bUneke Magazine Issue I

Saving
THEIR
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10 Simple Steps
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Guiding Principles
HOW TO
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FINDING
YOUR TRIBE
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THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE
By Mary Brotherton
To bUneke I will:
Buy myself flowers instead of waiting for someone
else to bring them to me.
Hug more often.
Change some priorities.
Dance whenever I want,
not just when others aren’t looking.
Howl at the moon.
Kiss more babies.
Watch birds and other wildlife more often.
Ignore the haters & love them from where I am.
Be less afraid to strut my inner peacock.
Be unafraid to appear silly.
Proudly be my authentic self.
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Hello and welcome to the inaugural issue of bUneke Magazine!
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Mary Brotherton
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for you. The founders and members of our board had talked about making a
difference for some time before we arrived at the decision to create this educational
tool, a vital part of our philanthropic organization.
Our world is filled with amazing people, fascinating places and wonderful organizations
that work toward building a peaceful and beautiful place to live. We all play
a role that may seem small but can make an enormous impact. For instance, Sayaka
Ganz is one artist, among many, who finds a new purpose for discarded plastic
items she finds in nature or in thrift stores. Cheryl Cox’s grandson Austin Hinz
was just 9-years-old when she helped him create his own non-profit organization to
help ensure his classmates, and other children, could all wear socks in the winter.
Gravity Light Foundation is helping children study by providing lighting solutions
in areas of the world that have no electricity.
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COVER Feature
10 Easy Steps to Help Save Their Homes
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bUneke Guiding Principles
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Finding YOUR Tribe
COVER
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The Sensational Sidney Poitier
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bUneke’s Inside Scoop
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SAYAKA GANZ, Environmental Artist
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The Sophisticated Spaghetti Dish
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Via Italia
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Helping Others to Find Their Way
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What does it take to bUneke?
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Staying Positive in a Negative world
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Saving Their HOME
By bUneke Staff
10 Simple steps to saving their
home (I found other sites with other
tips we can use in the future or
have one of the authors do a guest
blog for us online)
1. Adopt. Did you know you can
adopt a wild animal or an animal
refuge? Your monthly or one-time
donation goes a long way toward
preserving wildlife in its natural
setting.
2. Volunteer your time if you don’t
have money to give. Almost every
non-profit organization, including
bUneke, needs volunteers to help
in a variety of ways. Ask how you
can be of service to your favorite
one.
3. Visit. Zoos, aquariums, national
parks and wildlife refuges all provide
homes for wild animals. Visit
the one nearest you and learn more
ways you can help.
4. Donate. Even if your donation
is the admission fee to get into a
park, zoo, aquarium or other wildlife
refuge, your donation helps.
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FINDING YOUR
TRIBE
By bUneke Staff
Have you ever felt you were a big fish in
a small pond or that you simply didn’t
belong? How many times have you wondered,
or perhaps hoped, you’d been abandoned
by your real parents and adopted
by strangers because you felt your family
was nothing like you? If you felt like you
were the only splash of color on a monochrome
canvas, you know what it’s like to
be different.
Chances are, you have felt misunderstood
most of your life. You may have thought
you didn’t fit in or that if you could just
find a way to blend in, your awkwardness
would end.
There’s no reason to become one of the
masses. Embrace your uniqueness and let
us help you find your tribe! When you find
more people who think like you, we’ll be
there to say, “Welcome home!”
Parents of children diagnosed as being on
the Autism spectrum suddenly feel alone,
because they know their lives and their
children’s lives will never be what some call
normal. Spouses of people with crippling
disabilities or terminal illnesses imagine
their social lives swiftly disappearing. There
are other things that make people feel
disconnected from their tribes.

Embrace your uniqueness and let us help you find your tribe!
Lone artists in a family filled with jocks
or the girl who’d rather run through
the woods than to play with dolls often
wonder why they are so different. When
a long line of doctors produces a gifted
musician or a family of attorneys has a
youngster who is more interested in auto
mechanics than in the law, people cluck
their tongues and wonder what went
wrong.
Nothing! These unique individuals may
not follow the family path to Fortune 500
companies but if they follow their hearts
and pursue their dreams, they know what
it means to bUneke.
Our tribes are made up of other people who
believe what we believe and want the same
things we want. Whether we want to sculpt
marble statues like Michelangelo or tinker
with inventions like Thomas Edison, we all
deserve to do the things that bring us the
most joy in life.
What do you want to do more than anything
in life? What’s holding you back? Let us
know. We might be able to connect you with
members of your tribe who can help you.
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Photography: Marc LittleJohn

Sayaka Ganz grew up
living in Japan, Brazil,
and Hong Kong with
the Shinto animist
belief that all things in
the world have spirits.
When she sees discarded
items on the street
or thrift store shelves,
she said she feels a
deep sadness for them
and is moved to make
these abandoned
objects happy.
She has said that she
does not condemn the
use of plastic or the
desire for a more convenient
life. “However,
we must be aware
that convenience has
hidden costs. I believe
the best way for artists
to help reduce waste is
to show how beautiful
these materials can be,
and what can be done
with these mundane
objects. When we
think of these things
as beautiful, we value
them. If we value
our resources we will
waste less.”
Using reclaimed metal
and plastic objects,
some of Sayaka’s recent
sculptures depict

animals in motion with rich colors and energy.
She describes her style as “3D impressionism”
and at first glance, her sculptures appear to
have been created using a 3D printer.
Sayaka said, “My sympathy goes out equally
to all discarded objects regardless of materials,
but my current working material of choice
is plastic. I use mostly common household
items to create animal forms with a sense of
movement and self-awareness. I use plastics
because of the variety of curvilinear forms
and colors available. I manipulate and assemble
them together as brush strokes to create
an effect similar to a Van Gogh painting in
three dimensions.”
SAYAKA GANZ
Environmental
Artist
By bUneke Staff
She believes artists must bring more of the
natural world back into people’s lives, especially
in urban areas. “When we encounter
the true wonders of nature, the beauty we
behold transcends our intellects and reaches
directly to our hearts. I desire a similar response
from viewers of my work; to provoke
a re-examination of our relationship to the
natural world.”
She was commissioned to create an underwater
scene with right whales and various
schools of fish in the atrium of the Exploration
Tower in Port Canaveral, Florida, which
are shown here.
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What does it take to
b Uneke?
By bUneke Staff
We found a unique way to spell something people talk about but don’t always know how to
accomplish. Our name urges you to Be Unique, yet how can anyone define exactly what it
means to be uniquem let alone bUneke?
Pick up any dictionary and you’ll find variations of the same definition for the word.
• being the only one • being without a like or equal • distinctively characteristic or peculiar
• unusual • out of the ordinary
If you check into the word’s synonyms you’ll find words like:
• rare • different • exclusive • uncommon • exceptional • unparalleled • incomparable
• unmatched • strange • weird
Who wants to be weird, though? Weirdness, like uniqueness is perceived differently by different people.
To a musician, working throughout the night and sleeping during the day isn’t weird. It’s how business is

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done. Vegas showgirls aren’t considered weird for their elaborate costumes although those aren’t
what they might wear to a movie. Visit DragonCon or ComiCon and you’d expect to see dueling
lightsabers or Master Sergeant talking with Poison Ivy, but those are unusual settings. Some
people think engineers are weird, but they aren’t. They simply think, speak and act differently.
Just as it would be odd for a hockey player to wear ice skates, pads and a helmet to an opera,
rarely will you find a ballerina in toe shoes at a baseball game. Context makes things strange, but
everyone has the power to be one-of-a-kind, for that is what you already are.
To be unique means you are exceptional. To bUneke means you have the power to change the
world! In little ways or big ways, every day, every person has the ability to effect change. Whether
this touches you alone or changes someone else, we’d like to hear about it.
How can you bUneke every day?
· Start by making up your mind to be true to yourself. • Smile more. • Be kinder. • Be happy
with how you look while you work toward a healthy lifestyle. • Know that even identical twins
are unique and the way an experience affects one will not affect the other the same way. •
Don’t conform for the sake of being like everyone else. • Even in situations where everyone
wears the same uniform and stands the same way, a mother will know her child. Understand that
by being you, you are already unique. • If you want to follow trends or fads, that’s okay, as long
as you maintain your own incomparable sense of style and know the reason you are doing it. •
Know there are billions of other humans, all striving to be unique, while wanting to fit in. • Experiment
with ways to stand out while fitting in. • Don’t underestimate your power. · Remember
you are important to the Universe. • Become happy within your own skin and stop worrying
about what others might think of you. • How you walk or talk, how you dress or where you
work or go to school are not as important as how you make others feel. • Realize that labels,
even the label of being unique, can confine you. • Don’t worry about being. • Simply: Be! •
Explore! • Educate yourself! • Experiment! • Enjoy life! • bUnekely YOU!
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