|
|
 |
www.freewillastrology.com
Gemini Horoscope for week of August 27, 2009
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you'd be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It's time to question the story you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost. Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that everything you've believed is at least half-wrong -- that your origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it was actually a precious medicine.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
 |
| 2009-03-31 15:09 |
| moar books, movies, etc. |
| Public |
| amazon, black studies, books, child lit, education, europe 2009, friends, fun, gender studies, history, language, lj, movies, music, native american studies, nursing, philosophy, psychology, religion, women's studies |
|
Apparel and shoes on sale at Amazon until April 3rd. (yeah, I get referral points if you buy after going in through my portal. geez, don't I sound like a pro, or a shill, or something? lol)
Sample listings:
( A Tolkien Treasury )
Amy's Eyes
( Read more... )
BRITISH COLUMBIA: A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY [Hardcover] Edited by Reginald E. Watters
The five sections of this Centennial Anthology attempt to portray in words and B&W pictures the varied life of British Columbia in both the past and present.
30 Days to a Simpler Life; A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies; Boycott; Capitol Hill in Black and White; Canciones Infantiles [Audio CD] El patio de mi casa; Child in the Night [VHS Tape] JoBeth Williams; Tom Skerritt; Tim Choate, Elijah Wood IMDb; Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover] Gary M. Tabor; Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice [Paperback] by Walker, Marsha; Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization; Eve's Bayou [DVD] Jurnee Smollett; Meagan Good; Samuel L. Jackson; Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols by Bynum, Caroline W.; Guide to Rembering Japanese Characters (Tuttle language library); Howard Street by Nathan C. Heard; Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit; Spiritual Gardening [Audiobook] by Handelsman, Judith (cassettes) among other books, movies, and music.
Fisher Poets
partial text:
Entrants in the gathering’s “on-site” poetry contest on Saturday night were told barely 24 hours earlier that submissions had to be at least eight lines, take less than a minute to read and include the phrase “you might be missing fish.”
Rob Seitz, who cycles nearly year round through cod, whiting and Dungeness crab seasons on his 80-foot steel boat, placed third with these verses:
If your son is not intimidating
On the line of scrimmage,
If your daughter’s report card
Is not the brightest image,
If your children are not turning out
As healthy as you’d wished,
Perhaps on your dinner table
You might be missing fish.
Mr. Seitz, 42, said he wrote only once a year, on gathering weekend in Astoria. But he does prepare.
“On the boat, I don’t have a TV,” he said. “We just read.”
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
A Satisfied Mind.
( lyrics )
Mediafire share folder
of versions, and a zip of the versions there.
ETA
more versions, and zip2
am looking for other versions, as many as you can bring me.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
With thanks to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imafarmgirl in whose journal I saw this. you're such a grand, generous resource person (among your many other talents).
Jan 21, 2009
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/37893109.html
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – White Bison Inc. is a 20-year-old Native nonprofit organization that focuses not only on alcoholism recovery but also on the ways in which a history of colonization contributed to addiction in the American Indian community.
Operating from a modest office on a quiet street, White Bison reaches Native communities well beyond this city south of Denver that is home to Focus on the Family and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
One of White Bison's key programs is the Wellbriety Movement, which extends past sobriety into the talking circles of its multicultural, cross-country Hoop Journeys, firestarter circles for local sobriety efforts, and other grassroots, culturally based programs and practices.
Central tenets of the organization are contained in White Bison's "The Red Road to Wellbriety in the Native American Way," a 12-step program adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous' Big Book. The book has personal recovery stories chronicling the lives of Native addicts from various communities and walks of life.
In many ways, the organization reflects experiences of its founder and president, Don L. Coyhis, Mohican, who addresses Native history in "Alcohol Problems in Native America: The Untold Story of Resistance and Recovery-the Truth About the Lie," which he co-authored with William L. White, a senior research consultant for Chestnut Health Systems.
Provided with an accurate history of North America, Native people can heal from alcoholism and other illnesses that result from colonization's legacy of intergenerational trauma, Coyhis said. "The truth about what happened to us is very important, but the story wasn't told. I found out the truth about the lie."
"It is time Indian people rejected alcohol, not because some Indians develop alcohol problems and alcoholism, but because alcohol is a symbol of efforts to exploit and destroy us as a people," the book states.
Coyhis said the result of silence about intergenerational trauma is similar to the effect of messages passed on by dysfunctional families.
He likens the result of silence about community trauma to the effect of messages in dysfunctional families. "I grew up thinking I was no good, not good enough, not very smart. When I found out I wasn't dumb, everything changed – relationships, jobs I applied for, just everything."
The same can be true for communities when the truth is known about the history of colonization, he said, but errors about what happened are often perpetuated by schools, Native studies programs, other institutions and communities. "You may question them and they'll tell you there's something wrong with you."
"When we researched Native alcoholism, we found that a number of myths were being taught," Coyhis said. "One of them is that `something is wrong with our immune systems' compared to Europeans. It's not true – there's been a study done on our immune system."
Another myth is that Indians "go crazy with alcohol," but boarding schools, taking children away from their families, and other losses are the real culprit. "What surfaces is an organized assault by government on our community.
By 1920, 99 percent of American Indian people had been wiped out and small groups were left with nowhere to go, "except future generations didn't know that because the story wasn't told," in the resulting climate of shame and sorrow.
"If you don't know about intergenerational trauma, you'll try to blame everything (about alcoholism) on `genetic disparities' which have never been tested," he said.
Positive changes have occurred in cities and in reservation communities where there are language immersion programs and cultural revitalization, "after all, one ounce of culture equals 10 pounds of healing," Coyhis said, and if that is coupled with the practice of spirituality, even greater benefits occur.
In addition to myth-busting, culture and spirituality, "What we were learning is that we need a whole new language. ... We're more colonized than we think."
For example, when such terms as "war on poverty" or "war on drugs" are used, the elders whom he consults told him that by setting up the conflict "you create an enemy where none exists."
"How you name something is very, very important," he said, suggesting that "drug czar" could be "healing czar" and a phrase like, "My name is Don and I'm an alcoholic" could become, "My name is Don and I'm in recovery."
Everyone has the responsibility to "find the truth, because it's accurate to say that `the truth shall set you free,'" he said.
The organization offers a number of recovery-targeted products, including books, material for youth prevention programs, video documentaries of sacred Hoop Journeys, meditations with Native elders, an online magazine, and, most recently, a CD version of "The Red Road to Wellbriety" for prison inmates and others with limited reading skills.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
 |
|
From Snopes.com, Consumer Reports, ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center. Chocolate (Cacao) contains xanthines and theobromines, which, in other -monitored, human- uses, relax the smooth muscles of the upper airways, and phenylethylamine, "which causes blood pressure and blood-sugar levels to rise, resulting in a feeling of alertness and contentment." Dr. Eric H. Chudler @ Washington.edu. Just- not for your pets. So check the bag. Talk to your neighbors.
Antifreeze: tastes sweet, is seriously poisonous to animals and children. Radiators leak; people flush and refill them at home; antifreeze spills or is left in a puddle 'too small to clean up.' It's never to small to clean up. Again, look after yourself and your pets, talk to your neighbors.
Pets are good for people. People with pets are good for neighborhoods. People making connections within their neighborhoods are good for pets.
Pets and mental health @ headcleaners.com; Pets and mental wellness @ oflikeminds.com. Neighborhood Watch for Animals.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Free Obama ringtone
"Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."
1 Comment | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
So it's probably no secret that, once Kucinich was out of the race, I supported Obama.
And it's probably no secret that I've got some major disappointments about the Bush years, and that I'd like to see criminal proceedings against members of that administration.
That said (and don't defriend me until you finish reading- come on now, fair's fair)- that said, I think it's important to say this:
Someone had to be that President. It was gonna happen- someone was going to be the one who pointed out what Twain said, what Eisenhower said: if we let the military and the corporations own the country, then we don't. There's money to be made in fear, in hate, in anger, in war and raining pestilence, and corporations care about money. And corporations, Departments of Defense (War), are big, are impersonal, don't care on the individual level. They can't afford to.
But we can. We can, and we have to.
So. Someone had to carry the weight of showing just.what.happens when we don't. It was almost Clinton- he signed NAFTA, he signed GATT, he signed Don't Ask/Don't Tell- but he was too pretty, too charming, and the weight of that got slimed off him with impeachment-over-foolishness. He could have been nailed for Afghanistan, for Somalia- but the opposition let themselves be distracted by the sleazy side of him, and thus: the weight was still there to be carried.
So George did.
Not elegantly. Not intelligently. But he carried it, and his administration made sure that we, the people, learned all over again that it's our government, not the Department of Defense's government, not FEMA's, not General Foods' and Bechtel's and the NRA's and FMC's or whoever they are today, the corporations that make weapons and sell them to anyone (that's prostitution, not business), that destroy farmland in the name of mechaniculture and agribusiness (that's not dominion over the earth, that's just waste of what's been given to us in stewardship), that steal work a person can do for profits an entity that exists only on paper can reap.
Someone has to manifest the shadow- the Imperial America (Manifest Destiny, anyone?), the "Leader of the Free World" that can't free its own people from poverty, starvation-posing-as-affluence, from ignorance-induced fear. Someone had to, and George did.
I don't envy him. I think he could have done that more intelligently- I think he had criminal advisors and took the easy way out, and I hope he pays. I hope they all do.
I don't condemn him. The shadow was going to be manifested- it had to be- and now it's happened. I surely condemn what he let happen on his watch, just as I condemn Clinton- a Rhodes scholar, for fuck's sakes- for being a vain, pompous idiot and wasting glorious opportunities. Someone had to manifest that, too, and damn, but he did a good job.
So let's get on with the rest of it. Let's get on with educating our people, with sorting our differences, with making a real country out of this huge experiment called a Representative Republic. Let's each represent what we believe in- if it's that God's on our side, then be a representative of the most humane, most compassionate version of that you know (Mother Teresa said once, when asked how she did so much, that "I do what is in front of me. I trust to God to do the rest." He can handle the big scale. We need to do what's in front of us). George H. W. Bush said he counted on the 1000 points of light to carry this country through- isn't now a good time to light up, to come together and light up the shadow of America, and really let this country shine in a way it never has before- not by denying the worth of others, but by celebrating it and working together?
I like Kucinich, for all he says he saw a flying saucer. Hell, I talk to ghosts, and more than once told Death to wait for a patient of mine- better the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God (or as the Quakers say, "so I do affirm") than to lie. Before Newton and Descartes were the saints and the mystics; before Mao and Lenin the grace of poets and farmers; before the 500 years of planetary war and slavery and commerce we could claim to be separate, but we are all related now- your history is my history, and my planet is yours, and even though I can only live where and when and in relation to this now that I'm experiencing, I can acknowledge yours.
We're here, now. Obama's being sworn in today. Whether it's for four years or eight, change is gonna come. How do you want to be part of it? Where do you stand? It's not about him, although it is- it's about the arc of this country, this experiment, this dream- and it's about who you want to be, in that moment before you die, when you say "This is who I was, this is what I did." In that moment when the truth is all you have, what do you want it to be?
1 Comment | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Your result for The Chakra Test...
The Sensuous OneYou have scored 100% Desire - Your dominant Chakra is the "Sacral (Spleen) or Orange Chakra" 
The "Sacral (Spleen) or Orange Chakra" is where energy for one's sexuality and feelings originates from. It is located at the spleen (and genitals). This is the chakra which is most developed in you at this time. The Sacral chakra is about feeling and sexuality. When it is open your feelings flow freely, and are expressed without you being over-emotional. You are open to intimacy and you can be passionate and lively. You have no problems dealing with your sexuality. Depending on your percentage score, there is always more room for development. When this chakra is under-active you may become stiff and unemotional. You may even develop a poker-like face, as a defence mechanism, to stop others from knowing what you are feeling. If the chakra becomes over-active, you may become overly, emotionally attached to people and sexually active. What is most important is to find balance amongst all 7 chakras. Have a look at what percentages you scored on the others and work to increase their power and balance with each other. Root Chakra: 47% Passion, Sacral(Spleen) Chakra: 100% Desire, Solar Plexus (Navel) Chakra: 94% Purpose, Heart Chakra: 100% Balance, Throat Chakra: 89% Expression, Third Eye Chakra: 100% Imagination and Crown Chakra: 100% Spirituality!
"Sacral Chakra" Key Words: Feelings, Emotions, Intimacy, Procreation, Polarity, Sensuality, Confidence, Sociability, Freedom, Movement "Sacral Chakra"Attributes: Color - Orange: Sense - Taste: Element - Water: Seat - Creativity
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!
Take The Chakra Test at HelloQuizzy
props to nverland and crazylady42 at LJ.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Your result for The Chakra Test...
The Sensuous OneYou have scored 100% Desire - Your dominant Chakra is the "Sacral (Spleen) or Orange Chakra"
The "Sacral (Spleen) or Orange Chakra" is where energy for one's sexuality and feelings originates from. It is located at the spleen (and genitals). This is the chakra which is most developed in you at this time. The Sacral chakra is about feeling and sexuality. When it is open your feelings flow freely, and are expressed without you being over-emotional. You are open to intimacy and you can be passionate and lively. You have no problems dealing with your sexuality. Depending on your percentage score, there is always more room for development. When this chakra is under-active you may become stiff and unemotional. You may even develop a poker-like face, as a defence mechanism, to stop others from knowing what you are feeling. If the chakra becomes over-active, you may become overly, emotionally attached to people and sexually active. What is most important is to find balance amongst all 7 chakras. Have a look at what percentages you scored on the others and work to increase their power and balance with each other. Root Chakra: 47% Passion, Sacral(Spleen) Chakra: 100% Desire, Solar Plexus (Navel) Chakra: 94% Purpose, Heart Chakra: 100% Balance, Throat Chakra: 89% Expression, Third Eye Chakra: 100% Imagination and Crown Chakra: 100% Spirituality!
"Sacral Chakra" Key Words: Feelings, Emotions, Intimacy, Procreation, Polarity, Sensuality, Confidence, Sociability, Freedom, Movement "Sacral Chakra"Attributes: Color - Orange: Sense - Taste: Element - Water: Seat - Creativity
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!
Take The Chakra Test at HelloQuizzy
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
| 2009-01-09 04:25 |
| As seen around and about - that question meme (or one of 'em, anyway) |
| Public |
| economy, friends, lj, meme, music, philosophy, psychology, stuff, travel, writing |
|
Most of these meme things either intimidate or bore me, but this one caught my eye, I have a moment, so-
Make a list of things you can see around you without getting up: oh man, well, I'm in 'my girl's' apartment's living room, so it's all the usual- sofa, chairs, lamps, tv, plants, stuffed animals and dolls (two of everything, one for her and one for her sister), family photos, computer desk/nurse's desk, wheelchair, kitchen, her nephew's toys for when he comes to see gramma, my junk I bring with me every night... stuff.
How do you style your hair?
I lean over from the waist, brush it all out, stand up and curl it into a knot at the top of my head and hold it with a clamshell clip. Unless, of course, I'm wearing it down and beading the braids in it. Feast or famine.
What are you wearing now?( it's just not that interesting, folks, but what the hey! )
What are you listening to right now?
PBS: The Rat Pack: Conference of Cool. (KQED)
Oh no, now it's Latin Pulse on Best of LinkTV, on KRCB, and it's about Venezuela being on the verge of war with Ecuador and Colombia. :(
But I do love LinkTV- without it I'd never know about The Black Farmer. And I do need to know what's going on in this hemisphere south of Los Angeles. It just makes me sad, more war.
What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
I have to make a list. actually, I'll make a zip, since I'm inundating y'all with links anyway. Ashokan Farewell. Universe. Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight/Babel. Hymn. I'll See Your Heart and I'll Raise You Mine. Rocks and Water. Same Mistake. The Luckiest. You've Got a Friend. zip
( continuing )
How are you?
Fine. Wishing I could just 'come up with' this last paper for that Damn Critical Thinking Course (c). Tired, and my shoulders ache. Ready to go home/ to come into about $10,000 tax-free/to go back to Europe. Happy enough.
What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I got my tickets!!! I'll be there just as we planned.
Say something to the person who tagged you.
No-one tagged me, but to lj user japanpeterpan- I still think there's room in this world (and in my writing life) for some Hook/Pan fic, and by god, one day, I'm going to write it. *nods*
Not going to tag anyone either, but hey- It's been interesting to do.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Oops, missed yesterday.
Otoh sleep is good.
So, the upside of no laptop at work is- am getting uni reading done.
Downside of no laptop at home is- no internets in bed. woe. lol.
Tonight off so that I can go to San Francisco tomorrow and meet up with Mom and Sister who are staying at son's. They took the train into town- how fun is that? I'll take the bus down, get a ride back up on Tues.
Then back to it on Tuesday- Chicano/Latino Cinema Tues, Native American Studies and work on Wed.
Am really enjoying the texts for these classes, which is such a lovely change. A well written text is a joy.
Write to your congresspeople about the HHS proposed changes. Even if what we need (and we might, we might, I dunno) is something that allows practitioners to opt out of prescribing birth control, redefining birth control as abortion is not the way to go about it.
With that, back to bed. Sleeping in my own bed, in the dark and quiet night: priceless.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
Slept well again last night. Not that I couldn't use ANOTHER 12 hours, but that's not going to happen today. Class, study, work. Still, sleep is good, and getting caught up on uni reading is good.
Now on to the not-so-personal things.
There are a number of things going on in US politics and in US public policy that, frankly, make me frightened, furious, and ready to take action. I keep meaning to post about them, and then finding myself so tired that I am afraid I cannot do them justice. Let me try now.
First is the draft paper before Health and Human Services that will redefine any kind of birth control as abortion. This takes my mind from one place to another, living as I have from the time of the thalidomide scandal through the introduction of The Pill, Planned Parenthood, and legal abortion and Women's Studies as a legitimate field of scholarship.( somewhat rambling pursuit of truth follows )
For a more forceful, more focused, and (probably) more useful presentation of the issues surrounding the HHS paper and what (if you are so moved) you can do about it, tammy212 has put together three well-written posts about it.
And now we have Sarah Palin as vice-presidential nominee. Which is several kettles of fish, most of which smell already. And I need to go to class. So confused sorting out of that will need to be a post for another day.
This post brought to you by the letters X and Y and the gratitude for a forum for my thoughts and the education to at least partially think this through and be able to do research and present it for discussion.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
This from the NYT- Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization.
(prior links dump Here.)
What can you do about it?
City Farmer
Community Gardening and Kids
Community Greens
Moss in the City: Urban Gardening
Urban Gardening Magazine
ETA Pick Your Own gardens and farms in US, UK, Europe, Canada, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa</a>.
Perhaps you and some friends get together and lament not being in better shape. Can one of you donate land to a group project garden? Maybe all you have is a balcony in a climate with a short growing season. Can you grow herbs? sprout seeds?
Maybe you think it's inefficient to grow any of your own food. Well, maybe it is from a strictly commercial business point of view. But in terms of best use of the calories you take in / the calories you expend, which is more worthwhile? the giant pack from Costco or Tesco? or the oxygen-producing, carbon-dioxide reducing pot of chives or basil on your sill? The tomatoes you get from the pot on the balcony? the lettuce from the box on the verandah? Remember, even some flowers are edible. (I use nasturtiums in my salads. mmm, peppery!)
I dunno if the problems caused (to some extent, unwittingly) by globalizing trade and industrializing farming are all curably by home food farming. I do know that even if you have a 'black thumb', over time you can learn to listen to plants and come to recognize what it takes to have an honest relationship with sun-converting chlorophyll-using beings, and that in itself can be balm to a wounded soul, and help right some of the imbalance in the world.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
As a nurse, I'm firmly science-based. As a child of the 1950's, brought up on fairy-tales and science-fiction, poetry and reference books, geography and archeology, I'm equally at home in (or at least recognize some of the signposts and landmarks in) 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' experience. As a child of the 60's with my brief foray into psychedelics and a much longer, more careful sojourn in spiritual and esoteric study, I'm a believer that things connect- that living as though we are not all in relationship to each other, to all of life, all of time, all of space, lessens us.
From the TED website: One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
Jill Bolte Taylor/My Stroke of Insight/ TED Feb 2008
( Click )
4 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Ok. I have been studying Marshall Rosenberg's theory and practice of Nonviolent Communication for a number of years now, and YAY! for YouTube: he's on it. I cannot recommend this enough- I hope the vids are enough to whet your appetites for being treated kindly, with respect and dignity, and the expectation that what you want most from life is to be alive every minute.
Nonviolent Communication
part 1 9 mins 35 sec.
part 2 5 mins 47 sec. (particularly helpful about depression)
part 3 4 mins 25 sec.
Nonviolent Communication and Corporations
part 1 28 mins 32 sec.
part 2 28 mins 58 sec.
part 3 26 mins 32 sec.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
in honor of the end of winter
Carole King/It's Too Late
and the coming of spring
I'll be taking some time to do a little self-care: concentrate on uni, swim/walk/garden, and think.
Still be around, cleaning up lists. If you'd like me to let you off my fl, let me know, or use 'defriend'- it's always defriending amnesty day.
[I first heard this song in 1971, not long after my oldest son was born. I knew as soon as I listened to it that for me, it would always be about knowing that my marriage wouldn't last. It was 1981 before the divorce was final, but the end began that day in the fog and chill of Sebastopol, dancing in the living room and crying for something that hadn't happened, and was inevitable.]
2 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
|
![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
linaerys for the heads-up]