Psychology practice Insight, in the north-west suburbs of Melbourne, decided it would evolve its practice to offer more holistic and integrative services, including mindful movement.

It approached Melbourne design studio Biasol to create a space that reflected its new approach to physical and mental health and generated a cogent brand identity.

Insights two-pronged approach is addressed in the spaces colour scheme and material language, which transition seamlessly from the consulting rooms to the movement studios.

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Deep teal tones were used for the psychology spaces on the ground floor.

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The schemes are intended to be distinct yet integrated, gradually lifting and lightening across the three levels to provide a sensory and transcendental spatial experience.

Deep teal tones were used for the psychology spaces on the ground floor to engender a sense of professionalism and groundedness. Grey Venetian rendered walls provide a subdued stone-coloured backdrop for the deep greens of the reception counter, bathroom vanities and kitchen surfaces. The veining of the Cipollino Ondulato marble counter is evocative of the ocean floor and reinforces the rhythm of flow throughout the space.

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Softer tones of pale shell paired with Palladian terrazzo mosaic floor generate softness and calm.

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In contrast, peach tones in the movement studios on the upper levels were employed to create a sense of uplift and evoke flow, energy and vitality. A pink-toned terrazzo and stone counter and textured Venetian plaster walls are used on the first floor, promoting ebullience and positivity, while on the second floor, softer tones of pale shell are paired with a terrazzo mosaic floor generate a sense of softness and calm. Petite neon signs reinforce messages of positivity and empowerment in the movement studios.

Biasol used minimalist circular forms to create a clean, modern brand identity and a spatial experience that inspires movement and positive change. The design creates a cohesive narrative from the cerebral to the corporeal, from the anchored stone fixtures on the ground floor to the sheer, billowy curtains on the top level.

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There are two people I credit for my love of old English words. They are my dad and an English teacher in high school.

Whenever my dad would read me and my siblings a bedtime story, hed occasionally come across a word we didnt recognise. Instead of simply telling us what the word meant, he would give us clues to its meaning.

We would race to guess the answer and whoever got it right would feel this immense sense of pride as dad would point to the winner and say Thats it!

As for my high school teacher, well, she had a real problem with the word nice. Anyone using the word nice would be severely berated.

Nice is boring, its lazy, it doesnt add anything to the reader, she would explain. I want you to think of any other word, but do not use nice!

Its funny the things you remember when you are writing.

For me, theres something about the way words add a deeper level of understanding. Its like a secret code of sorts. I feel the same way about music. Typically, you have a drum beat, a bass line, maybe a piano, a lead guitar, and vocals. Every instrument adds a layer which makes up a complete melody.

Its the same with a sentence. You have the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and so on. But you can go even further and tweak the sentence, adding further meaning with metaphors and symbolism.

Then there are the actual words you use. This is where I remember my old English teachers words ringing in my ears because it is here that you can really add intrigue and spice.

You can elevate your text and content. You can hopefully take your reader with you into your world. Share some of your insight and hope that they are as delighted as you are.

Now that Ive explained where my love of old English words comes from it is time to share of my favourites:

Suns warmth in winter

First used in 1623 by Englishman Henry Cockerham, apricity describes the feeling of the suns warmth in winter. It derives from the Latin aprcits which means warmed by the sun.

A small man with an incorrect high opinion of himself

This is just such a delightful word, isnt it? It captures the essence of the meaning perfectly. You could say a jobsworth is a cockalorum.

Someone or something that is the centre of attention or admiration

This word has a really interesting origin. It comes from the constellation Ursa Minor, or Pole Star, which was known as a navigation guide for sailors.

Hair tangled as if by elves

Dating back as far as 1596, this word comes from the old English word aelf. It is one of my favourite old English words. It denotes a mass of matted hair supposedly tangled by elves.

Anything that wakes you up in the morning

It doesnt matter whether it is the chirruping of the birds, the trash collectors, the postman, or your alarm clock. All of these are expergefactors because they wake you in the morning.

To grope or feel about in the dark

Anyone who has watched Silence of the Lambs may remember Clarice Starling grubbling around in the dark when Buffalo Bill kills the lights. But to honest, the word grubbling doesnt have such sinister connotations.

It merely means to feel or grope in the dark for something. A little like putting your hand in your bag without looking and feeling for your car keys.

A state of pleasant tiredness

Imagine lying on a beach with the sun warming your skin and you have just received a soothing massage. You are now in a state of languor. Languor is that dreamy, sleepy, state your body feels when it has no energy. You are completely and utterly relaxed.

An obsessive need to be romantically linked with someone

This is a state of overwhelming need and lovesickness. You ache to be with a particular person. Some call it love addiction, others call it infatuation. It involves obsessively reading into the behaviour of the other person and a desperate need for reciprocal love.

A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech or a sentence where the ending is surprising or unexpected

Now, this is not another one of those old English words for a joke. This word literally means a sentence where you are expecting a particular ending but are then surprised when it finishes a different way. So the first part is usually a figure of speech and the second part is a twist on the first part.

For example:

Change is inevitable, unless you are a vending machine.

Or

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The pleasant, earthy smell that follows rainfall particularly after a dry spell of weather

This is an old English word deriving in two parts from the English word petri meaning rocks and the Greek word ichor which means fluid from the Gods.

Situated on or relating to a river

This word comes from common English law and originates from the Latin word ripa meaning bank. Riparian water laws are pretty important. Water is seen as a public human asset, the same as sunlight and air, and as such cannot be owned. Therefore, a person has a right to use water flowing through their land no matter where it originates from.

Everlasting, unchanging, eternal

This is one of those odd-looking words that doesnt resemble its actual meaning. To me, it looks as if it should mean a temporary state of being, but the opposite is true. In fact, US marines will already know that their motto of Semper Fidelis means Always Faithful.

Therefore, this word derives from the Latin words of semper (always) and eternus (eternal).

Whispering or rustling

Susurrus or susurration comes from the Latin noun meaning a hum or a whisper. It is thought to be related to the word swarm. Nowadays susurrus can be used to describe any kind of whispering, rustling, murmuring, or humming sound.

An alignment of three or more celestial bodies

In astronomy, the word syzygy denotes a fairly straight line which can consist of any type of celestial body. For example, the word would be used when the Sun, Moon, and Mercury lie in a straight line.

Lying awake before dawn worrying

I bet you didnt know there was a word for that awful feeling of dread and panic you feel when you cant sleep and it is just getting light? Perhaps now that you know theres a word for it, you might feel better?

Im always on the hunt for interesting words. If you know of any old English words, or indeed, any unusual words that youd like to share, please do let me know.

Sub-editor & staff writer at Learning Mind

Janey Davies has been published online for over 10 years. She has suffered from a panic disorder for over 30 years, which prompted her to study and receive an Honours degree in Psychology with the Open University. Janey uses the experiences of her own anxiety to offer help and advice to others dealing with mental health issues.

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Netflix has officially released all episodes of their live-action adaptation of DC Comics and Vertigo's The Sandman comics. The Sandman features an all-star cast such as Tom Sturridge as Morpheus / Dream and even Gwendolyn Christie as Lucifer. The first season of the series hasn't even begun to dive deep into Sandman lore, but the producers behind the series already have an idea of where to go next. Executive Producer Alan Heinberg, recently revealed that he and Neil Gaiman already know who they'd like to play Morpheus and Calliope's son, Orpheus.

"I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, but we've talked about someone that we feel very strongly about," Heinberg revealed to Variety. "And we have had those conversations and if we get a second season, we would love to be able to cast that person. We are conceiving of the whole season with this person in mind."

Recently, Gaiman revealed while talking with Entertainment Weekly why he refused to come aboard previous Sandman projects.

"I had refused to get involved," Gaiman said of previous adaptations, most recently one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to both direct and star in. "I'd refused to write them; I refused to be the executive producer. I wouldn't do it because I knew that if I did, I would lose the only power that I had, which was to be able to speak out against a bad Sandman movie. Fortunately, Sandman was just too expensive for anybody to justify making. And if you're trying to make a Sandman movie, the first question is, what do you throw out? Because Sandman, by the time it was finished, is 3,000 pages of comic. So what is your movie then?"

Gaiman went on to recall some of the bad adaptations that almost happened, including a version from Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary that was over as soon as he pitched it to the heads of Warner Bros. He also spoke about a version from producer Jon Peters (of Kevin Smith's Superman movie with a giant spider fame), adding: "There was a version of the script, and I'll never forget the first line: 'A-ha, foolish mortals! As if your puny weapons could hurt me, the mighty Lord of Dreams, the Sandman!' And it got worse from there."

Tom Sturridge leads the all-star cast for the series playing the titular character and Lord of Dreams. He stars alongside Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, Asim Chaudhry as Abel, Sanjeev Bhaskar as Cain, Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Joely Richardson as Ethel Cripps, David Thewlis as John Dee, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Patton Oswalt as the voice of Dream's raven Matthew, .and as Dream's siblings, Mason Alexander Park as Desire and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death. The first season of the series is now streaming onNetflix.

What do you think about The Sandman? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below or byhitting our writer up @NateBrail on Twitter!

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Martha Merrys home on Pickle Hill is a bonafide farmhouse. The dozens of garlic plants drying on the floor of the living room during a rainy spell are a dead giveaway.

Its a little late in the season for garlic. Merry, stepping over a row of scapes, said shes not sure shes going to bring this garlic to the Lancashire Farm stand at the farmers market, like she usually does.

So Im just going to mince those and use them for the family, she said.

Which we do love it when the garlic scapes come up, said daughter Amy Seitz.

Merry, Seitz and Jane Conway run Lancashire Farm this year's Alaska Farm Family of the Year. It's an honor from the state to an Alaska family that epitomizes a commitment to local agriculture.

Lancashire Farm has been committed to that goal for longer than most. Larry and Rusty Lancashire arrived in Alaska in 1948, by way of Ohio.

They were some of the first homesteaders in Soldotna, and one of the few homesteading families that farmed commercially and stuck with it.

Merry not even five years old in 1948 said her dads interest in farming was rooted in his time in World War II. When he was serving as a pilot, his plane was shot down and he spent over a year in a prisoner-of-war camp.

While he was there, the Red Cross would send some books, she said. Some were about farming, and so he looked at some of those.

After he got out, he tried out careers in insurance sales and then in crop dusting. But Merry said neither stuck.

So then when crop dusting didnt pan out and insurance didnt pan out, he decided to come north, she said. It took him quite a while to drive a half-ton Jeep pulling four tons on a trailer up the AlCan. Hed come to a hill and wouldnt be able to go up, so hed put shocks behind the wheels and he had a rope that hed put out in front. And then hed wait for a trucker to come by, and the trucker would pull him up and hed be good to go until the next hill.

When the Lancashires finally arrived in Alaska, they set up shop on the property the farm sits on today on Pickle Hill, in Soldotna.

I think dad always had in mind having a commercial farm, Merry said. So first Everybody needs to have eggs. So he raised chickens.

But the neighbors werent so warm to the idea, at first.

Merry said the people in nearby Kenai already an established town then were so used to eating dried eggs that they didnt take much to their fresh ones.

And so, dad tried dairy cattle, she said. After all, every family needs milk. But likewise, the people in Kenai were so used to canned milk that they didnt like fresh, 33% Guernsey gold.

Finally, the family got into potatoes. Theyd sell them on contract up in Anchorage.

Eventually, Larry Lancashire got out of the farm business altogether. He bought Larrys Club in Soldotna and became a commercial fisherman.

But farming stayed in the family. Merrys sister, Abby Ala, runs Ridgeway Farms down the street.

Seitz grew up spending summers at the homestead and doing 4-H with Ala's kids.

Ive always been interested in the farm. I always knew this is where I wanted to be, she said.

Today, the farm does most of its sales directly from the property and at the Soldotna Saturday Farmers Market. They also sell eggs to Odies, plus yarn spun from their sheeps wool at shops around the peninsula.

Theyre working on expanding how much they can produce, bringing in more sheep for meat and fiber both and expanding their production on plants like the garlic.

We need more layers, we need to do more meat chickens," Seitz said. "We need to sort out our sheep and have more production there."

And the farm has been adding new plants into its rotation, too like yod fah, a brassica from Asia; and celtuce, a cultivar known for its thick stems.

Seitz said people are generally excited to try new things when they stop by their stand at the market though it takes some getting used to, and some education.

We have to educate people on what these new items are and then keep planting them, Seitz said. We always print off a fact sheet about the plant, and a recipe example. Theres a lot of engagement.

Seitz is also the head of the Alaska Farm Bureau.

She said theres a lot of enthusiasm today about local food from consumers, driven in part by a recognition that Alaskas really cut off from the rest of the world.

Theres definitely a lot more interest in buying local, she said.

Theres interest from budding producers, too.

Several years ago, when high tunnels came on the scene, that was a big benefit, Seitz said. Its given more opportunity to grow longer.

Merry also said people recognize that local produce just tastes better. Its a far cry from those early days in Kenai.

I think theres a lot of interest in homesteading, in growing gardens and learning how, Merry said. And I think that is really good. So I think its important that we as farmers reach and help individuals learn to garden on their own area.

Merry and Seitz are heading to the state fair in Palmer this weekend. Theyll be presented with the Farm Family Of the Year award on Aug. 25.

Previous honorees from the Kenai Peninsula include Alaska Shellfish Farms in Halibut Cove (2020), Alaska Berries in Soldotna (2018) and Diamond M Ranch in Kenai (2012).

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