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Last day/night in Germany. Packing, sorting, shipping a box home (each year I say I won't, each year I do- clothes not needed, brochures, cards, fliers, books bought and given, etc., etc.) cleaning the apartment at the farm and putting it to rights after a month's living in it. Paying for the month. Making sure we've packed what we meant to. Last bath, last sleep, last coffee in the morning.
Then it's off to the friend who will drive us to Hamburg, and over the water to London. Routes mapped (or at least half-mapped), plans made (realistic or not, they're MADE, and thus, can be met, altered, or scrapped altogether). Just about three years ago I'd never been to London and never expected to go: this will be my fourth time there. Amazing. Had such a good time there in June.
STILL not much 'net time. Should be lots of pics at the end, though, and stories to tell over time. In the mean time, be well, be kind, be excellent to one another, and blessings on your heads.
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The beauty of life and the world continues to amaze me.
Three days on the road with so many wonderful experiences and people it'll take me a month when I get home to write about them (and I'll catch up last year and the year before a bit, too, now I can sort out the personal/private from the travel/public a little better).
Today is the first day of my new year- in other words, my birthday. It's not always been an easy day for me to celebrate, but this year I'm so grateful for my life it's impossible to be anything BUT happy.
Be well, know I'm thinking of each of you- some are moving, some changing jobs, some facing health concerns themselves or in their families, some graduating *applause* and some starting school or new programs, new jobs, or trying to find ways to stay in their old one a bit longer until something new comes along. Each of you is someone to me, and all of you are worth this:
Blessings on your heads.
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A day and a half in Flensburg: Harbour, small courtyards, streets full of fun and people and music and shops, kilometres of walking and breaks to sit at small tables with coffee or a Harbour bench with a beer and a cigarette (poetic_self) or tea and gum (me) and listen to the conversations around us.
Highly recommend The Backpacker's Inn Hostel in Flensburg. More about that later- the Captain's Walk calls, and then on to Ribe.
Blessings on your heads *hugs*
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London was BRILLIANT. As one would hope.
http://asiprosper.com/ give it a try. <3<3
Flea market = everything I needed but didn't bring.
Travel is good.
That is all.
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Maurice Sendak's Arbuthnot lecture, Descent into Limbo, in the Summer/Fall 2003 issue of ALA's Children & Libraries ??
I'd really appreciate it. I'm slowly transcribing the video http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/65 but a) I keep getting caught up in the lecture and missing my place and b) I can't listen well at work, because 'my' lad is sleeping so no turning up the sound or earphones (the one might disturb him, the other I might miss something, a change in his breathing, for intstance).
Thank you in advance. .doc, .rtf, .pdf- they all work for me. And please let me know if I need to pay you for costs, copying, postage, anything like that.
Pass the word for me? I can really use this transcript for some articles I'm writing for An Ounce of Prevention. Thank you so very very much.
(I'm also looking for an article by Patricia Moccia, RN, from American Journal of Nursing ca 1992, titled "Are We Dying for Nuclear Weapons?" I have a paper copy someplace, but not handy, and not enough time/money to go through ordering it online/uni library. Just in case someone here can access it "free" (your time/trouble will be reimbursed in some way- fic, postcards from Europe, some other research I can do for you) I'm asking. Thanks!)
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Come, join my Cause, and get invitation credit (not to mention thanks!) when you invite your friends.
Yeah, ok, it's Facebook. It's the school-yard, the soda fountain, the village well, the back fence, the water cooler, the bar, it's where people gather and shoot the breeze and come together to work and party down afterwards, and it's where I'm trying to raise a little money to support making Nuclear Guardianship something we just do, like buckling seat belts and picking up trash and not hitting kids and taking care of the elders. I'm supporting the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons because I believe these weapons to be the single largest, most weighty, least acknowledged threat to the public health, and I have a life-long dream of reducing, removing, this threat to my community.
So, if you're in Facebook, or your kids are, wander on by. Join, donate, invite. I promise it's not a RickRoll.
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At the end of this month HR 646, The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2009 will be voted upon. This Act will provide for coverage of acupuncture services under Medicare and all Federal Employees' Health Benefits programs.
Passage of HR 646 would mean that 25 million people who could receive acupuncture as a part of their covered health plan.
The best medium with which to write in support of HR646 is an old-fashioned one--handwritten, paper letters. Note that the deadline for letters to be submitted is approaching fast! All letters should be submitted to the AAAOM National Office no later than May 20, 2009.
American Association of
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
PO Box 162340
Sacramento, CA 95816
916-443-4766 Fax
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| 2009-05-14 02:44 |
| Lord of the Rings Concert @ Radio City Music Hall (October) |
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FOTR Weekend in New York City: October 9–11, 2009
From the website:
On October 9 and 10 be ready to experience The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring like never before. Beneath an immense projection of Peter Jackson's film, the 21st Century Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Ludwig Wicki, will perform Howard Shore's entire Academy Award®-winning score. Joining them will be the acclaimed voices of The Collegiate Chorale, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and soprano Kaitlyn Lusk.
The producers of The Radio City LOTR Concert and the Official Fan Committee are pleased to present a weekend packed with LOTR happenings! Watch this space...
Scheduled events include:
* The official release of Doug Adams’ new book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films
* Pre-concert talks and post-concert signing sessions with Howard Shore and Doug Adams
* Discussion with Tolkien linguist David Salo, who translated all choral lyrics for The Lord of the Rings scores
* Illustrator/artist Colleen Doran talks about her work
* The Hobbit discussion—Join fans for a chat!
http://www.theradiocitylotrconcert.com/
One of the few times I wish I lived close enough to NYC to go.
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Is today. Florence Nightingale's birthday.
In her honor, three things. Gifts for her, maybe, or for all of us.
It's also Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
FM awareness day at Chronic Pain/Karen Lee Richards
Personal story
It's International Nurses' Day. It's ten days until I graduate with my BSN. One thing I have learned over the long haul is, nursing applies to everything, and everything applies to nursing. Florence, with her meticulous data collection and interpretation and the help of a few well-placed friends, brought the British Government to a completely different understanding of how a man wounded at the front should be treated, and why. It took her over a decade just to be heard- she is my model for keeping on keeping on.
All that said: I went back to school to get my BSN after getting my RN because I have a concern, as Quakers say: I'm concerned about the presence of nuclear weapons on the planet. I find them to be the single most expensive public health hazard of our times, and I want them gone. An Ounce of Prevention launched yesterday. This is my professional blog: This is where I am pursuing my goal in connection with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. I am keeping this identity separate from that one for reasons of focus, but you're all welcome to read there, to find me on Twitter and Facebook, and help me help others have better health/lives/world. (Ideas for columns gratefully accepted, caveat being, I'll be writing about it from my angle. Just so we're clear. I can't write the column you would, but I might be able to host it as a guest column. We can talk about it.)
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Review here of Sigrun and Gudrun, a pair of long poems, written in an English approximation of Old Norse heroic metre, that attempts to reconcile certain crucial differences between the Icelandic Prose Edda and the 13th-century Volsunga Saga. It’s pretty arcane, but fortunately both Wagnerians and Tolkien fans will be at home with the basic lineaments of the story: chosen hero, dragon, obsessive personal jewellery and lashings of destiny. (Tim Martin)
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As much as I didn't want to do this quite yet, I find that the twin deadlines of Graduation Day and Leaving for Europe are coming more quickly than I'm prepared for.
So it is with some sorrow and a bit of relief that I'm putting EnjoyIt on vacation.
If there's something you know you wanted, let me know- Everything will be there when I get back, and I'll be re-opening it while I find someplace else to list my books. If there's something you REALLY wanted soon, PM me here, and we can work it out.
I have really enjoyed this project, and am so very very appreciative of all of you who commented, supported, advertised, helped with problem-solving, donated, and of course, BOUGHT BOOKS!
Blessings on your heads.
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Plenty of holes. None of them mattered to me. I confess to not seeing all the movies- they disappointed me early, and I just let them go by.
I haven't rewatched all of TOS, either. I'm old enough to have seen them with my parents, week to week- my mother loved how subversive they were, my dad enjoyed the nods to actual science as much as he got a kick out of the nods to his favorite sci-fi authors, themes, and jokes. I was intrigued by the characters, by their development and by their relationships, but all too soon had to go off and be a grown-up myself, and just haven't had time to dive back in. Did spend some time with TNG, but more for the voices than the shows themselves- it was when I was laid low with a major depression, and would have it on in the background for companionship.
So, confessing to spotty knowledge and inexact fandom (or the other way around, whatever *F*): I loved this movie.
I could always, always always have had more of McCoy. Even more now, and who knows, I may just have to write him at some point to hear more of his story, but oh, I am a happy happy person with Bones. Kirk was good, Spock was damn fine, I liked this Sulu and got a kick out of this Scotty, and I feel Uhura is wronged again, always, but has a better chance this time at personhood so I'm appreciative of what Zoe Saldana brought.
But what I enjoy most, as a story-teller, is that I feel free to bring my own story to the movie. There are parts I reject as not matching my experience of Star Trek- and I feel like that's ok, that's allowed for, and I like that. There are technical things that annoy me, and other things that delight me, and I'll see it again in theatre and probably, at some point, end up owning it (I want the commentaries on the DVD to be good, damnit!).
So I'm gonna give it two thumbs up, a whole basketfull of fresh tomatoes, and a big smile- and hope for more McCoy in the next one. Damnit, Jim, I'm a fangirl, not a critic, and I want more McCoy. *nods*
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In support of a friend's Cause, and because it's something I believe in, too:
Dear Friends:
Thanks for joining our FB Group! As many of you know, we have received a $2500 grant which will pay $1 for each new person who joins this group before June 1. In the last 72 hours 208 people have joined!
We have 23 days to recruit 2292 more supporters in order to receive the full $2500. If everyone receiving this email recruits 3 friends to join over the weekend we will be half way there. Each person who joins raises money and awareness for the campaign to Restore Hetch Hetchy.
BAY AREA RESIDENTS: We need your help planning our summer outreach efforts in San Francisco. Please email me if you can join us for a volunteer leadership meeting on May 18th and/or our larger organizing meeting on June 6. Or call our office at 415-956-0401. WE NEED YOU TO GET INVOLVED!
Max Szabo
Field Organizer
max@hetchhetchy.org
Restore Hetch Hetchyx
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| 2009-05-08 12:55 |
| Friday, Friday |
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The good news: my Facebook Cause, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is gaining members. You can be one!
The Happiness Project.
I managed to get the car to the mechanic's without its either blowing up or falling to pieces on the freeway. We'll find out what we find out, eh? It's an '88 Volvo wagon- I'm sure it's got a few miles left on it, if it can just find them.
Ah, what the hell. It's all good news, isn't it? The only thing is, I won't be seeing Star Trek today at 1:30, so that's $8.00 I'm considering donated to the cause of Hunter Urban's college fund. Just something to look forward to then, innit? Bones McCoy, I'm on my way.
Alrighty then. Since I can't ship any books, go to Star Trek, or stay up any longer, and I am graduating AND raising money for my Cause, I think I'll get some zzzzzs. Yay for nights off!
And blessings on your heads, y'all. Each and every one of you.
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| 2009-05-07 18:53 |
| Despair-work, Peace-work, Hope |
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If you've followed along for any length of time, you know that I'm a big fan of what Joanna Macy calls 'despair-work'. Interestingly, this is not work in which one admits despair and then gives up. This is work in which one admits to despair being present, then uses the energy gained by that admission to generate new energy: to create hope, in one way or another.
I've joined the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in their ican project, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. I'm inviting you to join me, by donating, by spreading the word, by believing this can be accomplished across the lines of nations and over the objections of corporations and armies, through the work of concerned, dedicated, connected individuals- a fellowship of the many, if you will.
The secondary cost of maintaining nuclear weapons stockpiles is part of what the GreenhamCommonWomen worked to make apparent, what Eric and David Thiermann, in their difficult but beautiful film The Last Epidemic demonstrate in clear and personal way, what Joanna Macy Rogers from her practice of Engaged Buddhism names Nuclear Guardianship. The thing is done, it cannot be undone, but it can be put into balance: not the balance of bomb for bomb, because that is no balance, but the balance of action and care.
I'm inviting you to join me, and bring your friends, family and co-workers. Invite your government, corporations, churches, synagogues, mosques. There is room for everyone to do this work, and many hands make light work.
As Aragorn said: There is always hope.
Today, I bring this sliver of it and hold it alight. Please, join me in carrying the fire.
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Table of contents for Despair-Work, an essay by Joanna Macy on the weight of the Nuclear Age on each/all of us, whether we are consciously aware of it or not, and some ideas of what can be done for/by each of us to ease that burden.
Part one: Introduction, Ingredients of Despair, Symptoms and Suppressions
Part two: Validation,
Part three: Feeling, Imaging, Waiting
Part four: Community
Citations and references page [external links]
This essay became her book Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age.
And some related links: Deep Ecology, Nuclear Guardianship, Non-Violent Peace Force, Yes! Magazine and Critical Will: Force for Nuclear Disarmament.
ETA: I've been asked why I'm keeping this at the top of my page?
Because it's relevant. Because this essay saved my life when I first read it in 1982. Because it's thoughtful writing. And because now, instead of two countries with [relatively] stable nuclear warhead programs, there are [actually, do we even know how many?] at least 6 with nuclear warhead capability. / (ETA- am letting it slide down a ways for now- doesn't mean I won't relink it at the top at some point.)
I don't know about you, but that weighs on me something terrible. I'm so grateful to have ways to relieve that burden which are practical and do-able.
ETA to add Rebecca Solnit's Library of Hope (including hope in the dark) from Tom Engelhart's Tomdispatch, courtesy of Perceval Press.
ETA 4.16.08 to add Waging Peace and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Thank you, you who read, ponder, come back, read again. If ever you'd like to talk about this with me, I'm available. Just drop me a note here.
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| 2009-05-06 07:36 |
| State of the Slashfairy, three weeks and counting |
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Yep, I'm graduating! have to pick up my cap&gown over at uni this week. If I remember I'll do it after work before my mammogram on Friday. *eyeroll* life of an older student.
EnjoyIt will go on vacation May 25th (last day I can ship) because I'm leaving for Europe May 26th! (London-Germany-Denmark-Germany-London) Home July 8th, back to work probably the 12th. Thank you every one who has bought or will buy, who has passed the word to friends and co-workers. It's been a real joy, becoming a book-seller, and it's made the difference between being able to pull off this trip nicely and have it be a grind and a worry.
Have started a WordPress Blog as a professional place to write; those of you who read along know that peace-work and despair-work are two lifetime interests/pursuits for me. My entire aim with pursuing my bachelors' has been to get the base for doing work in this area- yes, I know people do work in it without college degrees, but I want to change something in Nursing, open up a dialogue inside Nursing, so I thought I'd better get a bit more academic education in Nursing to give me some place to stand. It worked: I feel/AM better prepared to state my case. Now I'm making the place from which to speak. It's very satisfying.
Ok, I've a chance at an early bed this morning, and I'm going to take it. Blessings on your heads.
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And how I love the Greenham Common Women.
Were any of you there? Do you know someone who was? Any chance I can interview you/her (possibly him, if he was inside the fence) while I'm over in London or even in e-mail?
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