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The Whole Village was cheering

There is a great story about a natural labor over at Dooce. In part 2 she is talking about her assistant who just had a baby. She had a bunch of people in the labour room being completetly silent between contractions and then jumping into action and cheering and helping during the contractions. The cheering [...]

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Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews | Tagged community, Dooce, Native American, natural labour, PTSD, support, Vietnam Vet | 1 Response

Merry Christmas to me!

I’m working on a fun project which is taking me out of my comfort zone, and thinking, searching, learning about what other things I want to do next. I’m feeling lucky lately because help and opportunities are coming my way (no, no full time job yet, but I do have a house-sitting gig!) and this [...]

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Posted in Christmas/Winter Holiday Music | Tagged Citizen Space, community, Ode Magazine, people, San Fransisco, uplifting, video | Leave a response

What do you want the most in all the world?

Eve Ensler says that “When we give, in the world, what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.” What do you want most in the world, and how do you give it? I’m figuring out, figuring out, still figuring out what to do with my wee one wild and [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged A Big Free Happy Unusual Life, community, Eve Ensler, Nina Wise, public gathering places, quotes, traditions | 3 Responses

Memory and what I want to remember (supermemo)

I just finished reading a fascinating article about memory at Wired magazine by Gary Wolf. Are you interested in memory? Whenever I see ads for memory systems, I’m never interested. It looks incredibly boring and the processes themselves usually involve detailed information that I would need to learn and remember. On the other hand, I [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged books, community, dancing, Gary Wolf, health, memory, music, Piotr Wozniak, school, SuperMemo, Wired magazine | Leave a response

Lonliness, church, community

One of my friend’s favorite authors, David Foster Wallace, died. He killed himself. She sent me an interview that he had done with Salon about his novel Infinite Jest. DFW: I wanted to do something real American, about what it’s like to live in America around the millennium. Salon: And what is that like? DFW: [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged church, community, Unitarian Universalism, UU | Leave a response

A Gym after my own heart

If our true will is simply droppin’ some fat to satisfy a scale, then we should be damned to a life of obligatory fitness. If our workouts are rituals of the celebration of movement, ability, and therefore life, we’re pretty magickal. -Physical Subculture I have a vague yearning and I’m not sure where it’s leading [...]

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Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews, My Life | Tagged celebration, church, community, Functional Fitness, health, movement, ritual, Stumptuous | 4 Responses

Clues

I’m looking for clues about what I want to do next with all this life energy I got going on. I’m deciding if I want to take a NIA class this summer. I looked up NIA articles online and found one that gave me a sudden tingle in my stomach and get tears in my [...]

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Posted in Uplifting Media, Useful Information and Research | Tagged clues, community, goals, Joanna Newsom, music, NIA, ritual, video | 1 Response

Day 6 (Can it be?! Her mood lifts as the end of work approaches. In other news, correlation does’t prove causation.)

Thoughts: * I have a computer like Carrie Bradshaw now! I saw Sex and the City tonight and when I got home I came over to write about my day just like she does on the show and I realized that I have a little desk with a little laptop on it just like she [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged community, love, Sex and the City, uplifting, Wishes for you | Leave a response

Day 10 (10 more days of work to go before the holidays)

Only 9:11 and I’m crying already. I had to close the door to my office. I’m not crying about work though, I’m crying about my roommate telling me that “we are opposite in so many ways” and the implied meaning that I am not her favorite person in the world, and the how that ties [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged church, community, funny, goals, holidays, love, rants, reviews, writing | Leave a response

You can’t say you can’ play (Part 2)

Last year I almost stopped going to church because I felt so harassed by someone. I finally had to learn to tell him that he couldn’t hang out with me. I wrote about a lunch I had with him last year: I had an awkward “young adult” lunch last week after church. See, there are [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged church, community, friends, funny, health, quotes, rants | 1 Response

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