The Nahmias Cipher Report

Happy New Year!! Wishing you increased prosperity, health, peace and happiness for 2010.

Have you ever seen gorgeous, impossibly intricate head wraps and wondered how these beautiful, exotic women fashioned them? Well, when I was a child in Nigeria, these were my very thoughts until Mama Nyiyi taught my mother and aunt how to wrap the “Gele” as this Yoruba head wrap is named.

The Gele goes beyond mere head covering, these wraps are creations of art. This post also contains an instructional video on how to properly wrap the Gele.

Faces of Brazil (Brasileiros) series from the hot, new, Brazilian photographer Gabriel Wickbold.

In the recent past, we have had many great souls stand up on behalf of humanity, many quietly but effectively work in the shadows, whereas others are elevated into the world consciousness. People like Nelson Mandela, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr. and now Liu Xiaobo who was sentenced this past Friday, December 25, 2009 to 11 years imprisonment by the Chinese government.