-largest city which just fell to the Taliban had nearly 50% women in its university. These are incredible gains that the world hardly knows about. Just in these few weeks, the Taliban have destroyed many schools and 2 million girls are forced now out of school again.
I do not understand this world. I do not understand this silence. I will stay and fight for my country, but I cannot do it alone. I need allies like you. Please help us get this world to care about what is happening to us. Please help us by informing your countries’ most important media what is going on here in Afghanistan. Be our voices outside Afghanistan. If the Taliban take over Kabul, we may not have access to the internet or any communication tool at all. Please engage your filmmakers, artists to support us to be our voice.
This war is not a civil war, this is a proxy war, this is an imposed war and it is the result of the US deal with the Taliban. Please as much as you can share this fact with your media and write about us on your social media.
The world should not turn its back on us. We need your support and your voice on behalf of Afghan women, children, artists, and filmmakers. This support would be the greatest help we need right now.
Please help us get this world to not abandon Afghanistan. Please help us before the Taliban take over Kabul. We have such little time, maybe days. Thank you so much. I appreciate your pure true heart so dearly.
With regard,
Sahraa Karimi

原始內容來源
https://mobile.twitter.com/sahraakarimi/status/1426161540818997250?fbclid=IwAR1ziip3P_pumPv1n6US82MxCNpe31RVStY0XELFxCeZa8xPJLdUtJ1fOAE
照片來自
Babak Taghvaee - Μπάπακ Τακβαίε - بابک تقوایی

2020年參與的 #釜山雙年展 Busan Biennale : Words at an Exhibition 《열 장의 이야기와 다섯 편의 시》，由Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry策劃，5/22 - 6/14 在美國芝加哥大學的戶外Logan Center展出。

The Busan Biennale :
The Chicago Chapter presents: 11 Musicians for 11 Writers Outside at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts, May 22- June 14th, 2021.

~ Eleven musicians create discrete sound works responding to eleven texts~

Free and open daily.

Featuring original musical compositions from the 2020 Busan Biennale by Odæri, Say Sue Me, Kim Ildu, Choi Taehyun, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, J-Tong and JinHah, Søren Kjærgaard, Astrid Sonne, 食品まつり a.k.a FOODMAN, Meuko! Meuko!, and a video work by Kim Gordon.

After premiering their first stanza on March 5 with a virtual conversation featuring artists Kim Gordon and Kim Heecheon, followed by the second stanza, a live-stream concert by Busan-based rock band Say Sue Me, the Busan Biennale: The Chicago Chapter presents 11 Musicians for 11 Writers Outside at the Logan Center for the Arts, an in-person series of eleven discrete sound works installed at the University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts.

Displaced from its original site at the Busan Biennale, The Chicago Chapter brings eleven sound works to the Logan Center for the Arts to be enjoyed as one ambulates the grounds. Each musical piece was created in response to the city of Busan and commissioned text by authors also included in the biennale. 11 Musicians for 11 Writers Outside a hymnal of exchange between the two cities.

The Busan Biennale: Words at an Exhibition 《열 장의 이야기와 다섯 편의 시》 an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems was conceptualized and curated by Jacob Fabricius. The Chicago Chapter is organized by Stephanie Cristello, Curatorial Advisor to the 2020 Busan Biennale and the University of Chicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry’s Zachary Cahill and Mike Schuh.

Presented by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, Busan Biennale, Kunsthal Aarhus, the Center for East Asian Studies, and The Empty Bottle. @busanbiennale @emptybottle KUNSTHAL AARHUS , UChicago Arts @ihouse_chicago @uchicagomusic @dova_uchi @porksaladpress @scristello 303 Gallery

「影像講堂」 是「《報導者》在地影像扎根計畫」新單元，每月推出一集，每集一個主題，與讀者分享更廣闊的影像世界。

當代攝影書（Photobook）作為⼀種迴返在影像與觀看之間的物件，透過創作者主導以及編輯與視覺、設計師的協助，建⽴⼀連串轉譯至印刷油墨的視覺敘述，將內容與形式組構成⼀個完整的美學經驗，邀請觀者（讀者）在「時間、空間、身體」三者互為主體的運動中與觀念相遇，遂使攝影書與繪畫、雕塑、戲劇以及電影⼀樣成為獨⽴⾃主（autonome）的藝術創作格式；⽽此概念與源⾃1960年代的藝術家書籍（Artists’ books）的源起有著密不可分的關係。此系列分享主題將透過後者的系譜考究與前者參照，規劃了不同創作「類型」與「國別」代表共⼗⼆講，試圖加以釐清攝影書的實踐範疇與當代輪廓。

本集提出兩本作品 ：
①「UFO Presences」, Javier Arcenillas, 2018（RM）
※ https://www.editorialrm.com/libros/ufo-presences/
②「Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition」, Edmund Clark & Crofton Black, 2016（Aperture）
※ https://reurl.cc/VXG8lN

書籍本來就是做為一個蒐集，或者是歸納、歸檔的重要物件，攝影書跟檔案的結合我們不難理解，但有意思的是檔案通常是不被公開的，而攝影書則是一個邁向公眾的出版物，因此這兩者的結合就會產生出一種矛盾的張力，這就是攝影師與合作夥伴一起要來揭露或呈現的重要觀點。這類型的攝影書通常文字量會遠超過一般攝影書的想像，因此這些攝影書也會有「Photo-Text Book」的名稱。檔案常使用的厚殼封面、封底及內頁模造紙、環狀裝幀都是檔案典型的樣貌，而攝影作品則會印刷在異於檔案用紙的塗佈紙材，來突顯照片的精細與層次。

主講／蔡胤勤
攝影／鄭宇辰、余志偉
剪接／余志偉

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