This evening I took a life weary friend to a jazz concert, when she pushed the mustang’s window button it fell into the door. My friend became even more discouraged, as she took it as a sign of even more bad luck. I figured it punctuates my desire not to sell it. Either that or I am only suppose to drive in it alone. Fun being my raison d’etre I prefer to think it means I can’t possibly sell the car. We did enjoy the concert which was really one of Jazzy standards and caught up over…
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Added by susan chandel on July 19, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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at a conference.....Hey but the idea is to celebrate every day and the maypole is probably out back for these hardworking characters.
A fun time was had by all! Henrick, Dot and Dave sachet card holder dolls.
Added by susan chandel on May 1, 2009 at 6:50pm —
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I joked apologetically about the paper work at the kitchen table of the transitional shelter. C sat across the table I had heard about her from another client and the outreach worker said she thinks that she is a black man. It was considered a delusion and I thought well that doesn’t seem that crazy to me. If you can be transgendered why not trans racial?
I don’t miss all the paper work of working for an agency, but I do miss the people and the advocacy. I miss the inside of "the not…
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Added by susan chandel on April 24, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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We have as a culture glorified Pirates for a long time. Even I created this little pirate doll last year.
Ayse would like us to join a pirate group:
She writes:
“Sources from Mogadisco report some truth. Somalian coast is no man's land. Since 1992 big fishing vessels from Greece, UK, Spain and Norway exploit this waters. Italian mafia did illegal toxic and nuclear waist disposal. All complaints were ignored by UN general assembly…
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Added by susan chandel on April 17, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Pop Periwinkle and daughter Beauticia at February peace rally. Mr. Periwinkle or "pop" as the folks from Port Periwinkle love to call him is preparing to hop into a priority mail envelope and go to Washington D.C. with a "bring the troops home" sign and other messages from fellow Mainers. Pop needs a little tightening and a few signatures before he embarks on his trip. It is unclear if Pop will stay in the oval office or head back home after he has…
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Added by susan chandel on April 9, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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The assignment was windows of childhood. These Haiku represent the places of my nomadic childhood until I was ten. Each one is written about each home that I lived in as a child.
Cape Cod
1.
Gray Buttermilk Bay
Salt sea wind bends trees
Raindrops pummel pane.
2.
Bright Incan print waves
Singing zippedy do dah
Mary janes, hand in hand.
3.
Imaginary
Ice cream cones hand spun from trikes
Upside down on…
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Added by susan chandel on April 4, 2009 at 7:39pm —
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I want to thank Thomas J.S. Mikelson, a retired faculty member from the Harvard School of Divinity, for these words:
Wake now my senses and hear the earth call ,
feel the deep power of being in all,
keep with the web of creation your vow,
giving receiving as love shows us how.
Wake now my reason, reach out to the new,
honor the beauty and wisdom of time
suffer thy limit and praise the sublime.
Wake now compassion, give heed to the…
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Added by susan chandel on April 3, 2009 at 6:58pm —
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The mixture of menthol and wintergreen barely masked the faint smell of mold that emitted from the grouting between the cream colored tiles of the steam room. I did like the minty smell and the way last night's party flowed out of my open pores. I probably would not be sitting there except that I was laid up with a broken ankle from trying to skate over the threshold of my bedroom. A film making pal from MIT filmed it …(should…
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Added by susan chandel on March 29, 2009 at 7:24pm —
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An event for world peace needs to be international in scope, A serious call for the end to war, hopeful, spirited and non violent.
Things that come to mind:
It should be overall a hopeful event with some acknowledgement of the losses due to war. Solidarity and a global scope is very important. We are making a unified cry for peace.
COLOR and Solidarity:
Some of the things I envision is a string of flags designed by ordinary people every where expressing their…
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Added by susan chandel on March 23, 2009 at 7:07pm —
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You probably saw this but I thought I would put it in my blog any way:
" Our Shame
Cindy Sheehan
March 20, 2009
I remember sitting in my living room, six years ago, watching the
"Leader of the Free World" announcing that the United States military
had just embarked in "shock and awe" against the country of Iraq.
The images made me physically ill, as they had 12 years before when the
criminal's criminal father was…
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Added by susan chandel on March 21, 2009 at 6:47pm —
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Often when I speak with Palestinians they speak of the right of return and the native American culture in a sort of solidarity. I can only speak from where I have been. Lately I have attended many lectures on refugees and the right of return, I also went to a ceremony lead by a Nigerian medicine man. I have been invited to a dinner on what it is to be privileged . I said that I do not feel privileged. But of course that is a matter of situation things…
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Added by susan chandel on March 16, 2009 at 1:32pm —
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In another lifetime,
we were subversive anchorites.
The women and children
hid in the back of the cave,
where they learned to sing
their own songs.
You smuggled the grains and fruit
under your robes.
Like a magician,
I made sure that the politicians
turned a blind eye.
Together we made costumes
and during the festivals
when no one was looking we
built a road…
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Added by susan chandel on March 15, 2009 at 6:38am —
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For Mofle-
“…the ones whose homes were destroyed
who were stranded under the sky.”
Fresh spring snow
Cream of wheat
Warm coffee,
hot chocolate
white dollops of fluff on top
brown speckles seeping through.
I did not see
the ones whose homes were destroyed
who were stranded under the sky.
I did not want to see it .
I did not want anyone to see it.
The maple syrup pools
in the…
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Added by susan chandel on March 12, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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June 1974
Perched on the royal blue aluminum framed Jantzen pack, I leaned my back against the sign post on the sweltering gravel of an Oregon afternoon. I remember the jumble of logs and the waterfall across the two lane highway. Things had gotten a little crazy leaving Seattle. My penchant for comic book heroines had gotten the best of me when I sized up the stumpy middle-aged business man who was looking for a mistress to hire for the…
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Added by susan chandel on March 11, 2009 at 12:23am —
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After some discussion on culture clashes and some sketching, I decided to write this blog entry on boxes, classifications, various biases, acceptance and non acceptance. I believe that we all need to be more tolerant in general if we hope to have peace in the world. On that rich note I offer some of my experience.
In my travels, I have learned it is wise to assume nothing and keep an open mind. Actually I may have been born that way. I think this…
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Added by susan chandel on March 3, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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Eric and Jake a few years after the meteor shower incident^
Developmentally, we learn that age three is an age of no fear. It is the age when a child explores the world around him or her and pushes the envelope so to speak. It is a time they don’t emphasize enough.. You hear of the terrible twos and those teenage years but 3 manages to hide in there. My daughter managed to avoid a third birthday adventure, my sons on the other hand perhaps,…
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Added by susan chandel on February 19, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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“What do you feel YOUR country, your nation holds as special, something that your people offer to the world?
I don't like generalizations, but feel that each nation probably has something truly personal that they offer. Perhaps Italians offer traditional beauty in their art and history, as well as (often) their flamboyant personalities and expressiveness? Americans, is their "something special" their positive and young attitude and openess to new things? And YOUR country? “- Stephanie…
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Added by susan chandel on February 17, 2009 at 6:35pm —
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1. Algebra escapes me. I just don’t get it.
2. Ever the rebel, I could not pass up a college course called unlearning education.
3. People love my queen of Sheba chocolate cake.
4. My first poem was published in Seventeen magazine.
5. In high school, I wanted to be an architect, but the math scared me.
6. My dad was into tinkering with antiques and we used to ride High Wheeled bikes around the neighborhood in the late 1960‘s. The family highwheelers have been a parade…
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Added by susan chandel on February 16, 2009 at 7:24pm —
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One thing I really enjoyed as the coordinator of the local clothesline project was organizing events. Our purpose was to strengthen laws against domestic violence and rape and to give voice to survivors who told their stories on shirts that hung shoulder to shoulder on a line. An intense cause, it grew out of the take back the night movement. We were the second or third satellite group from the main line which was originally designed by Rachel Carey Harper who was active in WILPF ( the women’s…
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Added by susan chandel on February 15, 2009 at 4:46pm —
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This article warms my heart because I went to college in Amherst and lived in an artist commune where half of my roomates were Hampshire College Students. I hope that more companies and universities divest. It may only be symbolic but its a step towards peace:
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, has become the first of any college or
university in the U.S. to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement
in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
This…
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Added by susan chandel on February 13, 2009 at 4:53am —
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